Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 11 (click to see context) from:
* HiddenDepths: Mike is apparently smart enough to quote classic authors like Aldous Huxley. It ties in with him having the higher emotional intelligence of the pair of teens.
to:
* HiddenDepths: Mike is apparently smart enough to quote classic authors like Aldous Huxley.Creator/AldousHuxley. It ties in with him having the higher emotional intelligence of the pair of teens.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Adult Fear is no longer a trope
Deleted line(s) 7 (click to see context) :
* AdultFear: Stabler has a lot of difficulty letting his children, some of whom are Ryan's age, out of his sight while working this case.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added line(s) 8 (click to see context) :
* AdultFear: Stabler has a lot of difficulty letting his children, some of whom are Ryan's age, out of his sight while working this case.
Changed line(s) 8 (click to see context) from:
* ChekhovsGun: Ryan's glasses, which are missing when he's first found, and Turbit's missing bike chain which he claimed was stolen.
to:
* AmbiguouslyGay: Jimmy and Mike are extremely close best friends, with Jimmy even saying Mike "came back to him" after he was given a scholarship to a private school. Plus there's the fact they got obsessed with the idea of raping a young boy, something most teenagers wouldn't think of as "too good to forget" and something that got "stuck in their heads". It's not hard to read them as a pair of closeted teenage boys, especially since it was the late 90s when many young men were in fear of coming out.
* ChekhovsGun: Ryan's glasses, which are missing when he's first found, and Turbit's missing bike chain which he claimed was stolen. Both are eventually found at the right crime scene with DNA that matches the two teenagers.
* ChekhovsGun: Ryan's glasses, which are missing when he's first found, and Turbit's missing bike chain which he claimed was stolen. Both are eventually found at the right crime scene with DNA that matches the two teenagers.
* HiddenDepths: Mike is apparently smart enough to quote classic authors like Aldous Huxley. It ties in with him having the higher emotional intelligence of the pair of teens.
Changed line(s) 13,15 (click to see context) from:
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Mike honestly is horrified by what happened and breaks down during interrogation.
* NeverGrewUp: Turbit's previous victim still dresses and acts very much like a small boy despite being twenty-one. Justified in that he's still not done processing the trauma of being raped and nearly killed all those years ago.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cassidy is usually seen as a buffoon by those around him, both by his colleagues and suspects. He uses this to his advantage in this episode, playing the part of the bumbling detective to get Mike to reveal they are lying about Turbit's involvment in the crime.
* NeverGrewUp: Turbit's previous victim still dresses and acts very much like a small boy despite being twenty-one. Justified in that he's still not done processing the trauma of being raped and nearly killed all those years ago.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cassidy is usually seen as a buffoon by those around him, both by his colleagues and suspects. He uses this to his advantage in this episode, playing the part of the bumbling detective to get Mike to reveal they are lying about Turbit's involvment in the crime.
to:
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Mike honestly is horrified by what happened and breaks down during interrogation.
* NeverGrewUp:ManChild: Turbit's previous victim still dresses and acts very much like a small boy despite being twenty-one. Justified in that he's still not done processing the trauma of being raped and nearly killed all those years ago.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Turbit says he thinks every day about what he did to his victim, always feeling guilt for what he did.
**Mike honestly is horrified by what happened and breaks down during interrogation.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cassidy is usually seen as a buffoon by those around him, both by his colleagues and suspects. He uses this to his advantage in this episode, playing the part of the bumbling detective to getMike Jimmy to reveal they are lying about Turbit's involvment involvement in the crime.crime.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Jimmy says that Ryan was a retard and it's definitely meant as an insult.
* ShoutOut: The pair of teenagers refer to Munch and Cassidy as the Film/MenInBlack. Mike quotes Aldous Huxley stating "Maybe this world is another planet's hell" and Jimmy calling the private school Mike had gone to as being full of [[ComicBook/RichieRich Richie Riches]]
* NeverGrewUp:
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Turbit says he thinks every day about what he did to his victim, always feeling guilt for what he did.
**Mike honestly is horrified by what happened and breaks down during interrogation.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cassidy is usually seen as a buffoon by those around him, both by his colleagues and suspects. He uses this to his advantage in this episode, playing the part of the bumbling detective to get
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Jimmy says that Ryan was a retard and it's definitely meant as an insult.
* ShoutOut: The pair of teenagers refer to Munch and Cassidy as the Film/MenInBlack. Mike quotes Aldous Huxley stating "Maybe this world is another planet's hell" and Jimmy calling the private school Mike had gone to as being full of [[ComicBook/RichieRich Richie Riches]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Adult Fear is no longer a trope
Added line(s) 4 (click to see context) :
----
Added line(s) 4 (click to see context) :
Deleted line(s) 4 (click to see context) :
* AdultFear: Stabler is understandably shaken by this crime and spends the rest of episode watching his young children like a hawk.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* SinisterSuffocation: Jimmy strangles Ryan so hard with a bike chain that his throat has clear marks on it afterwards of the individual chains.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 6,7 (click to see context) from:
* ChekovsGun: Ryan's glasses, which are missing when he's first found, and Turbit's missing bike chain which he claimed was stolen.
* HaveIMentionedImHeterosexualToday: The teen who committed the rape on Ryan, Jimmy, staunchly denies that he's gay and claims he just did it for fun.
* HaveIMentionedImHeterosexualToday: The teen who committed the rape on Ryan, Jimmy, staunchly denies that he's gay and claims he just did it for fun.
to:
* ChekovsGun: ChekhovsGun: Ryan's glasses, which are missing when he's first found, and Turbit's missing bike chain which he claimed was stolen.
*HaveIMentionedImHeterosexualToday: HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: The teen who committed the rape on Ryan, Jimmy, staunchly denies that he's gay and claims he just did it for fun.
*
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
A young boy named Ryan Davies is found raped and murdered in a park near to his home. The detectives soon zone in on a suspect named Bill Turbit who has a previous child sexual assault in his past, but eventually they start having doubts about if he's the right man when they realize the burden of proof comes from the same pair of teenagers they keep running across named Mike and Jimmy.
!Tropes present in this episode
* AccidentalMurder: Mike claims they strangled Ryan just to shut him up after he wouldn't stop crying. But it's implied the other teen Jimmy, who is much more savage and brutal than his friend, did it deliberately to snap his neck.
* AdultFear: Stabler is understandably shaken by this crime and spends the rest of episode watching his young children like a hawk.
* TheAlibi: Turbit claims that he couldn't have committed the crime because he went out to a bar to celebrate acquiring a rare stamp. Plenty of people witnessed him but the bartender claims that he left for a long enough period of time that he could have plausibly committed the crime. Turns out the bartender lied and Turbit was there the whole time.
* ChekovsGun: Ryan's glasses, which are missing when he's first found, and Turbit's missing bike chain which he claimed was stolen.
* HaveIMentionedImHeterosexualToday: The teen who committed the rape on Ryan, Jimmy, staunchly denies that he's gay and claims he just did it for fun.
* HonorBeforeReason: Despite the bartender knowing if he just stays silent about Turbit's alibi, he'll go to prison forever, he can't bring himself to lie to Stabler. Turns out he was a former cop and couldn't keep the truth from a fellow officer.
* ItAmusedMe: The teenage boys' reasoning for raping Ryan and then framing Turbit for the crime. They thought it would be "funny" to recreate Turbit's crime and then see the consequences of their actions.
* KnightTemplarParent: Ryan's father believes Turbit committed the crime and so he guns him down outside the courthouse.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Mike honestly is horrified by what happened and breaks down during interrogation.
* NeverGrewUp: Turbit's previous victim still dresses and acts very much like a small boy despite being twenty-one. Justified in that he's still not done processing the trauma of being raped and nearly killed all those years ago.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cassidy is usually seen as a buffoon by those around him, both by his colleagues and suspects. He uses this to his advantage in this episode, playing the part of the bumbling detective to get Mike to reveal they are lying about Turbit's involvment in the crime.
* TheSociopath: While Mike shows genuine remorse for his crime, Jimmy shows none, sneering that Ryan "was a loser anyway" when confronted with the evidence he committed the crime.
* TeensAreMonsters: A pair of teenage boys rape and murder a little boy for virtually no reason at all. They do so just because they ''can'' and then try to ruin a man's life for it, framing him so he'll be sent to prison in their stead. At the end of the episode, an innocent child and the man framed for the crime are both dead due to their callous actions.
!Tropes present in this episode
* AccidentalMurder: Mike claims they strangled Ryan just to shut him up after he wouldn't stop crying. But it's implied the other teen Jimmy, who is much more savage and brutal than his friend, did it deliberately to snap his neck.
* AdultFear: Stabler is understandably shaken by this crime and spends the rest of episode watching his young children like a hawk.
* TheAlibi: Turbit claims that he couldn't have committed the crime because he went out to a bar to celebrate acquiring a rare stamp. Plenty of people witnessed him but the bartender claims that he left for a long enough period of time that he could have plausibly committed the crime. Turns out the bartender lied and Turbit was there the whole time.
* ChekovsGun: Ryan's glasses, which are missing when he's first found, and Turbit's missing bike chain which he claimed was stolen.
* HaveIMentionedImHeterosexualToday: The teen who committed the rape on Ryan, Jimmy, staunchly denies that he's gay and claims he just did it for fun.
* HonorBeforeReason: Despite the bartender knowing if he just stays silent about Turbit's alibi, he'll go to prison forever, he can't bring himself to lie to Stabler. Turns out he was a former cop and couldn't keep the truth from a fellow officer.
* ItAmusedMe: The teenage boys' reasoning for raping Ryan and then framing Turbit for the crime. They thought it would be "funny" to recreate Turbit's crime and then see the consequences of their actions.
* KnightTemplarParent: Ryan's father believes Turbit committed the crime and so he guns him down outside the courthouse.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Mike honestly is horrified by what happened and breaks down during interrogation.
* NeverGrewUp: Turbit's previous victim still dresses and acts very much like a small boy despite being twenty-one. Justified in that he's still not done processing the trauma of being raped and nearly killed all those years ago.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cassidy is usually seen as a buffoon by those around him, both by his colleagues and suspects. He uses this to his advantage in this episode, playing the part of the bumbling detective to get Mike to reveal they are lying about Turbit's involvment in the crime.
* TheSociopath: While Mike shows genuine remorse for his crime, Jimmy shows none, sneering that Ryan "was a loser anyway" when confronted with the evidence he committed the crime.
* TeensAreMonsters: A pair of teenage boys rape and murder a little boy for virtually no reason at all. They do so just because they ''can'' and then try to ruin a man's life for it, framing him so he'll be sent to prison in their stead. At the end of the episode, an innocent child and the man framed for the crime are both dead due to their callous actions.
