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* TheUntwist: An episode in which a young girl was raped had the prime suspect being a recently paroled sex offender. The man repeatedly insisted that he was innocent, angrily reminding the detectives that he had served his time and was now trying to get his life back together and lamenting the fact that he couldn't because of what he'd done, seemed genuinely sickened by his previous actions, and was devastated when his mother was killed in a vigilante attack directed at him. At the episode's end, the little girl, who until now had been rendered catatonic by the trauma, was shown pictures of potential suspects and asked if she could identify her assailant. The next scene showed the cops breaking down the door of none other than the convicted rapist who had been declaring his innocence.

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* TheUntwist: An episode in which a young girl was raped had the prime suspect being a recently paroled sex offender. The man repeatedly insisted that he was innocent, angrily reminding the detectives that he had served his time and was now trying to get his life back together and lamenting the fact that he couldn't because of what he'd done, seemed genuinely sickened by his previous actions, and was devastated when his mother was killed in a vigilante attack directed at him. At the episode's end, the little girl, who until now had been rendered catatonic by the trauma, was shown pictures of potential suspects and asked if she could identify her assailant. The next scene showed the cops breaking down the door of none other than the convicted rapist who had been declaring his innocence.innocence.
* TheWoobie: Moreno. She gets pregnant as a teen, is forced to give up the child by her overbearing mother, straining their relationship as a result, is shot and nearly dies TakingTheBullet for Torres, reunites with her daughter years later, only for her to be kidnapped and eventually lose a custody battle for her to the girl's adoptive Aunt, falls for and marries Torres and then unceremoniously loses him via a car bomb only a day later.

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* HarsherInHindsight: Creator/JoshHopkins portrays a law enforcement officer who is investigating the murder of a fellow officer who was killed via a car bomb by a ruthless group of mobsters. Guess what happened to him midway through the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Loss" just six years later?[[note]]And even worse, he played a law enforcement agent there too, only this time it was for the FBI[[/note]]

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Creator/JoshHopkins portrays a law enforcement officer who is investigating the murder of a fellow officer who was killed via a car bomb by a ruthless group of mobsters. Guess what happened to him midway through the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Loss" just six years later?[[note]]And even worse, he played a law enforcement agent there too, only this time it was for the FBI[[/note]]FBI[[/note]]
** The plot of "Blondes Have More Fun", which has a jealous, social-climbing gay man kill numerous successful gay men to gain fame and fortune and who commits suicide once he's cornered by the police is eerily similar to the crimes, disputed motivation, and ultimate fate of serial killer Andrew Cunanan.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/ReginaKing portrays a grief-stricken mother in the season one episode "Tasha".

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** Before gracing primetime as [[Series/LawAndOrderSVU Detective Odafin Tutuola]], rapper and actor Music/IceT got his first start working with Creator/DickWolf as arc-villain Danny Cort on this series. He even credits Wolf casting him as Cort for ultimately leading to his current success.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Creator/JoshHopkins portrays a law enforcement officer who is investigating the murder of a fellow officer who was killed via a car bomb by a ruthless group of mobsters. Guess what happened to him midway through the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Loss" just six years later?[[note]]And even worse, he played a law enforcement agent there too, only this time it was for the FBI[[/note]]
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* Fans of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' will find it to be a shock that Music/IceT, who plays the heroic badass Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, playing such a ruthless killer here. What's more, the shows are set in the same [[TheVerse continuity]], so Danny Up, the aforementioned killer and a notorious drug kingpin to boot was racking up a body count while Tutuola was still a narcotics detective busting up drug rings, pre-SVU. One wonders how their paths never crossed.

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* ** Fans of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' will find it to be a shock that Music/IceT, who plays the heroic badass Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, playing such a ruthless killer here. What's more, the shows are set in the same [[TheVerse continuity]], so Danny Up, the aforementioned killer and a notorious drug kingpin to boot was racking up a body count while Tutuola was still a narcotics detective busting up drug rings, pre-SVU. One wonders how their paths never crossed.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Fans of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' will find it to be a shock that Music/IceT, who plays the heroic badass Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, playing such a ruthless killer here. What's more, the shows are set in the same [[TheVerse continuity]], so Danny Up, the aforementioned killer and a notorious drug kingpin to boot was racking up a body count while Tutuola was still a narcotics detective busting up drug rings, pre-SVU. One wonders how their paths never crossed.

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of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' will find it to be a shock that Music/IceT, who plays the heroic badass Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, playing such a ruthless killer here. What's more, the shows are set in the same [[TheVerse continuity]], so Danny Up, the aforementioned killer and a notorious drug kingpin to boot was racking up a body count while Tutuola was still a narcotics detective busting up drug rings, pre-SVU. One wonders how their paths never crossed.

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** "Color Lines": [[EvilReactionary Duane Armstrong]], otherwise known as the "[[MadBomber Omega Bomber]]", is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] former US Army Sergeant turned terrorist who holds progressive society in contempt. With a previous body count of six, Duane makes a habit of leaving [[CallingCard a fragment with the Greek letter "Omega"]] in his bombs, as well as calling and taunting the police after his attacks. Antagonizing NYPD Detectives Eddie Torres and J. C. Williams after his most recent attack, Duane proceeds to attack a Congressman with a bomb in his smoke detector, subsequently planting a firecracker at the precinct to further antagonize Williams and Torres. As a final target, Duane plans to attack a US Army General [[PassedOverPromotion who received a promotion instead of him]] at an event with 100 people in attendance, but is thwarted by the police.
** "A Time of Faith" 2-parter: [[AngryWhiteMan Robert Olsen]] is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain White supremacist]] responsible for [[HateCrimesAreASpecialKindOfEvil the firebombing of multiple churches in the Black community]], endangering scores of civilians and successfully killing two people. After his accomplice, Jeffrey Lloyd, is caught attempting to burn down an unoccupied church by NYPD Detectives J. C. Williams and Tommy [=McNamara=], and is subsequently used as an informant, Olsen [[NeckSnap snaps Jeffrey's neck]] and [[DestinationDefenestration tosses him out the window]], resulting in his eventual arrest.
** "Spare Parts": [[MadDoctor Dr. Royce]], the [[VillainWithGoodPublicity respected chief of medical staff]] at the Gramercy Clinic, secretly [[OrganTheft harvests organs]] from the [[DisposableVagrant less fortunate]], having targeted multiple impoverished teenagers and had them killed for their organs. Upon realizing that undercover Detective Nell Delaney has the same blood type as his favorite violinist, Royce attempts to extract her heart, only for NYPD Detectives J. C. Williams and Alec Stone to interfere. When confronted, Royce [[TheSocialDarwinist tries to argue that he has the right to choose who lives and dies]] due to his position.

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** "Color Lines": [[EvilReactionary Duane Armstrong]], otherwise known as the "[[MadBomber Omega Bomber]]", is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] former US Army Sergeant turned terrorist who holds progressive society in contempt. With a previous body count of six, Duane makes a habit of leaving [[CallingCard a fragment with the Greek letter "Omega"]] in his bombs, as well as calling and taunting the police after his attacks. Antagonizing NYPD Detectives Eddie Torres and J. C. Williams after his most recent attack, Duane proceeds to attack a Congressman with a bomb in his smoke detector, subsequently planting a firecracker at the precinct to further antagonize Williams and Torres. As a final target, Duane plans to attack a US Army General [[PassedOverPromotion who received a promotion instead of him]] at an event with 100 people in attendance, but is thwarted by the police.
** "A Time of Faith" 2-parter: [[AngryWhiteMan Robert Olsen]] is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain White supremacist]] responsible for [[HateCrimesAreASpecialKindOfEvil the firebombing of multiple churches in the Black community]], endangering scores of civilians and successfully killing two people. After his accomplice, Jeffrey Lloyd, is caught attempting to burn down an unoccupied church by NYPD Detectives J. C. Williams and Tommy [=McNamara=], and is subsequently used as an informant, Olsen [[NeckSnap snaps Jeffrey's neck]] and [[DestinationDefenestration tosses him out the window]], resulting in his eventual arrest.
** "Spare Parts": [[MadDoctor Dr. Royce]], the [[VillainWithGoodPublicity respected chief of medical staff]] at the Gramercy Clinic, secretly [[OrganTheft harvests organs]] from the [[DisposableVagrant less fortunate]], having targeted multiple impoverished teenagers and had them killed for their organs. Upon realizing that undercover Detective Nell Delaney has the same blood type as his favorite violinist, Royce attempts to extract her heart, only for NYPD Detectives J. C. Williams and Alec Stone to interfere. When confronted, Royce [[TheSocialDarwinist tries to argue that he has the right to choose who lives and dies]] due to his position.
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** "Color Lines": [[EvilReactionary Duane Armstrong]], otherwise known as the "[[MadBomber Omega Bomber]]", is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] former US Army Sergeant turned terrorist who holds progressive society in contempt. With a previous body count of six, Duane makes a habit of leaving [[CallingCard a fragment with the Greek letter "Omega"]] in his bombs, as well as calling and taunting the police after his attacks. Antagonizing NYPD Detectives Eddie Torres and J. C. Williams after his most recent attack, Duane proceeds to attack a Congressman with a bomb in his smoke detector, subsequently planting a firecracker at the precinct to further antagonize Williams and Torres. As a final target, Duane plans to attack a US Army General [[PassedOverPromotion who received a promotion instead of him]] at an event with 100 people in attendance, but is thwarted by the police.
** "A Time of Faith" 2-parter: [[AngryWhiteMan Robert Olsen]] is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain White supremacist]] responsible for [[HateCrimesAreASpecialKindOfEvil the firebombing of multiple churches in the Black community]], endangering scores of civilians and successfully killing two people. After his accomplice, Jeffrey Lloyd, is caught attempting to burn down an unoccupied church by NYPD Detectives J. C. Williams and Tommy [=McNamara=], and is subsequently used as an informant, Olsen [[NeckSnap snaps Jeffrey's neck]] and [[DestinationDefenestration tosses him out the window]], resulting in his eventual arrest.
** "Spare Parts": [[MadDoctor Dr. Royce]], the [[VillainWithGoodPublicity respected chief of medical staff]] at the Gramercy Clinic, secretly [[OrganTheft harvests organs]] from the [[DisposableVagrant less fortunate]], having targeted multiple impoverished teenagers and had them killed for their organs. Upon realizing that undercover Detective Nell Delaney has the same blood type as his favorite violinist, Royce attempts to extract her heart, only for NYPD Detectives J. C. Williams and Alec Stone to interfere. When confronted, Royce [[TheSocialDarwinist tries to argue that he has the right to choose who lives and dies]] due to his position.
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* {{Narm}}: Every scene that featured Sandy Gill was accompanied by a weird, airy-sounding, light instrumental music that almost sounded out of place with the rest of the show.

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* {{Narm}}: Every In the first season finale, any scene that featured Sandy Gill was accompanied by a weird, airy-sounding, light instrumental music that almost sounded out of place with the rest of the show.


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* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/ReginaKing portrays a grief-stricken mother in the season one episode "Tasha".
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* MagnificentBastard: Drug dealer-turned-rival of J.C. Williams' Danny Cort, AKA Danny-Up.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Fans of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' will find it to be a shock that Music/IceT, who plays the heroic badass Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, playing such a ruthless killer here. What's more, the shows are set in the same [[TheVerse continuity]], so Danny Up(the aforementioned killer) was racking up a body count while Tutuola was still a narcotics detective, pre-SVU. Given Danny Up was a powerful drug dealer, one wonders how their paths never crossed.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Fans of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' will find it to be a shock that Music/IceT, who plays the heroic badass Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, playing such a ruthless killer here. What's more, the shows are set in the same [[TheVerse continuity]], so Danny Up(the Up, the aforementioned killer) killer and a notorious drug kingpin to boot was racking up a body count while Tutuola was still a narcotics detective, detective busting up drug rings, pre-SVU. Given Danny Up was a powerful drug dealer, one One wonders how their paths never crossed.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Fans of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' will find it to be a shock that Music/IceT, who plays the heroic badass Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, playing such a ruthless killer here.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Fans of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' will find it to be a shock that Music/IceT, who plays the heroic badass Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, playing such a ruthless killer here. What's more, the shows are set in the same [[TheVerse continuity]], so Danny Up(the aforementioned killer) was racking up a body count while Tutuola was still a narcotics detective, pre-SVU. Given Danny Up was a powerful drug dealer, one wonders how their paths never crossed.
** In between his stint as Danny Up and his joining SVU as Tutuola, Ice T also portrayed a pimp in ''Exiled: A Law and Order Movie''.
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** And at the episode's conclusion, as the cops go to arrest the guy, he goes to the roof. After several minutes of blasting himself for his sick behavior--"I was out for five minutes and I did it again!"--and being indirectly responsible for his mother's murder, he leaps to his death.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Fans of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' will find it to be a shock that Creator/IceT, who plays the heroic badass Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, playing such a ruthless killer here.

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* {{Narm}}: Every scene that featured Sandy Gill was accompanied by a weird, airy-sounding, light instrumental music that almost sounded out of place with the rest of the show.



* TearJerker:
** The deaths of Danny Cort's younger brother and [[spoiler: Sandy Gill, especially with J.C.'s reaction to both deaths. Whereas he felt incredibly guilty and remorseful in having to shoot the young man in self-defense (and him staying with him before he died and his pleas of "Don't let me die, man" not helping matters), he was sitting only inches away from her dead fiancee's body as he cried for the investigators not to touch her or to perform an autopsy, saying how he didn't want them to "cut up his baby" (as Sandy was two months pregnant at the time.) Also, their accompanying funerals with the young man's and Danny's grief-stricken mother and Sandy's students attended.]]
** The episode where the young girl is assaulted and raped while walking to school. She was left so traumatized by the event that she was mute-struck and wasn't able to begin to heal until the assailant's other victim, now a college student, was able to speak with her. Also during the episode, during a protest against the man, someone attempted to do a drive-by, [[spoiler: but hits the man's mother instead, killing her.]]



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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Season four.four: Torres was dead, Lt. Cooper and the hangout Natalie's were gone (and therefore so was all of the musical guests) and a crop of new characters that fans didn't like were the ultimate death knell to the show.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Fans of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' will find it to be a shock that Creator/IceT, who plays the heroic badass Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, playing such a ruthless killer here.



* ReplacementScrappy: Malcolm Barker, Nell Dellaney and Alec Stone in season 4.

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* ReplacementScrappy: Malcolm Barker, Nell Dellaney and Alec Stone in season 4. Not even the former being portrayed by Thomas Mikal Ford (of ''Series/{{Martin}}'' fame) could cause fans of the well-liked Lt. Cooper to warm up to him. The other two were generic detectives that were brought in to ''still'' try to bring in a White demographic who replaced the beloved late Det. Eddie Torres and the widely despised Det. [=McNamara=] (see below).
* TheScrappy: Tommy [=McNamara=] was a [[MightyWhitey character]] brought in due to ExecutiveMeddling that didn't fit in with fans or the cast.
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* MagnificentBastard: Drug dealer-turned-rival of J.C. Williams' Danny Cort, AKA Danny-Up.
* ReplacementScrappy: Malcolm Barker, Nell Dellaney and Alec Stone in season 4.
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* TheUntwist: An episode in which a young girl was raped had the prime suspect being a recently paroled sex offender. The man repeatedly insisted that he was innocent, angrily reminding the detectives that he had served his time and was now trying to get his life back together and lamenting the fact that he couldn't because of what he'd done, seemed genuinely sickened by his previous actions, and was devastated when his mother was killed in a vigilante attack directed at him. At the episode's end, the little girl, who until now had been rendered catatonic by the trauma, was shown pictures of potential suspects and asked if she could identify her assailant. The next scene showed the cops breaking down the door of none other than the convicted rapist who had been declaring his innocence.
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