Once again, SVU has taken a controversial topic and shown that in its current state there is no clear winner, only, especially in this arena, extreme losers. While the real-life GamerGate has settled down, Raina’s statement about leaving the business very realistically shows that while women have made strides in predominantly male fields, the progress is slow and not without some personal cost for any woman who takes on the task. She announces that she’s getting out of the gaming industry. Raina is rescued, but the entire ordeal has proven to be too much for her, she realizes that she was in over her head from the beginning, that she wasn’t going to be able to change attitudes all by herself and that she’d paid too high a price in trying to do so. In the end, the perpetrators are caught in a shoot-out that uses camera angles that make the whole sequence appear very video game-esque (great direction there Jean de Segonzac).
The detectives realized that the young men, who’ve orchestrated all of this, having spent so many hours playing KOBS (Kill or Be Slaughtered – the fictional shoot ‘em up game created by the SVU writers), think they’re just playing a game, ‘leveling’ up with each progressively violent act against Raina.
