Joan Cusack Accuses an Innocent Man of Her Daughter's Kidnapping on 'Law & Order: SVU' (VIDEO)

Another season, another crime. It was back to the grind on 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' (Wed., 9PM on NBC), with Joan Cusack on board for the premiere as a worried mother. Her character's daughter had gone missing, and through the tracking of an online chat, they knew the girl would be at Grand Central Station.

When Mulch (Richard Belzer) tried to order the trains shut down for half an hour, an attendant replied, "Yeah, that's not gonna happen."

We would have thought a case involving a potentially abducted child would be enough to shut down a public transportation hub. If something were to happen to the girl, does the station really want it on their heads that they could have prevented it simply by shutting down for a while to allow the police to conduct a search.


It's certainly a more affective way than allowing Cusack's character to do the searching herself, as she mistook a Middle Eastern man's daughter as her own, despite the girl wearing a hijab. "That's her. He changed her clothes," she swore before turning the girl and realizing it wasn't.

Distraught mothers may not be the most level-headed, but could the character be accused of racial profiling in this case? After all, it was a Middle Eastern man she accosted and accused. Apparently the girl "had the same walk" as the missing daughter.