Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–…): Season 16, Episode 17 - Parole Violations - 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.

BELLA: Isn't this
freakin' adorable?

It was on sale.

So, we'll put the crib here

and the changing
table over there.

What do you think?



I can't believe my little
sister's gonna have a baby.

(CHUCKLES) That's what I think.

You still haven't told Mom yet?

Mmm, not exactly. Ooh.

Tommy wants to wait
till he and I are married.

We're gonna go to
Montauk in April. Ah.

Hey, babe, how does this look?

Sonny, what are you doing here?

It's great to see
you, too, Tommy.

He's gonna help us move
all the crap out of there.

You know, put up some shelves.

We got, like, seven months.

And I have to go see my
parole officer, remember?

Hey, how's that going?



Great! Tommy just
got a promotion at work.

They gave him his
own moving team.

Yeah, I'm head schlepper now.

Yeah, well, make sure
you tell your P.O., all right?

A raise, promotion? That's
brownie points right there.

I wanna get there early
so I can leave early.

We got a doctor's appointment
this afternoon, our first sonogram.

"Our"?

Did Bella tell you I
popped the question?

She's gonna make an
honest man out of me.

That's great,
Tommy. That's great.

Wow. Just...

A lot of changes.

Shut up, he's really
grown this time. I'm happy.

Ow. Listen, I am happy
for you. It's gonna be great.

(EXHALES)

Sullivan? You're still
here. Good for you.

(CHUCKLES) How you
doing today? You seem antsy.

I'm good. It's just, uh, I had a thing
at 4:00. I've been here since 2:00.

A thing at 4:00? You
wanna tell me about that?

No, let's just do this.

You are antsy, huh? Yeah.

What was this thing?

No, nothing like that. I had
a... I had a doctor's appointment.

Well, you should have
made it for a different day.

It wasn't for me. My, um,
fiancée, Bella, she's pregnant.

We were getting a
sonogram. She's pregnant?

That's good news,
right? I'm gonna be a dad.

You're engaged, and she's
pregnant. That's a lot of stress.

No, no, actually, it's
forcing me to grow up.

I got a promotion at the moving
company. A raise, my own crew...

So a little thing like a urine test
won't be a big problem today?

Oh.

Right now? Right here?

The bathroom's flooded.

Still?

(SIGHS)

You can decline.

And I'll ship your
ass upstate right now.

(EXHALES)

SONNY: Huh?

Cannoli? What, are you
trying to make me fat?

Come on. It's still winter.

Just to be polite.

Hey. Oh, I'm good, thanks.

Don't make me eat alone.

I'll take one for later.
Yeah, there you go.

Sonny, where you been? I've
been texting you all morning.

Jeez, sorry.

I had class last night, I must have
left my phone on airplane mode.

Hey, guys, this
is my sister, Bella.

Hi. Oh, hey.

Hey, are you okay?

What's going on?

Tommy didn't come home
last night. I'm totally freaking out.

When was the last
time you talked to him?

Right after my sonogram.

He was still waiting for
his parole officer, and then,

now his phone is going
straight to voicemail.

Okay, calm down, calm down.

Did you call his parole officer?

Are you crazy?

Hey, come here.

Just take a seat in here. I'm
gonna get you some water.

Don't worry. We'll
find him, okay? Okay.

TOMMY: Look, I didn't
wanna bother you, Sonny.

Thanks for coming.

My sister's going out of her
mind worrying about you. I'm sorry.

Now she's gonna find out you
got into some drunken bar fight?

Wait, you can't tell Bella. You
gotta promise me. You gotta swear.

Look, you drank, you got busted.

I'm not covering for you!

Also, you're in the system,
which means your parole officer's

already been notified. Yeah,
I'm not worried about that.

Well, you should be.

Because when he finds
out, he's gonna stick it to you.

She. And she already has, so
no way is she gonna bust me now.

She? Wait, hold on, hold on.

What are we talking about here?

She made me. I swear,
Sonny. She made me do her.

Whoa!

You cheated on
my pregnant sister?

Whoa, whoa! I didn't want
to! She made me! She...

She pulled a gun out on me.

Please don't tell Bella. Please.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

I don't know what to think.

I mean, Tommy's always been this
close to getting his life back together,

then boom, something
happens to him.

Everything always
happens to him.

Okay, well, victims
are imperfect, Carisi.

You know, bad things
do happen to them.

Yeah, but Tommy's been a
major disappointment. Major.

Like, five years ago,

he finally gets into
college at Utica.

He decides it'd be a
great idea to combine

pizza and pot delivery.

He gets kicked out of school,
he does three years inside.

My sister... My
sister waits for him.

He gets out on
parole, and now this.

Slow down, all right?

If he was assaulted,
he needs your support.

So, what did he tell you?

That's just it, Sergeant.

He doesn't even get
that he was assaulted.

All right. Well, it's hard enough
for women to disclose, but men...

Just tell me what he told you.

He says his P.O.
pressured him into sex.

Which, if true, is what,
custodial sexual misconduct?

I mean, she's his P.O. That makes
him legally incapable of consent.

She pressured him into
having sex with her? How?

He said that after
an in-office urine test,

she pulled a gun on him.

She forced him to have
sex with her at gunpoint?

I know. He's a guy.

He had to have been into it,
or nothing would've worked.

He went on a bender,
he cheated on Bella.

You're probably
thinking this is a ruse.

I'm thinking your sister's
fiancé may have been raped.

I don't know. Is that possible?

Carisi.

Okay, I get it. It's possible.

But he's never gonna go there.

Not with you he isn't.

BENSON: Tommy Sullivan, police.

I'm in the middle of a job here.

If this is about
the bar thing...

It isn't.

Sergeant Benson. This is
Detective Amaro, Manhattan SVU.

SVU? Did Sonny send
you? Look, look, listen.

Like he said, I made
a dumb mistake,

and I'm willing to
take the rap for it.

Sonny, he told my sergeant
there may have been a reason

you didn't go home
to your fiancée

and stayed out drinking instead.

I don't wanna make a
big deal out of this, okay?

So you're just gonna pretend
that nothing happened?

Go back to your
parole officer next week

and hope that she
doesn't pull a gun on you?

Uh, yeah.

I only got three months'
probation left. I'll suck it up.

Well, what about your fiancée?
What does she make of all this?

She doesn't know, and
she's never gonna know.

Right now, she thinks
that I screwed up,

like I always do,
and went out drinking.

Listen, I gotta get back to work.
This is my first time supervising.

Listen, listen. Listen to me.

What happened to
you... Is no big deal.

Okay? I didn't fight
her off. I didn't get hurt.

It wasn't right, and
it wasn't your fault.

And it's not gonna just go away

if you pretend it didn't happen.

You think anybody's gonna believe
an ex-con about something like this?

All right, you don't have
to make up your mind now.

But for Bella's sake, you should go
to the hospital when you get off work.

The hospital?

Yeah. If your P.O. had sexual contact
with you, there... There could be evidence.

Plus, she could have
exposed you to STDs.

You have a pregnant fiancée.

You owe it to her to get tested.

Oh, God. I didn't
even think about that.

So, what about the clothes you were wearing
last night? Can you get those to us?

Really? Yeah!

Look, you violated your parole.

You don't know what she's
gonna do or say about you.

Tommy! A little help here?

Yeah, okay, just give me a sec.

I really can't do
this right now.

Okay, listen to me.

Why don't you come in tomorrow?

Bring in the clothes
that you were wearing.

One step at a time,
we'll take your statement.

(SIGHS) Okay.

I don't know. No witnesses.

He's still not sure he
wants to even pursue.

Something I should know about?

Uh...

Tommy came in this morning.

Uh, Rollins and Amaro
took the statement.

I hate to drag
you guys into this.

He's not even family, but...

Was he credible?

Well, he's, uh,
reluctant, but consistent.

And he brought in the
clothes he wore, for testing.

So he wants to go
through with this?

Honestly, I don't know what he
wants to do. He's all over the place.

Well, Rollins, what he
went through... If it's true.

Is a lot to process.

We all know how difficult it is

for women to admit that they've
been assaulted, but men...

I know. It just looks bad
that he didn't disclose

until after he
violated his parole.

So we do our due diligence.

Let's see if CSU turns
up anything on the clothes.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Tommy still hasn't
even told my sister yet.

You gotta slow this down.

Yeah, Carisi, you can't
be part of this investigation.

But what you can do is walk Tommy
and your sister through where it can go.

Copy that, Sergeant.

So I should go now, huh?

Yeah.

Okay. So where were we?

We checked out Tommy's P.O.,

Donna Marshall.

She graduated with a master's in social
work from SUNY Purchase, top of her class.

And she's been at the
downtown office for over a decade.

Her boss, Ralph Kessel, just
cited her on the DOC website

as having the lowest
recidivism rate in his department.

Good, invite him
in. Anything else?

ROLLINS: Well, you think
NYPD has a blue wall?

You know how the Department
of Corrections is gonna frame this.

Oh, I do. But what if the
genders were reversed?

Are you saying that a
respected male officer

wouldn't abuse his power
to coerce a woman into sex?

Look, guys, we all saw the
look on Tommy's face, his affect.

We know that something
happened to him.

So we take this
case as seriously

as if it was a woman
accusing a male P.O.

Mr. Kessel, thank you so
much for coming in. Have a seat.

It's never good news
with you guys. Hit me.

Yesterday, a parolee
made rape allegations

against one of your P.O.s.

Not unusual.

The amount of stories these ex-cons come
up with would put Stephen King to shame.

But just to play
along, which P.O.?

Donna Marshall.

Donna? (CHUCKLES) You
do know she's a woman?

We do.

Okay, let me guess.
The lesbian welfare mom.

She's on her third
P.O. in as many months.

Actually, it was a man. A man?

Seriously? (LAUGHS)
This gets better and better.

Uh, how does that even work?

Well, she's a woman in power.

And according to the disclosure,

uh, Officer Marshall
pulled a gun on him,

and he felt that he
needed to comply.

Oh, "comply"?

He sounds like my wife.

(CHUCKLES) Mine, too.

I'm sorry. Not everybody
gets my sense of humor.

But, uh, come
on. Donna, she's...

She's barely a sexual being,

let alone a sexual
predator. She's all work.

Well, you're right.
This all may go away.

But legally, we
have to follow up,

and you need to cooperate.

Of course.

Just give me the name
of the lying son of a bitch

who's yanking your chain.

If he's filing, it's
public record.

Well, you know, it is
early in the investigation.

And it's clear that Officer
Marshall has your confidence.

So I think we've heard
everything we need to right now.

Okay. Well, let me know
if there's anything I can do.

Thank you so much for coming in.

All right. Thank
you for having me.

Wait, you had sex
with your parole officer?

No, Bella, it wasn't
like that. No...

And you're defending him?

Look, what happened between
Tommy and Donna wasn't sex.

All right? She forced
him, she had a gun.

I swear to God!

Just out of the blue? Why
would she do that, Tommy?

You telling me you
didn't come on to her?

No! Bella, if I had,
like, a thing with her,

you think I'd be
telling you about it?

What kind of sex
was this, exactly?

No, no. Let's not
get into details here.

But you had
sex-sex. All the way?

I had a gun to my head.

The whole time? No chance!

She's my P.O.!

She said she could
bust me right there.

I did what she told me to do.

You couldn't even do it with my
parents asleep two doors down,

but you had no problem
with a gun to your head?

Okay, listen, Bella, all right?

My boss has been
doing this for a long time,

and she says that
this does happen.

And she believes
Tommy. Your boss?

Does everyone know
you slept with her but me?

I didn't sleep with
her! Stop saying that.

(POUNDING ON DOOR)

DONNA: Tommy Sullivan, you
better be in there. It's past curfew.

Who the hell is
that, your girlfriend?

You got a home visit
scheduled tonight? TOMMY: No.

(POUNDING CONTINUES)

DONNA: Open up,
or we'll break it down.

This is a home inspection.

Stay right where you are.

Who are you? I'm her brother.

Can I ask what this is about?

You can shut your mouth.
That's what you can do.

What? Oh, come on!
There is nothing here.

What did she just say?

Tommy, what did you do?

I didn't do anything.

DONNA: Got something.

Oxycodone. Ready for retail.

Put your hands behind your back.

Tommy.

I've never seen those before!

You're under arrest for the
possession of illegal prescription drugs.

Those are not mine!

Tommy, don't say another word

unless you got a lawyer
present, you hear me?

He's right, Tommy.
You better call Saul.

(GRUNTS)

Why didn't you tell
them you're a cop?

'Cause that would not have
helped the situation, Bella.

Drinking, cheating, now drugs?

I'm supposed to be
having this guy's baby.

I... I don't even
know who he is.

Those drugs were not
mine, Sonny. I swear to God.

Okay, so you're saying your
parole officer planted them?

Yes. She must have found
out that I was accusing her.

Did you guys tell
her? No, of course not.

No, we spoke to her supervisor.

What?

What? You never should have done
that. Those two are thick as thieves.

I said that I wasn't even sure
that I wanted to go forward!

Tommy, they were just
doing their job, all right?

Although, a heads up
would have been appreciated.

Let's focus on now. Can you
prove that oxy wasn't yours?

And how do you
want me to do that?

Your drug tests are all clean?

Yeah, but that doesn't matter.
She's claiming that I'm a dealer.

You know what?

Call her supervisor and
tell him that I got the hint.

I won't be making any accusations.
Maybe all this goes away.

No, it doesn't work
like that, Tommy.

They made a bust
in your house. Okay?

It's not their call anymore.

Then I'm done. I'm
a three-time loser.

Not if we can prove that she
had motive to plant those drugs,

that she was trying
to discredit you.

Wait, what?

Look, your best play right now is to
go forward with the rape accusation.

It makes this bust
look like payback.

Who's gonna believe me now?

I do.

So, the supervisor
went straight to Donna

and told her that she's
being investigated.

Then she goes on the offensive,

she plants the oxy in Tommy's
house during a surprise home visit.

Now, we can get the pills and
baggies tested for touch DNA,

hopefully, Tommy's won't
be on 'em. It won't be.

Okay. Amaro, when you're giving
the lab a heads up about the baggies,

remind them that we're still waiting
for the DNA from Tommy's clothes.

All right.

Hey, Sarge, what
about the rape charge?

I mean, I know Tommy wasn't the
best witness at the start. But now...

We've been here before.

They're gonna accuse
and blame the victim.

Right? He's in for a fight.

I think he knows that.

How's your sister
handling all this?

Basically, she's not, you know?

I mean, she blames
me. So does he.

That happens, too.

You did the right thing, Carisi.

I hope so.

Yeah, I'll hold.

No good deed, huh?

So, Tommy was a dealer?

It was just pot, not oxy, and
he put that all behind him.

He's been working his program.

He was in a bar fight, though.

Yeah, after she assaulted
him. He was decompensating.

Maybe. But people do,
you know, they slip up.

Sometimes you have
to let them hit bottom.

Yeah, I know. It's just...

Things were going
really well for Tommy.

Yeah. Well, you know what?
Some people can't handle that.

You know, they need...
They need the drama.

Hey, I was there, all right?

His P.O. was in and out of
that room in half a minute, tops.

Well, you know what?
Somebody's lying.

Then, we have to figure out who.

She's kind of big on
tough love, isn't she?

Look, her sister played
her so many times,

she taught herself to
expect the worst from family.

Yeah, well, her
family isn't my family.

Tommy's not your family,
Bella is. Look out for her.

Yeah. Yeah,
yeah, I'm still here.

Thanks. Thank you.

No way the touch DNA
came back that fast.

No, but the results from
Tommy's clothing did.

It tested positive for Donna
Marshall's saliva and, uh, fluids.

So that proves they had
sex. So we can bring her in.

Look, at the very
least, she broke the law.

Hey. It's good news, Carisi.

You try telling
that to my sister.

Get out of here
with that, would you?

No, Bella, this is good. DNA
evidence backs Tommy's story.

That he had sex with that woman?

Look, she knew this was coming.
That's why she planted the oxy.

She's just trying to
make him look bad.

He does look bad! The whole
thing, I can't take it anymore.

I'm thinking of moving
in with Mom and Dad.

What, on Staten Island? I cannot
overstate how truly insane that would be.

I can't stay here. I've dealt with
the drug busts, prison, parole.

For 10 years,
I've dealt with it.

I draw the line at cheating.
He wasn't cheating, though.

This job makes you think
everyone's a victim to save.

With Tommy, you
got over-involved.

Well, he told me. He was a
mess. What was I supposed to do?

Gina and Teresa kept
telling me I could do better.

I should have listened
to them. Oh, my God!

I love our sisters, I do,
but they're crazy, okay?

Teresa won't even talk to a guy
who makes less than six figures,

and Gina, she's been
engaged, what, like, 10 times?

Don't put too much stock
into their opinions of Tommy.

Why are you defending him now?
He was never your favorite, either.

Tommy's had his fair
share of screw-ups,

but this isn't one
of them, Bella.

Not to mention, you're
having the guy's kid.

Maybe. We'll see.

"We'll see"? What
does that mean?

I'm only 10 weeks.
I got options.

Come on, hey. Don't
say things like that.

It's too much, Sonny.
I don't think I can do it.

I don't think I can
raise a kid on my own.

So, you admit that you and Tommy
Sullivan had a sexual encounter?

Again, initiated
by Mr. Sullivan.

I'm human. I had a moment
of weakness. It was a mistake.

BENSON: Not to mention illegal.

There's no need to be didactic.

Officer Marshall is
here to cooperate.

Okay, so what exactly
happened in your office?

Uh, once we finished with our
meeting, I walked Tommy to the door,

and he said that he could
tell that I'd had a long day.

And I looked at
him, and I nodded.

And, um, he asked if
I wanted a massage,

and then he started
working my shoulders.

And then he started kissing me.

And I told him it was not a
good idea, but he was aggressive.

Okay. Well, did you say
no or try to tell him to stop?

When I say no, people listen.

He didn't rape me, Detective.

And I certainly didn't rape him.

He came on strong,
and it didn't feel terrible.

And I let myself
enjoy the feeling.

And by "it," you mean...

Oral sex and intercourse.

I'm going on the fifth
anniversary of my divorce,

and it felt good to be wanted.

And Tommy Sullivan
made you feel wanted?

In that moment,
very much so, yes.

All right, I think we've humiliated
Officer Marshall enough.

She's facing interdepartmental
discipline. But we are done here.

Oh, well, we're just trying to
get your client's side of the story.

It's okay, Counselor.

Okay. So, you said that Tommy initiated
the contact, made you feel wanted.

Were you aware that
he put in three requests

this year to change
parole officers?

Mmm. That doesn't surprise me.

I'm the toughest
one in my office.

Really?

So what would give him the impression
that he could be intimate with you

after you said that
it was a bad idea?

Well, parolees are
manipulative, you know?

They think they have the upper
hand. It's the nature of the job.

Isn't the job to not allow
them to have the upper hand?

Let me ask you.

Uh...

Was there... Was
there a gun in your office

during this encounter?

I carry, yes.

Where was the gun?

Wait, is he alleging that

I assaulted him at
gunpoint? (LAUGHS)

He was ready, willing, and able.

I mean, do you think a man could
respond like that under duress?

Actually, we do. Yes.

All right, we came
here as a courtesy,

but I've heard enough.
Donna, let's go.

Tommy Sullivan is a criminal,
and a con artist and a recidivist.

He came on to me, and now
he's claiming that I'm a rapist

because his pregnant girlfriend
found out that he cheated on her.

There's nothing to see here.

And you believe that scumbag's
story over a fellow officer,

then you should be
ashamed of yourself.

She is a piece of work.

And a liar, right to our faces.

Still, a P.O.'s word against
Tommy? I mean, her lawyer's right.

He's looking at five
years for those pills.

Uh, maybe not. Lab report's
back on Tommy's oxy.

It's like he said,
there's no trace of him.

They did find touch DNA, though.

Belongs to Jordan Dolphy,
a paroled drug dealer.

Guess who his P.O. is?

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Jordan Dolphy, back up.
Hey, hey, what's going on?

We got a warrant to
search your apartment.

Hey, man, you can't do this!
Hey, baby, call my parole officer.

Yeah, Donna Marshall? You
think she's gonna help you now?

Check that coat.

Is there anything sharp in here?

Uh-uh.

Oh, we got oxy.

Hey, hey, listen, let
me just call Donna.

Oh, yeah, she'll explain it?

'Cause she's been your
P.O. for, what, three years?

And in all that time, you
passed all your drug tests?

You think I'm
stupid? This is a trap.

I think you're in
trouble, Jordan.

We found your DNA on
some oxy that Donna had.

She said it was mine? Donna
made me give her that oxy.

In exchange for
what, clean drug tests?

Hey, baby, hold that call.

She adds just the right amount

of vinegar to my urine.

Oh, man.

It's the Donna Special.

All right, so she
lets you off the hook,

you do whatever she says.

So what else do you
get her besides oxy?

Um, other services.

What do you mean,
"Other services"?

Hey. Yo, Jordan.

She's a divorced, lonely lady.

Use your imagination.

Whenever she says
it's time for my piss test,

it means it's time to unzip.

Drains my sack dry every time.

So does she make you have
sex? Have you ever said no?

Yeah, yeah, I tried once.
She pulled a gun out on me.

But...

It's like free sex, I guess.

I should feel lucky, right?

Okay. We have DNA.

Donna Marshall can't deny
sex, so she admits consensual.

Classic she said,
he said, in reverse.

She also maintains that
if Tommy didn't want it,

it would have been
physically impossible.

Which we can get
experts to refute.

And her other parolee,
Jordan Dolphy, he says

Donna Marshall raped him, too?

Yeah, under threat,
once at gunpoint.

She makes him trade
sex for clean drug tests.

Dolphy told us that Donna
made him give her the oxy,

and she planted it in
Tommy's apartment.

And both these male vics are
willing to testify, in open court,

that they were forcibly
raped by a woman?

Dolphy will. And Tommy...

He will, too. I'll talk to him.

Make sure he understands he'll
be subject to cross-examination.

Their stories are consistent.

They're credible,
they're believable.

Except for one
thing, they're men.

I gotta tell you, I've never
taken a case like this to court.

I can't find one
D.A. here who has.

Well, Tommy's got no choice, but I
don't know if Bella's gonna be there.

I will talk to her.

Good. That leaves us
with just one problem.

Convincing 12 people on a jury
that a woman even can rape a man.

This is so nice of
you! BENSON: Hmm.

Sonny's always saying how great
you are, how much he loves this job.

Well, he's a good detective.
We're lucky to have him.

So, most of those are unisex.

Look, I think it's so
ridiculous to buy baby clothes

'cause they can only
wear them for a minute.

Yeah.

Here you go. It's herbal.

Thanks.

So what you and Tommy
are going through, it's, uh...

It's not easy.

No.

Bella, I've been
doing this a long time,

and I know how hard
this can be for victims.

But I also know that it
can be just as difficult

on victims' families,
on victims' loved ones.

This whole victim
thing? I just don't know.

But everything that Tommy
has told us has checked out.

And it looks like his P.O.

has done this to at
least one other ex-con.

He's not just making it up?

No.

Sonny told me that sometimes
women say they've been raped

'cause they don't want their husbands
to find out they were fooling around.

Well, your brother
has a lot of stories,

but this isn't one of them.

Tommy wanted no part
of what happened to him.

Then how did he... (SCOFFS)

With a gun to his head?

You know, it's just...
That seems impossible.

Because it happens.

It happens to men,
it happens to women.

It's a mechanical
biological response.

It doesn't mean that
the victim enjoyed it.

It's like, you know, a sneeze.

Or, or... When
you cut up onions.

Right?

Okay, so what happens?
You cry, actual tears.

But it doesn't mean
that you're sad.

Bella, I know what
I'm talking about.

I'm asking you to trust me,

to trust me about Tommy.

(NOAH COOING)

One second.

Hi. Good morning.

Hello, mister.

Did you just wake
up from your nap?

Can you come meet Mama's friend?

Look. This is Noah.

Hi, Noah. Hi.

(CHUCKLES)

Is that when Mr. Sullivan
told you he'd been assaulted?

It wasn't easy for
him to talk about it.

He was, um, embarrassed.

But I'm proud of him for coming
forward and telling the truth.

Thank you, Detective Carisi.

BLAKE: Your
witness, Mr. D'Angelo.

So you said Mr. Sullivan
was embarrassed,

possibly even anxious? Yes.

Could that be because
he was lying to you?

Objection. Sustained.

D'ANGELO: I'll rephrase.

Mr. Sullivan told you this
story after he'd been arrested

and you had picked
him up from jail, right?

Yes, but it wasn't a story.

D'ANGELO: And you're
not just his fiancée's brother,

you're also an SVU detective.

Yeah, that's right. D'ANGELO:
Which he was aware of.

So is it possible, Detective,
that Tommy Sullivan

was trying to get your sympathy

after he'd been arrested,

after he cheated on your sister,

by telling you that
he'd been raped?

No, actually. He wasn't even aware
that a woman could rape a man.

D'ANGELO: Oh, that's right.

In fact, he only used the word "rape"
after he talked to your supervisor,

Sergeant Benson, and
Detective Amaro, correct?

He did disclose to them.

After you asked
them to talk to him.

I mean, Mr. Sullivan didn't
think he'd been raped at all,

till SVU detectives told
him that he had been raped.

Objection. BLAKE: Sustained.

Jury will disregard.

Nothing further.

Officer Marshall said I had to
give a urine test in front of her.

So I unzipped my pants
and did what she asked.

Then she told me
to lie on my back,

and when I hesitated,
she pointed her gun at me.

And after that, I did
whatever she said.

RAFAEL: And what
happened next, Mr. Sullivan?

She, uh, handcuffed one of
my wrists to the leg of her desk.

And then she

rubbed me, put her mouth on me.

I have to...

I have to ask you to
be very specific here.

Where did she put her mouth?

Uh...

She put her mouth
on my penis. Um...

I didn't want it to...

You know, but my body responded.

And then she got on top of me
and she forced me to penetrate her.

She raped you?

Yes, she raped me.

RAFAEL: How did you react?

TOMMY: Well, I mean, I
was completely powerless.

I felt angry, terrified. I was
worried about my fiancée.

Worried that if I
didn't go along with it,

Officer Marshall could
send me back to jail

or shoot me right there.

You gotta understand,
P.O.s have complete control.

RAFAEL: Thank
you. Nothing further.

(CLEARS THROAT)

So, it's your contention

that while handcuffed
with a gun to your head,

um, all of this against your will,
you were able to perform sexually.

Yes, but I did not want to.

D'ANGELO: Well,
did you fight back?

I mean, did you scream? No.

D'ANGELO: No, of course not. Because,
as you claim, you had a gun to your head.

I mean, did she have the gun
in her hand the whole time?

I don't think so. She might
have put it down at one point.

Well, according to your own
testimony, you had one free hand.

I mean, you're a sizeable man.

Why didn't you
just grab the gun?

Because if I had done anything,

fought her, yelled at her,
if someone had come in,

who knows what
she would have done?

I only had three
months' probation left.

Until you got arrested
for oxycodone.

No, that wasn't mine.
Officer Marshall planted it.

D'ANGELO: Well, there are
two possible scenarios here.

Scenario one, a
dedicated parole officer,

uh, forces you to have
sex with her, at gunpoint,

in her office.

And then the next day,

she went to your apartment,
with three other parole officers

and planted drugs.

Or scenario two,

you go out drinking,
you violate your parole,

you get arrested for fighting.

That same dedicated
parole officer

follows up with a
search of your house

and discovers drugs.

At which point, you cry rape.

Objection, Your Honor.
Are we on summations here?

That oxy was not mine.

Really? So did it
belong to your fiancée?

That's not what I meant.

Not what you meant, not
what you wanted, not your fault.

You're just all tied up
in knots, aren't you?

Objection. Withdrawn.

Nothing further.

You may step down, Mr. Sullivan.

We'll take a short recess.

D'ANGELO: That guy hung
himself. KESSEL: Yeah, he did.

I'm sorry, Mr. Barba. That guy
kept twisting everything around.

You did fine. Cases look bad
until all the pieces come together.

Jordan Dolphy's up next.

And her attorney kept asking how
the drugs got into your apartment.

They're about to find out.

This isn't fair. They're making
Tommy out to look like the bad guy.

Welcome to my life.

Hey, have you seen him? Who?

Jordan Dolphy. He was
supposed to be in the witness room.

He's testifying next.

Have you seen my witness?

The squirrelly little guy?
Yeah. Where'd he go?

He was jonesing for a smoke.

I told him he had
to take it outside.

Did you? Come with us.

Ah, damn.

What? I had a bad feeling
while prepping him last night.

What, you just let this guy go?

He wasn't under
arrest, Detective.

He was a material witness!

Well, now he's immaterial.
What do you want from me?

Find him!

Oh, okay. I'll
get right on that.

If he comes back into this
building, I'll let you know.

(PANTING)

RAFAEL: After an
exhaustive all night search

we were unable to locate
Jordan Dolphy, Your Honor.

We need to request
a continuance.

You're not able to
proceed without him?

His testimony is
essential for establishing

that Tommy Sullivan
was not dealing drugs.

Well, then you should
have kept better tabs on him.

My client has the
right to a speedy trial.

He's right, Mr. Barba.

Motion for continuance denied.

Call your next witness.

Mr. Dolphy was
our final witness.

Does the prosecution rest?

Yes...

Your Honor.

D'ANGELO: Well, then we'll call
our first witness, Jordan Dolphy.

Excuse me?

BLAKE: What is going
on here, Mr. D'Angelo?

Mr. Dolphy came to us
after a sleepless night,

and he told me
that he was coerced

by the police to lie, in
order to avoid a drug charge,

and is being coerced by the D.A.
to continue the lie on the stand.

That's ridiculous. Nobody asked
him to lie. You can't call my witness.

Sounds like he's not your
witness anymore, Mr. Barba.

Two SVU detectives
burst into my home.

They found oxy, and they
also said that they had my DNA

on the oxy confiscated
from Tommy Sullivan's home.

And did they arrest you?

No. Uh, they made it clear
that a deal could be made

if I would agree to testify
against my parole officer.

Uh, Donna Marshall,
the defendant?

JORDAN: Uh-huh, that's right.

Uh, they had some
trumped up case against her

that they wanted
me to corroborate.

And you're risking a drug
charge to testify here today.

Uh, could you tell the jury why?

Officer Marshall's been
nothing but good to me.

I couldn't let her go down
for something that I did.

I'm the one that sold
Tommy Sullivan the oxy.

She had nothing to do with it.

D'ANGELO: Thank you, Mr. Dolphy.

Your witness.

Mr. Dolphy.

You've been Officer Marshall's
parolee for three years now?

That's right.

RAFAEL: And in all that time,
you've never failed a drug test?

Uh, no, sir. Why is that?

Because I'm clean. I see.

You testified that detectives
found oxycodone in your apartment.

Uh, for sale. I don't use.

You don't use oxy. But
you do shoot heroin, correct?

Objection. Relevance.

Goes to motive, Your Honor.

The witness has denied using
drugs. I'm entitled to cross.

Witness will answer. And remember,
you're under oath, Mr. Dolphy.

Do you use heroin? No.

May I ask you to roll up your
sleeves, Mr. Dolphy, uh, for the jury?

Objection.

Now, he can't make me do this.

Actually, he can. The
witness will comply.

(PEOPLE WHISPERING)

Are those fresh needle
marks, Mr. Dolphy?

Yeah, okay? Yeah.

So, the question remains.

How did you manage to pass

three years' worth
of urine tests?

I'd like to request a
recess, Your Honor.

Now? He's my witness.

Agreed. Continue, Mr. Barba.

Did you or did you
not tell SVU detectives

that Officer Marshall

doctored your urine
tests with vinegar?

(STUTTERS) I don't recall.

And did you or did you
not tell SVU detectives

that you were coerced
into sex with the defendant

in exchange for
clean drug tests?

Objection! Overruled.

You said you
were gonna fix this!

(STAMMERING) That the
drug charge would just go away!

Are you referring to Officer
Marshall's boss, Ralph Kessel?

Did he convince you to
testify for the defense?

(SIGHS)

You don't get it.

These people, they own your ass.

They run the table.

You wanna stay out of
prison, you do what they say.

I need a recess, Your Honor.

I'm sure you do.
No more questions.

Never trust a junkie.

Yeah.

(SIGHS)

What's this about?

Donna. She wasn't gonna take the stand,
but after Dolphy's testimony, she has to.

So this may not go well for her.

D'ANGELO: Let's
cut to the chase.

My client is willing to plead
guilty to evidence tampering.

She'll lose her job.

She raped Tommy
Sullivan at gunpoint.

There is no evidence of that.

If she takes the stand, a decorated
officer with an impeccable reputation,

tearfully confesses to
a sexual indiscretion...

When is the last time a Manhattan
jury convicted a woman of raping a man?

Can you tell me? Because I
don't know. Why are we here?

Because my client does not
want to suffer the humiliation

of taking the stand and
discussing her sex life.

And she wants to avoid
the likelihood of going to jail.

We plead guilty to evidence
tampering. Years’ probation.

And the rape?

We'll agree to
sexual misconduct.

Five years' probation.

And she goes on the Registry.

That doesn't work for me.

That's not gonna work for you?

You might wanna
think about this.

You're a P.O. Do you really
wanna spend the next five years

of your life in prison?

Fine.

You don't know what it's like.

You cops, you lock
these animals up

and you never have
to deal with them again.

Donna!

I'm... I'm supposed
to rehabilitate them.

I gave up my life, my
marriage for this job.

And then Tommy Sullivan
comes waltzing in all buzzy,

talking about his pregnant
girlfriend and his wonderful new life.

That doesn't give you the
right to do what you did to him.

I tried to help him. I
tried to help all of them!

And you know what they do?

They take your hand and they
drag you down to their level.

They don't wanna change.

They will never change.

Time to get your client
out of here, Counselor.

We're done.

So, Donna's not going to jail?

No. But she is
gonna lose her job.

She'll be on probation, she's gonna
be on the Sex Offender's Registry.

And that supervisor, Kessel,
they're gonna investigate him.

He'll get tossed, too.
What about Tommy?

The D.A.'s gonna drop the drug
charges. He should be home soon.

He's gonna get a
new parole officer.

So we're back where we started.

Are we?

Look, Bella, it took a real man to get up
in court and tell the truth like Tommy did.

A hell of a lot of guts.

And he did that for you, Bella.

For you and the baby.

Yeah, I know.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Bella.

Tommy.

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

It's all gonna be okay.

All right? We're gonna be okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)