John Munch (Richard Belzer) was an integral

part of the original crew of detectives on Law

& Order: Special Victims Unit. And it didn’t

take long for him to prove why exactly the team needed him.

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In Season 1, Episode 4 (“Hysteria”), Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Chris Meloni) are attempting to hunt down a murderer. They bring in a sex worker named Lorinda Gutierrez (played by Selenis Levya who now 25 years later plays Rosie in Lopez v Lopez) who they suspect was attacked by the same suspect a year prior. Gutierrez describes the attack, and Benson and Stabler repeatedly reenact her account.

However, the detectives are still stumped. That’s when Munch comes in. Using the science of deduction, he is able to figure out that the person who attacked Gutierrez was a cop, based on the way he held his flashlight.

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