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* PsychopathicManchild: The culprit is Gabriel Duvall, an eccentric rich guy that talks and acts like a 10-year old and is also an vicious serial rapist that targets illegal female refugees.

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* PsychopathicManchild: The culprit is Gabriel Duvall, an eccentric rich guy that talks and acts like a 10-year old and is also an a vicious serial rapist that targets illegal female refugees.
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* DefiledForever: One of the reasons why Nina doesn't want to come forward with her rape is because as a Muslim, she believes she must be virgin before marriage.

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* DefiledForever: One of the reasons why Nina doesn't want to come forward with her rape is because as a Muslim, she believes she must be a virgin before marriage.



* HonorRelatedAbuse: Nina's brother Milan beats up Casey to the inch of her life because she exposed his sister's rape, therefore making her impure.

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* HonorRelatedAbuse: Nina's brother Milan beats up Casey to the within an inch of her life because she exposed his sister's rape, therefore making her impure.
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Ambiguous Disorder got renamed and is a YMMV item


* AmbiguousDisorder: Gabriel Duvall has obsessive-compulsive tendencies, but the closest we get to a name for his condition is "oddball genius".
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Pretty sure this was meant to reference Chekhovs Gun and not JustForFun.Chekovs Gun


* BatterUp: Casey tries to defend herself with her [[ChekovsGun softball bat]], but Milan yanks it out of her hands and then hits ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard her]]'' with it.

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* BatterUp: Casey tries to defend herself with her [[ChekovsGun [[ChekhovsGun softball bat]], but Milan yanks it out of her hands and then hits ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard her]]'' with it.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted by Casey, who looks like someone beat the hell out of her.

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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted Downplayed by Casey, who looks like someone beat the hell out of her.her. But her injuries seems to heal faster than they should. Although, she could be covering them with makeup.

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* BatterUp: Casey tries to defend herself with her [[ChekovsGun softball bat]], but Milan yanks it out of her hands and then hits ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard her]]'' with it.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted by Casey, who looks like someone beat the hell out of her.



* DisposableSexWorker: The case is started by a prostitute's murder.

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* DisposableSexWorker: The case Subverted. They ''think'' their initial victim is started by a prostitute's murder.prostitute, but that turns out to be false.


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** Jason Whitaker is a rather sleazy defense lawyer (as is typical for defense lawyers in the show), but he seems genuinely appalled by Casey's assault.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: The strip club that the corpse was found close to has express rules on how rough sex can get, and will throw out customers if they get too vicious. Its bouncer also [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules doesn't take kindly to bribery.]]



* RobbingTheDead: A woman robs the first victim's body of all her money.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: When a suspect in the dead prostitute's murder tried to bribe his way back into a strip club that the bouncer tossed him out of, the bouncer got angry and beat him up.

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* RobbingTheDead: A woman robs the first victim's body of all her money.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: When a suspect in the dead prostitute's murder tried to bribe his way back into a strip club that the bouncer tossed him out of, the bouncer got angry and beat him up.
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* RobbingTheDead: A woman robs the first victim's body of all her money.

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* RobbingTheDead: A woman robs the first victim's body of all her money.money.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: When a suspect in the dead prostitute's murder tried to bribe his way back into a strip club that the bouncer tossed him out of, the bouncer got angry and beat him up.
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* AmbiguousDisorder Gabriel Duvall has obsessive-compulsive tendencies, but the closest we get to a name for his condition is "oddball genius".

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* AmbiguousDisorder AmbiguousDisorder: Gabriel Duvall has obsessive-compulsive tendencies, but the closest we get to a name for his condition is "oddball genius".
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* AmbiguousDisorder Gabriel Duvall has obsessive-compulsive tendencies, but the closest we get to a name for his condition is "oddball genius".
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* HonorRelatedAbuse: Nina's brother Milan beats up Casey to the inch of her life because she exposed her sister's rape, therefore making her impure.

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* HonorRelatedAbuse: Nina's brother Milan beats up Casey to the inch of her life because she exposed her his sister's rape, therefore making her impure.

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Written By Creator/AmandaGreen and Creator/ChrisLevinson

Directed By Creator/ArthurWForney and Creator/JuanJCampanella



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* NotMeThisTime: Duvall is determined to be the doer in the rapes, but he really didn't have anything to do with the assault on Casey.
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* BerserkButton: Elliot is enraged when he learns of Casey's beating, and immediately tracks down and threatens Gabriel.
** Cragen doesn't reprimand Elliot for this, commenting ''he'' probably would have thrown Duvall out of a window.
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* RobbingTheDead: A woman steals the first victim's body of all her money.

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* RobbingTheDead: A woman steals robs the first victim's body of all her money.
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* PsychopathicaManchild: The culprit is Gabriel Duvall, an eccentric rich guy that talks and acts like a 10-year old and is also an vicious serial rapist that targets illegal female refugees.

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* PsychopathicaManchild: PsychopathicManchild: The culprit is Gabriel Duvall, an eccentric rich guy that talks and acts like a 10-year old and is also an vicious serial rapist that targets illegal female refugees.
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The rape-murder of an sex worker leads to an web of female refugees being abused, but being unable or unwilling to report it out of fear of being deported. As they dig deep into the investigation, one of their own members is assaulted which might complicate things. The story is concluded in ''Series/LawAndOrderTrialByJury''.

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* AmoralAttorney: Jason Whitaker served as defense attorney for the Duvall family and comes across as an very scummy guy barring one PetTheDog moment with Casey.
* AndStarring: Creator/AlfredMolina and Creator/BradleyCooper.
* BrokenBird:
** Nina. As if being a refugee from UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars wasn't bad enough, she was also raped during her stay in the USA and has to keep it secret.
** Casey after being assaulted, is understandably a sobbing mess when she regains consciousness.
* DefiledForever: One of the reasons why Nina doesn't want to come forward with her rape is because as a Muslim, she believes she must be virgin before marriage.
* DisposableSexWorker: The case is started by a prostitute's murder.
* HonorRelatedAbuse: Nina's brother Milan beats up Casey to the inch of her life because she exposed her sister's rape, therefore making her impure.
* PsychopathicaManchild: The culprit is Gabriel Duvall, an eccentric rich guy that talks and acts like a 10-year old and is also an vicious serial rapist that targets illegal female refugees.
* RobbingTheDead: A woman steals the first victim's body of all her money.

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