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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode (and season) ends just as Captain Cragen asks Dr. Jackson on who among his detectives failed the evaluation.
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** Morrow claims the relationship is SafeSaneAndConsensual, polyamory and CasualKink but that might just be FromACertainPointOfView or even BlatantLies.
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A wealthy lawyer, Randolph Morrow (Creator/AndrewMcCarthy) is suspected of keeping a Romanian woman, linked to her aunt's murder, captive for years. The members of the SVU are interviewed to see if they remain fit for duty. Music/AudraMcDonald, Creator/SusanFloyd, and Creator/LanceReddick also guest star.
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* AmbiguousSituation: The episode features a husband, his wife, and their nanny/girlfriend/SexSlave, Ilena. They keep the relationship hidden...
** Either because Ilena is in the country illegally, and also because her conservative aunt and other relatives would not approve of her living in a polyamorous relationship,
** Or because they have kidnapped Ilena and held her against her will until Stockholm Syndrome set in.
** So, it's SafeSaneAndConsensual, polyamory and CasualKink versus monster and AMatchMadeInStockholm. The husband claims the first option, but that might just be FromACertainPointOfView or even BlatantLies. As for Ilena, she never gets a voice in the matter. The kidnapping theory is implied to be the correct one, but if it's actually verified then that happens after the episode is over.
*** The only outright verification given for the monster viewpoint comes from the wife, and only AFTER she has been...
*** A. proven guilty of murdering Elena's aunt without her husband's knowledge or consent.
*** B. force-fed "oh, go ahead and blame it on your husband anyway" by the detectives as a "Get out of Jail Free" Card.
*** The whole case was started by Ilena telling a fruit vendor she was "trapped in a situation she [couldn't] escape from" (in a phrasing that, according to said vendor, strongly implied abuse) and asking him to tell her aunt she needed help, so that suggests she was less than a willing participant. Not to mention she's clearly been starved long-term, that's not usually part of a consensual BDSM situation. It's still ambiguous, though, in that it's not entirely clear how it played out: was the entire thing forced on Ilena, or did it start with consensual BDSM and then Morrow just pushed it beyond that? (Not that it entirely matters -- it's abuse either way.)
** Either because Ilena is in the country illegally, and also because her conservative aunt and other relatives would not approve of her living in a polyamorous relationship,
** Or because they have kidnapped Ilena and held her against her will until Stockholm Syndrome set in.
** So, it's SafeSaneAndConsensual, polyamory and CasualKink versus monster and AMatchMadeInStockholm. The husband claims the first option, but that might just be FromACertainPointOfView or even BlatantLies. As for Ilena, she never gets a voice in the matter. The kidnapping theory is implied to be the correct one, but if it's actually verified then that happens after the episode is over.
*** The only outright verification given for the monster viewpoint comes from the wife, and only AFTER she has been...
*** A. proven guilty of murdering Elena's aunt without her husband's knowledge or consent.
*** B. force-fed "oh, go ahead and blame it on your husband anyway" by the detectives as a "Get out of Jail Free" Card.
*** The whole case was started by Ilena telling a fruit vendor she was "trapped in a situation she [couldn't] escape from" (in a phrasing that, according to said vendor, strongly implied abuse) and asking him to tell her aunt she needed help, so that suggests she was less than a willing participant. Not to mention she's clearly been starved long-term, that's not usually part of a consensual BDSM situation. It's still ambiguous, though, in that it's not entirely clear how it played out: was the entire thing forced on Ilena, or did it start with consensual BDSM and then Morrow just pushed it beyond that? (Not that it entirely matters -- it's abuse either way.)
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* AmbiguousSituation: The episode features a husband, Morrow, his wife, and their nanny/girlfriend/SexSlave, Ilena. They Ilena keep the relationship hidden...
** Eitherhidden because 1) Ilena is in the country illegally, and also because her conservative aunt and other relatives would not approve of her living in a polyamorous relationship,
** Orrelationship even if consensual; OR 2) because they have kidnapped Ilena and [[AMatchMadeInStockholm held her against her will until Stockholm Syndrome set in.
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**So, it's Morrow claims the relationship is SafeSaneAndConsensual, polyamory and CasualKink versus monster and AMatchMadeInStockholm. The husband claims the first option, but that might just be FromACertainPointOfView or even BlatantLies. As for Ilena, she never gets a voice in the matter. The kidnapping theory is implied to be the correct one, but if it's actually verified then that happens after the episode is over.
***BlatantLies.
** The only outright verificationgiven for the of Morrow being a monster viewpoint comes from the wife, and only AFTER she has been...
*** A. proven guilty ofadmits to murdering Elena's aunt without her husband's knowledge or consent.
*** B. force-fed "oh, go ahead and blame it on your husband anyway" byconsent. That does not happen until the detectives pressure her to blame it on her husband as a "Get out of Jail Free" Card.
*** The whole case was started by Ilena telling ** As for Ilena, the audience does not hear from her directly. What she told a fruit vendor she vendor[[note]]she was "trapped in a situation she [couldn't] escape from" (in a phrasing that, according to said vendor, strongly implied abuse) and asking him to please tell her aunt she needed help, so help[[/note]] that led him to tell the police suggests she was less than not a willing participant. Not to mention she's She's clearly been starved long-term, that's which is not usually part of a consensual BDSM situation. It's still ambiguous, though, in that it's not entirely clear how it played out: was the entire thing forced on Ilena, or did it start with consensual BDSM and then Morrow just pushed it beyond that? (Not that it entirely matters -- it's abuse either way.)
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* DatingCatwoman: Jeffries reveals to the psychiatrist that she dated a previous suspect. [[spoiler: This gets her put on desk duty, and she becomes so frustrated with this that she transfers out of SVU.]]
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* DatingCatwoman: Jeffries reveals to the psychiatrist that she dated a previous suspect. [[spoiler: This gets her put on desk duty, and she becomes so frustrated with this that she transfers out of SVU.]]
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-->'''Audrey:''' Do you always deflect personal questions with jokes?
-->'''Munch:''' Do you always deflect jokes with personal questions?
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-->'''Audrey:''' Do you always deflect personal questions with jokes?
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'''Munch:''' Do you always deflect jokes with personal questions?
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'''Munch:''' Do you always deflect jokes with personal questions?
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* RomanticizedAbuse: The episode revels in the details on how a young Romanian woman has been imprisoned, brainwashed and used as sex toy by an American couple. Lots of neatly presented details about the horrors she endured makes for a strange mix of fetish and NauseaFuel. [[spoiler: Surprisingly, the detectives let the wife off the hook in exchange for selling out her husband, in spite of the fact that ''she murdered the girl's aunt without even informing her husband about it afterwards'', though one could argue that there was some heavy implication that the wife was also the subject of abuse and brainwashing.]]
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* RomanticizedAbuse: The episode revels in the details on how a young Romanian woman has been imprisoned, brainwashed and used as sex toy by an American couple. Lots of neatly presented details about the horrors she endured makes for a strange mix of fetish and NauseaFuel. [[spoiler: nausea fuel. Surprisingly, the detectives let the wife off the hook in exchange for selling out her husband, in spite of the fact that ''she murdered the girl's aunt without even informing her husband about it afterwards'', though one could argue that there was some heavy implication that the wife was also the subject of abuse and brainwashing.]]
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** So, it's SafeSaneAndConsensual, polyamory and CasualKink versus monster and AMatchMadeInStockholm. The husband claims the first option, but that might just be FromACertainPointOfView or even BlatantLies. As for Elena, she never gets a voice in the matter. The kidnapping theory is implied to be the correct one, but if it's actually verified then that happens after the episode is over.
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** So, it's SafeSaneAndConsensual, polyamory and CasualKink versus monster and AMatchMadeInStockholm. The husband claims the first option, but that might just be FromACertainPointOfView or even BlatantLies. As for Elena, Ilena, she never gets a voice in the matter. The kidnapping theory is implied to be the correct one, but if it's actually verified then that happens after the episode is over.
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*** The whole case was started by Ilena telling a fruit vendor she was "trapped in a situation she [couldn't] escape from" (in a phrasing that, according to said vendor, strongly implied abuse) and asking him to tell her aunt she needed help, so that suggests she was less than a willing participant. Not to mention she's clearly been starved long-term, that's not usually part of a consensual BDSM situation. It is true, though, that Ilena never expressly confirms as much to the detectives.
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*** The whole case was started by Ilena telling a fruit vendor she was "trapped in a situation she [couldn't] escape from" (in a phrasing that, according to said vendor, strongly implied abuse) and asking him to tell her aunt she needed help, so that suggests she was less than a willing participant. Not to mention she's clearly been starved long-term, that's not usually part of a consensual BDSM situation. It is true, It's still ambiguous, though, in that Ilena never expressly confirms as much to it's not entirely clear how it played out: was the detectives.entire thing forced on Ilena, or did it start with consensual BDSM and then Morrow just pushed it beyond that? (Not that it entirely matters -- it's abuse either way.)
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* DatingCatwoman: Jeffries reveals to the psychiatrist that she dated a previous suspect. Her reputation will also take a hit in future episodes because of this.
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* DatingCatwoman: Jeffries reveals to the psychiatrist that she dated a previous suspect. Her reputation will also take a hit [[spoiler: This gets her put on desk duty, and she becomes so frustrated with this that she transfers out of SVU.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Munch is infuture episodes because of this. top form during his psych eval.
-->'''Audrey:''' Do you always deflect personal questions with jokes?
'''Munch:''' Do you always deflect jokes with personal questions?
* DeadpanSnarker: Munch is in
-->'''Audrey:''' Do you always deflect personal questions with jokes?
'''Munch:''' Do you always deflect jokes with personal questions?
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* RomanticizedAbuse: The episode revels in the details on how a young Romanian woman has been imprisoned, brainwashed and used as sex toy by an American couple. Lots of neatly presented details about the horrors she endured makes for a strange mix of FetishFuel fetish and NauseaFuel. [[spoiler: Surprisingly, the detectives let the wife off the hook in exchange for selling out her husband, in spite of the fact that ''she murdered the girl's aunt without even informing her husband about it afterwards'', though one could argue that there was some heavy implication that the wife was also the subject of abuse and brainwashing.]]
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A wealthy lawyer, Randolph Morrow (Creator/AndrewMcCarthy) is suspected of keeping a Romanian woman, linked to her aunt's murder, captive for years. Music/AudraMcDonald Music/AudraMcDonald, Creator/SusanFloyd, and Creator/LanceReddick also guest star.
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* RomanticizedAbuse: The episode revels in the details on how a young Romanian woman has been imprisoned, brainwashed and used as sex toy by an American couple. Lots of neatly presented details about the horrors she endured makes for a strange mix of FetishFuel and NauseaFuel. [[spoiler: Surprisingly, the detectives let the wife off the hook in exchange for selling out her husband, in spite of the fact that ''she murdered the girl's aunt without even informing her husband about it afterwards'', though one could argue that there was some heavy implication that the wife was also the subject of abuse and brainwashing.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: SVU loves to leave stuff unresolved for the audience to ponder. Usually it's on the simple level whether the guy is guilty or not (such as in the episode "Doubt"), but sometimes they take it to a much deeper level. The detectives just keep spawning new theories, and none of them either gets verified. For example, the episode features a husband, his wife, and their nanny/girlfriend/SexSlave, Ilena. They keep the relationship hidden...
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* AmbiguousSituation: SVU loves to leave stuff unresolved for the audience to ponder. Usually it's on the simple level whether the guy is guilty or not (such as in the episode "Doubt"), but sometimes they take it to a much deeper level. The detectives just keep spawning new theories, and none of them either gets verified. For example, the episode features a husband, his wife, and their nanny/girlfriend/SexSlave, Ilena. They keep the relationship hidden...
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* AmbiguousSituation: SVU loves to leave stuff unresolved for the audience to ponder. Usually it's on the simple level whether the guy is guilty or not (such as in the episode "Doubt"), but sometimes they take it to a much deeper level. The detectives just keep spawning new theories, and none of them either gets verified. For example, the episode features a husband, his wife, and their nanny/girlfriend/SexSlave, Ilena. They keep the relationship hidden...
**Either because Ilena is in the country illegally, and also because her conservative aunt and other relatives would not approve of her living in a polyamorous relationship,
**Or because they have kidnapped Ilena and held her against her will until Stockholm Syndrome set in.
**So, it's SafeSaneAndConsensual, polyamory and CasualKink versus monster and AMatchMadeInStockholm. The husband claims the first option, but that might just be FromACertainPointOfView or even BlatantLies. As for Elena, she never gets a voice in the matter. The kidnapping theory is implied to be the correct one, but if it's actually verified then that happens after the episode is over.
***The only outright verification given for the monster viewpoint comes from the wife, and only AFTER she has been...
***A. proven guilty of murdering Elena's aunt without her husband's knowledge or consent.
***B. force-fed "oh, go ahead and blame it on your husband anyway" by the detectives as a "Get out of Jail Free" Card.
***The whole case was started by Ilena telling a fruit vendor she was "trapped in a situation she [couldn't] escape from" (in a phrasing that, according to said vendor, strongly implied abuse) and asking him to tell her aunt she needed help, so that suggests she was less than a willing participant. Not to mention she's clearly been starved long-term, that's not usually part of a consensual BDSM situation. It is true, though, that Ilena never expressly confirms as much to the detectives.
**Either because Ilena is in the country illegally, and also because her conservative aunt and other relatives would not approve of her living in a polyamorous relationship,
**Or because they have kidnapped Ilena and held her against her will until Stockholm Syndrome set in.
**So, it's SafeSaneAndConsensual, polyamory and CasualKink versus monster and AMatchMadeInStockholm. The husband claims the first option, but that might just be FromACertainPointOfView or even BlatantLies. As for Elena, she never gets a voice in the matter. The kidnapping theory is implied to be the correct one, but if it's actually verified then that happens after the episode is over.
***The only outright verification given for the monster viewpoint comes from the wife, and only AFTER she has been...
***A. proven guilty of murdering Elena's aunt without her husband's knowledge or consent.
***B. force-fed "oh, go ahead and blame it on your husband anyway" by the detectives as a "Get out of Jail Free" Card.
***The whole case was started by Ilena telling a fruit vendor she was "trapped in a situation she [couldn't] escape from" (in a phrasing that, according to said vendor, strongly implied abuse) and asking him to tell her aunt she needed help, so that suggests she was less than a willing participant. Not to mention she's clearly been starved long-term, that's not usually part of a consensual BDSM situation. It is true, though, that Ilena never expressly confirms as much to the detectives.
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A wealthy lawyer, Randolph Morrow (Creator/Andrew[=McCarthy=) (Creator/AndrewMcCarthy) is suspected of keeping a Romanian woman, linked to her aunt's murder, captive for years. Music/AudraMcDonald and Creator/LanceReddick also guest star.
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* BondageIsBad: Justified, as Morrow is into ''extreme'' forms of torture.
* BrainsAndBondage: Morrow is a high-flying lawyer and a brutal sadist. He also seems to particularly enjoy torturing promising women, as his wife is a vet and Ilena was supposed to go to [=NYU=].
* BrainsAndBondage: Morrow is a high-flying lawyer and a brutal sadist. He also seems to particularly enjoy torturing promising women, as his wife is a vet and Ilena was supposed to go to [=NYU=].
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*BondageIsBad: Justified, as Morrow is into ''extreme'' forms of torture.
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* EthnicMenialLabour: Ilena works as a nanny and domestic servant for the Morrows. And a SexSlave. Most of the other Romanians we see are doing some form of menial labor, too.
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* EthnicMenialLabour: CruelTwistEnding: The squad was able to reprimand the Morrows for their crimes, only for TheReveal in the last minutes of the episode that one of the detectives needs to be removed from TheSquad due to failing the psych eval.
* DarkSecret: Both Elliot and Cragen reveal theirs to the psychiatrist; the former on secretly wanting to kill the suspects they catch, the latter for being tempted to fall OffTheWagon numerous times. In Elliot's case, this will take a bite at his reputation in future episodes.
* DatingCatwoman: Jeffries reveals to the psychiatrist that she dated a previous suspect. Her reputation will also take a hit in future episodes because of this.
* EthnicMenialLabor: Ilena works as a nanny and domestic servant for the Morrows. And a SexSlave. Most of the other Romanians we see are doing some form of menial labor, too.
* DarkSecret: Both Elliot and Cragen reveal theirs to the psychiatrist; the former on secretly wanting to kill the suspects they catch, the latter for being tempted to fall OffTheWagon numerous times. In Elliot's case, this will take a bite at his reputation in future episodes.
* DatingCatwoman: Jeffries reveals to the psychiatrist that she dated a previous suspect. Her reputation will also take a hit in future episodes because of this.
* EthnicMenialLabor: Ilena works as a nanny and domestic servant for the Morrows. And a SexSlave. Most of the other Romanians we see are doing some form of menial labor, too.
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-->'''Cragen:''' Let me see if I got this straight -- ''some'' girl is being sexually abused by ''some'' guy ''some''where in Manhattan?\\
'''Elliot Stabler:''' ''Some''thing like that.
-->'''Cragen:''' Let me see if I got this straight -- ''some'' girl is being sexually abused by ''some'' guy ''some''where in Manhattan?\\
'''Elliot Stabler:''' ''Some''thing like that.
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* StockholmSyndrome: Discussed, but the extent to which it's set in is ambiguous. Is Ilena keeping quiet when the SVU detectives question her out of fear for her life or is she genuinely broken by the Morrows?
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* StockholmSyndrome: Discussed, but the extent to which it's set in is ambiguous. Is Ilena keeping quiet when the SVU detectives question her out of fear for her life or is she genuinely broken by the Morrows?Morrows?
* TheUnreveal: It's unknown who among the detectives failed the evaluation as the episode ends with a {{Cliffhanger}}.
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* SeasonFinale: The first ever.
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* JustForFun/EverybodyKnowsThat: One of the most widely known (and deeply horrifying) facts about the Colleen Stan case is that she was kept in a box under her kidnappers' bed. So it's not really a shock when Ilena is found under there at the climax, after Morrow has tormented the detectives with YourPrincessInAnotherCastle.
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* JustForFun/EverybodyKnowsThat: One of the most widely known (and deeply horrifying) facts about the Colleen Stan case is that she was kept in a box under her kidnappers' bed. So it's not really a shock when Ilena is found under there at the climax, after Morrow has tormented the detectives with YourPrincessInAnotherCastle.YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle.
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* BondageIsBad: Justified, as Morrow is into ''extreme'' forms of torture.
* BrainsAndBondage: Morrow is a high-flying lawyer and a brutal sadist. He also seems to particularly enjoy torturing promising women, as his wife is a vet and Ilena was supposed to go to [=NYU=].
* EthnicMenialLabour: Ilena works as a nanny and domestic servant for the Morrows. And a SexSlave. Most of the other Romanians we see are doing some form of menial labor, too.
* JustForFun/EverybodyKnowsThat: One of the most widely known (and deeply horrifying) facts about the Colleen Stan case is that she was kept in a box under her kidnappers' bed. So it's not really a shock when Ilena is found under there at the climax, after Morrow has tormented the detectives with YourPrincessInAnotherCastle.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Subverted. It's Morrow's wife who kills Ilena's aunt, but only because she had been totally broken by her husband.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Twice.
** The detectives call Randolph out on this. He broke his wife so that she killed Ilena's aunt, but he also broke her so badly that she was extremely easy to interrogate and get a confession from.
** There was nothing to hold the Morrows on what they'd done to Ilena, as she denied it and they had no reason to suspect it went any further. Until Mrs. Morrow killed Ilena's aunt, and then the detectives were back on the case.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Based on the Colleen Stan kidnapping case.
* StockholmSyndrome: Discussed, but the extent to which it's set in is ambiguous. Is Ilena keeping quiet when the SVU detectives question her out of fear for her life or is she genuinely broken by the Morrows?
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* BondageIsBad: Justified, as Morrow is into ''extreme'' forms of torture.
* BrainsAndBondage: Morrow is a high-flying lawyer and a brutal sadist. He also seems to particularly enjoy torturing promising women, as his wife is a vet and Ilena was supposed to go to [=NYU=].
* EthnicMenialLabour: Ilena works as a nanny and domestic servant for the Morrows. And a SexSlave. Most of the other Romanians we see are doing some form of menial labor, too.
* JustForFun/EverybodyKnowsThat: One of the most widely known (and deeply horrifying) facts about the Colleen Stan case is that she was kept in a box under her kidnappers' bed. So it's not really a shock when Ilena is found under there at the climax, after Morrow has tormented the detectives with YourPrincessInAnotherCastle.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Subverted. It's Morrow's wife who kills Ilena's aunt, but only because she had been totally broken by her husband.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Twice.
** The detectives call Randolph out on this. He broke his wife so that she killed Ilena's aunt, but he also broke her so badly that she was extremely easy to interrogate and get a confession from.
** There was nothing to hold the Morrows on what they'd done to Ilena, as she denied it and they had no reason to suspect it went any further. Until Mrs. Morrow killed Ilena's aunt, and then the detectives were back on the case.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Based on the Colleen Stan kidnapping case.
* StockholmSyndrome: Discussed, but the extent to which it's set in is ambiguous. Is Ilena keeping quiet when the SVU detectives question her out of fear for her life or is she genuinely broken by the Morrows?
