Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–…): Season 16, Episode 14 - Intimidation Game - full transcript

NARRATOR: 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.

It's nice to see you, Olivia.

I'm glad you called
me, it's been a while.

Yeah. Well, you know,
with work and then Noah...

Whoo! Child in the house.
Well, that changes everything.

You think? (CHUCKLES)



How's it been?

You know, I mean,

between my lack
of sleep and, uh,

worrying about Noah and,

you know, trying to juggle my
own schedule, it's been, uh...

Amazing!

I'm glad to hear that.

You know, he's just... He's
not a baby anymore, he's his

own person.

It's like

such a boy!

You know, last weekend we, uh,

we had this play date

with these two
adorable little girls and,



you know, they,
they sat quietly,

they just had a little tea
party with their dolls and,

you know, within
a half an hour, um,

Noah had broken the teapot,

uh, and another one
of their toys and then he

fell off the,

the couch. He split his
lip and then proceeded to

pull all of the
books off the shelf.

(CHUCKLES) Sounds like a boy.

Yeah. You know, I just...

I can't help but
worry sometimes,

right, about how he'll grow up,

with his history.

You're not reconsidering
the adoption, are you?

Oh God, no. No, no, no, no, no.
I've already started the paperwork.

Yeah...

Boys run around, they break
things, they hurt themselves...

It's in all their DNA.

(GUNS FIRING) (MEN SHOUTING)

Move and I'll
blow your head off.

Oh, you wanna hide now?

Let's see if you can
handle this grenade.

SONNY: Whoa, look out!

FIN: Damn! ROLLINS: Oh.

Who did that? Behind you.

I'll kill him. Damn campers.

What's a camper?

Lazy creeps who just hide
behind stuff, don't engage.

Waiting for you to run by
and then shoot you in the back.

They're all pieces of crap!

Boom!

You were saying?

Enjoy the tournament.

(CHUCKLING)

This is awesome. This is,
this is better than Comic-Con.

Really? Yeah.

Wait till you see
the main event.

These teams practice
eight hours a day.

They are not noobs.

Noobs?

Short for "newbies."

Oh, yeah. That's much shorter.

WOMAN: You can
set all of your controls.

Just hold these
two buttons down...

Go home, gamer girl.

What the hell is your problem?

You and your boss.

Raina Punjabi only got this
feminazi game made by being a slut.

Really? Like I've never heard
that before? You're one of those?

Get out of here.

You wanna kiss me?

What are we...
Are we gonna kiss?

Get out of here.

I'm super scared.

Did your mom give you that hat?

Bye. Have a nice day.

Whoo-hoo! Whoo!

Yeah, Baby! (CHEERING)

Your ass is grass!
Take that, bitch!

God, it's like overgrown boys, like,
staring at a screen, pressing buttons.

Isn't there a basketball
game on or something?

Have you seen the Knicks lately?

(LAUGHS)

Oh, hold up! There's...
Who's that, the manny?

The, um, the, the,
the... Leslie Connolly!

He's the one that
babysat for the kids.

The two girls who
stabbed the little sister.

Okay. He's the guy that drew
all those Glasgowman pictures?

And he's turning it
into a video game now?

Hey, Leslie. Hey! A
little too soon, isn't it?

Detectives! What can I say?

The trial created a lot of buzz.

Yeah, and you're
taking full advantage.

The developers came to me.

They, uh, they were
gonna make it either way.

Huh. Uh, wanna give it a try?

Virtual reality.

Virtual reality?

It's like you're actually
inside of the game.

(SCOFFS) I'm good.

Will you just watch
the booth for a second?

I'll be right back.

(TOILET FLUSHING)

(GASPS)

Get out! You get out.

We don't want you
here. (SCREAMING)

ANNOUNCER: Here,
we see Murdersaurus.

Murdersaurus performing
some long distance dentistry.

He's down to a side-arm as we
see Quickfire is currently in the lead.

But Lightning Boltz are
catching up pretty fast.

You guys fans of
Lightning Boltz? ALL: Yeah!

Amazonian Warrior, huh? Is it
true that you only have one breast?

Stop! Stop! No! I
got that kiss for you.

You want a kiss?

And it looks like Brodly's got
Team Quickfire in his sights.

Can we give him a chant?
(CROWD CHEERING)

Let's give him a chant!

Kill them! Kill them!

(CROWD CHANTING)
Kill them! Kill them!

(SCREAMING) (CHANTING CONTINUES)

(SCREAMING)

(CHEERING)

ANNOUNCER: Fantastic!
And he just dropped the bomb!

He dropped the bomb!

That's the last time!

He's never coming back!

I don't know. I mean, have you
seen anyone do that? Detectives,

my co-worker thinks that someone's
in trouble in the ladies room.

Oh!

Don't worry about
it, guys. I got this.

ANNOUNCER: Oh, my
God! Did you see that?

Did you see what he did?

Hey, are you okay?

Yeah, I'm fine. Okay.

'Cause I'm a police officer.

Oh. What happened?

These guys, they just... They
just can't stand women in gaming.

What did they do to you?

Uh...

They leveled up.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

Okay, this girl...

Uh, Sarah Keller, 22

FIN: She works for Raina
Punjabi, the game developer.

Okay. And this girl was, uh,
attacked at the what, again?

The IVL finals. The
International Video Game League.

It's like March Madness,
but for video games.

I go every year. Nothing like this
has ever happened. ROLLINS: Right.

But Sarah told me that
the guys who did this

don't like women in gaming.

Well, in their world, a
developer's like God.

And some guys aren't
ready to give a girl that power.

Okay. Does Sarah
know her attacker?

No. Well, maybe.

Uh, Carisi stayed behind
to cull security footage.

Hold up.

You got Rollins and Carisi
in on this? On a Sunday?

(CHUCKLES) Never mind.

Okay, I'm not gonna understand a
word, uh, that anybody's saying about this,

so, uh, Fin, why don't you
come with me to interview Sarah.

And Rollins, I want you to
follow up with Carisi at the...

Whatever it is.

Yeah. So, uh, there
were two of them.

They were just the total FALs.

Failures at life.

Yeah. They were,
like, young, um,

they were white,

but pale and,
like, kind of skinny.

That's 80% of the crowd.

Okay, Sarah, so what,
what did they do to you?

Um, they touched
my breasts, kind of.

They, like, pushed me down. I don't
know, I fought 'em off and they ran.

Now, you told Detective
Rollins that this was personal.

So you... So you knew them?

Oh, no, no. No, I didn't
know them personally,

they'd just been by the
booth a couple of times.

They were talking smack
about my boss, Raina,

'cause... (SCOFFS)

Her game's not popular
with KOBS addicts.

KOBS? Kill or Be Slaughtered.

It's just another carbon
copy FPS with new skins

but the same 10-year-old engine.

First person shooter.
A shoot-'em-up game.

Guys who play it hate
games like Raina's.

And why's that? Amazonian
Warriors is non-violent

and non-stupid. So,

it's just like the opposite
of a KOBS addict.

Anyway, we launch on Tuesday,
they've been getting kind of crazy online.

(KNOCK AT DOOR) (DOOR OPENING)

Hey, Sarge, you guys got a sec?

Excuse us. Yeah, okay.

This security footage, it's like
trying to find a geek in a geek-stack.

Yeah, we got two suspects
coming out of the ladies room.

One's wearing a baseball cap,
the other's wearing a hoodie.

We only got partial
views of their faces.

But you buy tickets to
this on a computer, right?

Yeah. We're running
the buyers' names against

the Sex Offender's
Registry right now.

FIN: That's not what this is.

These guys want Raina
Punjabi out of the gaming world.

Just because she's a woman?

There's a lot of haters out there that
think she slept her way into the business.

Oh, right, right. She's, uh,

engaged to that venture
capitalist, Steven Kaplan.

Oh. Okay, so because
her fiancé has money,

that means she has no talent?

FIN: To them.

And they wanna take
her down, no matter what.

Then why attack Sarah?

Why not just go after Raina?

RAINA: Sarah told
me she fought them off.

I put a reward on my website for
anyone who catches these creeps.

She also tell you these creeps have
a grudge against you and your game?

There's nothing in the game
for them to be angry about.

You can choose how you play.

You can wage peace or war,
have a patriarchy or a matriarchy,

be eco-conscious
or industrialized.

I know. I read on
Kotaku that it's better than

Civ V with the Brave New
World expansion pack.

Okay, well, the guys that
attacked Sarah weren't as

evolved as my partner. Now look,

anyone look familiar?

(SIGHS)

They all look familiar.
That's the gaming demo.

Unfortunately, there's
always a few haters in the mix.

Anything specific?

Uh, email threats,

posts to your website
or other gamer sites,

hacker attacks? All the time.

But I can't be bothered
with that right now.

I block it all out. We
launch in two days.

Raina, everything all right?

Yeah, these detectives
are here about Sarah.

This is my fiancé.

Steven Kaplan.

Sarah's okay, right? Yeah.

We wanted to give
her the week off, but

it's too important a time.

It is. And Sarah doesn't
wanna miss any of it.

So you're not just an
investor. You work here?

We're a team. FIN: That's cool.

But you did have an
employee attacked.

We take that seriously.

Our internal
security's working on it.

Okay. We're gonna need
them to give us any specifics

from the past few weeks.

Steven, I, I just don't
have time for this right now.

Raina, I've got it.

I'm sorry, she's
really under the gun.

This launch is a career-changer.

I'll give you what we have.

(KNOCK AT DOOR)
SONNY: Hey, Sarge.

Fin and Rollins are working
with Raina Punjabi's security team.

But not with Raina?

Oh, no. This Amazonian
Warriors rollout, it's,

it's like the opening
night of a movie.

I've been reading
articles online.

I, I gotta tell you.

I mean, is this Noah's future?

Adolescent boys playing
cyborg cowboys and Indians?

Don't tell Fin that. Kill or Be Slaughtered's
like a spiritual experience for him.

Yeah, well, I don't get it.
You might not get this either.

Leslie Connolly, the
Glasgowman guy?

He might have something for us.

After the tournament, I wanted
some feedback on Glasgowman,

so I checked a few
gamer sites online...

Forums for players to rate
games, comment, fulminate, spew...

Yeah, I got that, Carisi.

And? Peep this thread.

BENSON: "Amazonian Warriors
bitch got what she deserved."

Lovely. Mmm-hmm.

A lot of crap like that. Guys puffing
their e-chests out, high-fiving...

So this could be anybody. Yeah.

Hold on, give me a second.

"DM me for more deets on what an

"Amazonian
Warrior's tits are like.

"My boy and I copped
a feel at the IVL."

That could be one of our
guys. Did you DM him?

I don't wanna talk to that guy.

That's why I came to you.

Okay, so I'm guessing that
this message is untraceable?

Yeah. That's why we
gotta go with Leslie here.

They know you, they trust you,

which is why I'm deputizing
you an official CI of the NYPD.

What? I don't want these guys
knowing that I ratted them out.

"These guys" are criminals.
And if you don't cooperate with us,

we're gonna shut your game
down and invoke the Son of Sam law.

Can't make profit from crime.

So let's get those
deets from your buddy.

Uh, tell him you were in
the booth next to that girl,

that she was a complete bitch.

Okay. Here it goes.

Now what? Tell
him that you doxxed

the girl that was sharing
the booth with her.

Doxxing's when you
publish personal information,

phone numbers,
passwords, online.

See if he wants to hook
up, talk about pranking her.

Tell him you'll meet him there
with a buddy. That'd be me.

I got that, too, Carisi.

Do I really need to be here?

Leslie, chill out.

Chill out? Seriously?

Hey, Leslie.

Oh. What up?

Uh, this is my, uh,
programmer, Carisi.

Call me Sonny. Everybody does.

So you doxxed that other bitch?

I didn't see anything online.

Well, I'll send you the link.

But tell me, did that
gamer-slut, did she cry?

She's a whiny little bitch, man.

It's, like, hello,
what did you expect?

Setting up a booth at a
KOBS event, am I right?

Yep. Won't make
that mistake again.

But, um, look, I want those
deets that you promised me.

Uh, they were a
pretty nice handful.

They were kind of
small, but nice and perky.

Ah, sweet, sweet.
Did you get any, um...

(WHISTLES) You know. He knows.

She got the message,
all right? We good?

Oh, yeah, man. We're real good.

Oh, uh, by the way,
you're under arrest. What?

Wrong move, player.

Oh, we were just
kidding with that girl.

Nice try.

No reset button
in the real world.

Okay, Sarah. You
recognize anybody?

Yeah, number
three. He groped me.

(KNOCKING ON GLASS)

Okay, next window.

Anyone here?

Yeah, that, uh, slope-browed
son of a bitch, number two.

Great. (KNOCKING ON GLASS)

Have fun with that, Counselor.

Great job, Sarah. We're
gonna be able to charge them

and the D.A. will
be in touch. Oh.

But, uh, we'll be able
to keep it quiet, right?

It's just we launch on Tuesday,
and if anything interferes with that,

Raina will, like, kill me.

Okay.

BENSON: The arrest went viral.

This is what
Sarah was afraid of.

And these comments. That's
some pretty vicious stuff.

ROLLINS: "Nice work, Gary
and Zach. Taking one for the team.

"Hope they gave
it to her real good."

They're treating the guys
like heroes. They're not.

SONNY: Look at this video.
This guy's got a ton of hits.

(DISTORTED VOICE) Gary and
Zach are sacrificial lambs crucified

on the altar of
political correctness.

That slut, Sarah,
got off easily.

Do not go where you're
not wanted, bitches!

I hope we didn't just give
the haters a recruiting tool.

Guys, unless there's
a specific threat,

there's nothing
we can do about it.

So you spend all day
with a gun in your holster,

and you still go
home and play, like,

shoot-'em-up games after work?

Sometimes, all night.

What am I missing here?

See, at work, I got 1PP, I
got Barba. They get in my way.

At home, it's just me and
my clan, it's simple. No gray.

Just shoot the other
team, go get the bad guys.

All right.

Are you so addicted that you
have to play right this second?

Come on, Fin. Not
at the dinner table.

I'm sorry. I just found
a live stream of Raina.

She's being interviewed.

So, Raina, people are commenting.
I'm gonna read one for you.

"There'd be no game if Ms. Punjabi
hadn't banged the money man."

Steven and I are
getting married.

So you'd agree that

the criticisms of your work
are rooted in misogyny?

This guy's supposed
to be on her side,

and he's still giving
her a hard time.

Jack, you're roping me
into a feminist debate.

I'm here to discuss my game...

(DOOR OPENING)
(SHOUTING) NYPD! Open up!

Get on the ground! JACK:
Raina? Is everything okay?

(RAINA SCREAMING)
OFFICER: Let's go!

Get down! Hands on your head!

What's going on?

(RAINA SOBBING)

What's happening?

Secure that! JACK: Raina?

Raina, are you okay?

You got three 911 calls
from three different phones,

all saying there was
a hostage crisis here?

Yeah. Kids, weapons.

Did you trace the numbers yet?

Let me guess, pay
phone, Internet phones?

You played right
into their hoax.

Raina got swatted. Yeah.

These guys got a hundred
ways to handle this situation,

they always use one.

Bang down the damn door.

They're just
doing their job, Fin.

You okay? Hold on, Steven.

I'm fine. Steven is
just stuck outside.

Uh, hey. Can we
get the fiancé up?

I'm not shocked by this.

That's what these guys do. They,

they troll behind their
computers and make prank calls.

But this was more
than a prank call.

You could've
been seriously hurt.

They're just trying to humiliate
me. And they got what they wanted.

Anonymous cowards.

Raina, are you all right?
Everything is fine, Steven.

They just swatted me in
the middle of the interview.

Yeah, I saw.

Good for them. It's over now.

Stop saying that. Do they know?

Do we know about what?

Tell them, or I
will. Steven, stop.

They sent her a threatening
message earlier today,

saying they wanted to see her on
her knees in front of the whole world.

Then she got doxxed an hour ago.

That's how they
knew this address.

And where, where
was that posted?

A sub-thread on
RedChanlt. Tracking Raina.

It's vile.

I told you not to read it.
I knew you'd overreact.

So I got doxxed. I'll move,

I'll change my
passwords, my number...

Raina, do you understand
what's going on? This is serious.

Yes. The game is being
launched tomorrow at noon.

That is the only
thing that is going on.

Everything else is noise.

Okay, that sub-thread,
I'm gonna need the link.

And the threatening message. And
if she doesn't come with us, you are.

I'll talk to her.

Okay, Raina got doxxed,
her personal info published.

I get that. But swatted?
Help me out here.

It's anonymous calls to 911
sending the SWAT team to your home.

These guys play dirty.

Okay, even so, how
is this SVU-related?

Wait till you see these threats.

Sarge, this is Raina Punjabi and

her fiancé and business partner,
Steven Kaplan. BENSON: Hi.

Okay, thank you for coming in.

I didn't exactly have a choice.

I understand some serious
threats have been made.

Uh, they hacked your
company's website?

We're back online.

Uh, anything specific?

Yeah. They're threatening violence
against Raina and her female employees.

(SIGHS HEAVILY)

"Fair warning. If Raina Punjabi

"dares to go through
with the launch tomorrow,

"we'll make sure that her
raped and mutilated corpse

"is on the front page of every
feminist blog by next week."

That's a specific threat.
Not protected by free speech.

ROLLINS: And here's
another one of his threats.

(DISTORTED VOICE) That slut, Raina,
deserves all the pain that's coming to her.

Her game is derivative,
mind-numbing garbage.

She's a whore, who used
sex to get where she is.

And if she and her social justice
warriors don't leave gaming now,

we will make them.

And there are dozens
of others like this.

Threatening rape, threatening attacks
during the launch at the Birch Pavilion.

And we can't trace where
these are coming from?

They upload it through the
darknet, just like the doxxing, so, no.

Okay. And, uh, the launch
is scheduled for tomorrow?

At noon. So, would you
consider postponing?

This isn't a little lecture
I invited my friends to.

It is the launch event of an
international game rollout.

It's being live-streamed
in 18 countries.

Every major gaming
site is sending a rep.

Yeah, I understand
that, but these are public

death threats. All the more
reason why we can't postpone.

Ever since the
swatting went viral,

I'm being called the
face of women in gaming.

Tomorrow I'm doing
an interview on CNBC,

then I'm ringing the
opening NASDAQ bell.

I mean, you can do all
that, but the launch itself,

can't you tape it,
then stream it later?

If we do that, they've won.

I'm showing the world that I'm
intimidated by cyber terrorists.

I won't make the
same mistake Sony did.

Better to be called a bitch
than a coward. STEVEN: Raina.

Look, I came down here.

I'm cooperating.

And I appreciate that
you have a job to do.

So just so we're clear,
you've officially warned me.

I accept all liability.

But I absolutely do not want
a visible police presence.

No ESU, no bomb-sniffing dogs.

Please.

I have to go home
and get some sleep.

Thank you, detectives.

She's serious about
her work, I get it.

She doesn't wanna
be compromised, but

how many people are
going to this thing tomorrow?

At least 500.

And Raina may not be
worried about herself,

but all the people
in the audience...

Yeah. We can't let
this thing happen.

I got some friends at FDNY.

I'm sure they could find some
violation, shut the Birch Pavilion down.

Raina's right. I mean, we do
that, the cyber terrorists win.

Guys, we have the resources
to keep a low key presence.

Call the Birch Pavilion
and coordinate it.

(CROWD MURMURING)

Anything on the pre-screen?

Nobody who bought a
ticket with a credit card

matches any of the online
profiles we managed to trace.

It's a waste of time.

Anyone up to no good's
not using a credit card.

Okay, so let's focus
on what we can do.

Spread out. Watch hands
and eyes. Stay on the radio.

Carisi, what's it looking like?

We got a bunch of
monitors with grainy footage.

You guys ever think about
upgrading your security systems?

Who are you, Steven Spielberg?

You're here as a courtesy.

Come on, we got the
situation under control.

Two hundred events a year in this
place, we haven't lost anybody yet.

Yeah, well, let's
not break that streak.

WOMAN: The good of one,

is the good of all.

Hunt, build, forage, create.

They say that
history repeats itself.

But now, it's up to
you to get it right.

Find the Amazonian
Warrior in you.

Ladies and gentlemen,

please welcome to the
stage, Raina Punjabi!

(CHEERING)

Good afternoon. I
am Raina Punjabi.

(CHEERING)

I'm guessing most of
you already knew that.

(LAUGHING)

Thank you for coming.

I am very excited to share Amazonian
Warriors with all of you here today.

And with all of you
streaming this online.

Nearly two years in the making,

this civilization-building
strategy game

allows you to control a
land of your own creation.

The goal? To get it
right this time. (LAUGHS)

Uh, what's that?

Raina, get down.

Guys, where are
those coming from?

RAINA: Um,

how can we change
the mistakes of our past

to create a more perfect
world? Laser pointer, row five,

left side.

Hey.

Hey, you can't do that.
ROLLINS: Watch me.

Come on, come on.

The game is
collaborative, team-building,

encouraging cooperation
and group problem-solving.

Three more.

I see them. Copy that.

NYPD. You wanna hand me that?

Yeah. I, I didn't
know it was on.

I'm sure you didn't.
Let's go. You're out.

You too, you're
out of here as well.

Here you go.

Wow, laser pointers. You
know, my mom's cat loves those.

(CROWD LAUGHING)

As I was saying, the
game is collaborative,

offering multiple
points of view,

so that the player is...

(SCREAMING)

(DISTORTED VOICE) Bitches
will die. No social justice in gaming...

(SCREAMING)

Carisi, Carisi, what
are you seeing?

Someone hacked
into the lighting board.

The security system, too.

Tell me you've got an
override. Come on, let's go.

Come on, move over.

Be calm, be calm, be calm!

Police. Remain calm.

Raina! Raina!

STEVEN: Raina! Who's
got eyes on Raina?

Who's got eyes?

We lost her.

(SIGHS)

Where's our principal?

I got nothing.

MAN: Ms. Punjabi, this way.

RAINA: Hey! What
happened? Her mic's still on.

Where are we going?
Carisi, anything?

I got her. I got her.

She's with a security
guard in the back hallway.

Hey. Hey! Let go of me!

Back exit. Back exit!

Police! Stop!

(HORN HONKING) (TIRES SQUEALING)

(SIRENS WAILING)
(TIRES SQUEALING)

(GRUNTS)

Get up. Come on!

Hey!

He had Raina! I
was trying to help her.

Where is she? I don't know.

(RAINA SCREAMING) Wrong answer.

Detectives, she's up there.

(DISTORTED VOICE) Shut up, bitch.
Keep your mouth shut or you're done!

You hear me?

Game on, NYPD.

Where is that coming from?

Track it, Rollins. Track it now!

(RAINA SCREAMING)

What? This wasn't my idea.
What, you think that matters?

You're an accomplice
to kidnapping.

He said we were
just gonna grief her.

Smoke bombs, laser
pointers, things like that.

And the kidnapping?

No one told me about that.

Does "no one" have a name?

A username, Acid Rain.
But I've never met him.

What did he say, exactly?

He said to bring
Raina out the back exit.

What, so they left you here
and threw her into a van?

What? I didn't know
that they were gonna...

What are you, a patsy?

Yeah, God forbid
something happens to Raina,

you'll be looking
at murder charges.

If you know something,
say something right now.

I saw the van. It was white.

License number.

Now, NYPD detectives
were aware of possible threats

and were inside the Birch Pavilion
at the time of the kidnapping,

but were...

That was the Commissioner.

Tell me something's
popped on this white van.

It was stolen from
a garage yesterday.

Security cameras
there were blacked out.

The license plate went out
right after the kidnapping,

and Port Authority cameras haven't
seen it at any bridges or tunnels.

So it's still in Manhattan.

What about her phone,
are we tracking it?

No luck. They must
have removed the battery.

I got a tip. White cargo van at an
abandoned factory, plates match.

Unis are on their
way. You two, go.

Open.

Clear!

All right, let's
get CSU in here.

Let's comb the interior.

Amanda.

Okay, go.

Look at this, here we go.

That's from Kill
or Be Slaughtered.

That's the cyborg logo.
They left that for us.

All right, we need
CSU down here, too.

We got something. I mean,
that's her blouse. And that's blood.

OFFICER 1: Flashlight.

OFFICER 2: Clear.

They left us a video.

(CRYING) Please don't do this!

(CRYING) Why?

Please...

(LAUGHING)

"Level completed."
This is a game to them.

Okay, so what's the next level?

Fin.

(CRYING) Please...
Shut up, bitch.

You don't have to do this.

(YELLING) Shut up, bitch!

If you say another word, I'm
gonna kill you. Do you understand?

Let's just do this.

Ready.

Freakin' go, already. Go.

You're up.

(DISTORTED VOICE) All
you bitches, you're on notice.

So, what do you
mean you have no idea

how that van got
onto your property?

Yeah, okay, you do that.

How are you doing, Mr. Kaplan?

I tried to tell her.

You tried to tell her.
She just wouldn't listen.

Hey, uh, Sarge, I got something.

What is it? Uh, you
know, Mr. Kaplan,

why don't you have a seat and
we'll be with you in a moment.

This link was just
uploaded to RedChanlt.

(DISTORTED VOICE) This is what happens
to slut bitches who mess with gamers.

(RAINA SOBBING)

We warned you.

Hey, gamer girl.

Please, no!

Where is this coming from?

All we know is
it's streaming live.

I realize now

that gaming is no
place for females.

So all you bitches
should get out now.

You are not wanted

and you are not safe.

I also have a message
for Steven Kaplan.

I never loved you.

I only slept with you
so you'd back my game.

I am a slut, and I am a liar.

And this is live, too? No.
Uploaded to RedChanlt.

You don't wanna read
the comments. No, I don't.

Hold up. This
upload is geo-tagged.

Look at it, "South
Shore, Staten Island."

Looks like a
residential address.

Yeah, yeah, I'm on
it. BENSON: Hold on.

They've been using the
darknet this whole time,

and now they leave a trail?

This is a trap.

They're playing a
game. We gotta play, too.

All right, the house belongs
to Mrs. Marissa Rossi.

Public school art
teacher. She lives alone.

Okay, should we call ESU?

Well, we gotta go easy.
We don't want them to

set us up to swat somebody.

Just go.

(KNOCK AT DOOR)

ROLLINS: Hey, come on!

Can I help you?
NYPD. Mrs. Rossi?

Yes, that's me.

Are you here alone?
SONNY: Upstairs.

Wait, what, what is going on?

Are you here alone? Yes, why?

Okay, because a
woman was kidnapped,

and her abductors were
here in this house tonight.

Oh no, no, there
must be some mistake.

Ma'am, have you been at
home here all night tonight?

I got home an hour
ago from my book club.

Does anybody else live here?

No, just me. Who's this, then?

That's my husband.
But he passed.

No, the kid. The kid.

That's my son, Anthony.
He's away at college.

Does he play video games?

Yes. Why? Where?
Where does he play?

There's the camera.
They raped her here.

Gun safe.

Where are the guns?

He's a good boy.

He's shy.

You've made a mistake!

No, Mrs. Rossi, we
haven't made a mistake.

We found evidence of sexual
assault in your basement.

And your son's computer's
been logged into an account that

has been threatening
Raina Punjabi for weeks.

No!

"I would love to gouge her
eyes out with a rusty spoon"?

He didn't write this!

One of his friends,
maybe, but not my Anthony.

Which friends? One of them
from the video games, you know?

The way they talk to each other.

(STAMMERING) Anthony says
it's just boy talk but he's not like that.

He's from a good home.
We raised him better. Hey.

I believe that, Mrs.
Rossi, I really do.

I grew up a 10 minutes' drive
from you, just off of Arden. Yeah.

And I'm sure that Anthony is a good
kid, but somewhere along the line,

Anthony got confused.

He tried to hurt
someone without actually

thinking about the actual person
at the other end of those messages.

And that usually comes
from a place of pain.

A feeling like...

Like you don't matter. Now
does that sound like Anthony?

Since my husband's passing...

It was very hard on him.

Yeah.

Even if,

he wrote these messages,

he would never want

to... Rape?

Or kill?

He would never! Of
course he wouldn't.

I mean, this probably
started as a joke,

you know? His friend's
idea, it just got out of hand.

But what we want
now is for this to end

peacefully.

And that's what you
want, too, isn't it?

It took a while, but Mrs.
Rossi came to Jesus.

Her husband was a gun buff.
Two pistols, 20-gauge shotgun.

Great. Uh, Fin, do you think that
they're still following a gamer script?

Rape is a mod in
level 16 of KOBS...

Hold on. So they kidnap
and rape, and it's a game?

It's like a user
hack of the game.

Well, once they make that move,
there's only one path you can go.

Which is what?

Kill or be slaughtered.

(PHONE RINGING)

Rollins.

Raina? Yes, it's Raina.

They've got me in a garage,

and I think they're
going to kill me.

I need your help.

Raina, are you using your phone?

No, I stole one of
theirs. Please hurry!

Do you know where you are?

They're, they're holding me in a
garage near Manhattan Bridge.

There, there's a baseball
field across the street.

Okay, hang tight. We will
be there as soon as we can.

Oh, no! They're coming back!

Okay, we gotta go now.

Okay, this is the final level of
the game. They call the cops,

and when rush in to
save her, they attack.

This could be an ambush.

Call ESU. Tell 'em
we'll meet 'em there.

If this is a setup, they're
watching us from somewhere.

SONNY: Yeah, like up
there. BENSON: We're on it.

Okay, any communication
from the inside?

No, nothing since the call.
And we can't see inside.

What do you know?

Three perps, two
pistols and a 20-gauge.

FIN: If they are inside.

If? We think it may be a setup.

(GUNFIRE) Shots fired!

Shots fired!

All right, set up
or no, we gotta go.

Flashbang! Go, now!

OFFICER: NYPD!

Nobody move! NYPD! Get down!

(SHOUTING) Gun! She's
got a gun! She's got a gun!

Don't shoot! She's got a gun!

Hold your fire! Don't shoot!

Hold your fire! Drop the gun!

Hold fire! I said drop it!

(CRYING) I can't! Drop it!

Okay, she can't.
It's taped to her wrist.

Don't shoot.

Raina.

Raina.

(SOBBING)

Down!

(GUNFIRE)

It's coming out that
speaker right here!

(CRYING)

Okay. Hey.

Just hang in there.

Okay.

Okay.

(GUNFIRE) (BULLET RICOCHETING)

You good?

Hey, hey, hey! Put the
gun down! Hands up!

I never meant for
this to go so far.

Ryan and Pierce
made me, they're crazy!

They've totally lost it. It's freaking
me out. Don't even, Anthony.

They don't know what's
real and what's a game.

I geo-tagged that video from
my mom's house so you'd find us.

Ah! I'm sure she's real proud.

Drop it! (GUNSHOT)

(GRUNTS)

Recoil. Not like shooting
in a video game, huh?

Actually, it's exactly the same.

All right, you need
to think really carefully

about what you're doing right
now... (YELLING) Don't talk, Officer!

Prepare to be slaughtered.

Come out, drop the
gun, or I'll kill him now!

It's game over!

Drop the gun. Come on!

Okay. There's 50 cops
surrounding this building.

All for that skank, Raina.

Isn't being a whore a crime?

Huh?

You should arrest her!

Drop the gun. Shut up, bitch!

You're just like Raina.

Spitting in our faces. She took
away the one thing that we had.

You heard what the
lady said. Drop the gun.

Move and I'll
blow your head off!

Okay.

(YELLING) This ain't
a game! Drop that gun!

Okay. Okay, you got it.

(GRUNTS)

Come on, get on the ground.
Get your hands up over your head.

You all right? OFFICER: Hold it!

What, were you
camping back there?

I know.

Bad form, but effective.

So, 20 years of gaming, or whatever
it is you do with that controller,

finally paid off.

See, I know the difference
between video games and reality.

Those guys didn't.

So, this gonna be
a big IAB thing now?

You're on administrative
duty for a few days.

Oh, no. No need to give
up your gun and shield.

This was a good shoot.

After what they did to
Raina, there was no gray area.

I just went in and
got the bad guy.

We both know that
it's never that easy.

We do the best we can.

Go home.

One of them took a plea.

The other wants to go to trial.

Will Raina have to testify?

I don't think she's up
to facing them in court.

You'll have time, Raina.

I'll be fine.

Women in gaming,

what did I expect?

You didn't deserve this.

Whatever.

I'm out.

You said if you
gave up, they'd win.

They already did.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)