History Recap / LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS14E4AcceptableLoss

* SamusIsAGirl: In a slightly sexist turn, everyone assumes that the terrorist they are looking for is a man. It occurs to them almost too late that ''he'' is really a ''she.''

* IdiotBall: Good god, Homeland Security. They're looking for a terrorist coming into the country using a visa from the same supplier used by the human trafficking ring SVU is trying to shut down, and yet it doesn't occur to a single one of them to at least rule out the possibility that the trafficking ring is connected to/being used as a cover for the terrorists, let alone the possibility that one of these "trafficked girls" might actually be their target. Even after they learn that they missed their target, they immediately come to the conclusion that the SVU investigation tipped them off, even though the news would have had to travel improbably quickly in order to give the terrorist a chance to catch wind of it and change "his" plans in time. It's the SVU team who finally put it together; Homeland Security has to be read in by them.

* ScannableMan: All the girls in Mikey and Lou's operation have barcode tattoos on their neck to show they're owned by them.

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With Captain Cragen (Creator/DannFlorek) back in the precinct, the Special Victims Unit is in full force and working to expose a sex trafficking operation that tags and enslaves young women. The captain puts Detective Tutuola (Music/IceT) undercover to find out who is behind the brutal crime, Amaro (Creator/DannyPino) irate at the captain's decision.

Fin, undercover as Harold, picks up one of the girls, Anna (Creator/AngelaSarafyan), hoping she'd tell him more about who they work for. She comes back raped and Fin offers to drop her off back at home, where Lou (Creator/AlonMoniAboutboul) is upset at how she got an expensive dress ripped during her rape, Lou's son Mikey (Creator/JoeyOglesby) saying she could "work it off". Tutuola and Amaro go to Cragen to get a warrant to bust them, but Cragen comes to the scene with [[Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent Lieutenant Alexandra Eames]] (Creator/KathrynErbe) who transferred out of the Major Case Squad and is on loan to a joint City/Federal Homeland Security Task Force, Eames taking the SVU off the case, citing they had stumbled upon a terrorism case.

Eames tells the SVU detectives she understands their frustration, but Eames explains the Pappases came into the country with fake visas, as well as their victim Pilar (Creator/JamilaVelazquez), and they had accomplices who have yet to be seen. Liv asks Eames how she could stand by and let this go, Eames reminding Olivia about 9/11. The SVU detectives figure out a way to keep tabs on them without Eames knowing, Cragen uncomfortably authorizes what the detectives want, if they keep him in the loop.

The detectives hatch one plan, but it goes south, Fin suggests they go back to Anna, but using Amaro instead. Anna initially refuses to help them, but the detectives promise they'd keep her safe and that Lou and Mikey were going down; Anna tells them at the SVU squad she was answering a nanny ad and that there were nine others. Eames comes down to the squad to tell them their terrorist is in the country and heard of SVU's operation, Eames saying she was going to have to explain it to her bosses and theirs, Cragen told the detectives to go after them anyway, not caring if they fire him.

The SVU learns that Sophia's name wasn't on the Pappases books, learning Sophia could be the terrorist. Eames and Benson go to Lou for answers, learning Sophia came with them on a lie. Liv begs Eames to let them go after Sophia so Lou doesn't get off. Eames and the SVU detectives bust Sophia and her friend before they detonate a bomb. Eames and Liv talk to Sophia at Federal Plaza, Sophia telling them her father was a doctor who was killed by a drone. Later over drinks, Benson and Eames discuss the case, Eames saying she learned how to get people to talk from her partner.

* AWolfInSheepsClothing: Sofia is a terrorist masquerading as a trafficked girl.

* AWolfInSheepsClothing: Sofia is a terrorist masquerading as a trafficked girl.
* YourCheatingHeart: The episode opens with a married businessman hiring Pilar's services.

* AWolfInSheepsClothing: Sofia is a terrorist masquerading as a trafficked girl.
* {{Callback}}: During Benson and Eames' interrogation of Sophia, Eames takes a page out of her old partner Robert Goren's playbook by leaning sideways to keep eye contact with her.

* ScannableMan: All the girls in Mikey and Lou's operation have barcode tattoos on their neck to show they're owned by them.

* IdiotBall: Good god, Homeland Security. They're looking for a terrorist coming into the country with a specific type of forged visa, the same type being used by the human trafficking ring SVU is trying to shut down, and yet it doesn't occur to a single one of them to at least rule out the possibility that the trafficking ring is connected to/being used as a cover for the terrorists, let alone the possibility that one of these "trafficked girls" might actually be their target. Even after they learn that they missed their target, they immediately come to the conclusion that the SVU investigation tipped them off, even though the news would have had to travel improbably quickly in order to give the terrorist a chance to catch wind of it and change "his" plans in time. It's the SVU team who finally put it together; Homeland Security has to be read in by them.

* ScannableMan: All the girls in Mike and Lou's operation have barcode tattoos on their neck to show they're owned by them.
* SheepInWolfsClothing: Sophia pretends to be one of the working girls as part of her cover in an Al Qaeda cell.