Recap pages are Spoilers Off per policy and all spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned
Written By Paul Grellong
Directed By Peter Leto
A female video gamer goes missing and a lack of any other evidence prompts detectives to use the woman's in-game avatar to track her down before the clock runs out.
Tropes
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Almost literally. The detectives are trying to find something to arrest Gregory Seale for before he can flee the country. At the last possible second, when it seems that the detectives can't get him for anything, Seale jaywalks at the airport, giving Detective Stabler an excuse to arrest him. This allows them to hold him long enough to pull together the evidence to arrest him on his more serious crimes.
- Date My Avatar: More like "become obsessed with my avatar and abduct the actual me".
- Dirty Old Man: Julian Cooper is one; he looks to be in his sixties and his victim is 21. Not only that, but he's basically pretending she's a teenager. He's a particularly destructive version of this trope, as his victim dies as a result of the drugs given to her.
- Online Alias: The episode features two women who use "Tawny Coppercuffs" and "Vixy Platinum" as their usernames on the Second Life Expy "Another Youniverse."
- Sleepwalking: Dan suffers from Sexsomnia. Which causes him to try and have sex while he's asleep. His girlfriend, Rachel knows about this and accommodates him, but after she's kidnapped, he tries to get it with her sister, Kristi without knowing. When awake he's horrified at what he tried to do, and when it's proven he has no awareness in this state he's cleared of the charges.
