Benson gets held hostage while visiting a nearby restaurant. Meanwhile, Rollins has to contend with the recent hospitalization of her father.
Tropes
- Bring My Brown Pants: Joey realizes he pissed himself after he's let out of the restaurant.
- Chekhov's Classroom: Benson and Tamin are doing roleplay about defusing hostage situations. Benson puts those skills to use in the episode.
- Despair Event Horizon: It starts off with March 7, 2020 when the restaurant starts losing reservations as well as customers at the start of the pandemic. Vanessa's mother dies of it, her husband is unable to play on Broadway, everyone has to be let go to the point she can't even get another business loan that she finally pulls a knife on her real estate agent.
- Now, Let Me Carry You: How the conflict is resolved. Having heard her story, Liv convinces Vanessa that she can't hold everything together by herself anymore and she needs to let others care for her. When the women go outside, they find the neighbourhood Vanessa has served over the years has come out to show their support and are raising funds online to save the restaurant from closing.
