History Recap / LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS3E9Care

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: When Munch and Finn go to interview Cassie's biological mother, they realize that children's services never informed her of Cassie's death, and are sombrely forced to do so themselves.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: When Munch and Finn go to interview Cassie's biological mother, they realize that children's services never informed her of Cassie's death, and are somberly forced to do so themselves.
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: At Dorothy's trial, she tries to intimidate Glenn by glowering at him while he's on the witness stand. When Alex stands in front of him so he can't see her, she loudly drops her cane in a final attempt to scare him into submission. Instead, he loudly denounces her for murdering Cassie.

* HiddenDepths: Cragen turns out to be really good at video games. Huang even quips "He missed his calling."

* FriendToAllChildren: Danny Marston, one of the construction workers who befriended Glenn and his foster siblings is this and is first shown playing basketball with a group of children. Averted with Jane Rudd, Dorothy's daughter, who claimed to have never wanted kids and only fostered them due to her mother's wishes.

* FriendToAllChildren: Danny Marston, one of the construction workers who befriended Glenn and his foster siblings is this and is first shown playing basketball with a group of children.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Glenn, the older foster brother of the murder victim, seems like he might be autistic. He is intellectually disabled, has self-injurious stims when stressed, doesn't make eye contact, and has a special interest in the VideoGame/SwordQuest video game (which turns out to help the detectives figure out that, like the final boss in the game, the real perp is female). But an actual diagnosis is never given. (There is some suggestion that it may be trauma-induced rather than a genetic disorder like autism.)

* FriendToAllChildren: Danny Marston, one of the construction workers who befriended Glenn and his foster siblings is this as he coaches little league baseball and volunteers at a youth program.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Glenn, the older foster brother of the murder victim, seems like he might be autistic. He is intellectually disabled, has self-injurious stims when stressed, doesn't make eye contact, and has a special interest in the VideoGame/SwordQuest video game (which turns out to help the detectives figure out that the real perp is female, like the final boss in the game). But an actual diagnosis is never given. (There is some suggestion that it may be trauma-induced rather than a genetic disorder like autism.)

* EvilCripple: Dorothy. She beat a five year old to death with her cane and dies peacefully and quietly of a heart attack that caused her no suffering.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Glen, the older foster brother of the murder victim, seems like he might be autistic. He is intellectually disabled, has self-injurious stims when stressed, doesn't make eye contact, and has a special interest in the VideoGame/SwordQuest video game (which turns out to help the detectives figure out that the real perp is female, like the final boss in the game). But an actual diagnosis is never given. (There is some suggestion that it may be trauma-induced rather than a genetic disorder like autism.)
* EvilCripple: Dorothy. She beat a five year old to death with her cane and dies peacefully and quietly of a heart attack that caused her no suffering. Elaine also counts.

But after Cassie's biological mother kidnaps her other daughters from their foster home, it is later revealed that Cassie's foster grandmother & mother were responsible for her death with Glenn as the witness.