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** Rollins tells Benson they must not let another girl out of their protective custody after what happened to Esther [[spoiler: in "The Book Of Esther" season 19, episode 20 - the squad was legally compelled to let the titular character's abusive father take her back to the home where she'd been imprisoned, eventually leading to the girl's death via FriendlyFire from Rollins' gun.]]
--> '''Benson, to Stone:''' Weren't you the one that told me that the only wars worth fighting for are the ones you can't win? [[spoiler:Stone said this to Benson in the season 20 premiere, "Man Up".]]
--> '''Benson, to Stone:''' Weren't you the one that told me that the only wars worth fighting for are the ones you can't win? [[spoiler:Stone said this to Benson in the season 20 premiere, "Man Up".]]
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** Rollins tells Benson they must not let another girl out of their protective custody after what happened to Esther [[spoiler: in "The Book Of Esther" season 19, episode 20 - the squad was legally compelled to let the titular character's abusive father take her back to the home where she'd been imprisoned, eventually leading to the girl's death via FriendlyFire from Rollins' gun.]]
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--> '''Benson, to Stone:''' Weren't you the one that told me that the only wars worth fighting for are the ones you can't win?[[spoiler:Stone [[note]]Stone said this to Benson in the season 20 premiere, "Man Up".]][[/note]]
--> '''Benson, to Stone:''' Weren't you the one that told me that the only wars worth fighting for are the ones you can't win?
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* OppressiveImmigrationEnforcement: The episode is all about the [[RippedFromTheHeadlines Trump Administration's Family Separation policy]], with the children of migrants being separated from their families at the border and transported to detention centres. This leads to pre-pubescent Gabriela arriving in New York, circumstances conspiring to lead to her falling into a child sex trafficking ring. The detention centre itself is presented as outright dystopian with dozens of children locked behind chain link caging away from their families, sleeping on concret floors with only thin mats and metallic emergency blankets for bedding. The Office of Refugee Resettlement officer [[FauxAffablyEvil Jeff Phelps]] overseeing Gabriela is likewise presented as a smug, smarmy man who is utterly apathetic to moral concerns of his actions, dismissing them as [[JustFollowingOrders simply following the policy at the time]].
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* ImprobablyFemaleCast: inside the detention center all the locked-up prepubescent kids are female, presumably to appeal to the TargetAudience.
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* ImprobablyFemaleCast: inside the detention center all the locked-up prepubescent kids are female, presumably to appeal to the TargetAudience.TargetAudience or to {{Bookend}} to the episode's opening scenario.
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* ImprobablyFemaleCast: inside the detention center all the locked-up prepubescent kids are female, presumably to appeal to the TargetAudience.
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* DeusExMachina: Stone gets a friend with political connections (never previously seen in the narrative) to pull Gabriela out of the dystopian detention center at the last minute, without any explanation, so as to avert an unpalatably dark DownerEnding.
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* DeusExMachina: Stone gets a friend with political connections (never previously seen in the narrative) to pull Gabriela out of the dystopian detention center at the last minute, without any explanation, so as to avert an unpalatably dark DownerEnding. The improbability of the rescue also throws into sharper relief the plight of girls like Gabriela while averting DarknessInducedAudienceApathy.
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* ThereAreNoAdults: Inside the detention center the girls are caged without their parents or any other supportive adult figures, [[RuleOfPerception leaving the impression]] they are on their own.
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* TokenMinority: When the squad debates illegal immigration the anti-immigration side is assigned to Tutuola, the only non-white person in the conversation, so the debate won't be too unbalanced with everyone else on the other side.
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* TokenMinority: When the squad debates illegal immigration the anti-immigration side is assigned by the writers to Tutuola, the only non-white person in the conversation, so the debate won't be too unbalanced with everyone else on the other side.
