David's mother went to the store after arguing with David's father; when she came back, David was gone. She thinks Avi took David. The cops ask where Avi would have taken him. Rachel says that Avi's family is in Brooklyn and Israel, but since David doesn't have a passport, the cops aren't worried about that. Unfortunately, Avi has broken about five Talmudic laws by forging Rachel's signature on David's passport application. Stabler tells her not to worry because Israel is a signatory to the Hague Convention and Avi won't be able to get through customs. I guess those correspondence courses in international law are finally paying off, eh Stabler? Fin comes in with the announcement that Avi's car has been spotted getting off the Thruway near Harriman, NY. At first they think he's headed to Canada, but then despite the fact that there is an obviously Hebraic-sounding town in really big type on the really big map right next to Stabler's head, it is Rachel who realizes that Avi is taking David to Kehilat Moshe, a Hasidic town upstate. Munch -- who, as the only Jew on the NYPD payroll, takes his role really seriously and studies Jewish-related statistics in case it ever comes up in the line of duty -- pipes in that the town was settled by Hasids from Williamsburg, and has the lowest median age in the state because of all the encouraged procreation. As Stabler and Munch head upstate, Rachel helpfully voice-overs that in the town, the women wear long skirts, they are separated from the men at shul and in the Temple, there are no cell phones, no influences from the unclean modern world. Once they hit the town square, pursuant to absolutely nothing, Munch says to Stabler, "Just like the stories that Bubbeh used to tell." Munch? We get it. You're Jewish. Now please stop talking.









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