Line #25 Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS7E13Blast


1	Written By Creator/AmandaGreen
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3	Directed By Creator/PeterLeto
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5	A young girl suffering from leukemia is kidnapped while on her way home from school, she is soon located. Instead, Stabler and Warner end up as hostages when the girl's drug addict brother decides to rob the bank the kid's father worked at
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8	!!This episode provides examples of:
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10	* AntagonisticOffspring: Daniel Hunter repeatedly extorts money from his parents; first by kidnapping his little sister for ransom, then for outright making a hostage situation on the bank his father is working.
11	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite his issues with them, Daniel still clearly loves his parents which shows after he began freaking out when he accidentally shot his father.
12	* BaitAndSwitch: In the open, two young girls walk home from school. One is distracted by a puppy and runs after it down an alley and is about to open a closed door....when the ''other'' girl gets abducted.
13	* BigBrotherBully: Daniel Hunter kidnaps his little sister to extort money from their parents.
14	* BlackSheep: Daniel is TheUnfavorite among the Hunter family due to his chronic drug addiction.
15	* ADayInTheLimelight: For both Stabler and Warner. Warner, especially, since this is the very first episode to focus on her.
16	* DeathByFallingOver: After being cornered in the rooftop with nowhere to go but to jump to the other building, Stabler's first kidnapper suspect attempted a LeParkour. [[EpicFail He failed spectacularly]].
17	* DrugsAreBad: Daniel's cocaine addiction got him kicked out from his family.
18	* HostageSituation: Stabler and Warner are held hostage in a bank by the VictimOfTheWeek's drug addict brother.
19	* IHaveNoSon: Daniel is disowned by his mother for being a constant pain in the ass; the last straw was when his sister got into his drugs and he was too stoned to care. His father tried to be a little optimistic.
20	* IronicName: The Hunter family is being preyed by a kidnapper.
21	* JustAFleshWound: Warner shoots Daniel Hunter in the leg, intending to cause nonfatal damage. In reality, a bullet to the leg has a very substantial chance of causing a life-threatening injury thanks to the numerous arteries running through the leg. Her training as a medical examiner is no excuse; knowing where the arteries are located neither grants a person impeccable marksmanship nor does it change the fact that a fragmenting round's shrapnel is inherently unpredictable. What ''is'' an excuse is that Daniel was about to commit SuicideByCop, and a gunshot wound that ''might'' kill him was undoubtedly less fatal than a volley of bullets that would turn him into Swiss cheese.
22	* MeatgrinderSurgery: Warner had to perform surgery on Jake Hunter on the spot to treat his collapsed lung.
23	* MistakenForPedophile: Before his identity and motive are revealed, Daniel is assumed to be another pedophile.
24	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Daniel when he accidentally shot his father.
25	* NeverMyFault: During the standoff, Daniel accuses his parents of only caring about Carly and not him because they kicked him out of the house, ignoring that they tried (unsuccessfully) to get him help for his drug addiction and only gave him the boot as a last resort when Carly, then three years old, got into his drug stash and they knew she wasn't safe around him.
26	* OutOfFocus: Benson, Tutuola, and Munch barely appear in the episode.
27	* PinkMeansFeminine: Carly is wearing a pink jacket for most of the episode.
28	* RetiredBadass: Turns out Warner served in the U.S. Air Force during [[UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar Desert Storm]].
29	* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: When Carly is brought home, she mentions that her kidnapper made her a "chocofizzie", a drink that consists of milk mixed with chocolate syrup and seltzer. Her parents used to make it for her when she was little, which tips them off that the kidnapper is someone they know. It turns out to be Daniel, their older son who they disowned because his drug addiction was wrecking the family.
30	* SuicideByCop: Daniel Hunter attempted to do this, but Warner shot him in the leg before he could do so.
31	* TheUnfavorite: A JustifiedTrope. Daniel's chronic drug addiction made him lose favor to his parents, especially when his sister got into them and he was too high to care.
32	* UnPerson: Daniel is such a pain in the ass for his family that his parents refuse to mention him.

Context Recap / LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS7E13Blast