History Recap / LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS2E8Taken

* AcquittedTooLate: The episode starts off with Siobhan stumbling out of an elevator during a hotel opening. The staff shuttles her off to the side, and Russell Ramsay (who is on the sex offender registry as a pedophile) is later arrested. Turns out it's a scam to get money from the hotel, the supposedly under-age "victim" was in her 20s rather than her teens, the sex was consensual, and the "suspect" was a patsy set up by Siobhan and her family. Unfortunately, by the time anyone remembers that they have an innocent man in jail, Russell had already been killed in prison (pedophiles being very unpopular in prison populations). Fortunately, that made Siobhan and her accomplices legally culpable for murder.

* AcquittedTooLate: The episode starts off with a Siobhan stumbling out of an elevator during a hotel opening. The staff shuttles her off to the side, and Russell Ramsay (who is on the sex offender registry as a pedophile) is later arrested. Turns out it's a scam to get money from the hotel, the supposedly under-age "victim" was in her 20s rather than her teens, the sex was consensual, and the "suspect" was a patsy set up by Siobhan and her family. Unfortunately, by the time anyone remembers that they have an innocent man in jail, Russell had already been killed in prison (pedophiles being very unpopular in prison populations). Fortunately, that made Siobhan and her accomplices legally culpable for murder.

Russell Ramsay, a man with a prior statutory rape conviction is accused of having raped a young woman at a hotel opening, a case that John Munch (Creator/RichardBelzer) takes very seriously after meeting the accused's girlfriend. However, upon digging more deeply into the case, Munch learns that the victim, Siobhan Miller's, brother, Beau, is actually a con artist.

* AcquittedTooLate: The episode starts off with a Siobahn stumbling out of an elevator during a hotel opening. The staff shuttles her off to the side, and Russell Ramsay (who is on the sex offender registry as a pedophile) is later arrested. Turns out it's a scam to get money from the hotel, the supposedly under-age "victim" was in her 20s rather than her teens, the sex was consensual, and the "suspect" was a patsy set up by Siobahn and her family. Unfortunately, by the time anyone remembers that they have an innocent man in jail, Russell had already been killed in prison (pedophiles being very unpopular in prison populations). Fortunately, that made Siobahn and her accomplices legally culpable for murder.

* KilledOffScreen: Serena Benson, Olivia's mother, dies after an alcohol induced fall. This isn't shown on screen, but Captain Donald Cragen informs Benson about her mother's death.

* TheUnfairSex: Siobhan apparently manipulated her whole family, including her criminal brother, into committing the con.

* SkewedPriorities: At the end of the episode, the team feels victorious due the fact that they got Siobhan and her family, [[NoSympathy not at all concerned]] over the fact that an innocent man had died because of their actions. The only one who feels bad about it is [[OnlySaneMan Munch]], who takes the time to Ramsey's girlfriend.

* MoralDissonance:
** Munch accurately points out that statutory rape is still a sexual offence. However, this is completely forgotten when it turns out that his second "victim" is lying about him and has set him up, when Munch apparently thinks that the statutory rape was actually quite a moral thing to do.
** Munch is also horrified that Ramsay was the victim of a savage rape that resulted in his death while at Rikers, but he and Cragen are relieved that Beau will be facing that same amount of rape and violence there. Only because Ramsay is innocent, mind, as before when he thought he had raped Siobhan, he thought being murdered was actually justified.

* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: The Millers, although they didn't intend for Ramsay to be killed (they still put him in an extremely dangerous and violent situation). Brother, sister, and sister-in-law are ''all'' {{ConArtist}}s, and we even learn that the siblings' off-screen parents are ones, too.

* IdiotPlot: Or possibly just a very large PlotHole.
** When the detectives learn that Beau was in prison for grifting, they don't learn that his and Siobhan's parents actually ''aren't'' dead, or else they wouldn't have been anywhere near as surprised to learn that Siobhan herself is in on the scam.
** When the detectives are trying to dig for Beau's conviction, they also don't find out that his parents are also in prison for the very same crime, because this is apparently a surprise to them.

* TheUnfairSex: Siobhan apparently manipulated her whole family, including her criminal brother, into committing the con.

** When the detectives learn that Russell was in prison for grifting, they don't learn that his and Siobhan's parents actually ''aren't'' dead, or else they wouldn't have been anywhere near as surprised to learn that Siobhan herself is in on the scam.
** When the detectives are trying to dig for Russell's conviction, they also don't find out that his parents are also in prison for the very same crime, because this is apparently a surprise to them.