Benson and Stabler enlist Huangs help in probing the connection between a teenage boy undergoing psychiatric treatment, the deaths of two high-school students, and an illegal marketing campaign by a major pharmaceutical company. Only in the last week has Twitter CEO Dick Costolo admitted, albeit in a leaked memo, that the company is failing to protect its users. Misuse of a prescription drug is involved in the killing of two students. In reality, women such as Sarkeesian who refuse to be silenced in their opinions about sexism in gaming deal with a daily torrent of online abuse.
Whether or not the episode will focus seriously on the growing epidemic of online harassment of women, or merely use it as a way to channel all our attention to the over-debated concept that playing violent video games leads to real-life criminality is yet to be seen. The preview has some pretty cheesy gaming-related quips, like 'This is a game to them,' and 'What's the next level?' Gamergate, however, isn't called out by name in either preview. The voiceover on the clip hints that a violent video game supposedly inspires a real crime on the show.
Later on, after making threats online, a woman game developer is kidnapped.
In another shorter video preview (embedded at the bottom of the page), we see that Raina has been kidnapped and is being tortured by a masked assailant in a video streamed on the side of a building, to the horror of the detectives. SVU tackled the harassment of women in gaming in an episode titled.
