History Recap / LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS7E19Fault

* ActorAllusion: One that may or may not be intentional: at the climax of the episode, Gitano is [[spoiler:killed by a police sniper]]. The character was played by Lou Diamond Phillips, whose credits include a recurring role on [[Series/{{NUMB3RS}} another show]] as an FBI sniper.

* TemptingFate: Gitano telling Olivia to be good on her shot and making sure to kill him in one shot or he'll take Elliot with him. [[spoiler:The SWAT marksman pretty much makes Gitano eat his words by putting him down with a perfect, single, face shot from his sniper rifle]].

* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: While holding Elliott at gunpoint, Gitano very disturbingly boasts to Olivia how he killed seven-year-old Rebecca. He's actually lying--she's still alive and he didn't get a chance to seriously hurt her--but it's still a very cruel move.

* MultipleChoicePast: According to Gitano's pyschiatrist, he was constantly telling different and contradictory stories about his childhood, so much so that she had no idea what his true background was.

!!This episode provides examples
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The episode opens with a couple, Patty and Tommy, breaking up. Tommy’s reasoning being that they “bring out the worst in each other”. This foreshadows Elliot and Olivia butting heads later on, as their personal feelings for each other lead them to choose the other over the job.
--> '''Tommy:''' I love you. Sometimes love’s just... not enough.
--> '''Patty:''' Oh my god. Go!

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The episode opens with a couple, Patty and Tommy breaking up. Tommy’s reasoning being that they “bring out the worst in each other”. This foreshadows Elliot and Olivia butting heads later on, as their personal feelings for each other lead them to choose the other over the job.

* Foreshadowing: The episode opens with a couple, Patty and Tommy breaking up. Tommy’s reasoning being that they “bring out the worst in each other”. This foreshadows Elliot and Olivia butting heads later on, as their personal feelings for each other lead them to choose the other over the job.

However, hearing the SWAT team approaching, Gitano screams for them to back off or he'll kill Elliot, but when he then tries to save his own neck by saying where he hid Rebecca, Olivia can tell he's lying and will never tell them where she is. Elliot knows it as well, and pretty much tells Olivia to go ahead and shoot him, if it means stopping Gitano. However, before Olivia can pull the trigger, a noise draws Gitano's attention, and he only has a split-second to find himself staring down the barrel of a SWAT sharpshooter's sniper rifle, before the SWAT marksman fires, and fatally shoots Gitano in the face, the force of the impact sending Gitano flying backwards, releasing Stabler, unharmed. As the rest of the SWAT team arrives, it is clear Gitano is already deceased from the single shot he took point-blank to the kisser from the SWAT sharpshooter. One SWAT member can only voice his disgust at how the marksman blew half of Gitano's face off with his shot, but commends Olivia and Elliot for stalling until they could take him out. As the SWAT team cuff Gitano's corpse and call for an ambulance with the intent to say they at least tried to save the psychopath, Olivia has them quiet down, before they find Rebecca, alive and unharmed, hidden in a crate.

!!This episode provides examples of:

* BittersweetEnding: Gitano is dead, and Rebecca Clifford is safe and sound, but four members of her family are dead, and now Benson wants a new partner.

* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: Gitano while holding Elliott at gunpoint very disturbingly boasts to Olivia how he killed the little Rebecca. He's actually lying--she's still alive--but it's still a very cruel move.

* ActorAllusion: At the climax of the episode, Gitano is [[spoiler:killed by a police sniper]]. The character was played by Lou Diamond Phillips, whose credits include a recurring role on [[Series/{{NUMB3RS}} another show]] as an FBI sniper.

* ActorAllusion: At the climax of the episode, Gitano is [[spoiler:killed by a police sniper]]. The character was played by Lou Diamond Phillips, whose credits involve a recurring role on [[Series/{{NUMB3RS}} another show]] as an FBI sniper.

--> '''Elliott:''' You like them dead, you sick like that, too, Gitano? You like to play with corpses ?

SVU is called in when released sex offender Victor Paul Gitano kidnaps two children named Ryan and Rebecca Clifford after murdering their mother, stepfather, and older sister.

* ConsumateLiar: Gitano in addition to be a ruthless mass murderer he's also an obviously pathological liar. You can never tell if he's lying or telling a semi-truth.

* MultipleChoicePast: According to Gitano's pyschiatrist, he changed his story of his upbringing so often that she had no idea what was true.

* ActorAllusion: At the climax of the episode, Gitano is killed by a police sniper. The character was played by Lou Diamond Phillips, whose credits involve a recurring role on [[Series/{{NUMB3RS}} another show]] as an FBI sniper.

* TemptingFate: Gitano telling Olivia to be good on her shot and making sure to kill him in one shot or he'll take Elliot with him. The SWAT marksman pretty much makes Gitano eat his words with putting him down with a perfect, single, face shot from his sniper rifle.

* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: Gitano while holding Elliott at gunpoint very disturbingly boasts to Olivia how he killed the little Rebecca. He's actually lying as she's still alive and kept prisoner but it's still a very cruel move.

* DepravedBisexual: Gitano loves to rape and kill little children regardless of their genre.
* ILoveTheDead: Implied with Gitano.

* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied ?: Gitano while holding Elliott at gunpoint very disturbingly boasts to Olivia how he killed the little Rebecca. He's actually lying as she's still alive and kept prisoner but it's still a very cruel move.

* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied?: Gitano while holding Elliott at gunpoint very disturbingly boasts to Olivia how he killed the little Rebecca. He's actually lying as she's still alive and kept prisoner but it's still a very cruel move.

SVU is called in when released sex offender Victor Paul Gitano kidnaps two children after murdering their parents and older sister.

The chase leads them to try and capture Gitano in Grand Central Station, but after spotting the son he kidnapped, who had been acting as bait for Gitano to lure the SVU squad in, when confronted by Benson, Gitano slashes at her throat, forcing Elliot to tend to his partner instead of pursuing Gitano. This costs the SVU team as, by the time Elliot gets outside, Fin reveals that Gitano is long gone, and the son lies in a pool of his own blood, his throat slit by Gitano.

With the kidnapped daughter the only one left they could save from Gitano, it is not long before Elliot and Olivia track Gitano to a warehouse some distance outside NYC, but as they wait for the SWAT team, they search the building for Gitano, only for the psychopath to get the drop on them, ambush Stabler, and take him hostage, threatening to blow his head off point-blank with a sawed-off shotgun.

This leads to a tense moment as Olivia is hesitant to shoot Gitano without risking hitting Stabler as well, while Gitano purposefully stalls with continuing to threaten to blow off Elliot's head, then trying to weasel his way out by lying about the kidnapped daughter's whereabouts. However, hearing the SWAT team approaching, Gitano screams for them to back off or he'll kill Elliot, but when he then tries to save his own neck by saying where he hid the daughter, Olivia can tell he's lying and will never tell them where she is. Elliot knows it as well, and pretty much tells Olivia to go ahead and shoot him, if it means stopping Gitano. However, before Olivia can pull the trigger, a noise draws Gitano's attention, and he only has a split-second to find himself staring down the barrel of a SWAT Sharpshooter's sniper rifle, before the SWAT marksman fires, and fatally shoots Gitano in the face, the force of the impact sending Gitano flying backwards, releasing Stabler, unharmed. As the rest of the SWAT team arrives, it is clear Gitano is already deceased. One SWAT member mentioning that the marksman blew half of Gitano's face off with his shot, but as the SWAT team cuff Gitano's corpse and call for an ambulance, Olivia has them quiet down, before they find the kidnapped daughter, alive and unharmed, hidden in a crate.

Back at the precinct, Stabler and Benson realize they put their personal relationship above their duties, and because of Elliot saying that Olivia is all that he has left, Benson goes before Captain Cragen to request a new partner.