Written By Josh Singer
Directed By David Platt
A little boy is beaten and sexually assaulted, but the investigation is complicated by the conflict between the Orthodox Jewish community and meshira secular authorities.
Tropes
- Corrupting Pornography: Played straight. This episode deals with a young boy who, left home alone frequently, accessed porn online. It's revealed that under the corrupting influence of the videos he'd watched, he'd assaulted several other kids at his school, regardless of gender. In fact, his crimes came to light when another boy came to school with rectal bleeding. The lawyers say that this happened because the porn teaches him nothing about consent.
- Embarrassing Alibi: The initial suspect in the rape of a young Orthodox boy is his tutor, because he keeps evading questions about why he keeps having "private lessons" with the boy. It later turns out that the private lessons are a cover; he's been seeing a young woman without her parents' approval and feared the scandal that would ensue if it ever got out.
- The Extremist Was Right: After Jack is cleared from the charges, Munch snarks that maybe the rabbis are doing the right thing by unplugging their kids from the modern world.
- I Have No Son!: Jack's father pretty much disowns him after learning of his crimes. He tries to reconnect things during the trial under Stabler's advice.
- Missing Mom: Jack's mom is dead.
- Mistaken for Pedophile: David's tutor Jacob and Rabbi Isocowski, respectively.
- Jacob is the initial suspect since he is supposed to look after David and at one point Stabler tails him while he is along with another boy in his hands. Stabler finds him making out with someone, but it turns out to be his girlfriend - an adult woman - and they have been keeping their relationship secret because of the strict demands of their lifestyle; the boy in question is her little brother.
- The Rabbi is also suspected after David goes missing and was taken into a self-segregated community. It's revealed that David asked to be take out of the city for his own protection and the Rabbi obliged.
- Obliviously Evil: Jack raped other children without even understanding how wrong this was, purely because he watched too much porn and believed that if he had sex, other kids in school would stop teasing him.
- Prison Rape: Jack got the idea to rape David after watching a movie depicting this.
- Remember the New Guy?: Roxana Fox hasn't been seen before or since, but she has an adversarial relationship with Casey, who accuses her of "chasing headlines."
- Teens Are Monsters: In an Obliviously Evil sort of way, Jack is 14-years old and is already a serial rapist.
- What the Hell, Hero?: After being cleared and released, the Rabbi jerks his thumb at Jack, who's locked in a holding cell, and asks Stabler, "Does he look like a man to you?"
