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* CompensatingForSomething: Olivia implies this about Bogden during his interrogation in an attempt to rile him up.



* IllKillYou: Spoken word for word by Ann Margaret when Elliot and Olivia first accuse her of killing Emily.

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* IllKillYou: Spoken word for word by Ann Margaret Rita Wills when Elliot and Olivia first accuse her of killing Emily.



* RightForTheWrongReasons: When Elliot qualms that anyone who could help them solve Emily Cuttler's (cold) case is dead, Olivia points out that there's someone who could; Susan Delzio. She means in the sense that Susan is the only person directly involved with the case who's still alive, but it turns out she really does know what happened because she's the killer.

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* RightForTheWrongReasons: RightForTheWrongReasons:
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When Elliot qualms that anyone who could help them solve Emily Cuttler's (cold) case is dead, Olivia points out that there's someone who could; Susan Delzio. She means in the sense that Susan is the only person directly involved with the case who's still alive, but it turns out she really does know what happened because she's the killer.killer.
** The squad conclude that Cal Cutler's "death" was a murder, not an accident. They turn out to be right, but they come to the conclusion because they think Rita killed him, when in fact Cal faked his death by killing a random person.


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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Both [[SerialKiller Ned Bogden]] and [[MurderTheHypotenuse Susan Delzio]] have been awarded for meritorious service and are viewed as respected pillars of the community.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: When Elliot qualms that anyone who could help them solve Emily Cuttler's (cold) case is dead, Olivia points out that there's someone who could; Susan Delzio.

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* RightForTheWrongReasons: When Elliot qualms that anyone who could help them solve Emily Cuttler's (cold) case is dead, Olivia points out that there's someone who could; Susan Delzio. She means in the sense that Susan is the only person directly involved with the case who's still alive, but it turns out she really does know what happened because she's the killer.

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Cal faked his death by burning his car with James Rodgers inside, but ended up getting caught in the flames while trying to get the fire started and only narrowly avoided dying for real.



* JackTheRipoff: After killing Emily, Susan mutilated her corpse to make her look like a victim of the Bedtime Butcher. The facade collapses when the real Bedtime Butcher is caught years later and has an alibi for Emily's murder, prompting the squad to reopen the case.



* JustOneLittleMistake: Susan Delzio, it turns out that Cal Cutler, the man everybody thought was dead, was actually alive, having been hidden away by Susan.



* LaserGuidedKarma: Cal and Susan conspired to kill a local prison inmate in a car fire in order to fake Cal's death. But the fire wouldn't start properly, so Cal went back to throw some more petrol on it, at which point the blaze flared up and he was caught in the flames, disfiguring him for life.



* MsFanservice: Olivia is wearing a revealing top during her undercover to catch Ned Bodgen. Also the {{Fanservice Model}}s on Cal Cutler's commercial.

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* MsFanservice: Olivia is wearing a revealing top during her undercover sting to catch Ned Bodgen. Also the {{Fanservice Model}}s on Cal Cutler's commercial.


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* SerialKiller: Ned Bogden, the "Bedtime Butcher", who rapes and kills women and poses their bodies on their beds after carving the letter X onto their face.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Cal Cutler was a serial philanderer who did little to keep his girlfriends from harassing his wife, got one of them to have an abortion before casually dumping her when she became infertile as a result, and faked his own death so as to be with his wife's killer.
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* IHatePastMe: Jenny Cosgrove and Claire Lockton hate how they were {{Clingy Jealous Girl}}s towards Cal Cutler in TheSeventies. The former is the only one who explicitly regrets the way she treated Emily, and the latter even asks Elliot and Olivia to not let her law firm know about her FanserviceModel past.

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* IHatePastMe: Jenny Cosgrove Coswold and Claire Lockton hate how they were {{Clingy Jealous Girl}}s towards Cal Cutler in TheSeventies. The former is the only one who explicitly regrets the way she treated Emily, and the latter even asks Elliot and Olivia to not let her law firm know about her FanserviceModel past.



* IllKillYou: Spoken word for word by Ann Margaret.

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* IllKillYou: Spoken word for word by Ann Margaret.Margaret when Elliot and Olivia first accuse her of killing Emily.
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* IHatePastMe: Jenny Oswold and Claire Lockton hate how they were {{Clingy Jealous Girl}}s towards Cal Cutler in TheSeventies. The latter even asks Elliot and Olivia to not let her firm know about her FanserviceModel past.

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* IHatePastMe: Jenny Oswold Cosgrove and Claire Lockton hate how they were {{Clingy Jealous Girl}}s towards Cal Cutler in TheSeventies. The former is the only one who explicitly regrets the way she treated Emily, and the latter even asks Elliot and Olivia to not let her law firm know about her FanserviceModel past.
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* WhisperedThreat: Benson manages to rattle a suspect in a long-unsolved murder that was initially blamed on a SerialKiller. When confronting the killer, who fell for a married man [[MurderTheHypotenuse and killed his wife to have him to herself]], she said how much superior she was than "all those other bimbos" that the man was seeing and threw in her face that one of them was even going to have his baby.]

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* WhisperedThreat: Benson manages to rattle a suspect in a long-unsolved murder that was initially blamed on a SerialKiller. When confronting the killer, who fell for a married man [[MurderTheHypotenuse and killed his wife to have him to herself]], she said how much superior she was than "all those other bimbos" that the man was seeing and threw in her face that one of them was even going to have his baby.]
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* StalkerWithACrush: Cal Cutler's scorned paramours not being able to let him go is what drives.

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* StalkerWithACrush: Cal Cutler's scorned paramours not being able to let him go is what drives.drives the plot.

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