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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.

We were able to ID
our burn victim.

It was a cop. Maria Recinos.

You knew her?

She really overcame a lot.

The murder is connected
to another one

that happened two years ago.

- And Homicide never closed it?
- No.

It was my case.

Maria was undercover,
staying at that shelter

when those young
women went missing.

Don't you think that's
a little dangerous,

especially for a rookie?

I kept a close eye on her.

Mr. Pinto, we found your DNA

on a young woman
named Ana Machado.

Pinto's alibi checks out.

Real killer tried to frame him.

We're gonna find
whoever did this.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, I understand.

Yes, Chief, I understand.

Mm-hmm.

[scoffs]

1PP is all over me.

If it makes you feel any better,

the eighth floor just
smacked me and Price

with a three-hour lecture
on media preparedness.

This is, uh,

turning up to be quite
a big press case.

Three murders of
women from shelters...

Including a young cop at
the beginning of her career.

Never should have put
in a word for her.

Liv, don't beat yourself up

any more than your
bosses already are.

TARU confirmed
Miguel Pinto's alibi.

The photo and the videos?

Guy was in Staten Island.

Which puts him an hour and
a half away at the time

of Ana Machado's murder.

OK, so we know that
he's not good for it.

Despite his DNA on her?

Working theory from Brady's team

is that somebody framed him.

With seminal fluid?

How the hell did they get it?

That's for you to find out and
me to cleanse from my mind.

I gotta go update Price.

Lieutenant Brady,
Lieutenant Gomez.

Hi. Thanks for the invite.

Yeah.

We were kicking around this
fact pattern on the way over.

And?

We're in the same investigative

cul-de-sac you are.

Yeah, so let's try
to make a U-turn.

So what do we know?

We're looking for
a pattern killer

targeting marginalized
women, until Maria.

He probably didn't
know she was a cop.

OK, well, what we do know
is that our last victim,

Ana Machado, told Maria
that she was raped.

And Maria went into the
warehouse looking for the perp

and became a victim herself.

So you were her boss.

She didn't mention that
she was going in there?

She was undercover.

We only had check-ins
every three days or so.

OK, well, besides from
the immigration status,

the only common denominator
here that I see is geography.

What about the Catholic shelter?

Father Alberto's place?

I don't know. Maybe
he knows something.

Look, he's a nice guy,
but he wouldn't be

the first priest with a secret.

All of our vics
seemed to trust him.

All right, let's go talk to him.

I'll have someone
put eyes on him.

OK.

What?

Rosa Ortega's mom
is in my office,

and I have to tell her
once again that we have

no idea who killed her kid.

Gomez and I will handle it.

You know, you didn't have
to come with me, Captain.

I wanted to.

What, for Maria's sake?

Look, you don't have to be
Catholic to feel guilty.

Maria told me the story
of how you two met.

Yeah, the 911 call.

She said you never once
got off the phone with her.

Yeah.

You were her lifeline.

Well, I was until I wasn't.

I was her supervisor.

How do you think I feel?

Tried to get her off the
case. She didn't listen.

Well, she was in her 20s.

Did you listen to your
boss when you were 20?

- Nope.
- Me neither.

Wow.

What is all this?

Yeah, ICE did a pretty good
job ripping this place apart.

I don't think this
looks like an ICE raid.

[tense music]

Father Alberto?

♪

Father Alberto?

Father Alberto?

[dramatic music]

We just want to talk.

I got him.

SVU Portable to Central.

We're in pursuit of a suspect
in the Catholic church

on the corner of
159 and Broadway.

Gomez!

It's a Latin male.

He's wearing jeans, a sweater,
and a clerical collar.

Gomez?

Gomez!
- He's got my gun!

[grunting]

Put the gun down!

I can't!

I said put the gun down now!

[gunshot]
- I'm hit, I'm hit!

Drop it! Drop the gun now!

Drop it!
- [groans]

[gunshot]

[gasping]

♪

[groans]

Hang in there.

You hang in there, Paul, OK?

OK.
- [groaning]

SVU to Central.

I got a 10-13, officer down.

Suspect is down too.

I need an ambulance, and
I need additional units.

I know.
- [groans]

Hang in there.

- [groans]
- Come on.

Hang in there, Gomez.

[dramatic music]

♪

[panting] My gun.

Did you bag it?

Please tell me you bagged it.

Don't worry about that.

Force Investigation
is all over it, OK?

- OK.
- GSW to the shoulder.

He's in good hands, Captain.

Tube starting.

Trauma team is on its way.

I want this guy hooked
up to a monitor now.

Captain, you all right?

- Yeah.
- What the hell happened?

So we went there to
question the priest

and he just took off running.

And then he went for
the lieutenant's gun,

so Gomez grabbed his ankle
piece and... and he fired.

Did the priest make it?

Died in the ambulance.

All right.

So let me go back to the
crime scene and help FID.

Yeah, the only thing
you need to worry about,

Benson, is waiting here
for your union rep.

Gomez was shot.

It's all over the radio.
The guy killed a priest.

Fin, we went there
to talk to him.

You think the Father
may have something

to do with all these murders?

Why else would he
run, if he didn't?

Miguel Pinto may know.

The guy that we thought
killed Ana Machado?

Somebody had to plant the semen.

For all we know, Father Alberto
went to visit Pinto in jail

and stole his secret sock.

Grab Velasco and
go talk to Miguel.

Where you headed?

I'm going to get out of
these bloody clothes.

I thought you were supposed
to wait on your union rep.

They know where to find me.

[sighs]

- Heard what happened to Gomez.
- Are you OK?

Yeah, ish. I mean...

Do you think that
that priest is dirty?

What's his part in all this?

Listen, we can't ask him,

but we have to prove
the connection.

Just got off the
phone with the lab.

They pulled some DNA
from Maria's body.

After she was burned?

Some kind of new technique.

You want me to pull
the car around?

I would love that, but IAB
just texted me and they...

they want to talk to me.

How can we make your
life easier, Captain?

Well, for starters, I
need you to re-question

the women at the shelter.

That's going to be kind of hard

after the shelter got raided.

And half of them are probably
on ICE Air flights as we speak.

Well, track as many
as you can down,

because they may be the only
way to tie him to this crime.

They seemed scared
the first time around.

Well, I think that
might be different now

that Father Alberto is dead.

[tense music]

♪

You know, I... I heard what
happened to Father Alberto.

Mm.

Did he really do
what they're saying?

Well, right now all we know
is that he took a cop's gun,

and he shot him.

He took care of me when
I first got to New York.

If he's a bad guy... [scoffs]

I don't know who
to trust anymore.

There was a girl
a few years ago.

I saw her hugging
Father Alberto.

Anything inappropriate?

It was late at night.

She was in his room.

I saw through the window.

It looked like she was crying.

You have a way to
reach this girl?

She left the shelter.

A name? Anything
would be helpful.

There's so many women that
come in and out of here.

I... no, I'm sorry.

[tense music]

It's a little late for
breakfast, isn't it, Miguel?

Yo, why are you even here?

It's starting to
feel like harassment.

This isn't personal.

But we did find your
DNA on a murder victim.

And I already told you guys,
I never even met that girl.

You know this guy?

- No.
- You sure?

Maybe he paid you
a visit in jail?

Never seen him before.

And anyways, why the hell
would a priest set me up?

That's what we're
trying to figure out.

You need to think.

Maybe you had sex with one of
those women in the shelter?

No.

But my cousin sent some
whore over to celebrate

me getting paroled.

You wore a condom, right?

Yeah.

So what'd you do with
it after you got done?

Put it in the bathroom garbage.

She happen to go into the
bathroom before she left?

Yeah.

Captain Benson, you were at
the scene of the shooting.

Walk us through what happened.

So Lieutenant Gomez and I
went up to the Catholic church

on 159th to interrogate
Father Alberto,

and as soon as he saw
us, he took off running.

So Lieutenant Gomez
chased after him.

I called in the pursuit,
and I found both men

down in the catacombs struggling

over control of
the weapon... um,

Lieutenant Gomez's Glock 17.

Whose hand was on the trigger?

Um...

both of the men had their
hands on the weapon.

Do you recall if either
said anything as they fought

for control of the weapon?

To each other?

To you?

Well, I engaged with
Father Alberto directly.

I said to drop the weapon.

Did he reply?

[tense music]

He said, "I can't."

What do you think
he meant by that?

♪

Captain Benson?

♪

How'd it go at IAB?

Did you find any dirt
on Father Alberto?

Anything at all?

He might have had something
going on with one of the girls

at his shelter.

Would that make you
run from the cops?

Would that make you grab
a cop's gun and shoot him?

No, but then again,
I'm not a priest.

What are you thinking?

I'm thinking that the church
was pretty banged up when Gomez

and I got there, and it just...

it couldn't have been
just from an ICE raid.

You think someone
threatened him?

What's in the bag?

A Hail Mary.

So you were able to
obtain sperm cells?

Using differential extraction.

Deep tissue recovery.

Part of her cervix
was still intact.

So whoever killed
Maria also raped her?

I can't say whether
the sex was consensual.

And unfortunately,
she can't tell us.

Well, then, the evidence
will have to speak for her.

What is that?

It's my jacket.

Your jacket?

Covered with Paul Gomez's blood?

Um...

You can't put a cop's
blood into the system

without consulting with 1PP.

OK, Jess, I need
you to hear me out.

OK, I need you to give me
the professional courtesy

of talking about it
before you do it.

Listen, there's
something deeply off

about Father Alberto's shooting.

How? He pulled
the trigger first.

But Gomez's hand was on
top of the priest's hand

when the gun went off.

So you think Gomez shot himself?

I think that it's a possibility.

What do you think
is more likely...

that mental
contortion, or the fact

that you might be suffering
from temporary case blindness?

OK, because of Maria?

No, because you
witnessed a shooting.

All I know is the fear

that I saw in Father
Alberto's eyes.

I'm telling you.

OK.

OK.

But if you're wrong,

you're going to have to
talk to the brass about why

we compared the blood of a
decorated NYPD lieutenant

to a semen sample found in
the corpse of his subordinate.

I understand, and sometimes
you have to ask for forgiveness

instead of permission.

I'm going to take that as a yes.

OK.

[tense music]

Hey.

I didn't know we had
a meeting scheduled.

- We didn't.
- But we do need to talk.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, uh, now that
we're all caffeinated,

what... what's this about?

The semen found on Maria's
body was a match to Paul Gomez.

I'm sorry, since when
was Paul Gomez a suspect?

I don't remember submitting
a warrant for this.

Do you?

We didn't seize the DNA.

Not exactly.

Well, how did you obtain it?

From my jacket.

What, from the shooting?

That's a little macabre, but
it's admissible nonetheless.

What does this...
what does this prove?

I mean, really?

Other than Gomez
and Maria had sex.

We are looking for
a pattern killer

who has a penchant for raping
socially invisible women.

This is the first step in
demonstrating that pattern.

OK. What's the second?

I'm going to ask Rosa's
mother to exhume her body.

All right, um,

let's go down this rabbit hole.

If you're right... and I'm
not saying that you are...

it also means that Gomez,
a decorated lieutenant,

framed Miguel Pinto for Ana
Machado's murder and rape.

How do you tie him to that?

We can't right now.

But the guy's got a long reach.

Look, I think that
he sent somebody

to threaten Father Alberto
the morning that he shot him.

And if he can do that,
that means he's got help,

and he's organized.

Look, he's been right next to us

this whole time, right there,
watching us investigate.

I would not put it past
him to plant evidence.

So you're alleging
obstruction of justice,

tampering with evidence...

Uh, misconduct in public
office, conspiracy,

not to mention the
rapes and murders.

The question is,
how do we prove it?

So Miguel told Fin and
Velasco that his cousin

hired a sex worker for him.

And we think she took the
condom out of the wastebasket

when she left.

So Brady and I put in a
call to Miguel's cousin.

He swears that he did
not hire a sex worker.

And you think Gomez did?

I think that if you give
us an electronic warrant

for Paul Gomez's phone,
that we can prove that.

What do you think?

A case this size,
involving a cop, no less?

We've got to loop Baxter in.

Gossip travels at the speed
of sound in police circles.

Who else knows?

Just us.

Good.

See if you can
get Gomez talking.

Don't push too hard.

It'd be nice to get an
admission before he lawyers up.

You know, you didn't
have to do this.

Come on, we were... we
were worried about you.

Yeah. How you feeling?

Good.

Ready to get out of here.

IAB came by yesterday.

I'm assuming if you're
here, they spoke to you?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's pretty
straightforward.

That's what they
said. [clears throat]

I think they're going to
rule it a clean shoot.

Best possible outcome.

[sighs]

Did you make any headway
linking Father Alberto

to these crimes?

Yeah, we're getting
pretty close.

What did you find?

New DNA evidence.

Oh. From?

Maria Recinos' body.

[ominous music]

Even though it was burned?

Well, technology, right?

- It's amazing these days.
- Yeah.

We're going to do our best
to link it to the Father's.

[chuckles]

[remote clicking]

Everything all right?

Yeah, I'm just in a lot of pain.

Mm.

Mr. Gomez, you buzzed?

Yeah, my shoulder's on fire.

I'll up your dose.

And it's time to
clear your drain.

All right.

Can I go to the bathroom first?

You don't mind?

No, no, please.

Hey, thank you for the flowers.

Yeah.

What do you think?

I'd love to know
who he's calling.

♪

[bell ringing]

[indistinct chatter]

Hey, guys.

Hey, where's Noah?

He was just here.

Noah.

Hey, who you talking to?

I don't know.

This guy was trying to
tell me to go into his car.

I wasn't going to, though.

What?

Get over there.

Hey.

Hey, open the window.
[engine starts]

Who the hell are
you, and what are you

doing talking to my son.

Wait, wait!

[tense music]

♪

Come on, let's go.

You think Gomez sent
someone to hurt your son?

Who else would do it?

To what end?

To get me to back off the case.

Where is Noah now?

He's at our apartment
with two unis.

OK. What do you need from us?

I need permission from
you to pick him up,

so my son can go to
school tomorrow in peace.

As much as we would
all like that,

unfortunately,
we're still waiting

on the electronic warrant.

What is taking so long?

I know you don't
want to hear this,

but it may be time for you to
think about recusing yourself...

Recuse myself from this case?

Liv, this case is
already delicate

for a variety of reasons.

Gomez has been a
cop for 20 years.

And a smart one at that.

If he's been able to get
away with all this...

He knows that manipulating
you into getting emotional

will tip the scales
in his favor.

Yes, and it doesn't take a
genius to know that a threat

to my son would do just that.

Right.

Carisi, what do you think?

Now that Noah is involved,
it's going to affect the case.

Oh, my God. [phone buzzes]

I can't...
- Excuse me.

OK.

So what is the minimum that
you need to pick him up

by the end of the day?

Eyewitnesses who can
put him at the scene.

Physical evidence
that the defense can't

paint as merely consensual...
- OK, OK.

Olivia.

[sighs]

I want you to know that
I am on your side here.

Paul Gomez is a man who
swore to protect and serve,

and he did the exact opposite,

and you are not the only one

who is infuriated by that.

Hey, good news.

Electronic warrant
just came through.

[tense music]

♪

Here we go.

The call that Miguel
made from the hospital

is to a lawyer
named Rita Calhoun.

Sounds like you know her.

I certainly do.

We have history.

So we bring him flowers
and he calls a lawyer?

If that's not an admission of
guilt, I don't know what is.

Also, there is a 12-minute
call to a woman...

a woman named Charisse Johnson,

the night before

Ana Machado was murdered.

Was Miguel Pinto
already out of jail?

By a couple of days.

Well, I think we
found the sex worker

that helped set him up.

We certainly did.

I'll follow up with Fin.

[sighs]

Hey, how are you doing
on the, uh, ICE Air logs?

Well, we managed to track down
a few women that were deported,

and with any luck, one of
them can identify the woman

who was hugging Father Alberto.

And Price told me what happened.

Someone threatened your son?

Yeah, did he also tell you

that he asked me
to recuse myself?

He might have mentioned it.

What would you do?

Are you asking me as
a cop or as a mom?

Can you separate those two?

Well, I think you
have two choices.

You can either throw
yourself into your work

or throw Gomez out a window.

How'd you get my number?

You know this guy?

'Cause he knows you.

I might have gave him a massage.

Look, Charisse,
you're not in trouble.

We're SVU, we're not Vice.

We just want to
know who hired you.

And what you did with the condom

when you took it
out of the trash.

You recognize any of these guys?

[tense music]

What do I get if I cooperate?

You get to stay in business.

Before you were deported,

you were staying in a
shelter run by Father Alberto

here in Manhattan?

That's right.

A woman we spoke to
said you might know

the identity of a close
friend of Rosa Ortega's.

You're talking about Cassie.

We've been trying to
follow up with her.

Yeah, I heard she
just disappeared.

Do you know Cassie's
last name or an address?

No, but

I think I might
have a photo of her.

♪

Wait.

Just a moment.

♪

Would this help?

♪

There she is.

Cassie Reyes.

So she did disappear...
to a new life.

♪

I'm not even going to
ask how you found me.

I left that shelter
a few months back,

and it was hell on earth.

Well, you seem to have made a
very nice life for yourself.

And we do not want
to interrupt it,

but we are
investigating Paul Gomez

for rape and murder.

We heard you were
tight with Rosa Ortega.

I saw her the morning
she disappeared,

and then after that, nothing.

I... I assumed Gomez
had killed her.

Can you tell us more about that?

He'd been raping her.

Me too, threatening
us if we said no.

And the morning that
Rosa disappeared,

she was going to go
report Gomez to the cops.

And you think he found out?

I mean, the guy has a bunch
of street-level dealers

paying him to look
the other way.

He has eyes and ears everywhere,

and one of them must
have tipped him off.

It took me a while to get clean,

but I'm glad I did, because
then I wouldn't have met Sean.

We just got engaged.

Congratulations.

You said that you, um...

you left the shelter
a few months ago?

Yeah.

Did you know her?

Sofia.

Yeah, I know her, but not well.

I mean, she was the one
who gave me the number

to the rehab that I got clean at

and helped change my life.

So, um, her real
name is Maria Recinos

and she was a friend of
mine, and, uh, she was...

she was working undercover.

[sighs] She... she's a cop?

And we think Gomez
killed her too.

[somber music]

Um, she's... she's dead?

♪

When did this happen?

A week ago.

But listen, we are
putting a case together

against Paul Gomez for
killing Maria and Rosa.

Will you be willing to testify?

[sighs] No.

No one in my life now
knows about my past.

I mean, Sean's the
love of my life.

I don't want him to know
that I was a drug addict,

that I let a man rape me

so I wouldn't get arrested.

I owe Maria,

but if I testify,
I'll lose everything.

♪

She's a crucial witness.

Not only can she
connect Rosa to Gomez,

she was raped by
the guy herself.

Righ, but she's
also newly sober,

so let's try not
to destroy that.

Price might have a
different opinion.

There are other witnesses,

so one of them will just have
to be enough to get it done.

ME Wagner will confirm
a seminal DNA match

to Paul Gomez on both the
bodies of Maria Recinos

and Rosa Ortega.

The exhumation of
her body paid off.

What about Ana Machado's case?

Charisse Johnson will testify

she delivered a used condom
from Miguel Pinto to Gomez.

Which he used to plant
evidence on Ana's body.

And Grace Brionés,
from the shelter,

can put Paul and Maria together
at the time of Maria's murder.

OK, so we have two
witnesses plus DNA,

which Gomez will likely
say was consensual.

Well, we actually do
have a third witness

that could testify
to the repeated rapes

of herself and Rosa Ortega.

- I'm interested.
- Hold on.

She's not willing to testify.

Why not?

Because she has changed
her life and moved on.

We'll try to avoid it for now.

No promises.

So you guys have enough
for an indictment.

What about going to trial?
- I'm good.

Same here.

All right, pick him up.

OK.

[dramatic music]

Thanks for coming
to get me, sis.

Are you sure you're
ready to leave?

Maybe you should have
listened to your doctors.

I'm fine. [police siren wails]

Lieutenant Gomez.

Sorry, I got no flowers
for you this time.

Paul, what's this about?

You're under arrest.

Stop it, you're hurting him!

This is for Maria and Rosa.

Oh, my God.

Jocelyn, call my
lawyer, all right?

Rita Calhoun.
- OK.

- Can you do that for me?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Paul, what's this about?

♪

I received an anonymous
call about a murder,

and when I arrived on the scene,

I discovered that the
body had been burned

beyond recognition.

And I later learned that
it was a young woman

named Maria Recinos

who had been working undercover

for the defendant, Paul Gomez.

Were you able to identify
the anonymous caller?

She was a woman at the
shelter, Ana Machado,

and Maria had given
her my number.

Why your number?

Because Maria trusted me.

So Ana was cooperating
with the investigation?

Eventually, yes.

At the beginning,
she was hesitant.

She was quite afraid
of the police,

for reasons that
are now obvious.

Objection.

Sustained.

And then she agreed
to be interviewed.

But you were not able to
complete that interview?

No.

I stepped out of the room
and Ana fled the precinct.

She was frightened by
something or someone.

And later, we found that she
had been choked to death.

Was the defendant, Paul Gomez,

at the precinct that day?

He was.

He was supposedly
working on business

that was related to the case.

And I spoke to him, and
he denied seeing Ana,

which I now know was a lie.

Thank you.

Nothing further.

Captain Benson, you
have no direct knowledge

that Anna Machado saw Paul
Gomez that day, do you?

No.

In fact, you have
no direct knowledge

that my client committed
any of the crimes

that he is accused of, do you?

Well, I wasn't an eyewitness,

but after being a police
investigator for over 25 years,

the circumstantial evidence
was too compelling to ignore.

You had a personal relationship

with Maria Recinos, didn't you?

You could say that, yes.

You recommended that she
be promoted to undercover?

[tense music]

Yes.

You were devastated
by her death?

I was.

So isn't it possible,
Captain Benson,

that your personal
relationship in this case

made you biased
against my client?

Objection.

I'll allow.

I was deeply saddened

by Maria's murder,

and angered by it,

as I have been about
many cases before.

Thank you.

But I have never let my emotions

interfere with my police work.

Quite the opposite.

♪

I did an outcall job for a
client named Miguel Pinto.

But you thought it
was Miguel's cousin

who hired you, correct?

Yeah, over the phone.

What were his instructions?

To show him a good
time, and to make sure

Miguel used a condom, and to
take it with me when I left.

And then what?

I didn't expect it, but
the dude was waiting

for me across the street.

He asked for the condom
before I got in my QuikRide.

And is the man who took
that condom from you

in this courtroom today?

Yeah. Yeah, that's
him right there.

Paul Gomez.

Thank you.

Ms. Johnson, you just
admitted on the stand

that you're a prostitute.

Yeah, so?

And the DA's office agreed
not to prosecute you

for that in exchange for
your testimony today.

Yeah, but I'm telling the truth.

Thank you. Nothing further.

I was walking my baby back home.

I saw Maria Recinos
go into a warehouse.

And then what happened?

Five minutes later,
Lieutenant Gomez

followed her inside.

Why didn't you report
this to the police?

I didn't want to be next.

Thank you.

Are you aware that you're
under oath, Ms. Brionés?

Yes.

Are you aware that lying
on the stand is a crime?

Yes.

That could possibly
lead to your arrest

and possible deportation?

[ominous music]

Yes.

Then I am going to give
you one last chance.

Are you sure it was
my client you saw

following Maria Recinos
into that warehouse?

♪

No, to be... to be
honest, I'm not 100% sure.

- Uh, Your Honor...
- Your Honor, I need a...

a moment with my witness.

Gentlemen, approach the bench.

♪

So our witness is
completely compromised.

She was obviously intimidated.

We are in serious danger
of losing this case.

- We still have Cassie Reyes.
- Look, we talked about that.

That was before we
were facing a mistrial

or a motion to dismiss.

I'm not going to ruin her life.

That is what a subpoena
was invented for.

All right.

She's been brutalized by the
system enough, don't you think?

I don't like it any
more than you do,

but this case is too important
to just leave to chance.

You want it to be her choice,

you have till the
end of the day.

[tense music]

♪

God, what do you want?

You know the answer to that.

I already told you,
I can't testify.

It may not be up to you, Cassie.

If you don't agree, then the
DA is going to subpoena you.

I am an ex-drug addict.

I was high half the time
I was in that shelter.

But you're not now.

And this... this is the
version of you that we need.

[sobbing] No,
they're going to...

they're going to
talk about my past.

Listen, men like Gomez,

they want you to stay invisible.

That's what protects them.

[sobs]

You've got to get up
there and show them

that you're not as invisible
as he thinks you are.

We're not asking you
to do this for us.

We're asking you to do
this for Rosa and Maria.

[whimpers]

And I know what they would want.

They would want you to
choose justice, not fear.

♪

[sobs]

[breathing shakily]

♪

Ooh-wee.

You might not know me,

but I know you.

And not in a vague kind of way.

What the hell are
you talking about?

Your name is Mueller Hayes.

You joined the Academy in '95,

spent your first year on patrol.

Speeding tickets
for your friends

quickly disappear, a
little cash for courtesy.

Nothing major.

Nothing worth
making a fuss over.

But I see the patterns in
your life, even if you don't.

Fast forward a few years
and, well, here you are, huh?

[grunting]

Got your head smashed
up against the cold tile

under the weight of
all your bad decisions

and a 600 FICO score,

which is why Paul
Gomez owns you.

[grunting]

You and I, we're just going
to cut through the noise.

If you ever go anywhere near
my friend or her son again,

I won't take you down.

I'll take you apart.

[panting]

Tell Gomez to watch his back.

I was living at the
shelter for a while,

because I was a drug addict,

at rock bottom.

I felt like I had
no options in life.

Did you know Rosa Ortega?

Yes, we were friends.

Your Honor, again,
this witness is

not on the prosecution's list.

I've already allowed
this testimony.

You'll have your
chance to cross.

Mr. Carisi, you may continue.

Ms. Reyes, when was the last
time you talked to Rosa?

The morning she was killed.

She said she was going
to go to the police

about Paul Gomez raping her.

And how was Rosa's affect
the last time you spoke?

She was scared,

and I know why.

Because Paul Gomez did
the same thing to me.

He said that if I didn't
have sex with him,

he'd arrest me.

And you did as he ordered?

Yes.

Did you call the police?

Did you tell anyone?

No, not until now.

And what changed your mind?

Because he...

killed two women I know,

Rosa Ortega and Maria Recinos.

[tense music]

Thank you, Ms. Reyes.

Ms. Reyes, you have no
knowledge of my client

being directly responsible for
Rosa Ortega's murder, do you?

You didn't see blood on his
hands or a can of gasoline

in his possession?

No.

And you had no knowledge
that Maria Recinos

had been murdered, did you?

Not at first.

Until the detectives
here told you?

That's correct, yes.

By your own admission
you were a drug addict.

Yes.

And my client had probable
cause to arrest you...

Yes.

But let it go when you were
willing to have sex with him.

Objection.

Watch yourself, Counselor.

He...

He threatened me,

along with every other
woman in that place.

He created a hell
that I escaped from.

Your Honor...

You asked the
question, Counselor.

I was silent for years,

but not anymore.

Coming here today may
cost me my new life,

but it is worth it to
put Paul Gomez in prison.

♪

Members of the jury, have
you reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

What say you?

On the charge of rape and murder

in the first of Rosa Ortega,
we find the defendant guilty.

On the charge of rape and murder

in the first of Ana
Machado, guilty.

On the charge of rape and murder

in the first of Maria Recinos,
we find the defendant guilty.

[crowd murmuring]

Members of the jury,

the court thanks you
for your service.

♪

[somber music]

♪

Hey.

Oh, Cassie, I'm so
glad that you came.

This is my fiancé, Sean.

It's nice to meet you, Captain.

It's nice to meet you, too.

Cassie's been talking
a lot about you.

Oh. [chuckles]

I'll meet you in a minute, OK?

OK.

♪

How do you feel?

I feel known.

Maybe even for the first time.

Mm.

♪

You really fought
for those women.

So did you.

It looks like Cassie's
going to be OK.

Yeah.

Are you?

I am...

now.

♪

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

[wolf howls]