Interestingly, SVU was already working on an episode about sexual assault within the airline industry when the Harvey Weinstein story broke.
The airline industry as a closed industry set a stage that is surprisingly similar to Hollywood, and THR reports that the SVU episode will examine how everybody was protecting this pilot for many years.
Instead of rewriting the episode or scrapping the episode in favor of something more on-the-nose about Weinstein, SVU executive producer Michael Chernuchin has stated that the writers realized that the story they were telling was a lot like what actresses were reporting they’d gone through in Hollywood.