Home invasions on "Law & Order: SVU" hit very close to home as an entire family is shot down. Fourteen-year-old Emmy lies in the hospital in a coma, while the absentee mother out to save the world and a gambling, alcoholic father lie dead in the morgue. The SVU finds out that there is more than one type of "hate crime" as they track down the killer.

With the word "queers" written on the walls, the SVU unit is called in to determine if mother Joan's involvement with another woman and the gay rights coalition is the motive behind this murder. Could it be the alcoholic, gambler of a father Sidney, was in too deep with his bookie? As the unit digs deeper for the answers to this crime, one of their own is discovered to have an unexpected, deep, dark gambling secret, too.

Det. Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish) turns to Finn (Ice-T), revealing that she recognized the bookie that they brought in for questioning. Unfortunately he recognized her, too, as a favorite player, placing bets and losing on a regular basis. Just to make sure she doesn't forget the $20,000 in the hole she is in she is attacked at a gas station. Calling for "back-up" Finn is cold as ice as they make a plan to get the entire gambling operation off the streets, but there is nothing cool about his reaction to them beating her up. He makes sure that the bookie gets 10 times what he gave when they are arrested. This could have been possibly the best part of "Law and Order: SVU" this season, as we get to see more of Finn at his best as he makes sure his partner is safe and the bad guys aren't.

Although the investigation led them to a gambling operation, they have no motive. After all, "dead men don't pay debts" and the father had a whole lot of debts to pay off. But that isn't all that the father was covering up. Det. Amaro (Danny Pino) helps himself to Emmy's medical chart while Det. Benson (Mariska Hargitay) questions her. The medical record tells a different story than the one her boyfriend Rob (Jake T. Austin) does, as he assures the SVU that they were madly in love and even took an oath of abstinence. If it wasn't Rob, who did give her a case of herpes?

Digging deeper into the family, Benson and Amaro find out that Emmy's dad had been raping her for months, and that mother Joan turned a blind eye. It was only the former nanny and housekeeper Carmen that cared. But maybe Carmen and her brother Jimmy (Esai Morales), a former prison inmate turned preacher, decided to exact "an eye for an eye."

Finding out that the bullet was not meant for Emmy, Jimmy shows weakness and Amaro uses his talent for talk to get inside Jimmy's head and get the truth, well at least a version of it. Carmen and Jimmy decided to take matters into their own hands and make sure that these parents got the punishment they deserved. But why does everyone seem so surprised that Emmy was shot, or that she was home even? Because she planned the whole thing, right down to writing "queer" on the wall, hoping to misdirect the investigation.

Killing her father could be understood, but why her mother? "I hated her! She let it happen. Carmen tried, I tried, and everyone thinks she is some kind of hero but she was more worried about saving the world than her daughter."

As for Amanda Rollins, she gets to keep her badge and Captain Cragen (Dann Florek) takes her to her first gambler's anonymous meeting.

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