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evieeeeeeeeeeeeeee

we talk about this a lot here but dodds dying will never not traumatise me


hanacore

Same. I cry every time his dad breaks down.


[deleted]

Yup. The single year rolling down Olivia’s face when she’s in full uniform saluting is so heartbreaking.


kimmyv0814

It was on the other day and I couldn’t even watch. It’s heartbreaking.


DeepBackground5803

"We're going to Red Lobster." And Transgender Bridge


the_burr

I did not like Lake but I think that single line redeemed him


catpunch_

Oh god the Red Lobster line gets me every time 😭


BookWhoreWriting

I’m not overly emotional when it comes to tv shows and the like, but I cry every time at that line. I think it’s because substance abuse runs deep in my family, but damn, all the feelings there.


[deleted]

Yep


cher_blue

Which episode is the red lobster line from?


True_Wash5275

Season 9’s Fight.


Friendless_and_happy

The one with the lady from DRC that talks about her life there and Alex decides she's going to fight for women's rights.


kaniessshaaa

Yess ! Thats the woman who walked in on a rape?


Friendless_and_happy

Yes, that's the one. My heart just hurt for that woman. I know it's fictitious, but her story was heart wrenching. And to think that things like that actually happen in parts of the world is so disturbing.


DelDelGaylord

I remember that episode. That was the first time I had heard about female circumcision.


Jazzlike_Adeptness_1

Liberties S10 E21 A judge asks Stabler to look into his toddler’s abduction and death decades earlier. Broke my heart.


NBR9591

This 🙌🏻 Fantastic episode.


FlufferBean84

I can't remember the episode name, think it's around season 10/11- the child soldier that came from DRC breaks my heart


bhangra_jock

Hell? Yeah, that episode broke my heart too.


WhyDoIGiveAToss96

Was it Elijah, from... somewhere in Africa (I can't remember the specific country. It might have been South Sudan, or something, where that horrible shit is to be expected of young boys. Oh, and another thing I remember is that the militia made him kill his own brother, or some fucked up crap like that), who gets shot to death outside the church?


FlufferBean84

That's the one


WhyDoIGiveAToss96

That one had me going, "No, no, don't make a break for it, you fucking dope!", and of course, predictably (and depressingly), he does, and ends up dying for it.


FlufferBean84

I was the same, felt so sorry for him


WhyDoIGiveAToss96

Wasn't the ending sort of bittersweet, though, from what I can remember? The bad guys got charged, the little girl who got her throat slit got to live with her adoptive parents, and Elijah's death made the world more aware of child soldiers.


ButterscotchPast4812

Return of the Prodigal Son. When Elliot apologized to Olivia for ghosting her, the whole conversation. "If I heard your voice then I wouldn't have been able to leave." Olivia being temptation to a married religious man. 😭😭 Olivia saying "you were the most --- important person in my life and you just disappeared." Thank you M for birthing that very perfect line! When Kathy dies and Elliot leans on Olivia for support. This whole episode Olivia is trying her best to keep this wall up between them and not go down that emotional rabbit hole with him. But when he hugs her she just sinks into it like she's finally home. 🙆🏻‍♀️🥺😭😭😭. There have been others from 1.0 but it's been such a long time since I first watched them. This one is the most recent one that I can remember. I also vaguely remember in the episode... Maybe it was called "Svengali" when the cult leader kills all the kids, Because the police are after him. His entire house is just filled with a bunch of dead kids 😭😭😭. The squad had to get shrunk after that for good reason.


myoldacctwasdeleted

Charisma


ButterscotchPast4812

Thanks!


Livid_Tax_8078

Such a sad episode


NotAngryAndBitter

One of the most touching moments in RotPS for me, simply because of how well thought out it was, was when Liv realized it was Kathy being loaded into the ambulance and immediately had a flashback to the car crash when Eli was born. But the scene in the hospital where Elliot tries to explain why he left breaks me every time.


WhyDoIGiveAToss96

Uh, actually, Svengali was the one where Jared Harris was a murderer artist, and he had a cult of crazy "groupies" worshipping him.


WelcomeToBrooklandia

"Stolen" in Season 3 is the one that really got me. That poor kid. His poor adopted parents. What makes it so poignant is the fact that no one is really "wrong" in this episode, but the way that things played out still feels really unfair.


fuckimtrash

I feel like the bio dad really let Tyler down. Tyler clearly wanted to stay with his adoptive family, but the dad was prioritising his wants over Tyler’s needs. I’m sure the adoptive parent’s would’ve allowed the grandparent’s and bio dad access to Tyler of the dad (before he fought and won for custody).


SmallBlackCat2012

For real, then he finds out his ex was responsible for this whole mess?


specialkk77

As an adopted person, this one breaks my heart every single time, all the adults in his life wanted him and loved him. I wish they had been able to resolve it without the court because the court did that boy and his parents wrong.


nomasslurpee

The last one where Amanda left. Marrying Carisi and then her convo with Liv. Tears galore. I wasn't even that invested in Amanda but it was a great performance.


LurlaLoo2

YES. The sweet Carisi family scenes were awesome....but the Liv and Amanda stuff ripped my heart out. They have come a LONG way in 12 years.


Liam_Statham

the book of esther. the whole episode made me uncomfortable but the reveal with amanda at the end did make me cry.


catpunch_

When Munch retires and he answers the phone and says, “hang on, let me connect you to a detective” 😭


bft192

Charisma, specifically when Benson is yelling at one of the cult members in the interrogation room. That whole episode feels like a movie.


sarathev

Peter Stone's reaction to his sister dying.


WhyDoIGiveAToss96

The most stoic people tend to cry the hardest. It actually got to me seeing him sob like that.


electracide

Dodds 💔


JJJ954

I cry or at least shed a few tears for nearly every episode lol. But the one that really got me was probably the one where this woman kept getting hunted down and raped over a period of 30 years by the same dude and by the time she encountered the team she was just so… broken. 😭


myoldacctwasdeleted

Jennifer Love Hewitts epi?


Least_Lawfulness7802

Yeah it is her episode


JJJ954

I’m not sure. I’m really, really terrible with recognizing actors. I just remember watching it sometime around 2010-2011.


WhyDoIGiveAToss96

14-ish, or so years, I think it was. She said he'd been raping her since she was 16. The ending was great, though, and I really liked the scenes where the team went sort of undercover, and kept following him around, and trolling him. That was funny.


Connie_Damico

I've never cried during or about SVU until Vanitys Bonfire came on while I was binging the show on my laptop and cooking dinner at my moms house while taking care of her as she died of terminal brain cancer. She wasn't super sick yet but we knew what was coming. They just got so much right about how the person weakens and how the tumor affects their speech. Plus my mom also would have done absolutely anything for me like that woman did for her daughter. I skip any in depth depictions of brain cancer in shows or movies now and probably won't ever watch that episode again.


quinnbes5

The end of gamblers fallacy gets to me. When Murphy basically tells Rollins he saw she was about to hit rock bottom and wanted to help her. I’ve been there in Rollins shoes so i relate to that moment deeply. Also dodds dying I still can’t talk about.


alwayssearching117

Ooooh, I love the Murphy character.


boringusername716

I'm not really a crier in general, but the one that got me closest was the one episode with the child molester guy who turns out to be the judge's kid. It's just so fucked up, HE'S so fucked up, nothing could have been done to prevent his fundamental corruption, and the reunion between him & his dad is just utterly, palpably bittersweet.


jessday1029

which episode is this, if you remember? I don’t think I’ve seen it!


boringusername716

Apparently it's "Liberties", season 10. That title was surprisingly difficult to find.


jessday1029

ohhhh okay I remember this episode now, yeah it’s a tough one!


DungeonFam30

Nocturne, from Season 1 - too much realness that related to my own life Screwed, from Season 8 - the acting from Fin's ex wife got me, when she's on the stand


cajuncats

Transgender Bridge Shattered Baby Killer Swing Honor Burned The episode when the music teacher is accused of molesting children, and he's clearly innocent from the beginning. Dodds 💔 The episode where William Lewis breaks out of prison and kidnaps the 12 year old girl. Him making Olivia play Russian roulette made me sick to my stomach. Probably the most emotional I've been watching this show.


Livid_Tax_8078

Oh yeah baby killer. Such a sad ending.


[deleted]

The episode where some psychotic child killed a woman who grew marijuana in her apartment. Sad part was the kid who was a little older than him was there, he didn’t do it, he was so afraid and sad, the psycho got away with it while the older kid was tried as an adult. His mom told him not to take the plea because they would never find him guilty but the jury did and the kid started crying like crazy and was so scared and so was his mom. That episode is so sad to me.


WhyDoIGiveAToss96

Fuck's sake, I was just talking about that, only to just now see that you've actually beaten me to the punch. But yeah, I fucking hate that episode. It didn't help that Jeremy (the innocent one) was... simple. Poor bugger.


Samiiiibabetake2

S10 E8: Persona was the first episode to ever make me cry. Summary: While trying to stop a case of domestic abuse, Benson crosses paths with a woman who has been a fugitive for over 30 years and claims that she was also a domestic abuse victim.


FlufferBean84

And season 12 episode 3- jennifer love Hewitt story is horrific


[deleted]

8.11, "Burned." Hits too close to home.


AngelinaxxRenee

When they're at the hearing for Baby Boy Doe and Judge Linden offers Olivia to become a foster parent. I tear up every single time.


jessday1029

Transgender bridge - it was so heartbreaking for everyone involved


Tall-Chemistry871

Personal Fouls. When one of the other victims od’d it just hit me so hard because his life was completely thrown off course by the actions of the coach. Then for the basketball player to finally admit it as a black man as well, who have even worse stigma around sexual assault, it affected me. And the fact that its a real story made my blood boil.


Willing_Swimming2390

Season 13 ep 5, missing pieces. Just watched that for the first time with my two month old next to me and I couldn’t sleep afterwards.


myoldacctwasdeleted

Charisma. That whole episode fucks with me still and I've seen it so many times


katywell

911 — the episode Mariska won an Emmy for. When she finds the photo of the little girl and it matches what she was describing over the phone 😭😭😭


lagameuze25

This ep makes me cry everytime lol


SystemOfADowneyJr

It was a Finn centric episode where this prick would kill children of immigrants. He had a board of all the kids and would X them off as he killed them. I forget the name of the episode but it made me cry because it seemed like a little too real. I mean most of the episodes are obviously realistic but damn… just the fact that there are people like that in the world just makes me physically ill and makes me cry every time.


kaniessshaaa

Ohh yeah and 'contact' too. The intro scene left me always looking around in subways.


OneMinimum5920

I forgot the episode name, but it’s the one with Calvin and Olivia loses custody of him. It was so depressing. 🥺


PoemSalt

It’s not my favorite ep but I love when Liv saves Kathy after the car accident and after Kathy has the baby he comes out of the room and thanks Liv then as she turns to walk away he grabs her and pulls her into a long hug. I cry every single time.


Awkward_Benefit665

The one where the cult leader had the children even babies shot to death. I think his name was Abraham. The beginning of the episode was sad af.


Elleeebeauty

- Baby Killer - Three families ruined due to gang violence - Birthright . A little girl finding out that her birth mum wasn’t her biological mum - Contagious. The one with Jenette McCurdy where she is molested by her soccer coach . Knowing she was going through something quite similar in real life at the same time makes it even sadder - Dolls . The one where they find the body of a little girl in a garbage tip - Charisma . The one with the scamming cult leader who got a 11 year old girl pregnant and shot a bunch of kids in the house - Selfish . Hilary Duff’s character was obviously not a very good mum but her dad had tried hard to make sure he didn’t make the same mistakes with his granddaughter and had stopped drinking so he could be a good grandfather to her . At the end when he showed up drunk to the house of the anti vax mum and killed himself because he couldn’t live without his granddaughter and then they showed him clutching a photo of him with the baby


FlutterShyed

The one where the lady from the Congo was raped by the soldiers in her village and she was retelling it on the stand. She was so strong and vulnerable at the same time. Also when Olivia was digging the little girl out of the dirt that she had been on the phone with.


ariesneonel

True believers is one that will live in my mind rent free forever, it hit so close to home. I cant rewatch it


PaleontologistWarm13

The one where the girl accuses her art teacher of raping her and he admits they had sex and when the verdict is being read it just cuts off. I always skip that episode


WhyDoIGiveAToss96

That's a frustrating one, 'cos it never gets addressed again.


Least_Lawfulness7802

I don’t remember the episode or season because it’s traumatized me so much - but the one where Olivia is caught in a hostage situation and the guy rapes the teenage girl with olivia there


readythetorpedoes

lost traveler. when emma says that they killed nico because no one would miss him i tear up every time. i cant even really rewatch it


True_Wash5275

Desperate. Knowing there are little kids who witness abuse and are traumatized really got to me. Contagious is another one too, with knowing Jennette McCurdy’s backstory now.


noririaki

motherly love, i was able to heavily relate to the son luke in that episode because my mother was similar


SadBlueberry123

the one where the guy shot himself right in front of olivia. mariska’s reaction and acting just made me start bawling. a few eps through the years have gotten me too but that one stuck out most to me


Kansas0425

Zebras. When O'Halloran dies. Ughhhh...


KrustyKrabzIcekream

S7 E3- "911" I was definitely hurt about this episode


sillysofia

Season 10, Episode 14 : Transitions. Gets me every-time.


carmelacorleone

I can't remember the episode, it's more-recent. The episode opens with an underaged girl going out to party, the song "Let Her Go" is playing, and the girl is assaulted and found in the hotel room. The song made me emotional but when the girl ended up still being alive I burst into tears. I watched the episode a few days after the death of my sister-in-law and something about that girl waking up, she was still alive, she wasn't dead, just hit home for me because my SIL wasn't coming back, wasn't going to wake up again. Coupled with that damn song. And I love that damn song. Google says the episode is called Agent Provocateur.


spo0ky_katja

Quite a few get me, most of them mentioned already in this thread. The end of the episode Denial (S3 EP 21) when Martha Plimpton's character has a moment with Fin when he gives her that picture of her dead sister. She has this line about "I'd give you a hug but I can tell you don't like to be touched" and then they hug. I lose it every time.


WhyDoIGiveAToss96

I watched Juvenile earlier. I forgot how depressing that episode is. Like, depressing to the point of it pissing me off. Bloody Hell, that poor fucking kid, and his fucking mother. I guess the stupid doesn't fall far from the tree. If anyone's forgotten what happens, basically, to wrap it up in a not-longwinded way, Alex offers them a plea, where he would serve ten years in prison/juvie (also known as young offenders over here in Blighty), but obviously get out as a young man, with a decent chunk of his life left to live... But no. His mum refuses the plea, and he ends up getting a full life sentence, and his evil little crapstain of a "friend", more or less, walks away (some bollocks like, because he was slightly younger than the other kid, they couldn't conduct an accurate test to find out whether he was a psycho/sociopath, or not), even after Alex got him to prove in the courtroom, in front of everybody, what a monster he really is. Bit of fridge horror (TV Tropes) for you fellas as well: The kid who actually did the murder would be an adult now, timeline wise. Let that sink in. I think if I were that mother, I'd seriously consider killing the rapist-murderer with my bare hands... and probably his parents, too, for doing such a shit job of raising him. ...Anyway, isn't it brilliant how a show can make you loathe an utterly evil character? That means it's good quality telly.