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Does anyone remember that episode in SVU Season 1 where they set up a sting to catch pedophiles and it turns out half of them were FBI conducting their own sting? I feel like that's what the honey farm is. Elliot got close enough to Ayanna at the meeting to tell her where Sam's body was, so why the stupid dramatics about faking the story about burying a friend's body when he could have just told her? So ATF Agent Lady guessed Stabler was a cop after being told the story secondhand, but the guy who recounted the story never guessed? Why was Vargas sent to help search for Sam? He's not even a cop. I just envision him getting super excited that he's being included as part of the team. And how did he just randomly get Elliot's brother out of jail without telling Bell? Does anyone else think Vargas is Redcoat?

DAE have flashbacks to OG "Hubris" with this one? The juror thinking she had a magic connection with the pro se defendant? On every episode where there's a pro se defendant, the judge appoints an attorney as co-council except one where the defender isn't even American? How did Maddie's mom get George's number and how did they get to the point of fucking SEXTING? I wanted to punch something when Liv told Fin to leave the motel room. Why not just say, "Fin. Everything has to be about me. Leave." Curry's neck pillow. I can't with her. Captain and never been on a stakeout? I hate Liv's fucking nodding more than whispering. I hate the ending/fade to black where she looks at Carisi and nods. She did the same at Maddie's press conference. They get a guilty verdict and Liv's first move isn't to do anything as pedantic as let them be together as a family. She has to drag the poor kid away to her special doctor because once again, only Liv can fix anything.

It's necessary suspension of disbelief that everyone in a NYC based prime time TV show is living in an apartment that would cost at least $15,000/month.

How is it that NYC is experiencing a massive shortage of police officers, yet they're able to canvas every shelter and apartment building and bar in the City? Why did they need to canvas construction sites along the subway? Couldn't they just ask him where he went for the job? "My cousin and I are like brothers but I'm not sure where he lives or works or what his phone number is." I love how every cop in a foot chase knows exactly where the suspect will run and can head him off. Olivia standing in front of Ann's wall like an angel. Just... No. She's agoraphobic and she's going to just buzz them in? No way. St Olivia cures agoraphobia simply by lighting a few candles in the squad room. Ugh. Was it just me or did they not show the men holding up numbers in the first two line ups, only in the third? "Oh you're playing bad cop?" "He's not playing." Hee! I can't believe we finally got a good Fin line.

Jet's eye makeup should likely have its own guest star credits. WAY over the top. How the hell do they get away with just setting up a satellite office in Elliott's apartment? Does their acting captain not wonder where her detectives are or what cases they're working on? I loved Elliot not remembering AI guy's first name. Speaking of him, I understand we all need to accept some artistic license but the scene where they're looking for the church and Elliot suggested searching on "churches with choir practices" was ridiculous. Where is Bell's kid? He's just Chuck Cunningham'ed right out of there. Why did Bell have to secretly meet with Cragen? He's retired. They don't need to meet in secret, he can just call or visit her. It looked like unnecessary dramatic effect. When did you last see chloroform? It's like 1970's crime drama redux. Lastly, how did Eric carry a passed out Stabler into a church and bind him up?

I understood it as feeling sorry for her because she was molested. Throughout the series (as pointed out above) there have been numerous victims turned criminals. The one that stands out to me is the kid who was molested by the piano teacher who himself became a rapist. I think in working with victims, Liv has developed almost a sense of survivor's guilt. She sees so many people with terrible upbringings and life circumstances who wind up going down negative paths. She seems to want to grasp why she became a cop rather than a criminal; she tries to help, not ruin.

I didn't think she'd be the killer but I didn't understand Liv's burning questions. Did she think Maria would not remember her, or that she wouldn't have positive memory of being saved from being raped and buried alive? I don't understand why not have Liv reflect on victims. It's always been an underlying theme that Liv was the child of rape and had an alcoholic mother. She didn't turn out like Simon or become a criminal, she became a Saint. Both Tori and Maria were victims, yet one became a cop and the other a murderer.

Who else thought Maria was going to answer the door and say, "Oleeeeeevia?" I get suspension of disbelief but it doesn't take 10 minutes to get a no knock warrant, and given how woke the SVU crowd is, I'm surprised by featuring it. Who else thought Liv was going to adopt the younger kid? Liv diving under the car and shooting around under there was practically satire. Maybe the mechanic is (or looks) young but FFS what's up with Liv derisively telling him he looks too young to drive and just being like "you can't possibly know how to do your job." When they found the second victim, was the tracker just laying there on a table? How was it used? Do we really need Curry baking things every week? Doughnut. Coffee Cake. I'm surprised the promo doesn't show her in the break room with Fin saying, "lemon bars?"

DAE wonder why he thought he'd die jumping into the river from a ledge which was around two feet from the water? Maybe if he couldn't swim but that's not a suicide leap. There's no way that a trained LEO is just going to let a suicidal man walk away. He was intending to kill himself but as long as he says he's fine, Jalen just shrugs and lets him go? The kid's mom, aunt's sister, and suspect's wife died yesterday and they're not planning a funeral or grieving or even not going to school? They make her death sound like an inconvenience.

The last two episodes they were arguing over him even having closet space. She made that big show of telling him he could keep clothes there. She definitely wasn't pregnant and the relationship couldn't have been going on that long if she only recently even told Alec about it.

The Universe has never cared much for jurisdiction or geography. The OG 27 investigated homicides everywhere in the City. SVU and Major Case both get cases that would never be assigned to those squads. Organized Crime is already an NYPD Department, it was Rey Curtis's previous squad. The "Task Force" as a unit makes little sense.

When this ridiculous story began I literally called it that Liv would have to be the one to find her and hug her while whispering, "Maddie". The other cops get to the farmhouse but instead of running in and getting her they just wait for Liv. Liv and Maddie nodding at each other at the press conference was painful cringe. If nothing else she's been kidnapped for a month, doped up on fentanyl and sold to a pervert. Is she really up for a press conference?

NGL. I was hoping Fin somehow headed him off and clotheslined him.

It's a parole hearing which is presumably in a prison. No way could he just walk in unnoticed. Additionally, they'd have visitor logs which Marissa would have reviewed.

The other part I just realized is when they go to the parole hearing, the bomber is apparently scared into tanking his case and immediately says he'll do it again. If the FBI agent was "Mathias" wouldn't that mean he was there and wouldn't Marissa have seen him?