Bearing in mind Olivet's been in the Law & Order universe since the original show's second season when Ben Stone was still the ADA, it's a shame they didn't take the briefest of time this episode to have a fleeting informal interaction between Olivet and Peter Stone to acknowledge this. I feel it would have a been a nice touch, especially as it's the first episode the two characters have been in together and Olivet is only on SVU very sporadically.
Still, a decent finale even though there wasn't any kind of cliffhanger. I have to say, though, it did seem entirely a plot contrivance that Peter Stone was with the police raid on the warehouse looking for the girls, even allowing for his sister being there, since one would expect that this would be reason for him to be kept back. Certainly, one could argue that, if Peter hadn't been there, then Pamela wouldn't have been prompted to walk away from Diego who then wouldn't have panicked and shot her - even though Olivia said to Peter at the end "there was literally nothing you could have done"....
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Plot was okay, but Stone's involvement in the case... well, first of all, of course he should have recused himself when he was threatened - especially since not only he himself, but his sister was targeted. So of course, she really gets kidnapped... and then Peter joins the rescue team? Who knows if Pamela would have walked towards the team if Peter hadn't been there? And even after his sister's death, he's still the one making deals in the case?
Sorry, but aside from the sister, Peter Stone's pretty much boring, there's no personality there to like or dislike. I want Barba back. *sigh