I have mixed feelings about this episode mostly because I felt a lot of sympathy for the "criminal." I normally cannot stand perperators of sexual violence. However, this guy wasn't creepy or smarmy in the way predators normally are on television. Don't get me wrong, if he had killed the girl, I would be on the bandwagon to send him to prison. It was like he knew because of his past that there would be no way anyone would believe that he didn't do it. I felt that this crime was an isolated offense.
It was a bit unnerving that he dated a woman with and a pre-teen daughter and was left unattended with the daughter. I know that women get careless with their children, but the 13 yo girl spending that much time alone with a man her mom just met was unsettling. It's like the mother wasn't bright enough to realize that this wasn't the brightest idea she'd ever had.
My heart hurt for the dead girl's mother. In the beginning I thought she may have been a part of her death. My hand was itching to slap the picture off the husband's face.
Sanchez rallying for a fight is becoming a problem, but after seeing the previews I see where it's heading. Provenza shocked me when he mentioned his girlfriend's (I'm awful with days these days) age and not her race. I was so prepared for him to say that she was black. It mattered more that she was too old for him than anything else.
As for Rusty, I'm tired of him and quasi-victim role. It's time for him to start to mature. I agree, I was surprised with special needs comparison. Rusty may have needed more love supervision, but he has and has always had all his mental and physical abilities.