Trivia / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S19E5 "Complicated"

• Recycled Script: A beat-for-beat remake of season 10's episode "Stranger," right down to the ending twist. The only difference is the added subplot concerning the neverending drama of Olivia's adopted son Noah and his recently surfaced biological grandmother who is fighting Olivia for custody. In both cases a young woman claims to be a victim from a child kidnapping case from years ago, but it turns out she is an imposter who pretended to belong to the family of a kidnap victim she read about because she wanted a loving family to make up for her abusive childhood. She is arrested after small details of her story don't add up, and her imposture is confirmed by dna testing. The physical evidence of her childhood abuse enables her to retain some of Detective Benson's sympathy, and she ultimately leads the detectives to the real killer. It turns out that the child victim was killed by an elder sibling who claims, dubiously, to have done so accidentally. The elder sibling is arrested and it turns out that one of the parents knew about the murder but covered it up so one the grounds that one child having been lost irrevocably already, there would be no point in losing a second as well. This leaves one innocent family member with all her relatives dead, imprisoned, or discredited.