"In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous" "In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as The Special Victims Unit." "These are their stories." "That was a sweet-looking pass." "Too bad he couldn't break it for a TD." "Hurry up, boys, or you'll be late for school." "Imagine if we still had Keyshawn." "Has anyone seen Emily?" "I know, but we'd really be smoking with both guys out there. / Excuse me." "Hold on a sec." "What?" " Where's Emily?" " How should I know?" "Well, didn't anyone bother to wake her?" "Not my responsibility." "Hurry up, Michael, we leave in 10 minutes." "Emily?" "Emily, come on, get up." "It's time to go." "Come on, sweetie." "Emily?" "Oh, my god." "Justin, come upstairs." "Emmy!" "Emily!" "Em!" "Oh, my God!" "Seven-year-old female admitted with subdural hematoma." "Pappiledema indicates pressure building for hours, maybe days." " Cause?" " Blunt trauma." "I ran a skeletal and neural workup discovered a fractured left femur, healed approximately six weeks hairline fractures to the ribs, bruising to the arms and pelvic region." "Vaginal trauma indicated sexual abuse, so we did a rape kit." " Where is she now?" " Neurosurgery." " Her chances?" " Too soon to tell." " Who brought her in?" " Her mother." "Jamie McKenna." " And the father?" " Out of town on business." "Oh, great." "Eight-car pile-up on the Triborough." "Overflow, five minutes out." "If you need me..." "We'll beep you." "So, have a nice weekend?" "I don't remember having a weekend." "Å©¸®½º ¸á·Î´Ï (¿¤¸®¾ù ½ºÅ×ÀÌºí·¯ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸¶¸®½ºÄ" ÇÏ±âÅ×ÀÌ (¿Ã¸®ºñ¾Æ º¥½¼ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸®Â÷µå º§Àú (Á¸ ¸ÕÄ¡ Çü"ç æµ)" "½ºÅ×ÆÄ´Ï ¸¶Ä¡ (¾Ë·º"êµå¶ó Ä³º¿ °Ë"ç æµ)" "¾ÆÀÌ½º-Æ¼ (¿À´ÙÇÉ ÇÉ Æ©Æ©¿Ã¶ó Çü"ç æµ)" "´í ÇÃ·Î·º (µ· Å©·¹ÀÌ°Ç °æ°¨ æµ)" "Law  Order SVU 2x04 Legacy" "ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON NBC: 2000/11/10" "She was crying when I picked her up from her father's but she's always upset after her week with him." "She was fine when I put her to bed. / Wait." "I thought her father was out of town." "No." "My husband is out of town." "Her father is part of a time in my life I'd just as soon forget." "If we didn't share custody, I'd never want to see him again." "Can we go now?" "Justin, please." "I got a quiz in trig." "We're gonna need to talk to you, too, son." "How long will that be?" "As long as it takes." " Oh, God!" " Where is she?" " You stay away from her!" " I want to see her." " Just take it easy there, pal." " Who are you?" "Detective Stabler, who are you?" "Emily's father." "What's your name?" "You got one?" "Denny Corea." "How could you let this happen?" "I left her alone with you." "What do you say we go for a little walk?" "I won't let him get away with this." "I won't." "Do you think he did this to Emily?" "He's always had a problem with his anger." "But ever since I married Randall, it's gotten worse." "I know Denny hates me, but why take it out on an innocent child?" "All afternoon she watched The Lion King." "I cooked her a quick dinner and then her mother picked her up." " Okay, what time was that?" " About 6:00." "It's Jamie's week to have her." "You know, I should have never let her go back to that house." "Yeah, why not?" "Because he touches her." "Okay." "Who's that?" "The animal Jamie married, Randall McKenna." "Your daughter tell you that?" "She didn't have to." "I saw the bruises." "When I asked her what happened she just started to cry." " You report him?" " Of course I reported him." "But Jamie told the case worker that it was me." "Okay." "Why would she do that?" "Because she wants Emily all to herself." "Even if it means hurting her?" "Jamie wants what she wants, no matter who it hurts." "It's your basic "he said, she said" with a twist." "Mother blames the father." "Father blames the stepfather." "What do the doctors say?" "Abuse is long-term, but the head injury occurred in a 10 to 24-hour window prior to admittance." "Looks like she was molested, too." "Rape kit turned up a hair and a nylon bristle embedded" " in abrasions to her backside." " From what?" "Lab's working on it." "If the girl was good when her mom put her to bed," " it had to be someone in the house." " Not necessarily." "The bleeding was internal." "It could have been hours before the symptoms showed." "What do we know about the father?" "Denny Corea, age 32, Cuban immigrant did time in '93 for robbery and assault." "He's now working as a cook at the Greenbriar School." "The same school Emily attends." "And the husband?" "Randall McKenna, 40-ish investment banker with a Wall Street firm." "Has one son with Jamie and one son from a previous marriage." "Both boys were home but the younger one is learning disabled, non-verbal and the older one, Justin, who's 15, couldn't add much." "What about Randall?" "Still in D.C. On business." "Which brings us back to Desi." "So how's a society chick hook up with a fry cook in the first place?" "In rehab." "Jamie was kicking an amphetamine habit and" "Denny was teaching a dance class at the time." "Jamie got pregnant and her mother demanded the clinic fire Denny, or else she'd have their license revoked." "Well, she's got the juice." "Jamie McKenna's mother is Lois Huntington chair of the Avery Huntington Foundation." "Widow of the late ambassador." "Benson, Stabler, pay a courtesy call." "Get some background on the custody issue." "You two visit ACS, see if any of the prior charges fit the M.O." "That Huntington money buys a lot of friends, so let's get this moving before those friends put my number on their speed dialers." "You're saying Denny Corea raped Jamie?" "I'm saying she was vulnerable and he took advantage of that vulnerability." "But you supported the agreement that awarded him custody." "Jamie was in no condition to care for a sick infant." "I tried to convince her to abort." "The drug abuse, did that start at an early age?" "You make her sound like a common junkie." "They were prescription drugs." "Diet pills." " So she had a weight problem?" " A discipline problem." "She was an only child, and her father indulged her." "When he died, she indulged herself." "Were they close?" "She was Daddy's little girl." "And she took full advantage." "She finally became so incorrigible I sent her to boarding school." "And how old was she at the time?" "Eleven." "I wish I could say that it helped." "At least the pregnancy brought her to her senses." "She straightened up and she made a life for herself and she wanted to share that life with Emily." "Did her husband support her decision to sue for custody?" "Completely." "And he paid the price." "The day after she filed," "Denny broke three bones in his face and threatened to kill him." "What did Randall do?" "Against my advice, he offered Denny a deal." "He wouldn't file charges if Denny would agree to give up the child." "Denny agree?" "He has until Friday to sign the papers." "I actually hope the vile creature refuses and he gets the full measure of what he deserves." "Administration for Children's Services 154 William Street Monday, November 20" "Our first contact with Emily was in April of 1994 when the hospital called us in." "The baby was very sick, and since Jamie was struggling with her own addiction custody was granted to the father." "Even though he had a record?" "A prison record doesn't terminate parental rights." "How did Jamie's mother react to the arrangement?" "Mrs. Huntington was the driving force behind it." "In fact, she used her connections to push through the paperwork." "And when did Jamie start challenging that arrangement?" "About a year ago." "That's when the abuse charges surfaced." "We investigated, but we couldn't find sufficient evidence to pursue a case." "Broken bones ain't sufficient enough?" "Normal childhood mishaps." "And how would you characterize this latest "mishap"?" "We followed procedure." "And that lets you sleep at night?" "I haven't had a good night's sleep in 10 years." "The Greenbriar School 329 East 66th Street Monday, November 20" "Denny works three shifts in the kitchen." "And still finds time to join Emily's class for story time." "He tells such wonderful stories about his childhood in Cuba." "Yet you filed an abuse report with ACS." "I'm required by law to report any injury even those that could be attributed to simple stress or prepubescent clumsiness." "Which of the above caused a broken leg?" "Emily said she fell when she was learning to ride a bicycle that her father bought her for her birthday." "You don't think she was abused?" "I don't think her father was responsible." "Why not?" "I have known Denny for six years." "And, in all that time, I've never even heard him raise his voice to her." "Is there any other adult who had regular or prolonged contact with her?" "Henry Abidin." "He's the minister for protocol for the Brunei Mission." "He's a friend of the school." "And he's taken a special interest in Emily." "How special?" "Well, he reads to her, he takes her to dance class and to the theater." "But he loves the child and she loves him." "No offense, Miss Dunlap." "But kids don't always come straight with their teachers." "Is there anyone else, a friend, classmate, who she was close to?" "Well, there is a little girl named Jennifer." "They're always together, they're like sisters." "Hi, Jennifer." "Hi. / I'm Detective Munch." "That's a funny name." "Munch." "You think that's funny?" "I guess if I ever have kids I have to call them "munchkins."" "Could we talk about your friend Emily?" "It's not nice to talk behind people's backs." "That's true." "But I think it would be okay just this one time." "You know, Emily's hurt and we're trying to help her." "You want to help her, too, don't you?" "Yeah. / Good." "She ever talk to you about her friend Henry?" "He's nice." "He takes her to shows and buys her toy animals and stuff." "He makes everybody laugh with his funny songs." "How about her daddy?" "She said he was mad." "How come?" "Well, her mommy was trying to take her away." "She say anything else about her daddy?" "She said they were going on a trip." "Where?" "It's a secret." "It's okay, we're her friends." "They said they were going to Cuba." "That's an island." "Sure is, honey." "I have a Barbie with hair that grows." " You wanna see it?" " Maybe later." "Fin and I have to help Emily now." "But thank you for talking to me." "You're welcome." " Can I go now?" " Sure." " I'll check the airlines." " Good." " Can you move?" " If you get me a forklift." "Denny Corea's looking like a real hothead." "Put Randall McKenna in the hospital day after Jamie filed for custody." "He's got until Friday to choose between jail time and signing away his kid." "What's the matter with you?" "Injured in the line of duty." "Yeah, now I'm a pain in my own ass." "But, enough about me." "One of Emily's friends told us about a trip Denny was planning." "A buddy in customs checked the manifest for flights to Cuba and guess what he found?" "Two tickets in Denny and Emily's name departing for Cuba via Quebec this Friday." "One-way." "Well maybe it's time we brought Mr. Corea in for a little chat." "I just wanted to get her away from him." "Children's Services wouldn't believe me." "I didn't know what else to do." "Well, smacking Randall around didn't exactly bolster your case." "I wanted to talk to him." "He is a father." "I thought I could shame him into leaving my daughter alone." "By rearranging his face?" "He pushed me, okay?" "It happened so fast." "Is that what happened with the store clerk?" "I don't understand." "A few years back." "The convenience store?" "You did time for beating him to a bloody pulp." "He tried to shoot me." "Because you were robbing his store." "I was hungry." "I just defected." "The government says, "Welcome to America, goodbye and good luck."" "Denny, that is a very sad story." "But if you're such a victim why is it that everyone else winds up getting hurt?" "You are twisting everything." "Like you did with Emily?" "You twisted her little leg until it broke?" "I would never hurt my daughter." " I'm sure you never meant to." " Like you never meant to hurt Randall..." " Or the store clerk." " Or Jamie." "Please!" " Denny, now come on." "It's time to come clean here, all right?" "For Emily's sake." "It's just time to do the right thing." "We wanna help you but you gotta tell us the truth." "Guys." "Got a minute?" "What the hell, Captain?" "He was about to pop." "I just talked to the lab." "Denny's not our man." "What?" "Blood type doesn't match the hair sample from the rape kit." "With Denny out of the picture we need to reassess our profile so I've asked Dr. Skoda here to lend us a hand." "This one's tough." "The molestation occurred in such a complex social matrix..." "English, please." "Child abusers are generally adept at manipulating emotions and shading perceptions." "But in this case, the abuser had to contend with two separate social and familial groups one of which presumably offered a safe haven." "That requires some finely tuned social radar." "Well, if he's so finely tuned, why go after a kid?" "It's not about intimacy." "It's about displaced rage." "Rage over what?" "Sexual inadequacies, abuse in his childhood." "So someone with low self-esteem." "Yeah." "But that's where the profile gets tricky." "The same insecurities that drive him to aberrant behavior in one area can also drive him to excel in another." "So, he could be, whatever, head of a Fortune 500 company." "I guess Randall McKenna moves to the top of the list." "You said he was out of town." "Yeah." "Well, I called his office to schedule an interview." "Found out his plane didn't leave until 7:00 Monday morning." "Didn't Denny say something about a friend who took Emily to go see The Lion King?" "Yeah." "Henry Abidin." "Minister of protocol for the Brunei Mission." "Well, we may run into a diplomatic brick wall but see if he's willing to talk." "I assume your meeting is on the books?" "Yeah." "Done." "Out." "Office of Randall McKenna 400 Wall Street Tuesday, November 21" "Listen, I don't mean to be rude, but I have a meeting at 30 Rock in 40 minutes." "Yeah, well, take five, we'll be out of your hair in no time." "I'm sorry." "Look, it's been a hard couple of weeks." "How can I help you?" "Just a little history." "You and Jamie have been married for what, three years?" "Yeah. / How'd you two hook up?" "Her mother was a client." "She introduced us at a party." "Were you still married to your first wife at the time?" " Separated." "So Jamie's pregnancy only hastened the inevitable." "Michael's four." "We did the math." "Is there a point to this conversation?" "Where were you Sunday night?" "I was here, then at home." "Why?" "Spend any quality time with your stepdaughter?" "What are you driving at?" "Denny Corea says you've been molesting her." "And you believed him?" "Look what he did to me." "He also said that you tried to blackmail him into giving up custody." "I offered him an opportunity to avoid prison." "And to close off any further investigation." "Oh, this is nuts." "You had access." "She slept in the next bedroom." "I thought Denny was your primary suspect." "Blood analysis excluded him." "And now you're scrambling to cover your ass." "Of course, you could help expose our better halves by offering up a sample of your own." "You've already insulted me." "I'll be damned if I will allow you to invade my privacy." "We'll get a court order to compel you." "Well, then, I guess from now on you'll be talking to my lawyer." "Now, if you'll excuse me." "I'm already late for my meeting." "Mission of Brunei Darussalam 422 East 64th Street Tuesday, November 21" "Right this way, gentlemen." "The minister will be right with you." "I got one of those hanging from a rope in my shower." "Only mine's got a spring-fresh scent." "Sorry to keep you waiting, gentlemen." "Henry Abidin." "Odafin Tutuola." "Oh, Tutuola. "The gentle one."" "You know Yoruban?" "In my business, one tends to know a little about a lot." "John Munch." "Romanian, "the handsome one."" "I assume your visit concerns poor Emily." "Yes, it does." "Her grandmother told me." "You know Lois Huntington?" "No, we met while Avery was still alive." "In fact, it was she who first suggested" "The Greenbriar School might be a potential beneficiary of the royal family's charitable interests." "Were you aware that her granddaughter was a student there?" "Yes." "But the fact that Emily proved to be such a delight was an unexpected bonus." "You took her to a show on Sunday." "The matinee of The Lion King." "Where did you go after that?" "I brought her home to her father." "I don't suppose you have anyone to corroborate your whereabouts between the show and home." "As a matter of fact, her grandmother joined us at the theatre and my driver drove us." "Grandma's a regular on these field trips?" "She is." "Emily's father's in sync with that?" "Considering the animosity between him and Lois we felt it best he not know." "Any other secrets you wanna tell us?" "Gentlemen, I know it's your job to be suspicious." "But that little girl won my heart with her joyful spirit." "And I'll do whatever I can to see to it the person responsible for dimming that spirit goes to jail for a very long time." " What, more questions?" " Yep." "What time did your dad leave for the airport on Monday morning?" "I don't know, I was asleep." "Okay, can you tell us what time he came home the night before?" "I don't know, I was asleep." "Hear any noises during the night?" "Just him and Jamie arguing." "Yeah?" "Over what?" "What else?" "Emily." "Why?" "I don't know." "I put my headset on so I didn't have to listen." "They argue a lot?" "All the time." "It's why he never comes home anymore." "Hey, Justin!" "We done?" "For now." "Yeah." "So, what have we got?" "Henry Abidin waived his diplomatic status and agreed to submit a blood sample for analysis." "And Randall McKenna?" "Heard from his lawyer." "He's fighting." "Odd choice for a loving stepfather." "Family's like a jigsaw puzzle." "Nobody gives you the whole picture." "Well, let's look at the pieces we've got." "One suspect eliminated, one cooperating and one hiding behind his lawyer." "Picture's getting clearer." "What's the status on the court order?" "Cabot's meeting with Judge Petrovsky in the morning." " And the little girl?" " Still in a coma." "Well, let's all say a prayer this doesn't turn into a murder case." "Sad as it sounds, she's probably safer in that hospital bed than she's ever been in her own." "Hospital X-ray tech, report to 5 East." "Chambers of Judge Lena Petrovsky Wednesday, November 22" "Investigating officers believe the head trauma is an extension of an ongoing pattern of abuse." "Blood analysis has excluded her father and Mr. Abidin from the suspect pool leaving only Mr. McKenna with access and opportunity." "There is not a shred of solid evidence linking my client to the crime." "Mr. McKenna refuses to submit a sample for analysis." "They haven't established exclusive opportunity." "We can provide a detailed timeline of Emily's whereabouts during the 24 hours prior to her admission into the hospital." "Mr. McKenna has a clear window of access." "Can your client account for his whereabouts during this window?" "He was home, your Honor, with his family." "Not to be redundant, but that's precisely our point." "A point well-taken." "I hereby order your client to present himself to the medical examiner by 10:00 a.m. Tomorrow, Mr. Woodrow or he will find himself in contempt." "Hey, Alex." "We heard that Randall McKenna didn't bother to show up to his own hearing." "Why should he?" "His lawyer's already on his way to appeal the ruling." "Did he have grounds?" "No, but Woodrow's got to blow some smoke to earn his retainer." "End of the day, I'm sure we'll prevail." "Olivia, I want you to put a tag on Mr. McKenna." "If he is one minute late to the M.E I want him arrested for contempt." "Yeah." "Thanks, John." "There's no need for that tag." "Randall McKenna is in critical condition at Mercy General." " What happened?" " According to Munch... cerebral hemorrhage due to blunt force trauma." "Somebody beat the hell out of him." "Apartment of Denny Corea 860 West 118th Street Wednesday, November 22" "I haven't seen Denny since yesterday." "He's usually working or looking after that sweet little girl of his." "Did he seem upset or agitated when you saw him?" "Huh?" "Did he seem upset?" "You don't have to shout." "He was worried about his daughter." "He said her mother married a bad man." "Is Denny in trouble?" "That's what we're trying to find out, Mrs. Fergus." "Yeah?" "That was Benson." "They picked up Denny trying to sneak into the hospital to see his daughter." "Hope he said his goodbyes." "A bloody T-shirt and a witness who puts you at the scene." "Not to mention a set of knuckles looks like you've been shadow boxing with a concrete wall." "We can wait for Randall to regain consciousness but we thought you might want us to hear your side of the story first." "I didn't mean to hurt him." "Okay." "Go on." "Friday's the deadline... he set for signing the custody papers." "I couldn't hand my daughter over... to the man who was molesting her." "Jamie said I broke the deal... and Randall was pressing charges." " For the assault." " Yes." "I went to his office to see if we can talk." "But the guard stopped me at the lobby." "So I waited for him by the car." "For how long?" "He didn't come out till almost midnight." "When he saw me... he started yelling... saying that if I didn't leave him alone... he was gonna charge me with harassment." "What did you do?" "I begged him not to do this." "I mean, with my record, you know, I could be deported." "So, he listen?" "He laughed." "He said that Jamie's mother... knew people at the State Department." "That I was already as good as gone." "And then what?" "Next thing I know..." "I was on top of him... hitting him again and again... until I realized that... he wasn't moving anymore." "I found a pay phone, I called 911." "I went home." "And I changed my clothes." "I wanted to see my daughter just one more time, you know?" "Before I turned myself in." "So." "What happens now?" "It's hard to say." "You did a real number on him, Denny." "No worse than what he did to my baby." "He should have let the system work for him." "His experience with the system hasn't exactly been encouraging." "Hardly an excuse." "I'm just saying, "What if it was your kid?"" "Okay." "Thanks." "That was the lab." "We got a make on the nylon bristle." "Traced it to a plant in Akron that manufactures hairbrushes." "So that hair sample in the rape kit came from a brush?" "And it doesn't belong to Randall." "DNA doesn't match." "Denny stomped the wrong guy." "He was in the right neighborhood." "Preliminary analysis tagged someone in Randall's bloodline." "McKenna Residence 660 West 84th Street Wednesday, November 22" "I don't understand." "I know." "I'm sorry, Jamie but these detectives have a job to do." "But we're the victims here." "My husband, my daughter." " Haven't we suffered enough?" " Yes, and I know it's hard." "But why don't we just go downstairs for a minute." "Okay?" "Hey, what the hell are you doing?" "That's mine." "None of this would be happening if that bitch hadn't sucked my dad into her crappy life." "That go for Emily, too?" "All she does is cry." " I bet that gets on your nerves?" " Damn straight." " That why you let her have it?" " Have what?" "Come on, Justin, we know you hurt her." "I didn't touch her." " Well, then, who did?" " I don't know." "Maybe she did." " Who is she?" " The bitch." "With your hairbrush?" "All I know is, everything was fine until she showed up." "Now it all sucks." "Why can't they both just go away and leave us alone?" "Sometimes I'd come home to find her in her room crying, and Justin just standing there watching." "I knew he resented the attention Randall gave her but I never dreamed he was hurting her." "He said that you and Randall argued about her." "If we argued at all, it was about Justin's attitude toward Emily." "Was Justin alone with her the night she was injured?" "After I put Emily to bed," "I took Michael to the drug store to refill his asthma medication." "The line was so long, it took us an hour to get home." "And where was your husband?" "At the office." "He didn't come home until late." "I looked in on her before I went to bed." "She looked so peaceful." "I thought she was sleeping." "How could I be so blind?" "The lab scored a direct DNA hit with the hair from Justin's brush." "Could explain why his father didn't want to give a sample." "Why?" "Do you think he knew?" "Might have suspected." "Where are we with the boy?" "He's one angry kid, but he isn't ready to give it up." "What do you say we toss him in a cell for a while see if that doesn't take the edge off?" "Are you sure there's nothing else I can do?" "I can write out my statement, if you'd like." "No, that's all right." "We've got it all on tape and we can take care of the paperwork in the morning." "Okay." "Thank you." " Good night." " Good night." "She seems almost disappointed." "Her husband may never walk, her daughter's in a coma her stepson is going to jail... and her ex-boyfriend's facing deportation." "She's not disappointed, Munch." "She's numb." "You don't look convinced." "It's the small things." "For example, if Emily had been showing abuse symptoms for months how come we haven't turned up a single hospital record?" "Then there's this." "It's an interesting idea for a key chain." " Found it in Emily's room." " Who's Erica Smith?" "Nobody at Emily's school or dance class has any idea." "Think there's something to it?" "One way to find out." "Hudson Free Clinic 107 West 97th Street Thursday, November 23" "There it is, Erica Smith, admitted on May 20th complaining of vaginal bleeding." "A day before the school filed its abuse report." "The attending prescribed an antibacterial ointment and the girl was sent home." "Didn't anyone here suspect abuse?" "The ACS was notified, but we never heard from the mother or the agency again." " You got a home address?" " Yeah." "Right there." "If that's her address, she's living in the middle of the East River." " You thinking what I'm thinking?" " We've been had." "We checked the X-rays and blood type from the medical records against Emily's, and they're one and the same." "We also found matches at four separate clinics and hospitals." "In each case, she used a different alias and paid in cash so there'd be no paper trail." "She could have been covering for her husband. / Or Justin." "We've been assuming the attacker is male because of the sexual abuse." "But suppose it was Jamie all along." "It's possible these injuries aren't even sexual." "It's an interesting tactic." "Abuse the kid, pin it on the ex..." "Dad goes to jail, Mom wins custody by default." "And if her daughter dies in the process?" "Bonus." "Excuse me?" "The kid is nothing more than a means to an end." "Which is?" "Attention." "Sympathy." "Love." "People who've suffered abuse in childhood tend to repeat the pattern with their own children." "This is an extreme case because of the rage." "But, in the end, she's just wrapping herself in the warm cloak of victimhood." "Yeah, but if she's looking for sympathy, why use the aliases?" "To control the outcome." "Rape kit analysis would have excluded Denny from the get-go." "Leaving her without a scapegoat." "Till Justin showed up." "Justin, we know this is a pain in the ass for you." "Just meet us halfway, maybe we can help you out." "Whatever." "You said that you didn't hurt your stepsister." " I didn't." " But your stepmother said... that you were the only one that was alone with her that night." "Yeah, for about two minutes." "But Jamie said she was gone for an hour." "Maybe she was." "All right, that's enough." "Enough." "Sit down." "Very clearly, we are trying to get you out of here." "You understand that?" "Now, you keep talking in circles, you're gonna be spending your varsity years behind bars." "Look, I don't know how long she was gone." "All I know is, once she was out the door, I took off." "Where did you go?" "I was bored as hell, so I went for a run in the park." "Okay." "Where?" "Down the ice rink over the baseball diamonds, and back." "Anybody see you?" "I'm sure they did, but I didn't take names." "How long were you gone?" "I don't know." "An hour." "Was your stepmother there when you got home?" "Chewed me out for leaving that brat alone." "I mean, the kid was asleep." "What difference did it make?" "If he's telling the truth Jamie could have hurt the girl before he got home." "Without proof, it's just more finger-pointing." "We need corroborating testimony." "Too bad our only other witnesses are either mute or in a coma." "What about the druggist?" "Jamie said that she went to fill a prescription." "She didn't give a name, but if the kid's got a chronic condition maybe she has an account in the neighborhood." "Well, that's a start." "But we need someone closer to home." "Well, the neighbors were not helpful." "What about that nosey doorman that jacked us when we served the search warrant?" "He said that he didn't see anything out of the ordinary." "Maybe you didn't ask the right questions." "First the little girl, then her husband." "My heart goes out to her." "Do you remember seeing Jamie heading out with her four-year-old on Sunday night?" "Come to think of it kid was breathing heavy." "He's got asthma, you know." "I offered to flag a cab, but she said they were just going down the block." "How about the older boy?" "Justin?" " Yeah." "That one's got an attitude." "Came storming out right after Jamie toward the park." "Told him it ain't safe for a kid after dark but would he listen?" "You got a time?" "Around 9:00." "I was just about to take my break." "And do you remember what time Jamie got back?" "Didn't see her." "But she could've walked in while I was taking a powder." "Excuse me." "Where's Fin?" " We split up to cover more ground." " You find the drugstore?" "Pharmacist checked Jamie's receipt." "It was time-coded 9:09 p.m., after closing." "But she called and made such a stink that he waited for her." "He said she was in and out in five minutes." "How far a walk?" "Five minutes." "Ten minutes with a kid in tow." "That puts her back here 9:20, 9:30." "What you learn from the doorman?" "Couldn't place Jamie, but remembers Justin getting back after 10:00." "Plenty of time to do serious damage." "You're circling the building but unless you place her in the apartment at the time of the assault you don't have a case." "What about the hospital fraud?" "Well, it's not fraud if she paid the bills." "Consciousness of guilt?" "Even if you can prove Jamie was the one who took Emily to those facilities, you can't bootstrap aggravated child abuse to her conduct without a more definitive causal link." "You remember how Skoda said Jamie has this need for attention?" "Well, I gave her my pager number in case she needed somebody to talk to... and guess who's been paging me?" "She's feeling needy." "If Skoda's right, it's more than need." "I think she's jonesing for a sympathy fix." "And what do you propose?" "Feed the junkie." "Thanks for coming down." "I just want to help in whatever way I can." "As you know, we're holding Justin until he can be arraigned... and then we'll release him into your custody... assuming you want to take him." "I don't know." "He scares me." "I'm sure he just hurt Emily to get back at me." "Must be hard to be an outcast in your own house." "You don't know the half of it." "Actually, I do." "This is my file." "I thought it was sealed." "I have a friend in Children's Services." "She remembered you." "How?" "She remembered how nervous her superiors were about investigating an ambassador for sexually abusing his 11-year-old daughter." "It must have been a very painful time for you." "Yes, it was." "How did your mother take it?" "She was jealous, because Daddy couldn't stand to touch her." "So she sent me away to boarding school." "I begged her not to but what Mother wants, Mother gets." "She abandoned you, Jamie." "I survived." "But still." "Must be hard facing that kind of rejection from your own daughter." "What do you mean?" "Emily came out of her coma a few hours ago." "She told us everything." "She wants to see you." "But first you and I have a couple of details we need to straighten out." "What details?" " Let's start with the hairbrush." " It's Justin's." "Yes, but we got a partial print..." " and with Emily's testimony..." " Emily's a liar." " Now why would she lie?" " Her father poisoned her against me." "It's been very painful, very hurtful." "I know, Jamie." "Been carrying the pain long enough." "Just tell me your side of the story and you can start to heal." "We were driving home and she wouldn't stop crying so I pulled over to try and talk to her." "But when she told me she and her daddy were leaving me forever..." "I pulled her out of the car and she hit her head on the curb." " How?" " She fell." "Come on, Jamie." "I didn't shove her hard." "I just wanted her to stop whining... so I could talk to her." "Did that stop her?" "It was the first time she was quiet all day." "And she was sleepy." "So when I got home, I put her to bed and Michael and I went to the drugstore." "But when we came back... she was crying again." "I told her... how important it was for her to be a good girl... so that her new daddy could love her, too, but she wouldn't stop." "It was like she was doing it to spite me." "Is that why you used the hairbrush?" "I had to teach her discipline." "My mother used a hairbrush to teach me but Emily just kept screaming louder and louder, what was I supposed to do?" "The only thing you could do." "I threw her against the wall." "Then what?" "She finally stopped." "And then I tucked her into bed kissed her on her cheek, and then I told her I loved her." "I just wanted her to stop crying." "Was that too much to ask?" "It's good work, John." "Took a chance with that bluff about Emily coming out of her coma." "I'm not sure what we would have done if Jamie had pressed to see her." "She didn't care about the kids." "How did you know?" "We searched her house..." "I looked at that four-year-old... flashed on a little girl that used to live across the street from us in our old neighborhood on the Lower East Side." "She had that same look in her eyes." "What look?" "Sad, lost." "She used to stand on her porch every afternoon when I came home from school." "Like she was waiting for me." "Sometimes, she'd have a black eye or a bloody lip." "Never said anything to me." "Just looked at me like she was trying to tell me something." "But I was too full of my own teenage crap to pay any attention." "One day, I came home... she wasn't there." "Found out her mother threw her through a plate glass window." "Went to the funeral." "Saw her dad." "It's the first time I saw a grown man cry." "What happened to her mother?" "They sent her to a sanitarium." "She told my mother... she didn't understand what all the fuss was about." "She was the one that had to get a new window." "Months later, I'd come home... and I'd look up at the porch." "I swear, I saw that little girl standing there, looking at me with that look." "I almost let her down again." ""But on you will go though the weather be foul"" ""On you will go though your enemies prowl"" ""On you will go though the Hakken-Kraks howl"" ""Onward up many a frightening creek though your arms may get sore"" ""And your sneakers may leak"" ""On and on you will hike and I know you'll hike far"" ""And face up to your problems whatever they are"" "In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous" "In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as The Special Victims Unit." "These are their stories." "Let go, it's mine." "Okay, now it's mine." "Hey, boys, here you go." "Come on, man, let's go." " Play nice." " Hey, Mama." "Get away from here." " Right now." " What, bitch?" "I think you need to chill." "Charlie, can you send..." "Help!" "God, please, somebody help!" "Oh, Jesus!" "Come here." "Help!" "Help!" "Somebody, please!" "Help me!" "Help!" "What?" "There was a shooting at P.S. 387 in East Harlem six year old girl, died at the scene." "They're bringing the shooter up now." "Why did we catch it?" "Brass thinks we're better equipped to handle him." "Good." "Bring on the pervert." "Å©¸®½º ¸á·Î´Ï (¿¤¸®¾ù ½ºÅ×ÀÌºí·¯ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸¶¸®½ºÄ" ÇÏ±âÅ×ÀÌ (¿Ã¸®ºñ¾Æ º¥½¼ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸®Â÷µå º§Àú (Á¸ ¸ÕÄ¡ Çü"ç æµ)" "½ºÅ×ÆÄ´Ï ¸¶Ä¡ (¾Ë·º"êµå¶ó Ä³º¿ °Ë"ç æµ)" "¾ÆÀÌ½º-Æ¼ (¿À´ÙÇÉ ÇÉ Æ©Æ©¿Ã¶ó Çü"ç æµ)" "´í ÇÃ·Î·º (µ· Å©·¹ÀÌ°Ç °æ°¨ æµ)" "Law  Order SVU 2x05 Baby Killer" "ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON NBC: 2000/11/17" "Does that look like a cold-blooded killer to you?" "Where are we on the parents?" "Both of them called in sick today." "Nobody knows how to find them." "Well, that fills in a few blanks for me." "Can you even charge a 7-year-old with murder?" " Technically, he just made the cutoff." " Det." "Benson?" "Yes." "You left a message." "Our son, Elias, was involved in a shooting?" "They gave this address, not a hospital, is he..." "Oh, God!" "Please say he's alive." "Mrs. Barrera, I'm sorry about the misunderstanding." "Elias wasn't the one who was shot." "Oh, thank God." "He was the shooter." "What?" " Sir, do you own a gun?" " No." "Does your son have access to one?" "I don't know how." "He's either at home, school, or his sitter's." " And who's that?" " Mrs. Strada." "Where's our son?" "We want to talk to him with you." "But we can't do that without your permission." "If you would sign a Miranda waiver..." "Fine." "That's fine." "Just let us see him." "Okay, come with me please." "You run them through License Division?" "He had no guns registered." "Of course, the serial number was filed off the gun he used." "Punched them in the system, clean sheets." "No arrests, no warrant." "We were at the emergency room all morning." "My baby girl was born with a respiratory problem." "We had to leave her at the hospital." "Why don't you take a seat here." "Elias?" "It's okay." "All right." "Elias, why don't we have you sit right here." "Hi, Elias, I'm Elliot." "How are you doing?" "We're going to talk today, is that okay?" "Do you like school?" " What grade are you in?" " Second." "Second." "That's a good grade." "I like second grade." "What's your favorite subject?" "Okay." "We're going to talk a little bit about what happened today." "Okay?" "Do you know Carly Jackson?" "Yeah?" "What can you tell me about Carly?" "She's a girl." "Yeah." "Yeah." "You like Carly?" "No?" "How come?" "She's always bothering me." "How does she bother you?" "She chases me." "She tries to kiss me." "Okay." "Can you tell me what happened to Carly at recess?" "She fell down." "What made her fall down?" "The gun." "The gun." "Okay." "Who's holding the gun?" "Is Carly going to be okay?" "Elias, tell me who had the gun." "I did." "You know what, I think we should get a lawyer before we go on." "Okay, sir." "That's fine." "You get a lawyer." "We got a phone out there." "He has to stay with us, okay." "Get Fin." "Check out friends, family, neighbors, school... anyone he could have got that gun from." "As slipshod as the screening process is, I doubt he bought it himself." "Watch it." "Watch your back." "Come on." "Elias and Carly fight a lot?" "Neither had been sent to my office." "Where were you when it happened?" "Over there." "I ran to her, called for help, and then I saw Elias." "Where exactly?" "Putting the gun in the garbage can." "Elias said that Carly picked on him." "Carly was the sweetest little girl." "Did we miss something?" "He wasn't a troublemaker." "He didn't even talk in line." "Home of Mrs.Dorothea Strada 1630 Lexington Avenue Tuesday, November 7" "He's always been an angel." "What made Elias do this?" "That's what we're trying to find out." "Mrs. Strada, do you keep a gun here on the premises?" "Please." "The kids you watch, could any of them have brought one in here?" "Absolutely not." "You wouldn't happen to have a phone list for the parents, would you?" "Of course I do." "Work and home." "By the phone desk over there." "Yeah, we'll need a copy of that." "Rudy, it's Buddy's turn." "Ma'am, are you responsible for every kid around here?" "Yes." "They don't talk to strangers they don't leave the courtyard without an adult." "I take my job very seriously, young man." "Okay, Sammy, where did Elias get the gun?" "From his pants." " Before that?" " I don't know." " Did he ever talk about having a gun?" " No." "When's the first time you saw the gun?" "When he shot Carly." "Why did Elias shoot Carly?" "I don't know." "She pick on him a lot?" "She kissed him all the time." "What would he do when she kissed him?" "His face would get all red." "Did she try to kiss him that day?" "She was walking over." "Cabot's hell bent on charging the parents." "Parental responsibility." "It's a hot-button issue." "That's all it is." " Well, we've got no ammunition for her." " Nothing about this makes sense." "Child homicides never do." "What happened to that little boy to make him want to take a life?" "Elliot, you're searching for a way to make him a victim." "The only victim here is a dead little girl." "Hi, can we help you?" "Yes, I'm Sonia Paredes, Elias Barrera's teacher." "The limit for class size is supposed to be 32 students." "I have 40." "It must make it kind of hard to give each student the attention they need." "Impossible." "I was in the teachers' lounge when they told us." "When they said it was Elias, I got physically ill." "Mrs. Paredes, is there something that you want to show us?" "After 20 years of teaching, nothing shocks you anymore." "I wish this had." "When did he draw this?" "Yesterday." "Carly had a ponytail." "Office of Chief Assistant District Attorney Charlie Phillips Tuesday, November 7" " Charge the boy." " With what?" " Murder." " He's seven." "Yes, and if he were six," "I would send him home with his parents as the law mandates." "But he's not." "The law is not interpretive, Counselor." "It is to be very narrowly construed." "He can be charged." "He can, but you know as well as I do that the youngest they've ever convicted was 11." "Yes, but that was pre-Columbine." "Since then, there's been an epidemic of ever younger kids killing kids with no consequence." "People are fed up with it." "And you're bored of being the Chief Assistant DA." "I know you're looking to replace Lewin next fall but let me tell you, if you think you could put a little boy in jail just so you can prove you're tough on crime, you've got to be kidding." "He's old enough to know the difference between right and wrong." "But not to understand the consequences of his actions." "He brought a gun to school." "He knew what he was doing." "And this, that gives us intent." "Why don't you just apply for a change of venue to Texas so we can have him executed?" "No, Manhattan Family Court will be sufficient." "Ms. Cabot, am I reading this right you're charging a 7-year-old with murder?" "Yes, Your Honor." "Surely there's an alternative." "One has yet to present itself." "The commission of the crime by the respondent is undisputed." "And evidence supporting criminal intent has just come to light." "How does the minor plead?" "General denial, Your Honor." "Remand recommendations?" "The People have not ruled out the minor's home situation as a contributing factor." "We therefore ask for the removal of the minor from his home and ask that he be remanded to a detention facility Pending trial." "Your Honor, the Barreras are a loving, law-abiding, nuclear family." " Elias should be released into their custody." " The Barreras have ties outside the country." "Flight risk is a significant issue with the People and the victim's family who is here today." "I'm ordering the minor be remanded to the Wagner Detention Facility." "I'm further ordering a clinical evaluation to determine whether or not he understands the charges against him and can help in his own defense." "No!" "Please, don't take my baby." "Mommy!" " Oh, please!" "Olivia, can you believe they ran this picture?" "Already a couple of hundred people hanging outside the courthouse." "Who'd have guessed there'd be backlash against charging a 7-year-old with murder?" "Amnesty International, Children's Defense Fund." " Alex Cabot." " I didn't want to charge him with murder." "I didn't have any choice." "Now that you've got him in the big house, is he spilling?" "Why he did it?" "Where he got the gun?" "No, he's completely withdrawn." "He won't even talk to the social worker." "How about spending less time on the kid we caught, more on the adult we didn't." "What did we send License Division?" "The names of parents of the other kids Mrs. Strada watches." "Really?" "Well, guess what Reyna McCreary owns?" "He did not get that gun from my son." "The gun registered in your name is still in your possession?" "Yes, it is." " You mind if we take a peek at it?" " Yes, I do." "There." "You satisfied?" "Put the gun down on the table." "You carry that around in your purse?" "You know, sometimes I don't leave the hospital till 3:00 a.m." "I have to take a subway, a bus and walk four blocks through this neighborhood to get home." "You know, carrying a concealed weapon is a felony." "I don't." "I leave it here so the appliances can defend themselves." "You have a child living here." "You have a safe place to store this gun?" "Of course I do." "Raphael." "Get a move on." " We're leaving in 10 seconds." " Coming." "What's up?" "Raphael, right?" " Yeah." " You know Elias?" "Yeah." "You heard about what happened?" "Yeah, he popped that little girl." "Lightweight, compact hammerless." "So simple, even a 7-year-old can use it." "This one especially." "Safety's tampered with, hair trigger." "Gangbanger, drug dealer." "Doesn't have the overkill they're partial to, but not bad as a backup piece." "Chambered round fits." "Add a full clip, they get that one extra bang for the buck." "And speaking of the bang... the bullet Rodgers sent us, after the autopsy." "Hollow point?" "See the smooth edges where it peeled apart on impact?" "The tip was filed down in an "X" pattern, by hand." " Little girl didn't have a chance." " Neither did this guy." "It's hard to compare the lands and grooves because of their condition, but look at the base." "Here's a side-by-side comparison." "Same right twist, same riflings." "Where'd you get this one from?" "A 23-year-old." "Your gun's got a second body on it." "23rd Precinct Detective Squad Wednesday, November 8" "Shorty Esposito." "Latino male, 23." "Got smoked in the ticker." "Night before your case." "Close range." "Got dumped in an alley a couple of blocks from where your kid lives." " You getting anywhere with it?" " No, the case is cold." "We were hoping maybe your 7-year-old did our guy, too." "How do we know he didn't?" "M.E. Makes our shooter a good four inches taller than our stiff, so..." "Want to swap five's?" "Two busts for drug possession, just short of enough for intent to sell." "Mother swears by all known saints he wasn't a dealer." "We think drug deal gone south." "Let's canvass the area between these two." "Got to be a link in there somewhere." "Hold on." "Elliot, look at his pants." "This can't be a coincidence." "Heck, we might have just found our link." "Yeah, that guy I maybe seen around." "Tell me about him." "He likes bubble baths and long walks." "I don't know jack about him." "I seen him on the block." "With anyone in particular?" " You been following this story?" " Who hasn't." "Little boy who shot this girl did it with the same gun that was used to whack this guy." "Tell us what you know about this guy?" "I know nothing about the guy." "The stuff he was into, I don't want to know." "And what stuff would that be?" "Mumbo jumbo." "Whenever I seen him, he's coming out of Nestor's." "You Nestor?" "Nicky Crow." "Nestor sold me the business last year." "And exactly what kind of business is this?" "Religious supplies." "For the practice of Santeria." "Then those would be sacrificial chickens." "It's legal." "Santeros won their Supreme Court case." "Relax, we're not from the ASPCA." " You know him?" " Yeah, he's a customer." "Was." "Know anything about it?" "Santeros don't sacrifice anything further up the food chain than goats." "Long Island cheerleader three years ago." "Mother and sister thought she was possessed by a demon and they suffocated her." "Santeras, right?" "That was an exorcism got out of hand, not a sacrifice." "Shorty Esposito, religious kind of guy?" "Keeping the rituals a secret comes from the slaves having to hide it from their masters." "That's not an answer." "Sure it is." "It's in the Constitution." "Freedom of religion." "It's like dogma not to talk about it." "I'd be violating his rights." "He's dead." "He doesn't have any rights." "You a priest?" "A Babalu?" "Babalu." "Atheist." "Businessman." "300,000 people practice Santeria in New York." "They need to shop someplace they can trust." "Hey, maybe someone tried to drive an evil spirit out of him with a bullet." "My bet?" "That was his religion." "That guy right there on the corner, that's the steerer." "He brings the buyer to the money man." "And him hanging back with the gold chain... that's the money man." "He never touches the dope." "They're all teens." "Maybe they know Elias through a little brother." "Somewhere around here." "911!" "He's the lookout." " What's your name, man?" " Sammy." " Sammy what?" " Sosa." "That's Mrs. Morales' boy, Jamal." "Shut up, old man." "Hey, Jamal, you just focus all right." " You know this kid?" " No." " What about him?" " Nope." "Hey, how old are you?" "Ten." "Why don't you talk to him?" "Come here a second." "Know his name?" "Bobby Cruise." " He's in here all the time." " Yeah, with him?" "No, another one of those boys." "Eighteen or 19 years old." "Called Sweetness." "Sweetness?" "Real sweet tooth." "We saw Homicide." "They aren't doing any better." "Any luck on our sweet tooth?" "Former juvenile offender." "Now 19." "Placed in foster care at age eight." "Truancy." "Shoplifting." "Moving up to drugs, larceny, gun possession." "Given name is Antonio Strada." "Last person who posted bail was his great grandmother." "Good old Mrs. Strada." "My great-grandson has nothing to do with that little girl's death." "Mrs. Strada, you know Elias got hold of a gun." "And you know, as well as we do, that Antonio has had gun troubles in the past." "Once. / Twice." "He's changed." "He's getting his life together." "He helps me with the kids." "Takes them to the park for me." "He buys them candy." "The kids call him Sweetness." "The candy store that he takes Elias to alone is off a known drug corner." "Did you know that, Mrs. Strada?" "No, I... / Sunday night, a young man named Shorty... was shot and killed with the same gun Elias used to kill Carly Jackson." "The last time your great-grandson was arrested for gun possession he was with Shorty." "They did time together." "Mrs. Strada, tell us where he is." "You don't understand, he had a horrible childhood." "His father was in prison, his mother who knows where his mother was." "Please, don't hurt him." "Antonio, police." "We want to talk to you." "Sweetness?" "Nobody in here." "Got blood on the walls." "Yeah, we got fresh blood right here." "We need backup." "Two-five-two, East 132." "Body's down here." "It's him." "I need an ambulance now." "Who did this to you?" "Who cut you, Sweetness?" "Who cut you?" "Machete." "Machete." "What'd he say?" "I think he said Machet..." "Machete." "Machete." "Look at the pants, they're both camouflage." "This is not Carly, this is Shorty." "Meaning, Elias witnessed this murder." "When he drew this, he wasn't plotting out Carly Jackson's murder." "This was a cry for help." "He wanted somebody to know what he saw." "He's been through an interrogation, a court hearing taken from his family and placed in detention." "Why wouldn't he have said something by now?" "Look at the players involved." "Drug dealers and killers." "If Elias was drawn into this world at all, he knows what happens to people who talk." "So what are we going to do?" "When an accused stands mute, the only thing the system can do is interpret his actions." " You know our take on it." " Well, I know what my boss' will be." "He'll still see a bad apple who likes seeing people dead." "So Elias needs to talk." "His attorney won his motion." "He's back home until the hearing." "Go." "You know, you people have some nerve!" "It's been horrible for the Barreras." "They're prisoners in their own home." "The protesters, death threats, the media trying to sneak into the building." "You know, we try to be good parents, we do." "Social services is threatening to remove their baby girl." "Mr. Barrera, it is imperative we talk to Elias." "Why, so you can find something else to charge him with?" "Mrs. Barrera, we believe that your son witnessed a murder the night before the shooting." "What?" "Oh, my God!" "Stay back." "Elias, you remember me, Elliot?" "How are you doing?" "We got a problem here, big man." "I hear you've been dragged into something bad." "Me and Sweetness, we talked." "Now, he says he's got you all hooked up and slinging for him." "What do you do with all the money that he gives you?" "Well, you buy games, new kicks, what?" "Crayons?" "Okay, Elias." "Your parents know about everything." "But you and me, right now..." "Elias, you and me have got to fix this." "He puts little bottles in my pockets." "Okay, that's good." "You're doing great." "Now, you and me... let's talk about the gun, okay." "Tell me about this." "He told me to stay in the room." "I didn't." "I saw him shoot the man." "Okay." "What's that at the end of the gun?" "A pillow." "You could hardly hear the bang." "Why did Sweetness shoot Shorty?" "He didn't." "Isn't that him holding the gun?" "Well, who is it?" "Machete." "What did you say?" "Machete." "Do you know Machete?" "Well, how do you know his name?" "I heard Shorty say, "Stop, Machete, don't, please, don't." "Stop."" "And then what happened?" "I heard sirens, and Machete ran away." "And what happened to the gun?" "Sweetness hid it in the couch." "And then he got a big suitcase." "And I hid in the closet because I was scared." "Then what happened?" "I heard him leave." "Why did you take the gun?" "I didn't want him to kill me, too." "Okay." "Okay." "Now, this is very important." "Where did this happen?" "My sister was in the hospital." "And you were at Mrs. Strada's?" "Mrs. Strada?" "What is going on?" "No one is telling me anything." "Mrs. Strada, where were you Sunday night?" "Sunday... / Sunday between 10:00 and midnight." " I was asleep." " Are you a sound sleeper?" "Well, I take meclizine at night." "It knocks me out." "Hey, anything?" "Dried pee, Cheerios." " Old lady got kids?" " She takes care of them." "Our guy apparently cleaned up after himself." "Make sure you check sinks, drains, traps, sponges." "Trash cans, light switches, even lifted a few base boards." "No trace of blood yet." "Pillow's missing." "Okay, close the curtains." "We got blood." " Wheel marks." " Yeah." "Like the kind on a big-ass suitcase." "They just stuffed old Shorty in there and wheeled him on out." "Elias was right about the suitcase." "He also said he heard sirens." "Let's find out what that problem was." "15th Precinct Detective Squad Thursday, November 9" "Party out of hand." "Somebody pulled out a knife." "Somebody else pulls out a Louisville Slugger." "Brawl spilled out into the courtyard." "You take any statements?" "Thirty-five." "Stopped everyone leaving the building." "If that's when our guy left the building, he might be one of them." "Mind if we borrow these?" "Great." "Off Elias' description, we've eliminated 28 names based on age and gender." "Which were brought down to eight suspects, five of whom have records." "And mug shots." "Already there, we put together a photo array, showed it to Elias." " He recognize any of them?" " Yeah, two." "Unless I'm one of them, I don't know why you're still standing here." "Because he's positive neither of them is Machete." "So who do we have left?" "The three who didn't have records, so no photos." "Kyung Kwon, Nicky Crow, and Bobby Cruise." "We've met them all, all on the selfsame corner." "So one of them's Machete." "Kwon owns a market, and was pretty helpful in getting us some IDs." "Yeah, maybe too helpful." "Crow profits off the piety of the local Santeros." "Cruise is a dope dealer." "Elias needs some points with the DA's office." "Call his attorney, see if he'll let him do some walk bys." "Okay. / Okay." "Okay." "Are you up for this, champ?" "Is he gonna see me?" "Keep your mask down." "Don't say anything, okay?" "If you recognize any of these men as Machete, just squeeze my hand, okay?" " Okay." " All right." "Come on." "Hello." "I'll be with you in a second." "Hey. / Hey." "Take him outside." "Nicky Crow, you're under arrest for the murder... / What're you doing?" " of Shorty Esposito." " Hold it." " You have the right to remain silent." " Look in the refrigerator." " Yeah, we're not hungry." " I never met one who wasn't." "Go." "In the fridge?" " Behind the box." " Behind the box." " What do we got?" " I'm a business man." "Take it." "Leave." "Call it cost of doing business." "Call it Class B felony." "Office of Dr.Elizabeth Olivet Friday, November 10" "It's okay to talk now." "Machete can't hurt you." "He's in jail." "I hear you're a very good artist." "Do you draw all the time?" "Yeah." "Can you draw me a picture of how you felt that day in the schoolyard?" "You were really scared." "Why?" " I saw them behind the fence." " Who?" "Machete and them." "What were they doing there?" "They came to hurt me, too." "Elias... who were you shooting at?" "Machete." "I didn't mean to shoot Carly." "What's going to happen to me?" "What do you think should happen to you?" "What's that?" "Hell." "You think you're going to burn in Hell for what you did?" "I know why you're here." "Well, forget it." "I already gave Machete to McCoy." "You should have seen his face." "It was the same look my dog..." "I'm not here to pick up a case, I'm here to drop one." "Oh, no, we can't give that kid a free ride." "We only got Machete because of Elias' drawing." "That doesn't bring Carly Jackson back." "Her death is a tragedy, yes, but it was self-defense." "The vice principal at the school corroborates his story." "Machete and his gang were there." "Did she see them attack him?" "Draw a weapon?" "This is what he thinks is going to happen to him." "Well, I think that makes your case and proves that he knows the difference between right and wrong." "No, we are the ones who don't know the difference..." "I'll be right there." "Fine, amend the charges to manslaughter." "I don't want to prosecute a child at all for a series of society's mistakes." "The Barrera's HMO wouldn't cover their baby's condition forcing them to work two jobs." "They had to find affordable daycare for Elias which we both know is nonexistent." "So they put him in Mrs. Strada's illegal daycare." "An 82-year-old woman looking after 15 children whose great-grandson was using Elias as a drug runner and giving him access to a loaded semi-automatic handgun." "And don't get me started on the accessibility of handguns to minors." "This boy should not be put away." "Nobody in Sing Sing had a great childhood, Ms. Cabot." "You start killing at seven, it's not a bad predictor." "You are unbelievable." "No, I am second-in-command and I have Lewin's full support in this." "Now, listen, people know what happened." "They want justice." "I need someone held responsible." "The death of Carly Jackson is the ultimate tragedy." "There are no easy solutions, but we in the DA's office have a moral imperative to do the right thing and I assure you that justice will be served." "I am placing full authority in the worthy hands of a person who has been intimately involved with every aspect of the case from the beginning." "Assistant District Attorney Alex Cabot." "Will you be prosecuting 7-year-old Elias Barrera?" "A Latino boy killed an African-American girl." "Are you at all concerned that if you don't prosecute it may ignite tensions in the neighborhood?" "We know this was in no way racially motivated." "I'm sure no responsible member of the press would even think to put that kind of slant on it." "He hung her out to dry." "No matter what she does to Elias, it's lose, lose." "Half the city's going to hate her." "The other half won't be turning back flips." "I talked to the Barreras, Elias was formally expelled from school." " The State sent a tutor." " Don't let that get out." "The state of our educational system people will be killing to get one." "Is there anything we can do for Cabot?" "We've exhausted the pool of sacrificial heads for the platter." "It's out of our hands." "She needs to look at alternate solutions." "Liz, my career's on the line here." "And a little boy's future." "Believe me, I haven't forgotten about him." "I can't believe my boss did this to me." "That's what they do at the boy's club." "Why do you think I left?" "What would you do?" "I really shouldn't discuss the particulars with you while I'm on retainer by the defense." "Hypothetically." "I wouldn't make him another throw-away kid and just warehouse him." "I'd put him in supervised counseling." "That's not going to sate the public's bloodlust." "Someone has to be punished." "You know, I had a political future at one point." "Alex, the historical figures I respect the most aren't the ones who started wars, but those who brought about peace." "You have a real opportunity here." "Family Court Capacity Hearing Monday, November 13" "The respondent clearly understands the difference between right and wrong." "At the time he pulled the trigger, he knew what he was doing." "He intended to cause physical injury or death to the boys at the fence." "Yes, he absolutely knows what's going on here." "He understands the role of the court he understands the role of the Judge he knows his attorney is here to help him." "He has the capacity to assist in his own defense." "Dr. Olivet, have you reviewed the State examiners' reports?" "I have." "Well, do you concur with their findings?" "They're absolutely right." "He does understand the procedures of the court and he knows his conduct was wrong." "But in my assessment, the minor... he knows it was wrong, but at the time he pulled that trigger, he did not." "I have no more questions." "Dr. Olivet, you're familiar with the People's exhibit "H"?" "Very familiar." "I had him draw it." "And what exactly did you ask him to draw?" "A portrait of himself at the time of the crime." "There was no mention of fire in the police report." "He added that to the picture when I asked what he thought should happen to him." "And what do the flames represent?" "Hell." "That's taking the consequences of his actions to the ultimate extreme, isn't it?" "Obviously, he has the capacity to understand." "All children have some grasp of right and wrong." "I've seen children younger than seven who believe they're going to hell because they told a fib." "How do you explain his lapse in judgment at the time he pulled the trigger?" "He was in mortal fear." "Not only that, he was imitating behavior." "He had seen these men wave a gun to scare people, and he did the same." "He just wanted them to go away." "He was imitating behavior without understanding it the danger, risks, or morality." "And on what exactly do you base your findings on his capacity?" "Solely on his age and development." "He's 7 years old." "Thank you." "You may step down." "Your Honor... the People defer to Dr. Olivet's findings... that the minor lacked the capacity to understand the consequences of his actions and therefore should not be held responsible." "The People are withdrawing charges?" "It's clear the respondent lacked the mens rea to commit a crime." "Therefore, we will not pursue the case." "I know some of you are not happy with today's decision." "But there's something I'd like you to hear." "We heard you loud and clear." "The killers of black children get off scot-free!" "This cycle of violence has got to stop somewhere." "Let it be here." "I'm Carly Jackson's mother." "I know you're all here out of concern." "And I thank you." "But I have a favor to ask." "Go home." "Take care of your children." "Teflon." "I'm just glad the city isn't burning." "You more than survived, you're a hero." " Congratulations." " Thanks." "Actually, my boss is so happy, he said I could take Sunday off." "We were on our way to McMullen's." "How about we buy you a congratulatory drink?" "Sure. / Great." "Hey, Cap, you coming?" "Police, coming through." "Neighbors jumped him." "Would have killed him if we hadn't been a block away." "Who is he?" "A relative?" " Outraged citizen." " How old is he?" "Twelve." "Name's Thomas James." "Goes by TJ." "Anyone see it happen?" "Best we can put together, he tried to join a group of kids playing ball." "They shunned him." "He walks off, alone." "That's when TJ shows up." "Get off me, man." "Hey, leave me alone." "Can't kill a sister and just walk." "Hey, come on, man." "Leave me alone, man." "I ain't do nothing man." "Cycle never ends, does it?" "Welcome to the Gaza Strip." "In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous" "In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as The Special Victims Unit." "These are their stories." "Morning, Maggie." "Maggie, where's my coffee?" "Maggie?" "Maggie?" "Oh, my God." "I..." "I need help." "Two victims." "Night manager, Margaret Sandomir." "As far as we can tell, she was raped and shot." "John Doe was by the trash... stabbed several times in the back, chest, and genitals." " He is on his way to Mercy." " Who called it in?" "Alvin Maddox." "Works construction." "Mr. Maddox?" "I'm Detective Benson." "How you holding up?" "I never did see a dead body in my life." "I mean, not before an undertaker got to them, you know." "I'll try to make this as quick and painless as possible." "I just need you to tell me what you saw." "I really didn't notice anything wrong until I got to the coffee pot." "There was none." "Then I saw all the blood and Maggie behind the counter." "Who would do that?" "Everybody loved her." "Did you know the other victim who was found outside?" "I didn't even see the poor bastard at first." "Almost lost my breakfast." "Mr. Maddox, I'm gonna need your shoes." "Oh, my God." "I didn't..." "I wasn't... / I just need to eliminate your footprints so I'll write you a receipt and we'll return them to you when we're done." "Are you kidding?" "Toss them or burn them." "I'll never wear them again." "Okay, sit tight." "I'll have someone take you home." "Body's been tampered with." "Shot in the back, but laying face up and the shoes are on the wrong feet." "The M.E. Said he found no trace of fluids so it looks like our guy wore a condom." "So far, too much blood and not enough forensics." "Just what I like." "A smart predator." "Okay, so we got two victims, one shot, one stabbed." "One inside, the other out on the street." "But from the looks of it, it all started in here." "If he had a gun, why the knife?" "Something went wrong." "Maybe we're looking for two perps." "Å©¸®½º ¸á·Î´Ï (¿¤¸®¾ù ½ºÅ×ÀÌºí·¯ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸¶¸®½ºÄ" ÇÏ±âÅ×ÀÌ (¿Ã¸®ºñ¾Æ º¥½¼ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸®Â÷µå º§Àú (Á¸ ¸ÕÄ¡ Çü"ç æµ)" "½ºÅ×ÆÄ´Ï ¸¶Ä¡ (¾Ë·º"êµå¶ó Ä³º¿ °Ë"ç æµ) ¾ÆÀÌ½º-Æ¼ (¿À´ÙÇÉ ÇÉ Æ©Æ©¿Ã¶ó Çü"ç æµ)" "´í ÇÃ·Î·º (µ· Å©·¹ÀÌ°Ç °æ°¨ æµ)" "Law  Order SVU 2x06 Noncompliance" "ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON NBC: 2000/11/24" "Money was still in the drawer." "$200 and change." "That's why we're thinking it's a rape that got interrupted." " Surveillance camera?" " Non-functional for some time." "It's not in a high crime area." "The owner thought its presence was deterrent enough." "Well, who's our corpse?" "Margaret Sandomir, night manager." "Works midnight to 6:00 a.m. Beloved by all." "Not entirely." "Has the family been notified?" "Mother took a sedative." "Our second vic has no ID." "Just a few dollars in his pocket and a set of keys." "So he's probably going in for a midnight snack and winds up getting stabbed in the chest and genitals instead." "Focused or frenzied attack?" "Both. / Two different guys, two different weapons so one was organized, the other one out of control." "What if we got one guy, two weapons?" "Maybe he was in control and lost it when our second victim interrupted his flow." "I'll check the computer to see if they got any hits on perps that like to carry both." "Until our victim wakes up to give us any pertinent information." "Munch, Fin, knock on doors." "If he's local, let's try to ID the guy." "Benson, Stabler, talk to the Sandomir family." "Get some background." "Sandomir Residence 356 West 19th Street Monday, November 13" "She was getting her Ph.D." "In psychology at Columbia during the day." "We thought since the market was just two blocks away that she'd be safe." "It's our neighborhood." "Everybody knows her." "Did she have any enemies?" "Was there ever any trouble?" "She did have some difficulty with one of the patients at the clinic but she assured me that was taken care of." "What patient was this?" "Maggie interned at a mental health clinic twice a week." "This man fantasized that he and Maggie had a relationship." "He stalked her." "What's his name?" "Oh, I don't remember." "There was a police report." "Maggie assured me that he wasn't dangerous." "Do you have the name of the clinic?" "H.M.H. Clinic." "Homeless Mental Health." "Hi. / Hi." "Can I help you?" " Could I see Dr. Klein?" " She's in a session." "Need about five minutes." "She'll be done in 30." "So have a seat." "Great." "Thank you." "Guy stalking our victim is Ben Moreland." "She took out a restraining order." "So much for him not being dangerous." "You want to go and come back later?" "Let's have Munch take it." "They pulled the 61 on Moreland." "He was stalking our victim for almost a month." "Became agitated when approached by uniforms." "He had box cutters taped to his hands." "One cop almost got cut." "When was this?" " Two weeks ago." " He at Rikers?" "Claims insanity." "Said the Unis had laser beams for eyes and were trying to fry him." "The judge ordered him to take his meds and sent him home." "Address is West 54th Street." "What are the odds he's still not taking his pills?" "Hello?" "Ben Moreland?" "What's this about?" "Maggie Sandomir." "I'm not allowed within 500 feet of her." "Where were you last night?" "Right here." "Why?" "Anyone with you?" "Just me and the four walls closing in." "She say I was bothering her again?" "Because I swear I wasn't." "Miss Sandomir is dead." "No." " I just talked to her." " In person?" "She called me." "Wanted to know how things were going with the new shrink." "She referred him." "She was always good to me." "I guess that's why I'm fixated." "She helped me get my disability and get off the street." " Take my meds consistent." " The court order helped, too." "You still complying?" "I take Fluphenazine." "Guess I'm supposed to live with the drooling and the shakes." "You're very talented." "Only when I'm crazy." "I haven't been able to work since they forced me to take the medication." "Is it helping?" "Depends." "I'm not hearing voices telling me to rip my own throat out." "It's supposed to make me better, so I can hold down a job." "Who the hell's going to hire me like this?" "I don't work." "I'm going to be out on the street again." "It's tragic, what happened to Maggie." " Anything I can do?" " Yes, we need a list of her patients." "Anything except that." "Doctor, we understand you'd like to protect their confidentiality but this is a rape-murder investigation." " That list won't help you." " Why not?" "These people don't have addresses." "They're scattered all over the city." "Can we get the schedule of when they're due to come in for their medication?" "So they can be traumatized by the experience?" "I betray their trust, they don't show the next time." "It's hard enough to get them to take their meds to begin with." "We can get a court order." "Then that's what you'll have to do." "I'm not unsympathetic, just protective." "And uncooperative." "My patients suffer from manic depression mood disorders, and schizophrenia." "That doesn't make them killers." "Yet there's an unbelievable stigma when most of them are not violent." "Doctor, are all of your patients under control?" "If they take their meds and work with their doctors, yes." "And if they don't?" "Instead of hounding patients struggling with their disease you should be checking the subject of Maggie's thesis." "Mark Nash." "And why doesn't he fall under your protective cover?" "Mark Nash was non-compliant." "He refused to take medication." "I absolutely believe that medication and therapy give the best possible relief for schizophrenia." "Maggie advocated a patient's right to choose." "But how can a sick mind even recognize that it's ill?" "Lab came back on our footprints." "Only three sets." "The victim outside and our witness, Maddox." "Looks like we're looking for only one perp." "Nothing on Mark Nash." "No complaints, no violence." "Nothing." "Zip." "First time for everything." "So you think the guy goes from zero to rape and murder because he's schizophrenic?" "If he's not in his right mind, hell, yes." "And who is the arbiter of mental health?" "Are you sane?" "And how do you know if you're not unless somebody tells you?" "And how do they know they're not?" "What about Moreland?" "He look good to you?" "Nothing so far." "He's got no alibi." "But I don't see him going out in that condition." "He stalked her." "If anybody's seen him lately, we'll find out." "Be hard to miss him with all the facial twitches, tremors, and drool." "Probably extra-pyramidal." "I got Maggie Sandomir's thesis from Dr. Klein." "That sounds like the side effects you get from long-term usage of anti-psychotics." "You get involuntary muscle spasms among other things." "That's why a lot of them refuse the medication." "Right, but we can't possibly know which ones are dangerous when they are gonna snap." "That's why taking their meds shouldn't be an option." "You'd suppress an individual's right to refuse medical treatment?" "For the public safety?" "Absolutely." "Our John Doe is out of surgery and awake." "So let's get his statement." "All right, keep me posted." "How's he doing?" "He still got all his parts?" "Can't this wait?" "And if he croaks in the next five minutes?" "He just came out of major surgery." "We're trying to find out who put him there." "Don't worry, this'll be short and sweet." "Sir." "Yeah." "What's your name?" "Miller." "Earl Miller." "Can we call anybody for you?" "No." "Did you get a good look at who did this to you?" "Slight... white... in 20s or 30s... brown hair... crazy." "I saw him attack that woman." "Crazy?" "What, did he say something?" "Russian something." "He spoke with an accent?" "No." "Please." "Mr. Nash?" "Mark Nash?" ""Raskolnikov..."" ""it was I..."" ""who killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister with an axe."" "Mr. Nash, I'm going to need to see your hands." ""317 rubles."" " I need to see your hands." " "60 kopecks."" "Mr. Nash, why don't you stand up slowly?" "Show me your hands." "Put your hands behind your head." "Down." "Mr. Nash, you're under arrest." " "I do not repent."" " That's great." "Mark, we already know what happened, so it's okay for you to tell us." "You had an episode." "You got all lost in your head, right?" "Did she say something or do something that set you off?" " Is that why you hit her?" " No." "No." "No." "No." "Mark, I tell you, you hit her so hard, she came out of her shoes." "You felt bad, so you tried to put them back on her feet but you got them on the wrong feet, is that right?" ""Razumihin, you think I'm mad?"" ""Have a drink." "You'll feel better."" "You've had enough for all of us." "I can still smell the beer on you." "You're not drunk, are you?" "Is Maggie dead?" "You know she is, because you killed her." "And then you stabbed a witness." "He might not make it." "I hope he's dead." " So you did stab him?" " Yes." "Mark." "Just calm down." "Mark, calm down, okay?" "We just want to help, so why don't you sit down and we'll talk?" "We won't be getting anything out of him for now." "Not while he's delusional." "Defense is going to ask for a 730." "State Examiner will keep him until he's fit for trial." "Maybe we'll get his story instead of Dostoyevsky's Crime And Punishment." "We've got enough for the assault to confine him to a state hospital." "The blood on the knife came back as Miller's." "I'd like the gun to close it up tight." "The M.E. Found two hairs on the body, follicles intact, so maybe we don't need it." "I never turn down evidence." "Munch and Fin are talking to Nash's mother in the interview room." "Let's serve her the notice while she's here, and then go toss the house." "When he didn't come, I went looking." "He didn't have his keys." "He loses them or forgets them." "I went to the market." "It was closed." "There was yellow crime scene tape over it." "I've been running everywhere trying to find my son." "In hospitals, police stations, even the morgue." "Now I'm here." "So, please, what did Mark do?" "Maggie Sandomir is dead." "She was sexually assaulted and shot in the back." "Oh, my..." "Customer came in." "Wrong place, wrong time." "He got stabbed for his trouble, but he'll make it." "My son isn't violent." "Mrs. Nash, he took a knife out of his pocket, and his clothes are stained in blood." "This is impossible." "He adores Maggie." "He was so withdrawn, and she took the time to reach him." "They spent evenings together." "Sometimes he helped her in the market." "They were close." "As close as Mark can be." "He would never hurt her." "Never." "He refuses to take any medication." "Has he ever been on anything?" "Clozapine made his white blood cells drop." "Chlorpromazine made him sleep... 18 out of 24 hours in a day." "He refuses to try again." "Does he drink?" "Yes." "I never give him much money, but he always manages to buy beer." "Did he ever show any signs of violence?" "Never." "Do you own a handgun?" "Yes." "I understand if you're afraid of him." "I bought that gun... to protect Mark against the neighborhood ignorants." "They chase him and frighten him." "They're obsessed, terrified... that he'll freak out and hurt them or their children." "The media has done an excellent job of demonizing schizophrenics so that when people look at my son they don't see a human being." "Mark doesn't scare me, Detective." "Pathetic, narrow-minded people do." "Ms. Cabot." "Matt Wooding, counsel for Mark Nash." "Alex Cabot for the People." "Nice day for a walk in the park." "Maybe." "What are you offering?" "10 years in a state hospital." "Court-monitored medication compliance for the duration." "That's a little stiff." "Six inside, remaining four on compliance." "No." "Have you seen the crime scene photos?" "You've only got him for Miller's assault." "Last I checked, he was still breathing." "Just barely and now he's missing a piece of action." "Eight inside, five on compliance." "But if I find the murder weapon, the deal's off the table." "You mean if you find a gun with Mark's prints on it, don't you?" "I'll talk to the mother." "Nash Residence 172 West 25th Street Monday, November 13" "We're looking for a.38." "Suspect's mother owns one, so concentrate on her bedroom." "I guess this is his corner." " He's got the right idea." " It just seems nutty to me." "You know, maybe it's his way of making the shows more interesting." "Maggie gave Mark Nash a chance, and it cost her, her life." "Is that your reason for doing what you did in the interview?" " What did I do?" " Well, he was starting to talk." "If we had just gone at him easy, he would've come around." "I asked the hard questions, he confessed." "They should all be that easy." "Six months out of the Academy, I worked a crime scene... where a schizophrenic hacked his father to death and then he offed himself." "Whole place was covered with blood." "Turns out he stopped taking his meds." "Look, Olivia, that is your experience with one guy." "Even shrinks can't predict their behavior." "It's for their good that they take their medication." "Okay, what are we gonna do?" "We gonna shove pills down their throats?" "If it will get the job done." "You're uncomfortable with the mentally ill." "No, I am uncomfortable with dangerous unpredictability." "I found this in her lingerie drawer." "Been fired recently?" "Arraignment Court Part 65 Wednesday, November 15" ""People versus Mark Nash."" ""The charges are one count murder in the second degree"" ""one count of rape in the first degree"" ""one count assault in the first degree."" "How do you plead?" "Not guilty." "Going for insanity." "What a surprise." "Self-defense." "Ms. Cabot?" "Your Honor, remand without bail." "The defendant is a serious threat to the community." "We'd also like a psych evaluation to determine mental competence." "Objection." "There's no reason to assess the defendant's mental health." "We will stipulate that he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia." "A debilitating disease, but not an incapacitating one." "The defendant raped and fatally shot one victim known to him and severely maimed an innocent bystander who interrupted his crime." "I want to determine whether or not his illness is a factor in the commission of these brutal crimes." "The American Psychiatric Association would strongly disagree with Ms. Cabot's narrow-minded assumption that mental illness is always a precursor to criminality." "That's very P.C., Counselor but... let's just see what the members of the A.P.A. Actually have to say about it." "Remand without bail, pending psychiatric evaluation." "The defendant reserves the right to refuse medication." "So noted." "Shouldn't have to take the poison." "Already got cyanide in my head." "Don't want any more." "It's in the water." " Mark." " Agranulocytosis." "Seizures, Tardive Dyskinesia..." "Akathisia, Dystonia, Torticollis..." "Hypotension, Parkinsonism." "Those are side effects of anti-psychotics." "Mark, is the reason you refuse medication that you prefer the world you live in to reality?" "I'd be crazy if I didn't, wouldn't I?" "Don't look at me." "Why not?" "Because you can see the books in my head." "What kind of books are they?" "Prognostication." "I do it before I see it and it's exactly like I saw it." "What do you see?" "I see the safe." "Do you understand what happened to Maggie?" "Maggie died." " She was murdered." " I know that." "She was raped, too." "Yes." "Ugly." "What is?" "How I feel about my mother." "Maggie understood... that my hatred stemmed from a matriarchal obsession with Christ." "I focus not on the crucified but... on the suffering of his mother." "Did you study psychology?" "Of course." "Sociology, theology... pathology..." "I'm an autodidact." "I sometimes hate my mother." "If it weren't for her great suffering... then I could end all this." "Do you remember exactly what happened to Maggie?" "The safe." "The combination to the safe is needed to get within it." "My life is in the safe, and the keys are needed to get within." "Where is the safe?" "Below the floor." "In hell." "I dream of angels, but I live with demons." "Miller IDed the loon out of the photo array." "Words have power, Fin." "Keep up the bad karma I see the Alzheimer's in your future." "At least I won't remember how great I used to be." "What did I miss?" "Ben Moreland's prints were found at the crime scene." "And according to DNA, the hairs found on Maggie Sandomir's body... are not Mark Nash's." "I can let you have that real cheap." "It's not yours to sell." "Mr. Moreland is three months behind in his rent." "There's an eviction process." "It's the law." "I followed every step." "Furniture's mine and so is the art." "Moreland signed an agreement before I put him out." "He said it was like Picasso paying for his meals." " Any idea where he went?" " No." "I can let you have that for $50." "Take it inside or I'm gonna have to fine you." "I haven't seen Ben Moreland since the situation with Maggie." "We found him a new clinic." " Have you checked with them?" " They haven't seen him in two weeks." "And it wasn't a situation." "He was stalking her." "I don't have time for this." "I have a lot of patients waiting to see me." "I suggest you cancel the rest of your schedule because you're going to be in lock-up for the duration." "On what charge?" "Aiding and abetting a prime suspect in a murder investigation." "Now look, Doctor... we're not asking you to reveal privileged information here." "Look, if Moreland was coming to you for his meds then that means he was homeless at the time." "So why don't you just tell us where he liked to hang out?" "Try the Shepherd's Flock Shelter." "They used to let him draw on the walls." "I think we should check out the psych wards also." "Stabler." "When did that happen?" "Thanks a lot." "Ben Moreland's in the tombs." " What for?" " Destruction of private property." "You lied to us when you said you hadn't seen Maggie." "No, I didn't." "We found your fingerprints in the market." "I lied to the other detectives, I didn't lie to you." "Did you kill Maggie Sandomir?" "I did." "I'd like to do my time at Creedmoor." "Just tell us what happened first." "I went to talk to Maggie." "I wanted her to tell that quack she sent me to change my meds." "She told me to leave before she had to call the cops." " Traitor." " That must have made you angry." "Sure." "Is that when you stabbed her?" "And then I hit her and she fell down." "And then I kicked her." "Twice." "Then what?" "Ben, how did you kill Maggie?" "You don't know?" "You know, they have an art studio there." " It's part of the therapy." " What is?" "Painting." "I could probably have my own wall." "Take a blood sample to match against the hairs." "If it comes back negative, cut him loose." "We are now down to zero suspects." "Any thoughts?" "We haven't looked at Miller." "You think our second victim's the doer?" "He's got no ID." "But wait, he just recently moved here, right?" "From New Hampshire." "They never heard of him either." "An alias?" "No hits on NCIC." "Granted it looks suspicious, but I hope there's another reason to turn the screws on one of our victims." "How about why that market when his address is 20 blocks away?" "I mean, that's a hell of a hump for a midnight snack." "When we asked, he said he was on his way home from visiting a friend." "This friend have a name?" "Oh, God." "I wonder when I can have solid food again." "So, what can I do for you?" "Just want to go over your statement." "Want to make sure we didn't miss anything." "Now you told detectives you were coming home" " from a friend's house, is that correct?" " That's right." "And the friend's name?" "Why?" " Depending on the D.A., they might want to call your friend in to testify as to what time you went home." "I thought it was a no-brainer." "I heard the guy was found with the knife in his pocket and my blood on his clothes." "Just give us his name, Mr. Miller, and we'll get out of your hair." "The thing is, I wasn't with a friend, actually." "I was with a pro." "Oh, okay." "Her place?" " Her car." " And her name?" "Why would I want to know that?" "Thanks." "Changing his story." "A prostitute in that neighborhood with a car?" " You notice his eating habits?" " It's convict posture." "It's pretty hard to shake." "Excuse me, miss." "Yes?" "Can you go into Mr. Miller's room, and remove his food tray but don't touch anything on it?" " Sure." "No problem." " Thank you." "Earl Miller's prints belong to Earl Gilmore." "Did a seven-out-of-twelve-year stretch in Sing Sing for armed robbery." "So maybe he goes in to steal... but he does Maggie instead..." "Nash is the witness, he sees the attack on his friend grabs the knife and shreds his stem." " In his mind, poetic justice." " In anybody's mind." "Any sex offense charges that didn't hold up?" "Not one." "Seven years in Sing Sing could change anybody into a sexual predator and make them smart enough to know that" "DNA can nail you if you don't use a condom." "We run Gilmore's blood from the crime scene we'll get a DNA match, I guarantee it." "It's a chain of evidence issue." "Check with Cabot." "If it's a match, it might be enough for probable cause." "Munch, Fin, head up to Ossining and get his prison file." "Can't they send it?" "And while you're there, talk to anybody who recalls the ex-con's reputation." "Some incidents just don't make it into the file." "Sing Sing Correctional Facility Ossining, New York Monday, November 20" "Earl Gilmore's file." "All you had to do is make a phone call." "I'd have sent it over immediately." "Truth is we wanted a drive in the country." "Gilmore cause any problems?" "The usual disruptions." "Nothing serious, or we'd have flagged him before parole." "Which guards were assigned to Gilmore's cellblock?" "Why?" "We'd like to talk to them and get some background on the prisoner." "Best people to do that are the ones that eyeballed him every day." "I don't think that's necessary." "All the information you need is in that file." "Now, if you'll excuse me." "I haven't seen tap dancing like that since Bring In 'Da Noise." "He's protecting his flank." "He wants no appearance that they paroled a convict with violent tendencies back into the unsuspecting population." "It says right here the shift changes at four." "Guard named Wheeler comes on then." "You want to wait?" "Why him?" "He filed most of the petty complaints." "He might've objected to the hump's early release." "You suppose we can get a home address on Wheeler?" "I'll wait right here while you go back and ask." "Gary Wheeler?" "You Wheeler?" "Yeah. / You remember an ex-con named Earl Gilmore?" "Got out last year." "Should've done the whole bit." "Why you say that?" "Was he a hard ass?" "When he rotated in, he had the usual bluster right up until lights out." "His cell mate initiated him into life at Sing Sing." "How bad was that?" "Fourteen stitches and a week in the infirmary. / Ouch." "It went from bad to worse till Gilmore decided to pump up." "Smuggled in steroids instead of the regular contraband." "Steroids made him more aggressive?" "And strong as hell." "He never once lifted a finger against the guards but when the new meat arrived, he was on it like a hungry dog." "Blood matches the hairs." "But don't arrest him yet." "Why not?" "It's all circumstantial." "I don't have the murder weapon and" "I need a credible witness to charge him with rape." " Mark Nash is a witness." " I said credible." "He's psychotic." "Even if I wanted to I couldn't instruct a jury to disregard his delusions." "So you're saying you can't win with what we've given you." "You ever hear of reasonable doubt?" "I need the gun." "Fast Stop Market 648 West 23rd Street Monday, November 20" "This is exactly where Gilmore was found." "I don't see him getting very far in his condition." "He's laying here, he slips the gun in with the rest of the garbage." "He's home free." "Wait a minute, there was more garbage here before." "Yeah." "Trash is collected every Wednesday, if we're lucky." "That was last week?" "What company do you use?" "Hell if I know." "Lassiter." "Lassiter Sanitation." "Is it possible to pinpoint exactly where it is now?" "Sure." "Each truck carries 22 tons of garbage." "It takes 70, 80 trucks to fill a barge." " Sounds like we're wasting our time." " Trust me." "Whatever you're looking for, we'll find it." "Look, even with 800 tons of garbage in a barge" "I know exactly where each of my trucks are off-loaded." "We'll just cart it to Staten Island, have the Hazmat guys sift through it." " When did we do the pickup?" " Last Wednesday." "I'm sorry, I can't help you." "Why not?" "Where's the barge now?" "Somewhere down river, on its way to Virginia." "You cannot force Mr. Nash to take anti-psychotics." "He has rights." "One of those rights is the right to refuse medication." "Isn't there any way to use the assault charge to force him?" "He exhibited a violent reaction against someone." "Doesn't that constitute a danger to himself and others?" "Until I can prove it, no." "He hasn't been convicted of anything." "What about his mother?" "His mother has instructed their attorney that under no circumstances is her son to receive medication." "She's certain it's his wish, and she's adamant about it." "Then we're out of options." "Gilmore walks on murder, and the witness goes to jail for knifing him." "Rikers... can't be all that comfortable for Mr. Nash." "I can't imagine it's fun for anybody." "Why?" "The general population wouldn't be sensitive to his disease." "You want me to cut him a deal so he can go home." "In order to prove self-defense your client has to testify on his own behalf and I don't see him doing that without medication." "You have a suspect." "Earl Gilmore, ex-con, out on parole." "He went up once for armed robbery." "That's why he went in that market." "There was no money missing, so it's just conjecture... unless I get a lucid statement from your client saying otherwise." " My client refuses medication." " Then he's going to prison." "I've got him cold for assault one." "What are you selling, Ms. Cabot?" "I'll rule it justifiable in exchange for a statement about the entire event." "You want him on medication." "An injection of an anti-psychotic that'll last about a month." "Risks?" "Without psychiatric care, Mr. Nash will be ill equipped to deal with reality." "And any medication carries the risk of side effects." "Why such a long-acting injection?" "If I need Mr. Nash for trial, he's medicated." "If I get a confession from Gilmore, the drug will wear off and he could go back to his psychosis if that's what he still wants." "No." "No." "No." "I think you just got your answer." "Who did that to your face, Mr. Nash?" "Would you like to go home?" "Yes." "I want to go home." "You have to agree to take your medication, or you have to stay here." "I'll take the medication." "I'd rather talk to you guys anyway." "Gonna do a lineup or something?" "No, you picked him out of the photos." "No question." "That guy shanked you." "But he tells a different story, so we were wondering if you wanted to amend your statement." "You're going to listen to a nut job over me?" "You said when you entered the store you didn't see anything right away, is that correct?" " Yeah." " You went to get a six-pack." "That's when you see the guy behind the counter over the victim, right?" "That's what I told you." "So why didn't he just shoot you?" "He came after me." "I ran, ducking between the aisles." "Maybe he couldn't get a shot off." "I don't know." "Is that when he stabbed you in the back?" " Yeah." "Hurt like a bitch, too." " You buy that?" " Yeah." "What if you're our perp?" "You get stabbed, there's a big struggle." "Somehow you manage to escape." "You've lost a lot of blood you collapse, crawl to the street because you've got to get rid of the gun put it in the trash, that was smart." "I don't know, Munch." "If I'm Gilmore and I got a gun... why don't I just shoot the guy with the knife?" "He thinks he's alone." "Clerk's dead, so he put the gun in his pocket but when he got attacked he couldn't get to it, fending off knife blows from behind." "How's that sound?" "I want a lawyer." " Don't give my son anything." " Mrs. Nash, he agreed to this." "Because you forced him." "You already know what happened in the market that night." "Mark's done nothing wrong." "Why are you doing this?" "Ma'am, because he is the witness to Maggie's death." "We can't make our case without him." "So you treat him like a criminal." "You never asked him." "You hold a gun to his head and you have the audacity to say that he agreed." "Prison or this." "Mark, you don't have to do this..." "Mom. / I'll figure something out." "They told me... / I will find a way to keep you out of jail." "I can't go back." "The bars." "There's microwaves in the bars, so they can read your mind." "They put razors in the food." "I spit up blood." "He signed an agreement." "He didn't know what he was doing." "You would have to get a competency hearing to supersede his rights." "Months." "It would take months." "I talked to Maggie." "She told me she wanted to die." "You cut me!" "Show me your cards." "Seven years in prison turned your client into a sexual predator." "Really?" "How do you prove it?" "I find and put every man he raped in prison on the stand." "Not without making a lot of deals." "I don't think the public would appreciate it." " Next?" " He was at the scene." "He likes to shop there." "So what?" "So I've got a potential witness." "And what else?" " DNA." " Not possible." "Your client is a very stupid man." "Who you calling stupid, you scum-sucking bitch?" "Plead to life now... or wait for my witness's statement and end up with a potassium chloride cocktail." "Ten minutes." "Do you remember what happened that night?" "Maggie was killed." "Did you see anyone enter the market?" "No." "I usually stayed in the cold case." "I like beer." "I heard a loud pop." "That's when I saw the guy." "He was standing over Maggie." "Her pants were down, but she wasn't moving." "Did you see him rape her?" "No." "But I know he did it." "He was exposed." "He was searching through her pockets..." "looking for the keys to the safe." "Where's the safe?" "It's in the floor behind the counter." "I didn't know if Maggie was still alive." "That's when I grabbed the knife and stabbed him." "Did he have a gun?" "I saw the bulge." "It was in his pocket." "He lifted his hands to fight me so I stabbed him lower." "When he went down, I went to Maggie." "I didn't see him leave." "Mark... was Maggie already dead?" "I couldn't let anyone see her like that." "I know she wouldn't have liked it." "So I did what I could... and then I had to get away." "Why didn't you call the police?" "Why didn't you wait?" "For what?" "My friend was dead." "He did that to her... and she didn't yell for me." "While he brutalized her... threatened her with a gun... she didn't make a sound." "Not once." "Deal's off the table." "Your client's headed for death row." "That's up to a jury." "For my sake and yours, don't talk to anybody." "Please stand up." "What's going on?" "See you in court." "Earl Gilmore you are charged with the murder and rape of Maggie Sandomir." "When I said I'd have dinner with you, I thought we might be sitting." "We'll sit in the car." " You're a classy guy, you know that?" " Yes, I am." "Yeah, I do." "You know something?" "I'm paying for it." "It's on me, don't worry." "Stabler." " Be right there." " What?" "Here." "Let's go to the hospital." "I'm Dr. Warner." "You the SVU detectives?" "Yeah, Stabler." "This is Benson." "What happened?" "Strangulation." "Belt around the neck and hospital bed post." "He asphyxiated." "Very effective." "Why would he..." "The meds made him lucid." "But with the voices gone, so were his friends." "Loneliness led to depression and then to suicide." "You can't face a reality you're not used to living in." "His parents been contacted?" "His mother's coming down to ID the body." "Mrs. Nash..." "I'm so sorry." "Go to hell." "In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous." "In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as The Special Victims Unit." "These are their stories." " Yes, I am!" " No!" "You're not!" "Shut up, you witch!" "What the hell are you doing, going through my things for?" "You're a liar!" "You said you'd never do that again!" "This is the last time, you creep." "I can't wait till you die, so I can spit on your corpse, you freak!" "No." "No." "No!" "Come here." "You want to talk?" "Let go of me." "SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT SQUAD ROOM MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25" "Think of your body as part of the crime scene." "Time and body fluids erode evidence." "The procedure is we head to the hospital, and then I'll take your statement." "So basically the bastard rapes me, and you waste time." " That's the procedure?" " Ma'am..." " Look here, Officer..." " Det." "Munch." "Perhaps you'd be more comfortable with a female detective." "I'd be happy to talk to anyone with a brain." "There are five stages of grief." "Try not to go through them all at once." "Cute." "I'll talk slower." "I don't need SOP explained to me..." "I don't need a rape kit... and I really don't need you to hold my hand!" "Look, it doesn't matter if you've had prior" " consensual sex with this man." " Sure." "Doesn't even matter if you're still in a relationship with him." "He's my husband." "You and I need to see a doctor." "As soon as you give me an address... we can pick up your husband." "He's at Manhattan South." "Sgt. Lloyd Andrews, Homicide." "ÇÑ±Û¹ø¿ª ÀåÁøÈñ(jinny_chang@lycos.co.kr)" "Å©¸®½º ¸á·Î´Ï (¿¤¸®¾ù ½ºÅ×ÀÌºí·¯ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸¶¸®½´Ä" ÇÏÁöÅ×ÀÌ (¿Ã¸®ºñ¾Æ º¥½¼ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸®Â÷µå º§Àú (Á¸ ¸ÕÄ¡ Çü"ç æµ)" "¹Ì¼Ð Çãµå (¸ð´ÏÄ" Á¦ÇÁ¸®½º Çü"ç æµ)" "¾ÆÀÌ½º-Æ¼ (¿À´ÙÇÉ ÇÉ Æ©Æ©¿Ã¶ó Çü"ç æµ)" "½ºÅ×ÆÄ´Ï ¸¶Ä¡ (¾Ë·º"êµå¶ó Ä³º¿ °Ë"ç æµ)" "´í ÇÃ·Î·º (µ· Å©·¹ÀÌ°Ç °æ°¨ æµ)" "Law  Order SVU 2x07." "Asunder" "ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON NBC: 2000/12/01" "You care to join us, Detective?" "I'd love to, but I've got reports to file and coffee to make." "Regardless of your personal feelings," "I want you on my team." "But only for as long as you want to be here." "It's nice to be wanted." "Well, these aren't going to file themselves." "So?" " Patricia Andrews claims her husband raped her this morning." "She's got a sprained wrist, but nothing much else to suggest physical abuse." "She doesn't need the beat-up to prove it." "It's gonna need more than her word, because my partner..." "conveniently forgot to mention our guy's Homicide, Manhattan South." "I didn't mention it, 'cause it's not important, at least not to me." "Twenty-year vet, citations a sheet long, high closure rate." "Along with making the brass very happy, the guy's also a rapist." " Alleged rapist, thank you." " Ever hear of "no"?" "You ever hear of contractual abandonment?" "The only reason to forsake all others is so you don't have to hear "no."" "I've been married 16 years." "I hear it all the time." "Okay, Munch, let me clue you in, a wife as property went out in 1984... when the law finally realized that even a married woman is allowed to say no." "We get Mrs. Andrew's statement?" "She sign it?" "Not yet." "It's being typed." "Let's talk to her." "Make sure she knows what the score is." "Are you doubting what happened or her commitment?" "I don't have his side of the story, and this suspect is a cop." "So Internal Affairs is going to be all over this." "I just don't think his badge should cushion the blow." "Have you ever rubbed IAB the wrong way?" "I've never had the pleasure." "Then do it my way." "You two, canvass the neighbors." "Get some background on the happy couple." "John, you and your partner have a chat with the missis." "I will apprise the powers that be." "You know, if it turns out that he did in fact rape her... and we didn't follow standard op, we're going to get buried in it." "That's going to happen regardless." "There's no smoking in government buildings." "Please read your statement carefully, then sign." "Where's your husband right now?" "Every day he plays pick-up ball with some cop friends before his shift." "Before you put pen to paper, I want to hear it again in your own words." "Why?" " You're going to have to get used to telling your story." " Are you married?" " No, ma'am." "I know you're not." "Who'd have you?" "Are you always this pleasant?" "Meaning, I got what was coming to me?" "That's not how I see it, Mrs. Andrews." "Nobody deserves this." "We've been married five years." "I just don't understand." "I've seen him get crazy, but never like this." "We fight, we make love." "I almost don't believe it myself." "Maybe he thought you were making up." "Is that possible?" "A chokehold is not foreplay for me, Detective." "And a pot to the head turns him on?" "You're not going to do a damn thing to him." "No, not a damn thing." "If your story holds up, I'm gonna have to arrest him, Mrs. Andrews... put cuffs on him, process him, and lock him up in a cage." "I just want to make sure you understand that." "What do you take me for?" "HOME OF CYRUS PARKER 211 EAST 24TH STREET MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25" "I wasn't expecting company." "What's this about?" "We wanted to ask you about your neighbors next door." "Well, have a seat, please." "Do you know the Andrews?" " Who?" " They live on the first floor." "Mrs. Andrews, she's about 5'5", 110, blond hair." "Mr. Andrews is a cop." "You mean the Springers." "No, we mean the Andrews." "People around here barely want to make eye contact... so you can forget about introductions." "They're the Springers to me." "Better than the show." "I take it, that means that they fight a lot." "Every day." "Sometimes the cops come." "He pulls them aside." "Then they leave." "I always wondered if he paid them off." "Did they fight this morning?" "He left the house, trying to get away from her." "She came through the door and threw a pot." "That woman's got a hell of an aim." "Did you see him strike her?" " No." "But he turned around and snatched her inside." "Did you see or hear anything else?" " No." "Did something bad happen?" "Gentlemen." "Det." "Santiago, my partner, Det." "Howard, Internal Affairs." "Nice to meet you." "Just give me the word." "Is it mine, or do I kick it to you?" "We're not equipped to deal with sex crimes." "Have a nice day." "You know, I'd be sore, too." "I'm not following." "We know IAB used you to bring down your mentor." "We just want you to know those were the old days." "That is truly comforting." "We're not here to grind your wheat." "Just do us a favor, take it slow and easy." "Finesse and kid gloves." "Since when does IAB care about finesse?" "Come on, give us a break." "The guy's not on the take, skimming drugs, or pimping on the side." "Isn't it enough that we kiss their collective PC ass?" "What's next, castration?" "We marry them just to have it available." "So tell me, how do you rape a wife?" "Okay." "Thanks." "We got four domestic disputes at the Andrews' residence." "Dispo'd at the scene." "No arrests." "Same uniforms, Clarkson and Powell." " Are they on tour?" " Just signed out for a break." " No arrests?" " Nope." " Thanks." "Have a nice day." " Powell and Clarkson?" "So the groom's mother goes to the bride's mother and asks:" ""Why is the bride smiling?"" "'Cause she never has to get on her knees again." "Old joke." "Do you mind?" "Det." "Benson, I'm Det." "Stabler, SVU." "We want to talk to you about the dirs at the Andrews' place." "Right." "Nothing to it." "Handled at the scene each time." "The last one out, we told the sarge... if it happened again, we'd have no choice." "Why?" "Well, four times is three times too many." "You see abuse, you take action, right?" "He's a fellow officer." "He asked a favor, we gave it." "So you look the other way no matter what?" "Is that in your cop manual?" "Because it sure as hell ain't in mine." " What gives?" " You didn't do your job." "And because you didn't, we caught it." "And since it rolls downhill, I figured you're next." "Sarge and his wife fight, loud and hard." "Names they call each other, I wouldn't say to a hump in the back of my cruiser." "It blows real hot, then it's over." "Besides, if we really wanted to do him a favor... we'd run his old lady in, no matter what he said." "Okay, wait a minute, you're telling us that his wife's the abuser?" "Don't know if I'd say that." "But when she gets ticked off, she likes to throw whatever's handy." "Well, how real does it look?" "It's hard to say." "Break up to make up." "Wife's a bit of a bruiser, Andrews seems to be handling it." "By raping her?" "I'm not a fly on their bedroom wall." "That's too bad. 'Cause what's this cop going to say when we ask?" ""I raped my wife." "Please, put me in jail."" "Why don't we let the ADA decide?" "It looks like she might not have to." "For the first time in my career, IAB acts like they want to flush it." "So either there's some other agenda, or this could come back to bite us." "Bring Andrews in for an interview." "I don't think we can, without some SBA lawyer turning him into a deaf-mute." "Any other ideas?" "If it's not official, it's not going to hold up." "I'm not looking for a confession, Elliot." "I just want to get a read on this guy before he gets wise." " Pick him up. " " I got him." " Take it up." "It's all you." "Who's next?" "Lloyd Andrews, Homicide." "Ceasar Vasques out of Vice." " Danny Tatum, he's one of mine." " Elliot Stabler, SVU." "Sex crimes." "I hear that's a tough gig." "I hear they rotate you guys out every two years." "Is it really that rough?" "Well, Homicide's no picnic, either, right?" "A body's past caring whether you close a case or not." "Live victims are needy." "Takes a real strong cop to suck it up." " Two on two?" " Yeah, you're on my team." "Take it to the hole." " What the hell was that?" " What's the matter?" "There's no fouls on the blacktop." "What's the matter?" "Can't you take it?" "Hey, come on, guys." "Let's play ball." "Your ball." "Knock it off." "Come on." "Move!" "Calm down, man." "Knock it off." "Okay, what'd I miss?" "Tatum's trying to give you a message, all right?" "But I don't operate that way." "He and I will have words later." "You okay?" "I guess I don't understand his language." "Don't you?" "Why don't you spell it out for me?" "I'll tell you what." "You can ask me all the questions you want after the game." "Questions?" "Rape, right?" "And maybe the guy was telling me what I wanted to hear... but he seemed pretty genuine to me." "Was this before or after his goon kicked your ass?" "Andrews did know that we were looking into him." "Okay, yeah, well." "So his partner got overly enthusiastic." "Andrews stepped in and saved the other eye, didn't he?" "I'd like to believe that Fin would show me the same kind of loyalty." "A little history first, might help your case." "So all we have thus far, is a physically abusive woman crying rape." "Is that the gist?" "What motive could she have for saying that her husband raped her?" "Pending divorce, for one." "You don't have to worry about fighting over which half you get... when the mate you hate's locked in a cell." "We already checked that." "No papers were filed." "All she has to do is wait." "We get rid of him for her, then she files." "What?" "Yeah, we're on the way." "A unit was dispatched to the Andrews' residence." "Assault with a deadly weapon." "A Mr. Parker called it in." "You touch me again, I'll cut your pig heart out!" "Why aren't you in jail?" "Get away, you stupid bitch." "I should wait till you're asleep and set you on fire!" "You better kill me, or I'll do you without leaving a mark!" " You freak!" " Hey!" "Look out!" "Let's go." "Come on." " Take it easy!" " Get off!" " Take it easy." " I'm taking her in." "I don't think so." "I've got it from here." " Okay." "I'm all right." " Get off of me!" "Listen, this isn't helping you at all." "Let's go, let's get up here." "All right." "Just take a breath." "Calm down." " Why isn't he in jail?" " Calm down." "You again." "What is it this time?" "Or do you answer dirs now?" "I'm going to need you to come on down and answer some questions." "I think I need a lawyer." "Yeah, I think so, too." "You call this finesse?" "I've had calls from the brass... wanting to know did I orchestrate an undercover operation with SVU... and the press has already gotten a whiff of it." "What kind of Mickey Mouse Club is this?" "(µðÁî´Ï "çÀÇ ¾î¸°ÀÌ TV ¼î)" "See, actually I hate that little, black rodent." "Now, Dick Tracy, that was a club." "(À¯¸íÇÑ ¸¸È­ Ä³¸¯ÅÍ·Î Çü"çÀÓ)" "You got this great decoder ring and a really cool watch." "Are you going to say something, Ms. Cabot?" " Like what?" " Protocol." "Like, if you're charging a sergeant with rape." "Like, if you would rein in your squad... and if you could be so kind as to keep us informed as to status." "Very well." "Charging Andrews prior to his making a formal statement is premature." "Am I sweeping it under the rug, as you'd prefer?" "No." "And I strongly advise you to discontinue obstructing this unit from doing its job." "Or I will be more than happy to file charges... naming you and your partner as coconspirators." "IAB is here, strictly in a supervisory capacity." "Not anymore." "You may consider yourselves officially updated." "Let the record show that I will not talk to you without my lawyer." " Okay, interview's over." " Yeah." "All right." "But maybe we should clear this up, so we can all get back to work." "Your wife already told us what happened." "So now we'd just like to hear it from you." " What did she say?" " That you raped her." "Now, before you deny it, let's just sit down and go through the sequence of events." "All right, fair enough." "I've been working steady midnights for a while." "I come home, I'm tired." "Right away she starts in on me." " She swears that I got a piece on the side." " And do you?" "Yeah, so?" " So why do you think she'd accuse you of rape?" "It doesn't take a genius." "And she's pissed." "You know, it's always something with her." "Either I don't love her, or I smother her." "You guys figure it out, because she's driving me nuts." "Divorce is a hell of a better option than rape." "I did not rape my wife." "And he comes sauntering home like nothing happened." "So why'd you stay there?" "Where should I go?" "It's my house, my things." "I did nothing wrong." "You cut him with a kitchen knife, and you threw a baton into the crowd." "I was scared when he walked in like that." "You know, I thought he was in jail." "You got anybody you could stay with?" "Family, friends?" "You said you would arrest him." "So what happened?" "I walked away." "Things were getting out of hand." "Tempers were hot." "So what does that freaking cow do?" "She hurls a pot and nails me with it." "But you didn't keep walking." "You grabbed her and went back inside." "I sure as hell did." "So that's when you raped her." "Nice try, but, no." "I started packing her bags." "That lease is under my name." "I'll be damned if I let her run me out of my house... screaming, threatening me with kitchen utensils." "What does that mean?" "Threatening you with kitchen utensils?" "She came after me with a knife." "I disarmed her." " And how'd you do that?" " Standard academy move." "Come on, guys." "Don't you get it?" "She's crazy." "Patricia hasn't been right since we found out she can't have kids." "And that's when our marriage started to go south." "So why didn't you file for divorce?" "I love him." "I want counseling." "He won't go." "But he'll have to after the trial, won't he?" "They'll make him." "If he's convicted." "We're not even sure we can charge him." "Well, who gets to decide that?" "Her name's Cabot." "So let me talk to her." "She's a woman." "She'll understand." " He raped me." " We made love." "Did you hold her down?" "Did you use a chokehold to control her?" "I don't touch my wife like that, ever." "I know I could do some serious damage." "Besides, I'm the guy with the battle scars." "But you do know how to do her without leaving a mark." "Isn't that right, Sergeant?" "It's your call." "Cut him loose." "We don't arrest him now, we send a message to every wife... that if she's raped by her husband, she'd better get beat up, too." "What do you want me to do about it?" "Book him." "Let a jury decide who they believe." "I don't even have enough to get past the grand jury." " Alex." " Walk him." " You have business here?" " Yeah, Captain, I do." " Is my sergeant pinched?" " That doesn't concern you." "I don't know who you work for... but in my department we watch out for each other." "Maybe riding the desk, you forget." "Well, I enforce the law, and the only thing I ride is any hump who breaks it." "Feeling wood for my buddy?" "I am now, cheap shot." "Get out of my squad room before I lodge a complaint with your lieutenant." "Who do you think sent us over here?" "Is he charged or not?" "He's free to go." "Sarge?" "I want my wife charged with assault." " Lloyd." " Right." "Do it." "How can he do this?" "I don't know, but I'll ask him." "Count on it." "Come on." "Come on, let's go." "You mind?" "I told Lloyd I would quit." "Now's a good a time as any." "It's a bad habit." "Although, some are worse than others." "My wife has some pretty foul ones." "Thought you weren't married." "My soon-to-be ex calls me often with requests for money... and updates on the status of our uncoupling." "You hate her." "That would make it too easy." "We're not together anymore, but we still fight." "Only now, I'm not there for the tantrums." "So you bust my chops, because I remind you of her." "No, I just don't like you." "Well, at least you're honest." "So what're you doing here?" "I came here to gloat." "How're you holding up?" "I'm all right." "A little worried about Lloyd." "Never underestimate the generosity of women." "My husband likes to work midnights, so he doesn't have to sleep." "One time, I came home and Lloyd was in the kitchen... scrubbing his bullets in the sink... his gun laid out on a towel." "Is there anything you need?" "Yeah." "³×" "Would you drop by my house and check on my husband?" "Just make sure he's okay?" ""File number 248957." ""People v. Patricia Eileen Andrews, assault in the first."" "We'll waive reading, Your Honor, and enter a plea of not guilty." "The People waive bail and request ROR." "You're feeling awfully generous, Counselor." "The extenuating circumstances call for compassion." "Well, those aside... the defendant exhibited a serious lack of control... towards police and emergency personnel, by tossing a baton into the crowd." "It was an isolated incident." "We do not regard the defendant as a danger to herself or to others." "I assume defense counsel has no objection." "None, Your Honor." "If the People wish to do my job for me, who am I to argue?" "Well, however lightly our ADA... may take the endangerment of city personnel, I do not." "$10,000 bond, post with the clerk." "ONE POLICE PLAZA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27" "Unfortunate mess, this Andrews business." " How's it going?" " Well, it's like pulling teeth." "And I sure as hell could do without all the pressure that goes with it." "I'm afraid it's business as usual." "You'll sort it out." "Actually, I called you down here on another matter." "It seems that one of your detectives is filing a discrimination suit... against the department." "Jefferies." "Papers were delivered first thing this morning." "Legal is going over the complaint for merit." "And nobody's happy, and you want me to talk to her." "Unofficially, yes." "No one at One Police Plaza can talk to her without complicating the issue." "Well, I don't see how I can do anything." "She's angry... and I didn't realize how angry till right now." "Prior to this dispute, did you have a good relationship with this detective?" "Yes, I believe I did." "But now you're not so sure?" "Don, I don't think it's personal." "She hasn't named in her suit, she just wants back in the field." "Well, then, we have a problem, sir." "Because I don't think we can fold on the issue." "Well, talk to her as a friend." "And if that doesn't work?" "Make it go away, Captain." "Guess who just paid Patricia Andrews' bail?" " Her husband." "Got a call from a buddy in Processing." "I smell a recant, Counselor. / Fine." "Let's see how cute the sergeant plays it when I get him on the stand." "I thought you were dropping it." "Not enough for a grand jury." "I was, until the sergeant had his wife arrested." "He pays her bail, looks suspicious." "That I can sell." "I didn't know women got into whizzing contests." "Invite Mrs. Andrews down for a chat." "I think it's time we cleared the air." "Did your husband or any of his friends on the force threaten you?" "No." "I just don't want to go through with it anymore is all." "What made you change your mind?" "My husband could go to jail over a misunderstanding... a petty marital spat." "I can't live with that." "Just seems strange you would change your tune so easily... after singing the he-raped-me song to anybody who would listen." "I was mad." "Wouldn't have anything to do with your husband... dropping the felony assault charge, would it?" " No." " Who paid your bail?" "He's a good guy." "Really." "According to you, your husband's a first-class arrogant jackass... who put you in a chokehold and took what no man has a right to." "And he apologized for that!" "You know, all I ever wanted was for him to put himself in my place." "You know, he's never really said "I'm sorry" about anything." "This was genuine." "What did he say exactly?" "He said:" ""I'm sorry I raped you, Patty." ""It is unforgivable."" "And to give him another chance." " Those were his exact words?" " Yes." "So you see why I have to drop this, okay?" "I feel like we're starting over." "For the first time in our marriage, he's trying to feel my pain." "You can't make me change my mind." "I love him." "He admits it... and you respond by trying to recant." "That's not love, that's psycho." "Think whatever you want." "I'm not crazy enough to lose my husband just 'cause you want to believe me now." "Can I go?" "Well, I can charge her with filing a false police report... but what I'd really like to do is charge her with felony assault." "You just want to put somebody in jail, is that it?" "No." "I want to force her hand a little." "I don't see Andrews refiling just to make your day." "He won't have to if we can find another witness to the attack." "I heard them fighting so I called the police." "I didn't see anything." "We were told it was assault with a deadly weapon." "The only way the dispatcher could have known that is if you told her so." "Sgt. Andrews won't find out it was me?" "Not a word you say." "Now, did you see the attack?" "She had a knife." "She cut him." "Assault two, Ms. Cabot?" "You're reaching" "Not at all." "Your client cut her husband." "I've got the knife, her prints, and a witness." "That's three years in Bedford Hills." "And trust me, it is not the country-club setting it sounds like." "What happened to compassion?" "Motive for the assault was fear of reprisal." "She recanted, so it's moot, along with my compassion." "Tell you what, I'll bump it down to assault three." "That'll shave 18 months." "What do you want?" "I want an indictment for rape in the first degree... and the only way I'm going to get it, is with your client in front of a grand jury." "This is blackmail." "No, Mrs. Andrews, it's the law." "MANHATTAN SOUTH HOMICIDE TASK FORCE 4TH PRECINCT THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28" "We're busy." "In my pocket is a warrant for your arrest." "Don't make me Mirandize and cuff you in here." " Hold this for me." " What the hell is going on here?" " I thought this was settled." " Evidently not." "You want to get out of my way?" "Thanks, buddy." ""File number 25527." "People v. Lloyd David Andrews." ""One count of rape in the first degree..." ""one count of sexual misconduct in the first degree..." ""and one count of sexual abuse."" "How do you plead?" "Not guilty, Your Honor." "The People ask that bail be set at $50,000." " What?" " Quiet!" "This is a venal attempt to further smear my client who has ties to the community." "He's a respected member of New York's finest... and would like nothing but his day in court to answer these specious accusations." "We ask that he be remanded under his own recognizance." "Your Honor, this is a heinous crime." "The People are not prepared to send the message... that officers of the law get a free ride." "You are not a messenger, Ms. Cabot." "So save your button-pushing for the trial." "Enter a plea of not guilty, and since the defendant is not a flight-risk, he's ROR." "Your Honor, the People ask for an order of protection... and that the defendant surrender all weapons." "So ordered." "Let's talk." "Sex abuse one, three years." "Let's not fight." "Submit your congratulations and be done with it." "Don't be hasty, Sam." "I'm offering to drop this to a D felony." "You obviously don't gamble." "You don't fold a winning hand." "My guy's walking away from this unscathed." "I'm just trying to save us both some time." "All you've got is a bitter wife." "You put her on the stand, the recant goes in the record... along with her witnessed physical attacks on my client." "Why are you fighting this?" "Because he did it." "And he doesn't deserve his freedom, and he doesn't deserve to wear a badge." "When did he confess exactly?" "A few days ago, to his wife." "Privileged." "Where's your case?" "In the courtroom, in front of a jury." "Didn't I tell you, we're going bench, not jury." "Come on, Alex, don't be a sore loser." "Drop the charges and send the kiddies to counseling where they belong." "No." "For the egg on your face." "ARRAIGNMENT COURT TRIAL PART 26 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29" "Do you recognize this internal report, Det." "Munch?" "Yes, it's the report of an interview I conducted with the victim..." "Patricia Andrews." "You were present at the time." "What was the purpose of the interview?" "Mrs. Andrews urgently wanted to drop the rape charges against her husband." "Did Mrs. Andrews actually say her husband didn't rape her?" "No, she did not." "So it's your testimony that the victim came into the precinct... to drop the charges and clear her husband but never refuted what happened, correct?" "She said that her husband sincerely apologized for raping her... and that was the first time in their marriage that he had done so." "Objection." "She said, he said, it's double hearsay." "Exception to hearsay." "Your Honor, the defendant admitted to the felony." "It's a statement against a penal interest." "Why would Lloyd Andrews, a 20-year vet on the Homicide Division... admit to guilt if he didn't do it?" "At the very least, the alleged apology is privileged." "By telling it to a third party, it becomes hearsay, therefore, no privilege exists." "The exception is granted." "Overruled." "Nothing further." "You threw a pot from the stove." "Was it still hot?" "No." "I didn't want to hurt him." "What happened then?" "Then he grabbed me by the back of my head, and dragged me into the house." "Go on." "Then we fought some more." "Was it physical?" "I kept hitting him, and he'd push me back." "And I'd hit him some more and..." "Did he rape you?" "I don't know." "Didn't you say he slammed you against a wall... threw his arm across your neck, and squeezed?" "Didn't you state that you almost lost consciousness?" "Didn't you tell police that he pulled your pants down... removed your panties, and raped you?" "Is that the truth, Mrs. Andrews?" "I suppose." "Yes or no?" "Yes." "Nothing further." "Mrs. Andrews, did you go to the police and recant?" "I did." "³×" "And were you facing assault one charges, and did Ms. Cabot offer you a deal..." " in exchange for your testimony?" " Yes." " Then why are we here?" " Objection." "Withdrawn." "Mrs. Andrews, didn't you decide to drop the rape charge... after your husband dropped the assault charges against you?" "That's not how it was, you bitch!" "You're twisting everything around!" "Watch the language." "In fact, didn't you suddenly have a change of heart... after having a long conversation with your husband?" "Answer the question, or I can arrange accommodations for you to think about it." "Yes." "³×" "We've been married for five years." "And for the most part... we've been pretty happy, but lately it's been hell." "How many times have the police been called to your residence?" "Four." "My wife loses control." "She's the batterer, Mr. Andrews." "Why have you been protecting her?" "I love her." "I couldn't see her get locked up over something that's my fault." "She's the one who throws heavy objects." "She grabs the knife and attacks." "Why is it your fault?" "I haven't always been the best husband." "I've cheated on her, I don't always come home." "I wouldn't, either." "Withdrawn." "Did you force your wife to have sex with you?" " No." "Did you put her in a chokehold or in any way touch her with excessive force?" "No, I did not." "Since the physical evidence bears witness to that... why would your wife accuse you of such a despicable crime?" "I had promised to cut off a yearlong relationship." "I didn't, and she found out about it." "But I've since stopped seeing the woman." "I love my wife." "Then why would you apologize for rape, if you didn't do it?" "My wife can't let anything go." "She's got to be right, always." "I'd rather lie and tell her that..." "I'm sorry for something that I didn't do... than fight about it for the rest of my life." "I just want some peace, and I don't know a husband in the world who doesn't." "Nothing further." "Mr. Andrews... did you or did you not tell your wife... you could do her without leaving a mark?" "That's not what I meant when I said..." "Let me remind you I can call any number of city personnel... who witnessed this statement." "Did you or did you not threaten your wife with bodily harm?" "The heifer told me that she was going to torch me!" "What the hell was I supposed to say?" "That heifer is supposed to be the woman you love?" "Sexual misconduct, and he's out of a job." "Don't be ridiculous." "You haven't won." "I'd say I've evened the odds considerably, or you wouldn't be here." "Deal, Alex." "At least concede that these two people should never be married... especially not to each other." " That's not my concern." " Well, it should be." "Hell of a railroad job on what he said in the heat of the moment." "Got me thinking about the fights with my wife." "What people might say." "Sometimes I want to kill her." "If she dies, then you've got a problem." "D felony, still on the table." "Three years, he'll be out in one." "With a sex-offender tag dragging him down the rest of his life." "You wanted to see me, Captain?" "So here I am." "Have a seat." "If you don't mind, I'd rather stand." "I have a feeling I'm not going to like what I hear." "It's not official." "Just you and me." "Now, I know these last couple of months have been difficult for you." "I know you think we're the enemy." "So this is about my lawsuit?" "Have you thought this through?" "The politics and the stink, how hard they're going to try to make this for you... has that crossed your mind?" "The only thing on my mind is the presumptuous attitude... about my private life." "What I do on my own time, is not fodder for this department." "This unit isn't like any other in the department." "Not all the same rules apply, Jefferies." "You know that." "No." "All I know is that when it hit the fan, you ducked." "You're my responsibility, and you're an integral part of my squad." "I did not agree with their conclusion, but I did agree that you need help." "What does my personal life have to do with my work or the way I do it?" "The way I see it, it's the equivalent of you trying to eat your gun... and I can't let that happen." "Then I don't think we have anything left to talk about." "Will the defendant please rise?" "There is no doubt that spousal rape exists." "There is no doubt that a wife holds the same protection under the law... from her husband and any other male acquaintance or stranger... with regard to her own body." "But how does the law determine... if a rape actually occurred within a relationship... defined by its very nature... as normal sexual intimacy?" "Unfortunately, it cannot." "Nor should it, save corroboration or grievous injury." "Therefore, in the matter of the People v. Lloyd David Andrews... the Defendant is hereby found... not guilty of one count of rape in the first degree... not guilty, one count of sexual misconduct in the first degree... not guilty, one count of sexual abuse." "The defendant is free to go." "Well, that was a colossal waste of time." "I couldn't disagree more." "Forget about the wasted man-hours or even the taxpayers' money." "You lost." "Where's the victory in that?" "I'm the only ADA to get spousal rape past the grand jury." "I may not have won, but I changed the climate, so somebody else can." "On the other hand, the only thing you may have proven here today... is that women are still chattel." "Only if they want to be." "That's a little premature, don't you think?" "I thought a narc hotshot like you would be worth at least 60 days." "They're not mine, Captain." "I guess Jefferies didn't want to leave her gun unattended." "I'm sorry." "Me, too." "In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous" "In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as The Special Victims Unit." "These are their stories." "So you going Britney Spears on me now or what?" "Eartha Kitt." "Who?" "I gotta run." "Hi." "Where's Mom?" "Took the twins to Joey Stemple' s birthday party." "That your boyfriend?" "No." " Introduce me." " No." "How long has he been out of prison?" " Dad, stop." " What's his name?" " Ryan Witherspoon." " Witherspoon?" "He go to your school?" "He's going to post next year, okay?" "Okay, I guess he's cute." "On the LIE a multi-vehicle accident just before the mid-town tunnel has traffic clogged up..." "Is that a tattoo?" "No." "Where'd you get it?" "Well, you've got tattoos." "I was 18 and in the service." "It's henna." "It washes off." "Why didn't you just tell me that?" "I just did." "You're such a cop." "Yeah, wait till you have kids." "All the little Witherspoons." "Move." "Stay here, lock the doors, roll up that window." "Stabler, Manhattan SVU, watch yourself." "Hurry up, there's someone under there." "Get it out!" "All right, call it in, secure the scene." "Don't look at that." "Don't look at that." "It's all right." "It's all right." "Å©¸®½º ¸á·Î´Ï (¿¤¸®¾ù ½ºÅ×ÀÌºí·¯ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸¶¸®½ºÄ" ÇÏ±âÅ×ÀÌ (¿Ã¸®ºñ¾Æ º¥½¼ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸®Â÷µå º§Àú (Á¸ ¸ÕÄ¡ Çü"ç æµ) ¹Ì¼Ð Çãµå (¸ð´ÏÄ" Á¦ÇÁ¸®½º Çü"ç æµ)" "´í ÇÃ·Î·º (µ· Å©·¹ÀÌ°Ç °æ°¨ æµ)" "Law  Order SVU 2x01 Wrong is Right" "ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON NBC: 2000/10/20" "Capt. Cragen... one of your detectives reports while bar hopping picking up a suspect and having sex with him." "Another confesses to fantasies about killing suspects." "Just what kind of unit are you running, Captain?" "I was told that, whatever the results that, the actual content of these psych evaluations would be kept private." "Doctor-patient privilege is sacrosanct." "Promiscuity and fantasies of murder?" "Detectives Jeffries and Stabler will undergo further evaluation and will submit formal explanations to this committee." "I have assigned prosecutor A.D.A. Cabot to adjudicate SVU cases." "You will apprise A.D.A. Cabot of your case file asap." "If I... / Robbery unit next." "Capt. Cragen?" "Miss Cabot. / Alex." "Yeah, right, of course." "Let's not start off on the wrong foot." "My assignment to SVU preceded the behavioral problems under your command." "Behavioral problems?" " I'm trying to be polite." " Tiptoeing around the road kill?" " Where there's smoke." " Who do you sleep with, Miss Cabot?" "Are you so new at this that you haven't run into somebody you'd like to skip due process with?" "I'll apprise you asap if asap can be tomorrow." "You understand, I have behavioral issues." "Certainly." "Breakfast, then?" "Two unis and a robbery detective from the 17 were kicked over to Public Affairs." " Reevaluation stinks." " Truly." "Best crime stats in 30 years and they're reevaluating?" " It's how it works." "We get rid of the criminals they fear they start fearing us." "Public hates tough cops, until they need one." "Jeffries, my office." "You told the psychologist you slept with a suspect?" "What?" "No, that's not what I said." "Well, that's how they interpreted it." "I'm gonna limit your field time." "You're giving me desk duty?" "You need time to prepare a formal response for the Morris Commission." "I am not explaining my sex life to the Morris Commission!" "That's enough!" "I don't like it either, Monique but yelling at me is not gonna solve anything." "Jimmy Buffet in town?" "I was taking Maureen home from the beach see two uniforms fighting this fire up by Black Bank Marsh." "I stop to help turns out to be a body, gunshot wound to the head flames leaping off the crotch." "My daughter sees the whole thing." "Is she all right?" "I don't know, Kathy picked her up." "I was on the scene all night." "In Queens?" "Dump job." "Looks like the victim was shot in his West Side apartment." "Elliot." " Off to a scene." " Now." "You okay?" "What possessed you to tell the shrink in your psych evaluation that you fantasized about killing suspects?" "Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "I said perps not suspects." "Well, the Morris Commission doesn't see a distinction." "They're inquiring." "Inquiring into what?" "My private thoughts?" "They're supposed to be house-cleaning the department of rogue cops." "My job at risk?" "Yeah." "Amsterdam Apartments 103 Willow Street Brooklyn Heights Monday, September 11" "Victim's Andrew Croft, 42." "Dumped vehicle may be a Lexus." "DMV has one registered to this address it's missing." "Was he packing or unpacking?" "He was transferred here a month ago by his new company, Radial Velocity." " Radial Velocity?" " Yeah." "Edge-of-the-envelope defense contractor?" "What's he do for them?" "I'm still on his home life." "He's single, lived with his son, Michael approximately 16." "Neighbors say that they argued a lot." "Serious feng shui problem." "Neighbors hear this argument?" "Everyone was out." "Beach, the park." "This the son?" "Probably an old picture." "I found some books labeled MacArthur High so I called, but there's no Michael Croft registered but the books are all bar coded." "I'll take Radial Velocity with Jeffries if Cragen will let her out of the office." " What?" " Morris Commission." "Okay, what the hell's going on?" " The psych evaluation?" " Yeah?" "I said I felt like killing child molesters." "Okay, so how can they have a problem with that?" " The commissions are all cops." " Yeah, well... when was the last time one of them stood in a room like this?" "This belonged to Michael Croft?" "This is Michael Goren's book, he's absent today." "You want to speak to his guidance counselor, Miss Scheider." "Okay, thank you." "I need a release from Michael's guardian to give you his file." "Mrs. Scheider, Michael's father was murdered yesterday." "Mr. Croft?" " Yes." "Mr. Croft wasn't Michael's father." " Foster parent?" " Guardian." "You can see the problem with getting his signature then." "Right." "This is terrible." " What happened to Michael's parents?" " I don't know." "He was born in Belgium that's all that's there." "You have a current photo of him?" "No, Michael's a new student." "We don't take school pictures until homecoming." "He's an AIB student." "He could be a straight A student if he made an effort." "Why, is he lazy?" "Withdrawn." "I feel like Michael's in some pain that makes him gravitate to troublemakers." "Yeah?" "Like who?" "Primarily, Jason Sloane." "What's with the beach bum look?" "It's casual Monday." " Cops do that?" " Michael Goren." "You know where he is?" "I don't know." "When was the last time you saw Michael?" "Saturday." "He stayed at my house." "So you guys are close?" "No, but he hates going home to the creep, and I've got an extra bed." "What creep?" "Andrew." "Andrew was shot yesterday, he's dead." "Excellent." "Well, he was a bad guy." "I've seen him slap Michael around." "So where's Michael now?" "Didn't I say I don't know?" "You don't know where he is, but you're the only friend he's got?" "He has friends." "Some girl calls him from wherever." " Wherever?" " Yeah." "Wherever." "I'd love to help you do your job, but I'm a high school student." "Radial Velocity, Inc." "173 Fifth Avenue Monday, September 11" "Thanks." "Detectives." "I'm Craig Prince." "I was Andrew Croft's supervisor." "This is Ralph Noble." " Security." " It's a sad day for us." "I wish I could say more." "Anyway, this is everything from Croft's office except what's classified." "Was Mr. Croft's job classified?" "He was a guidance system analyst, that's all I can say." "He just transferred here." "Can't be more specific." "Who was to be notified in case of an emergency?" "Detective, it's classified." "Please, the man had a son." "If something happens, who looks out for him?" "That's not our concern." "Do we have to get a court order?" "Well, you can try." "What are the odds you have a picture of Senator Joseph McCarthy tattooed on your ass?" "Leave the dolly in the garage." "Radial Velocity's redacted 1,200 pages of documents... down to the occasional adverb." "There's not a complete sentence in anything Craig Prince gave us." "It is national security." "We're looking for a murderer and the victim's missing kid and Craig Prince is giving us:" ""Here's your hat, what's your hurry?"" "You'd think they'd want to help us catch Croft's killer instead of burying everything under the rubric of national security." "It's too convenient, there's something else going on here." "It's Munch." "No, I want to see your spook ass now." "What do you want, Munch?" "Anything I can get on a couple of missile geeks from Radial Velocity." " Who?" " Craig Prince." "He's no geek, he's a suit." "Well, what's his story?" " We've been looking at Prince." " Why?" "Kickbacks." "Guy's living way beyond his paycheck." "New co-op on Central Park West, new A8 in the garage." "He disperses classified money." "Ralph Noble?" "Head of security." "Yeah?" "Vietnam vet, Purple Heart..." " Silver Star, Medal of Honor." " Anything else?" "He was hoping for an Oscar, but he's not in show business." "Man's a war hero, Munch." "Andrew Croft?" "Guidance systems." "This guy's the king of the missile geeks but I got nothing." "Croft's a black hole." "Who does that?" "DOD, NSA." "Why?" "We can fire a missile off a ship in the Gulf of Oman." "20 minutes and 600 miles later, it's entering the front door of a Hezbollah safe house in Al Basrah, doesn't even touch the doorframe." "Anybody can build a bomb, Munch, but nobody delivers them like we do." "Guidance systems, John." "What are we willing to pay for them?" "Anything." "Erase your enemies, erase your past." "Like I said, Croft's a black hole." " Why the interest?" " Croft's dead." "Michael, his 16-year-old ward is missing." "Prince and Noble aren't talking." "How'd Croft buy it?" "Bullet to the head, Bunsen to the crotch." "Ouch. / Yeah." "What's the matter?" "What's the matter?" "The fire." " Come here." " The fire, Daddy, the fire." "It's okay, it's all right." "Look, the recidivism rate for rapists and child molesters is far more onerous than that of murderers." "The public knows that." "The public cares about victims' rights." "And live victims give better sound bites than dead ones." "They vote, too." "I don't." "I used to, but, well, look at the choices." "I don't much care for city politics these days." "The mollifying, the scapegoating." "That's why there's a Morris Commission." "That's why you're at SVU." "I gotta tell you something, Alex." "I really don't see why I should trust you." "Captain." "I intend to stand on your shoulders to reach a broader Constituency." "Why would I do anything to shorten my grasp?" "Okay." "Maybe this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship." "Our open cases." "According to the M.E.," "Andrew Croft was killed by a.38 slug, behind the left ear, point-blank." " Burning was post mortem." " You got a weapon?" "It hasn't turned up yet, but Croft owned a.38." "What about the boy?" "Still missing, along with Croft's Lexus." "Maybe the kid is dead." "Why do you say that?" "My contact at the G says that Croft's supervisor," "Craig Prince is being looked at for kickbacks. / So what?" "Well, maybe Croft had evidence, maybe Croft was involved and they had a lethal disagreement." "Looks like sexual homicide not an assassination." " Very clever, to throw us off track." " I gotta hand it to you." "When you go with a theory, you really go with a theory." " You think this stuff doesn't happen?" " No, I'm not saying..." "Let's just keep our heads in the game here, all right?" "Now the connection between Prince and Croft warrants further investigation." "But in the meantime, we've still got a missing kid and until I know otherwise, I'm going to assume he's still alive." "Now you guys, find the Lexus, find the boy." "Munch, Jeffries, let's find out how good this new ADA really is." "We need a search warrant for Radial Velocity." "You want me to secure a search warrant for the offices of a defense contractor to search classified national security files for evidence in a sexually motivated homicide?" "Yes, you got a problem with that?" "Judge Harriman, please." "This is Alex Cabot in the DA's office." "Uncle Bill?" "Good." "Look, I need a little favor." "You've got to be kidding me." "You said we should try." "You do not just barge in here without proper notice." "Read the fine print." "Now step aside, or I'll have these officers restrain you." "Special Victims Unit Squadroom Tuesday, September 12" "Great, thank you." "That was the state police." "We've located Croft's Lexus upstate Millbrook, right outside Poughkeepsie." "Croft transferred from Poughkeepsie." "Locals are surveilling it till we get there." "Great." "Find something." "Blood." "Pop it." "Nobody home." "House belongs to Richard and Darlene Sadler." "They own a hardware store over on Elm street." "Their daughter, Denise, attends the high school." "Well, looks like we found the girlfriend from wherever." "Adams High School Millbrook Township, NY Tuesday, September 12" "Slow down!" "Denise is in her fourth period class." "We were hoping that she might be able to help us locate Michael Goren." "Leave the spurs home next time." "Great kid Michael." "What do you mean locate?" "He's been missing since Sunday." "Michael's not missing." "He's in our mentoring program." "Let's go, Jimmy." "Nice Job." "Good job." "All right, everybody just like Jimmy," " use the inside of your foot." " Michael." "This is about Andrew, isn't it?" " Do you understand these rights?" " Yes." "Do you understand that you don't have to talk to us without your lawyer?" "I wanna talk." "Go ahead." "I killed him." "He hit me, I hit him back." "First time I did that, he went crazy got his gun, said he was gonna kill me." "I tackled him and then I heard this loud pop." "When I looked down, he was laying there... dead." "Then what?" "I wrapped him in the sheets and dragged him to the car." "The next thing I knew I was driving back home." "To Millbrook?" "Yes." "Michael, what's going on?" "It's nothing." "I'm okay, Denise." "It's okay." "This can't be right." "Step back... / Not Michael." "Step back, people." "Give us a little room please." "Michael, we're all behind you on this." "Give us a little room, please." "What are you doing?" "They got a confession, made an arrest." "That can all go back to Radial Velocity." "Too tidy." "Can't stand letting go of a theory, can you?" "It's not theory, Olivia." "Confession, next case." "I don't buy it." "Heat of the moment murder is one thing but taking time to set fire to the victim's crotch." "What'd you call that, Elliot?" "Sexually motivated homicide." "You bet." "Perpetrated by a child on a guardian." "Text book except for the little matter of the blank pages, thanks to Radial Velocity." "I want to know where they stand on this deal." "Me, too." "You have an appointment." "Look, Captain, you know, this time of day, Skodas' office" " it's gotta be an hour drive." " Elliot, this is must do, now." "The good news is that he's around the corner doing some outreach work at Christ's Church." "He's happy to see you now." "Thank you." "I'm not talking to you." "Fine." "I'll just sit here." "You know, I may lose my job because of the last shrink I talked to." "Why?" "Because she violated her ethical obligation to keep my confidence." "If we believe a patient might do violence to someone, we're legally bound to..." "I have never done violence to anyone." "Why would she think you would?" "Ask her." "Det." "Stabler, we've talked before." "Come on, give me the benefit of the doubt, will you?" "I'm sorry, I haven't slept a lot lately." "Why not?" "I'm worried about losing my job." "I'm angry." "At?" "Are we really gonna do this dance again?" "I mean, what do you want me to say?" "That I fantasized about killing the perp?" " Did you?" " Yeah, you're damn right I did and this time I fed him my gun and I pulled that trigger." "Until I caught him and then there he is, he's just..." "He's a kid, he's a good kid." "He tutors Down syndrome children." "He's a straight A student, he's a star athlete... he's Millbrook township's favorite son." "Now how that jives with cold-blooded murder..." "How long have you been on the force?" "14 years." "In all those years, how many murders have actually made sense?" "None." "But... some I understood." "But this one... you let get under your skin." "Why?" "This one, my daughter saw." "Hey, how'd it go?" "I talked too much, again." "Where's Jeffries?" "Her turn on the couch, and while you were probing your inner child we did some probing of our own." "Sent Croft's prints to NCIC." "You printed the corpse?" "So?" " And?" " Nothing." "So?" " I mean nothing, nada, bupkis." "Zip." "No parking tickets, no birth records." "Nothing to prove he even existed before 1991." "The year he went to work for Radial Velocity." "So, we're going through the stuff we got from the search warrant we find this passport issued 10 years ago from San Diego." "We call the local PD, ask them to run him," " bang, we get a hit." " But not to Andrew Croft." "Then who?" "George Kazinski, a convicted sexual predator." "Andrew Croft, a.k. A George Kazinski." "Little George liked little boys." "Andrew Croft's been one busy guy." "11 arrests, five aliases, four convictions." "How'd you track him?" "San Diego PD faxed us his rap sheet." "We followed his priors back from there department by department, conviction by conviction." " Only the feds can erase a file." " Radial Velocity is the feds." "That's why they're called a military-industrial complex." "You're accusing the Federal government of sanctioning the sexual abuse of a child." "Please tell me you have a motive." "Where did you find these?" "That's classified." "There's only a handful of people that can calibrate the trajectory of a missile to within a hair's breadth of Saddam's mustache." "Andrew Croft was one of them." "Couldn't let a little thing like pedophilia undermine national security." "If a child is ruined in the process?" " That's not our concern." " Detective... there are many things that take a back seat to national security." "However... if I had known Croft was a pedophile, I never would have hired him." "Right, and there were no Nazis in NASA." "Mr. Noble will see you out." "You don't talk much, do you?" "Not much fight left in the old soldier?" "Don't you question my patriotism, mister." "That's Mister Detective to you." "Take a little bit of tarnish off that Medal of Honor." "We can find our own way out, thanks." "Why're you provoking him?" "Guy's a war hero." "Put his life on the line for principle." "He's gotta be gagging stonewalling Croft's pedophilia to protect Radial Velocity." "Assuming he still has principles." "War was a long time ago, John." "Principles die harder than people." "I want a shot at what's left of his." "Wonder what he's doing for lunch?" "Rikers Island Interview Room Wednesday, September 13" "My parents died in a car wreck when I was eight." "The only other family I had was Nana." "She was old and in a hospital." "Andrew offered to take care of me." "You're Belgian and Andrew's American." "How did you two hook up?" "Andrew used to hang out at soccer practice." " Whose soccer practice?" " Mine." " And this is when you were 8 years old?" " Yeah." "He and Dad worked at NATO in Brussels." "Dad was a janitor." "He was proud to have a rocket scientist as his friend." "Said I was lucky to have such an important man take an interest in me." "How did he take an interest?" "Andrew said I was a natural athlete." "Yeah, we saw your trophies." "He got me sailing lessons, tennis lessons..." "My dad couldn't afford them." "After your parents died, Andrew brought you to America?" "First Bosnia, Israel, then Millbrook." "I finally made some friends." "Yeah, you even had a girlfriend." "Denise." "Bet you weren't too happy about leaving her." "I never felt like that about anybody." "I mean, not just her, her parents..." "They felt like a real family." "Michael, did you know that in 1990" "Andrew was convicted of sexually assaulting an 11 year-old boy?" "No." "When was the first time he assaulted you?" "He didn't." "What are you talking about?" "Well, in my experience, child molesters, they don't stop." "You were a child." "He didn't touch me!" "Michael, you were in a bad situation." "You're safe now." "You don't have to lie anymore." "I'm not lying!" " Michael." "I'm not!" "He didn't touch me." "He didn't." "Thanks for the heads up." "I think I've got the EED defense." "Not unless your client changes his tune." "Are we working for the defense now?" "Yeah." "You don't volunteer to do hard time because you're embarrassed." "This kid is hiding something." "Okay, maybe an accomplice." "Maybe somebody who scares him more than Andrew." "At what point did courage and integrity buckle to income?" "Don't ever get in my face about money." "If I cared about money I wouldn't have been in the service." "What do you care about?" "Protecting the reputation of a dead pedophile part of national security now?" "I'm not protecting Croft's reputation." "What are you protecting?" "Croft's missile guidance expertise was critical in the Gulf War." "You erase sodomy convictions for national security?" "We didn't erase his convictions." "What?" "Is there another way to say it?" "Croft's felony record red-flagged him every time he crossed a border." "A day's delay was a lifetime in a war moving that fast." "So Radial Velocity erased his past." "We were depleting our arsenal of smart bombs at more than $1 million a minute." "At that price the Pentagon wanted pin-point precision." "A complaint was filed in the State department." "A firewall was built around Croft so lmmigration wouldn't red-flag him." "When the war ended the wall should've come down." "I can't tell you why it didn't, I just don't know!" "Meanwhile, a convicted child molester applies for guardianship of an 8-year-old and..." "No red flags." "I'm sorry." "My God!" "Eleven arrests, four convictions more than we knew about, one in Canada." "This is despicable." "Get me Todd Earl at Justice." "Justice?" "We need to secure the chain of evidence." "We didn't bring this to you so you could make a federal case." " What about Michael?" " What about him?" "He's a child." "A child raised by a pedophile for eight years." " He was molested." " He denies it." "There's no evidence here to contradict that denial." "Are you saying he wasn't abused?" "I'm certain he was." "However, absent Michael's admission you're asking me to soft-pedal premeditated murder." " You're protecting your won-loss ratio." " Elliot." "It's okay, Captain." "Stabler's judgment is clouded by the stress of the Morris Commission's review." "And the fact that Michael did what he fantasizes about." "Kill a perpetrator." "It's not my fantasy, and I stand with Det." "Stabler on this." "The kid had choices." "He could have walked away, told a teacher, told a cop." "Instead he murdered." "We let him skate on this what kind of choice will he make the next time he faces an untenable situation?" "All right, but either he corroborates the abuse or I ask the grand jury for an indictment on murder two." "No." "Michael, please... / No." "Michael..." "Andrew Croft abused at least 11 other children." "He's a sexual predator." "Michael, he can't hurt you now." "You don't understand." "I won't." "I can't." " You're a victim." " No, I'm not!" "I'm not!" "I told you what happened." "I will stay in jail!" "I will, but, please, leave me alone." "It's murder two." "He's returning his own indictment." "Sorry, Captain." "Dad?" "What are you doing up?" "Couldn't sleep." "What's the matter?" "You got nightmares?" "You have to sleep to have nightmares." "Right, what was I thinking?" " Want something to drink?" " No." "Dad... what that boy Michael did to that man..." "That man was supposed to take care of Michael and instead he molested him." "He abused him physically, he betrayed his trust, and I think Michael... just had enough." " So what happens now?" " He's probably gonna go to prison." "All he's gotta do is tell the truth." "What is it with you kids?" "It's hard to talk to adults." "Why?" "You're always judging us." "You expect us to be like you and you get mad if we're not." "It's just easier to talk to our friends." "What if you don't have any friends?" " Everybody's got friends." " Yeah?" "Well, who do you talk to?" "Dad." "You talk to Ryan Witherspoon?" "More than you talk to Mom." "Grand Jury Room Thursday, September 14" "Could the wound have been inflicted during a struggle for the gun?" " Not likely." " Why not?" "The size of the entry wound the force at which it entered suggests close range." "But there was no stippling." "Stippling is?" "When lead leaves the muzzle, it's followed by the charge that fires it, the gunpowder." "At close range it leaves a residue, point blank it embeds in the skin." "That's stippling." "The size and force of the entry and the lack of stippling lead you to conclude?" "The gun was three to four feet from the victim's head when it was fired." "The victim's reach was only 32 inches." "He couldn't have held the gun three feet from his skull, much less fired it into the back of his head." "The body was discovered wrapped in a sheet." "It was blood-soaked from a head wound and the genital region was on fire." "Where?" "In the dunes about 50 yards off Cross Bay Boulevard a medical bracelet on the victim indicated he lived at West 83rd in Manhattan." "Blood splattered the headboard, wall, and lamp in the master bedroom." "Did the blood pattern indicate anything to you?" "Yes, that the victim had been shot while lying in the bed." "Any signs of a struggle?" "No. / Forced entry?" "No." "The victim's car was missing?" "State police located it in Millbrook, New York." "The murder weapon was found locked in the trunk." "Who had the keys?" "Michael Goren." " How'd it go in there?" " The kid's toast." "I've been thinking about something Maureen said last night, something about friends." "What about them?" "You up for taking a little ride?" "Adams High School Millbrook Township, NY Thursday, September 14" "Denise, how long were you seeing Michael?" "What should I say?" "I really want to help him." "You can help him by telling us the truth." "We were dating about three months." "He ever talk about Andrew?" "Denise?" "Did he?" " Please." "They didn't get along." "My dad would let Michael stay in our spare bedroom when Andrew was out of town." "My parents really liked him." "Sometimes Michael lied about Andrew being gone, so he could stay over." "Did Andrew ever find out?" " I think he knew." " He object?" "Not after that thing with Danny." "Who's Danny?" "Danny Burrell." "Michael's best friend." " What happened?" " I don't know." "But it had to be bad." "I mean, one day they're best friends and the next day, it's like they hate each other." "Heads up, Mueller!" "Heads up!" "Danny Burrell!" "Yeah?" "Front and center." "We're not friends anymore." "Why not?" "Guy's weird, that's all." "What do you mean?" "Weird, how?" "Just weird." "Did Andrew Croft attack you?" " Did Michael tell you that?" " Why don't you tell us about it?" "Man, he swore!" "I'm sorry I can't talk in front of her." "That's okay." " Mike and me played ball." " Okay." "We went to his house afterwards to clean up." "He said that Andrew was gone, so I used his shower, and when I got out..." " he was standing there." " Andrew?" "Yeah." "He was naked." "He was touching himself." "He wanted to dry me off." "He's just a creep." "Anyway, he said that Michael was too swarthy but I was perfect for him." "He grabbed me, I fought him off, I screamed for Mike... and I finally got the door open, and Michael was..." "He was just standing there." "So, I just grabbed my clothes and I ran." "I forgot my Nikes." "You and Michael talk after that?" "No way." "I told the guy to leave me alone." "I think it's disgusting what he and Andrew were doing." "You think Michael liked it?" "What do you think?" "I mean, Michael's 6 foot, guy benches, what, 220 pounds?" "He could kick his ass if he didn't like him doing him." "He was eight years old when Andrew started doing him." "Eight-year-olds can't fight back." "Now you tell me where a 16 year-old's gonna turn when his best friend turns on him?" "Grand Jury Room Monday, September 18" "You said the gun went off in the midst of a struggle?" "Yes." "The police found no signs of a struggle." "How do you explain that?" "I don't know." "That's because there was no struggle, was there?" "We struggled." "Over the gun?" "Yes. / And it went off?" "Yes. / In both your hands?" "Yes." "The Coroner found no trace of gunpowder on the deceased's hands." "I told you what happened." "Who is Danny Burrell?" "He's my friend." "Did you witness the deceased sexually assault Danny Burrell?" "No!" "Danny will testify the deceased sexually assaulted him and that you witnessed it." "Are you saying he's lying?" "Did Andrew Croft sexually assault Danny Burrell?" "Yes." "And you, too?" "Since I was eight." "You shot him to stop him from molesting you?" "No!" "I hated it, but I was used to it." "I shot him because he was bringing over his friend." "What friend?" "In Millbrook, this guy came up sometimes." "Andrew made me do things with him." "When we moved here, I thought it was over." "But then I come home from school and he's there!" "I mean we moved right across the street from him!" "Andrew was bad enough, but both of them..." "I begged him." "Who is this man?" "He'll kill me." "He can't hurt you." "You don't know his powers." "Michael, you're in the custody of the City of New York." "He can't get to you." "He can get to anybody." "And he will to protect his secret." "A child molester only has power as long as his secret is kept." "You tell the truth, his power is gone." "What's his name, Michael?" "I heard them talk about it." "Nobody did anything." "Talk about what?" "Who, Michael?" "Andrew and... and Craig Prince." "They killed that boy in Belgium and nobody did anything!" "When did this happen?" "What boy?" "I was eight." "It was in the papers there." "Nobody did anything." "Craig Prince can get away with anything." "You're gonna protect me?" "Write-offs in the third quarter adjusted by the..." "Craig, good news!" "Excuse me, this is a classified briefing." "Yeah, Croft's ward, Michael." "The grand jury voted man two." "DA's willing to cut him a deal." "I don't see what that has to do..." "Even better news, you're under arrest for sexual abuse, sodomy, assault and endangering the welfare of a child." " You're hurting me!" " Not our concern." "Craig Prince, you have the right to remain silent." "If you give up that right, anything you do or say can and will be used against you." "Capt. Cragen?" "This little boy's mother stuck his hands on a frying pan until his fingers burned off." "This rape victim... required 12 hours of surgery to have a steel plate into her head after her attacker pummeled her with a claw hammer." "This one didn't make it." "Is there anybody on this panel who doesn't share Det." "Stabler's anger for the perpetrators?" "This man is a good cop." "As his commanding officer, I stand with him and every good cop who faces these horrors day after day and has the strength to keep their impulses in check." "Now if you can look at these pictures and not understand that the problem here isn't Elliot Stabler, is it?" "Yeah, that's done." "That's done. / Hello?" " All right, yeah, go get the kids dinner..." " Yeah." "Kathleen!" " Sure." " Dickie, Elizabeth, dinner's ready!" " All right tomorrow." "Captain... thanks for the support." "Well?" "The Morris Commission cleared me." "Special Victims Unit Squadroom Wednesday, September 20" " Capt. Cragen?" " Not now." "Monique Jeffries." "Maybe I can help?" "Fin Tutuola, I've been re-assigned." "You're here for my job." "This is awkward." "Well, try my side of the moment." "In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous" "In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as The Special Victims Unit." "These are their stories." "I found her moaning, half-naked, bleeding from her chest and privates." "Couldn't tell her age." "Her face was too badly beaten." "She moan anything you could make out?" "Nothing that sounded like words." "We got this call 45 minutes ago." "Why is she still here?" "They've only been here five minutes." "Moses wasn't available to part the morning rush hour." "Deep stab wound, left chest." " Hand me a 4 by 4." " I was afraid to move her." "I called for the bus, I put a rush on it." "What have we got?" "Good old-fashioned stoning, New York style." "My guess, after the stabbing and rape." "What about the weapon?" " Nothing yet." " Any ID?" "Still looking." "BP 90 over 60." "That's as good as we're gonna get." "Let's get her out of here." "What is this, open season?" "A few drinks, a little smoke, a bunch of guys wet down a couple dozen women?" " Wilding's back in vogue." " I hate that word "wilding."" "Like it's some kind of party." "You ride, I'll cover the scene?" "Å©¸®½º ¸á·Î´Ï (¿¤¸®¾ù ½ºÅ×ÀÌºí·¯ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸¶¸®½ºÄ" ÇÏ±âÅ×ÀÌ (¿Ã¸®ºñ¾Æ º¥½¼ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸®Â÷µå º§Àú (Á¸ ¸ÕÄ¡ Çü"ç æµ)" "½ºÅ×ÆÄ´Ï ¸¶Ä¡ (¾Ë·º"êµå¶ó Ä³º¿ °Ë"ç æµ)" "¾ÆÀÌ½º-Æ¼ (¿À´ÙÇÉ ÇÉ Æ©Æ©¿Ã¶ó Çü"ç æµ)" "´í ÇÃ·Î·º (µ· Å©·¹ÀÌ°Ç °æ°¨ æµ)" "Law  Order SVU 2x02 Honor" "ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON NBC: 2000/10/27" "Is there anything I can tell the chief of detectives when he calls me for the fifth time?" "Female Jane Doe, probably in her 20s." "She was raped, stabbed, and beaten with stones." "Left for dead." "No clue who she is?" "We grid-searched, put divers in the pond." "The scene was pretty much trampled." "It could have been a dump job." "No ID, no knife." "I rode the bus with her." "She was mumbling something in Arabic or Hebrew." "Nothing that I could make out." "Thanks." "That was the hospital." "They got post-op photos for us." "They poured four units in her." "It's touch and go she'll survive." "What about the rape kit?" "It turned up hair, semen, bruising, and blood from a freshly perforated hymen." "A virgin." "You know what the chief was telling me during our last conversation?" "It's pucker time, folks." "Now, call every precinct, transit, and housing district." "See if anybody reported her missing." "Go talk to the park precinct captain." "See if there's any ongoing problems we should know about." "But be warned, that guy is a jerk times 10." "Crime in the park is the lowest in 30 years." "It was different today." "Today was an anomaly." "That's why I'm out here." "All we're asking is whether you have any wolf-pack type activity on your radar." "Like the wilding after the Portofino Day Parade." "Another anomaly." "Look, we get the usual isolated incidents, but no gangs." " Not in my park." " Captain, one more question..." "Look, call me." "I got people waiting." "Had a nice chat with your superior." "Lovely guy." "Capt. Walson give you the not-in-my-park routine?" "Why?" "You know different?" "He's worried about getting his ass dragged down to the Morris Commission." "Why, what's he spooked about?" "The brass versus big bucks, with him in the middle." "Bunch of private school punks on their mountain bikes trying to be gangsters who get their kicks lifting purses, or surrounding some pretty thing and scaring the hell out of her." "And he didn't tell us this because..." "Because he didn't spot this pattern till yesterday." "Know who these kids are?" "Yeah, I busted one of their leaders last week." "Apartment of Chris Lyons 63 West 88th Street Tuesday, September 19" "Hi." "I'm Detective Benson." "This is Detective Stabler." "What now?" " Is Chris Lyons at home?" " You want to talk to him?" "Here, call our attorney." "Okay." "We can either do this the easy way, or we can do it your way." "Now, your way means a search warrant." "Six officers inside your townhouse turning it upside down well into the evening." "I'm sure your neighbors would understand." "We'll meet you at our attorney's office." "Is there a reason you're harassing my client?" "Yeah." "Your client was arrested last week for threatening a mother walking her infant in a stroller." "She was a dime, yo." " I was just checking her out." " Chris." "We've already answered that charge." "Hey, yo, where were you early this morning?" "My God." "You're talking about that woman." "The attack in the park." "How dare you accuse my son..." "David." "I wasn't there." "He was home all night." "And don't you say another word." "How about we hear about it from him?" "How about we don't?" "He's 15." "Hey, yo, homeys, you walk the walk." "You got it in you to talk the talk?" "So we like to look at the ladies." "But what happened to that lady, we're not down with that." "What are you down with?" "Dot-comming." "From 1:00 in the morning till Pops here kicked me off." "Around 9:00." "You can check our records." "We'll be in touch with you." "What have we got?" "Lab called." "It's not what we thought." "Your victim only had one person's DNA inside her." "She was dumped after she was stabbed." "Are you sure about that?" "Hospital says she lost half her blood volume." "We didn't find anywhere near that amount of blood at the scene." "Okay." "Fibers?" "White cotton." "Found in the blood, on her clothes, her legs and genitals." "Meaning she wasn't wearing any pants." "The attack followed the rape by maybe eight hours." "Anything on the rocks?" "We found a bloody print." "Doesn't match the victim or anyone in the system." "But this... may help you ID her." "She was wearing it." "CSU picked it up at the hospital." "Hanford." "You wanted to go back to college." "Now's your chance." "Hanford University Admissions Office Wednesday, September 20" "Any of these?" "No." "No." "No." "No." "We think she's from somewhere in the Middle East, maybe Israel." "Wait." "Elliot, look at this." "Amir... / Amir, Nafeesa." "23, School of Journalism." "Post office box..." "That zip code looks like the East Village." "She's from Afghanistan." "Emergency notification, Daoud Tarzi, East Village." "We need to fax Munch that photo ID." "Mr. Tarzi?" "He doesn't live here anymore." "What do you want?" "Who are you?" "David Hamoud." "How about some ID?" "Anything with a photo on it?" "No, I don't drive... and my passport's in my safety deposit box." "Have you seen this woman?" "No." "Who is she?" "How long have you lived here?" "I just moved in last week." "Do you know where Mr. Tarzi is?" "I'd tell you who the super is if I knew." "I got a stuffed drain with his name on it." "You got that trying to fix it yourself?" "Yeah, as a matter of fact." "I'm sorry, if you'll excuse me." "I'm late for a meeting." "I'll be back in the evening if you want to talk." "Oh, God." "Is that her?" "I can't be sure." "She missed class this morning." "Is that unusual?" "I've had Nafeesa in different sections each semester." "She's never missed a class." "Professor, you ever talk one-on-one with her?" " Constantly." "She couldn't believe how free the press is here." "The Taliban government in Afghanistan controls the media" " the way they control women." " She came here to escape?" "Well, unless she sneaked out of the country her parents must also be here." "Afghan women can't even leave their homes on their own." "She have any friends in the class?" "Annette Fleming." "They were joined at the hip." "It's her." "I can't believe it." "When was the last time you saw her?" "Just yesterday, in class." "How could this happen?" "Well, maybe you can help us find out." "Was she acting like anything was wrong lately?" "The opposite." "Nafeesa was loving life." "She have a boyfriend?" "She wouldn't talk about it." "I think it was her way of protecting herself." "Protecting herself from what?" "Her father." "An Afghan diplomat." "She thought that he may have been looking for her." "If he had his way, Nafeesa and I wouldn't even be friends." "Sounds like a strict guy." "A control freak." "He wouldn't let her go out, made her wear the robes." "Like she had to back home?" "She'd wear them when she left the house and change when she got to school." "She hated so much that she had to do that." "She was talking to Prof. Husseini, who was helping her to adjust." "And where did she keep these forbidden clothes?" "In her locker." " You gotta sign for this." " Yep." " That's it?" " That'll be all." "Thanks, guys." "Can you imagine what Maureen would do if you told her she couldn't wear jeans?" "That's a place I wouldn't go." " Boyfriend?" " Could be." "Her address." "East Side." "Apartment of Saleh and Aziza Amir 719 Third Avenue Wednesday, September 20" "This young woman was found in the park." "Do you recognize her?" "It is our daughter." "She's in Intensive Care at Mount Sinai." "She's dead?" "Actually, she's in critical condition, but she is still alive." "Nafeesa did not understand her place." "She chooses a man's work." "She turns her back on her traditions, on her family." "We still have a son, Jaleel." "But she is dead to us." "Sir, your daughter was beaten and raped." " It is zina." " Zina?" "She has slept with a man who was not her husband." "Do you recognize this man?" "No." "Your son is..." "He's not here." "Please." "My wife and I suffer agony that she chose this life." "Please to leave us to grieve for our daughter." "What, it's her fault she was raped?" "She brought shame and dishonor to her family." "They behead women for that where she comes from." "My first wife dishonored me." "I had to pay her alimony." "Look what we found in the knapsack." "Boyfriend, maybe?" "Suspect." "We're in the diplomatic community now." "Anybody know what her father does for the Afghanis?" "Only that he's with the mission." "Well, let's get specific, people." "If they're covered by immunity and we go to them with anything but their daughter's condition the "G" is all over us." " Son of a bitch." " What?" "It's that guy from the apartment." " Who said he never heard of her." " Right." "Well, maybe we should refresh his memory." "Pick him up." "He's halfway down the block." "He made us." "Hi." "How are you?" "Stick them in the air." "Nice tackle." "You won't find her!" "I'll never tell them where she is!" "Hear that?" "I'll never tell them where she is." "Who's them?" "You'll never find her." "We already did." "You have the right to remain silent." "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." "You have the right to an attorney..." "Name's Daoud Tarzi, 33." "No priors." "Immigration said he got here in '88, alone, no family." "Became a citizen in '93." "And what does he do?" "His own import-export business." "Fabrics." "Well, let's keep this out of the papers until we're sure he's the doer." "I want to see her." "Why?" "So you can beat her up some more?" "How bad is she?" "Critical." "I'm responsible for this." "Okay, you want to tell us about it?" "I love her." "We argued." "She ran out." "What did you fight about?" "Does it matter?" "Her father already won." "Won what?" "His twisted sense of honor." "His revenge for her leaving home." "Well, he said she was dead to him." "Didn't sound like he wanted revenge." "What he doesn't want is a reputation for letting his women do what they please." "What do you want?" "For her to stop acting like she's from some primitive tribe." "You couldn't handle that." "She wouldn't let go." "So you decided to do something about it." "I overreacted." "We argued." "I dared her to leave." "I never thought she'd leave." "I love her." "I wanted to marry her." "Find somebody who heard that argument." "I'll call Cabot for warrants." "Yeah, I heard them fighting." "In their first language." "English is definitely their second." "Anything you understood?" "Before the screaming started she called him a control freak." " And something about her father." " Then what?" "Then five minutes of gibberish." "Door slams, and one of them stomps down the stoop." " Just one of them?" " Yeah, just one." "Whoever stayed turned on the TV." "They looked happy." "They all look happy." "Hey. / This was in the laundry." "Bed sheet." "There's blood on it." "Okay, lab says the bloodstain on the bed sheets, it's hers." "Semen's definitely his." "What about the stones?" "No match on the prints but... they got an odd reading on the blood, so they're retesting it." "Print's not his or hers." "Even without the blood on the rocks, it's his semen." "Her blood on his sheets." "It's no problem." "Arraignment Court Part 69 Friday, September 22" "People v. Daoud Tarzi." ""One count attempted murder, second degree"" ""one count rape in the first degree."" "Mr. Gibson, how does your client plead?" "Not guilty on both counts, Your Honor." "Ms. Cabot?" "Your Honor, this was a particularly brutal crime." "The victim was raped, stabbed, beaten, and left to die." "We're asking for remand without bail." "My client has no criminal history, Your Honor." "He's an upstanding member of his community he has his own import-export business..." "Good." "Let's make sure he doesn't export himself." "The defendant is remanded without bail." "What does that mean?" "Her parents are here." "He wants me to tell you that her parents are here." " So noted." " He also wants me to tell you that he will take a lie detector test against my advice." "Our examiner." "I'll set it up." "Is your name Daoud Tarzi?" "Yes." "Were you born in Lebanon?" "No." "Were you born in Afghanistan?" "Yes." "Did you rape Nafeesa Amir?" "No." " Do you now live in Afghanistan?" " Her parents were at the arraignment." "That's a strange way to show you don't care." "Do you now live in the United States?" "Yes." "Did you stab Nafeesa Amir?" "No." " How did he do?" " Passed." "Or beat it." "He's not the first person to fool the box." "If he can fool the box, he can fool the jury." "Maybe he's telling the truth." "If he proposed marriage to Nafeesa there has to be somebody else who knows about the relationship." "She wouldn't even tell her best friend about it for fear of how her family would react." "That Hanford professor." "He's a Mideast specialist." "He was counseling Nafeesa on adapting to life in America." "We were going to go talk to him until we thought Tarzi confessed." "Well, let's see if your professor can tell us why their love had to be such a secret." "Nafeesa Amir came to you for help." "Lots of students from my part of the world do." "To help them assimilate." "It's tough enough for a man." "It's even tougher for a woman." "How so?" "They're tempted by all of the things they're not allowed to do back home." "Under the Taliban regime, that means almost everything." "Like having a job, going to school." "Leaving the house alone, or without every inch of one's body covered." "She would be scorned as a vice-monger." "What about her family?" "They've been here for years." "Her family, like all the Afghan diplomats at the UN are holdovers from the previous government." "They treated women like something more than just indentured servants." "But when the Taliban took over, they put women under virtual house arrest." "There is nothing in the Koran that allows them to do that." "Well, tell their thugs." "It would be like the militia running this country." "That's why the UN won't recognize them." "It would be very dangerous for Nafeesa's family to try and go back home." "So Nafeesa's father is not a Taliban?" "Maybe he's a Taliban mole." "Just because he doesn't wear their colors does not mean he isn't with them." "Nafeesa had to choose between her family and her future." "She wanted to live as a modern woman." "She had to leave her parents' home to do it." "Was there any reason she'd want to hide from her family?" "If she tried this kind of thing in Afghanistan... women there have been murdered for less." "Much less." "We have enough to convict you, Mr. Tarzi." "Even if you did pass the lie detector test, you confessed to the police." "Confession?" "I never confessed." "You said, quote, "I am responsible for this."" "I meant that I feel responsible, not that I attacked her." "He passed the lie detector test." " It wasn't his DNA on the stones." " It was his DNA inside her." "We were from the same part of Afghanistan." "Near Kabul." "I helped her to find an apartment." "I wanted to help her find herself." "What was she looking for?" "To be more than a factory for producing sons." "We fell in love... but we couldn't tell anyone." "She didn't want her father to find her." "Why?" "Was she afraid of him?" "She's the reason he has his job... his apartment, his car with a driver." "How is it, in a society where a woman has no authority, she has all this power?" "He promised her to the son of a government minister." "Turning her back on that was like spitting in her father's face." "And the night Nafeesa was attacked?" "I asked her to marry me." "Gave her a diamond ring." "She said yes." "She was a virgin." " You forced her." " No." "She didn't say no." "But I shouldn't have pushed her." "And she walked out?" "She said I was trying to dominate her." "She throws the ring in my face." "Before I could stop her, she's out the door." "I should have tried to stop her." "Why all the lies?" "You see this?" "It's from a cop." "What cop?" "Came looking for Nafeesa." "He had a gold badge." "I knew Nafeesa's father sent him." "If it isn't Bishop Tutuola." "John Munch." "Ross Campo." "What brings you guys to this dump?" "This." " It's yours." " What about it?" "You laid it on the boyfriend of that girl we found in the park." "I got nothing to say about that." "He does." "Especially the part about you breaking his head." "Like you never tuned anyone up on the job?" "My pleasing personality usually does the trick." "You, on the other hand, weren't on the job." "So I do a little work on the side." "Help me out here, Fin." "Come on." "Better us bring this to you than IAB, right?" "Last time I checked, cops weren't allowed to moonlight as Pls." "Three weeks ago... boss at the security company I work for gets a call." "Some diplomat looking for his missing daughter." "Says they're going back to their tent in the desert, wants to bring her with them." " Asked me to check it out." " You find her?" "I got as far as the boyfriend." "Says he doesn't know her." "His mouth is moving, her picture's hanging behind him." "Like I'm some knucklehead." "So I tune him up a little." "But he still didn't tell you." "Said I might as well shoot him, 'cause he was never gonna tell me." "And she never showed?" "I sat on the place for two nights." "Nothing." " Final lab report." " And?" "We've got a problem." "There were two types of DNA on the stones." "One was Nafeesa's, and the other was Tarzi's." "Well, if not him, then who?" "That's why they retested the blood." "Lab says both DNA types have similar characteristics." "Meaning it was a family member." "Anything else we don't know about these people?" "The State Department has the father listed as an attache." "Diplomatic rank." "Jaleel Amir just turned 21, graduated NYU." "He still lives with his parents?" "Yes, he does." "But he's not a student?" "Hello?" "His immunity expired the day he turned 21." "She died 10 minutes ago." "Has Nafeesa Amir been around lately?" "Yeah." "She was here Tuesday night." "What time?" "Around 7:00." "Woman gets out of a cab, tries to run past me." "I didn't know it was Nafeesa." "She wasn't wearing the get-up." " She say anything to you?" " Too busy crying." "I know she's family." "I just let her go up." "Did you see her leave?" "No." "But that doesn't mean she didn't." "I get off at 11:00." "Ask the night guy." "Anyone else in her family, you see them come in or out?" "Her brother came out." "Jaleel." "Bastard treats me like his personal slave." " What time was that?" " Around 8:00." "He calls, orders me to bring the big shopping cart upstairs." "Did you?" "You kidding?" "The guy hasn't tipped me in four years." "Told him I couldn't leave the desk, come get it yourself." "Any idea what he wanted it for?" "Whatever it was, he didn't bring it through this door." "Must have put it in his car in the garage." "I told you to leave us alone!" "Sir, your daughter passed away, and you don't even care." "Saleh?" "Go now." "Where's your son?" "Get out." "We know Nafeesa was here the night of the attack." "Doorman saw her come in." "Nobody saw her leave." "Because your son took her out through the garage and dumped her in the park." "Were you watching when he put the knife through her heart?" "She was a whore, like you." "She was your daughter!" "He is on his way home to Afghanistan." "Okay." "My son is protected by the Vienna Convention." "Arresting him is a violation of international law." "You need to take a refresher course in international law." "The day he turned 21, his number was up." "Would you like some?" "No?" " Juice?" " No, thanks." "We're just visiting." "Jaleel Amir?" "I am proud I killed her." "She deserved to die." "This amuse you?" "Jaleel Amir, you're under arrest for the murder of Nafeesa Amir." "You have the right to remain silent." "You think you can arrest me?" "My father will have me on the next plane home." "I'll probably need Munch for trial." "Anticipating problems?" "A diplomat's son?" "I expect a very heavy gun." "Captain." "Ms. Cabot." "Something wrong, sir?" "All I want to know is, did two of your detectives harass a diplomatic attache?" "No, sir." "We went looking for his son." "But what we should have done was arrest Saleh Amir as an accomplice to his daughter's murder." " If I may, I'd like to..." " No, you may not." "Amir has filed a formal complaint against the US government for his ill-treatment by the NYPD, and the Feds are eating it up." "The case against Jaleel Amir is solid, Deputy, and frankly, it's out of your hands." "I've got two rogue cops who browbeat foreign officials two others who don't understand the basic Miranda warning." "Cases get dismissed for much less." "The suspect was properly Mirandized." "He did confess before he was warned, but it was an excited utterance." "Which makes it admissible." "The only way this case will not see the inside of a courtroom is if Jaleel pleads out." "I suggest that you reconsider your position." "And why would I want to do that?" "To save your own skin?" "I need the five on your tete-a-tete with Saleh Amir." " I'm cleaning it up right now." " If it's not pig Latin, "now" means now." "All right." "Where's the heat coming from?" "The Commissioner." "Saleh Amir told the State Department that we violated Article 30 of the Vienna Convention because you grilled him about his son." "We didn't grill him." "If this had happened back home Jaleel would have done three months in prison and gotten a hero's welcome when he came out." "Well, this is the Afghanis playing hardball." "Chambers of Judge Alan Ridenour Thursday, October 26" "They didn't Mirandize my client." "It was an excited utterance." " We have a planeload of witnesses." " Relax, Ms. Cabot." "I'm not about to penalize the police for doing their job." "Mr. Amir's confession was an excited utterance, and it's in." "In that case, Your Honor, my client is changing his plea to not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. / Give me a break." "My client didn't know what he was doing was wrong when he killed his sister." "Ignorance of the law is not an affirmative defense." "He told the police he was proud of what he did." "That sound sane to you?" "Your Honor, it's obvious what he's doing." "He can't hide behind the Fourth Amendment, so now it's insanity." "And if I ignore him, it could be reversed on appeal." "I'm ordering Mr. Amir be examined by a psychiatrist." "Rikers Island Correctional Facility Friday, October 27" "You have nightmares about Nafeesa?" "The Koran says Nafeesa's shame before God is her own." "That it can't be passed to you, that she faces the consequences alone." "Did Abraham have a choice when Allah commanded him to kill his own son?" "I can't talk about this." "Can't or don't want to?" "I have nightmares." "Isn't that enough?" "How long have you had the nightmares?" "Since I was 8 years old." "When it happened." "Do they wake you up?" "After he slits her throat." "Whose throat?" "My...my aunt." "I can't do this." "Because you couldn't stop it?" "I was a child." "My father made me watch." "How was I supposed to stop it?" "Your father killed your aunt?" "My grandfather." "His grandfather killed his aunt because she cheated on her husband." "Jaleel was just following the rules." "He's perverting holy scripture to justify murder." "It's what he was taught." "His rite of passage to manhood, to honor." "Meaning he doesn't know what he did was wrong?" "I think he does." "I asked him if he has nightmares about his sister." "He wouldn't answer." "His body language said yes." "And a jury may be just as confused as he is." "Then you have to get a jury that can see past their confusion." "Mrs. Weinberger, would you have a problem finding a defendant from the Middle East not guilty?" "Absolutely not." "Thank you." "Mr. Post." "We thank Mrs. Weinberger for her service, and ask that she be excused." "Approach, Your Honor?" "Your Honor, all 10 of his peremptory challenges have been women or Jews." "I don't have to give a reason." "If this continues I'll have to ask for a Batson hearing." " You can't let her stack the jury..." " With women?" "People v. Blunt." "The appellate division specifically applied Batson to gender discrimination." "It applies to religion, too." "Your Honor... / Careful, Mr. Post." "Ms. Cabot is right." "You don't want a Batson hearing in this court." "Supreme Court Trial Part 78 Wednesday, November 1" "We boarded the plane." "The defendant was sitting in the first-class cabin." "Did he know you were there for him?" "Yes." "He smiled." "Tell the jury what happened next." "Before we could read him his Miranda Rights" "Mr. Amir confessed to having killed his sister." "What were his exact words?" ""I'm proud that I killed her." "She deserved to die."" "Thank you, Detective." "So, Mr. Amir showed no remorse for having murdered his sister?" "On the contrary, he was proud of it." "In fact, you said he seemed glad to see you." "I said he smiled." "He smiled at you and said he was proud." "Doesn't seem like something a sane person would do." "Objection!" "Detective Munch is not a psychiatrist." "Withdrawn." "Detective, how many people have you arrested in your career?" " I don't know the exact number." " More than 100, correct?" "Probably." "How many of them smiled at you and said they were proud of having killed someone?" "One." "And the defendant is that one person, isn't that right, Detective?" "Yes." "No further questions." "He shows signs of severe trauma." "What signs?" "Delusional thinking... night terrors, vivid, recurring dreams that wake him." "He avoids talking about it if he can." "In your professional opinion, Doctor do these symptoms prevent Mr. Amir from knowing the difference between right and wrong?" "No." "Thank you." "Dr. Skoda, you say the defendant knows what he did was wrong by our standards." "Yes." "Doctor, if I wake in the night and I hear a noise, and I take my gun, and I shoot an intruder in my house" "I know killing is morally wrong, yet I did what I had to do to save my family from harm." "How is that different from what the defendant did?" "Objection." "Relevance?" "Goes to the defendant's state of mind." "If you're arguing self-defense, this is an insanity case." "And this question goes directly to what was in my client's mind." "I'll allow it." "Please answer the question, Doctor." "Jaleel's sister wasn't threatening to kill him." "But Jaleel thought his sister's actions threatened to destroy his life and the lives of his future children." "Isn't that right, Doctor?" "It's not a valid comparison." "Please answer the question, Doctor." "Isn't it true my client believed his sister's actions threatened the lives of his family?" "It's possible." "I can't say with certainty what he was thinking." "Exactly." "Thank you, Doctor." "In Deuteronomy, the Bible says if a man meets a virgin in a town and sleeps with her you shall stone them both to death." "But, Professor, honor killing isn't about religion." "No." "The Koran says all humans are equal." "It is about families and their honor that determines their status in society." "So if a man believes a woman in his family is sexually promiscuous she has reason to fear for her life." "Yes." "But countries like Jordan and Egypt are trying to make honor killing as legally heinous as any other murder... with the same penalties." "Thank you, Professor." "Prof. Husseini, honor killings are part of ancient cultural tenets." "Yes." "Part of the cultural fabric that pre-exists modern society." "Yes." "So if you're raised in the tradition of this ancient culture what would you believe would happen to a family without honor?" "The men could lose their jobs, the children could become outcasts the family could be scorned and mocked, with no chance of success... until the honor is restored." "And for a man, that means controlling his women?" "Yes." "Isn't it true that last year, three out of every four murders in the Gaza Strip and West Bank were honor killings?" "Yes." "But the Palestinians..." "Isn't it true that the only way these countries have to protect women from their own families is to put them in prison?" "In protective custody, yes." "And isn't it correct, Professor that in this barbaric custom, the more brutal the killing the greater the honor restored to the family?" "Yes." "So it's reasonable, having grown up in this world my client may have come to accept honor killing as necessary to survive?" "Well, he may have accepted it, but I hardly think that it is reasonable." "I had to restore my family's honor." "We would never survive the shame." "You've had time to think about it." "Would you change anything that happened, if you could?" "I would change what Nafeesa did to us." "Thank you." "You killed your sister because she was with a man." "Her marriage was arranged." "Being with another man was not her decision to make." "When you dumped your sister's body in the park why did you leave her half-naked?" "To shame her as she shamed us." "And the stones?" "That is what we do to whores in my country." "You're proud of what you did?" "Yes." "Then, Mr. Amir, why did you run away?" "What do you mean?" "You're a man, aren't you?" "A man stands up and takes responsibility." "A man isn't afraid to face the consequences of his actions." " I am not afraid." " No?" "The police arrested you on the plane." "You were running away." "Does that sound honorable to you?" "Does that sound like something a real man would do?" "You are twisting everything." "Objection." "Badgering the witness." "Even now, you were looking at your father to tell you what to do." "Does he tell you what to do?" "Did he tell you what to do that night, too?" "Objection!" "Irrelevant." "Move to strike." "The jury will disregard the previous mention of the defendant's father." "Move on, Ms. Cabot." "You were afraid of spending the rest of your life in an American prison weren't you?" "That's a lie!" " Because you knew what you did was wrong." "No!" "I did it for our family's honor!" "I'm concerned the jury's buying Jaleel's act." "What?" "That anyone who kills his own sister has to believe he's doing the right thing?" "What?" "That anyone who kills his own sister has to believe he's doing the right thing?" "Right." "Which makes him guilty by reason of mental disease or defect." "Right." "Which makes him guilty by reason of mental disease or defect." " Hard to argue with that logic." " You can see my problem." " Hard to argue with that logic." " You can see my problem." "When we collared him, he was sitting in first class" "When we collared him, he was sitting in first class no cap, no beads, styling in totally westernized Internet casual." "no cap, no beads, styling in totally westernized Internet casual." "His wardrobe isn't helping me." "His wardrobe isn't helping me." "If the jury thinks Jaleel is culture-programmed to kill" "If the jury thinks Jaleel is culture-programmed to kill he gets his insanity verdict." "he gets his insanity verdict." "Well, we're out of people to say otherwise." "Well, we're out of people to say otherwise." "His culture didn't program him to kill." "His father did." "His culture didn't program him to kill." "His father did." "Jaleel is afraid of him." "Everybody is afraid of Saleh Amir." "Jaleel is afraid of him." "Everybody is afraid of Saleh Amir." "Except for one person." "We're forgetting Mrs. Amir." "Except for one person." "We're forgetting Mrs. Amir." "Mrs. Amir is out-of-bounds." "Mrs. Amir is out-of-bounds." "Anyway, Mrs. Amir would never give up her son" "Anyway, Mrs. Amir would never give up her son" " or go against her husband." " She already has," " or go against her husband." " She already has, on both counts when she told us that he was on a plane home to Afghanistan." "on both counts when she told us that he was on a plane home to Afghanistan." "She testifies, she's sentencing herself to death." "She testifies, she's sentencing herself to death." "She defied her husband once" "She defied her husband once because he's the reason that her daughter's dead." "because he's the reason that her daughter's dead." "She wants justice for her memory." "She wants justice for her memory." "We reach out to her again, I think she'll defy him again to get it." "We reach out to her again, I think she'll defy him again to get it." "We can't ask unless we're ready to protect her." "We can't ask unless we're ready to protect her." "We're ready, 24-7." "Talk to her." "Let her know that." "We're ready, 24-7." "Talk to her." "Let her know that." "But don't cross the diplomatic line." "But don't cross the diplomatic line." "Apartment of Saleh and Aziza Amir 719 Third Avenue Thursday, November 2" "Apartment of Saleh and Aziza Amir 719 Third Avenue Thursday, November 2" "I have already lost Nafeesa." "I have already lost Nafeesa." "I don't want to lose Jaleel, too." "I don't want to lose Jaleel, too." "But Nafeesa hasn't lost her honor." "But Nafeesa hasn't lost her honor." "Have you lost yours?" "Have you lost yours?" "You don't understand." "You don't understand." "I think we do." "Nafeesa was your husband's ticket home." "He promised her to a Taliban, didn't he?" "And when he found out that she was sleeping with somebody else he had Jaleel kill her in the name of honor." "We can offer protection to you." "I don't want your protection." "I want my daughter." "Nafeesa came home to be with us." "My husband asked her if she was still a virgin." "She wasn't." "What did he do?" "Hit her." "She fell." "Then Jaleel tried to help her." "My husband said:" ""Let her lie there, like she lies with her American boyfriend."" "What happened next?" "My husband got a knife from the kitchen." "Jaleel, he begged him not to." "But my husband told Jaleel to kill her.." "for our honor." "To kill her... to prove his manhood." "And he stabbed her." "And they took her away." " Has the jury reached a verdict?" " We have, Your Honor." "Will the defendant please rise?" "On the charge of murder in the second degree, how do you find?" "We find the defendant guilty." "This court is dismissed." "Captain?" "Jaleel is convicted." "Murder two." "Thanks." "You know, Saleh Amir didn't miss a second of this trial until today." "You'd think he'd want to hear the verdict." " He's gone." " Saleh Amir?" "Left last night in a limo." "All that baggage, looked like it was for good." " What about the wife?" " She wasn't with him." "Okay, we need the keys now." "Olivia." "In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous" "In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as The Special Victims Unit." "These are their stories." "911 emergency operator 307." "What is your emergency?" "I'm in the Lincoln Tunnel." "I haven't moved in 45 minutes." "You reporting an accident, sir?" "It's almost midnight." "What the hell's up with the traffic?" "911 emergency operator 307." "What is your emergency?" "There's a rape." "Right now." "88 West Franklin." " Now, get down!" " Get away from me!" "I said get... / Hello?" "Two-seven-Charlie, respond to a 10-34." "Assault in progress at 88 West Franklin." "No suspect description." "Line disconnected." "Respond Code 3." "What've you got?" "911 didn't get an apartment number." "Probably a cell phone call." "We're knocking on doors." "Perp may still be in there?" "Yeah, if there is a perp." "Wouldn't be the first prank call." " You guys from Special Victims?" " Yeah." "Found this under the fire escape." ""Lori."" "Got her." "3-B." "Special Victims." "Benson, Stabler." " How you doing?" " I heard some crying." "The door's unlocked." "She's in the shower." "I started to go in, but she started freaking out on me, so I backed off." "Thanks." "Stay away!" " Lori?" "Gina?" "It's Olivia." " It's filthy in here." " That's okay." "I'm going to help you." " Lori?" " Please don't come in here." "This place is filthy." "Lori?" "Hey, how long you been in the shower?" "This drain..." " I want this stuff out of here." " What stuff?" "The stuff he washed off me." "I want it out of here." "Lori, the stuff is long gone." "You've already washed it all away." "It's okay." "It's okay." "It's okay." "Give me your hand." " There you go." " This is really happening, isn't it?" "Come on." ""Is this how you like it?" ""Is this how you like it?" That's all he kept saying to me." " The man who made you dirty?" " Yeah." "There you go." "Got her?" "Stay with me." "Back in one second, okay?" "He washed her." "Asked her, "Is this how you like it?"" "His favorite neighborhood, his type, blonde, petite, single." "Bastard's at it again." "Why am I not surprised?" "Å©¸®½º ¸á·Î´Ï (¿¤¸®¾ù ½ºÅ×ÀÌºí·¯ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸¶¸®½ºÄ" ÇÏ±âÅ×ÀÌ (¿Ã¸®ºñ¾Æ º¥½¼ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸®Â÷µå º§Àú (Á¸ ¸ÕÄ¡ Çü"ç æµ)" "½ºÅ×ÆÄ´Ï ¸¶Ä¡ (¾Ë·º"êµå¶ó Ä³º¿ °Ë"ç æµ) ¾ÆÀÌ½º-Æ¼ (¿À´ÙÇÉ ÇÉ Æ©Æ©¿Ã¶ó Çü"ç æµ)" "´í ÇÃ·Î·º (µ· Å©·¹ÀÌ°Ç °æ°¨ æµ)" "Law  Order SVU 2x03 Closure(2)" "ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON NBC: 2000/11/03" "It's him." " It has to be him." " Not so fast." "It's been a year since we had Cleary in here as a suspect." "Same M.O. Probably came in off the fire escape." "He rapes them, asks them if they like it, he bathes them and then he steals a piece of jewelry as a memento." "It's him." "Kenneth Cleary." "We had him and we lost him." "We couldn't keep him." "Not our fault." "You want to tell the victim that?" "Hey." "We're going to go in here." "Lori, did you open the window?" "Yes." "The night, it was cool." "I like to sleep under heavy blankets." "He pulled my blanket off me." "My shirt was over my eyes." "A button got caught in my mouth." "He hit me." "Then what happened?" "He tried to kiss her." "He tried to kiss me." "He yanked that button out of my mouth and kissed my neck." "His lips were dry." "My necklace, he ripped off." "He was inside me." "He pushed hard." "It hurt." "But he kept saying..." ""Is this how you like it?"" ""Is this how you like it?"" "He... finished." "Then he brought me into the bathroom." "He made me take a shower." "My shirt got wet, heavy." "Did you see his face?" "My shirt was over my eyes." "He told me not to look." "None of his victims could ID him." "Nothing from Forensics." "There never is with Kenneth Cleary." "When he heard the sirens, he pushed me back and..." " I hit my head on the tiles." " Heard the sirens?" "Did you call the police?" "No." " We got a witness." " You move slow." "We go after Cleary off this, he'll be out the door again." " But not too slow." " Move slow as fast as you can." "Public Safety Answering Center 911 Monday, October 23" "There's a rape." "Right now. 88 West Franklin." " Now, get down!" " Get away from me!" "I said get..." "So maybe two witnesses." "Three, if you count the dog." "Where'd the call come from?" "Pay phone on Franklin." "You call back?" "Pay phone blocks incoming calls." "Lori Thatcher's apartment is on the third floor." "You can't see into her apartment from here, though." "So who can?" "Two apartments could see to the rape." "Look at that." "Who is it?" "Mrs. Walton, New York Police." "Detectives Benson and Stabler." "Can I see your badge, please?" "What's wrong?" "We're investigating an assault in the building across the way." "Last night." "I heard the sirens." " No one's home next door." " No, they're on vacation." " How long have they been gone?" " A week." "They're very nice." "They give Hank... his last walk of the night for me when they're here." "I hate it when they're gone." "Your apartment looks into the apartment where the assault took place." "I'm blind, Detective." "Yes, ma'am." "But was anybody here with you last night?" " No." "Billy was here, but just long enough to take Hank out for me." "And what time was that?" "Oh, gosh, I don't know." "The news was on." "Which news?" "The 24 hour news." "Okay." "And Billy is?" "Billy Smith." "The young man down in 1-G." "He's a doctor." "Thank you very much." "You know, if he's not in his apartment, you might try the roof." "I thought I could hide up here." "Mrs. Walton gave you up there, Dr. Smith." "I'm not a doctor yet." "Did you walk Mrs. Walton's dog last night?" " Yeah, Hank." "What time?" "11:00." "Could it have been closer to 12:00?" "Could have been 3:00 a.m. For all I know." "I got sleep deprivation, light deprivation, time." "If I don't pass this exam..." "When you walked Hank, did he bark or lunge at a woman using the pay phone that's right down in front there?" "He's a guide dog." "He's trained not to." "Why don't you try the news stand at the end of the block?" "Ginger, quiet!" "Down." "Sorry about that." "He can't be good for business." " No, but he's great for theft." " Yeah, I bet." "Last night... did he attack a woman at the phone booth at the end of the street?" "He never touched her." "I had him on the leash." "She's got no business calling the cops." "Actually, sir, we're investigating another matter." "Think you could describe her?" "Blonde." "Age?" "Thirty, maybe." "Thin, but not too thin." "Could you describe her to a police sketch artist?" "I didn't get a look at her face." "I was too busy trying to get Ginger into the car." "You remember what she was wearing?" "Yeah." "A black sweater, and black slacks and thong panties." "You didn't get a look at her face but you know she was wearing thong panties?" "I saw the panty line." "She had a nice ass, which is more interesting to me than her face." "I'm an ass man, I don't apologize for it." "So we have the dog, but not the witness." "Maybe the dog can ID Cleary." "We don't know that it's Cleary." "Like hell we don't." "We can't make him for it yet." "You have to stay open to the possibility it's someone else." "Come on, Captain." "The M.O. Matches." "The victims are identical types." "Their injuries are virtually identical." "At least he's not getting rougher." "How is Miss Thatcher?" "She coming out of shock, going into numb." "Staying at her parents." "911 call terminated at 12:03:39 a.m." "And at 12:04 another call was made from the same pay phone." "To?" " A Gramercy Park brownstone owned by Mr. And Mrs. Kenneth Cleary." " Let's go." " Hold on." "Cleary's raping Lori at the same time somebody's downstairs calling his house?" "I'm on it." "Cleary sees you and Stabler again you're done before you start." " Mrs. Cleary?" " Yes." "Detectives Munch and Tutuola." "Did you receive a call around midnight last night?" "It's about time." "I've been after the phone company for the past two months to do something about these calls." "You've had other calls?" "Some woman's harassing me." "What does this woman say?" ""Your husband's a rapist."" "Last night, she said, "He's raping someone right now."" "Last night there was a rape in the building by the pay phone that call was made from." "Was your husband home last night?" "My husband's not a rapist." "Was your husband home last night?" "Yes." "He didn't walk the dog?" "We all walk the dog." "Your phone rings, someone tells you your husband's raping someone." " Then what?" " I went back to sleep." " You didn't call the phone company?" " I went back to sleep." "You didn't tell your husband?" "We don't both have to be awake for a harassing phone call." " But he was here?" " Yes." "I called the phone company this morning." "Did they offer to put a trap on your line?" "Yes." "But my husband doesn't want that." "They could listen to our personal conversations." "And he's involved with private financial matters." "This woman is ruining our lives." "Why don't you stop her?" " Check Cleary's phone records?" " What we're doing." "Mrs. Cleary alibi her husband?" "Yeah, but she was choking on it." "Okay, Mrs. Cleary notified the phone company after each harassing call." "They all track to pay phones." "She said she ignored the first call thinking it was a prank, right?" " That's what she said." " Just went back a month." "Found a number in our case file." "That first call came from one of Cleary's victims..." "Harper Anderson." "Looks like she's stalking him." "Sorry, Olivia." "You should be at his place, not mine." "Harper, you can't stalk Cleary." "Stalking is illegal." "I survey from a legal distance." "Playing with semantics here can be very dangerous." "I saw him go into the alley." "By the time I got to it, he was gone." "And I saw the fire escape." " Did you see him on the fire escape?" " No." "But it's how he got into my place to rape me." "But you didn't see him go up it." "You didn't see him rape anyone." "No. / And yet you called 911." "First I circled the building to make sure that there was no way I could've missed him." "Then I thought about the probability that he was raping someone." "Then I called 911." "Why didn't you stick around?" "Because he ran out the service entry right after the sirens." "I considered waiting for you guys, but I've been down that road." "So I shadowed him." "Shadowed him?" "Not to be confused with stalked." "And this is art not to be confused with obsession or a target?" "It goes with the room." " Have some wine." " We're working." "6:00 p.m. Work day's done." "You can have a glass of wine." "No, thank you." "He's a workaholic." "He won't leave the office till 8:00." "We can chat for another hour and a half." "You couldn't identify him in a lineup." "How do you know he's the man that raped you?" "I was at his sentencing for possession of stolen property." "When he left the court... he winked at me." "Winked." "So who did he rape this time?" "He raped someone." "Otherwise you wouldn't be here." " Maybe a Scotch." "Vodka?" " No, thank you." "You don't have to be so tense." "I don't expect anything from you." "We did everything that we could." "You couldn't ID him, so we couldn't hold him." "You could have followed him." "You knew he would rape again." "I'd like to follow every guy that I know that has a propensity to rape." "Poor police." "So overworked!" "Harper, you're not equipped to deal with this." "I'm equipped." "I don't approach him." "I'm doing what any private investigator would do and I don't need a license to do it for myself." " You're harassing his wife." " Give me a break!" "She's enabling a rapist." "And you're too busy to deal with him, so I will." "Harper Anderson is dangerous." " I'm not certain that she's dangerous." " She's stalking Cleary." "He raped her." "She's following him to catch him at it." "We almost got him on the Lori Thatcher rape because of her." "You buy into her distinguishing between stalking and following?" "The system failed her so she's operating it herself as best she can." "I mean, Cleary doesn't know that she's there." "She doesn't approach him, she doesn't threaten him." "Mrs. Cleary feels threatened." "Sooner or later she has to face the fact that her husband's a rapist." "Why?" "She doesn't have to face it unless we prove it." "And we don't want her pushed there by Harper Anderson." "Street justice is always bloody." "Munch, Fin, bring Harper in here for a blunt talking-to." "Captain... / No, you're too close to her." "You and Elliott get in the Clearys' faces." "Let them know we're onto them." "It may not go to making a case but I want to diffuse this tinderbox before it blows." "Elliott, look!" "Those are mine!" "You stop it!" "You stop it right now!" "Get out!" " You can't do this!" "Get out!" " You can't do this!" "My son will see these!" "He'll know where he comes from." " You bitch!" " You're sleeping with a rapist." " Mrs. Cleary..." " Get out of my neighborhood!" " You're enabling a rapist." " Harper, stop it!" " Mrs. Cleary, listen to me." "Calm down." " Take a breath, okay?" "What's going on?" " She's putting these everywhere." " Detective Stabler." "Yeah. / Look." "Two nights ago, a woman was raped." "I was home with my wife." "You're lying." "I saw you." "Every time a woman is raped you're going to come to me?" "Not every time, no." "How long do I have to bear the brunt of this woman forgetting to take her lithium?" "She's obviously damaged." "Hey!" "Hey. / Hey!" "Drop it." "Don't make me cuff you." "Perfect!" "Arrest me!" "Not the rapist." "Office of Assinstant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot Tuesday, October 24" "We have anything else on Lori Thatcher's rape?" "She could do a voice ID." "But Cleary ain't coming down here to see us on his own." "We need probable cause." "Harper can place Cleary exiting Lori Thatcher's building." "Her building, not her apartment." "After that stunt Harper pulled with Cleary's car, she's zero as a witness." "And there's still the problem of Harper stalking Cleary." "Harper's taking control of her own life." "Please." "As long as Cleary's out there, so's his next victim." "He'll stay out there until we can make a case." "We need to pick up where Harper left off." "I'm all for that." "I can't authorize overtime to follow Cleary." "Anyone asking for it?" "Are you with us?" "He's likely to call in lawyers." "If you don't interfere with his conducting his life, I'll field any motion he files." "Bingo." "Miro Venture Capital 130 West 31st Street Tuesday, October 24" " So you take care of that part of it." " Okay." "Don't forget." "What are you doing here?" "We're going to go see your boss." "Got a problem with that?" "No." "No." "Around the corner on the left." "We're investigating a serial rapist." "What can you tell us about Kenneth Cleary?" "What's he have to do with that?" "Is he a good employee?" "Is he involved in a rape?" "What's he like to work with?" "He's a workaholic." "One of our top earners." "So he works late?" "He's here when I arrive and he is here when I leave." "We lost two assistants who couldn't keep up with him in Philadelphia." "We're opening a branch there." "He go there a lot?" "Spends half his time there." "You think he raped someone?" "He has a misdemeanor conviction for possession of stolen property." "He spend the night in Philly?" "Yes." "We have a corporate apartment." "Could we see his travel records?" "Had to tell the boss I was convicted on possession of stolen property?" " Public record, pal." " You're trying to get me canned?" "I brought the company in $58 million last quarter." "He'll live with a misdemeanor conviction." "And a rapist?" "Let me ask you something, one hungry man to another." "Is there anything better than gorging on a fresh caught meal?" "You won't be eating out anymore." "Going back six months." "Three rapes in Philadelphia have Cleary's signature." "June 13." "He was there." "The 10th to the 20th." "August 26?" "There, the 23rd to the 28th." " September 15." " There." "They got him booked on Amtrak to go there tomorrow." " Who booked to go where?" " Cleary to Philadelphia." "Then you're going too, John." "What a coincidence." "Why?" "You found rapes that match Cleary's M.O.?" "Three. / You're interviewing the victims face to face." "Something wrong with the facts?" "Philadelphia's SVU is under review for dumping rapes as unfounded." "So, yes, there's absolutely something wrong with the facts." "I don't trust them." "There he is." "Hey, Ken Cleary." "A little jumpy this morning?" "Love to talk, Det." "Munch, but I've got a train to catch." "Yeah, Philadelphia club car." "We're going coach." "But if you feel the need to talk to me, I'm willing to upgrade." "What's the agenda here, gentlemen?" " You trying to make me crazy?" " Hell, no." "Way too late for that." "And you are?" "The knot in the pit of your stomach." "Hate to disappoint you." "But I don't mind the company or the attention." "So there's no need to ask." "Is this how you like it?" "Pennsylvania Station" "What have we got?" "A list and description of jewelry stolen during rapes, matching the Cleary M.O." "Three here, three in Philadelphia." "Munch just faxed these from the Philly P.D." "For what purpose?" "Show Mrs. Cleary." "See if she has any of these pieces." "If she's an accessory, she'll deny it." "What are the odds that she's an accessory to rape?" "I agree, they're remote." "The odds are that she's in denial." "Who wouldn't be?" "But it's still risky." "What about the issue of spousal privilege?" "I'm not going to ask her anything about her husband's rapes." "I'm going to show her that list." "If she's unwittingly in possession of stolen property it might turn up the heat at home." "We've pressed him at work." "We've run out of plays to make here." " So, what, a Hail Mary?" " Okay." "She's going to be defensive." "I'm sensitive to that." "And you are?" "Taking some quasi-personal time." "I called Harper last night because I felt like I dropped the ball with her" " so I'm going to meet her for coffee." " Where?" "Westside Range." "I'll see you later." "You're meeting her at firing range?" "I know." "She's permitted." "Special Victims Unit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wednesday, October 25" "Detectives Munch and Tutuola are from New York City." "They may have a lead on the man who raped you." "I know it's difficult but if you can tell your story again." "I woke up choking on a pillow." "He told me to keep my eyes closed... and then he took the pillow out of the case and held the pillow case over my eyes." "He held my T-shirt over my eyes." "He pulled my nightshirt over my face so I couldn't see him." "He asked, "Is this how you like it?"" ""Is this how you like it?"" ""Is this how you like it?"" "After he raped me, he made me shower." "My hot water was broken." "He washed me." "He had me in a cold shower... washing his semen off me." "I asked him if his mother knew what he was doing." "He said his mother just wanted him to be happy." " Mrs. Cleary, Detective Stabler." " I don't want to talk to you." "Mrs. Cleary... rape victims aren't just the women who are attacked." "Rape victims include their families and the rapist's families." "I am not a victim." "And I don't want you standing on my stoop shouting "rape" through my door." "Yes, ma'am." "You're harassing me." "Destroying my family." "When does this stop?" "Right now." "This is a list of jewelry and the dates they were taken during rapes we suspect your husband in." "My husband makes money." "He doesn't need to steal to give me jewelry." "I'm talking about a sickness here, Mrs. Cleary." "Serial rapists very often take items so that they can look at them and remember." "Your trophies, like your jewelry... allow your husband to relive the rapes so that he can become excited." "I am sorry to put you through this." "I know this is a terrible ordeal for you but it is worse for the victims." "And quite frankly, I don't know where else to turn." "I won't bother you again." "Nice grouping." "What are you using?" ".50 caliber, double action Desert Eagle." "14-shot clip." "Took me a month to learn how to hold it level." "This sucker's nearly 40 ounces with a full load." "Harper, a 14-round clip is illegal in New York." "Here." "Didn't know that." "Eight is plenty." "That gun's pretty extreme." "Why?" "A.50 caliber semi-auto with a 14-round clip?" "It's practically an assault rifle." "I just gave you the clip." "You're something else." " What?" " You think I'm Velma Vigilante... stalking Cleary, waiting for the perfect moment to shoot him?" "That's not who I am." "You're not the same person I knew six months ago." "I was a rape victim when you met me." "I finally have control over my life back." "I'm not interested in revenge." "I'm not even interested in justice anymore." "Then why follow Cleary?" "Because I'm afraid of him, and he's the last thing I'm afraid of." "If I can get over that I will have my life back completely." "You want to go for a drink?" "There's a little Spanish place around the corner." "Tapas and Sangria?" "I would have bet the new old Harper to be a Whiskey Park girl." "I haven't cruised a chichi date bar since I was raped." " I was just writing you a note." " Really?" "I'm sorry for what happened to you." "You didn't do it, Mrs. Cleary." "But you said I was enabling a rapist." " I shouldn't have." " He's my husband." "I feel responsible for..." "I feel guilty." "I want you to know that." "What made you change your mind?" "My husband has always surprised me with his no-special-occasion gifts." "A silver ring next to my coffee cup." "That opal ring on my pillow." "He'd get so excited when I tried them on." "I thought it was romantic." " Six of the pieces match." " The rest?" "He gave them to me the same way." "Don't want them." "Did your husband ever discuss with you how he came by the jewelry?" "Don't answer that." "Spousal privilege." "Excuse me for a moment." " Do you want some privacy?" " No." "I'll just take a second." "I can't take it." "I can't take it." "Come home." "No, you have to come home now." "He'll be on the next train from Philadelphia." "I can't tolerate any more of this." "You follow me to work, you follow me to Philadelphia." "Fine." "But you make my wife hysterical and that, my friends, will cost you." "I'm gonna call my lawyer and the Police Commissioner." "You might want to stick with just your lawyer for now." "Kenneth Cleary, you're under arrest." "You have the right to remain silent." "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." "You have the right to an attorney." "If you cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed..." "Are you ready?" "Yes." "Can I close my eyes?" "Yes." "Would you have them each say, "Is this how you like it?", please." "Is this how you like it?" "Is this how you like it?" "Is this how you like it?" "Is this how you like it?" "It's him." "It's him." "Very entertaining." "How many more shows are there today?" "Is this how you like it?" "Is this how you like it?" "Is this how you like it?" "Is this how you like it?" "Bastard." "That's him." "That's him." "It's Number 4." "We have one more." "I don't have to be here." "I'm sure your report will be accurate." "See you in court." "Arraignment Court Part 69 Friday, October 27" ""File number 492276."" ""People verses Kenneth Cleary."" ""One count rape in the first degree"" ""one count sexual abuse in the first degree"" ""one count robbery in the second degree"" ""and three counts criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth."" "Quite a list." " How do you plead?" " Not guilty." "Exactly how much we planning to charge the defendant to get out of jail, Ms. Cabot?" "Remand without bail, Your Honor." "Put away your claws, Counselor." "My client is not a flight risk." "He's a pillar of the community." "If you define pillar as a seven-figure salary." "And if he can afford you, he can afford to fly." "Mr. Cleary is willing to surrender his passport, Your Honor." "Your Honor, he is a menace to women." "His crimes are not confined to the State of New York." "The People have had my client under surveillance even across state lines." "Their continued harassment should assuage their fears." " Is that true, Ms. Cabot?" " No." "SVU detectives went to Philadelphia to interview Mr. Cleary's victims." " Objection." " Be quiet." "I still need a number." "$500,000." " Let's double that." " No objection." "Is that the best you could do?" "You shouldn't be here, Mrs. Cleary." "You're my witness." "I thought maybe there was a chance I was wrong." "I saw how he looked at you, and I knew." "We should get together soon so I can prep you before the trial." "I'm staying with my family in Long Island." "Is there anything I can do for you now?" "You know a good divorce lawyer?" "I don't know if she can do this." "A moment, Ms. Cabot." "I'm Harper Anderson, Mr. Klein." "Your client raped me." "I know how famous you are." "Yes?" "You're going to burn in hell." "I'm Jewish, Miss Anderson." "There is no hell." "Excuse us." "Save me the bedtime reading." "How many motions are you filing?" "Omnibus." "In limine, to suppress, and spousal privilege." " See you in judge's chambers." " Yeah." "Chambers of Judge Margaret Barry Monday, October 30" "Spousal privilege is inviolate." "Discovery was made through the wife." "Give me a good reason not to throw out the jewelry." "It doesn't fall under privilege." "Nobody asked Cleary's wife where he got the jewelry." "Would anyone care for lemon?" "Communication between a husband and wife is not limited to speech." "The police went to the Cleary home with the express purpose of discovery." "They should have handed the list to Mr. Cleary." "He would have turned over the items." "He gets his gifts from various sources, which he would have revealed." "But in an effort to disrupt his family the police went to his wife to induce her to violate spousal privilege." "The court can't support that." "The jewelry has to be excluded." "The police did not ask Mrs. Cleary any questions regarding her husband's activities." "They presented her with the list of stolen items." "She discovered she had several pieces of jewelry on that list." " And she turned them in." " Please, Ms. Cabot." "Don't you consider him giving her jewelry an activity?" "Limit the scope to receipt of the jewelry and by whom." " But Your Honor, it's..." " Next item." "Voice ID." "This is a stretch under the best of circumstances." "But a terrified victim hearing the breathless voice of an aroused perpetrator during the commission of a violent act?" "I don't think so." "You'll have your chance to undermine the identification during cross." "More tea?" "Supreme Court Trial Part 78 Friday, November 3" "That's how I knew it was him." "Thank you." "You identified the man who raped you, is that correct?" "Yes." "Kenneth Cleary." "But you didn't actually see him, did you?" "No. / You identified him by voice, is that correct?" "Yes." "I'd know that voice anywhere." "Is this how you like it?" "Do you recognize this voice, Ms. Thatcher?" "No." " I can play it again." " Objection." "Asked and answered." "Hearing this surprised the witness, Your Honor." "Maybe she'd like to hear it again to make sure. / Go ahead." "Is this how you like it?" "Do you recognize the voice?" " Does it sound vaguely familiar?" " Objection." " He's badgering." " Sustained." "Yes, Your Honor." "The man on the tape is a co-worker." "You talk to him every day." "Robert. / You don't recognize his voice, how can you recognize..." "Objection!" "Sustained." "Back off, Mr. Shoenfeld." "How did you come into possession of this garnet necklace?" "It was a gift from my husband." " He gave it to me..." " Wait for the next question." "Your answers need to be very narrow and very specific." "Why are you only asking about how I came into possession of the jewelry?" "I can't ask about anything else." "Why not?" "Communication between husband and wife is inadmissible." "It's as privileged as priest and supplicant." "You aren't going to ask me about how excited he got when I wore them?" "How he insisted I wear them before we had sex?" " I can't." "I wish I could but I'm not allowed to ask about that." "Do you understand?" "The jewelry is important, Mrs. Cleary." "Because we need to connect the timeline to the rapes so that your husband won't be able to duck by claiming that he purchased swag from some guy on Canal Street." " He wants joint custody of our son." " And he's not going to get it." " If he gets off..." " One thing at a time, okay?" "Okay." "How did you come into possession of this garnet necklace?" "My husband gave it to me." " Was it a special occasion?" " No." "Do you remember when he gave it to you?" "Kenneth gave it to me on his return from a business trip to Philadelphia." " September 6." " Objection." "The witness couldn't possibly remember the dates of every gift she received." "Mrs. Cleary, how is it that you recall this date?" "It was our son's first day of kindergarten." "Kenneth made sure he was home for that." "He left the necklace on my pillow the night before." "Overruled." "Did you know this necklace belongs to a woman who was raped" " on September 5 in Philadelphia?" " Objection." "Relevance." "Sustained." "You're on thin ice Ms. Cabot." "Stick to the scope." "Mrs. Cleary, do you recognize this ring?" "I do." "And do you remember how you came into possession of it?" "My husband gave it to me." " Do you remember when?" " Yes." "I remember because we were dressing for a charity event." "He asked me to try it on and then he got so excited, he had to have sex with me." "Objection." " He'd get so excited..." " Mrs. Cleary, stop." "if I wouldn't have sex with him he'd masturbate. / Objection." " Mrs. Cleary..." " You had me wear your trophies... so that you could get off?" "You sick, twisted bastard!" "I move for an immediate mistrial." "The witness is clearly hysterical and has done irreparable harm to the jury." "Granted." "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury..." "You are excused." "I'm sorry." "Approach." "I'm so sorry." "I hold you responsible, Ms. Cabot." "You knew the limits set before you." "You prepped your witness." "You knew she was in a severe and emotional state and you now have the pleasure of starting over." "In the interim..." "I sincerely hope you acquire some professionalism." " I'm sorry." " It's okay." "You're not having any?" "AA." "How are you holding up?" "I felt like I was 10 years old today getting yelled at for playing in my mother's make-up." " We can't do this again." " Why?" "We've got no case." "The dream team blew holes in the victim's IDs." "And Mrs. Cleary..." "I think she sabotaged us on purpose." "What would she hope to gain by doing that?" "I don't know." "Kenneth Cleary walks, and the People get a black eye." "So it's all about you?" "I don't need this, Cragen." "No?" "While you're whining about your case seems you forgot about Harper Anderson" "Lori Thatcher, the women in Philly." " Don't forget Mrs. Cleary." " The biggest victim of all." "You think she suffered more than her husband's victims?" "She has to deal with him the rest of her life." "She has his son." "What?" "We're on our way." "I just came by to get a few things for my son." "He hit me." "Kept hitting me." "She didn't have a choice." "He wouldn't stop." " Who tried to clean up?" " I did." "Meredith was hysterical." "She didn't want the blood to seep into the floor." "Does it make a difference?" "You know it does, Harper." "Bleach ruins the gunshot residue test." "Really?" "Who shot him?" "Who shot him?" "I did." "In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous." "In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as The Special Victims Unit." "These are their stories." "You know, they said it couldn't be done." "They said that Allen Thorpe couldn't possibly outdo himself again." "I bring you Manhattan's first family-friendly five-star hotel." "And I welcome each and every one of you... to the official grand opening of the Thorpe Palace." "You know, of all my hotels, this one means the most." "Because it's the most personal." "It's family." "So, we've got a lot more in store for you... so enjoy the ride." "Help." "I was raped." "Å©¸®½º ¸á·Î´Ï (¿¤¸®¾ù ½ºÅ×ÀÌºí·¯ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸¶¸®½´Ä" ÇÏÁöÅ×ÀÌ (¿Ã¸®ºñ¾Æ º¥½¼ Çü"ç æµ)" "¸®Â÷µå º§Àú (Á¸ ¸ÕÄ¡ Çü"ç æµ)" "½ºÅ×ÆÄ´Ï ¸¶Ä¡ (¾Ë·º"êµå¶ó Ä³º¿ °Ë"ç æµ) ¾ÆÀÌ½º-Æ¼ (¿À´ÙÇÉ ÇÉ Æ©Æ©¿Ã¶ó Çü"ç æµ)" "´í ÇÃ·Î·º (µ· Å©·¹ÀÌ°Ç °æ°¨ æµ)" "Law  Order SVU 2x08." "Taken" "ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON NBC: 2000/12/15" "Excuse me." "You mind filling us in?" "You mind smiling?" "No reason to upset the guests." " How could this happen?" " Mr. Miller..." "Is this what you meant in your brochure by "safe as your mother's arms"?" "Sir, we're Detectives Benson and Stabler." "What happened here?" "My sister, Siobhan." "She was attacked." "When did this happen?" "We contacted you immediately." "No, you took time to pull strings." "You got no blue-and-whites out front, no uniforms in here." "That's the idea, right?" "It's called obstructing." "I know what obstructing is, pal." "I was on the job 20 years." "I assure you, no one associated with the Thorpe Hotel Corporation... has knowingly obstructed justice here." "An attorney?" "You got an attorney here before medical assistance or the police?" "Come here." "How old are you, Siobhan?" "Seventeen." "Can you tell me what happened?" "I told it three times already." "Okay, let's get you to a hospital, all right?" "I'll take that for you." "I went into my room, and... my clothes and my makeup were all over the floor." "I couldn't understand it, you know?" "And so I just stood there, staring." "And then I saw him." "Who?" "Did you know this person?" "No." "I tried to run out, and... he slammed my face against the door." "Then..." "I tried to get away, and he went crazy." "He grabbed the phone and he started hitting me with it." "And then..." "Okay, you can finish telling me at the hospital, all right?" "He raped me." "No editing." "Excuse me." "This is a restricted area." "Can't think of a place I'd rather be." "Detectives Munch and Tutuola." "Sorry." "I thought you snuck out of the press pen." "What can I do for you?" "We need tape rolled on everything you've got around room 328... from the time of the incident." "Elevators, stairwells." "You know we just opened." "Yeah, the grand opening banner out front was our first clue." "Roll the tape." "We've got full coverage on everything from the fifth floor to the penthouse." "What about the rooms without a view?" "They didn't quite make the deadline." "They'll be operational by next week." "That's good news for future victims, but little comfort to Siobhan Miller." "Don't tell me we've had another freaking emergency." "What is this urgent matter, Winston?" "That was us." "Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Thorpe." "And what do you want?" "You weren't informed that one of your guests was brutally raped?" "My head of security will be handling that matter." "He's at your disposal." "I have guests waiting." "I understand that one of your employees discovered the victim?" "Yeah, desk clerk, Terry Wilde." "We'll need to see him now." "Right this way." "Where did you stash our outcry witness, in the boiler room?" "He's on his scheduled break in the employee cafeteria." "Guy's gotta eat." "And the show must go on." "Bet the party didn't miss a beat." "So tell us, Winston, exactly how long did you detain the victim... before allowing her to receive medical attention?" "We wanted to get that girl to the hospital right off." "She refused." "Traumatized victims frequently refuse treatment." "Most people know better than to listen to them." "Bust my hump all you want, but I'm telling you... we're gonna bend over backwards to assist you on this." "Okay, where was Allen Thorpe during the attack?" "Terry, short for Terrence, Wilde as in Oscar." "Address?" "Why?" "I didn't witness anything." "First person a rape victim speaks to about their attack... is known as the outcry witness." "That's you." "We didn't really speak." ""I was raped." End of conversation." "Which makes you the only one that could testify to that statement in court." "Court?" "I have to go court?" "It's pretty hectic here today." "Why weren't you at your post?" "Thought I might see Julia Roberts or somebody." "Look what happens." "Just isn't your day, is it?" "CABRINI MEDICAL CENTER 227 E, 19TH STREET WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6" "Severe trauma to the face, hairline fractures on right wrist and one rib..." "bruise marks on breasts and arms." "Consistent with restraint?" "Yes, definitely finger marks." "And deeper contusions on the legs." "Knee marks." "Yes." "Evidence of penetration." "Rape kit done?" "Just waiting to be vouchered." "Lot of fluids." "Good chance we got semen." "Okay, thanks." "She's asleep, thank God." "She was in so much pain, I begged them to up her morphine." "I'll sit with her for a while if you need a break." "Yeah, come on, let me buy you a cup of coffee." "I could use a cigarette." "He already took pictures." "Special interest case." "Powerful people involved." "Evidence tends to get lost." " Any sign of forced entry?" " No." "Victim's five feet." "This is where the escape was thwarted." "He drags her across the floor, rips the phone from its cord." "You mind?" "Hits her with the phone." "Throws her on the bed." "And rapes her." "Came prepared." "Pretty much rape, A to Z. You got anything else?" "Yeah, we should all go buy lottery tickets." "Hotels, we usually get prints and fluids from a thousand guests." "But this baby is brand-spanking new." "Great." "So you'll have print workups by the morning." "My baby sister." "I'm supposed to protect her." "I was off at that party doing the hokey-pokey, for God's sake." "On your way down, you notice anyone hanging out in the hallway?" "No." "What about earlier?" "Anyone stand out?" "Everyone." "We're from North Carolina." "Right." "Think." "Maybe it didn't mean anything at the time... but looking back, anyone pay particular attention to Siobhan?" "There was a guy in the park, at the puppet show." "He was definitely staring at her." "Puppet show?" "We're here on family vacation, with my wife and little girl." "What do you remember about this guy?" "He was alone, no kids." "Can you describe him?" "White, thirties maybe, brown hair." "Height?" "Weight?" "Average." "That's all I remember." "Where'd you go after the park?" "Back to Hotel Hell." "Hi, I'm Detective Munch." "This is Detective Tutuola." "I'm Siobhan's sister-in-law." "Perhaps we should talk in your room, Miss Miller." "Is it nearby?" "It's right in here." "No, I didn't hear anything." "Oh, my gosh, I must have been drying my hair." "Where was your daughter?" "She was with my husband at the party." "Siobhan and I went swimming after the park and we were running late." "Was anyone at the pool bothering her?" "No, we didn't even talk to anyone." " Did anyone look out of place?" " No." "Do you mind if we finish this a little later?" "After what's happened, I just feel like I need to spend some time with Tara." "What you got there, Spanky?" "Hotel security tapes... and a state-of-the-art, fully digitized deck on which to view them." "Happy?" "Assuming there are no 18-minute gaps, ecstatic." "Sketch artist finished with Siobhan." "Latent finished up too." "The only print they couldn't eliminate turned up in the system." "Russell Ramsay." "Released 18 months ago." "One count statutory rape." "Siobhan is just this side of legal." "Pretty damn close." "Our man Winston actually came through." "How great is this?" "Almost as great as us finding our guy." "Fin is throwing together a photo array to run by Siobhan." "That's Happy Feet!" "Excuse me?" "The odd bird at the party, and I don't mean the big yellow one." "Can you zoom in?" "Okay, wait a minute." "Thorpe is just starting his speech." "Siobhan came down just as he finished." "Odd behavior for a guy who just committed a rape, wouldn't you say?" "I guess he worked up an appetite." "Why isn't he getting the hell out of Dodge?" "Benson." "Cragen's looking for you." "We just found our guy on the Miller case." "Can this wait?" "Close the door." "What?" "Sit down, Olivia." "What?" "Really, I think you should sit down." "Just tell me." "What's going on?" "Your mother had an accident." "I am so sorry." "She didn't make it." "How?" "She fell... down the subway steps, 110th and Broadway." "No." "My mother never takes the subway." "The entrance outside the Velvet Room." "She was drunk." " did you talk to Benson?" " yeah." "You know, my brother's a mortician." "In case she has any questions." " You have a brother?" " I think we found Twinkle-Toes." "Can you believe this douche bag?" "Killing a fellow cockroach." "Whatever happened to professional courtesy?" "Russell Ramsay?" "What's the problem?" "That nobody's exterminated you yet." "You have the right to remain silent." "What'd I do?" "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." "What'd I do?" "Aside from defying the laws of rhythm?" "You have the right to an attorney." "If you can't afford one, one will be given to you..." "This is crazy." "I never raped nobody." "So the rape that you were tried and convicted of three years ago... what was that?" "A heinous miscarriage of justice?" "That was statutory." "And we were in love." "Yeah and I'm sure they'll make a TV movie of it one day." " But, about Wednesday?" " Wednesday..." "We've got your prints on the scene... your bizarrely circuitous escape route on tape... and your victim on her way down here to ID you as we speak." "I swear!" "I never raped nobody." "Russell." "Now, Wednesday, noon?" "I was with a girl." "At that new hotel, the..." "Thorpe Palace." "Her name's Siobhan." "You left her bloody and broken, and you're using her as an alibi?" "What?" "What are you talking about?" "That bitch said I raped her?" "It was a date." "I met her at a bar." "She gave me her room key." "You happen to remember the name of the bar?" "Please take the stand." "You think you can make a case?" "If I can get this girl in front of a jury before her wounds heal... my opening statement would be "Prosecution rests."" "I just wish we could get in his prior." "Too prejudicial." "No violence with the statutory." "They were known to each other." "No pattern." "Siobhan is just this side of legal." "He preys on teenage girls." "Don't worry, I'll still bury this guy." "I'm gonna bring them in now." "If you recognize the man who raped you... identify him by number." "Okay?" "Sorry I'm late." "Thought you were taking time off." "I took it." "I don't know if I can do this." "You're gonna do fine." "Are we ready yet?" "Bring them in." "Okay, right this way, gentlemen." "You just take your time." "Siobhan, do you recognize anyone?" "It's okay, just say the number." "Excuse me." "Move away from the witness, please." "Number four." "Which number?" "Number four." "Now, where do you recognize him from?" "That's the man who raped me." "Excuse me, there a detective I can talk to?" " About?" " Russell Ramsay." "Have a seat Ms..." "Leevak." "Shelly Leevak." "I guess you heard about Ramsay getting arrested again, huh?" "He's not a rapist." " Miss Leevak..." " Shelly." "That would hold a lot more weight if he wasn't convicted of raping you." "It wasn't rape." "He was my boyfriend." "My parents only filed the charges because they wanted us to be apart." "He was only 22." "And you were 15." "He's a predator." "He's a nice guy." "I know he didn't do anything to that skank." "You still have feelings for this man?" "I love him." "Did Ramsay ask you to come down here?" "I would've anyway." "He looked me in the eye and he said he didn't do it." "He looked me in the eye and said that he had sexual intercourse with the victim." "He cheated on me?" "Only because I cheated on him first." "We broke up a few days before." "A classic trigger for a rapist." "Traumatic event in an interpersonal relationship." "To regain control, he overpowers another woman." "He said he didn't do it." "There should be a special level of hell... for this pus-sucking, gangrenous malignancy of a mental amoeba." "Somebody steal your parking space again?" "Ramsay just sent in his first victim to defend him against his second." "From the statutory rape case?" "Shelly Leevak?" "The sweet little thing he deflowered at 15?" "She's five years older but none the wiser." "Don't tell me she's trying to alibi him?" "Everything but." "Explain to me how schmoes like us spend every night at home alone... watching the History Channel, while a scum like Ramsay... has this nice girl's complete devotion." "She is so convinced." "If there is any karma, Ramsay won't be doing much sitting down at Rikers." "Listen, Thorpe security called." "You're finished with that video equipment, right?" "Take a look at this." "What?" "Let's travel back in time a few minutes." "Yeah?" "The desk clerk, Terry Wilde, said he came over to look for celebrities." "So why is he looking in the opposite direction... for five minutes?" "And why this?" "They looked right at each other." "And Wilde watches Ramsay all the way out." "THORPE PALACE HOTEL 726 WEST 49TH STREET FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8" "Terry Wilde has been terminated." "What'd he do... aside from keeping the victim from the cameras, thereby saving your five-star ass?" "He gave us no choice." "He hasn't shown up for work since the event." "How convenient." "The only employee that can testify in court." "What you're inferring is preposterous." "Implying." "You did infer what he implied." "But on the bright side, you did infer correctly." "Do you have Wilde's current address, or did that disappear, too?" "It's in his file... which you may keep." "He lives at 1634 Broadway." "Not unless he's one of the nuts lobbying for yet another extension of Cats." "That's the Winter Garden Theater." "Don't ask." "Why would he give a bogus address?" "Why, indeed?" "What else you got?" "Former employment." "THE PARK SHERIDAN HOTEL 12 CENTRAL PARK SOUTH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8" "Hi, we need to speak to a supervisor." "Mr. Fitzpatrick." "We need to ask you about a former employee." "Terry Wilde." " Take it you had a problem with Terry?" " No, never." "Under what circumstances did he leave?" " Terry never left." "I'm Terry Wilde." "What did I do?" "So who is this desk clerk, Terry Wilde?" " Not a clue." "Explains his reticence to testify in court." "He's working some angle." "Yeah, which he aborts when he becomes a witness in an unconnected crime?" " Come on, what are the odds?" " I don't know, astronomical?" "Front desk, room key, no forced entry." "Put me down for $100 on "connected."" "I'll put his photo out there." "Benson, Stabler." "A minute?" "This is Mr. Tupper." " Hi." " Hello." "He's an actuary for Mr. Thorpe's insurance carrier." "Mr. Tupper was just asking how strong the Miller case against Ramsay is." "And why is that?" "The hotel, while admitting no liability... is considering making restitution." "That's big of them." "Fiscal sense in these litigious times." "Which Mr. Thorpe would settle out of court." "And out of the papers." "I just crunch the numbers." "And put price tags on people's lives." "I simply follow the actuarial charts." "They cover every conceivable contingency." "Oh, yeah?" "What's a dead cop worth?" "I'll need rank and age at death." "RIKERS ISLAND MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11" "What's his name?" "I don't know." "Is this the guy you think did it?" "He's your partner." "He gave you her room key, didn't he?" "What?" "No, she gave it to me." "They checked out your story." "Nobody at the bar remembers seeing you." "I got a forgettable face." "Mr. Ramsay, we will find your partner, with or without your help." "I'm sure he will be willing to take the deal we're offering you." "My client maintains his innocence." "You're facing rape-one with a prior felony conviction." "Given the degree of excessive force, you're looking at 25 years." "Why won't you listen?" "I don't have a partner." "What are you offering?" "If he gives up his partner, I'll recommend some leniency." "Well?" "What's it gonna be?" "Looks like we'll be taking our chances at trial." "This is so wrong." "DELANCEY ARMS HOTEL 313 DELANCEY STREET TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12" "It's $20 for a tip-off." "If this guy turns out to be our Terry Wilde, he'll give you $30." "He's not a logged-in informant." "This comes out of my pocket." "You sure it's the guy?" "Like I said, as soon as the guy showed me the picture, I said "2E."" "I mean, if it's not him, it's his twin brother." " We don't pay out for brothers." " No, it's him!" "He wasn't by any chance wearing desk clerk uniform when he checked in?" "Like I said, when he signed in, it wasn't Terry Wilde." "The ID said Michael Berkman." "I'm telling you, that's the guy." "What?" " Yeah, it's the manager." "You got a phone call." "You get a name?" "Police!" "Is there a problem?" "Yeah, you didn't give the hotel two weeks notice." "Shame on you, Mr. Wilde." "His Wilde days are over." "This is Mr. Berkman now." "Got a lot of names there, don't you, fella?" "You got no right to come in here." "Get the hell out!" "Yes, okay, we will." "But you're coming with us." "You can't do this!" "Judge says we can." "Detective, I got a shady-looking skell up in 4F." " Any interest?" " Yeah, okay." "I don't know what kind of hold this guy has on Ramsay... but he won't give up his partner's name." "It's Michael Berkman." "Fin and Munch picked him up at a fleabag on Delancey." "We're running his prints right now." "If you have no connection to Ramsay, why'd you use a false identity at the hotel?" "To get work." "He had a great resume. / She." "I got it off the Internet." "I was desperate for a job." "It was a good one." "So why'd you leave?" "Is quitting against the law?" "It is highly suspect, following so closely the commission of a crime." "You have nothing connecting my client to your rapist." "We have a detective and an ADA with him right now." "Trust me, you wanna spill first." "I swear I'm not partners with any rapist." "I never met Russell Ramsay." "I never gave him a key." "Mr. Berkman, you helped facilitate a rape." "Do you realize we could charge you as a co-conspirator?" "Please!" "The most you got is criminal impersonation." "A misdemeanor." "Guys, a minute of your time." "Your Michael Berkman, formerly Terry Wilde, is in reality Kyle Kivlahan... disreputable roofer and petty thief." "What's his connection to Ramsay?" "His connection is not to Ramsay." "It's to Beau." "They went to the same high school and juvenile facilities down in North Carolina." "Looks like these guys are partners." "You saying her own brother set her up to be raped?" "I just got off the phone with Tupper." "The brother is threatening a lawsuit." "$10 million." "THORPE PALACE HOTEL 726 WEST 49TH STREET WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13" "Beau took the girls shopping." "We're doing everything we can to keep Siobhan busy." "Otherwise, I think she'd go crazy." "Sounds like a great brother." "Have they always been close?" "Actually, they just got back in touch." "He left home when she was Tara's age." "Why was he estranged from his family?" "I don't know the whole story." "He was 16." "He was a kid." "When did he reconcile?" "He never got to." "Their parents died a couple of months ago... and he was determined to make it up to Siobhan." "Was that the point of this trip?" "Yeah, family reunion." "Pretty serious boo-boo you got there." "Tara gave me first aid." "Guess I'm a little too old for the jungle gym." "Your husband called this place "Hotel Hell."" "I'm surprised you haven't moved out." "Oh, we're in a different room, of course!" "What, I do the wrong room, or is this rapist going door to door now?" "No, just lift every print you can." "We're trying to place Ramsay in here." "It's a long shot." "Odds are Beau met with him outside this hotel." "We've been assuming that Ramsay got a room key... from our multiple-personality desk clerk." "But maybe he didn't even need a key." "These are adjoining rooms." "Okay, Mrs. Miller had Siobhan at the pool... and Beau let him in through here." "Or here." "We got a blood stain." "Harry. / We know Beau was at the party from the videotape." "Mrs. Miller, though, was definitely in this room." "Making it even more of a family affair." "How'd you meet Beau?" "Beau who?" "What about Patricia Ann?" "Look, I don't know her." "And I swear to God I never touched her." "You gotta get me out of here." "Kyle Kivlahan?" "Okay, yes, I know him." "How do you know him?" "Please?" "I'll say anything." "You just tell me what you want to hear." "Like you told Shelly you didn't rape Siobhan?" "I love Shelly." "I never lie to her." "Really?" "'Cause when she found out you had sex with Siobhan... it came as a bit of a surprise." "Look, I'm guilty of bad judgment, all right?" "That's it." "Siobhan propositioned me, I accepted." "Now I get the crap beat out of me every day for it." "You gotta help me." "You've done a stint before." "Didn't you learn how to cover your back?" "It's worse this time." "Come on." "Rape and battery of a minor?" "Look, I can't sleep, all right?" "I gotta stay awake at night so I don't get ambushed." "You should have remembered the pecking order... before you raped Siobhan." "I didn't rape her!" "Try to stay out of fights, huh?" "How?" "I can't look at a guy without getting jumped." "Munch." "Benson just filled me in." "You got anything new?" "Something's not right." "With the brother?" "No, Ramsay." "Don't tell me that." "Ramsay's our only slam-dunk." "It's Kyle and Beau I need more on to indict." "Have you noticed how the bad guys are multiplying exponentially on this case?" "I just wanna make sure we get 'em right." "It doesn't get righter than Ramsay." "We've got the victim's ID, we've got his DNA, not to mention his prior." " Not-to-mention-his-prior came to see me." " Shelly Leevak?" "Why?" "She came to defend her rapist." "How many times do you see that?" "I've seen battered wives defend their husbands." "I've seen abused children defend their parents." "You name it, I've seen it." "Do me a favor, will you?" "Concentrate on Beau and Kyle." "The flowers were really nice." "Olivia, what are you doing here?" "I'm just working the rest of my shift." "I told you to take time off." "I don't want any time off." "At least take the rest of the day." "Look..." "Captain, it took me years to accept the fact that my mother was an alcoholic... and, when I did, I had to accept all the consequences." "I can handle it." "I just need to work." "We're pretty sure Siobhan's brother and sister-in-law set her up." "I wanna talk to Siobhan." "No." "She can't know yet." "We can't take the chance it'll tip them off." "Chance of what?" "Chance that I'll blow the case?" "Look, you're in no condition." "Captain, I'm fine." "Let me do my job." "You're okay staying here?" "I just wanna go home." "I think you should." "Beau wants to get everything settled first." "I can't believe he's suing them." "How old were you when your brother left home?" "Like four." "So, you never knew him growing up?" " No." "And, how is it that he got back into your life?" "Well, when our parents died, Beau came back." "He said he'll take care of me." "Sorry, I'll be right back." "Okay." "No!" "I don't think that's enough." "You just remember, no matter what you settle for..." "I am getting my $2 million, 'cause I sure as hell did my part." "So we move Siobhan from victim... to perp." "Along with her brother, Beau Miller." "Yeah, a.k.a., Clayton Farnsworth." "Forgery and fraud." "You know, I talked to North Carolina." "Nothing but a petty con artist." "He works the beach tourists in summer, home improvement scams in the off-season." "Married to Patricia Ann Miller." "The bloody print we found on the adjoining door we thought was Ramsay's?" "Lab ran it against the elimination prints." "It's Patricia Ann's." "But what was she doing there?" "Why risk contaminating the crime scene?" "To make it look like one." "She trashed the place." "Not to mention our phony desk clerk, Kyle Kivlahan." "A.k.a. Terry Wilde and Michael Berkman." "Who we now know to be Beau Miller's second cousin." "Which also makes him Siobhan's cousin. / Yes." "One big happy family of grifters." "Thorpe is the mark." "Let's get arrest warrants for the Miller family." "Better call Children's Services." "There's a 4-year-old." "Thorpe would rather pay... than having us drag three handcuffed suspects through his family-friendly lobby." "We won't be taking them in the hotel." "Excuse me, we haven't connected all the dots yet." "Who's left?" "Ramsay." "He's not a Miller." "He's not from North Carolina." "How does he fit in?" "WHEDON  MAYFIELD INSURANCE COMPANY 46 WHITEHALL STREET THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14" "We're here to pick up a check." "Beau Miller?" "Regarding Siobhan?" "Mr. Miller's here to see you." "Mr. Miller." "My supervisor actually needs to handle transactions of this magnitude." "Come with me." "I can take your little girl to our day-care facility if you'd like." "This won't take long, will it?" "We need to go over some delicate issues." "It might be best." "All right." "Okay, now, Mommy will be back in just a second... and I want you to go with the nice lady." " Okay?" " Okay." "Mr. Mayfield?" "These are the Millers." "Thank you, Tupper." "You can go." " Welcome." " Hello." "Please, I can't tell you how glad I am... to be putting this unpleasant situation behind us." "You just need to sign these." "It is a detailed account of the event...as you relayed it to us." "And we get that check today?" "Unless you wanna drop the claim." "We're done in here." "What is this?" "You're under arrest for conspiracy, extortion, and grand larceny." "No one say anything without lawyers." "Nothing, Siobhan." "I don't understand." "What'd I do?" "Why don't you tell me more about your dead parents?" "They're alive and doing time." "Investment scams, wasn't it?" "I was ashamed." "That's why I said they were dead." "You ashamed of your age too?" "'Cause we know you're 23, not 17." "And we know you participated in this." "Beau made me." "You don't know what they put me through." "I didn't know what to do." " Please!" " You're good." " But I've been taken by better." " No!" "I want a deal." "Our cousin Kyle's job was to get inside." "Once he was, he bumped a confirmed reservation and got us in." "So how's Ramsay related to you?" "He's not." "We found him on the Sex Offenders Registry." "The sex was consensual." "We set him up." "And beating you to a pulp was what, foreplay?" "That was Patty Ann." "She came in after he left." "It hurt like hell, but she did a damn good job." "I mean, that's pretty much it." "Timed it so I got downstairs right in the middle of the opening... and then Kyle was in place to stop me just before I hit the press." "Why?" "Wouldn't that have made a stronger civil suit?" "Oh, maybe, but those take years." "I mean, we knew Thorpe would pay to keep it quiet, you know?" "And gag money pays real quick." "You'll have to allocute to all of this when you plead guilty." "Testify against all the other players, you're looking at probation." "What was going through your mind when you were taking that beating?" "How I was gonna spend all that money." "She get the deal?" "Yeah." "³×" "She admit to being the ringleader?" "Four separate interviews, one common thread:" "Siobhan set this up." "The original scam was planned with the parents." "Once they got pinched, she needed a replacement family." "So she calls up her long-lost brother." "Who, if you hear him tell it... had to be browbeaten into making the jump into the big time." "And then she gets probation?" "I'll tell you, it gets worse:" "She set Ramsay up." "Now, we gotta call Corrections, have him produced and released." "I guarantee you he's looking at another 24 hours... before he makes it through the red tape." "Then we need to put a rush on it." "ALLOCUTION HEARING FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15" "Beau made sure the police and hospital documented the rape... and then waited for them to arrest Ramsay and find out he was a convicted rapist." "And, and soon as they did, Beau began the con." "That's about it." "Are the People satisfied?" "Miss Cabot?" "Could Miss Miller elaborate on how Russell Ramsay was enrolled in the scam?" "That's covered under the agreement, right?" " Right." "We just looked on the Internet for a sex offender." "I mean, they got a whole website with pictures and MOs... and I picked Ramsay because he wasn't as gross as the others." "I mean, he didn't look dangerous and he liked them young." "How did you go about seducing him?" "Our cousin Kyle was the advance man." "I mean, he followed him around a few days and got his schedule down." "And then, I just showed up at his bar." "I gave him the duplicate room key that Kyle had made... and I told him when to be in my room." "The plan hinged on Ramsay showing up." "How could you be certain he would?" "He's an ex-con with a loser job who likes young girls." "I mean, it's a no-brainer." "Still, something could've gone wrong." "I would've Plan-B'd it." "What is Plan B?" "Honey, no man passes up free sex." "Siobhan Miller, you've entered a change of plea from not guilty to guilty." "Are you pleading guilty because you are, in fact, guilty of the charges?" "Yes, Your Honor." "Given your life-long vocation of flimflamming... this court is loathe to put you on the stand of your co-conspirators' trials." "However, since your plea seems acceptable to the DA... this court will sentence you to five years probation." "What are you doing?" "Can't tell you how much I've enjoyed watching you hang yourself." "What?" "We had a deal." "You can't go back on it." "Russell Ramsay was attacked at Rikers." "He was beaten and raped." "He was killed." "Your false allegation put him there." "Under the law, you're responsible for his death." "And manslaughter ain't covered under your deal, sweetheart." "They got her, Munch." "She played right into it." "What are the chances it'll stick?" "Cabot'll get her allocution testimony in front of the grand jury." "No way they won't indict." "That's great." "John." "We got her." "Yeah?" "At what price?" "UNIFIED SHIPPING REGO PARK, NEW YORK FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16" "What are you doing here?" "I thought I told you everything." "I know you did." "And you were right." "What?" "You mean..." "We know that Ramsay didn't rape that woman." "He's been cleared." "Thank God." "What?" "Can you take a break for a few minutes, have a cup of coffee with me?" "I need to talk to you about something." "What?"