History NightmareFuel / LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit

* [[Creator/JaredHarris Robert Morten]] is a convicted serial killer and rapist who saw his crimes as art and told a young woman (the episode's perp) to kill for him. His affable yet chilly demeanor is truly unnerving; what's worse, he has a fandom of sorts who loves and idolizes him. The way he speaks of having sex with the young woman he charmed/brainwashed is more than enough to give one a shiver.

* "Conscience" is dark as is, with a child being murdered and a boy named Jake having been the cause of it. Jake pleads innocence and that it was self-defense, only for the investigation to all point towards the grim reality: Jake was TheSociopath ''embodied'', having hurt, harassed, and attempted to kill before with the likelihood that after just about getting away with murder here, he'd likely do it again. KidsAreCruel doesn't even begin to touch this one. Then Jake decided to [[IShallTauntYou mock the boy's father]], a doctor named Morton, with his victory via one blatantly hollow, backhanded apology and a SmugSnake smirk. [[RageBreakingPoint Morton proceeds to snap]], throw a bystander at Stabler to briefly catch him off-guard, immediately grab an officer's sidearm before anyone even realizes what's going on, [[DeathOfAChild and shoots Jake dead on the spot.]]

* "Conscience" is dark as is, with a child being murdered and a boy named Jake having been the cause of it. Jake pleads innocence and that it was self-defense, only for the investigation to all point towards the grim reality: Jake was TheSociopath ''embodied'', having hurt, harassed, and attempted to kill before with the likelihood that after just about getting away with murder here, he'd likely do it again. KidsAreCruel doesn't even begin to touch this one. Then Jake decided to [[IShallTauntYou mock the boy's father]], a doctor named Morton, with his victory. [[RageBreakingPoint Morton proceeds to snap]], immediately grab an officer's sidearm before anyone even realizes what's going on, [[DeathOfAChild and shoots Jake dead on the spot.]]

** To highlight how utterly fucked up this episode ends, Morton gets a "not guilty" verdict thanks to the truth about Jake coming out and the jury believing [[LaserGuidedKarma he had it coming]], everyone is reasonably shaken because of how unreasonable this situation is to begin with and that Morton is technically getting away with child murder, Jake's mother is [[MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal refusing to accept any of this]], and Morton himself points out as the episode closer that [[NotSoDifferentRemark he was as sane of mind in committing his kill as Jake was]]; the defining difference between the two is that Jake would've killed again, and Morton wouldn't, making it clear that he thinks himself [[HeWhoFightsMonsters only better by a hair.]]

* The ending of "Pique", in which the killer is found naked in bed with his mother whose throat he has slashed. His final line of dialogue is especially disturbing.

* The EstablishingCharacterMoment of Elias Olsen in "The Steps We Cannot Take" where he enters the Singhs' residence wearing a welder's mask and pointing a gun at the Singhs before shooting them.
** WordOfGod says the welder's mask was Creator/DavidGraziano because he thought it would look scary on an SVU villain.

* "Post-Graduate Psychopath": Remember Henry Mesner, the evil kid from "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS14E19BornPsychopath Born Psychopath]]"? He's all grown up, and he's gotten even worse. He rapes his old psychiatrist's daughter, murders his father, step-mother, and half-brother, and kidnaps his sister and holds a gun to her head. He also stalked Rollins and took pictures of her daughter Jesse, along with giving her a stuffed animal he stole from the girl he raped.

* "Bad Things" features the return of Elias Olsen who kidnaps a man named Mark Reed (who later succumbs to malnutrition due to Elias' imprisonment) because Mark [[DisproportionateRetribution bumped into him]], which reminded Elias of [[AbusiveParents his father]]. Awhile after being caught, Elias [[UnstoppableRage breaks through the one-way glass and attacks Muncy]].

** The final sting? The SVU detectives tried to get the GirlPosse on child pornography when they sent a photo of the girl changing around the entire school in a very cruel fat shaming exercise. As the victim had already had her 18th birthday by the time of the incident, this fell through. What it ''does'' mean however, is that when she snaps in the finale and kills her newest tormentor; she's an adult who murdered a minor. She's likely now going to a maximum security prison for the rest of her life.

-->''DA'': "My next case. 15, raped and murdered his six year old step-sister. No remorse. Says he'd do it again. You want him out at 21 too?"
** What really sells the scene is that he just smirks proudly at Benson and Stabler like a sociopath, then it cuts to black.

* The premiere, "Girls Disappeared," has a terrifying montage of [[HeKnowsTooMuch witnesses to a gang-rape and murder being picked off.]] A pimp gets shanked in prison nine times by three men, a 14-year-old hooker is shot along with her john, a hitman is executed by lethal injection in a prison hospital ward, and then:

* "Patrimonial Burden" covers a reality TV show family that has an unexpected pregnancy occur with their thirteen-year-old daughter, with all fingers pointing towards one of the sons who has the signs of a sex offender. The reality of the matter, however, turns out to be their pastor, who effectively raised and brainwashed the family into god-fearing individuals under his own thumb. And this was the ''second'' daughter he had done this to, while throwing that son under the bus to cover his own ass. Even worse, he's the family's attorney as well, and took advantage of the victim's fourteenth birthday to try to '''marry her''' with the family's trusting support. The [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone sheer horror and betrayal they all face]] when he's arrested at the end is only accentuated by the pastor's downright predatorial proclamations of love and his calm mannerisms assuming there's no case against him. Carisi definitely said what most of the viewers were probably thinking, especially since corrupt priest are a hot button topic to him.[[note]][[RealitySubtext He wasn't entirely acting]]. The episode is [[RippedFromTheHeadlines based]] [[Series/NineteenKidsAndCounting Josh Duggar's]] molestation of multiple children, including his sisters. Peter Scanavino stated in an interview that the entire affair, and especially the Duggars' hypocrisy in attacking the LGBT community as "[[AllGaysArePedophiles a danger to children]]" despite covering up their own son's actions made his blood boil[[/note]]
-->'''Carisi''':([[YouMakeMeSick Disgusted]]) You really are a piece of crap.

* In "Solitary", when a man placed on trial for tossing Elliot from the roof (he thought Elliot was coming to arrest him, although Elliot was actually about to tell him he'd been cleared) describes how [[GoMadFromTheIsolation spending nearly his entire sentence for a previous crime in solitary confinement drove him insane]], Elliot decides to see if there's any truth to his claims by spending a weekend in the hole. What follows is a montage of Elliot getting a taste of how being locked up in a tiny cell with no human contact can be detrimental to one's mental well-being. The montage lasts about five minutes, but it feels a lot longer (not just for the viewer, either: Elliot goes off on the guard because he thought he'd been left in for a week instead of just two days).

Side note: All spoilers are unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.

* On the other side of the gender coin, "Brotherhood" was the first episode to introduce Tau Omega, a violent and misogynist fraternity whose members beat and sodomize their new pledges, secretly make recordings of girls having sex to sell as Internet porn, and get other girls drunk in order to rape them. They have an entire book filled with the horrific things they do to their pledges and advice on how to rape girls.

--> '''Coleman Green''': I never meant to k*ll her. I loved that girl. She was the light of my life. And us together... [[NeverMyFault She was not my grandchild. So it was not a sin against God.]]

* In "Soldier Up", Duarnte showing Olivia a tree full of underwear from women raped by [=BX9=] members. Just the sight of it causes Olivia to scream in anger.
** After interviewing a [=BX9=] rapist, an alarm sounds and Olivia and Duarte see said rapist being [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown kicked]] and [[SinisterShiv shanked]] to death by other inmates. Olivia then says "Well, I guess we know what [[TheDreaded Oscar Papa]] meant by the problem being dealt with".
* "Intersection" doesn't just show us the aftermath of a rape, but shows us as it's happening. The perp, under the guise of an ambulance driver, drags a woman away to what seems to be medical care, but instead rapes her while she's concussed. Her fiance tries to help her by breaking into the ambulance, but he is too weakened from the accident to help her.

** The final sting? The SVU detectives tried to get the GirlPosse on child pornography when they sent a photo of the girl changing around the entire school in a very cruel fat shaming exercise. As the victim had already had her 18th birthday by the time of the incident, this fell through. What it ''does'' mean however, is that when she snaps in the finale and kills her newest tormentor; she's an adult who murdered a minor. She's going to a maximum security prison for a ''really'' long time now.