History Recap / LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS5E12Brotherhood

* FiendishFraternity: The fraternity are all abusive [[SmugSnake snakes]], with both Rob Beckett and Tyler Henry being sadists who physically abused the pledges, and ultimately violently raped, the freshman Will Carey during his InitiationCeremony, driving him to kill Tyler and to attempt suicide.

* LoopholeAbuse: Xander Henry initially managed to exclude the Fraternity Ledger as evidence via legal maneuvering. When [[FaceHeelTurn his conscience gets the better of him]] Xander opens the door for Novak to reintroduce it as evidence after proving the witness perjured himself.

* LoopholeAbuse: Xander Henry initially managed to exclude the Fraternity Ledger as evidence via legal maneuvering. When [[FaceHeelTurn his conscience gets the better of him]] [[spoiler: Xander opens the door for Novak to reintroduce it as evidence after proving the witness perjured himself]].

* DoubleStandard: Briefly discussed. When it turns out that Carey really was sexually assaulted by Tyler, setting up his killing in revenge, Casey comments that she'll plead him out and he'll likely get a reduced sentence. Cragen questions this, but Stabler simply asks if this was a woman killing her rapist, would it be as much of an issue?

While questioning fraternity members about the murder and sodomy of their hard-nosed pledge master, Benson and Stabler are met with silence with every turn until they are led to a fellow student/fraternity brother who claims to have been previously raped by the victim.

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A local fraternity pledge master (Creator/MichaelMcDerman) is sodomized and murdered. The detectives link the crime to a pornographic website that features college girls at a local bar. The detectives discover that one of the fraternity brothers was ostracized and allegedly raped and uncover more grisly details of the various hazing rituals. A conflict of interest presents itself in court when the sadistic ring leader (Creator/TobyMoore) is represented by the father (Creator/GaryCole) of the deceased. The investigation also hits another hurdle as the brothers refuse to talk.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Xander Henry mispronounces or misremember's Dr. Huang's name, referring to him in court as "Dr. Wong".

* SmugSnake: Rob Sweeney--and it was a delicious sight to watch his [[BreakTheHaughty comeuppance in court]].

** Tyler's website, the Rack Menagerie is an allusion to the play, "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams.

* InNameOnly: ◾Tyler Henry was listed as the Treasurer of the Panhellenic Council, which is actually the national organization of African-American fraternities and sororities. Tyler is not African-American.

-->'''Stabler''': Whoever dumped our victim really knew their crap.

* CoffinContraband: Tyler's fraternity brother places the fraternity paddle that he used to sexually assault Will Carey in Tyler's coffin. Luckily for the detectives, the coffin is ceremonial only as Tyler is cremated, and the personal items from the coffin are removed and stored until the next-of-kin instructs the funeral home on what to do with them, giving Benson and Stabler time to find the item before it can be destroyed.

The leader of a college fraternity is killed and the body is dumped in a wastewater plant. Benson and Stabler investigate and are led to a fellow student who claims he was raped by the victim.