Recaps are Spoilers Off. All spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned.
Written By David Foster
Directed by Matt Earl Beesley
Detectives must determine who killed and dismembered a woman found abandoned in a junkyard, and who attempted to harvest organs from her corpse after the fact.
Tropes:
- Accidental Murder: The victim's boyfriend, Leon accidentally killed her out of anger by pushing her down the stairs in the subway. He contemplated a Villain's Dying Grace but didn't go through with it because it's against his religious beliefs.
- Continuity Nod: Marlee Matlin comes back to SVU after a year. Her character, Dr. Amy Solwey was found guilty of aiding suicide in the episode, Painless.
- Gory Discretion Shot: The discovery of the head is rather grisly, but the camera cuts away just as the head first pops out of the car (but gives enough of a view to shock the viewers). Later shot of the head is from behind the car door, covering the upper half of the head.
- I Was Never Here: Casey, after she discovers that Munch brought Amy to Dr. Swann's clinic so that she could have the stolen kidney:"Read my lips carefully. John Munch never came to your apartment tonight. He never brought you here. In fact you don't even know where this place is."
- Men Can't Keep House: Fin invokes this when he notes that Leon's place is very neat "for a single guy."
- Obsessively Organized: Leon Shragewitz. When Munch & Fin check out the victim's boyfriend's house, they note the house is super clean. Further examination shows his OCD, with shelves and pantries obsessively organized.
- Off with His Head!: The Victim of the Week is discovered in a scrap yard when her head rolls out of a car about to be crushed by the compactor.
- Organ Theft: Nearly midway through the episode, the story moves from identifying the victim's killer to busting a scheme involving snatching cadavers and mutilating them. It gets even more macabre when they find the perp's storage locker filled with all sorts of body parts.... and a body that wasn't dead initially when it's discovered that the perp & his cohorts were Playing with Syringes.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Munch, Stabler, Mc Govern, Amy, and Dr. Swann trade these between each other as they discuss the morality of getting organs from non-organ donors and giving them to dying patients to save their lives.
