History Recap / LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS7E14Taboo

* LoveMartyr: Ella claims to be one. and [[{{Squick}} her father might be one, too]], if you believe he didn't manipulate Ella into their sexual relationship, but that's ambiguous.

* CorruptPolitician: Ella's father, hoo boy. He’s an attorney who uses what power he has to support his daughter during her trial and manages to get her on an insanity plea. He also plans to use his power to gain custody of the baby even after receiving an order keeping him from retaining custody.

* InsanityDefence: Ella pulls one with her lawyer claiming she’s suffering from postpartum psychosis and that’s the reason why she tried dispose of her baby. She unfortunately succeeds and the SVU team wonders how quickly she will “recover” and return to her father.

'''Casey:''' Not a sex crime. Under New York penal code, it's listed right next to adultery as an offense affecting the marital relationship.

* AmoralAttorney: Ella's father has a license to practice law. [[spoiler: He's also her baby's father and uses it to see her when she is in prison.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ella pretends to be innocent all the way through but in reality, [[spoiler:she's a raging narcissist who thinks nothing of killing her babies.]]
* ChildByRape: Deconstructed. Ella describes her babies as these. She ultimately is proven to be lying, as she's having a consensual relationship with [[spoiler: her father. It's an argument whether this qualifies as rape too.]]
* ConfessToALesserCrime: When she collapses in the hospital, Ella admits to being pregnant by rape and claims not to have unknowingly abandoned the baby. [[spoiler: She does know, and she's done this before, committing premeditated murder.]]

* EvilRedhead: Ella has very distinct long red hair, and [[spoiler: she dumped two babies, successfully killing one, and being close to killing another.]]

* FalseRapeAccusation: Ella makes two of these, making it a very heavy episode even by SVU standards, preying on Olivia's goodwill by insisting to have been raped and [[spoiler: she's pulled this trick in the past.]] [[AccidentalTruth In a weird way, she might be telling the truth]] even though she believes the relationship with her father to be consensual.

* KarmaHoudini: Ella [[spoiler: is an extreme example. She gets a light sentence for the abandonment on an insanity plea. Even after she accidentally confesses the premeditated murder of her first baby to Olivia, it's implied that she won't suffer serious consequences because she's already had one jury deem her insane and it's on the record. Downplayed, because her reputation is trashed; the entire world knows that she murdered her baby and that she was in an incestuous relationship with her father.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:Ella does not care about her son whom she willingly abandoned. When Olivia gets her to confess that she planned to get rid of him by abandoning him, she lets it slip that she also killed her first baby the same way. Once she makes a full confession, it’s clear she was relieved she didn’t have to hear them crying and them existing anymore.]]
* LoveMartyr: Ella claims to be one. [[spoiler: and [[{{Squick}} her father might be one, too]], if you believe he didn't manipulate Ella into their sexual relationship, but that's ambiguous.]]

* ParentalAbandonment: The episode opens with the team discovering an abandoned baby in a box covered by a trash bag. [[spoiler:Olivia finds out at the end that not only did the baby’s mother deliberately abandon him, but also his dead sibling before him.]]

* ThereShouldBeALaw: Olivia's incredulous reaction to learning that [[spoiler: Ella and her father sleeping together]] isn't a crime.
-->'''Olivia:''' ''Adult incest'' isn't a crime?
-->'''Casey:''' Not a sex crime. It's an E felony; he'd get... probation.

* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler: Ella and her father. Olivia thinks he's more villainous. Casey isn't so sure.]]

* CorruptPolitician: Ella's father, hoo boy.

* FalseRapeAccusation: Ella makes two of these, making it a very heavy episode even by SVU standards, preying on Olivia's goodwill by insisting to have been raped and [[spoiler: she's pulled this trick in the past.]] [[AccidentalTruth In a weird way, she might be telling the truth]] even though she believes the relationship with her father to be consensual.]]

%%* InsanityDefence: Ella pulls one, and succeeds.

* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler: Ella and her father. Olivia thinks he's more villainous. Casey isn't so sure.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Ella [[spoiler: is an extreme example. She gets a light sentence for the abandonment on an insanity plea. Even after she accidentally confesses the premeditated murder of her first baby to Olivia, it's implied that she won't suffer serious consequences because she's already had one jury deem her insane and it's on the record. Downplayed, because her reputation is trashed; the entire world knows that she murdered her baby and that [[spoiler: she was in an incestuous relationship with her father.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Ella [[spoiler: is an extreme example. She gets a light sentence for the abandonment on an insanity plea. Even after she accidentally confesses the premeditated murder of her first baby to Olivia, it's implied that she won't suffer serious consequences because she's already had one jury deem her insane and it's on the record. Downplayed, because her reputation is trashed; the entire world knows that she murdered her baby and that [[spoiler:she was in an incestuous relationship with her father.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Ella [[spoiler: is an extreme example. She gets a light sentence for the abandonment on an insanity plea. Even after she accidentally confesses the premeditated murder of her first baby to Olivia, it's implied that she won't suffer serious consequences because she's already had one jury deem her insane and it's on the record. Downplayed, because her reputation is trashed; the entire world knows that she murdered her baby and that she was in an incestuous relationship with her father.]]

%%* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ella.

%%* FreudianExcuse: Ella thinks she has one. Whether or not you agree is up to you. In a more straightforward example, Olivia uses her own on Ella.
%%* GoodCopBadCop: Elliot is the bad cop, Olivia is the good.

%%* ManipulativeBitch: Ella.
%%* MotiveRant: Ella gets one in prison.

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* AmoralAttorney: Ella's father has a licence to practice law. [[spoiler: He's also her baby's father and uses it to see her when she is in prison.]]

* FalseRapeAccusation: Ella makes two of these, making it a very heavy episode even by SVU standards, preying on Olivia's goodwill by insisting to have been raped and [[spoiler: she's pulled this trick in the past. [[AccidentalTruth In a weird way, she might be telling the truth]] even though she believes the relationship with her father to be consensual.]]

When a baby boy is discovered in the rubbish, detectives Benson and Stabler use a T-shirt found at the scene to trace the crime back to a well-to-do college student (Creator/SchuylerFisk), whose father (Creator/ZeljkoIvanek) may know more than he lets on.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ella.

* FreudianExcuse: Ella thinks she has one. Whether or not you agree is up to you. In a more straightforward example, Olivia uses her own on Ella.
* GoodCopBadCop: Elliot is the bad cop, Olivia is the good.
* InsanityDefence: Ella pulls one, and succeeds.

* ManipulativeBitch: Ella.
* MotiveRant: Ella gets one in prison.

When a baby boy is discovered in the rubbish, detectives Benson and Stabler use a t-shirt found at the scene to trace the crime back to a well-to-do college student (Creator/SchuylerFisk), whose father (Creator/ZeljkoIvanek) may know more than he lets on.

* AmoralAttorney: Ella's father has a licence to practice law. [[spoiler:He's also her baby's father and uses it to see her when she is in prison.]]

* ChildByRape: Deconstructed. Ella describes her babies as these. She ultimately is proven to be lying, as she's having a consensual relationship with [[spoiler:her father. It's an argument whether this qualifies as rape too.]]
* ConfessToALesserCrime: When she collapses in the hospital, Ella admits to being pregnant by rape and claims not to have unknowingly abandoned the baby. [[spoiler:She does know, and she's done this before, committing premeditated murder.]]

* EvilRedhead: Ella has very distinct long red hair, and [[spoiler:she dumped two babies, successfully killing one, and being close to killing another.]]

* FalseRapeAccusation: Ella makes two of these, making it a very heavy episode even by SVU standards, preying on Olivia's goodwill by insisting to have been raped and [[spoiler:she's pulled this trick in the past. [[AccidentalTruth In a weird way, she might be telling the truth]] even though she believes the relationship with her father to be consensual.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Ella [[spoiler:is an extreme example. She gets a light sentence for the abandonment on an insanity plea. Even after she accidentally confesses the premeditated murder of her first baby to Olivia, it's implied that she won't suffer serious consequences because she's already had one jury deem her insane and it's on the record. Downplayed, because her reputation is trashed; the entire world knows that she murdered her baby and that she was in an incestuous relationship with her father.]]
* LoveMartyr: Ella claims to be one. [[spoiler:and [[{{Squick}} her father might be one, too]], if you believe he didn't manipulate Ella into their sexual relationship, but that's ambiguous.]]

* ThereShouldBeALaw: Olivia's incredulous reaction to learning that [[spoiler:Ella and father sleeping together]] isn't a crime.

* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:Ella and her father. Olivia thinks he's more villainous. Casey isn't so sure.]]

When a baby boy is discovered in the rubbish, detectives Benson and Stabler use a t-shirt found at the scene to trace the crime back to a well-to-do college student (Schuyler Fisk), whose father (Creator/ZeljkoIvanek) may know more than he lets on.

* FalseRapeAccusation: Ella makes two of these, making it a very heavy episode even by SVU standards, preying on Olivia's goodwill by insisting to have been raped and [[spoiler:she's pulled this trick in the past. In a weird way, she might be telling the truth even though she believes the relationship with her father to be consensual.]]

When a baby boy is discovered in the rubbish, detectives Benson and Stabler use a t-shirt found at the scene to trace the crime back to a well-to-do college student.

* Expy: Manhattan Institute of Technology for Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

* MotiveRant: Ella [[spoiler:gets one.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Everett [[spoiler:got Ella out of even having to face questioning for her first baby's murder.]]

* LoveMartyr: Ella claims to be one. [[spoiler:and [[Squick her father might be one, too, if you believe he didn't manipulate Ella into their sexual relationship]], but that's ambiguous.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Ella is an [[spoiler:extreme example. She gets a light sentence for the abandonment on an insanity plea. Even after she accidentally confesses the premeditated murder of her first baby to Olivia, it's implied that she won't suffer serious consequences because she's already had one jury deem her insane and it's on the record. Downplayed, because her reputation is trashed; the entire world knows that she murdered her baby and that she was in an incestuous relationship with her father.]]
* LoveMartyr: Ella.

* ChildOfRape: Deconstructed. Ella describes her babies as these. She ultimately is proven to be lying, as she's having a consensual relationship with [[spoiler:her father. It's an argument whether this qualifies as rape too.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Ella is an [[spoiler:extreme example. She gets a light sentence for her first baby's death on an insanity plea. Even after she accidentally confesses the premeditated murder of her first baby to Olivia, it's implied that she won't suffer any consequences. Downplayed, because her reputation is trashed; the entire world knows that she murdered her baby and that she was in an incestuous relationship with her father.]]

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections!: Everett [[spoiler:got Ella out of even having to face questioning for her first baby's murder.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney!: And then he puts his house up as collateral to pay Ella's bail.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney!: And then he puts his house up as collateral to get Ella out of prison.

* KarmaHoudini: Ella is an [[spoiler:extreme example. She gets a light sentence for her first baby's death on an insanity plea. Even after she accidentally confesses the premeditated murder of her first baby to Olivia, it's implied that she won't suffer any consequences.]]