Legislation & Order: SVU Season 22 Episode 13 Evaluation: Trick-Rolled At The Moulin

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That needed to be awkward!

Benson has been preserving Stabler at arm’s size, pushing him to get assist, and principally ignoring his calls… solely to should work with him.

And when she realized on Law & Order: SVU Season 22 Episode 13 that her brother Simon’s dying was no accident, it put her in the identical place he was in: wanting justice for a useless cherished one whereas the remainder of the police power wished her to again off.

In a means, Benson and Stabler already suffered related varieties of grief and guilt.

Whereas Stabler has blamed himself for Kathy’s dying because it occurred, Benson persistently regretted leaving Simon an indignant message simply earlier than he died.

That appeared to be the complete level of Kat’s cousin being known as into the station, as the one info she had associated to Xavier’s dying was that she’d had a battle and left him an indignant message quickly earlier than his homicide.

That was a little bit of a coincidence, because it did not appear to be a part of the ladies’s MO to focus on males who had simply had blow-ups with their family members.

It did its job, although, triggering Benson’s emotions of guilt in order that she was able to get justice when she found a hyperlink between Simon’s dying and Xavier’s.

Nonetheless, although, having to show to Stabler for assist after rejecting his insistence she does the identical for him was all kinds of awkward.

Benson: Elliot, did you hear something we mentioned to you the opposite night time?
Stabler: I do not wish to discuss in regards to the different night time.
Benson: You need to care for your self. I’m begging you. Gradual this down. Go dwelling. Eat one thing. Get some relaxation. Do it for your self. Do it on your kids.
Stabler: Okay. I hear you. We good?
Benson: I hope so.

Not that Benson was mistaken.

Stabler’s obsession with catching Kathy’s killer has led him to lose all sense of boundaries. He is staying up all night time and asking Benson to assist him get across the limitations to him however dealing with the investigation himself.

So she needed to put her foot down about a couple of factor, refusing to reply late-night calls and making it clear she wasn’t breaking the principles for him.

And but, minutes after she instructed him that actually, everyone seems to be warning her to steer clear of him, she wanted him to assist her discover Simon’s killer, and in contrast to her, he did not hesitate to leap in.

I used to be anticipating her to make the connection between his ache and hers, which did not occur, however some sturdy police work did… and possibly just a few bricks within the partitions between them got here down, too.

I additionally needed to marvel if this was the writers’ plan for Simon’s homicide all alongside.

It appeared unusual to me that Simon had been introduced again solely to die of an overdose. On the time, it appeared pointless — why not go away him alive and effectively and much away from Benson if he was going to die after solely a brief look?

It wasn’t that it wasn’t plausible; in spite of everything, Simon all the time wreaked havoc with Benson’s life due to his drug points and his standing as her solely connection left to her household.

Nevertheless it appeared random and pointless. And now we all know why.

(As an apart, Warner’s cameo was lengthy overdue. The extra Tamara Tunie we get, the higher. Carry her again once more quickly, please.)

Anyway, the remainder of the cops have been as skeptical of Benson’s perception that Simon had been murdered as she was of Stabler’s that Kathy was the supposed goal the night time the bomb went off.

Turning to Stabler made sense not solely as a result of he is investigating Wheatley’s drug actions however as a result of he was the one one who might perceive.

Fin picked up on the irony immediately, too. I cherished it when he instructed Benson that he was giving her the identical recommendation she gave Stabler!

I wasn’t positive what made any of the OD circumstances SVU circumstances within the first place, although.

Sure, the boys had had intercourse proper earlier than their deaths, however there was no proof or suggestion they’d been raped (though contemplating how out of it they have been, a case could possibly be made for that.)

The one motive for SVU’s involvement appeared to be that the newest sufferer was courting Kat’s cousin. That wasn’t a very good motive, particularly not with the division wanting Stabler far-off from a case he has a private connection to.

The entire Kat angle disappeared shortly, too, as quickly as Benson turned conscious that Simon’s overdose was something however unintended.

I am not complaining. Kat tends to be irritating, and her cousin was doubly so final time she was on, claiming Xavier raped her after which retracting it as a result of he was a wealthy man who paid consideration to her.

Nevertheless it was bizarre how Kat’s connection to any of this kind of evaporated inside minutes, and it made it apparent that the one motive Xavier was the sufferer as an alternative of some random dude was that it was a handy entry level into the story of Simon’s dying.

Anyway, as soon as Benson and Stabler started working collectively, issues received intense shortly!

Hear, man. We put you again on the streets, you are useless. We put you in jail, you are useless. You’ve just one possibility.

Finn

Felix was a useless man strolling it doesn’t matter what, so I wasn’t shocked he received killed, however the cops ought to have been extra ready for the likelihood.

That is what the IAB investigation through the first couple of minutes of Legislation & Order: Organized Crime Season 1 Episode 5 ought to have targeted on, not why Stabler did not soar out of the automobile to confront the shooters when he had little or no backup.

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