When a teenage sex worker disappears, Rollins and Velasco find a key clue in a pile of neglected missing persons reports.
Tropes
- Attention Whore: Olivia gets Lambert to confess after she remarks that they're probably going to make documentaries about whoever killed and mummified all those women.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: After Olivia talks to Lambert's mom, she goes in to talk to him:Lambert: I didn't kill anybody.Olivia: That's what your mother said. She said that you weren't smart enough or ambitious enough to commit a crime like that. She said that carnival work, that was sort of your limit. And as a mother myself, I have to say...I agree with her.
- …But He Sounds Handsome: Trace Lambert initially talks about the murders like this, but eventually drops the act and admits that he's the one who did it.
- Children Are Innocent: Jamal, the kid who alerted Rollins and Velasco to the warehouse, thinks that it's where a vampire lives. It's actually the workshop of a serial killer.
- Disposable Vagrant: The cops in the area where Tania and Beauty went missing certainly seem to think so, as the file with all the missing women was marked "NHI", as in "No Humans Involved".
- Everyone Has Standards: Despite his micromanaging of SVU, McGrath urges Benson to solve this case, calling it "evil".
- Mummies at the Dinner Table: The mummified women were staged around a dining room table.
- Mummy: What Trace Lambert did to his victims. He was preparing Tania Cruz and her friend Beauty's bodies when SVU finds his warehouse
- Promotion to Opening Titles: Octavio Pisano (Joe Velasco) joins the main cast in this episode.
