Psychotic Murderer Fakes Illness | Cynthia Nixon | Law & Order SVU
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- A case full of twists, as a daughter goes missing and a are couple found dead. The search for a motive begins. But what if there isn't a motive? What if she didn't mean to do it?
Season 9, Episode 1 'Alternate': Guest star Cynthia Nixon turns in a powerful performance as a Janis Donovan, a woman with multiple personalities who may have abused and fatally harmed her daughter. As Detectives Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Elliot Stabler (Chris Meloni) dig more deeply into the case - with initial resistance from Dr. Henry Carlisle (guest star Bronson Pinchot) -- Donovan continues to present even more personalities along with a harrowing twist to the case.
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Cynthia Nixon won an Emmy for this performance. Well deserved.
I've haven't watched this show in a while. But I WANT to see this episode. Thanks for sharing this clip.
She was brilliant in this episode!
Eh
Amazing
She may have gotten away with it, but she'll have to spend the rest of her life with the guilt of what she did to Cass.
💯💯
Most likely will never see April again, such a dark ending!
Yeah, they would've both gotten away with it if they had just simply known that planning the crime still counts as a crime in and of itself.
Yeah... Well, assuming she ever cared to begin with.
A lot of people who kill, kidnap, sell, etc their children have little guilt or remorse.
(I'm an SAR medic, have come across that)
Cynthia Nixon is incredible in this episode.
This era of SVU was the pinnacle of this series. The best cast they ever had.
She wasn't nuts, at least not clinically, she just faked it all.
Which is a different kind of nutty
@@marymoran1015 OH for sure
were nuts to watch this stuff....
@@marymoran1015true.
Her poor psychiatrist was taken for a ride
That or they just couldn't help her anymore due to both her insurance being a jerk and the gal listening to those scam-hats on the internet.
3:32 When Janice slapped Elliot and screamed in that Russian accent, lol!!! 😆😅🤣
Ngl that doll in the tub was so gut wrenching to see. Weird looking doll. I thought they were saying that was the baby
Yeah the doll looked a-lot like an actual baby left in the tub (with alot of water damage). Really threw me off for a second
@@lucasrhys0363it was very convincing
The baby in the bathtub was something I did not expect to see
The baby in there was a doll
@@joseanrodriguez2005it was?
@@Hunterr-Yeah, he says it the second he turns it around.
its a doll!! please remove your comment before you trigger someone
@@glittergoat91 Trigger? Really?
Man, Miranda went nuts after separating from the girls.
I was thinking that too! 😂😂😂😂
😂😂🎉🎉🎉😅
Lol!
LOL I knew someone would make this comment 🤣🤣
Cynthia proved what an actress in this episode, she really is. This episode blew me away with her multiple personalities. A well deserved Emmy!
One of the important things that she forgot about DID was the disociation. Being in a dreamlike state, not knowing what is real or not
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I have PTSD and have had dissociative episodes. It is the weirdest thing. Definitely feels like you are in a dream. And feel like you are far away from your body.
@ashleydowney1222 have you ever had any instances where you go "back in time"??? I've been doing ART and it's been helping but I didn't think it would make my ptsd devolve...
You're clearly ignorant on DID.
@@alessaross3559 Well, I never said that I was an expert. I'm just going by what one of my closest friends told me of what it is like for him because he has DID. Sure I might be ignorant by textbook standards, and for the fact that I won't ever fully understand what it's like because I don't have DID, but I could've for all you knew. And I said "One of the most important", not "the most important". I don't use a textbook to define someone's disability, cause I find it extremely rude, like your comment.
I remember when that psychotic murder went after Kathy Stabler and held her hostage at knifepoint. Luckily, Elliot managed to save his wife in time before that psychotic women did anything to hurt her.
Don’t be so naive we all know she wasn’t going to harm Kathy or anyone else after her parents she was just playing the part 😂.
They really created the absolute perfect defense in order to get away with killing their parents. & they were pretty close to pulling off their whole charade
i think ppl misunderstood this epi. she wasn’t psychotic. she was getting revenge. you can be a murderer and not psychotic. psychotic is a medical term and she doesn’t fit the criteria.
The people who titled the video got me confused
Probably meant psychopath, which she totally is
@@fafster6439The video editors are not health professionals, that's why.
What a bittersweet ending. One gets away with the crime, but the other is gonna away for a long time. 😐😐😐😐
I don’t feel bad she got away with it actually more sad her sister got arrested. Their parents had it coming
Bro you’re gunna trust the crazy lady about their parents being abusive. Nahhh. Probably a ploy for inheritance money. Or if it’s real then too bad, you lost your “believing privileges” at that point
@@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr that makes 0 sense💀. The episode confirmed they were telling the truth. You just don’t believe people if abuse obviously
@@kalebr560 Wdym? Where was it "confirmed?" It was only said by the sisters if i remember correctly
@@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr she was caught because they were able to confirm what happened from other people in jail. Why would someone makeup a lie and then tell the lie to other people which would be the one thing that poked a hole in their for a false revenge. Not to mention her sister confirms this as well. She already had been cleared of murder so why would she even lie after the fact. People will do mental gymnastics before believing abuse happens 💀
@@kalebr560 Dude I believe that ppl get abused. But in this 10 minute clip no proof was given. And those making the claims were murderers and known liars. Maybe you're too willing to believe instead of me being unwilling?
I got misdiagnosed with DID. The common misconception with DID is that it’s mood swings and ups and downs, but it’s actually triggered by trauma and it’s split personalities or multiple personalities. You are literally multiple different people. Often people with BPD are misdiagnosed with DID this woman had DID and that’s an example or it. Hypnosis can bring out any of the “systems” inside of the illness. It was loosely portrayed in the conjuring when the little girl was possessed and a man’s voice would come out of her
Edit: I watched the full episode and she didn’t actually have DID she just studied it and actively portrayed it but that aside it’s an accurate portrayal
The thumbnail had me dying!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thought it was Ozzy Osbourne at first.
Very good acting, except for one detail. Someone with DID can't control which alter comes up at a given time. She conveniently switched whenever the detectives were getting close to the truth. Not psychotic, more like sociopath.
She was a victim of abuse
"and I bet she does a mean Christopher Walken too" 😂
There is something disturbingly meta about Cynthia Nixon's incredible performance here, so good that it received an Emmy.
Think about it:
She put on an award-winning performance as a murderously insane woman who also happens to be delivering an award-winning performance as a distinctly separate, non-murderous-but-equally-insane person, a toddler, and what I can only assume is Baba Yaga, within the same body, sometimes switching instantly and with absolutely no warning.
Cynthia Nixon. I love you and I fear you.
1:17 😂😂 I love Fin and Munch friendship
On one hand, I like to think that Janis turned herself in with her scam to save her sister (or, in any case, the latter could have seen the mitigating circumstance recognized). On the other hand, I'm not too sorry that she got away with it, given the abuse of their father and the negligence of their mother. What do you think about it?
I always thought she did because of April. I’m sad she got away with it because now the character is all alone :/
@@MsTinkerbelle87 Like I said, April could have seen the mitigating circumstance recognized.
She couldn’t it’s double jeopardy.
We never found out about the shrink and what part he had in this?
@@abbysteranko474 I doubt he had any part in this. She had Wong fooled.
I remember this episode. Cynthia Nixon's ability to pretend to have a mental illness was so chilling, and the way she pulls reverse psychology to make you believe that she didn't kill was just >>> My heart stopped beating several times throughout this episode. Kudos to Cynthia Nixon for pulling this one, a brilliantly impressive masterpiece.
One of their best guest stars ever!
This is easily my favorite SVU episode, i was focused on it from beginning to end
She may have walked on her crimes but in the end her sister is going to prison and she won’t get custody of her niece. Their revenge has consequences.
The actress also portrayed Laura Di Biasi in the original 'Law and Order'.
Yeah, right. The ballerina turned subway vigilante.
@@marcosjuarez7809 It's not the first time something like this has happened.
"Subterranean Homeboy Blues" ~ SE01 EP02 ~ June 9, 1991 Detectives Greevey & Logan.. such an excellent, extra long intro underground on the metro.
Miranda from SATC finally snapped. Maybe in the next episode, she will finally do something about Carrie and her never-ending dramas.
3:32 she went from Innocent child to Anna Sorokin lolol
It's Balki!
If you're old enough to get the reference you're awesome.
Beverly Hills Cop
I thought that was him--Bronson Pinchot.
i knew he looked familiar, and when i saw bronson pinchot credited in the description it all came back.
Do the dance of joy!
Perfect Strangers
That Emmy was well deserved!
Nevertheless, does anyone else think this episode was a rip off of Primal Fear?
@@melanieparkerno not really. There are plenty of real stories like both
@@awesomness36 Not like this. She did everything Norton did even taking pride when discovered at the end.
@@melanieparker as do many of characters on SVU. Eventually, after hundreds of episodes, it happens
Truer words have never been spoken!
I could be wrong, but if they could prove she actually wasn't insane and her defense was based on false claims, double jeopardy wouldn't attach and they could retry her.
After all, it's kinda hard for "not guilty by reason of insanity" to apply if the person isn't actually insane and never was.
Double jeopardy remains and applies.
Even if the person perjured themselves in court you can only charge them with the perjury. There is absolutely no circumstance in which a person can get charged for a crime, a not guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity verdict be rendered, and them be recharged by the same branch of government.
With state crimes or federal crimes you can be double charged if you broke both a state statute and federal statute, however feds rarely get involved for cases such as this.
@@Cub_K There are a very limited number of ways around Double Jeopardy, but they are extremely hard to access without incredible amounts of proof to back the motion to set it aside. Proving that a verdict was predetermined by jury manipulation is one (McCoy did this in season 5 of OG L&O), or if two/three or more people are involved in some fashion by leveling a conspiracy charge - in cases of murder, conspiracy to commit carries the same sentence, and you don't have to necessarily prove all the parties knew that a murder would be the end result; you just have to prove that all three knew what they were initially doing was a crime, and that they decided to commit the act anyway. If one goes overboard, all are guilty for setting the sequence of events in motion to start with.
In this lady's case? Her knowledge of the law allows for the perseption of jury manipulation, which *could* be argued as a reason to set aside the jeopardy statute...but it would be one HELL of a song and dance number by Cabot/McCoy to convince a judge of it.
@@Cub_K Well, they do gloss over the fact that they can still charge her with perjury.
There might be another tangle in that. I've heard it said that pretending to be insane is a symptom of insanity, and that it doesn't do them any good.
I love this episode.
Most people with DID, don't. I actually had someone try and convince me that I had DID. In reality, I'm mid-functioning schizophrenic.
My aunt DOES have DID. And it looks nothing like this or fakers on TH-cam and TikTok. Her alters lock her out of her computer and apartment on a regular basis. And she pukes nearly everytime she "switches"
It can look different for everyone. I have diagnosed did. For me, it did have blanks in my memory, lost time, completely different personalities from my own with their own names.
I've never puked with switching, but my family (they are religious, which is where some of the abuse came from) thought I was demon possessed. They put me through so many anointings and laying of hands that to this day I do not like physical touch.
Lmao internet people
Wicked mother and father they both traumatized their daughters
Personally I don’t blame them the parents had it coming
i second that
Me too
Murder is still murder, if we let this slide then people will find other ways to justify it. We have systems for a reason.
@@Feedback72 I wouldn’t let them slide just offer them a deal for a lesser charge and lower sentence preferably involving mandatory psychiatric care
@cadespencer6320 I feel like that wouldn't happen in this case, though. Seeing as this was HEAVILY premeditated and openly admitting so with delight.
What a phenomenal performance by Cynthia, amazing
FYI those mental health facilities aren't cozy places, they can be very horrific especially if you whernt actually needing any mental health, and most times people who get through on insainity for a crime (if they do) can be sent there longer then the prison sentence would be. As they wouldnt be able to get out until a judge lets them.
3:29 “i had enough of yo games”😭😭 new york accent comin out
Definitely in my top 10 favorite episodes. This entire season actually was fantastic
Primal Fear with an extra twist!
It's Primal Fear meets the Menendez brothers (but sisters).
this is what pisses me off about the law its RARELY there to protect victims and then should victims snap or get their own justice or even DEFEND THEMSELVES THEYRE the ones punished!!!
Not to mention that the arrest of her sister feels like it was retaliatory in nature than actually arresting her for any wrong-doing. They didn't care that the sister probably had nothing to do with anything - Stabler and Benson were more interested in getting back at Janice for getting one over on them than in getting justice.
RIGHT!!
“since we cant get you we will get your sister instead” sometimes this show is glorified for been “evolved” but at the end of the day theyre still cops who will react hostile the minute their ego is bruised
@@devworlddailyit’s copaganda what do expect?
as a black woman I actually have zero expectations what led you to believe I had any?
So you’re saying that victims who never brings it to light and decides to kill their attackers because the cops (they never told) didn’t arrest them? Again they never told any authorities about it. Just killed their parents and you think they should get a freebie? So now this DERANGED AND MANIPULATIVE woman gets to roam around free with the card that always gets her out of prison? you people are f*cking stupid.
this is my favorite episode omg
Oh my poor Elliott gets smacked around a lot 😲😲😲
Wait, I'm confused. Why did she approach the detectives to begin with? If the daughter was okay and she didn't have a personality disorder that made her show up, why bring the attention to her? Did she want to establish she's insane beforehand so there'll be no doubt about her insanity in court for killing her parents? Would've been easier if she did the deed and then acted all insane so the plea will be guilty. I need help, I don't get it.
She was setting things up to create double jeopardy.
It was a long con.
Never use your own devices to review methods of crimes
@@kliop123432 It's a shame she didn't think about how it would affect her sister.
This episode is a mixture of “Sybil” and “Primal Fear”. Love it!
The fact she lied 🤣🤣
Kinda reminds me of the case of Billy Mulligan. Multiple personality disorder so rare, he's one of the few people in the history of American crime to have been found legally insane after committing several horrific crimes against women.
Story similar to Primal Fear with Edward Norton and Richard Gear.
Balkie 🤩
And now we do the Dance of Joy
This episode was amazing! Earned that Emmy! Spell her name right wtf!!!!🙄
If I had a nickel for every time a crime show (or hell, even just L&O) demonized a mental illness or disability...
Did you watch the entire video? The woman was faking Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), they recovered deleted files that showed her researching the condition on her computer.
This isn't a demonization of mental illness, this is a demonization of people who fake them to get away with crimes.
and rightfully so because it is actually more accurate than most believe it to be
@@cadespencer6320 lol no its not. being mentally ill makes you make likely to be the victim of violence not the perpetrator.
Agreed. I have DID. I hate this video. It hurts. Like, yes, Alters can be violent. But this sorta situation is very rare. But promoted as if it's the norm, fueled with misinformation. The number of times I've told people I have DID and their first question is "do you have any violent personalities?" I hate it. It hurts. Many don't care about the trauma required to have this, they just wanna know if you're gonna hurt them because that's what the media says. We have a lot of alters that aren't human, that in itself is bad enough for people to throw hate. But I also have an alter who identifies as a demon. She's one of the sweetest people I know. But she gets a lot of hate just for being a demon. It's just really annoying. Stupid. Like, if you're gonna put something in a show, something that already has a bad representation in shows, do it right. Talk to people with the condition, and healthcare professionals and all that. It's hurting people, doing it wrong hurts people. I personally hate the idea of integration. It's not a possibility for our system and the fact that it's often considered the only "cure" by shows and some professionals is harmful. Our system works. We're alive because of our system. Take that away and I have nothing. They are my support system and I help them when I can. We work together to survive. I also hate when child alters are treated as the age the body is. Child alters are children.
They're not demonizing it. They're demonizing the disgusting people that take advantage of people's lack of knowledge about these illnesses, and use it as a shield against the law.
The same Cynthia Nixon who played the ballerina turned subway vigilante in the episode of the original Law & Order.
She also played the nanny in Baby's Day Out
@@ExplorerDS6789 I knew I recognised her from somewhere! Thank you
Great episode
She is such a phenomenal actress. She also is great on an episode of House! Also Balki!
LOL yes, I’m surprised that a lot of people haven’t commented on Balki!
She was also in an episode of Criminal Intent. She's a brilliant actress
Seeing this performance just makes me sad because Cynthia Nixon deserves better than And Just Like That.
This ep was insane!
Very good crazy episode
lmao they spelled Cynthia “Synthia” for the title of the video 😂😂😂
I remember this episode it was a good one cynthia nixon was fantastic
Clever plan but problem was the end result put her in an even worse situation than just jail all because of her ego and arrogance. Her sister serves the max while she is institutionalized until further notice, because of how many lies she spun due to her mania it’s gonna be hard to prove she’s legally sane and even if she gets out her sister is gone and she’s all alone.
And her niece is alone.
Synthia Nixon is my new EBM band name
lol at the thumbnail she’s like “AHHH who took my donuts?” 😂
Wow, this was set in performance, Cynthia Nixon, this whole entire scene of this episode of law and order SVU. If I were to play the same role as Nixon, I wouldn’t slap a police detective I would have cooperated Plus, I wouldn’t do any of that of what she did in the video. I wish I would drop out of College and get into acting already. At least Star in Law and Order SVU. ❤
Just like her father 5:38
I’m sure slapping the cop was part of the act 😂. If you don’t “slap” the cop you’re not doing the script.
Stay in school, the slap was most likely in the script, so you do as it reads.
There is no alter each individual personality is still them. You cannot ever prove if there was a first.
I just remember things when I first wash it 'wtf is it happening?'🧐
She knew what she was doing.
the parents had it coming though
@@cadespencer6320 True.
Cynthia Nixon is an underrated actress who needs to play more parts. She is phenomenal.
4:06 Stabler is referring the the Bond movie "A View To A Kill". If you haven't seen it yet, please do.
Why TF are there statutes of limitations on child abuse?
CSA should have no limitations to criminal liability.
The statue if limitations in this particular crime is so any other victims the scumbag abused can't be compelled to testify against the party.
I believe someone said that there could be some bogus argument the abusers lawyer could use to get the case treated as mistrial or something like that.
Irl there is no statute of limitations they can be convicted no matter how long it’s been but this is law & order world.
Not the title spelling Cynthia Nixon’s name as SYNthia omg
This episode show why people refuse to believe in DID
Loved the Freud and Carl Jung reference
I saw Dr. Carlisle and only saw Beverly Hills Cop’s Serge.
There’s something wrong with Janice. I know she faked multiple personalities, but it seems like there’s something else to her as well.
If you like this episode you should check out the movie “primal fear”, also includes murderer with multiple personalities!
4:38- 4:52 why does this make me think this is how Sarah Boone talks to her lawyers probably why she’s on number 8 or 9😂
insane that everyone completely glossed over the fact that they were severly abused as children. i say the parents had it coming
As a human being, I could not bring her or her sister up on any charges, any at all!
They couldn’t let something like conspiracy to commit murder go
They always had the best guest stars on these shows. Great performance by Cynthia Nixon.
8:48-8:50
Yeesh, what a maniac lol.
They're idiots if they think that conviction on the sister would stick. NYC cops are as dunb on TV as they are IRL.
Who cares.. it’s just a show
I loved this episode of SVU Cynthia Nixon did amazing glad she won an Emmy🎉
Haven’t seen Bronson Pinchot since Perfect Strangers!
This one was good
To know that these unstable people exist in this world and unknowingly meet one in the street creeps me out.
You know how crazy you have to be for one of your personalities to snitch on the other?
I wonder if M. Night got the idea for the movie Split from this episode.
Im sure both were inspired by Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde
If only she hadn't gotten arrogant . . .
so is she was the live action of Dory mixed by Toko from Danganronpa
She wasn’t acting she’s a natural psychopath
Closer to antisocial personality disorder because she’s aware of what she’s doing.
She faked multiple personalities to manipulate and evade the justice system and got her sister imprisoned.
@@jexelbur6872- "Psychopath" is a layman's term for a person with antisocial personality disorder. Generally, psychopaths are born with it whereas sociopaths develop it through childhood trauma, but the terms aren't precise.
@@racookster Which is why I said “antisocial personality” and not “psychopath” or “sociopath”. Also there’s no general consensus on how mental illnesses develop. Experts agree that it’s a mix of biological and environmental factors, but but the symptoms a person has manifest later in life. No one is _born antisocial._ No one is _born dissociative._ It would be easier to diagnose people with mental illness if they displayed symptoms at birth, but that’s not the case. You might as well say people are born evil, which is woefully inaccurate.
@@jexelbur6872every PD knows extremely well what they’re doing
It’s people like these who give people the idea that people with DID are dangerous when they are more likely to be submissive again. And idk what that guy was on when he said you can’t hold her accountable people with the condition literally have a term called system accountability
I know it really pisses me off that things like this are teaching people nothing about what this illness is actually about.
@@Vee_breeze2767 Yes! Just demonizing people who are past victims it can be so much more harmful than helpful
Is that aunt Ada from gilded age? She’s a good actress I never realised
3:33 Ooooooh 😬
Wow mannnn Cynthia is amazing
LEAVE HER ALONE!!!! 😂😂🤣🤣
Didn't she also play a munchausen patient in House? Lol
Yes!
this doesn't read as psychotic to me? not even psychopathic, which is what i assume the title means, since she was so upset on her sister's behalf at the end. isn't the entire point that she DOESN'T actually have issues wrt reality?
Oh I see it was a doll. I missed that.
Where was the "Justice" in this again? People severly abused by their birth parents take revenge and outsmart detectives but becuase they can't live with a bruised ego they punish the sister who had almost nothing to do with the murder of predatory abusive parents?
omg its Balki