Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–…): Season 24, Episode 21 - Bad Things - full transcript
Benson and Carisi are baffled when a series of assaults have the same M.O. but different DNA at each crime scene. Muncy believes Elias Olsen has struck again and is determined to prove it.
- 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 much for Sunday
waffles with Noah.
A tourist raped
in her hotel room?
- Bad news travels fast.
- Okay, well, I got a 5:00
a.m. wake-up call from McGrath.
I mean, please tell me
that you have a lead.
- CSU's processing the room.
The vic is Kate Wallace, 32,
in from Columbus, Ohio,
for a Broadway weekend.
- Okay, how did the
perp get access?
- Guy snowed the desk clerk.
- A new employee
working the front desk
gave out the room card key.
- Without checking ID?
- It's not supposed to happen,
but it does... human error.
- You have cameras
behind the desk?
- And in the lobby, the
elevators, the hallways.
We're pulling footage.
- Velasco, talk to the clerk
and get a description.
- On it, Captain.
- The room's on
the fourth floor.
- All right, thank you.
- A rape in a Times Square
hotel covered in cameras.
This guy's not smart.
- No, just brazen.
- Yeah, well, it
makes our job easier.
- We haven't caught him yet.
- You use UV light on the bed?
- Lit up like a Christmas tree.
Not to mention the
semen on the ceilings.
- Whatever you do,
don't touch that remote.
- You definitely don't
wanna know what they found
in the bathroom.
- Okay, call the lab,
put a rush on DNA.
- We saw "Funny
Girl" last night.
My boyfriend,
Gil, bought the tickets,
but we broke up, so
I brought my mom.
- Okay, and you and your mom
had different hotel rooms?
- I told you we
should've shared.
- Mom, please.
Like you could have
fought him off.
- I took tae kwon do for a year.
- All right, just
give us a second.
It's okay. Um...
when did you and your mom
get back to the hotel?
- We had dinner after the show.
It was late, m... midnight.
My mom went to bed, and
I went to the hotel bar.
- And when'd you get
back to your room?
Around 3:00.
He was inside, waiting for me.
Before I could scream, he
put his hand over my mouth
and he pushed me
down on the bed.
- Do you remember anyone
following you on the street?
Or maybe hitting on
you at the hotel bar?
- Nobody that set
off any alarm bells.
- And what can you tell
me about your attacker?
- Um, he was, uh, Black,
average height, weight.
He used a condom.
- Did he say anything?
He called me Kate.
He knew my name.
And he...
He took a selfie while
he was raping me.
- All right, now that picture
is out there somewhere.
Like, what if he
is selling that?
- It may be a way
to track him. Okay.
Listen, everything that you've
told us has been very helpful.
All right, I'm gonna send
you to get a rape kit done,
and then we're gonna check all
the hotel security footage.
We're gonna do everything
we can to find this guy.
I'm so sorry.
- Damn it... Ramses!
Hey, wait...
Ra...
Ramses.
Ah!
Oh, my God.
- Please,
I'll be good.
- Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
- What do we got?
- Vic was found below ground
by a jogger and her mutt.
Guy can barely talk.
- Sir, can you
tell me your name?
Mark Reed.
- How long you been here, Mark?
- Weeks.
- We need to get him
in the ambulance.
- Yeah, go.
What the hell happened to him?
- Guy had wire tied
around his nuts...
Why we called you.
- Uh, did he say
anything to the jogger?
- Yeah, way she tells
it, all he said was,
"I'll be good."
- They've been
locked in that house.
- Good girls get good things.
Bad girls get bad things.
- He's using food as
a tool of control.
But it was a busy
Saturday night.
- So you just gave a room key
without checking the computer?
- I know there's no excuse,
but he said he was her
boyfriend, he lost his key,
and he knew her name,
the room number.
- What did he look like?
- Black, um, 30s.
He wasn't scary.
Am I in some kind of trouble?
- Not with the police, but...
I wouldn't count on a
career in hotel management.
Thank you.
- Look, I know we're good now,
but you don't gotta be
quite so close to me.
- Benson and Fin got
their hands full,
said we're partners...
Modern-day Cagney and Lacey.
- Who?
- Iconic female cop duo?
I used to watch with my grandma.
- They ever chase after a guy,
dig a hole, and put
the man in a cage?
- Not that I recall.
- Tied a wire around
his nuts. Who does that?
- Maybe an ex-lover
with a vendetta.
- Excuse me, we're
here to see Mark Reed.
- I'm sure he'd love to see you,
but unfortunately,
it's not possible.
Guy coded about ten minutes ago.
- What happened?
- Dehydrated, malnourished,
genital wound started
to go necrotic.
Organs completely shut down.
- No vic, no perp.
What would Cagney and Lacey do?
- Probably talk
to the vic's wife.
He had a ring on.
- Desk clerk gave this guy
the key to room
424 at 1:00 a.m.
- While Kate was still
down in the hotel bar.
- He was stalking her.
He somehow got her name
and her room number.
- All right, get
the description out
and see if we can pick up
his trail leaving the hotel.
- On it.
- Captain... CSU found something
at the bottom of
the elevator shaft.
- Okay. It's Muncy.
- I got the basement.
- All right.
Muncy.
Okay.
Okay, the vic is dead?
- But we got a
statement on the scene.
- Okay, what kind of statement?
- The vic said, "I'll be good."
There were candy
wrappers everywhere.
Where have we seen
all this before?
- Hold on, you think
that this is Elias Olsen?
- He's still out there,
Captain, because of me.
- Muncy, you lost
your temper in court,
and we've talked about this,
and I told you that
you have to let it go.
- After the Singhs
moved back to India,
the charges against
him were dropped.
- I am aware of that.
Muncy, let's not get
ahead of ourselves, okay?
First of all, this
is a different MO,
and second of all, Elias
Olsen preys on girls.
- The perp was a welder. You
should've seen this cage.
I mean, this is not something
you can get off Amazon.
- Slow down, Muncy, slow down.
Does the vic have a next of kin?
- A wife, Shelley
Reed in East Bergen.
She filed a missing
persons report a month ago.
- Get an autopsy, keep in touch,
and keep that radio of
yours where it belongs.
- On it, Captain.
- Hey, the wife's on
her way to ID the body.
Have you told the Captain?
- Yeah, I think
she thinks I'm a little crazy.
- But that probably
didn't start today.
- Just get the wife to meet
us at the M.E.'s office.
- You're the one
with the gold shield.
- A used condom?
- Recently. You can
tell due to the...
- I-I get it, I get it.
- We found it right here.
- How'd it get to the bottom
of this elevator shaft?
- We saw him on security
cams tossing it in the crack
between the elevator
and the fourth floor.
- Okay, get it to the lab.
- Sarge, we got a
report of another rape.
Description matches our perp.
- Where?
- An hour ago
in the West Village.
- Hell of a refractory period.
- Dude's gotta be on
Viagra or something.
- I always arrive early to open.
This man knocked on the door.
Said he was in a hurry.
I was stupid to let
him in, but, uh,
we need the business.
- You're trusting,
not stupid, Evie.
You told the responding officer
he was Black in a baseball cap?
- He looked like a nice guy.
- Is this him?
Yeah.
Where'd you get that?
- Here.
This guy committed another
rape a few hours ago.
I'm gonna have to ask you,
Evie, was he wearing a condom?
- Yes. Uh, I think
he took it with him.
- I'll start a grid search.
- Is it possible this
was someone you knew?
- He knew me.
He called me by my name,
and... this is creepy.
He took a selfie while
he was raping me.
- Is there any man that would
have a reason to hurt you?
- There's this one
customer, Billy Vitale.
He asked me out,
like, ten times.
I felt stalked.
- You call the police?
- They told me there was
nothing they could do
unless he followed me
home or threatened me.
- You're sure he
wasn't the rapist?
- I'm sure. I thought
I was hallucinating
at first, but I... I wasn't.
- Hallucinating what, Evie?
- Whoever raped me,
it wasn't Billy.
Because Billy was
standing right there,
looking in the window...
Watching.
- Super says Billy goes to
noon mass at St. Joseph's
every Sunday, and
he's home by 1:30.
- A God-fearing
stalker on a schedule.
- Well, speak of the devil.
- Billy Vitale.
- Can I help you, officers?
- You know a woman
named Evie Quinn?
- Evie, yeah.
She works at the tea
place around the corner.
Why?
- We're hoping you can tell us.
- Did something happen to her?
- I repeat my former question.
- Look, I-I don't know
what this is about.
I just came home from mass.
- Yeah, we know.
- What about before mass?
- I was home.
- You didn't happen to
stop by the tea shop
before you went to church?
- It's on the way, but
they're not open till noon.
- So you were there?
- I looked in the window.
Sometimes she's there
early, but not today.
- You didn't see anything?
- Just my reflection
in the glass.
I-is she okay?
- Look, she's not okay, Billy.
And we think you know that.
- He's lying through his teeth.
- No kidding. Guy
just stands there
watching Evie get assaulted.
- What kind of animal does that?
- Not an animal,
man. It's humans.
And more specifically, men.
It's us. Have you noticed that?
- Yeah, I've noticed a pattern.
Let me ask you, Sarge,
why do you think that is?
- What, am I the ambassador
for our entire gender now?
- I mean, well, it's
probably testosterone, right?
'Cause when it drops,
we learn how to behave.
- So they made up the
term "dirty old man"
for nothing, then, right?
- I guess we're just screwed.
- Yeah, sometimes it's
hard to reconcile.
- Yeah, but when
you think about it,
we don't go in there
as men or women.
- We just got a badge
and a job to do.
- Where to next?
- Let's talk to Benson.
- Muncy thinks she's
chasing Elias Olsen?
- It's just a theory. We
haven't gotten there yet.
- But if you do?
- Well, do you
have a last known?
- The Singhs refused to testify.
The case wasn't viable.
The DA dismissed it.
Elias went off the grid.
- So no, but you're not here
to talk about Elias Olsen.
- I need an update on
the West Side rapist.
The press has been
hounding the DA's office.
I volunteered to hound you.
- Of course.
So two rapes in as many hours.
The DNA from the condoms
found near both crime scene
is a case-to-case match.
- Is the DNA a match to
anyone in the system?
- No, but we picked up
the guy on traffic cams
headed downtown on foot.
And then we lost him
at Hudson River Park.
- Any connection
between the two vics?
- Not that we know of so far.
- Liv.
- Yeah? You got something?
- I heard back from
Special Victims Division.
We could be looking at some
kind of assault pattern.
- The same rapist?
- The lab's sorting it out.
Some of the scenes
had DNA, some didn't.
- Three rapes in
the past six months.
One in Queens,
one Staten Island,
the last one in
Brooklyn, same MO.
- What's the pattern?
- It's a stranger rape,
but the rapist knew the
woman's name and their routine.
And he took a selfie while
committing the assault.
- Any common thread
with the victims?
- Three separate
boroughs. Nobody asked.
- All right, Fin, Velasco,
start with Brooklyn.
How busy are you tomorrow?
- I got no court appearances.
- Great.
You can drive me
to Staten Island.
Come on, it's better than
sitting in your office,
ducking calls from
the eighth floor.
- All right, just
don't tell my mother...
Unless you wanna sit through
a two-hour Italian lunch.
- Ah, tempting, but no.
- He had wire wrapped
around his testicles,
which caused them to necrotize.
But that's not the
trauma that killed him.
- What did?
- You're familiar with
rabbit starvation?
- Not sure I wanna be.
- It's an acute form
of malnutrition.
This is the same,
but with sugar.
- I'm never eating candy again.
- But that's not even
the exciting part.
- What the hell is that?
- A bezoar...
Collection of material
that forms in the
stomach and fails to pass
through the intestines.
Usually it's celery
fibers or hair,
but this one's made up primarily
of cherry licorice string.
- I think I'm gonna puke.
- How does this help us, Truman?
- Establishes timeline.
He was fed only candy
for at least a month.
- Any DNA found on the body?
- Only his own, I'm afraid.
- Okay, put that
away. The wife's here.
Is that him?
Is that my Mark?
- We're so sorry, Mrs. Reed.
Can you start by telling us
about the day Mark went missing?
- April 16th,
our goddaughter's baptism.
He went into the city
for my favorite cannolis.
Never came home.
- Do you know if
he made it there?
- It was the last charge
on his credit card.
Vesuvio Bakery on
Prince Street...
I told all this to
Missing Persons.
- I hate to have to ask you,
but did he have any enemies,
someone who might
want to hurt him?
- Mark was a family man,
well-respected, a
rule follower...
- So there were never
any marital issues?
- Never. Not my Mark.
I know it's rare, but we
really loved each other.
What kind of a
sick son of a bitch
would do something like this?
- We're gonna find
out, Mrs. Reed, okay?
- I-I have to go,
call my daughters.
I don't even know
what to say to them.
- What are you thinking?
- Honestly, I'm thinking
about that damn licorice ball.
- It's probably best
she didn't see that.
- Four weeks, Churlish.
That's how long she
was waiting for him.
That's how long he was
locked in that cage.
- He probably felt
scared and helpless.
- Do you even know
what that's like?
- Is this about Mark,
or is this about who you
think did this to him?
- It's about both.
He's using food as
a tool of control.
- They're malnourished.
There's evidence
of sexual assault.
- He said he would
bring me some treats.
- You still think
this is Elias Olsen.
- I don't think it's him.
I know it is.
- Wow, swanky neighborhood.
- Todt Hill? Very.
So this vic, she's a realtor?
- Yeah, we're meeting
her at an open house.
- That's a pretty sweet gig.
- Yeah.
So Darlene Quinlan, 42.
Do you...
- What, I know her?
Darlene Quinlan?
Y-you know what?
I actually went to
high school with her.
You're kidding me.
- Okay, all right.
You arekidding.
I get it, not everybody in
Staten Island knows each other.
- No, I don't know her.
Well, actually,
maybe... Maybe I do.
So what else you got?
- Darlene was raped in February
at an open house in Great Kills.
Perp knew her name,
took a selfie.
No DNA in her kit.
He used a condom.
And he took it with
him when he left.
- So no help there.
- No.
But there is something else.
So it says in the report
that she had called
it off with her fiancé
a week before the assault.
- So what are you thinking?
- Well, it's maybe something,
maybe nothing, but
our first vic, Kate,
she had just broken
up with her boyfriend.
- What about the second, Evie?
- Uh, no, she had a stalker.
- But the stalker
and a boyfriend,
neither of these guys
are good for the rape?
- No, but like I said,
maybe it's nothing.
- Oh, this is it right here.
Hey, this is nice.
- Did you bring your checkbook?
- Amanda's place is getting
to be a little tight
for the five of us.
- You mean the four of us.
Oh, Carisi.
Congratulations.
Oh, my God, this
is how you tell me?
- Don't tell Amanda I told
you. She's gonna kill me.
She wanted to tell you herself.
- Aw, Carisi.
I'm so happy for you.
- Leo, anyone shows up
in the next half hour,
ask them to wait.
- All right, thank you.
- Realty company
won't let me show
by myself anymore...
The liability.
- It's good that you
protect yourself, Darlene.
- The alternative? Stay
home with the door locked?
So you have a break in my case?
- Possibly, yeah.
- Yeah, we'd like to talk
to you about your assault.
- I told Staten
Island SVU everything.
- Yeah, I know that
it can be difficult,
but sometimes going
over what happened,
you know, new
details can emerge.
- You were showing a house in
Great Kills, on the harbor?
- Oh, you know Staten Island?
- Better than I'd like to.
Yeah, it was just a
regular open house.
This guy was middle-aged,
a little overweight.
- Pretending to be a buyer?
- Mm-hmm.
Said his name was Alan Smith.
He showed me
pictures of his dog.
- And he knew your name?
- Well, it was on the listing.
I was showing him
the main bedroom.
And, uh, he pushed me down,
put a condom on,
and, uh, raped me.
- Anything else that
you can tell us,
or anything else you remember?
- Yeah, he, um...
He took a selfie with his phone.
And then he just
ran out of there.
- And he was a total stranger?
- I've never seen him before.
And he's definitely not
local, no New York accent.
- Darlene, you
told the detectives
that you had just recently
broken up with your fiancé?
- Mm-hmm. It was a little
more than a breakup.
I didn't show up to the wedding.
- Oh.
- Can I, uh... can I ask why?
- I just realized Greg
acted like a nice guy,
but he wasn't nice.
Trusted my gut.
But he and I are okay now.
- Oh, so you're
still in contact?
- Mm-hmm.
I called him after
the... The rape.
And he was so supportive.
We had been arguing about
the engagement ring.
I didn't give it back.
And after he heard
about the rape,
he said I could keep it,
so maybe he's a
nice guy after all.
- Thanks, Detective.
So Staten Island SVU says the
realty company has no record
of this guy making an
appointment on their website.
- So he just drove
by and saw the sign?
- What about this fiancé?
- I say we pay him a visit.
- More exciting
than an arraignment.
- Yeah, could be the guy.
Came in here for some
cannolis for a baptism.
But I already spoke to the cops.
Is he still missing?
- He's dead.
And this was the last
place he was seen alive.
- Was he here with
anyone else that day?
- I already told the cops,
he was outside speaking
with a big fella.
- What's this big guy look like?
- White and I mean big.
Came in for a birthday
confetti cannoli.
- Was that him?
- Yeah, that's the guy.
I wish somebody would've
shown me that a lot sooner.
- Yeah, so do we.
- Where are we going?
- We're gonna need more
than just an ID
from cannoli guy.
- I was horrified when I
heard Darlene was attacked.
I tried to be there for her.
- Yeah, that's what she told us.
- Oh, you spoke to her?
- Yeah, we did.
- So we have some new leads,
and you never know what's
gonna break a case.
- Well, I already told the
Staten Island detectives
everything I know,
which is nothing, so.
- Well, when was the last
time, before the rape,
that you spoke with Darlene?
- Well, I don't know.
We were broken up.
Why?
- Here's the thing, Greg.
The guy who raped
her, he knew her name,
he knew where she was
holding an open house.
- Yeah, well, those things
aren't exactly top secret.
I mean, they put signs out.
- That's true.
- Look, Darlene told me
that it was some rando,
like one of the guys
that she would flirt with
all the time to make a sale.
I don't know, maybe the
guy got the wrong idea.
- You're blaming her?
- No, of course not.
Look, I feel terrible
about it. I just...
I gotta get back
to work, all right?
- Yeah, one more question.
You told Darlene she could
keep the engagement ring?
- Yeah, so?
- That's pretty generous,
considering she left
you at the altar.
- What, are you
insinuating something?
- Maybe you felt guilty.
- About what?
She left me.
We done?
- You know what I think?
- He paid somebody to rape her?
- Yeah, so did the others.
- Yeah, this is starting
to feel like a pattern.
- Robbie.
- Detective Muncy.
- You got something for us?
- Uh, two clockwise
rotations forward, one back.
- And what does that mean?
- The welding pattern.
3/4 inch square tube steel,
welded with a
wire-feed MIG welder.
- Guy definitely has
welding experience.
- Based on what I'm seeing,
I'd say he has
years of experience.
- You find any prints?
- No.
But there are serial numbers
printed on the steel stock.
- Real Time Crime should be
able to trace the source.
- Yeah.
I got something I need
you to take a look at.
- What is that?
- It's a door from the
Singhs' restaurant.
Elias welded it.
It's probable cause.
Robbie, I need you
to do me a favor.
- Anything.
- You said welders
have a signature.
Can you tell me if these
two autographs match?
- Two forward, one back.
Hot-rolled steel,
wired with a MIG.
- It's the same welder.
- Brooklyn vic, Maria Varga, 22,
part-time student,
works as a nanny.
Got assaulted on the job.
The kids were asleep
in the next room.
- So she recently
broke up with somebody,
had a stalker,
something like that?
- Not according to
the police report.
Everything else goes to pattern.
Stranger, knew her
name, took a selfie.
Maybe the exception
that proves the rule?
- Maybe we don't
know the whole story.
Maria Varga?
- Ethan, go play
on the playground.
I'll be right over here.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Hi, I'm Sergeant Tutuola.
This is Detective Velasco.
We spoke on the phone.
- Like I said, I
don't know what else
I could tell the cops.
- This will only
take a few minutes.
- I can't lose this job.
- We understand.
We're police officers.
I'll keep an eye on him.
- You caught this pig?
- Not yet,
but we have some new leads.
- Do you mind going over
what happened again?
This was a week ago? You
started a new nanny job?
- The parents went
out to dinner.
I was watching TV.
I put the kids to bed.
There was a knock on the door.
I went and opened
it just a crack,
and he pushed his way in.
- Can you describe him?
- Latino. He had a knife.
He told me that if I resisted,
he would stab the kids.
- Did he know your name?
- He took my ID out of my bag,
like he was making
sure it was me.
When he was done,
he took a selfie.
Brooklyn SVU said that
they found a DNA match,
but that it couldn't
have been the guy.
- How so?
- It was a match for a convict
who'd been in Green
Haven for years.
- Well, you told Brooklyn SVU
you had no men in your life,
no boyfriend, husband,
no recent breakups.
- No.
I'm single...
after Derek.
- Derek?
- The father of the last
family I was a nanny for.
He came on to me.
We hooked up once.
But I quit the next day.
- Does Derek know
you have a new job?
- He... he tried to
call me multiple times,
but I blocked his number.
- Oh, my God, Maria was raped?
- You didn't know?
- How would I?
- When was the last
time you spoke to her?
- Look, I don't know
what she told you...
- She told us everything.
- Oh.
Okay, then you know
that I screwed up.
But I'm making amends...
To my kids, to my wife...
- Why'd you keep calling Maria?
- To apologize.
- Where were you Saturday night?
- Home with my wife.
- Is she gonna
back up that alibi?
- I swear to God,
I had nothing to do
with Maria being attacked.
I'll take a lie detector test,
give a DNA sample,
whatever it takes.
- So Rose Bergman, she's 50.
She was raped in
the parking garage
at her psychiatrist's
office two months ago.
- They recover any DNA?
- Well, there's, you know,
touch DNA on the dashboard,
but there's nothing
in the system,
and not a match to
either one of our rapes.
- Is there anybody
in Rose's life
who had a reason
to wanna harm her?
- Well, I'm gonna
take a wild guess here
and say her soon-to-be
ex, Harvey Bergman.
She recently filed for divorce.
So they were married
for 25 years.
There's no prenup.
His net worth is
in the millions.
- So millions of reasons.
- Yeah.
- Help you?
- I'm Captain Benson,
Manhattan SVU.
This is ADA Carisi.
- Rose said you'd
be stopping by.
- And you are?
- Harvey Bergman.
Uh, come on in. Rose
is in the kitchen.
- Harvey was really there
for me after my attack.
I was pretty shaken up.
- Of course. I can
understand that.
So you two are back together?
- He's changed.
- But you initiated the
divorce proceedings?
- Because of his anger issues.
But I don't see any of that now.
He's a... he's a sweetheart.
- So I read the case
file on your assault,
but I was hoping that... That
you could go through the...
The details again with me.
- I was out of town at the time,
uh, in Atlantic City
with my buddies.
As soon as I heard,
I raced right home.
- Okay.
- You guys have any leads?
- Well, we're still
working the case.
- Anything I can
do, anything at all.
I have receipts, uh,
from the restaurants,
uh, the casino.
- Usually keep those?
- I never should've gone.
I... I never should've
left Rosie alone.
But I'm here now, and I'm...
I'm never leaving her again.
- Carisi, you're hovering.
- I can't stop thinking
about this case.
- You mean our mosaic of cases.
- Yeah, that's the problem.
If these assaults
are all connected,
then I've gotta find some
way to link 'em all together,
and right now all
we have is a...
A plethora of victims
and a dearth of evidence.
- Well, I hate to
make your night worse,
but I checked in with Queens SVU
about the Bergman case.
- And?
- If Harvey Bergman hired
somebody to rape his wife,
there's absolutely no
evidence whatsoever.
- I looked into him as well.
By all accounts, this
guy is a normal citizen.
He's got two kids, one went to
Yale, one went to Princeton.
- But something went wrong.
Rose filed for divorce.
- So he hired
someone to rape her?
- Carisi, if you and I have
learned anything on this job,
it's that everyone is capable
of doing the unthinkable.
- Yeah, even when
they're 99% good.
- It's that damn 1%.
- Exactly. It's enough to...
To keep you up at night.
- Why do I feel like
we're not talking
about Harvey Bergman anymore?
- You know, Liv,
I know that I'm... I'm
gonna be a great father.
I-I know that.
- Aw, but?
- Do you know that babies
have this thing called,
um, meconium?
Evidently, it's the
first diaper change.
- Black tar poop.
Yeah.
I mean, I've been
a father to Billie.
Been a father to Jesse.
But I never lived through
anything like that.
- You're doubting yourself.
- A sliver.
- Carisi, stop litigating
this in your head.
This baby is gonna
test you for sure,
and not just with diapers.
But if there's one thing
that I know about you,
it's that you're gonna
show up every day
like you did here,
like you do in court.
And you're gonna do the work.
And nobody gets
worse with practice.
- So you're saying
this meconium thing,
this happens more than once?
- Oh, yeah.
Hey. You got this.
- All right, so Real Time
Crime traced the serial number
on the square stock to some
construction supply house,
who said it got
delivered to this church.
- Find the metal,
find the welder.
- You mean find Elias.
- Looks like it.
Are you gonna be okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
- Then let's go, Cagney.
- Oh, I'm Cagney now?
- Lacey had kids.
- Definitely Cagney vibes.
- You know what was so great
about them as partners?
- No, but I'm sure
you're about to tell me.
Fence isn't finished.
- If you're here
for confessions,
priest will be back tomorrow.
- Maybe another time.
This is a nice fence, though.
Who you got working on it?
- Found him online.
You in need of a welder?
- Uh, what's his name?
- What's this about?
- This is a police
investigation.
- Okay.
Wanna talk to him?
Cellar door's around back.
- He lives here?
- He needed a place to stay.
Father Joe gave
him the basement.
- NYPD!
Is anyone here?
- Hello?
- Hello!
It's the vic's wallet.
- NYPD. Come out now.
- Everything's clear.
- Muncy...
- Elias?
- Hey.
I know you.
You hit me.
I had to get eight stitches.
- But you got a
hard head, right?
- Elias Olsen,
you're under arrest.
- You're coming with us now.
- You called me names.
You hurt me.
- Hands up, turn around.
- You're bad.
- Freeze!
- Put that down.
We just wanna talk.
- I said freeze.
- Look, I lost my
temper with you,
at the grocery
store and in court.
- Muncy.
- You're right.
I hurt you.
But I'm not here to do it again.
Okay?
What I did was bad.
And I'm sorry.
But you did something
bad, too, didn't you?
- What do you want?
- We wanna help you.
- You do?
- We do.
But you gotta put
that hammer down.
Come on.
Good.
Take a step back.
Hands behind your back.
Okay, turn around.
I need another pair.
- You got it.
- All right.
Let's go.
Come on.
- We're looking at some kind
of market for revenge rape.
I mean, none of these women
have anything in common,
other than an ex who
wants to get back at them.
- So you're saying these
men somehow paid each perp
to rape a woman
they used to love?
- Well, it's likely
these transactions
were conducted
online anonymously.
- So TARU is doing a deep dive
into their social
media connections.
- Yeah, and in the meantime,
I'm working on getting
warrants for
laptops, for phones.
But I don't have
to tell you guys,
this case is gonna
be tough to prove.
- Unless we get
somebody to crack.
- Hey, if they come in
voluntarily, that's great.
But I don't have
enough to arrest 'em.
- Captain.
- Muncy.
- I was right about Elias Olsen.
- Where is she?
I wanna talk to her.
- Muncy? She's here.
But right now you're
dealing with us.
- And it won't take
long if you cooperate.
- That's why we're
here, Detective.
- Okay, good.
- Now answer me,
have you ever been
to Vesuvius Bakery
on Prince Street?
- Once.
- You see this guy there?
- I don't know.
- We found him in
a cage surrounded
by the same candy that we
found in your room, Elias!
- And you had his wallet too.
- Answer them, Elias.
- He was mean.
Bumped into me,
didn't say sorry.
- Everybody's mean
sometimes, Elias.
But you were never mean to
those girls in Fishkill.
That was all your father.
And I bet your father
was real mean to you
when you were growing up.
That's why you hurt that guy.
- Yes! That's why I
wired up his balls!
Where is she?
I wanna talk to her.
- Well, after that confession,
I'm assuming you have
enough to put Elias away.
- Multiple counts of kidnapping,
assault in the first,
two counts of murder.
I don't care what Carter tries.
This guy's doing life.
Very good work, Detective.
- You okay?
- Doesn't feel as
good as I thought.
- It never does.
But like Carisi
said, good work, huh?
- Just got a call from the lab.
OC is working two murders.
DNA from both scenes
matches one of our rapes.
- Which one?
- The nanny, Maria Varga.
Elliot Stabler is the lead
detective on the case.
- Thanks. I have
to make a call.
Where is she?
- Oh, my God!
Muncy, no!
Muncy! Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- You said you
were gonna help me!
- Let go of her!
- Come on, man.
- Let go!
- You lied!
- Let go of her!
- You're bad!
Let go!
- You're bad!
- You're bad!
You're bad!
You're bad.
- You guys okay?
- Yeah!
- Where'd the
captain run off to?
- She had to meet a friend.
That's not the big guy's
blood again, is it?
- No, it's mine this time.
- You know, Muncy, it's
okay not to be okay.
- It's just a scratch
from the glass.
- I'm not talking about that.
Your temper in court,
all that stuff that
went down with Velasco.
It's been a hell of a year.
- Yeah, I guess. I've
been through worse.
- Losing a mother
can do that to you.
- However bad my childhood was,
it's nothing compared to Elias'.
- You really feel bad
for that guy, huh?
- Yeah. He's
sympathetic in a way.
- But irredeemable.
- Yeah.
I did promise him
I'd help, though,
so I feel kind of bad for lying.
- You did help him,
putting him away.
He gets free psych eval,
all paid for by the state.
Good night, Muncy.
- Wait, Sarge.
I wanted to thank you.
- For what?
- When I was in that church,
I thought about
something you said to me.
- I say a lot.
- The Policeman's Prayer...
Dear Lord, get me
out of this one,
I promise I'll
never do it again.
- I appreciate that, Muncy,
but don't thank me or the Lord.
You got that done.
That was all you.
- You good?
- I will be when people
stop asking me that.
- Detective.
Thank you for meeting me.
- Captain.
It's good to see you.
- You too.
- How's Noah?
- He's good.
He's good. Everything's good.
- And you?
- You know, the last time we
saw each other, that was a...
That was a bad time for me.
- Worse timing for me.
- I know that you were just
trying to make me feel safe.
I think we both felt that.
- Just not the right moment.
Oh.
- You're investigating
this BX9 banger
for two murders, right?
- Yeah.
Ring out of Green Haven.
Inmates get furloughed
to go out and do a hit.
CO behind it, he gets the
cash, they get cigarettes.
- So you think this
guy, Junior Suarez,
could've raped my vic?
- Well, who is she?
- A young nanny with no
criminal connections.
- When?
- About a week ago.
- Well, that's about the
time that he got furloughed
and did the hit that
we're investigating,
some lady in Staten Island.
- Was that one personal?
- HOA president, not well-liked.
Still looking into it.
How 'bout yours?
- Well, he knew her name.
And he took a selfie.
- Sounds like he's trying
to prove to somebody
that the job was done.
- So we caught a
couple other rapes
that Suarez had
nothing to do with,
but they also took selfies.
I've heard of murder for hire.
I've never heard
of rape for hire.
- Revenge for hire.
- That's why I called you.
I think you and I are
working the same case
from opposite ends.
- Okay, partner.
- Okay.
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 much for Sunday
waffles with Noah.
A tourist raped
in her hotel room?
- Bad news travels fast.
- Okay, well, I got a 5:00
a.m. wake-up call from McGrath.
I mean, please tell me
that you have a lead.
- CSU's processing the room.
The vic is Kate Wallace, 32,
in from Columbus, Ohio,
for a Broadway weekend.
- Okay, how did the
perp get access?
- Guy snowed the desk clerk.
- A new employee
working the front desk
gave out the room card key.
- Without checking ID?
- It's not supposed to happen,
but it does... human error.
- You have cameras
behind the desk?
- And in the lobby, the
elevators, the hallways.
We're pulling footage.
- Velasco, talk to the clerk
and get a description.
- On it, Captain.
- The room's on
the fourth floor.
- All right, thank you.
- A rape in a Times Square
hotel covered in cameras.
This guy's not smart.
- No, just brazen.
- Yeah, well, it
makes our job easier.
- We haven't caught him yet.
- You use UV light on the bed?
- Lit up like a Christmas tree.
Not to mention the
semen on the ceilings.
- Whatever you do,
don't touch that remote.
- You definitely don't
wanna know what they found
in the bathroom.
- Okay, call the lab,
put a rush on DNA.
- We saw "Funny
Girl" last night.
My boyfriend,
Gil, bought the tickets,
but we broke up, so
I brought my mom.
- Okay, and you and your mom
had different hotel rooms?
- I told you we
should've shared.
- Mom, please.
Like you could have
fought him off.
- I took tae kwon do for a year.
- All right, just
give us a second.
It's okay. Um...
when did you and your mom
get back to the hotel?
- We had dinner after the show.
It was late, m... midnight.
My mom went to bed, and
I went to the hotel bar.
- And when'd you get
back to your room?
Around 3:00.
He was inside, waiting for me.
Before I could scream, he
put his hand over my mouth
and he pushed me
down on the bed.
- Do you remember anyone
following you on the street?
Or maybe hitting on
you at the hotel bar?
- Nobody that set
off any alarm bells.
- And what can you tell
me about your attacker?
- Um, he was, uh, Black,
average height, weight.
He used a condom.
- Did he say anything?
He called me Kate.
He knew my name.
And he...
He took a selfie while
he was raping me.
- All right, now that picture
is out there somewhere.
Like, what if he
is selling that?
- It may be a way
to track him. Okay.
Listen, everything that you've
told us has been very helpful.
All right, I'm gonna send
you to get a rape kit done,
and then we're gonna check all
the hotel security footage.
We're gonna do everything
we can to find this guy.
I'm so sorry.
- Damn it... Ramses!
Hey, wait...
Ra...
Ramses.
Ah!
Oh, my God.
- Please,
I'll be good.
- Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
- What do we got?
- Vic was found below ground
by a jogger and her mutt.
Guy can barely talk.
- Sir, can you
tell me your name?
Mark Reed.
- How long you been here, Mark?
- Weeks.
- We need to get him
in the ambulance.
- Yeah, go.
What the hell happened to him?
- Guy had wire tied
around his nuts...
Why we called you.
- Uh, did he say
anything to the jogger?
- Yeah, way she tells
it, all he said was,
"I'll be good."
- They've been
locked in that house.
- Good girls get good things.
Bad girls get bad things.
- He's using food as
a tool of control.
But it was a busy
Saturday night.
- So you just gave a room key
without checking the computer?
- I know there's no excuse,
but he said he was her
boyfriend, he lost his key,
and he knew her name,
the room number.
- What did he look like?
- Black, um, 30s.
He wasn't scary.
Am I in some kind of trouble?
- Not with the police, but...
I wouldn't count on a
career in hotel management.
Thank you.
- Look, I know we're good now,
but you don't gotta be
quite so close to me.
- Benson and Fin got
their hands full,
said we're partners...
Modern-day Cagney and Lacey.
- Who?
- Iconic female cop duo?
I used to watch with my grandma.
- They ever chase after a guy,
dig a hole, and put
the man in a cage?
- Not that I recall.
- Tied a wire around
his nuts. Who does that?
- Maybe an ex-lover
with a vendetta.
- Excuse me, we're
here to see Mark Reed.
- I'm sure he'd love to see you,
but unfortunately,
it's not possible.
Guy coded about ten minutes ago.
- What happened?
- Dehydrated, malnourished,
genital wound started
to go necrotic.
Organs completely shut down.
- No vic, no perp.
What would Cagney and Lacey do?
- Probably talk
to the vic's wife.
He had a ring on.
- Desk clerk gave this guy
the key to room
424 at 1:00 a.m.
- While Kate was still
down in the hotel bar.
- He was stalking her.
He somehow got her name
and her room number.
- All right, get
the description out
and see if we can pick up
his trail leaving the hotel.
- On it.
- Captain... CSU found something
at the bottom of
the elevator shaft.
- Okay. It's Muncy.
- I got the basement.
- All right.
Muncy.
Okay.
Okay, the vic is dead?
- But we got a
statement on the scene.
- Okay, what kind of statement?
- The vic said, "I'll be good."
There were candy
wrappers everywhere.
Where have we seen
all this before?
- Hold on, you think
that this is Elias Olsen?
- He's still out there,
Captain, because of me.
- Muncy, you lost
your temper in court,
and we've talked about this,
and I told you that
you have to let it go.
- After the Singhs
moved back to India,
the charges against
him were dropped.
- I am aware of that.
Muncy, let's not get
ahead of ourselves, okay?
First of all, this
is a different MO,
and second of all, Elias
Olsen preys on girls.
- The perp was a welder. You
should've seen this cage.
I mean, this is not something
you can get off Amazon.
- Slow down, Muncy, slow down.
Does the vic have a next of kin?
- A wife, Shelley
Reed in East Bergen.
She filed a missing
persons report a month ago.
- Get an autopsy, keep in touch,
and keep that radio of
yours where it belongs.
- On it, Captain.
- Hey, the wife's on
her way to ID the body.
Have you told the Captain?
- Yeah, I think
she thinks I'm a little crazy.
- But that probably
didn't start today.
- Just get the wife to meet
us at the M.E.'s office.
- You're the one
with the gold shield.
- A used condom?
- Recently. You can
tell due to the...
- I-I get it, I get it.
- We found it right here.
- How'd it get to the bottom
of this elevator shaft?
- We saw him on security
cams tossing it in the crack
between the elevator
and the fourth floor.
- Okay, get it to the lab.
- Sarge, we got a
report of another rape.
Description matches our perp.
- Where?
- An hour ago
in the West Village.
- Hell of a refractory period.
- Dude's gotta be on
Viagra or something.
- I always arrive early to open.
This man knocked on the door.
Said he was in a hurry.
I was stupid to let
him in, but, uh,
we need the business.
- You're trusting,
not stupid, Evie.
You told the responding officer
he was Black in a baseball cap?
- He looked like a nice guy.
- Is this him?
Yeah.
Where'd you get that?
- Here.
This guy committed another
rape a few hours ago.
I'm gonna have to ask you,
Evie, was he wearing a condom?
- Yes. Uh, I think
he took it with him.
- I'll start a grid search.
- Is it possible this
was someone you knew?
- He knew me.
He called me by my name,
and... this is creepy.
He took a selfie while
he was raping me.
- Is there any man that would
have a reason to hurt you?
- There's this one
customer, Billy Vitale.
He asked me out,
like, ten times.
I felt stalked.
- You call the police?
- They told me there was
nothing they could do
unless he followed me
home or threatened me.
- You're sure he
wasn't the rapist?
- I'm sure. I thought
I was hallucinating
at first, but I... I wasn't.
- Hallucinating what, Evie?
- Whoever raped me,
it wasn't Billy.
Because Billy was
standing right there,
looking in the window...
Watching.
- Super says Billy goes to
noon mass at St. Joseph's
every Sunday, and
he's home by 1:30.
- A God-fearing
stalker on a schedule.
- Well, speak of the devil.
- Billy Vitale.
- Can I help you, officers?
- You know a woman
named Evie Quinn?
- Evie, yeah.
She works at the tea
place around the corner.
Why?
- We're hoping you can tell us.
- Did something happen to her?
- I repeat my former question.
- Look, I-I don't know
what this is about.
I just came home from mass.
- Yeah, we know.
- What about before mass?
- I was home.
- You didn't happen to
stop by the tea shop
before you went to church?
- It's on the way, but
they're not open till noon.
- So you were there?
- I looked in the window.
Sometimes she's there
early, but not today.
- You didn't see anything?
- Just my reflection
in the glass.
I-is she okay?
- Look, she's not okay, Billy.
And we think you know that.
- He's lying through his teeth.
- No kidding. Guy
just stands there
watching Evie get assaulted.
- What kind of animal does that?
- Not an animal,
man. It's humans.
And more specifically, men.
It's us. Have you noticed that?
- Yeah, I've noticed a pattern.
Let me ask you, Sarge,
why do you think that is?
- What, am I the ambassador
for our entire gender now?
- I mean, well, it's
probably testosterone, right?
'Cause when it drops,
we learn how to behave.
- So they made up the
term "dirty old man"
for nothing, then, right?
- I guess we're just screwed.
- Yeah, sometimes it's
hard to reconcile.
- Yeah, but when
you think about it,
we don't go in there
as men or women.
- We just got a badge
and a job to do.
- Where to next?
- Let's talk to Benson.
- Muncy thinks she's
chasing Elias Olsen?
- It's just a theory. We
haven't gotten there yet.
- But if you do?
- Well, do you
have a last known?
- The Singhs refused to testify.
The case wasn't viable.
The DA dismissed it.
Elias went off the grid.
- So no, but you're not here
to talk about Elias Olsen.
- I need an update on
the West Side rapist.
The press has been
hounding the DA's office.
I volunteered to hound you.
- Of course.
So two rapes in as many hours.
The DNA from the condoms
found near both crime scene
is a case-to-case match.
- Is the DNA a match to
anyone in the system?
- No, but we picked up
the guy on traffic cams
headed downtown on foot.
And then we lost him
at Hudson River Park.
- Any connection
between the two vics?
- Not that we know of so far.
- Liv.
- Yeah? You got something?
- I heard back from
Special Victims Division.
We could be looking at some
kind of assault pattern.
- The same rapist?
- The lab's sorting it out.
Some of the scenes
had DNA, some didn't.
- Three rapes in
the past six months.
One in Queens,
one Staten Island,
the last one in
Brooklyn, same MO.
- What's the pattern?
- It's a stranger rape,
but the rapist knew the
woman's name and their routine.
And he took a selfie while
committing the assault.
- Any common thread
with the victims?
- Three separate
boroughs. Nobody asked.
- All right, Fin, Velasco,
start with Brooklyn.
How busy are you tomorrow?
- I got no court appearances.
- Great.
You can drive me
to Staten Island.
Come on, it's better than
sitting in your office,
ducking calls from
the eighth floor.
- All right, just
don't tell my mother...
Unless you wanna sit through
a two-hour Italian lunch.
- Ah, tempting, but no.
- He had wire wrapped
around his testicles,
which caused them to necrotize.
But that's not the
trauma that killed him.
- What did?
- You're familiar with
rabbit starvation?
- Not sure I wanna be.
- It's an acute form
of malnutrition.
This is the same,
but with sugar.
- I'm never eating candy again.
- But that's not even
the exciting part.
- What the hell is that?
- A bezoar...
Collection of material
that forms in the
stomach and fails to pass
through the intestines.
Usually it's celery
fibers or hair,
but this one's made up primarily
of cherry licorice string.
- I think I'm gonna puke.
- How does this help us, Truman?
- Establishes timeline.
He was fed only candy
for at least a month.
- Any DNA found on the body?
- Only his own, I'm afraid.
- Okay, put that
away. The wife's here.
Is that him?
Is that my Mark?
- We're so sorry, Mrs. Reed.
Can you start by telling us
about the day Mark went missing?
- April 16th,
our goddaughter's baptism.
He went into the city
for my favorite cannolis.
Never came home.
- Do you know if
he made it there?
- It was the last charge
on his credit card.
Vesuvio Bakery on
Prince Street...
I told all this to
Missing Persons.
- I hate to have to ask you,
but did he have any enemies,
someone who might
want to hurt him?
- Mark was a family man,
well-respected, a
rule follower...
- So there were never
any marital issues?
- Never. Not my Mark.
I know it's rare, but we
really loved each other.
What kind of a
sick son of a bitch
would do something like this?
- We're gonna find
out, Mrs. Reed, okay?
- I-I have to go,
call my daughters.
I don't even know
what to say to them.
- What are you thinking?
- Honestly, I'm thinking
about that damn licorice ball.
- It's probably best
she didn't see that.
- Four weeks, Churlish.
That's how long she
was waiting for him.
That's how long he was
locked in that cage.
- He probably felt
scared and helpless.
- Do you even know
what that's like?
- Is this about Mark,
or is this about who you
think did this to him?
- It's about both.
He's using food as
a tool of control.
- They're malnourished.
There's evidence
of sexual assault.
- He said he would
bring me some treats.
- You still think
this is Elias Olsen.
- I don't think it's him.
I know it is.
- Wow, swanky neighborhood.
- Todt Hill? Very.
So this vic, she's a realtor?
- Yeah, we're meeting
her at an open house.
- That's a pretty sweet gig.
- Yeah.
So Darlene Quinlan, 42.
Do you...
- What, I know her?
Darlene Quinlan?
Y-you know what?
I actually went to
high school with her.
You're kidding me.
- Okay, all right.
You arekidding.
I get it, not everybody in
Staten Island knows each other.
- No, I don't know her.
Well, actually,
maybe... Maybe I do.
So what else you got?
- Darlene was raped in February
at an open house in Great Kills.
Perp knew her name,
took a selfie.
No DNA in her kit.
He used a condom.
And he took it with
him when he left.
- So no help there.
- No.
But there is something else.
So it says in the report
that she had called
it off with her fiancé
a week before the assault.
- So what are you thinking?
- Well, it's maybe something,
maybe nothing, but
our first vic, Kate,
she had just broken
up with her boyfriend.
- What about the second, Evie?
- Uh, no, she had a stalker.
- But the stalker
and a boyfriend,
neither of these guys
are good for the rape?
- No, but like I said,
maybe it's nothing.
- Oh, this is it right here.
Hey, this is nice.
- Did you bring your checkbook?
- Amanda's place is getting
to be a little tight
for the five of us.
- You mean the four of us.
Oh, Carisi.
Congratulations.
Oh, my God, this
is how you tell me?
- Don't tell Amanda I told
you. She's gonna kill me.
She wanted to tell you herself.
- Aw, Carisi.
I'm so happy for you.
- Leo, anyone shows up
in the next half hour,
ask them to wait.
- All right, thank you.
- Realty company
won't let me show
by myself anymore...
The liability.
- It's good that you
protect yourself, Darlene.
- The alternative? Stay
home with the door locked?
So you have a break in my case?
- Possibly, yeah.
- Yeah, we'd like to talk
to you about your assault.
- I told Staten
Island SVU everything.
- Yeah, I know that
it can be difficult,
but sometimes going
over what happened,
you know, new
details can emerge.
- You were showing a house in
Great Kills, on the harbor?
- Oh, you know Staten Island?
- Better than I'd like to.
Yeah, it was just a
regular open house.
This guy was middle-aged,
a little overweight.
- Pretending to be a buyer?
- Mm-hmm.
Said his name was Alan Smith.
He showed me
pictures of his dog.
- And he knew your name?
- Well, it was on the listing.
I was showing him
the main bedroom.
And, uh, he pushed me down,
put a condom on,
and, uh, raped me.
- Anything else that
you can tell us,
or anything else you remember?
- Yeah, he, um...
He took a selfie with his phone.
And then he just
ran out of there.
- And he was a total stranger?
- I've never seen him before.
And he's definitely not
local, no New York accent.
- Darlene, you
told the detectives
that you had just recently
broken up with your fiancé?
- Mm-hmm. It was a little
more than a breakup.
I didn't show up to the wedding.
- Oh.
- Can I, uh... can I ask why?
- I just realized Greg
acted like a nice guy,
but he wasn't nice.
Trusted my gut.
But he and I are okay now.
- Oh, so you're
still in contact?
- Mm-hmm.
I called him after
the... The rape.
And he was so supportive.
We had been arguing about
the engagement ring.
I didn't give it back.
And after he heard
about the rape,
he said I could keep it,
so maybe he's a
nice guy after all.
- Thanks, Detective.
So Staten Island SVU says the
realty company has no record
of this guy making an
appointment on their website.
- So he just drove
by and saw the sign?
- What about this fiancé?
- I say we pay him a visit.
- More exciting
than an arraignment.
- Yeah, could be the guy.
Came in here for some
cannolis for a baptism.
But I already spoke to the cops.
Is he still missing?
- He's dead.
And this was the last
place he was seen alive.
- Was he here with
anyone else that day?
- I already told the cops,
he was outside speaking
with a big fella.
- What's this big guy look like?
- White and I mean big.
Came in for a birthday
confetti cannoli.
- Was that him?
- Yeah, that's the guy.
I wish somebody would've
shown me that a lot sooner.
- Yeah, so do we.
- Where are we going?
- We're gonna need more
than just an ID
from cannoli guy.
- I was horrified when I
heard Darlene was attacked.
I tried to be there for her.
- Yeah, that's what she told us.
- Oh, you spoke to her?
- Yeah, we did.
- So we have some new leads,
and you never know what's
gonna break a case.
- Well, I already told the
Staten Island detectives
everything I know,
which is nothing, so.
- Well, when was the last
time, before the rape,
that you spoke with Darlene?
- Well, I don't know.
We were broken up.
Why?
- Here's the thing, Greg.
The guy who raped
her, he knew her name,
he knew where she was
holding an open house.
- Yeah, well, those things
aren't exactly top secret.
I mean, they put signs out.
- That's true.
- Look, Darlene told me
that it was some rando,
like one of the guys
that she would flirt with
all the time to make a sale.
I don't know, maybe the
guy got the wrong idea.
- You're blaming her?
- No, of course not.
Look, I feel terrible
about it. I just...
I gotta get back
to work, all right?
- Yeah, one more question.
You told Darlene she could
keep the engagement ring?
- Yeah, so?
- That's pretty generous,
considering she left
you at the altar.
- What, are you
insinuating something?
- Maybe you felt guilty.
- About what?
She left me.
We done?
- You know what I think?
- He paid somebody to rape her?
- Yeah, so did the others.
- Yeah, this is starting
to feel like a pattern.
- Robbie.
- Detective Muncy.
- You got something for us?
- Uh, two clockwise
rotations forward, one back.
- And what does that mean?
- The welding pattern.
3/4 inch square tube steel,
welded with a
wire-feed MIG welder.
- Guy definitely has
welding experience.
- Based on what I'm seeing,
I'd say he has
years of experience.
- You find any prints?
- No.
But there are serial numbers
printed on the steel stock.
- Real Time Crime should be
able to trace the source.
- Yeah.
I got something I need
you to take a look at.
- What is that?
- It's a door from the
Singhs' restaurant.
Elias welded it.
It's probable cause.
Robbie, I need you
to do me a favor.
- Anything.
- You said welders
have a signature.
Can you tell me if these
two autographs match?
- Two forward, one back.
Hot-rolled steel,
wired with a MIG.
- It's the same welder.
- Brooklyn vic, Maria Varga, 22,
part-time student,
works as a nanny.
Got assaulted on the job.
The kids were asleep
in the next room.
- So she recently
broke up with somebody,
had a stalker,
something like that?
- Not according to
the police report.
Everything else goes to pattern.
Stranger, knew her
name, took a selfie.
Maybe the exception
that proves the rule?
- Maybe we don't
know the whole story.
Maria Varga?
- Ethan, go play
on the playground.
I'll be right over here.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Hi, I'm Sergeant Tutuola.
This is Detective Velasco.
We spoke on the phone.
- Like I said, I
don't know what else
I could tell the cops.
- This will only
take a few minutes.
- I can't lose this job.
- We understand.
We're police officers.
I'll keep an eye on him.
- You caught this pig?
- Not yet,
but we have some new leads.
- Do you mind going over
what happened again?
This was a week ago? You
started a new nanny job?
- The parents went
out to dinner.
I was watching TV.
I put the kids to bed.
There was a knock on the door.
I went and opened
it just a crack,
and he pushed his way in.
- Can you describe him?
- Latino. He had a knife.
He told me that if I resisted,
he would stab the kids.
- Did he know your name?
- He took my ID out of my bag,
like he was making
sure it was me.
When he was done,
he took a selfie.
Brooklyn SVU said that
they found a DNA match,
but that it couldn't
have been the guy.
- How so?
- It was a match for a convict
who'd been in Green
Haven for years.
- Well, you told Brooklyn SVU
you had no men in your life,
no boyfriend, husband,
no recent breakups.
- No.
I'm single...
after Derek.
- Derek?
- The father of the last
family I was a nanny for.
He came on to me.
We hooked up once.
But I quit the next day.
- Does Derek know
you have a new job?
- He... he tried to
call me multiple times,
but I blocked his number.
- Oh, my God, Maria was raped?
- You didn't know?
- How would I?
- When was the last
time you spoke to her?
- Look, I don't know
what she told you...
- She told us everything.
- Oh.
Okay, then you know
that I screwed up.
But I'm making amends...
To my kids, to my wife...
- Why'd you keep calling Maria?
- To apologize.
- Where were you Saturday night?
- Home with my wife.
- Is she gonna
back up that alibi?
- I swear to God,
I had nothing to do
with Maria being attacked.
I'll take a lie detector test,
give a DNA sample,
whatever it takes.
- So Rose Bergman, she's 50.
She was raped in
the parking garage
at her psychiatrist's
office two months ago.
- They recover any DNA?
- Well, there's, you know,
touch DNA on the dashboard,
but there's nothing
in the system,
and not a match to
either one of our rapes.
- Is there anybody
in Rose's life
who had a reason
to wanna harm her?
- Well, I'm gonna
take a wild guess here
and say her soon-to-be
ex, Harvey Bergman.
She recently filed for divorce.
So they were married
for 25 years.
There's no prenup.
His net worth is
in the millions.
- So millions of reasons.
- Yeah.
- Help you?
- I'm Captain Benson,
Manhattan SVU.
This is ADA Carisi.
- Rose said you'd
be stopping by.
- And you are?
- Harvey Bergman.
Uh, come on in. Rose
is in the kitchen.
- Harvey was really there
for me after my attack.
I was pretty shaken up.
- Of course. I can
understand that.
So you two are back together?
- He's changed.
- But you initiated the
divorce proceedings?
- Because of his anger issues.
But I don't see any of that now.
He's a... he's a sweetheart.
- So I read the case
file on your assault,
but I was hoping that... That
you could go through the...
The details again with me.
- I was out of town at the time,
uh, in Atlantic City
with my buddies.
As soon as I heard,
I raced right home.
- Okay.
- You guys have any leads?
- Well, we're still
working the case.
- Anything I can
do, anything at all.
I have receipts, uh,
from the restaurants,
uh, the casino.
- Usually keep those?
- I never should've gone.
I... I never should've
left Rosie alone.
But I'm here now, and I'm...
I'm never leaving her again.
- Carisi, you're hovering.
- I can't stop thinking
about this case.
- You mean our mosaic of cases.
- Yeah, that's the problem.
If these assaults
are all connected,
then I've gotta find some
way to link 'em all together,
and right now all
we have is a...
A plethora of victims
and a dearth of evidence.
- Well, I hate to
make your night worse,
but I checked in with Queens SVU
about the Bergman case.
- And?
- If Harvey Bergman hired
somebody to rape his wife,
there's absolutely no
evidence whatsoever.
- I looked into him as well.
By all accounts, this
guy is a normal citizen.
He's got two kids, one went to
Yale, one went to Princeton.
- But something went wrong.
Rose filed for divorce.
- So he hired
someone to rape her?
- Carisi, if you and I have
learned anything on this job,
it's that everyone is capable
of doing the unthinkable.
- Yeah, even when
they're 99% good.
- It's that damn 1%.
- Exactly. It's enough to...
To keep you up at night.
- Why do I feel like
we're not talking
about Harvey Bergman anymore?
- You know, Liv,
I know that I'm... I'm
gonna be a great father.
I-I know that.
- Aw, but?
- Do you know that babies
have this thing called,
um, meconium?
Evidently, it's the
first diaper change.
- Black tar poop.
Yeah.
I mean, I've been
a father to Billie.
Been a father to Jesse.
But I never lived through
anything like that.
- You're doubting yourself.
- A sliver.
- Carisi, stop litigating
this in your head.
This baby is gonna
test you for sure,
and not just with diapers.
But if there's one thing
that I know about you,
it's that you're gonna
show up every day
like you did here,
like you do in court.
And you're gonna do the work.
And nobody gets
worse with practice.
- So you're saying
this meconium thing,
this happens more than once?
- Oh, yeah.
Hey. You got this.
- All right, so Real Time
Crime traced the serial number
on the square stock to some
construction supply house,
who said it got
delivered to this church.
- Find the metal,
find the welder.
- You mean find Elias.
- Looks like it.
Are you gonna be okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
- Then let's go, Cagney.
- Oh, I'm Cagney now?
- Lacey had kids.
- Definitely Cagney vibes.
- You know what was so great
about them as partners?
- No, but I'm sure
you're about to tell me.
Fence isn't finished.
- If you're here
for confessions,
priest will be back tomorrow.
- Maybe another time.
This is a nice fence, though.
Who you got working on it?
- Found him online.
You in need of a welder?
- Uh, what's his name?
- What's this about?
- This is a police
investigation.
- Okay.
Wanna talk to him?
Cellar door's around back.
- He lives here?
- He needed a place to stay.
Father Joe gave
him the basement.
- NYPD!
Is anyone here?
- Hello?
- Hello!
It's the vic's wallet.
- NYPD. Come out now.
- Everything's clear.
- Muncy...
- Elias?
- Hey.
I know you.
You hit me.
I had to get eight stitches.
- But you got a
hard head, right?
- Elias Olsen,
you're under arrest.
- You're coming with us now.
- You called me names.
You hurt me.
- Hands up, turn around.
- You're bad.
- Freeze!
- Put that down.
We just wanna talk.
- I said freeze.
- Look, I lost my
temper with you,
at the grocery
store and in court.
- Muncy.
- You're right.
I hurt you.
But I'm not here to do it again.
Okay?
What I did was bad.
And I'm sorry.
But you did something
bad, too, didn't you?
- What do you want?
- We wanna help you.
- You do?
- We do.
But you gotta put
that hammer down.
Come on.
Good.
Take a step back.
Hands behind your back.
Okay, turn around.
I need another pair.
- You got it.
- All right.
Let's go.
Come on.
- We're looking at some kind
of market for revenge rape.
I mean, none of these women
have anything in common,
other than an ex who
wants to get back at them.
- So you're saying these
men somehow paid each perp
to rape a woman
they used to love?
- Well, it's likely
these transactions
were conducted
online anonymously.
- So TARU is doing a deep dive
into their social
media connections.
- Yeah, and in the meantime,
I'm working on getting
warrants for
laptops, for phones.
But I don't have
to tell you guys,
this case is gonna
be tough to prove.
- Unless we get
somebody to crack.
- Hey, if they come in
voluntarily, that's great.
But I don't have
enough to arrest 'em.
- Captain.
- Muncy.
- I was right about Elias Olsen.
- Where is she?
I wanna talk to her.
- Muncy? She's here.
But right now you're
dealing with us.
- And it won't take
long if you cooperate.
- That's why we're
here, Detective.
- Okay, good.
- Now answer me,
have you ever been
to Vesuvius Bakery
on Prince Street?
- Once.
- You see this guy there?
- I don't know.
- We found him in
a cage surrounded
by the same candy that we
found in your room, Elias!
- And you had his wallet too.
- Answer them, Elias.
- He was mean.
Bumped into me,
didn't say sorry.
- Everybody's mean
sometimes, Elias.
But you were never mean to
those girls in Fishkill.
That was all your father.
And I bet your father
was real mean to you
when you were growing up.
That's why you hurt that guy.
- Yes! That's why I
wired up his balls!
Where is she?
I wanna talk to her.
- Well, after that confession,
I'm assuming you have
enough to put Elias away.
- Multiple counts of kidnapping,
assault in the first,
two counts of murder.
I don't care what Carter tries.
This guy's doing life.
Very good work, Detective.
- You okay?
- Doesn't feel as
good as I thought.
- It never does.
But like Carisi
said, good work, huh?
- Just got a call from the lab.
OC is working two murders.
DNA from both scenes
matches one of our rapes.
- Which one?
- The nanny, Maria Varga.
Elliot Stabler is the lead
detective on the case.
- Thanks. I have
to make a call.
Where is she?
- Oh, my God!
Muncy, no!
Muncy! Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- You said you
were gonna help me!
- Let go of her!
- Come on, man.
- Let go!
- You lied!
- Let go of her!
- You're bad!
Let go!
- You're bad!
- You're bad!
You're bad!
You're bad.
- You guys okay?
- Yeah!
- Where'd the
captain run off to?
- She had to meet a friend.
That's not the big guy's
blood again, is it?
- No, it's mine this time.
- You know, Muncy, it's
okay not to be okay.
- It's just a scratch
from the glass.
- I'm not talking about that.
Your temper in court,
all that stuff that
went down with Velasco.
It's been a hell of a year.
- Yeah, I guess. I've
been through worse.
- Losing a mother
can do that to you.
- However bad my childhood was,
it's nothing compared to Elias'.
- You really feel bad
for that guy, huh?
- Yeah. He's
sympathetic in a way.
- But irredeemable.
- Yeah.
I did promise him
I'd help, though,
so I feel kind of bad for lying.
- You did help him,
putting him away.
He gets free psych eval,
all paid for by the state.
Good night, Muncy.
- Wait, Sarge.
I wanted to thank you.
- For what?
- When I was in that church,
I thought about
something you said to me.
- I say a lot.
- The Policeman's Prayer...
Dear Lord, get me
out of this one,
I promise I'll
never do it again.
- I appreciate that, Muncy,
but don't thank me or the Lord.
You got that done.
That was all you.
- You good?
- I will be when people
stop asking me that.
- Detective.
Thank you for meeting me.
- Captain.
It's good to see you.
- You too.
- How's Noah?
- He's good.
He's good. Everything's good.
- And you?
- You know, the last time we
saw each other, that was a...
That was a bad time for me.
- Worse timing for me.
- I know that you were just
trying to make me feel safe.
I think we both felt that.
- Just not the right moment.
Oh.
- You're investigating
this BX9 banger
for two murders, right?
- Yeah.
Ring out of Green Haven.
Inmates get furloughed
to go out and do a hit.
CO behind it, he gets the
cash, they get cigarettes.
- So you think this
guy, Junior Suarez,
could've raped my vic?
- Well, who is she?
- A young nanny with no
criminal connections.
- When?
- About a week ago.
- Well, that's about the
time that he got furloughed
and did the hit that
we're investigating,
some lady in Staten Island.
- Was that one personal?
- HOA president, not well-liked.
Still looking into it.
How 'bout yours?
- Well, he knew her name.
And he took a selfie.
- Sounds like he's trying
to prove to somebody
that the job was done.
- So we caught a
couple other rapes
that Suarez had
nothing to do with,
but they also took selfies.
I've heard of murder for hire.
I've never heard
of rape for hire.
- Revenge for hire.
- That's why I called you.
I think you and I are
working the same case
from opposite ends.
- Okay, partner.
- Okay.