Rubber Room (Law & Order)
| "Rubber Room" | |
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| Law & Order episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 20 Episode 23 (#456 overall) |
| Directed by | René Balcer |
| Written by | René Balcer |
| Production code | 20023 |
| Original air date | May 24, 2010 |
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"Rubber Room" is the twenty-third episode of the twentieth season and the series finale of NBC's long-running legal drama Law & Order. In the episode, Detectives Lupo and Bernard search for an anonymous blogger who has posted plans to blow up a school, while Lt. Van Buren struggles to keep her personal issues private.
The episode was written and directed by René Balcer and received positive reviews from critics and a 1.9 rating in the 18-49 demographic in its original American broadcast.
After Van Buren discovers a blog site featuring video of an alarming amount of explosives, Detectives Lupo and Bernard race against time to find the anonymous blogger before he can make good on his threat to blow up a school. The Department of Education's refusal to take the threat seriously and resistance from the teachers' union further complicate the investigation. Fortunately, an administrative assistant at the teachers' union, Alicia (Lindsey Vonn), gives the detectives a tip to lead them in the right direction. Meanwhile, Van Buren struggles to keep her personal issues from becoming public.
In the last scene of the episode, at a local bar Lupo and Bernard planned a debt party for Van Buren, where her colleagues get together in a bar to make contributions to help pay her medical bills. She arrives with Frank Gibson (Ernie Hudson) and they all applaud her. The Chief of Detectives provides a few checks for the collection jar. She introduces Frank as her boyfriend, but says as of that afternoon, he is her fiancé. Van Buren's phone rings with a message; it is her doctor. She cries briefly after she gets off the phone, then composes herself, saying "thank you, thank you, thank you." She whispers into Frank's ear, and they embrace. Although the exact nature of the message is left ambiguous, it is implied from Van Buren's reaction that she has received good news about her cervical cancer, perhaps remission.
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