History Heartwarming / LawandOrderSpecialVictimsUnit

* In "Padre Sandunguero," Barba offers Amaro a way out of testifying against his own father, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness remarkable]] given Barba's normally ruthless drive to win his cases. Barba adds the rare personal admission that [[spoiler:that his own father was similar to Amaro's and that he was ''never'' able to face him down]]. Given that Amaro and Barba don't always have the warmest relationship, it's a really nice NotSoDifferent moment.

**** Some more credit to the grandfather for having a tough life, a dead scitzophrenic son who died horribly and wouldn't come home and a wife who left them believing the ailment to be both 'too much' and 'fake'. He had no reason to be that kind.

**** Some more credit to the grandfather for having a tough life, a dead scitzophrenic son who died horribly and wouldn't come home and a wife who left them believing the ailment to be both 'too much' and 'fake'. He had no reason to be that kind

** The neighbors were trying to get the mother because they thought she badgered a pregnant girl, a friend of the daughter's responsible for the pregnancy pact and the cause of everything, into hanging herself in her room.

* Very blink-and-you'll-miss-it, but in the episode Personal Fouls, the new detective Nick Amaro makes an offhanded question to Finn about the comments he'd heard about his predecessor[[FanNickname "UnStabler"]] [[CowboyCop Elliot]] and Finn responds by saying Elliot was "a good cop" which shows that in spite of all the antagonism shown between the two characters, Finn still considered Elliot to be a good cop and felt sorry he was gone (even if it was just out of empathy for Benson)

* Very blink-and-you'll-miss-it, but in the episode Personal Fouls, the new detective Nick Amaro makes an offhanded question to Finn about the comments he'd heard about his predecessor[[FanNickname "UnStabler"]][[CowboyCop Elliot]] and Finn responds by saying Elliot was "a good cop" which shows that in spite of all the antagonism shown between the two characters, Finn still considered Elliot to be a good cop and felt sorry he was gone (even if it was just out of empathy for Benson)

* In "Babes", after a girl's mother is taken to jail for assault, and her brother for murdering the father of her child (he thought she was raped; she wasn't), she's begins crying, because she thinks she's going to be taken to foster care, and she thinks that her family is lost forever. The grandfather of her child then takes her in, despite his son being murdered by her brother. It gave this troper chills, though my description doesn't do it justice.

* In "Theatre Tricks," it turns out that among all the pervs in the poor victim's life, the evildoer was the [[spoiler: roommate.]] Benson comments that you'd like to think [[spoiler:women]] would look after one another. Rollins agrees, then unexpectedly calls after her to get home safe.

* In "Theatre Tricks," it turns out that among all the pervs in the poor victim's life, the evildoer was the [[spoiler: roommate.]] Benson comments:
-->Benson: You'd like to think [[spoiler:women]] would look after one another. [Leaves] Good night!
-->Rollins: [calls after nexpectedly, sheepishly] Get home safe!

-->Dani: [calls after nexpectedly, sheepishly] Get home safe!

* The end of the episode "''911''" (which itself is probably the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMOA]] of the series). ''[[{{Tearjerker}} Good lord]]''. To elaborate, after an absolutely grueling and suspenseful build up, and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Liv's badass beatdown of the perp]], the detectives are in a race against time to rescue a little girl who was ''buried alive'' in an abandoned lot. Until the the literal last minute, the show keeps us guessing as to whether the girl will be found alive or if it would've all been in vain [[spoiler: (It wasn't)]]. Olivia's frantic digging leads her to [[spoiler: find a trash bag, and what seems to be a [[DownerEnding Downer Ending]]- however, this trash bag was full of clothes. She keeps digging again, and finally finds the bag that the girl is in. And the girl is alive. She coughs, and says Olivia's name. The expressions on the face of the little girl and Olivia are indescribable.]] The whole scene made this troper tear up, and episodes like ''911'' are the ''reason'' I watch SVU.