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* TooDumbToLive: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed sexual assault. A real idiot.

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* TooDumbToLive: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed sexual assault. A real Elliot even calls him an idiot.
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* AntiVillain: Merritt is AffablyEvil and tends to inflict psychological torture on people for his own twisted satisfaction. That being said he is also somewhat sympathetic as his anarchistic, anti-authoritarian views stem from a history of being ignored or dismissed by authority figures [[spoiler:which, in one instance, cost him the lives of his wife and child.]]
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Elliot has this reaction upon learning Rook named a sheep after him.
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* TooDumbToLive: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed was sexual assualt. A real idiot.

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* TooDumbToLive: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed was sexual assualt.assault. A real idiot.

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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Did Merritt really commit suicide by jumping into the lake while handcuffed? Or did he flee, with Benson and Stabler deciding to presume he was dead out of sympathy?]]

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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Did Merritt really commit suicide by jumping into the lake while handcuffed? Or did he flee, with Benson and Stabler deciding to presume he was dead out of sympathy?]]sympathy?



* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The doctor who tended to Merritt Rook's wife later died in a car crash. While it was initially ruled a result of brake failure and believed by one of his nurses to have been a drunk driving accident, Benson and Stabler learn that Merritt psychologically tortured the doctor into killing himself as revenge for him being indirectly responsible for his wife and child's deaths]].
** [[spoiler: This also appears to be Merritt's fate in the end, if we're to believe he really did jump into the lake handcuffed after fleeing from Benson and Stabler's capture]].

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide:
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The doctor who tended to Merritt Rook's wife later died in a car crash. While it was initially ruled a result of brake failure and believed by one of his nurses to have been a drunk driving accident, Benson and Stabler learn that Merritt psychologically tortured the doctor into killing himself as revenge for him being indirectly responsible for his wife and child's deaths]].
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** [[spoiler: This also appears to be Merritt's fate in the end, if we're to believe he really did jump into the lake handcuffed after fleeing from Benson and Stabler's capture]].capture.



* FreudianExcuse: The reason behind Merritt's anti-authoritarian zealotry: [[spoiler: his wife and child died while she was giving birth, a result of her doctor ignoring Merritt's insistence that he do a C-section and Merritt not challenging his authority. And, while losing his family is what caused Rook's current criminal behavior, his contempt for authority started when he was a child and witnessed a group of teenage boys rape a girl, but the cops didn't believe him because the ring leader was the sheriff's son]].
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* Too Dumb to Live: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed was sexual assualt. A real idiot.

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* Too Dumb to Live: TooDumbToLive: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed was sexual assualt. A real idiot.
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* Too Dumb to live: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed was sexual assualt. A real idiot.

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* Too Dumb to live: Live: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed was sexual assualt. A real idiot.
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* TooDumb to live: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed was sexual assualt. A real idiot.

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* TooDumb Too Dumb to live: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed was sexual assualt. A real idiot.
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* Too Dumb to live: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed was sexual assualt. A real idiot.

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* Too Dumb TooDumb to live: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed was sexual assualt. A real idiot.
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* TooDumbtolive: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed was sexual assualt. A real idiot.

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* TooDumbtolive: Too Dumb to live: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed was sexual assualt. A real idiot.

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* TakeThat: InUniverse example - Merritt Rook, after winning his case, appears on a morning talk show with a pet sheep named "Elliot."

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* TakeThat: InUniverse example - Merritt Rook, after winning his case, appears on a morning talk show with a pet sheep named "Elliot.""Elliot.
* TooDumbtolive: The manager at the fast food chain restaurant got a call from Rook claiming the woman stole a person wallet & was dumb enough to fall for because he was told to strip search her without thinking if was a scam & he realized too late that he committed was sexual assualt. A real idiot.
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* AffablyEvil: Despite being an anti-authoritarian vigilante, Merritt remains polite and friendly to the SVU detectives and to Casey during court. Being played by [[Creator/RobinWilliams Robin Williams]] makes this believable.

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* AffablyEvil: Despite being an anti-authoritarian vigilante, anarchist, Merritt remains polite and friendly to the SVU detectives and to Casey during court. Being played by [[Creator/RobinWilliams Robin Williams]] makes this believable.
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* AffablyEvil: Despite being an anti-authoritarian vigilante, Merritt remains polite and friendly to the SVU detectives and to Casey during court. Being played by [[Creator/RobinWilliams]] makes this believable.

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* AffablyEvil: Despite being an anti-authoritarian vigilante, Merritt remains polite and friendly to the SVU detectives and to Casey during court. Being played by [[Creator/RobinWilliams]] [[Creator/RobinWilliams Robin Williams]] makes this believable.

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