Holden's Manifesto
A lovelorn, socially awkward young man begins to exact revenge on the the women he believes has wronged him in his life, and his actions soon escalate to murder.
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"While dealing with a health crisis for baby Noah, Sergeant Olivia Benson has a real crisis on her hands. There's a young kid out there who has graduated from rape attempts to murder. He's even written down a manifesto kind of like a Mein Kampf for serial killers. John Karna plays young Holden March and I don't think the writers at SVU missed the reference to the lovelorn Holden Caulfield that J.D. Salinger created back in my young days. This kid remembers every slight, every put down especially from girls who grew up with him. But he graduates soon enough to murder and Mariska ..."
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This episode is based on the 2014 Isla Vista killings. Holden March is based on the perpetrator Elliot Rodger, who sent an email titled "My Twisted World" to acquaintances and family before going on the shooting. The document quickly became known as his "manifesto". Rodger's had issues feeling he had been rejected by women, despite hardly interacting with them. He also uploaded a video to YouTube (later taken down) before the incident called "Elliot Rodger's Retribution", where he talked of the upcoming attack, and his motives behind it: his desire for revenge against women and sexually active men he perceived to be living a better life than his.
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A lovelorn, socially awkward young man begins to exact revenge on the the women he believes has wronged him in his life, and his actions soon escalate to murder.