A construction tycoon interferes with an SVU investigation into her family; Carisi struggles to get an indictment when the complainant backs down.
- My Beloved Smother: Benson tells Connie Parish that she crippled her son by being this type of mother. She went as far as giving him poisoned cocaine that left him with scarred lungs.
- My Greatest Failure: Martin's father Peter regrets not taking Martin with him when he divorced Connie.
- Parental Neglect: Connie's father was a wealthy tycoon who spent more time with his company than his daughter, to the point she tells Benson that the family house was "my father's real child."
- Practically Different Generations: Martin is 32 while his half-sister through his father is a toddler, young enough to be his own daughter.
- Remarried to the Mistress: Martin's father Peter, for sympathetic reasons, cheated on Connie with Martin's nanny and later married her, having a daughter with her by the time the episode takes place.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Tampering with cocaine. The poisoned cocaine ended up killing Mona, Martin's victim.
- Tragic Villain: Martin Parish is a rapist who was molested and left emotionally crippled by his clingy mother.
