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Recap / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S7 E13 "Blast"

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Written By Amanda Green

Directed By Peter Leto

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


This episode provides examples of:

  • Antagonistic Offspring: 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.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite his issues with them, Daniel still clearly loves his parents which shows after he began freaking out when he accidentally shot his father.
  • Bait-and-Switch: 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.
  • Big Brother Bully: Daniel Hunter kidnaps his little sister to extort money from their parents.
  • Black Sheep: Daniel is The Unfavorite among the Hunter family due to his chronic drug addiction.
  • A Day in the Limelight: For both Stabler and Warner. Warner, especially, since this is the very first episode to focus on her.
  • Death by Falling Over: After being cornered in the rooftop with nowhere to go but to jump to the other building, Stabler's first kidnapper suspect attempted a Le Parkour. He failed spectacularly.
  • Drugs Are Bad: Daniel's cocaine addiction got him kicked out from his family.
  • Hostage Situation: Stabler and Warner are held hostage in a bank by the Victim of the Week's drug addict brother.
  • I Have No Son!: 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.
  • Ironic Name: The Hunter family is being preyed by a kidnapper.
  • Just a Flesh Wound: 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 Suicide by Cop, and a gunshot wound that might kill him was undoubtedly less fatal than a volley of bullets that would turn him into Swiss cheese.
  • Meatgrinder Surgery: Warner had to perform surgery on Jake Hunter on the spot to treat his collapsed lung.
  • Mistaken for Pedophile: Before his identity and motive are revealed, Daniel is assumed to be another pedophile.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Daniel when he accidentally shot his father.
  • Never My Fault: 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.
  • Out of Focus: Benson, Tutuola, and Munch barely appear in the episode.
  • Pink Means Feminine: Carly is wearing a pink jacket for most of the episode.
  • Retired Badass: Turns out Warner served in the U.S. Air Force during Desert Storm.
  • Something Only They Would Say: 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.
  • Suicide by Cop: Daniel Hunter attempted to do this, but Warner shot him in the leg before he could do so.
  • The Unfavorite: A Justified Trope. 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.
  • Un-person: Daniel is such a pain in the ass for his family that his parents refuse to mention him.

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