History Recap / LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS19E5Complicated

* DownerEnding: The original victim Emma was DeadAllAlong. Her big brother Glenn is locked up for killing her, and her father as well for aiding and abetting in a failed attempt to protect his son. Her mother, left alone in life, tells Benson that [[BrokenBird she wishes she'd never found the fake Emma, as she's only made everything worse and taken the last hope from her life]]. The fake Emma is left without [[IJustWantToBeLoved the loving family she so desperately needs]]. And Sheila remains a part of Noah's life, which for [[GenreSavvy genre savvy]] viewers can only be a disturbing prospect.

* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Carisi demonstrates obscure knowledge of Emma's kidnapping at the beginning of the episode and explains he watched a ton of TV about this case back in the day while sitting around the hospital waiting room while his father was ill. Later on he is able to crack the case by noticing Glenn is changing his story to tailor it to the fake Emma's.

* MyGreatestSecondChance: Olivia accuses Sheila of seeing Noah as a tool to alleviate her guilt over Ellie.

* TheAtoner: Olivia accuses Sheila of this, suggesting that her desire to be a parental figure to Noah is motivated by a desire to redeem herself for failing Ellie.

* DownerEnding: The original victim Emma was DeadAllAlong. Her big brother Glenn is locked up for her slaying, and her father as well for aiding and abetting in a failed attempt to protect his son. Her mother, left alone in life, tells Benson that [[BrokenBird she wishes she'd never found the fake Emma, as she's only made everything worse and taken the last hope from her life]]. The fake Emma is left without [[IJustWantToBeLoved the loving family she so desperately needs]]. And Sheila remains a part of Noah's life, which for [[GenreSavvy genre savvy]] viewers can only be a disturbing prospect.

* IDidntMeanToKillHim: Glenn claims to have accidentally smothered his little sister with a pillow after she wouldn't stop dancing in front of the tv, a claim the detectives swallow in their zeal to lock up his father for aiding and abetting.

* ImposterExposingTest: After fake emma can't explain her travel details DNA testing exposes her imposture.

* ChekhovsSkill: Carisi demonstrates obscure knowledge of Emma's kidnapping at the beginning of the episode and explains he watched a ton of TV about this case back in the day while sitting around the hospital waiting room while his father was ill. Later on he is able to crack the case by noticing Glenn is changing his story to tailor it to the fake Emma's.

* ImposterExposingTest: After fake emma can't explain her travel details DNA testing exposes her imposture.

* ChekhovsGunman: Carisi demonstrates obscure knowledge of Emma's kidnapping at the beginning of the episode and explains he watched a ton of TV about this case back in the day while sitting around the hospital waiting room while his father was ill. Later on he is able to crack the case by noticing Glenn is changing his story to tailor it to the fake Emma's.

* DownerEnding: The original victim Emma was DeadAllAlong. Her big brother Glenn is locked up for her slaying, and her father as well for aiding and abetting in a failed attempt to protect his son. Her mother, left alone in life, tells the Benson that [[BrokenBird she wishes she'd never found the fake Emma, as she's only made everything worse and taken the last hope from her life]]. The fake Emma is left without [[IJustWantToBeLoved the loving family she so desperately needs]]. And Sheila remains a part of Noah's life, which for [[GenreSavvy genre savvy]] viewers can only be a disturbing prospect.

* IJustWantToBeLoved: Fake emma picked out a family with a missing child and pretended to be her because she wanted a family that loved her, to make up for [[FreudianExcuse her mother's treatment of her]]: cigarette and chemical burns.

* DownerEnding: The original victim Emma was DeadAllAlong. Her big brother Glenn is locked up for her slaying, and her father as well for aiding and abetting in a failed attempt to protect his son. Her mother, left alone in life, tells the fake Emma [[BrokenBird she wishes she'd never shown up, as she's only made everything worse and taken the last hope from her life]]. the fake Emma is left without [[IJustWantToBeLoved the loving family she so desperately needs]]. And Sheila remains a part of Noah's life, which for [[GenreSavvy genre savvy]] viewers can only be a disturbing prospect.

* IJustWantToBeLoved: fake emma picked out a family with a missing child and pretended to be her because she wanted a family that loved her, to make up for [[FreudianExcuse her mother's treatment of her]]: cigarette and chemical burns.

* ImposterExposingTest: After fake emma can't explain her travel details DNA testing exposes her imposture.

* RecycledScript: recycled from "Stranger", season 10, episode 11. A young woman claims to be a victim from a child kidnapping case from years ago, but it turns out she is an imposter who pretended to belong to the family of a kidnap victim she read about because she [[IJustWantToBeLoved wanted a loving family to make up for her abusive childhood]]. She is arrested after [[ImposterForgotOneDetail small details of her story don't add up]], and her imposture is confirmed by dna testing. [[FreudianExcuse The physical evidence of her childhood abuse enables her to retain some of Detective Benson's sympathy]], and she ultimately leads the detectives to the real killer. It turns out that the child victim was killed by an elder sibling who claims, dubiously, to have done so [[IDidntMeanToKillHim accidentally]]. The elder sibling is arrested and it turns out that one of the parents knew about the murder but covered it up so one the grounds that [[IDidWhatIHadToDo one child having been lost irrevocably already, there would be no point in losing a second as well.]] This leaves one innocent family member with all her relatives dead, imprisoned, or discredited.

* ImposterExposingTest: After fake emma can't explain her travel details DNA testing exposes her imposture.

* DownerEnding: The original victim Emma was DeadAllAlong. Her big brother Glenn is locked up for her slaying, and her father as well for aiding and abetting in a failed attempt to protect his son. Her mother, left alone in life, tells the fake Emma [[BrokenBird she wishes she'd never shown up, as she's only made everything worse and taken the last hope from her life]]. the fake Emma is left without [[IJustWantToBeLoved the loving family she so desperately needs]]. And Sheila remains a part of Noah's life, which for [[GenreSavvy genre savvy]] viewers can only be a diaturbing prospect.

* DownerEnding: The original victim Emma was DeadAllAlong. Her big brother Glenn is locked up for her slaying, and her father as well for aiding and abetting in a failed attempt to protect his son. Her mother, left alone in life, tells the fake Emma she wishes she'd never shown up, as she's only made everything worse and taken the last hope from her life. the fake Emma is left without [[IJustWantToBeLoved the loving family she so desperately needs]]. And Sheila remains a part of Noah's life, which for [[GenreSavvy genre savvy]] viewers can only be a diaturbing prospect.

* IJustWantToBeLoved: fake emma picked out a family with a missing child and pretended to be her because she wanted a family that loved her, to make up for her mother's treatment of her: cigarette and chemical burns.

* ImposterExposingTest: fake emma can't correctly say where she got her shamrock tattoo from (it attracted notice because it was reversed from the original).

* DownerEnding: The original victim Emma was DeadAllAlong. Her big brother Glenn is locked up for her slaying, and her father as well for aiding and abetting in a failed attempt to protect his son. Her mother, left alone in life, tells the fake Emma she wishes she'd never shown up, as she's only made everything worse and taken the last hope from her life. the fake Emma is left without [[IJustWantToBeLoved the loving family she so desperately needs]]. And Sheila remains a part of Noah's life, which for [[GenreSavvy genre savvy]] viewers can only be a diaturbing prospect.

* DownerEnding: The original victim Emma was [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong]]. Her big brother Glenn [[spoiler:is locked up for her slaying]], and her father as well for [[spoiler:aiding and abetting in a failed attempt to protect his son]]. Her mother, left alone in life, tells [[spoiler:the fake Emma]] she wishes she'd never shown up, as she's only made everything worse and [[spoiler:the fake Emma]] is left without the loving family she so desperately needs. And Sheila remains a part of Noah's life, which for [[GenreSavvy genre savvy]] viewers can only be a diaturbing prospect.

A decade-old cold case is reopened after its missing young woman is found alive. However, detectives become suspicious when parts of her story do not match up and a disturbing secret in the family's past soon comes to light. Meanwhile, Benson and Sheila continue to fight over the parenting of Noah, with Sheila getting on Benson's nerves by bringing up the recent child abuse allegations against Benson.

A decade-old cold case is reopened after it's missing young woman is found alive. However, detectives become suspicious when parts of her story do not match up and a disturbing secret in the family's past soon comes to light. Meanwhile, Benson and Sheila continue to fight over the parenting of Noah, with Sheila getting on Benson's nerves by bringing up the recent child abuse allegations against Benson.

A young woman (Creator/IliRay) who has been missing for ten years is suddenly found and the cold case into her disappearance is reopened by the Special Victims Unit. However, the detectives become suspicious of her story when several things do not match up and the detectives soon discover a disturbing secret kept by the family. Meanwhile, Benson and Sheila fight against each other for custody of Noah with Sheila claiming she fears for Noah's safety due to Benson's recent allegations, infuriating Benson and putting them both in an intense and conflict-filled relationship.