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I totally agree. The more I think about it, which I'd rather not, it seems like all arrows are pointing towards Rollins' sister. He's being extremely vague and elusive about it; and he doesn't seem (to me) to be the type of person to necessarily shout things like that from the rooftop, he also doesn't strike me as the type of person who would be extremely hush hush about it, either. The whole "I like to try new things" thing that he said seemed kind of cryptic, and, after thinking about it, it does seem like that would be something like a tourist/out of towner/new to town person (Rollins' sister) would do- hit up a "new age"/hipster/whatever type of restaurant, and Carisi went along with it, for whatever reason.

If it grows on trees why is it so expensive!!!!!!

Isn't the guac extra? I'm not made of money, ya know.

That is true.....it's too bad that I'm becoming lactose intolerant. Thanks, SVU!

I'm just glad they're not putting Rollins and Carisi together....at least not yet. I can see some inter-department "romance" type of "relationship" deal or feelings, I mean, after all, the squad spends many, many hours together, so I think that it can be easy to at least think you're developing feelings for a coworker, but, it is overplayed in this series, and, to me, that brings up ethical issues, such as trying to "save" a love interest over someone else in a dangerous situation, or covering up for them, etc. Also, like I said, it is just played out. Olivia seems to have had some sort of relationship/feelings/whatever for half the squad, IAB, Bayard Ellis, a DA, so on and so forth, and, besides being professionally inappropriate (at least to me), it's distracting and not really needed. I think it's kinda refreshing to have a budding romance for squad member that: A) isn't within the squad 2) doesn't eat up screen time C) doesn't take away from the squad member from doing their job, and 4) they don't have to sneak around because it's "against the rules." I may have to eat my words (I hope not) when and if the new relationship Carisi is in happens to be another SVU squad member/a DA/whomever is inappropriate. If he is in a relationship with Olivia, that will be it for me.....but it wouldn't surprise me, especially with these writers. As a related afterthought, (sorry about the rambling), what if Carisi is in a relationship with Rollins' sister????? Maybe that's why he's being quiet about it, and how the ad for the bra came up on his work computer.....she may have access to it via visiting Amanda at work, or him taking it home....just a thought.

Hey, it doesn't matter, they "Got him!" Oh, her boyfriend left her and hasn't returned her calls for 3 days? Hey, according to (as you have so aptly said(all sarcasm aside)) St. Benson: "We got him!" so, it's ok! They have totally ruined a pretty decent character. I honestly laughed last week when she was gripping the grates on the window. I was half expecting some sort of '80s hair band song to start playing as she turned around.

All in all, besides this being "Law and Order: Benson," I think this should also be called "Law and Order: He said, She Said." I understand a lot of cases are probably "like this," but this season has been nothing but these types of cases. With that mini rant over, I do think that this episode did have a little bit of a "twist" of the MO of this season. This was probably one of the better episodes of a lackluster season, and it seemed that Olivia was a little more relaxed and not so over-involved in every aspect of the case, as per the usual, so it had that going for it, which was nice. All in all, I didn't find it a "must see," but it did allow for some of the cast involvement, a leader who isn't baby sitting everyone, and a spin on a case that has made this show overall good in the past. It was a little on the nose, meaning that there was, at no time, a feeling that Declan could have gotten off. As a little off topic, but related (at least to me haha), I would like to see an actual episode where the defendant may actually walk away from charges, or, at least have it be a pretty grey case, where there is no easy answer. On that same (or similar) note, I would LOVE to see Benson actually have to "pay" for some of her coaxing of the victims to testify/threatening people as with the last episode. It'd kinda be refreshing to see her maybe transferred/demoted/investigated so she would HAVE to take time away.....mainly so we wouldn't have to see her overacting/over reaching on cases and see her random expressions in court. Sorry in advance if this isn't too deep or insightful....this is my first post on a message board.