In the previous episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27, the SVU unit was down another detective after Velasco's departure. However, the new episode filled the place with another known and fan-favorite character. Chief Tynan brought Amanda Rollins back to the SVU squad. While Benson was happy to welcome her old friend back, Amanda was skeptical of what the new chief was trying to do with Benson.
Elsewhere, the squad is asked to look into a case of Penny Wilson, a 13-year-old, who had a miscarriage after a school bus accident. Her case brought in several suspects, from her teacher to her ex-boyfriend. However, the main issue was discovered to be AI and the creation of fake images that plagued the school.
Here's what happened in Episode 4 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27 Episode 4 recap - Benson refuses to take the position of Deputy Chief
In Episode 4 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27, Chief Tynan takes Benson out for dinner and tries to convince her to take the position of Deputy Chief of the SVU unit. However, Captain Benson does not want a promotion that will tie her to a desk job.
She wants to be in the field, helping the vulnerable victims. Other than talking to her about a promotion, Tynan also asks about Rollins, which confuses Bencon. Tynan informs her that Rollins was looking to join another squad, as her previous unit was reshuffled by none other than Tynan herself.
Elsewhere, a traffic accident of a school bus brings the latest case to the SVU unit. After a car hits a school bus, a student named Penny Wilson starts bleeding profusely. After she is taken to the hospital, it is discovered that Penny was having a miscarriage. Since she was only thirteen, the hospital called the SVU unit to investigate if Penny was safe at her home.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27 Episode 4 recap - Rollins returns, and Penny's teacher is brought in
After Velasco's exit in the previous episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27, the SVU squad needed another member. After Tynan's suggestion, Rollins comes back but is very skeptical of the new chief.
Rollins reveals that Tynan changed her former team and also placed her own person in the team, just like she did with Benson's team with Detective Griffin. However, Benson thinks Griffin was interested in catching the culprits but was still struggling to fit in the squad. Amanda tells Benson that she will 'keep an eye on Griffin' to make sure it SVU unit does not share the same fate as her former unit.
Furthermore, in the case of Penny Wilson, her father's DNA is tested, and later the parents reveal that they had no idea their daughter was pregnant or even s*xually active. Benson goes to Penny's school to investigate and, through one of Penny's friends, learn about the images that were being shared around the school with Penny and one of her teachers, David Huxley.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27 Episode 4 recap - The SVU team brings in the founder of the AI company
In Episode 4 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27, Penny's parents reveal that Huxley was their daughter's favorite teacher and they had also hired him for private tutoring sessions for Penny. Huxley was brought in, but he denied ever touching Penny.
The truth came out after Penny woke up. She revealed that she did not know she was pregnant. She told the team that the father might be Bryce Cole, an older student and her ex-boyfriend. They deduced that Cole might also be the one sharing the doctored images of Penny and her teacher.
Griffin's aggressive interrogation made the boy reveal that he had a new girlfriend who was jealous of Penny. It is discovered that the girl named Hailey used an AI platform to create n*de images of Penny out of jealousy and put Huxley in there as he gave her a C in her recent test.
While Hailey was arrested, more of the students began to use the AI platform against one another. The team, with the help of ADA Carisi and Jones, decided to target AI companies that are disrupting the lives of people, mainly children. They brought in the creator of the AI platform Hailey used.
However, Lucan Boone, the creator, blamed the parents who did not watch over their kids' activities. Jones learned that the company had another creator, Samit Junger, who had warned him about the child P*rnography issue that they were dealing with now. But he dismissed his worries and fired Samit.
At the end of Episode 4 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27, Hailey, Cole, and Samit's testimonies helped the court in finding Boone guilty.
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