A teenager found unconscious in the park leads to a missing persons investigation. Benson must help Noah come to terms with the past when he questions the origins of his birth.
Tropes
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Seth inflicted violence on bugs and rats since he was 10. "Mostly rats", according to Seth.
- Fairytale Motifs: Stories feature heavily into this episode, as Benson telling Noah bedtime stories serve as Book Ends.
- Little Red Riding Hood: The first victim is a girl named Rosie who wears a red jacket. She is cared for a nanny, and gets jumped by a pack of men while wandering off path in the park.
- Snow White: The second victim is named Sydney who dresses in white. Her only relative is a stepmother and she freezes in terror when Rosie is caught by the thugs.
- The girls together reference Snow-White and Rose-Red.
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin: The ringleader of the thugs is the son of an exterminator named Seth Piper. Similar to the empty deal the townsfolk offered the piper, Benson draws Piper's gang out of their hiding place with a promise she nearly goes back on.
- Killed Offscreen: Carisi reveals that Leonard Fleming was beaten to death at Rikers.
- Teens Are Monsters: 18-year-old Seth Piper and his friends.
- Tell Me About My Father: Noah has been digging through Benson's case documents for information about his father. Benson is understandably hesitant to talk about Johnny D with her son, but comes to except she can't keep the truth buried forever and tells Noah the truth gently.
