Law & Order: SVU Season 26 tackled the sensitive issue of sexual abuse in the workplace in its latest episode.
Olivia and her team meet a 9-year-old boy, Jay, who informs the squad about his sister Kyra and how she did not return home last night. The team finds out that Kyra is in a hospital.
As it turns out, Kyra was asked to deliver her first sales pitch to a client, Jim Hogan, by her boss, Frank Bailey. During the pitch, she suffered sexual assault at the hands of Jim, which was orchestrated by her boss, Frank himself.
In the end, Kyra gets justice, and Frank is found guilty by the jury in Law & Order: SVU Season 26 Episode 11.
Here's a complete recap of Law & Order: SVU Season 26 Episode 11.
What is Kyra's side of the story in Law & Order: SVU Season 26 Episode 11?
When Olivia reaches the hospital to meet with Kyra, she asks her what happened, and she replies that her boss, Frank, offered her the chance to lead a sales pitch for a high-profile aviation business client, Jim Hogan.
He asked her to make the sales pitch at the hotel, where the two men would join her. While making the pitch, Frank left after his wife called him to say that their son had a peanut allergy. Alone with Kyra, Jim tried to be close to her and make her uncomfortable.
Olivia asks Kyra to get a r*pe test, which she denies but finally agrees to. The test results came positive, which established Kyra's story was true.
She also tells Olivia that she had misplaced $2,000 of the company's money earlier. While she thought she would be fired for this mistake, Frank asked her to lead the sales pitch and said it would cover up her mistake.
Olivia and her team busted Kyra's boss' dirty office practices in Law & Order: SUV Season 26 Episode 11
After her test result came positive, Kyra was still confused about the events of the night and revealed that her boss, Frank, had given her a $50,000 commission check to apologize for the events of the night.
In Law & Order: SVU Season 26 Episode 11, Olivia's team investigated Kyra's company, COO Grace and Jim, and later thought that Kyra was his "closing gift" set up by Frank, who brought them to him.
As it turns out, the whole sales pitch idea was Frank's master plan, as he arranged for Kyra to be a "deal sweetener" for Jim. He also revealed that Frank's son has no peanut allergy, and it was his set-up to leave them alone.
Frank has been carrying out this dirty exchange, where he asks his young female employees for s*xual favors for his clients to ease their deal. He has also asked employees to have intercourse with his clients before, after having leverage over them. In this case, Kyra's leverage was $2000 money, which she never misplaced in the first place. He took it out of her purse.
What happened at Frank's court trial in Law & Order: SVU Season 26 Episode 11?
In Law & Order: SVU Season 26 Episode 11, after being pushed by Olivia, Grace testifies against her boss in court. She explains how Frank has been trafficking young women and forcing them to be sexually involved with his clients. He even threatened to leak their compromising pictures to their family if they did not comply.
She also reveals that she was also a victim at the hands of Frank 20 years ago, and she regrets not speaking before. The jury finds Frank guilty and he is sentenced to prison, and Kyra is served justice, thanks to Olivia and her team.
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