Jason Engles is the missing younger brother of Gregory Engels, who set up a con for the SVU so Jason could be rescued.
Background[]
Jason would always call Greg "Gig" due to not knowing how to pronounce his name. Jason and Greg's parents died in a plane crash in 2002. In 2003, when Jason was 3 and Greg as 12, they moved into a brownstone with two foster parents, but the couple were drug addicts using support finances to get more substances. Greg was Jason's primary caregiver and also the babysitter of Miriam Penner's son Daniel, which is how she came to knew the brothers. When Danny died of cancer, Miriam had a stint in the psych ward and then wanted to replace her son with Jason when she was released. She drove up next to Jason in her green station wagon and kidnapped him from a supermarket, witnesses everywhere confusing the stories and not intervening either from being confused or assuming someone else would try to rescue Jason.
Spectacle[]
Greg was permanently traumatized and lost his hope when Jason's story was removed from the headlines and the police left the investigation to go cold, even though Penner and her station wagon were at the scene. Eight years later, Greg conspired with frat student Doug and Julliard student Lizzie Harmon in staging Lizzie's "rape kidnapping" to get the police's attention. When that succeeded and Lizzie was still streamed as being "captive", Greg revealed his motives and told SVU to reopen Jason's case.
Greg is arrested and the witnesses are reinterviewed. When they reveal Penner at the scene, which wasn't in police reports, and Greg says her parents live in Staten Island when they really lived in Boca Raton, they figure out she's the kidnapper. They rush over and arrest Penner while she screams after "her son", Jason being rushed to the hospital when found sedated in the trunk of her car. Doug and Lizzie are found, with Lizzie being mostly unharmed, revealing the scam. Greg says he'll take all the blame if Doug and Lizzie get immunity, then asks to see Jason before being booked. Jason is brought to Greg, and he tries to have Jason remember him. After a brief silence, Jason shouts "Gig" and runs into his brother's arms, cause Greg to start crying. While Greg was arrested, it is unknown what became of Jason, but he was likely placed with child services.