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* LivingLieDetector: Sebastian Ballentine is a serial killer, who uses his skills to pretend to be a psychic and play games with his victims' families. Incidentally, the system he supposedly uses is real. It was developed by the guy who inspired Series/LieToMe. Though he cheats too. He correctly "guesses" that Olivia's lying to him and she doesn't have a husband, but later we learn that he knew it because he searched for her (and Elliot) on the internet beforehand.
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* LivingLieDetector: Sebastian Ballentine is a serial killer, SerialRapist, who uses his skills to pretend to be a psychic and play games with his victims' families. Incidentally, the system he supposedly uses is real. It was developed by the guy who inspired Series/LieToMe. Though he cheats too. He correctly "guesses" that Olivia's lying to him and she doesn't have a husband, but later we learn that he knew it because he searched for her (and Elliot) on the internet beforehand.
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* SerialRapist: Sebastian is one of the more repulsive examples in the series, specifically targeting virgins because he enjoys that he can hurt them more than other women.
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The case of a kidnapped 18-year-old girl is complicated when detectives receive a dubious offer of help from a supposed psychic who claims to have seen the girl in his visions.
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The case of a kidnapped 18-year-old girl is complicated when detectives receive a dubious offer of help from a supposed psychic (Creator/MartinShort) who claims to have seen the girl in his visions.
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* ItsAllMyFault: Thanks to Henry's manipulation and emotional abuse, Carlene tearfully declares this regarding his abhorrent behavior, genuinely believing as he says, that he wouldn't have needed to rape virgins had she been one.
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* TechnicalVirgin: Carlene abstained from sex for the time before Sebastian was released from prison and they could consummate their marriage--"I was a virgin for those two years. . . just not before".
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* SlutShaming: Henry cruelly does this to Carlene, referring to her as "used goods" and a "whore" and refusing to have sex with her, all because she had the audacity to not be a virgin when they met.
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* PatchedTogetherFromTheHeadlines: The episode's an adaptation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bernardo the Karla Homolka/Paul Bernardo case]] before its TwistEnding reveals that it was also ripped from the headlines of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bobbie_Jo_Stinnett the Bobbie Jo Stinnett murder]], who was murdered and had her baby cut out. The baby survived.
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* PatchedTogetherFromTheHeadlines: The episode's an adaptation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bernardo the Karla Homolka/Paul Bernardo case]] as well as the case of SerialKiller [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Fourniret Michel Fourniret and his wife Monique]] (the detail about them meeting via a prison pen pal program and his insistence that she procure virgins for him because she wasn't one, as well as the way they kidnapped their victims) before its TwistEnding reveals that it was also ripped from the headlines of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bobbie_Jo_Stinnett the Bobbie Jo Stinnett murder]], who was murdered and had her baby cut out. The baby survived.
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* LivingLieDetector: [[Creator/MartinShort Sebastian Ballentine]] is a serial killer, who uses his skills to pretend to be a psychic and play games with his victims' families. Incidentally, the system he supposedly uses is real. It was developed by the guy who inspired Series/LieToMe. Though he cheats too. He correctly "guesses" that Olivia's lying to him and she does't have a husband, but later we learn that he knew it because he searched for her (and Elliot) on the internet beforehand.
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* LivingLieDetector: [[Creator/MartinShort Sebastian Ballentine]] Ballentine is a serial killer, who uses his skills to pretend to be a psychic and play games with his victims' families. Incidentally, the system he supposedly uses is real. It was developed by the guy who inspired Series/LieToMe. Though he cheats too. He correctly "guesses" that Olivia's lying to him and she does't doesn't have a husband, but later we learn that he knew it because he searched for her (and Elliot) on the internet beforehand.beforehand.
* LoveMartyr: Sebastian has browbeaten Carlene into compliance with his crimes. Even as he calls her a whore and blames her for his being caught, she still weeps and wails about how much she loves him and doesn't understand why he doesn't reciprocate after she did everything he told her to.
* LoveMartyr: Sebastian has browbeaten Carlene into compliance with his crimes. Even as he calls her a whore and blames her for his being caught, she still weeps and wails about how much she loves him and doesn't understand why he doesn't reciprocate after she did everything he told her to.
* PolicePsychic: Sebastian steps in to offer the detectives at SVU a hand with their latest case of a missing teenager by offering visions of her location. His powers are called into doubt by the unit, and it is eventually revealed that he is not only a fraud, he is actually the episode's perpetrator, as his routine is ruined by his wife and her attempts to perform tasks for him while he is teasing the detectives. Part of his thrills come from offering his "services" to the police, knowing full well that they will fail to catch him.
* PostRapeTaunt: The entire episode turns out to be the trope, after TheReveal that Sebastian was the rapist and murderer all along. He tells the detectives that he pretended to be a psychic just to watch in amusement the efforts to catch him, and he talks about the one victim he raped and murdered as "the best sex I ever had".
* PostRapeTaunt: The entire episode turns out to be the trope, after TheReveal that Sebastian was the rapist and murderer all along. He tells the detectives that he pretended to be a psychic just to watch in amusement the efforts to catch him, and he talks about the one victim he raped and murdered as "the best sex I ever had".
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* StockholmSyndrome: Sebastian has browbeaten Carlene into compliance with his crimes. Even as he calls her a whore and blames her for his being caught, she still weeps and wails about how much she loves him and doesn't understand why he doesn't reciprocate after she did everything he told her to.
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-> '''Carlene:''' Henry, please, you said if I did all those things for you, you'd never leave me, you promised me!
-> '''Henry:''' I lied!
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'''Henry:''' I lied!
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* SherlockCanRead: Dr. Huang explains how Sebastian could be making so many correct statements about the detectives by using this trope. While that's part of it, they later discover he's subscribed to a service that searches public records, and he's used it looked up details about the detectives like Olivia being unmarried after she tried to pretend she has a husband.
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* SherlockCanRead: Dr. Huang explains how Sebastian could be making so many correct statements about the detectives by using this trope. While that's part of it, they later discover he's subscribed to a service that searches public records, and he's used it looked to look up details about the detectives like Olivia being unmarried after unmarried, which is how he knew she tried to pretend she has a husband.was lying about her "husband."
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* SherlockCanRead: Dr. Huang explains how Sebastian could be making so many correct statements about the detectives by using this trope. While that's part of it, they later discover he's subscribed to a service that searches public records, and he's used it looked up details about the detectives like Olivia being unmarried after she tried to pretend she has a husband.
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* SmugSnake: Henry is so unflappable that even at the end of the episode he's smirking at Stabler about how he's "beginning to grow on" Stabler.
