Law and Order tonight

[YankeyMCC]

"Sects" is the title of the episode. It concerns a pretty disturbing subject, a religion that involves sex with children as a central tenet.

But I noticed something perhaps disturbing in reality.

The detectives find an old picture of two people involved in the case apparently in a sexual embrace. It's implied from their reaction the audience is never shown the picture.

When the detectives show the pitcher to a witness to see if she recognizes the girl in the picture the audience finally sees the picture. But the male is cropped out of the picture and they give the excuse that they wanted to show the two people separately to witnesses.

Turns out the two people in the picture are brother and sister.

They've never done this before, editing pictures, at least not to my memory.

Are we to the point in today's society that the line between fiction and reality is so blurred that this picture of two actors pretending to be in a sexual embrace playing characters that are brother and sister can not be shown?

Or am I just reading to much into it?