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Recap: The episode opens with a family scene so happy, cheerful, and functional, that any seasoned SVU connoisseur knows something dark and rancid is hidden in the depths of that plush beige carpeting. Mom, Dad, and 14-year-old daughter Emmy are watching a basketball game in a bright family room while awaiting a delivery of Chinese food. When the doorbell rings, Mom doesn’t find the Kung Pao she expected, but a masked man who holds a gun to her nose and pulls the trigger. Yikes. After the commercial break, we learn that Dad has also been shot dead, and Emmy is in critical condition, with a bullet lodged in her frontal lobe.