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Male announcer:
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.

- stop that man!
Stop him!

- hey! Police!
Stop!

- previously on law & order:
Special victims unit.

- william lewis.

We have three witnesses
Who saw him

Expose himself
In central park.

- how bad's his record?
- we don't know.

We can't run his prints
Because his fingers are burned.

- I can't plead guilty
To something I didn't do.

- the defendant is released.
Case to be set over for trial.

- we're gonna need you
To testify.

- if you'll excuse me.

- you did very well, darling.

- it's lewis.
He broke into her apartment,

Raped and tortured her
For 18 hours.

- find him.

- police!
Don't move!

- you want to hear
How I tied her to the bed.

She did things
That she never expected to do.

- what you did to her--

You're lucky I didn't kick
Your teeth in.

- what I did--you should be so
Lucky someone does that to you.

- the state's
Relentless harassment

Has taken a toll
On my client.

- the judge declared a mistrial.
He's out on bail.

- this guy--
He knows every trick.

- go home.
Stay there two days.

- captain, that's--
- liv, that's an order.

Hello?

- welcome home,
Detective benson.

[stomps foot]
Hey.

There she is.

Those big,
Beautiful brown eyes--

So beautiful.

Give me a smile.

Still feeling woozy, huh?

That's all right.

[grunts]
We got time.

- mm-mm.

- shh...
Oh, come on, don't be shy.

We're past that.

You've been so sweet
When you were knocked out.

Another drink?

Oh, why don't I take off
That tape so you can say yes?

One thing--
You scream again,

I'll shove your own gun
Right down your throat.

- [spits]
You know what?

Shoot me.

- that's the endgame,
Sweetheart.

We got a lot of shock and awe
To go before we do that.

- ah!

[cell phone ringing]

Hey, it's liv. Leave a message.
I'll get back to you.

[voice mail beeps]
- hey, liv, it's me.

We were talking
About getting together.

- that's probably my boyfriend.
He's n.Y.P.D.

He's on his way over here now.

- [sighs]
Boyfriend, huh?

- yes.
- does he have keys?

- yes, he does.

- it's funny that I don't see
Much of his stuff around.

One robe in the bathroom,
One toothbrush.

You wouldn't lie to me,
Would you?

- let's think
About what you're doing now.

- oh, I'm thinking about it.

- you walk
Out that door right now,

No one will know anything
Happened to me.

- what about that pert little
Detective, the blonde one, huh?

She's not gonna notice
All the bruises, all the cuts?

- cab stopped short.
I hit my face on the divider.

- what about this?
- ah!

- what about these burns, huh?

She's like a dog
With a bone, that one.

- so what?

You've done far worse
And gotten away with it.

Your lawyer friend,
The redhead--

She'll accuse n.Y.P.D.
Of framing you after the trial.

- mistrial.
- lewis, go.

Get the hell out of new york.

You walk out that door,

And we will pretend
That this never happened.

- you'd pretend that this
Didn't happen, would you?

- ah!
- you're lying.

There's something I think
That you should hear.

- hey, liv, it's me.

Uh, look,
I know we were talking

About getting together,
Um, tomorrow,

But these guys are jerking me
Around over here.

I got to pull a double.

Uh, anyway,
Don't be mad at me.

Hey, I'm the one stuck
At the bronx courthouse, right?

I'm sorry about this.
I owe you one.

All right, bye.

[cell phone clicks]

- guess he's not coming.

- billy...

I'm offering you a way out.

- you're still
Bargaining with me?

Really?
We're past that.

- I'm an n.Y.P.D. Detective.

My partner, my squad...

The entire department
Will hunt you down.

You think that you've put people
Through hell.

It will rain back down on you.

- you know what?

.

- hey, cheap cheeks,
You haven't paid

Your coffee-kitty dues
Since march.

- I don't drink coffee.

- you know, the unis see that
As bad for morale--

A detective not putting in.
- seriously?

All right, here's a...

A 10.

- [scoffs]
- what, 20?

- please, don't make me beg.
It's beneath my dignity.

- all right, fine. 30.
- today you are a man.

I thought
You didn't drink coffee.

- well, I'm paying for it.
I'm taking it.

- yo, munchie munch.
- brian, flowers--

You didn't have to.
- dream on, pal.

Hey, have you seen liv?

- cragen gave her two days off.
- she didn't tell you?

- no. We were supposed
To hook up yesterday,

But I got roped
Into a double shift, so...

- so you stood her up.
Nice move.

- I left her
A couple messages.

I haven't heard back from her.

- hey, brian.
- hey, cap.

- how's liv doing?
- he hasn't seen her.

- when's the last time
You spoke to her?

- uh, monday.
I left a few messages.

- well, she was pretty down
When lewis got released.

- yeah, well,
Can you blame her?

They just let this guy walk?
Come on.

- it went straight
To voice mail.

Hey, liv, it's nick.
Give me a call.

- you know liv--
She can't turn it off.

She's probably deep
Into his case file by now.

- still.

- captain, pizza boy
Folded like a slice.

- all right, good work.

Uh, listen, I need a favor
Before you two punch out.

Just swing by liv's apartment.

- yeah.
Everything all right?

- yeah, I just want
To make sure

She hasn't gone down
One of her rabbit holes.

- hey, cassidy,
You coming with?

- uh, no,
I'm back on tour in 30.

Hey, rollins,
If you talk to her,

Will you have her
Give me a call?

- easy, romeo.
Just check in on her.

- she's not picking up
Her landline.

- yeah, well,
The girl had a tough week.

I mean, she could just be
Catching up on her sleep.

- 35 hours?

[knock at door]
Liv!

- okay, so either
She didn't come home,

Or she hasn't left her apartment
In two days.

- it's fin!
Liv!

- it's him.
It's lewis.

- yeah, he tied her up.
He duct-taped her mouth.

Her hair, her blood--
Captain, I-it's everywhere.

- he might have taken her
Down the fire escape.

The window's open.
Her bedding's gone.

- any sign of her cell?

- no, it's not in the apartment,
But taru's tracking it.

- canvass the building,
The neighborhood.

Check all surveillance cams.

- there's a pan on the stove
With keys.

It smells
Like burnt hair or flesh.

- son of a bitch.

A detective has been kidnapped.
You bag everything.

I got to call one p.P.
You find him.

[cell phone chimes]

- we got a ping off her cell.

It's bushwick--

Lewis' halfway house.

- [grunts] Where is he?
Where's lewis?

- I don't know. I swear.
- he was here!

- what? N-no.
N-no way, hand to god.

- was she with him?
- who?

- where's her phone?

- I don't know about no phone.

[cell phone ringing]
-no?

- what's this?

- uh, dude, I had no idea
He left that.

He said not to tell anybody
He was here.

That guy's crazy.

- when?
- uh, I--

Yesterday morning, early.
- what time?

- really early,
Before breakfast.

- what did he want?
- my car.

- you got a car?
- yes, my aunt's lincoln.

- where'd he go?
- I don't know.

He asked how much gas was in it.
- where was he going?

- I don't ask him that stuff.
He was in a real rush.

He didn't want
To keep her waiting.

- "Her"? Who?
- that lawyer--

The one who got him off.

- your honor, my client has ties
To the community, no record.

We request she be released
On her own recognizance.

- your honor, if we could.
- order.

- this is
An urgent police matter.

We need to question
Counselor mayer.

- we're in the middle
Of an arraignment.

- I understand that.
- captain donald cragen, svu.

Your honor, counselor mayer
May have information

About a suspect who's holding
An n.Y.P.D. Detective hostage.

- lewis was right.

You do have a vendetta
Against him.

- counselor, your client

Broke into detective benson's
Apartment two nights ago.

Now, he either killed her,
Or he's holding her captive.

- you're out of your mind.

I just saw him.

- when? Where?

- this is harassment.

I don't have to answer
Your questions.

- counselor, hey.

Look, these...

These are pictures
From that detective's apartment.

- you have the wrong suspect.

I was with him all day
Yesterday.

- where?

- we drove out to long island.

- in a lincoln?
- yes.

- he stole it.
Where'd you go?

- he said he wanted to go
To the beach to clear his head.

- okay, so, on this drive,
Did he--did he stop the car?

Did he ever check the trunk?
- no.

- we have reason to believe

Detective benson
Was in that car.

- no, the car was empty.
- did you stop anywhere?

- I had to get back to the city.

And before he dropped me
At the train station,

We stopped for dinner.
- where?

- at my parents' house
In bellport.

- were they there?

[sirens wailing]

[tires squealing]

- there's the car.

- fin, check the trunk.

- william lewis, n.Y.P.D.

- I got one.

He's cold.
He's been here a while.

- there's a blood trail.
- I got a bedspread.

- that's lot of blood.

- whoa.
Liv's necklace...

Hidden by the spare tire.
She left that for us.

- okay, she was alive
In the trunk.

Canvass every house
On the block.

- he took their car.

- call that lawyer girlfriend,
Find out what her parents drive.

- they spent some time here.

- nick.

Dear lord.
[exhales sharply]

She's alive.
Help me get her down.

- get an ambulance, now!

[siren wailing]

- my daughter brought him.
We all had supper together.

He drove her
To the train station.

And then he came back.

- can you tell me what happened
After lewis came back?

- he held a gun on me,

And he m-made me take off
My clothes.

He made--oh, god.

He made her watch
While he raped me.

- and this woman--
Did she say anything?

- no. She had duct tape
On her mouth.

He told her
To keep her eyes open.

Anytime she tried
To close them,

He held put
A lit--lit cigarette on me.

- was this woman--
Was she with him when he left?

- detective.
- she--she passed out.

- she was alive.

Could you tell
That she was alive?

- you're done, detective.

.

- no hits on their e-zpass.

We've got alarms out
On the couple's s.U.V.,

Their credit cards, bank cards.

Will do.
[cell phone beeps]

- they still don't know
Where she is?

What the hell are they doing?

- everything
They possibly can, brian.

- yeah, I'm going out there.
- you can't go out there.

You're involved with the victim.
- victim?

- they've got
The zone flooded--

State troopers,
Suffolk p.D., n.Y.P.D.

You won't see something
They don't.

- two days, munch...

What's he doing to her, man?
- you can't think like that.

- if she's even still alive.
- liv's alive.

She's a survivor.

- hey, I'm back.

I got us some supplies.

What, are you resting?

Upsy-daisy.

That a girl.

There you go.

Okay, arms behind your back.

There you go.

There you go.

Okay.

Man...

I love hardware stores.

I got a tarp, some rope,

Uh, extra duct tape,

Some surprises for later,

And some drinks.

How's that sound, huh?

If I take the tape off,
You'll be a good girl?

- mm-hmm.
- yeah?

Okay.

There you go.

You thirsty, sweetheart?

Yeah?

Here you go.

Oh, no, no, no.
Hey, hey.

You don't get
To say "No" anymore...

Okay?

All right,
You have some vodka,

And I'll give you some water...

Okay?

- [chokes]
- that's it.

Suck it down.
Suck it down.

Yeah, that's it.
- [spits]

- swallow.

Shh, shh.
- [gasps]

- shh, shh, shh.

The vicodin
And the sleeping pills--

They give you
Dry mouth, right?

- water.
- I know. I promised.

I'm a man of my word...

Like when I told you
About that lady,

And I told you what
I was gonna do to her, right?

I told her everything,

And then I did everything
That I said, didn't I?

Huh?

Didn't I?

Yeah.

There you go.
Okay, that's enough.

I think we're gonna
Find it soon.

- find what?
- someplace special.

- [grunting]

- one move, lights out.

I'll do you cold.

- hey, captain, any word?

- they're still searching.

The last witness we have
Saw her alive.

- was liv okay?
- compared to the witness, yeah.

- we know this guy's car.
We--we know where he's been.

What, he just ups
And disappears?

- but he's done
This before, okay?

Uh, munch and I
Have gone over his m.O.

- lewis doesn't preplan.
He's a savant, instinctual.

- but he does follow
Certain patterns.

He's like a cat
Playing with a mouse.

When he can, he moves them
To a safe house.

He takes his time.

- kentucky,
His girlfriend's mother--

He offers her a lift
In the circle "K" parking lot.

He stops at a hardware store.

He gets duct tape, rope,
And a soldering iron.

Then he stops
At a liquor store.

- right,
And he ties the vic up.

I mean, he force-feeds her
Alcohol, drugs.

He--he drives around
Until he can find

An abandoned mobile home
Out in the woods.

He works her,
And he leaves her there.

A hunter finds her.

[cell phone buzzing]

- and the two girls in alabama.
- roommates.

He breaks
Into their apartment,

Puts them in the trunk
Of their own car.

He drives them
To a fishing cabin.

Then he holds them there
For three days.

He rapes, tortures.

Um, he leaves them there
Tied up,

But they manage to escape.

- so he lets them all live.

- not always.

His first lawyer girlfriend,
In maryland--

He took her
To a foreclosed house.

He holds her there
For almost two days,

Leaves her for dead.
- no news is good news.

The car hasn't been spotted
On any bridges, tunnels,

Or ferries.
- okay.

Then he's still on long island.

- well, yeah, well, he told
His lawyer

That he wanted to clear
His mind, go to the beach.

- the beach in long island?

Which beach, hmm?

North shore, south shore,
The bay?

Do you know how many beach
Houses there are in long island?

[playful music]

*

- [singing along with radio]
* every morning, every evening

* ain't we got fun?

* not much money

* oh, but, honey,
Ain't we got fun? *

* the rent's unpaid, dear

* haven't a car

Oh.
[siren wailing]

Oh, come on.

- * we'll stay as we are

* even if we owe the grocer

* don't we have fun?

* the tax collector's...

- he's young.

One move, and he's dead.

- * there's nothing surer--
[turns off music]

- good evening, officer.
Is there a problem?

- you know you ran through
A blinking red light back there?

- oh, I did?

I looked both ways.
[chuckles]

Slow night, right?

I'm sorry.
I really should know better.

- well, can I see your license
And registration?

- yeah.
Yeah, of course.

Uh, the registration's
In the glove compartment.

It's my in-laws' car.

Uh...

There it is.

- and the license?

- yeah.

Oh.

I left the house
In such a rush.

I must've left my wallet.

- what's that
On the floor there?

You been drinking?
- what? Oh, no.

No, officer.

- what do you got back there?

- where?

I think your job here is done.

.

- officer jimmy hamilton--

Three months on the job,
Shot once in the head.

Lewis took his gun and badge.
- anything in the vehicle?

- traces of blood and hair.

He had liv on the floor
Of the backseat.

- and that's
Hamilton's squad car?

- lewis used it to pull over
Another driver--

Pistol-whipped her,
Locked her and her baby

In the squad car trunk,
Drove off in her minivan.

- we got a bolo out
On a white minivan

With connecticut plates.

- he'll ditch that
As soon as he can, go to ground.

- we've moved the grid search
East and south,

Checking every home,
Foreclosed home,

Second home, even boats,
From here to the water's edge.

- all right, check
Hardware stores, gas stations,

Anywhere they could've stopped
Between here and montauk.

- [breathing heavily]

[both grunt]

- I got to lose the car.

It won't take me
That long, though.

[duct tape tears]

Are you gonna miss me?

- [whimpers]
- hmm?

- [whimpers]

- of course.
[chuckles]

It's been a long time.
[duct tape tears]

All that vodka, right?

Let's go.

- [grunts]

[whimpers]
- do you need help?

I can help you.

[duct tape thuds]
- [grunts]

- yeah, that's the guy.

He said he was using
His wife's credit card.

Hey, my terminal
Was down last night.

I didn't know it was stolen till
I ran the card this morning.

- well, was his wife with him?
- no.

He said she was in the car.
- when?

- when I was closing up.

Let me check the receipts.

Uh, 7:45.

- what did he buy?

- tarp, rope, wire,
Hand-held blowtorch.

I didn't know this.

He said he and his wife
Were going camping.

- look at you.

[can rattles]
You going somewhere?

- [groaning]

- not without me, you're not.

I told I'd be right back.

- [gasps]

- [breathes deeply, sniffs]

We'll cuff your hands
Right here.

We'll tie up your feet...

- ow!

- right here.

Oh, man...

[chuckles]

A real old-fashioned
Iron-frame bed.

This...

I knew this place
Would be perfect.

You want me to burn your
Clothes off or cut them off?

Scissors--
I need some scissors.

Where's the scissors?

There's got to be some scissors
Around here, right?

Oh, not in here--

The kitchen.
[chuckles]

[objects clattering]

Nope.
No luck.

Oh, wait a second.

That's pretty perfect.
[chuckles]

What's that look?

Are you feeling sad?

Thinking about someone
You're never gonna see again...

[duct tape tears]

Mom...

Dad...

Boyfriend?

[duct tape tears]
No, huh?

Someone else...

Someone who you would give
Anything

To see just one more time.

- [groans]

- you're gonna cry
His name out...

At some point.

They always do.

Well, just try to put him
Out of your mind, okay?

'cause you don't make it
Out of here alive.

- you know what?

You might want
To keep me around.

I know what you like.

- well, then you've been
Holding out on me.

- yes, but that's what you want,
Isn't it?

Hard to get
And then begging for it.

Hmm?

I know how to get you off.

- you do?
- yeah.

Kentucky...

Alabama...

I've seen the photos.

I probably know more details
About it than you remember.

- oh, I doubt that.

- I've seen a lot of things,

But I've never seen
Anything like this.

You're not some punk.

- don't try and play me now.
- no, I'm not playing you.

No, 'cause I know
You don't like that.

Those two girls at the cabin--

You hung one by her arm
In the closet,

And you made her listen
While you did the other one

For two days.
Did you...

Did you even sleep?

- I don't need sleep,
Not after I get on a roll.

You're gonna find that out.

- when?
- now.

- well, then you might want
To loosen these cuffs

Or take them off.

- yeah?

Is that right?
- yeah.

I know you like a struggle.

You want to show me
How strong you are,

Overpower me, pin my arms
Behind my back.

- no.
- come on.

- no!

- [groans]

- you don't tell me what to do.

Okay?

Now you say...

- [whimpers]

[crying]
I want to live.

I'll do anything.

[softly]
I'll do anything...

Anything.

[whimpering] I'll do anything.
- yeah.

Yes, you will.

[knock at door]

- help!

- miss linda, is that you?

I can't find the key!

- shut...

Up.

- oh.
- hi.

Can I help you?
- oh, I'm sorry.

Miss linda wanted me
To come before the weekend.

She didn't tell me anyone
Was staying here.

- yeah, it was
A last-minute kind of thing.

- I'm supposed to clean
In here.

I'll call miss linda.
- oh, no, no, no.

Don't worry about it.

Who is this, huh?

Who's this
Beautiful little girl?

- this is my daughter, luisa.

Miss linda knows I bring her.

- luisa.

¿cuantos años, luisa--
Cinco, seis?

- luisa, vamonos.
- ¿como estas, luisa?

- bien.
- bien.

[laughs]
Yay.

- we'll come back later.
- no, no. No.

No, stay.

I think I saw some ice pops
In the freezer.

Come on inside.
Just come inside.

- luisa.
- come on.

[sirens wailing,
Tires squealing]

- I come home, there's
A strange car in the driveway--

The one I saw on the news,
So I called 911.

- you see anyone in the house?
- I didn't go inside.

Police told me to wait
For you guys.

- whose bike is that?

- oh, my god.
That's janey's, my daughter.

- all right, just wait here,
Mr. Thurber.

Come on.

William lewis, police.

[hip-hop music playing]

Liv.

*

- [screams]

Don't shoot.
Don't shoot.

Daddy!

- I hate to be rude,
But we have to hurry.

We have company.

The maid showed up with
Her five-year-old daughter--

[chuckles]
Sweet little luisa.

- what did you do?
- nothing yet.

That little one...

She's a cutie.

- little girls, huh?
Old ladies.

What is it with you?
Are you afraid of me?

- [chuckles]
Oh, no, sweetheart.

I was just hoping
We could take our time.

- we've been together
For four days.

There's a lot of talk,
But there's not a lot of action.

- it's coming, baby.

- I wonder if...

If you're not man enough
To get it up

For a real woman.

I just wondered about that.
- huh?

- you see, I profiled you--

A tyrannical sadist
Who preys on the weak.

I think you're afraid of me.
[tool slams]

I do.

- do I look afraid to you?

- I think you're afraid of me.

- let's get to the action.

[whimpering]

- don't move.

- why?

What are you gonna do?

- one move...

Lights out.

- okay.

All right.

You want to be in control
For a while, baby?

.

- did he hurt you
Or your little girl?

- estamos bien.

- listen, I want you
To take your daughter,

And I want you to get
Out of here now.

- I call the police.
- listen to me.

I am the police.
He's a very bad man.

Now, he's gonna go away
For a long time.

Let me ask you a question--
Are you legal?

¿tiene usted
Una tarjeta verde?

Okay.

If the police find out
That you are here,

They will take away
Your daughter.

Escuchame.

No digas nada.
¿entiende?

- si.
- ¿y tu, entiendes?

- si.
- okay.

Ya vete.

[breathing heavily]

Hey.

Hey, you.

You're out cold, are you?

I haven't called anybody yet.

I think I want you
To suffer first.

Maybe I could burn you...

Or cut you.

[chuckles softly]

Or I could use
The blowtorch on you.

[blowtorch whirring]

[blowtorch clicks]

But you might enjoy that
Too much.

See, you--you'd know
What to do.

Your whole life,
You know what you want,

And you just do it.

What I want to do...

[sighs]

I want to shoot you
In the head right now,

Watch you bleed out.

Or maybe that's too easy.

My old partner--
He'd know what to do.

He wouldn't question himself
After what you've done.

He would kick your teeth in,

Break your legs,
Break your arms,

Break your back,
Break your face.

Maybe I should call him.

Maybe I should get him

To use that metal bar
On you...

Huh?

And make you beg
For your life.

- [growls]
- [yelps]

- then do it.
Do something.

Please, god, that speech--

That's the saddest thing
I ever heard in my life.

- shut up.

- your partner would know
What to do.

I would know what to do,

And you just stand there
Wondering what to do.

- I will hurt you.
- then take the cuffs off.

- stop talking.
- or what?

Are you gonna shoot me?

You don't have it in you.

You want to, but you can't,
'cause you're a nice girl.

- you don't know
Who you're dealing with.

- that old partner of yours--

Well, he sounds very macho,
Doesn't he?

- no.

- it must've been tough
For you--

All those long nights
Alone in the car.

- you don't get to talk
About him.

- did he ever do you?

He did, didn't he?

You still want him.

[chuckles]
I can hear it in your voice.

You're all bottled up.
- yeah.

- all your life, you've been
Listening to stories--

Women telling you about
The worst night of their life.

- shut up!
- what about you, huh?

What are you working through?
- shut up! I said shut up.

- something
Your daddy did to you?

Is that it?
- shut up!

- I'm onto something,
Aren't I?

Yeah, call me what you want,
But I can always smell a victim!

Yes!
- can you smell that?

- that's it.

There's the spunk.

Point taken.

I got it.

Daddy's off-limits, right?

Okay.

Why don't I talk
About mine, then?

- how about you don't?
I'm not interested.

- no, you are. You are.
- I don't want to hear it.

- my daddy--
Well...

He used to leave me
At my babysitter's.

He used to put me in front
Of the tv to watch cartoons,

And he'd take her in the back
And do her on the water bed.

One day, he got wasted.
He passed out, right?

She comes out of the room.

She asks me
If I want to play.

She puts me in her mouth.

God, it felt good.

Then my daddy came out.

He slaps her in the face.

She's bleeding

From the nose and the mouth.

Then he grabs her,
Pulls her pants down,

And does her
On the floor, hard,

While she's screaming,
Begging him to stop.

- while you watched.

Are you kidding me?

Am I supposed
To feel sorry for you?

- sorry?

Oh, no, honey.

I think you missed the point.

My daddy got up,

Pulled up his pants,
Brought me to the car,

And took me to dairy queen
For ice cream.

One of the best days
Of my life--

The moment I knew
What I was put here for.

I know what I want.

What about you?

- I do.

I know exactly what I want.

I want you dead.

I want a bullet in your head.

- that's it.

- I want you in the ground.

- come on.

- nobody will miss you.

Nobody will mourn you.

- oh, just do it.
Do it right now.

Come on, while you're angry--
Just shoot me.

Do it.
It's gonna feel so good.

Just shoot me.
Just shoot me.

Don't wait. Don't let this
Go to trial, baby.

I've got a long history
Of winning streaks.

I'm gonna get off,
I promise.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

No.

No, come back.

[scoffs]

I knew it.

You don't have the balls.

Oh! Oh!

.

- it's over, liv.

It's over now.

- he's still alive.

- I don't know how.

- you did what you had to do.

- let's get you out of here.

Let's get you out of here, liv.

- I was able to break free
Of my restraints.

There was a struggle.

Uh, I managed to incapacitate
The suspect

And get the gun.

I, uh, got the handcuff key
From his pocket.

I freed myself,
Called for backup.

- and then before help arrived,
The suspect tried to escape?

- he managed to get
To a standing position

And lunge at me.

I used the metal bar
From the bed frame

To subdue him.

- rather than shooting him
At point-blank range?

- I made a judgment call.

- thank you, detective benson.

I'll forward her statement,
The case file,

The rape kit,
And forensics to the d.A.

They'll be in touch.
- thank you, detective.

- well, as far
As the department is concerned,

You're a hero.

They're gonna want a press tour
As soon as you're up to it.

- and the lawyer's mother?
- she's doing better.

She's gonna be released
From the hospital tonight.

- where's she gonna go now?

She can't go
Back to that house.

Where am I gonna go now?

- your place is a crime scene.

The department will put you up
In a hotel.

- okay.
For how long?

- liv, don't worry about it.

You got a concussion,
A broken wrist, cracked ribs.

W-what you've been through--

You're on mandatory leave
Until you recover,

And I don't want
Any arguments.

- I'm not gonna give you any.
[door opens]

- hey, hey, captain, there's a--
There's a lot of press outside.

I should get liv
Out of here, okay?

- okay.

- hey. Hey, you want to go
To a hotel?

- uh...

Maybe your place
Is a better idea.

- all right, let's go.

- and when
He was finally subdued,

He was handcuffed.

He kept taunting me...

Like he knew every raw nerve.

- you were
In a very vulnerable state.

It almost seems
As if you're blaming yourself.

- I know better...

But he still got to me.

- got to you?

- yeah. Yeah.

But not the way you think.

- time to wake up,
Sweetheart.

- hey, liv, I wish you'd
Let me do this for you.

- yeah, I just, uh--
I wanted to open some windows.

- you okay?

Wait.
Let me get that for you.

- stop.
I got it.

- all right.

- I'm fine.
- right.

- I'm okay.

[exhaling sharply]
- two, three...

- I mean, I know
That he's locked up,

And I know
That he can't get to me,

But I feel very angry.

If I hadn't let my guard down,

If somebody had put him away,
Then he wouldn't have raped

Alice parker
Or raped mrs. Mayer or--

- or you.

- that wasn't rape.

That was an assault...

An ugly, violent one, but--

- but they had it worse.

You can take care of yourself.
You're fine.

- are you saying that I'm not?
- olivia, I'm suggesting

That you've undergone
A traumatic experience

And that even you
Are not a superwoman.

- we went there today.

- your apartment?

The first time
Since the assault--

How was that?

- not good.

- returning for the first time
Can be a trigger--

- yes, I know.

I know all about that.
Thank you.

- I'm sure you do.
- I'm sorry.

It's just, uh...

That place--
It was so dark there.

And I realize
That I haven't...

Thrived there.

- we can talk about that
Some more if you'd like.

- in our next session?
[chuckles]

Or not.

You know, I-I think--

I think I'm just--

I'm just ready
To go back to work.

- I know you feel antsy.

But right now is svu
The best place for you?

- excuse me?

- I hear you
Reevaluating your home,

Your relationship.

I wonder if you've given
Any thought

To the toll your job takes.

- not for a second.

He doesn't get to take that
From me.

- does the thought
Of doing something different--

Does that frighten you?

- what I'm afraid of
Is walking back to my...

To my squad room

And having everybody
Look at me and...

Wonder if I'm okay.

Hey, guys.

What, no cake?

- we were gonna
Get you cupcakes.

- rollins, I was--
I was joking.

They're--they're beautiful.
Thank you. It's so nice.

- welcome back,
Detective benson.

[car horns honking]

- hi. Want a picture?
Come on.

- it's mo-mo!
- hey--

Buddy!
- hi.

Hi, there.
- it's mo-mo.

Hi, mo-mo.
Hi.

- hiya, what's your name?

- buddy.

You don't run from me, okay?
- is that your daddy?

Do you want him to take
A picture of you with mo-mo?

Ten bucks--take a video.

You want a picture, don't you?
- back off.

- hey, don't push me.
- excuse me, please.

- it's just five bucks per kid.

Hey, it's for him.

- whoa.
- what?

- not again.
What's going on?

- that guy started it.
He pushed me.

- take the head off, sir.
I need to see some I.D.

- in front of these kids?

- pa?

Pa?
Where's pa?

- you here
With your dad, son?

We'll find him.

.

- sorry.

- nick, it's okay.
- [groans]

- you don't like my haircut?

- it'll grow.
- [chuckles]

Where's your ring?

- it is what it is.

- an abandoned kid
In times square--

Another mo-mo incident.

- again?
What is it with these guys?

- go wake up your partner
And find out.

- we got this, captain.

- liv, it's just
Your second day back.

- [scoffs]

Captain, you're paying me
To be here.

You sent me home yesterday
After two hours.

It's a lost kid.

Please, I can handle this.

- hey, cap...

We're good.

- [sighs]

Okay.

- he doesn't know his own name?
- or he won't say--

Or his parent's name
Or where he lives.

- okay, he's young.
What, seven, eight?

- doesn't know his birthday.

He just says
He wants to go home.

- but he does speak english.
- when he speaks, yeah.

I don't know--something's off
Developmentally.

- could he be autistic?

- nah. My nephew's
On the spectrum.

This is something different.

- and what about the father?
- okay, thanks.

- that dad--he started it.

- the boy--was he comfortable
With him, scared?

- the dad scared me.

And the kid--
He--he was weird,

Clinging to me
Like I was real.

- hi, there.

My name's olivia.

I'm here to help you.

Do you understand
What I'm saying?

Is it okay
If I hold your hand?

So can you tell me your name?

What's your name?

- buddy.

- buddy.

- a lost boy and the man with
Him took off when he saw cops--

That's not good.

- all the crowd, the tourists--
The guy just melted away.

Mo-mo's getting us
A police sketch.

Taru's checking
All the security cameras.

- kid show any signs of abuse?

- doctors say he's underweight
For his age.

But he's bright, aware,
Physically unharmed.

- we ran his profile
Through missing persons.

There's no matches yet,

And his dna
Is not in the system--

No maternal or paternal hits.

- still, at seven or eight,

He should be able
To tell us something.

- okay, buddy, so who's this?

- ma.

- ma?

Okay.

Do you live with ma?

- in house.

- who are these other two?

- auntie and sissy.

She plays with me the most.

- and that man
That you were with today--

Who was he?

- no.

He'll come back.

He'll be mad.

- so this man, tell me--
W-what's his name?

- pa.

- and you live with pa?

- when he's at house.

He goes sometimes...

But he always comes back.

- so, when pa comes and goes,

Do you know where he goes?

- don't ask.

Be quiet.

Then he won't be mad.

If you're quiet,

You get ice cream or go out.

- out...

Out, like today...

Like today when you saw mo-mo.

So did--
Did you and pa walk

To see mo-mo?

- yeah,
We walked a long way.

Then we go up stairs.

- up stairs?
- to the train, high up.

I look out the window.
Then it got dark.

Sissy taught me trick
To make the walk go fast--

Count the cracks.

- in the sidewalk?

I bet you're
A really good counter.

- me and sissy
Have lots of tricks.

We count lots of things.

- yeah?

Do you count the train stops?

[train rattling]

- that's train.

- okay.
Good, buddy.

Is there anything
You remember hearing, buddy,

Maybe at night--sirens?

- dog one and dog two--
They bark.

I don't like it
When they bark.

- keep looking
Out the window, buddy.

Tell me if you see
Where you walk.

- that bridge.
We cross that bridge.

There's lots of cars.
It's loud.

- okay, how many
Sidewalk cracks to house?

- 100 cracks to get that far.

- okay, around this corner?
This way?

- yes.

55 cracks.

- to house?
- yeah.

- okay, buddy, tell us
If you see house.

- there...

House.

[dogs barking]

- [knocking]
Police!

- you sure
We got the right place?

- the kid's positive.

- open up!
- you looking for tony?

- tony? The house is owned
By angie minetti.

- yeah, tony's her son.
They live together.

- where's tony right now?

- I ain't seen him
Since yesterday.

- mr. Minetti!
Police!

- left in a hurry.
- nobody's upstairs.

- open up.

N.Y.P.D.

Mr. Minetti?

- hello?

Anybody in here?

- what kind of hell is this?

- one cell...

Two cells...

Three.

- hey, there's somebody
In here.

Hey, come cut this open.

Hey. Hey.

- [groans]
- gonna need an ambulance.

- [whimpering]

- hey.

Hi.

- [whimpers]
- hi.

Listen,
We're here to help you.

.

- there's no sign of him.

He may have left
With two other women.

- it's a house of horrors.
It's sick in there.

He's got tasers,
Zip-tie restraints.

There's german shepherds
Out in the yard.

- another ariel castro, my god.
What do we have on him?

- the neighbors
Say he's tony minetti,

Son of homeowner,
Angie minetti.

- neighbors know the mother?

- nobody has seen her in years,

But her social security checks
Get direct-deposited every week.

- neighbors see anything?

- three complaints
To the local precinct this year,

Including a woman tied up
Outside in the doghouse.

Cops showed up, no answer.
They left.

Increible.

- this is incredible,
Incredible.

I had beers with this dude.
- you ever been in this house?

- no, my backyard--
We'd have a smoke.

He was just a regular dude,
Until today.

- you never heard or saw
Anything that didn't seem right?

- no, sir.
- what about the little boy?

- quiet little fella.

Tony said it was
His girlfriend's nephew.

But, you know, it could have
Been his son.

- that's auntie.

Can I see sissy?

- it's over now.

- the press is here?

Please tell me
That you have something.

- an address
On the homeowner's son.

Fin and amaro are en route.

- is the vic any help?
- rollins says she may have...

Issues.

You okay with all this?
- are you?

I got a seven-year-old
In the car

Who's spent his entire life
In a basement.

And god knows
What else went on down there.

We have no idea where this pa is
Or--or--or who he is.

And now
The feeding frenzy begins?

- welcome back.

- there's no sign
Of the other women

At tony minetti's apartment--
They're bringing him in.

- and he claims to have no idea
About any of this?

What do we know
About the first vic?

- um, uh,
Rhonda davis, 24--

She's been missing since 2002.

- how did she end up
In that basement?

- well, rollins says
That it's been very slow going.

Um, she seems to have
Diminished mental capacity.

Grew up in delaware,
In and out of foster care.

- any family?
- no, the parents are deceased.

Last we know, she was living
In a group home in brooklyn.

They didn't even report
Her missing

Until two years
After she ran away.

- they wanted the government
Checks to keep coming.

- come on.

- somebody tell me
What's going on.

- shut up.

- I haven't been to that
For-crap house in 20 years.

- so you haven't seen
Your mother in two decades?

- no, and if she says I have,
She's lying.

- where'd you pick her up?

- I told you.
I never seen her before.

- we found her chained up
In your house,

In your basement!
- it's not my house.

I don't even like women.

- so what are you saying--
You're gay?

- that's why
My mother hates me.

When I came out,
She spit in my face

And told me I was going
Straight to hell.

So, no, I've never seen
The girl before.

My mother
Must have set me up.

- uh-uh.

That's not pa.
That's not pa.

I want to get out, out, out.

- shh, shh, shh.
Okay.

All right, you want to get out,
We can do that.

You want to get
Something to eat?

How about some ice cream?

- no.
No ice cream.

Sissy says that's for buddy.

- sissy--
She's a good sister.

Can you tell me about her?

- she sleeps with pa...

Except when he sleeps
With me...

Or ma...

Except he doesn't sleep.

He stays awake
And awake and awake.

- okay.

And pa, he--he took ma
And sissy with him?

- yes.

He didn't want me to go.

He said only ma
And pumpkin pie.

- and sissy's pumpkin pie?

- that's when she came
To live with us.

Pa said,
She's our pumpkin pie...

Our thanksgiving blessing.

- we think one of the girls from
The basement is kayla greyland.

- she went missing in
The poconos area nine years ago

Around thanksgiving--
It was a big media case.

- buddy I.D.'d
The age-progression photo.

- so this guy's been holding
Two missing girls for 11 years?

What about the third woman?

- we're checking her sketch

Against old missing-persons
Records--no hits so far.

- could it be angie minetti?

- it's unlikely.
Angie's 85.

- and angie's real son

Has no idea
Who is impersonating him?

- no.

- so who is this guy?

- no mail,
No prescription bottles.

Utilities, phone--
All in angie minetti's name,

Paid direct deposit.

- and c.S.U. Ran prints--
No hits.

- so you're nowhere closer
To finding this guy

Or the other two women.
- look, at least we can tell

Kayla's parents that
Their daughter's still alive.

- well,
Take the police sketch.

Predators tend to work
Their own neighborhoods.

- that doesn't look
Like anyone we know.

- the police,
After all these years,

Said we shouldn't expect
Too much,

But you're saying
She's alive, with him?

- it's possible.
- [laughs] It's--

I told you.

I kept praying every day.

- they said on the news there
Were other girls in the house

And a little boy.
Do we know--

- well, when you reported
Kayla missing,

The police didn't collect
A dna sample--

Kayla's toothbrush
Or hairbrush?

- they said there was no point
Unless they found a body.

- okay. Kayla's things--
You saved them?

- I have her first lost tooth.

- he kept her alive nine years.

He must be attached.

He wouldn't do anything now,
Would he?

- c.S.U. Found
Human skeletal remains

In the backyard in greenpoint
Wrapped in a bedspread.

- nice sheets.

- liv.

- was it another girl?

- well, they're checking
Dental records.

It might be angie minetti.
- so he kills this old woman.

- liv, it may have been
Natural causes.

- he buries her
In the backyard.

- the m.E. Didn't find
Any signs of foul play.

- he keeps cashing her check.

He keeps these girls chained,

And he keeps raping them
Over and over.

- okay. No, no.
Okay.

When's the last time
You slept?

- captain, please.
I'm fine.

- fine.

Even so...

Take a few hours.

- okay, you have to stop
Treating me like I'm broken.

- well, nobody is saying that.
[knock at door]

- they found kayla.

She got picked up by new jersey
Police shoplifting in kmart.

- she wanted to get caught.

- any signs of our suspect?
- he bolted.

Witness says he was
With an older woman in her 30s.

They thought the three of them
Were family.

- kayla, over here.
Kayla, over here.

- my name is kayla greyland.

I've been missing from home
For nine years.

I want to see my mom and my dad,
And I want to see buddy.

I just want to go home.

.

- everybody's been so nice,

But I don't need to be
In a hospital.

- the doctors just want to make
Sure that you're okay.

- I'm fine.

- when can we take
Our daughter home?

- the doctors
Have a few more tests.

We have a few more questions.

- she doesn't need to be upset
Right now.

- mr. And mrs. Greyland,
Let me buy you a cup of coffee.

- I'm not leaving her...
Ever again.

- you're daughter's safe here.

- mom, dad, it's okay.

- you want to come with?
- I'm gonna stay.

- how you doing, kayla?

- I'm worried about buddy.
When can I see him again?

- you know, uh...

The doctors just--
- I'm not gonna hurt him.

I told you--
He's my baby, I swear.

- and we believe you.

Auntie told us that--
That buddy's your son...

But he doesn't know it.

- no.

Pa said our--our names
Were sissy, auntie, and ma.

- can you tell us
About ma and pa?

Were they always together?

- I think so.

She was in the car when they...

- when pa took you?

You remember?

It was thanksgiving.

- I was watching tv
At my friend's house,

And...

My mom called and said
That the--the turkey was ready,

So I started walking home.

This car pulled up.
Ma was driving.

And...

She asked for directions,
So I came over.

Then the back door opened.

Then I just felt jolted.

I-I-I was shaking.

- they tasered you.

- when I woke up,
I was chained to the wall.

There was a bucket.

They told me
That they were my new family--

My new ma and pa...

And that I would learn
To love them.

Maybe after about a week,

Pa said that it was time
For me to help him

And that I could better help him
If I wasn't chained.

Then he took off
My clothes and...

And his,
And he had sex with me.

I didn't even know that
That was what that was called,

But ma explained it to me,

And she said
That I was lucky...

That I was pa's favorite.

- and ma...

She wasn't locked up?

- no, she went upstairs.

Sometimes pa would go away.

I would--I would ask her
To let me--let me go,

But she said she couldn't,
That pa was coming back.

- she was just sitting
In a mcdonald's by herself

For five hours.

The manager
Finally called the cops.

- any sign of the man
She was with?

- no, he must've dumped her--

Left her with no cash,
No nothing.

- she say anything?

- just that she had
To wait there.

It took two of us
To haul her into the car.

- are you ma?

- we're gonna need you
To come with us.

- no.
Pa's coming back.

He's coming back,
And he won't find me.

- we brought this woman in?
- we need to interrogate her.

- she's a victim.
- or a suspect.

You heard kayla.
She was in on the kidnap.

She had free rein of the house.
She was in control when he left.

- no, no, liv,
She has classic stockholm.

Look at her.

I mean, the woman
Has been brutalized.

What she needs right now
Is a psych eval,

Not to be inter--
- well, that can wait.

This guy is getting away.

She won't tell us
Her name or his.

- because
She's covering for him.

- or maybe she doesn't know it.
- you both could be right.

At the very least,
She had this guy's trust.

She's our best shot
To apprehend him.

- and you think she's gonna
Open up to the two male cops

That cuffed her and dragged her
In here against her will?

- let us talk to her.

[door opens]

- hi.

I'm detective rollins.
This is detective benson.

What's your name?

- everyone calls me ma.

- we know that
That was pa's house rule,

But we need to know
Your real name.

- or how about...

Pa's real name?

- pa.

He didn't tell me
Any other name.

- are you sure?

Because we know that you lived
Upstairs with him.

You shopped for him.

You--you got to come and go.

Hmm?

It wasn't like the other girls,

Like rhonda, hmm, kayla.

- auntie, sissy.

- we're gonna keep you safe.
He can't hurt you anymore.

- you can't hold me here.
I want to go.

- no, you're not going anywhere.
- I haven't done anything.

- well, you were in the car.

You took kayla.

You're as guilty
As he is, okay?

You're gonna be charged
With kidnap, assault, rape.

That's life in prison.
- I didn't rape nobody.

- no, no, you just kept them
Chained up so he could.

- they love me.
I took care of them.

- it's okay.

- no, no, you took care
Of yourself.

You see, rhonda
Has nerve damage.

She will never be
The same.

- she was always trouble.
He had to do it.

She asked for it.

- and kayla asked for it?
And buddy asked for it?

- he never hurt buddy.
- he's a seven-year-old,

Terrified, locked in a basement
His whole life!

- stop, stop!

- he will never, ever,
Ever be the same.

- stop!
I love buddy!

[whimpering, moaning]
- detective...

My office, now.

- I was getting somewhere.

- no, you were attacking her.
She was shutting down.

I made a mistake.
You're too raw.

- she knows who he is
And where he is.

I'm going back in there.
- no, you are not going back in.

You are going home.

.

- [screaming]

[post clatters]

[elevator bell dings]

- everyone's
Been sending toys, money.

- everybody
Wants to help you and buddy.

- I hope so.

I don't know.

S-sometimes it's--

It just feels like the top of
My head is gonna go flying off.

All that time,
All I wanted was more...

More to do, more to see,
Different things to talk about.

Now I can do whatever I want,
And I just--

I just want to stay in bed.

I'm just tired of--

Of everyone looking at me
Like I'm gonna break.

I saw on the tv
That you found ma.

- we did.

- buddy wants to see her.

When her face came on the tv,
He touched the screen.

I don't know how to--

How to tell him
That she's not his ma.

- the doctors
Are gonna help you with that--

Tell you how,
Tell you when.

- she must miss him.

All that time
We were on the road,

She just kept saying
That she hoped

That buddy didn't think
That we had left him behind.

If she wants to see him,
That's fine with me.

I don't want to take
Anything from anybody.

- hey.

- olivia, listen,
If cragen sees you, he's gonna--

- ma--did you talk
To her today?

- yeah.

But she's so traumatized,
She's never giving him up.

What's this?

- it's something to trade for.

- okay, you want me
To give it a shot?

- no.

I need to do this.

- how long's this gonna take?

This guy could be
In south carolina by now.

- we keep going at her,
She's gonna shut down for good.

[door opens]
- liv.

- I was wrong before...

But she knows who he is,
And I can get her to tell me.

- how?

- I talked to kayla
At the hospital.

- I said...

You're off this case,
Olivia.

- cap, she can get through
To her...

Take my place in there.

- if you can't trust me...

Then I'm done.

- buddy made that for me?
- yes.

He says that he misses you.

- I miss him.

- sissy says that she's--
She's fine

With you seeing buddy.

- I don't believe you.
- sissy has a good heart.

I know you know that.

And I know that you know that--

That she wouldn't lie
About that.

- [sniffles]

When?

- you can have buddy
In your life...

But just not as his mother.

He needs to know the truth.

But you can still be family.

And all you have to do
Is talk to us.

Can you tell us pa's name?

- I can't.

- can you tell us yours?

- I just can't say it.

- okay.

So how about you--

How about you
Write it down?

[pen clicks]

Tell us the name
That they used to call you

When you were
A little girl.

- so, april hendricks--

She went missing 18 years ago
In greenpoint.

- she grew up two blocks
From that house?

- any connection
To the minettis?

- none we can find.

She was raised by a single
Mother, now deceased, a junkie.

- yeah, and there were
Allegations of abuse

From the mother's
Drug-dealing boyfriend.

April ran away from home
Multiple times.

- so n.Y.P.D.
Didn't work the case?

- no, police questioned
A few suspects--two are dead.

And one, michael williams,
Whereabouts unknown,

Was a maintenance worker
At her parochial school.

Some of the students
Say she had a crush on him.

- claimed he was counseling her.
Police ruled him out.

- the school
Has no contact for him?

- no, it closed down
Five years ago.

- track down everybody
Who worked there.

See if they know where he is.

[schoolyard chatter]

- I wasn't a principal then.
I was a teacher.

This poor girl--
Everyone thought she ran away.

She's the one on the news?

- yeah, she was held prisoner
For 18 years.

- mm.
Horrible story.

- at the time, the police
Questioned a maintenance worker.

- michael williams.

They said he didn't have
Anything to do with it.

- you know where he is now?

- I can get you
His phone number.

He works here.

He had an accident
A few days ago.

He's on sick leave.

[pounding on door]

- police!
- open up!

- can I help you?

- we're looking
For michael williams.

- that's my husband.
What's this about?

- is your husband home?

- he's in the back
Playing with our boys.

Can you tell me why--
- ma'am, please just back up.

- michael williams.

- yeah.
Who the hell are you?

- n.Y.P.D.

.

- slaves--
That's what the girls told you?

- no, that's what the chains,
Fences, and tasers told us.

- I was the slave.

I worked my ass off for them.

I clothed them, fed them,
Took care of their needs.

- is that what you call
Raping them?

- there's no mistake.

He kept three women imprisoned

In angie minetti's house
For 18 years.

- I worked there,
Taking care of his mother.

I would have known.
- it wasn't his mother.

I mean, they didn't even share
The same last name.

- after his parents' divorce,

She went back
To her maiden name.

He tells me everything.

- april and rhonda--
They came after me.

- april was 12
When you took her.

- no, when I saved her.
- like you saved rhonda--

Beat her and put her
In the backyard with the dogs.

- she was on drugs.
She was out of control.

I was the only stability
In her life.

- I told you--
I do not know these women.

I took care of his mother
Upstairs.

That was my job.
- until she died?

- what? She's not dead.
She has alzheimer's.

Michael stays with her all week
Long taking care of her.

- no, you know what? That's not
Who he's taking care of.

Angie minetti
Died nine years ago.

- kayla greyland--
She was ten.

- kayla was--was different.

She was--
She was special.

But it was--it was
For the greater good,

See, 'cause I'm not evil.

I got problems...

And she--she helped me.

And after her, I di--
I didn't need any others.

- he's a good man.

He's so good with the boys.

He taught me english,
Helped me stay in this country.

- by marrying you.

Then he moved you
To the poconos?

- yes.

- tell me more about that.

- he said it would be better
For the children.

The city--he said
It was filled with bad men.

- angie minetti was a friend
Of my mother's.

I took care of that woman.

I got her house in shape.

- well, see, the neighbors--

They think you were
That woman's son, right?

Your wife does too.

- yeah, well,
I was like a son to her.

- till you killed her.

What, did she find out
About the girls in the basement?

- she didn't find out.
And, no, I didn't kill her.

One morning I took in
Some breakfast, and...

She was gone.

- so, naturally, you buried her
In the backyard

And kept cashing
Her social security checks.

- I didn't kill her.
- no.

What'd you think was gonna
Happen to rhonda,

The girl you
Left chained in the basement,

When you took off
With ma and sis?

- well,
You can't save them all.

Look, I was gonna call
For help, you know,

Or I was gonna
Go there myself and--

And get her
After I found us a place.

But then kayla--
She took off.

And what was I to do
With--with just ma?

But I saved those girls.

They're alive because of me...

Me!

I gave them life.

I gave--I gave kayla a son.

He's my boy.

- his wife
Didn't know any of this?

- I believe her.
She was compliant.

It's a green card marriage--
Doesn't ask questions.

- what about
April hendricks--ma?

She knew all of it.

- uh, he took her
When she was 12.

She thinks
That it was consensual

Because he saved her
From her mother's boyfriend.

- you cannot be thinking
Of charging her.

- she did help keep kayla
And rhonda imprisoned.

- she is still
Scared to death.

She is a shell.

- she needs long-term help...

Not more punishment.

- I hear you. I hear you.
She's suffered enough.

But this guy--there's not enough
Suffering on earth for him.

He's never gonna see
The light of day again.

- the guy's a coward.

He kept those girls locked up
All that time.

I wonder how long
He'll last in prison.

- think he'll kill himself?
- so what if he does?

[crowd shouting indistinctly,
Cheering]

- why can't we go?

- they're working
On moving the press away.

This, uh--

This isn't gonna be easy.

- I don't care about me.
It's--it's buddy.

I tried the best I could,
Teaching him,

But I didn't want him to know
Too much about the outside

Because I was afraid
That he would want things

That he couldn't have.

I want him--
I want him to go to school

And have friends and family

And a normal life.

And he's never
Gonna be normal, is he?

He doesn't even have a name.

- you know, what I've seen

Is that people
Who have gone through...

Unfair, horrific experiences,

Is that they have this will.

And when they get support...

A chance...

They...Cannot only survive,

They can thrive.

- buddy.

Buddy, wake up.

We're home.

We're home.

[car door closes]

- I'm glad you decided
To come back.

How have you been?

- better.