We’re back in East New York, where the opening of the Green Gro supermarket felt so much like typical CBS drama writing that I started chuckling.

But things got serious in a hurry with a shooting in the store. Sandeford spotted a fake victim who he believe shot the manager.

Meanwhile we got in a debate over “Spanish” music, (which Killian put a little too much emphasis into), and we learned that the shooter “Antonia” shot her rapist. Morales knew her and took point. The manager admitted he knew Antonia from his hospital bed implying there could be something more at work here.

Our substory involved Killian getting another investigation tied to one of the guns Quinlan found in the elevator shaft a couple of weeks back. Then we got some flirting between Quinlan and Andre out of nowhere.

Then we had Regina hit some politics regarding Morales’ access to Special Victim Unit files in the Antonia investigation but gave her access anyways. Then we got Desmond Troy’s arrival to the 7-4 which was met with aggression from Killian, who promptly handed off his elevator gun cold case.

“A little pervy” was the description of the store manager, syncing with what Antonia was saying, from both a colleague, and then another victim describing his attack on her.

Then SVU went after Suarez over Regina’s access to the files but he actually stood up for her. Good stuff by Jimmy Smits here. Meanwhile Quinlan started putting together the cold case death with the lady helping her out in her building.

Morales discovered that the store manager/rapist surveilled his victims on camera and had discs marked. A whole box of them. When they confronted him, he folded, and they cuffed him to his hospital bed. Afterwards, she went to Antonia and told her what went down. Good scene there too.

But in what has become a habitual “Write Quinlan the wrong way” ceremony, she looked the other way on that cold case. And then they had her make out with Andre. I don’t get this show sometimes. It wants to be the beacon of honesty one moment, and then “The Shield” the next.

But East New York keeps improving. Forward progress, I suppose. We’ll stick with it and let’s see where they go next.