You have to hand it to the writers at SVU - Season 19 has delivered the old plot-twisting vinegar of the series' best moments and here it intensifies the twisting with a clever story where SVU itself doesn't come out well.
Amanda Rollins learns of a girl named Esther Labott and that she is effectively a prisoner of her deranged father (Ray McKinnon bearing a terrifying resemblance to Dennis Weaver). Rollins learns more about the Labotts and the more she learns the angrier she gets, to where her colleagues even notice her increased derangement. After talking to neighbors of the Labotts Amanda breaks multiple laws and is nearly shot by the father and Esther's mother when she finds a girl chained in the basement (curious the Labotts didn't shoot Amanda and bury her in the basement a la Whitey Bulger and Steve Flemmi). Amanda then brings in heavy reinforcement, and the result is a bloody siege, a siege that ends in disaster for Amanda and SVU in general, to where the demented father comes out almost as a hero, and Amanda comes out as not part of the solution, but a BIG part of the problem.
The botch by Amanda is so egregious that even though it is alluded in dialogue that she'll only get minor punishment one wonders if it's worth it for Amanda to still have a job at SVU.
Amanda Rollins learns of a girl named Esther Labott and that she is effectively a prisoner of her deranged father (Ray McKinnon bearing a terrifying resemblance to Dennis Weaver). Rollins learns more about the Labotts and the more she learns the angrier she gets, to where her colleagues even notice her increased derangement. After talking to neighbors of the Labotts Amanda breaks multiple laws and is nearly shot by the father and Esther's mother when she finds a girl chained in the basement (curious the Labotts didn't shoot Amanda and bury her in the basement a la Whitey Bulger and Steve Flemmi). Amanda then brings in heavy reinforcement, and the result is a bloody siege, a siege that ends in disaster for Amanda and SVU in general, to where the demented father comes out almost as a hero, and Amanda comes out as not part of the solution, but a BIG part of the problem.
The botch by Amanda is so egregious that even though it is alluded in dialogue that she'll only get minor punishment one wonders if it's worth it for Amanda to still have a job at SVU.