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Recap / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S23E5 "Fast Times @ TheWheelHouse"

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The Special Victims Unit faces the fury of social media fans when they arrest two popular influencer brothers.

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  • Bad Influencer: Two brother influencers bribed a girl by claiming they would let her join their TikTok house, then raped her. Then they cornered her and forced her, under extreme doxxing and harassment by their fans, to say on a livestream that she'd made it up. (She hadn't.)
  • The Bus Came Back:
    • Recurring judge Felicia Catano makes an appearance in this episode.
    • Elvis, the Dyckman Knights' leader from the episode, "Welcome To The Pedo Motel", shows up in Benson's office with crucial information regarding the Kosta organization's sex trafficking operation.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: The jury forewoman. A number of shots display her smiling at the defendants without any of the characters commenting on it at the time. Later on, they find out she had been bribed to acquit the defendants.
  • Crossover: SVU investigates a sex trafficking operation found by an undercover Elliot Stabler in the Organized Crime episode "For a Few Leke More". SVU then helps stop the operation in the Organized Crime episode "The Good, The Bad And The Lovely".
  • Everyone Has Standards: Once the brothers' attorney Mr. Swope learns they had bribed a juror to obtain their acquittal, he is very clearly angry and disgusted with them.
  • Justice by Other Legal Means: The rapists are acquitted after bribing the jury forewoman, but once this gets out, the judge informs them they could be looking at double digits for jury tampering and bribery. They end up taking a deal to serve 7 years in prison, but it's unclear what charges they pled guilty to. Because they had bribed a juror and thus rigged the trial in their favor, double jeopardy would not apply if they were charged again with the false imprisonment and rape.
  • Shout-Out: The title is one to Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: The rapists get their fans to throw tomatoes at Carisi and Rollins, and, far more seriously, convince the jury forewoman to guide the jury to a not guilty verdict.

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