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* MistakenForGay: Everyone assumes Andrew is Jack's boyfriend when they are just HeterosexualLifePartners. The mistake is understandable given that Jack doesn't have friends, just people he uses. Sure enough, Jack eventually tries to rape Andrew.
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* BreakTheCycleOfBadParenting: How Dr. Stanton manipulated Andrew into staying in their 'relationship' after she got pregnant with their son, reminding him how his own father abandoned him before he was born.

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* BreakTheCycleOfBadParenting: BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: How Dr. Stanton manipulated Andrew into staying in their 'relationship' after she got pregnant with their son, reminding him how his own father abandoned him before he was born.
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* BreakTheCycleOfBadParenting: How Dr. Stanton manipulated Andrew into staying in their 'relationship' after she got pregnant with their son, reminding him how his own father abandoned him before he was born.
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* DeathGlare: Joyce gives one to Dr. Stanton at her allocution, now knowing that she had been molesting her son and was the one who had him accused of raping Mallory.

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* DeathGlare: Joyce gives one to Dr. Stanton at her allocution, now knowing that she had been molesting her son son, conceiving a child in the process, and was the one who had him accused of raping Mallory.
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* CallingTheOldManOut: Ken vents out his frustrations towards Fin a couple of times this episode.

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* CallingTheOldManOut: Ken vents out his frustrations towards Fin a couple of times this episode.episode, among being how Fin assumes Andrew is gay just because Jack was, pointing out that straight men can have gay male friends.

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* DeathGlare: Joyce gives one to Dr. Stanton at her allocution, now knowing that she had been molesting her son.

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* DeathGlare: Joyce gives one to Dr. Stanton at her allocution, now knowing that she had been molesting her son.son and was the one who had him accused of raping Mallory.



* DiagnosisKnowingTooMuch:Andrew's false diagnosis is deliberate and allows Stanton to cover her tracks.

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* DiagnosisKnowingTooMuch:Andrew's DiagnosisKnowingTooMuch: Andrew's false diagnosis is deliberate and allows Dr. Stanton to cover her tracks.


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* FirstNameBasis: Andrew refers to Dr. Stanton by her first name, Fran.

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* DeathGlare: Joyce gives one to Dr. Stanton at her allocution, now knowing that she had been molesting her son.



* DisappearedDad: Andrew's dad Phil divorced Joyce and moved to California when she got pregnant with Andrew.

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* DisappearedDad: Andrew's dad Phil divorced Joyce and moved to California when she got pregnant with Andrew.Andrew, having had enough of fatherhood raising Andrew's siblings.



* HospitalHottie: Dr. Fran Stanton, a blonde StatuesqueStunner[[note]]Creator/AllyWalker is 5'10[[/note]] which Fin even lampshades. Of course being a manipulative {{Ephebophile}} takes away from that.

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* HospitalHottie: Dr. Fran Stanton, a blonde StatuesqueStunner[[note]]Creator/AllyWalker is 5'10[[/note]] which Fin even lampshades.lampshades, to the point she gets a scene in a bathrobe. Of course being a manipulative {{Ephebophile}} takes away from that.
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* ChildByRape: Dr. Stanton's rape of Andrew resulted in her becoming pregnant with Andrew's son.

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* ChildByRape: Dr. Stanton's rape of Andrew resulted in her becoming pregnant with Andrew's son. His paternity is used as proof of her abuse of his father.
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Discussed when Andrew tells Benson how Dr. Stanton used her pregnancy to get him to stay in their 'relationship.' Benson mentions how he couldn't have even been sure the baby was his, to which Andrew tells her Dr. Stanton maintained he was the only person she was sleeping with. Sure enough, the baby is Andrew's and serves as physical evidence that Dr. Stanton molested him.
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-->'''Dr. Stanton: Andrew is a man! He is my soulmate!

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-->'''Dr. Stanton: Stanton:''' Andrew is a man! man! He is my soulmate!

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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Dr. Stanton has fully convinced herself that her actions are not rape, but love, telling Dr. Huang that Andrew is her soulmate.

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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Dr. Stanton has fully convinced herself that her actions are not rape, but love, telling Dr. Huang that love.
-->'''Dr. Stanton:
Andrew is her soulmate.a man! He is my soulmate!



* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. Dr. Stanton's rape of Andrew Hingham is treated as the criminal act it is. When Cragen questions going to retrieve Andrew from Dr. Stanton's house, [[LampshadeHanging Benson points out that if this were a male doctor and an underage female patient there wouldn't be any debate]]. Whilst interrogating her, Fin and Dr. Huang are seething with [[TranquilFury barely concealed contempt]] and telling her she will be imprisoned for statutory rape, and the judge coldly tells her as she's being taken to prison that she deserves a life sentence for what she's done to Andrew.

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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. Dr. Stanton's rape of Andrew Hingham is treated as the criminal act it is. When Cragen questions going to retrieve Andrew from Dr. Stanton's house, [[LampshadeHanging Benson points out that questions if they'd be having this discussion were a male doctor Stanton and an underage female patient there wouldn't be any debate]].Andrew's genders reversed]]. Whilst interrogating her, Fin and Dr. Huang are seething with [[TranquilFury barely concealed contempt]] and telling her she will be imprisoned for statutory rape, and the judge Judge Preston coldly tells her as she's being taken to prison that she deserves a life sentence for what she's done to Andrew.



* MedicationTampering: The team discovers that Doctor Stanton intentionally faked Andrew Hingham's schizophrenia diagnosis, including using medication to induce symptoms, because she was having an illicit sexual relationship with him.

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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Dr. Stanton invoked this trope when Andrew wanted out of their 'relationship' after she got pregnant with their son, telling him he'd be no different than his father.
* MedicationTampering: The team discovers that Doctor Dr. Stanton intentionally faked Andrew Hingham's schizophrenia diagnosis, including using medication to induce symptoms, because she was having an illicit sexual relationship with him.

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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Dr. Stanton has fully convinced herself that her actions are not rape, but love, telling Dr. Huang that Andrew is her soulmate.



* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Dr. Stanton has fully convinced herself that her actions are not rape, but love.
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* AbusiveParents: Andrew's mother Joyce is suspected of being this, but this is ultimately found not to be the case.

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* AbusiveParents: Andrew's mother Joyce is suspected of being this, but this is ultimately found not to be the case. She was indeed emotionally distant from her son, but viewers are quickly made to feel sympathy for her, too, after it is revealed that she never intentionally neglected him, but getting pregnant at an advanced age, after raising his siblings (who were all grown by the time he was born), only to be abandoned by her husband and thus forced to raise Andrew alone, drained her both physically and emotionally.
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* RaisedByGrandparents: Joyce receives custody of Andrew and Dr. Stanton's son after his paternity is proven, presumably until Andrew comes of legal age. At Dr. Stanton's allocution, Joyce is shown holding her grandson.

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* RaisedByGrandparents: Joyce receives custody of Andrew and Dr. Stanton's son after his paternity is proven, presumably until Andrew comes of legal age. At Dr. Stanton's allocution, Joyce is shown holding her grandson.
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* RaisedByGrandparents: Joyce receives custody of Andrew and Dr. Stanton's son after his paternity is proven, presumably until Andrew comes of legal age.

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* RaisedByGrandparents: Joyce receives custody of Andrew and Dr. Stanton's son after his paternity is proven, presumably until Andrew comes of legal age. At Dr. Stanton's allocution, Joyce is shown holding her grandson.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Dr. Stanton is based in part on Mary Kay Letourneau, a elementary school teacher who molested her 12 year-old student, becoming pregnant with his daughter.
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Dr. Stanton has fully convinced herself that her actions are not rape, but love.
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* RaisedByGrandparents: Joyce receives custody of Andrew and Dr. Stanton's son after his paternity is proven, presumably until Andrew comes of legal age.

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* IWillWaitForYou: Played for great creepiness. Andrew's psychiatrist, Dr. Stanton, developed feelings for and seduced a thirteen-year-old Andrew Hingham, who was sent to her by his mother. When Andrew was fifteen, he fell for someone his own age and had sex with her. Stanton went to the girl's parents and told them that Andrew had raped her. When they pressed charges, she (fraudulently) diagnosed the boy with schizophrenia, and convinced everyone that what he really needed was treatment, under her care, of course. At some point after that, she got pregnant, and prevented him from running away by guilting him with how his father had walked out on him. It worked until a con artist wormed his way into the facility and orchestrated a mass escape. When Andrew was found months later, after killing the con artist, Dr. Stanton got him placed back into her care and immediately started drugging him. Once everything was uncovered, she accepted a plea for a twenty year sentence. As she was being dragged off, she yelled at Andrew, who was sitting next to his mother and his child by Dr. Stanton, that she would wait for him--this coming after she spent most of her allocution continuing to claim what she did to Andrew was "love."

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* IWillWaitForYou: Played for great creepiness. Andrew's psychiatrist, Dr. Stanton, developed feelings for and seduced a thirteen-year-old Andrew Hingham, who was sent to her by his mother. When Andrew was fifteen, he fell for someone his own age and had sex with her. Stanton went to the girl's parents and told them that Andrew had raped her. When they pressed charges, she (fraudulently) diagnosed the boy with schizophrenia, and convinced everyone that what he really needed was treatment, under her care, of course. At some point after that, she got pregnant, and prevented him from running away by guilting him with how his father had walked out on him. It worked until a con artist wormed his way into the facility and orchestrated a mass escape. When Andrew was found months later, after killing the con artist, artist in self-defense, Dr. Stanton got him placed back into her care and immediately started drugging him. Once everything was uncovered, she accepted a plea for a twenty year twenty-year sentence. As she was being dragged off, she yelled at Andrew, who was sitting next to his mother and his child by Dr. Stanton, that she would wait for him--this coming after she spent most of her allocution continuing to claim what she did to Andrew was "love."


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* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Andrew was an unplanned pregnancy and born right when the youngest of his four older siblings was leaving for college. His father divorced his wife and moved to the opposite side of the country because he couldn't handle raising another child. His mother tried her best, but she was so worn out from raising her other four children and her husband divorcing her that she just couldn't put in the energy. These factors combined to cause the depression and other mental issues that put Andrew in Dr. Stanton's care to begin with.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. Dr. Stanton's rape of Andrew Hingham is treated as the criminal act it is. Fin and Dr. Huang are seething with [[TranquilFury cold rage]] whilst interrogating her and the judge coldly tells her as she's being taken to prison that she deserves a life sentence for what she's done to him. When Cragen questions going to retrieve Andrew from Dr. Stanton's house, [[LampshadeHanging Benson points out that if this were a male doctor and an underage female patient there wouldn't be any debate]].

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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. Dr. Stanton's rape of Andrew Hingham is treated as the criminal act it is. Fin and Dr. Huang are seething with [[TranquilFury cold rage]] whilst interrogating her and the judge coldly tells her as she's being taken to prison that she deserves a life sentence for what she's done to him. When Cragen questions going to retrieve Andrew from Dr. Stanton's house, [[LampshadeHanging Benson points out that if this were a male doctor and an underage female patient there wouldn't be any debate]]. Whilst interrogating her, Fin and Dr. Huang are seething with [[TranquilFury barely concealed contempt]] and telling her she will be imprisoned for statutory rape, and the judge coldly tells her as she's being taken to prison that she deserves a life sentence for what she's done to Andrew.
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* PredatoryProstitute: Jack is a gay sex worker and a con artist who tries to rape Andrew, and gets murdered in self-defense.
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* DiagnosisKnowingTooMuch:Andrew's false diagnosis is deliberate and allows Stanton to cover her tracks.
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* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Implied to be the case with Andrew Hingham whose father left just as he was born and despite loving him, his mother was too emotionally drained to raise him, which led to Andrew feeling distant from her and contribute to his depression. It becomes deconstructed later on after Andrew was sent to Dr Stanton to help him with said depression that she took sexual advantage and manipulated him into staying with her and their lovechild.

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* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Implied to be the case with Andrew Hingham whose father left just as he was born and his mother, despite loving him, his mother was felt too emotionally drained to raise him, which led to Andrew feeling to feel emotionally distant from her and contribute to his depression. It becomes deconstructed later on after Andrew was sent to Dr Stanton to help him with said depression that she took sexual advantage and manipulated him into staying with her and their lovechild.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. Dr. Stanton's rape of Andrew Hingham is treated as the criminal act it is. Fin and Dr. Huang are seething with [[TranquilFury cold rage]] whilst interrogating her and the judge coldly tells her as she's being taken to prison that she deserves a life sentence for what she's done to him.

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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. Dr. Stanton's rape of Andrew Hingham is treated as the criminal act it is. Fin and Dr. Huang are seething with [[TranquilFury cold rage]] whilst interrogating her and the judge coldly tells her as she's being taken to prison that she deserves a life sentence for what she's done to him. When Cragen questions going to retrieve Andrew from Dr. Stanton's house, [[LampshadeHanging Benson points out that if this were a male doctor and an underage female patient there wouldn't be any debate]].

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