Most of the time, Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and her team put the sexual predators behind bars for long sentences. The idea of justice by proxy is appealing. As tough as the subject matter can be, the show is not only satisfying but also comforting. I haven’t been watching SVU for 20 years, but I have seen all the seasons and some of them multiple times (#BringBackStabler).
We even got one of the rare outlier episodes where a mother is the perpetrator of horrific crimes against her children and husband, which are are among the most haunting of SVU ’s programming. This season’s episodes have been particularly relevant, from the human trafficking of migrant and refugee children separated from their parents at America’s southern border to episodes focusing on aspects of the #MeToo movement. This season tackled the intersection of gender-based violence and toxic masculinity, as these devolve into a horrific mass school shooting. SVU has managed to cover many current news issues over the first 10 episodes. She became attached to this case and with that in mind, became all the more heartbroken when she revealed that it was her own bullet that caused Esther to die.From it’s 20th season two-part opener, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit immediately set the stage for a real-life social-commentary-heavy season. Law & Order: SVU season 19 episode 20 was all sorts of horrific, but also one anchored by a brilliant Kelli Giddish performance as we saw the fullest extent of Amanda’s rage and thirst for justice. The closing minutes focused on her paying a visit to a local church, one with a different interpretation of the word of God that was more uplifting and less about fire and brimstone. In the aftermath of William’s arrest, Rollins learned that due to her bullet killing Esther, she had to deal with an internal investigation. This is when William’s wife admitted that the only reason she stayed was to keep things from getting worse. William found himself arrested and in an interrogation room, and it seems like he’s going to spend the rest of the life hating Rollins and blaming them for the loss of life incurred in the attack. When it comes to Esther, the original escape who started it all, she was found dead. Unfortunately, there were still some children in the house in various states of peril. He realized at that point that he had lost and there was nothing more that he could do. Some of the family members ended up escaping and after that, William didn’t really have a choice anymore. Things got heated the moment that the police descended upon the property, which led in turn to an extremely violent shootout that injured many officers. He convinced all of them to be trapped in the house to prepared for the end of the world. The NYPD and local authorities stepped in, but the problem still was that William was not altogether interested in letting people out of the house. It was only at this point that the Special Victims Unit could really get involved - which, in turn, led to a pretty violent stand-off at the end of the episode. She busted into the home and found proof that Labott was abusing his children, tying them up and treating them like dogs. Despite it appearing on the surface as though there was nothing the SVU team could do in order to punish the Labott family patriarch William, they had to figure out another way in which to handle this. In the aftermath of all of this, though, what we saw further was more evidence that Rollins simply could not let any of this go - and she did the right thing because of it.
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