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In tonight’s Law & Order SVU season 27 episode 14 “Frequency,” as per the NBC synopsis, “A family discovers a young boy in grave danger when their baby monitor picks up a rogue frequency.
Griffin goes to extremes to find the boy’s location. Rollins finds herself alone with a predator. ”
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A little girl interrupted her parents because of a boogeyman in her room. They didn’t believe her. They thought it was a nightmare. It was actually real. She was overheard interference from the child monitor in her room. Her dad overheard it when he was putting her back to bed. He then got the monitor from his video that showed a live feed of a little boy in a dog cage and that’s when they called 911. Captain Benson caught this case with her team. They talked through the monitor. They told the little boy that they were cops and that they were going to find him, but how? The feed cut out.
They lost sight of the boy. They didn’t get a location. Just picking up that footage had been a fluke. There’s no telling where the boy is or what his condition was. Still, Captain Benson never broke a promise. She was going to do everything possible to find that boy. The cops soon checked into missing children. They didn’t know for sure if the child was a boy or dressed to appear as if it was a boy. There were so many missing and exploited children that they didn’t know for sure who was in that cage.
Detective Rollins interviewed possible parents. They knew that the child had a mother that was still alive. They got back the footage for a bit and Griff did his best to reassure the kid. He was overheard had the child in a cage. They threatened to keep him away from his mother forever if he didn’t stop talking. Then the footage cut out again. They had him long enough to determine he was in a two block radius from little Lexi’s bedroom. There were a lot of apartments in the area. There was also a homeless shelter housing level 2 to level 3 offenders.
Rollins talked to a Dr. Chou. The child appeared Asian. He’d be the right age for her son Spencer who went missing. Only she couldn’t tell from the grainy image if that was her son. Her son has been gone for a year. She feared he was already dead. The grainy image gave her hope. So much so that she wanted the child in the cage to be her son and unfortunately she wasn’t sure and neither were the other mothers on that long list. Griff came in handy in that he suspected the child in the cage was autistic.
Griff had a brother who died when he was fifteen. He was autistic. He had a repeated gesture to self-soothe so did the little boy in the footage. It’s how they identified him as Avery Li. Avery Li went missing and his kidnapper sent his mom a letter. The letter claimed Avery looked so innocent that “he had to have him”. He wanted to keep him innocent. He also admitted to feeding the child his own sperm without the kid knowing about it in his oatmeal. It was a sickening letter. One that no mother should read and yet it wasn’t included in the police file.
Benson found out about the letter when she spoke to his mom. She then went looking for it. She found it and the letter was very telling. It showed that the person might be dyslexic. He probably graduated high school. He was also a collector. Rollins believed he collected Avery. Sadly, the feed showed he was getting bored with Avery. Avery wouldn’t eat the oatmeal anymore. The little boy was nonverbal and Griff said that didn’t stop him from understanding. His brother was the same way.
The little boy might’ve realized that help was coming when the cops identified themselves. They were going to keep looking for him. The two block became a four block radius because one sex offender has a ham radio that was extending the connection. They were now looking into everyone who bought that baby monitor. The detectives were split up to check out the long list. Rollins was looking when she found a collector. Someone who bought a baby monitor for no registered child. He was living in New Jersey working for Port Authority.
He got fired. He came back to take care of his mother who was dying of cancer. He used the word “planted cement” for someone got pregnant with twins. He was their guy. Rollins knew instantly he was their guy. She tried to distract him as long as possible. She used his landline to call Benson. She let Benson know she had him and the captain sent backup. Costa Lykos figured out what Rollins was doing. He made a run for it. He ran into Grand Central Station. Griff almost had him only the guy ran out in front of oncoming train and he died on the tracks.
Lykos would probably kill the child now that he’s been outed. It was up to Griff to do something. He knew how to connect with autistic children. He asked his captain to let him try and he succeeded in helping Avery save himself. He identified himself as Avery. He identified when he first heard the sirens. He was housed at Lykos’s mother’s place. Its been empty since she died. They rescued Avery. He was reunited with his mother and Griff was struggling with this case. He didn’t know how to deal with the darkness.
Benson reminded him that they found the boy alive thanks to him. She also didn’t mind him questioning her stance. A good leader welcomes questions. A bad one demands loyalty. Benson said one day he’d might find himself having to choose between who to follow. Until then, let Avery communicate with him and thank him in his own way.
The End
