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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.

[dramatic music]

[pop music]

♪

- I-I don't trust any of them,
but at least--

At least he looks--
He looks honest.

- I had my heart set on a place
in Bushwick last spring.

Couldn't find a two-bedroom
for less than $3,500.

- A month?
- Yeah.

- For a two-bedroom?
- Pathetic.

- In Bushwick?
- I know!

- Man! Where do you get
that kind of money?

Where do you get
that kind of money?

You know, I don't understand
Brooklyn anymore.

I really don't.

- This is what men talk about
when their wives aren't around?

- There's no way
that girl's 18.

Hang on.
Is that Judge Wheeler?

- Yeah, I see a Bronx ADA,
two assemblymen,

and a councilman, too.

- You think this nurse knew
what she was tipping us off to?

- Maybe.

She said that the girls
were scared,

and she wouldn't give up
any names.

♪

- Okay, when do we move in?
- Easy, Dodds.

We gotta wait

till they do something
more incriminating.

- How close do you
wanna cut it?

Because Judge Wheeler has
his hand up that girl's skirt.

[girl coughing]

Where are you going,
young lady?

- I just need to use
the bathroom.

- Stay a little longer.
We don't bite.

- Hey, excuse me,
you need some water?

- She's fine.
You'll get your turn.

- What's going on here?

- Nothing.
There's no problem.

- Like she said, no problem.
Girl just needs a break.

- Hey, Jersey,
mind your own business.

- Get your hands off me.

- John, come on, not tonight.

- You wanna do this?
Let's go!

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Hey, hey, you're done, pal.

- That's enough!
Back off!

- Gun, gun, they got a gun.
Dodds, Rollins, go.

- All right, all right,
my mistake. All right--

- NYPD, hands up!
- Hands up!

You guys move over
where we can see you.

Are you going somewhere?

Get him out of here.

Lieutenant Benson.
Guns down now!

- We're on the job.
Vice.

- SVU.

- Color of the day.
- Yellow.

- Son of a bitch.

- Lieutenant, you just derailed
a two-year operation.

[dramatic music]

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

- Listen, girls, I need to know
how you heard about this party.

How you got there.
- From friends.

- What friends?
What are--what are their names?

- They weren't really friends.

We met them
at a Wiz Khalifa concert.

They told us about it.
- And what did they say exactly?

- Lieutenant.
What fresh hell awaits?

- We responded to a tip
that underage girls

would be at a sex party,

and in attendance
was Bronx ADA Winn,

two assemblymen,
a retired D.A. investigator,

a councilman, and I'm sure
that you recognize...

- Judge Wheeler.
Why am I not surprised?

What about the girls?
Are they talking?

- Oh, no. Their pimps have them
completely under control.

Haven't even bothered
to send a lawyer,

and no one will admit to knowing
whose party it was,

who supplied the girls--
- All par for the course.

- Well, it gets worse.

Detectives Russo and Jefferson,
Vice, were working the case

from another angle.

They pulled their guns
and badges as we made the bust.

- They must know
who threw the party.

- Well, if they do,
they're not saying.

They claimed that we ruined
their UC operation.

Don't worry,
I called their captain.

- You mean he wasn't there too?

Was there anybody at this party
who wasn't a public servant?

- Her.

Nina Kelly.
This is her only ID.

- She's a nun.

- Well, we're trying
to verify.

Nina, so I was just talking
to our ADA,

and he was wondering why a nun
would be at a sex party.

- I'm not comfortable with him.

- The sister would prefer
to talk to a woman.

So I'm gonna take
another run at the johns.

- [sighs] Thank you.
I'm--

I'm not comfortable
with male cops.

- Oh, I can imagine.

As a madam, you've had
your share of run-ins, huh?

- You know, I-I'm not a madam.

- So what are you?
Waitress?

- I'm a nun.

Look, I-I've spent months
trying to infiltrate this ring

to save the girls.

You saw who was there.
Politicians, police.

It's rigged.

- Well, I'm...not part
of the good old boy network.

So why don't you work
with me, Nina?

- [sighs]

- Why don't you tell me
who throws these parties,

who procures these girls,

and I will go after them, and
get those girls to a shelter.

- No. Look, if they think
I'm cooperating,

I won't be able
to save anyone else.

It took a long time.

I had to earn the trust
of a lot of people.

- Who?

Who hired you?

- Why don't you ask
the johns that?

- Because they haven't
been forthcoming.

- Yeah. Yeah, of course
they haven't.

Because they know
they'll get away with it.

- Look, Dodds, right?

We'd like to help you out,
man,

but this is way
above our pay grade.

- Mm. Well, your Captain
is on his way.

Hey, out of curiosity,

how were you guys
in there undercover,

with badges and guns?

- We're dirty cops.
That's our cover story.

- Okay.

- They like to have us
at the parties,

to keep everybody in line.

- Yeah?
They?

Hey, come on, fellows.
Throw me a bone here.

I mean, there's nothing
in the system about you guys

being undercover there.

- Our captain told us
straight up

not to put this into DECS--

Too many of the johns
have access.

- Hey!
Hey, hey.

- Captain Gerbic.

I am sorry to drag you down here
in the middle of the night.

- Oh, Vice never sleeps.

It looks like the same
can be said for SVU.

I didn't know
you were still here.

Your father said
you were moving up.

- Oh, my lieutenant
has a few questions.

- Absolutely.
One minute, fellows.

- Cap.

- Ah, well, this
is a cluster, huh?

- The timing was...bad.

I know your guys' cover was
blown, and this is not ideal.

- To say the least.

We gotta get new guys
in there now.

Sets us back big-time.

And what were your people
doing at this party

in the first place?

- Actually, an anonymous tip.

But I'm hoping now that
we're all in this together

that we could--
- No, I wish I could help.

But we're playing
the long game here.

You've seen the pedigree
of your johns.

Anybody talking?
- Not yet.

- No, no.

Ask yourself why.
Who are they protecting?

This is deep UC.
I'm going out on a limb here

even acknowledging this--
- And I appreciate that.

But underage girls are still
being raped and trafficked.

- Well, where SVU sees victims,
we see willing participants.

These girls
are not exactly madonnas.

Well, okay.
Never mind that.

We care just as much about
these traffickers as you do.

We are gonna nail these guys.

- I just think that SVU is
better equipped to deal with--

- I hear you,
but we're already inside.

You move in now,
the carnival just picks up,

goes to a different lot,

and the games
keep getting played.

Now, how about I get
my guys out of here?

- You know what? Let me run it
by the ADA first.

- Why don't you call
the Deputy Inspector?

See what he says.

- So that's it?
We're shut out?

- They say they're deep UC.

So if they are investigating
that, I mean, I get it.

- Okay, so a UC investigation
that we can't investigate

because of who
they're investigating.

That's a Mobius strip.

- Maybe my father
has some intel.

- It's worth a try.
- Yeah.

- So all these girls
are with Social Services?

- I'll take another run
at them tomorrow.

- Please.

- Hey, Lieutenant, what?

We'll just let
these johns go too?

- For now.
I'll call Barba--or not.

- Lieutenant Benson?

- Sister, something the matter?
- Yeah, I don't understand.

You're just gonna let
those bastards go?

- Sister, that's none
of your concern.

- So because they have badges,

it makes it okay for them to
assault 16-year-old girls?

- What are you talking about?

- Multiple girls.
Multiple times.

They're not cops.
They're rapists.

♪

- Yes. That's Sister Nina.

- So you know her.
- Very well.

She's brought several abused and
trafficked girls to our shelter.

She's doing God's work.

Is Sister Nina in trouble?

- [sighs]
She was picked up in a raid.

We have her
in our holding cell.

She claims she knows
about dirty cops

who are raping teenage girls.

- If Sister Nina says
it happened, it happened.

- Okay, she--she gave me
one name of a girl

that she brought to you,
Cara Gutierrez?

- Oh, yes.
Nina brought Cara here

about six months ago.

Very troubled girl,
but I believe she's healing.

- So would it be possible for me
to speak with her?

- She won't say a word
unless Sister Nina is with her.

- Of course.
I understand.

Thank you.

- It's good to see you again.

- Ah...

- How's her little boy, Noah?
You adopted him, yes?

- I did.
He's, um...

He's thriving.

- We still say the Rosary for
Ellie every year.

- Thank you.

Cara:
I'm not sure.

- These detectives
are on our side, Cara.

- That one.
He's one of them.

- Russo.

What did he do, exactly?

- He was...
at all the parties,

always grabbing us,
touching us...

Making us do stuff.

His partner too.

That one.

- It's Jefferson.

- Cara,
I know how hard this is,

and I need you to tell us
exactly what happened.

- Go ahead, Cara.
It's okay.

- They were always there first.

They'd make me and some
other girls go down on them.

- They forced you...
to perform oral sex.

- Mm-hmm.

[sighs]

We had to pretend
we liked them.

My last party,
somewhere on Edgecombe Avenue,

they...they got really drunk.

They forced me into a room
and took turns raping me.

I started crying,
but they didn't care.

- Did you tell anybody
afterwards?

- No.

Not right away, but Sister Nina
looked out for me.

- Cara was skeptical at first,
but...

eventually
we established a bond.

That's why she disclosed
to me that night,

and I brought her to the E.R.

- Did she do a rape kit?

- No. Cara would run away.
We'd have lost her.

- Then Sister Nina
took me here.

- Cara...

who took you
to these parties?

- No!

She's not talking about that.
That is too dangerous.

[tense music]

♪

- So you bust a sex party
and find a madam who says

she's a nun?
- Which we confirmed.

- And two Vice cops
who say they're undercover.

- Yeah, and now we have
a teenage vic who claims

that these guys raped her

while they were supposedly
on the job.

- I don't believe
they're undercover.

They're whole story
is B.S.

- But...their captain did
confirm it to me.

- Yeah.
Obviously he is in on it too.

I mean, did he give you details,
a target?

- Easy. If they really are
investigating

high level corruption, it would
be on a need-to-know basis.

- And that gives them
permission to rape?

- This girl did seem
credible to me.

- [clicks tongue]

No witnesses, no outcry,
rape kit?

This isn't gonna be easy.

- So you just look the other way
and I have to go back to Barba

and tell him
that IAB is not investigating?

- Hey, I thought
we were friends.

I didn't say I'm passing
on these two.

I've dealt with these
two particular cops before.

Last time was about a year ago.

- When were you
gonna mention that?

- Well, nothing stuck,

and accusations against Vice
cops are a dime a dozen.

But if I get them in here,
and they are part of

a high-level investigation,
they will have to give that up

in order to save their shields.

- How many times are we gonna
dance to this same song, Tucker?

- I have allegations.
I need your side.

- And who exactly is making
these allegations? Hookers?

- Try high school girls.

- Are you talking about
the party chicks

that BX9s
have been pimping out?

- That's it?
Your top secret, high level,

two-year target
is a street gang?

- Look, they're
the low hanging fruit.

The roots of this tree
we cannot discuss.

- And so this investigation is
so critical that you've allowed

underage girls
to be sex trafficked?

- Tragic as it may be,
yeah.

That's the job.

- I'm not so sure it is.

- You wanna quarrel
about policy?

Take it up with
Detective Russo's superiors.

- Phone calls are being made.

Is raping 16-year-old girls
while supposedly undercover--

is that also part
of that policy?

- These girls aren't dumb.
We're cops, okay?

We don't engage
in the sexual activity,

so they make us as cops.

That's why
they're coming after us.

- They're not coming after you.

Our witnesses
are reluctant, scared.

- Of what? That their families
are gonna find out

they're living the life?

- That's not the case here.

- Okay, so her pimp bought her
something shiny,

put her up to it--
it's preemptive.

They're just trying
to create reasonable doubt

since SVU busted them.

- Give us names.
We'll run down that angle.

- You know, if One P-P
won't give you the target,

maybe that should
tell you something.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Vice claims that BX9
is pimping out these girls

to cops and politicians?

It doesn't sound like the M.O.
for a street gang.

- I'm telling you.
These guys aren't undercover.

They're the muscle, or they're
running it themselves.

- Either way,
they called my bluff.

These two would rather risk
a morals change than name names.

- So we hit another
brick wall.

- Rollins, you talked to the
girls at the party again, right?

- Danielle went back
to her shelter,

and Natalia and Margaret's
foster families picked them up.

No one is cooperating.

- So what about friends,
classmates?

I mean, somebody knows
how these girls got caught up.

- I mean, we can ask.

Natalia and Margaret
both went to St. Fabiola's.

So did Cara Gutierrez.

- St. Fabiola's?

- It's an all-girl's parochial
high school in the South Bronx.

- Yeah, I know it--I might know
somebody who works there.

My cousin Eugene--he's
a psychologist and a priest.

The last I heard,
he was a counselor up there.

- Last you heard?
He's your cousin.

- And a priest.
Our interests diverged.

- Estranged Irish relatives.
How rare.

- Okay.
You mind talking to him?

- I can do that.

- Tucker, you never told me
that your cousin was a priest.

- You never asked.

- Eugene?

It's been a long time.

- [gasps]
Eddie Tucker in a church?

Is this safe? Am I gonna be
struck by lightening?

Eddie, what?
Someone died?

Aunt Caroline?
- No, no.

Still alive.

Still smokes three packs a day.

I'm here on police business.

SVU picked up
two of your students

during a raid
on a sex party.

- Yes, horrible.

I pray Natalia and Margaret
will come back to school.

- So you've spoken to them?

- Oh, I check in every day.

I even took one
of their confessions.

- Did either of them mention
anything about this?

How they got involved?

- Come on, Eddie.

Between the seal
of the confessional,

and the HIPAA laws--

- Eugene,
they're being trafficked.

- I know.
It's the--

It's the homes.
There's no parenting.

- All right, without violating
any confidentiality,

have you noticed
any other troubled girls?

Late for school?

Falling asleep in class?

- Many, unfortunately.

- Do you know a student
named Cara Gutierrez?

- Cara?
Yes, yes.

She dropped out six months ago.
Drugs.

Is she caught up in this?

- Well, her name came up
in the investigation.

- Ugh.
Poor soul.

An addict,
in foster care.

These gangs--they know
who to prey on.

- Which gangs?

- Oh, Father Eugene.

- Oh, Monsignor.

Remember my cousin,
Eddie Tucker of the NYPD.

- Yes, of course.

Oh, I know.
[sighs]

I know why you're here,
Captain Tucker,

and I want you to know
that they're good girls.

- Well, I'm just
trying to find out

who led them astray,
Monsignor,

but my cousin here,
he's hiding behind the collar.

- Oh! I betray their confidence,
they're lost to me, to us.

- He's right. I'm afraid we
can't talk about our students.

- How about a nun by the name
of Sister Nina Kelly?

She helps these girls.

Maybe she's spoken
to either of you.

- I know a Sister Nina.

She's never worked
at the school.

I believe she's still
out on medical leave.

- Do you know about
the kind of work she does?

- No.
And I'm concerned to hear

she's been in contact
with students.

- Why's that?

- [sighs]

Sister Nina's medical leave
is for psychiatric reasons.

The Church has learned
the hard way

that we need to be proactive.

We cannot sanction her
being around children.

♪

- You think detectives from Vice
are involved in trafficking,

and your key witness,
the nun from the party,

has mental health issues?

- Or that's the word that they
put out to discredit her.

- Either way, the word is out.

What about the johns--
any help from them?

- You mean the Judge?
The ABA?

We think someone
maybe at Vice

told them
that this is going away.

- And they're probably right.

Russo and Jefferson
stonewalled IAB.

- Okay, the johns are out,
the cops are out,

the nun is out.
The girls?

- There is one earlier rescued
vic, Cara Gutierrez,

who was talking.

She alleges that the Vice cops
raped her, but...

she's way too scared
to testify.

- One step at a time.

Find out if she's at least
willing to come and talk to me.

- Cara's been in her room
all day.

She didn't even come down
for supper.

- Well, our D.A. wanted us
to reach out.

- I really don't think
she'll be up for this.

- Well, if she tells us that,
then we'll leave, all right?

- Cara.

Cara!

[tense music]

♪

- This is Detective
Sonny Carisi.

I'm at St. Bernad--
- We don't need a bus.

She's gone.

- We have any idea
how Cara got this heroin?

- We're asking.
But no, no idea.

Sister Ida said she was
in her room all day.

- This is a halfway house,
so any one of those girls

could've smuggled in drugs.

- So they all swore
that they didn't.

- Mechanism of death--

respiratory arrest
due to pulmonary edema.

- And the cause?
- Acute drug intoxication.

Bad heroin.

- Accident or suicide?
- You tell me.

When was the last time
this girl used drugs?

- She's been clean
for six months.

- [sighs] Sometimes addicts,
after they're sober,

go back
to their old dosage.

- Is it possible somebody
gave her a hot shot?

- Well, I can't prove that,

but if this concentration
were going around,

we'd be seeing
a lot more overdoses.

- So you're leaving
the manner undetermined.

- Pending your investigation,
yes.

And, if it helps, it's actually
a very humane death.

She would've been fast asleep

by the time her lungs
filled with water.

- A drug overdose?

No.

That couldn't have been
an accident.

[crying]
I never should've
brought you to Cara.

They killed her.
- Okay.

You keep saying,
"They," Nina.

Who are they?

- I told you from the beginning

that all I wanted to do
was save the girls,

and you gave me your word
you would protect them.

- We can't do that
if you don't tell us

who to protect them from.

- Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Who knew?

Who knew? Who knew Cara
was at that shelter?

It had to have been
somebody in your squad.

- No, no, no.
That's not possible.

- Yeah? Well, someone tipped
them off, and I'm next.

- Listen, you're right
to be worried.

That's why...we don't think
that you should stay here.

- I have nowhere else to go.

And they're gonna find me
anywhere I--

- I know a place

where you'll be safe.

- Sister, now, are you sure

that Cara didn't leave
the house yesterday?

- Yes, I've gone over the log.

She hadn't been outside
in three days.

- Okay, so when was
the last time you saw her?

- Midday yesterday.

She was very upset.
She wouldn't leave her room.

Priest even agreed to take
her confession up there.

- Hang on.
She saw a priest?

- Well, yes.

Every Wednesday, the priest
comes to take confessions.

Cara always saw him.
Went to mass on Sundays too.

- Did you see her
afterward?

- I left her alone
until you arrived.

- Who is the priest?

- Father Akintola.
He's a lovely man.

West African.
He fills in sometimes.

- So he wasn't your regular guy?

- Usually it's Father Riley,
but he was called away yesterday

by St. Fabiola's.

- Okay. Where can we find
Father Akintola?

- Poor Cara.
It just breaks my heart.

- You took a confession.

I-I know you can't tell us
what she told you, but...

how did she seem to you?

- She was struggling.

The rest
of her former classmates

just brought it all back.

- You all right, Father?

- I should've never
left her alone.

- Did you think
she was jonesing?

- I thought she was
just anxious.

- Well, did she mention
any new friends, maybe,

or did you see anybody
come into her room?

- Not while I was there.

Ugh, but, look, Sister Ida,
she has her hands full,

keeping a house full of runaways
from giving into temptation.

Cara was an addict.

They always find a way.

- Thank you, Father.

- Thank you.

- Oh, if you like...
[clears throat]

I can talk to the girls
and...see what they know.

Now that Cara is gone,
they may want to come forward.

- Yeah, that--
That'd be great, Father.

Thank you.

- Sister Nina told us that Cara
was in a very good place

and wouldn't have started
using again.

- That's not what
Father Akintola told us.

- Yeah, well,
I agree with Nina.

Someone gave Cara
a hot shot to shut her up.

- Let's hang on, all right?
I'm all for paranoia,

but who else knew that she was
cooperating, besides us?

- Sister Nina, Sister Ida,
Barba and...IAB.

- And the Vice cops.
I mean, they had motive

and NYPD computer access.

- Which is why I made sure
not to put Cara's name

in the system.

- So no one else at IAB
knew.

- I didn't even tell
my partner.

- But you did ask
your cousin about her.

- Son of a bitch.

[tense music]

♪

Eugene.
- Excuse me.

What did you do, Eugene?

What did you do?
- What are you talking about?

- Cara Gutierrez,
you remember her?

You said she had it rough?

Well, she got it
a whole lot worse now.

She's ice cold in the morgue.
- I know.

I heard.
It's horrible. These drugs--

- Oh, you think
it was the drugs, huh?

- Well,
what else could it be?

- Well, we don't know.

She may have overdosed.
She may have been murdered.

- Dear God.

- Oh, don't give me that,
Eugene.

I've locked up better liars
than you.

Who did you send after Cara?
- Eddie!

You're not making
any sense.

- I told you
we were talking to her,

and you knew what that meant.

- All I know is that you are
acting like a madman.

- The Vice cops--
are you on their payroll,

or are they on your payroll?
- Neither!

I was Cara's
guidance counselor!

How could you even
contemplate something like that?

- Why don't we calm down,
Father?

Step over here with me
for just a second.

So, question: is it possible
that you may have inadvertently

let Cara's name slip?

- No, I'd never make
a mistake like that.

- Why was Father Riley called
away from St. Bernadine's

last Wednesday?

- Because I needed as many
shoulders as I could get

for the girls to cry on!

You can't possibly think that
this is some sort of conspiracy.

- How well do you know
Father Akintola?

- He is a good man.
He's a good priest.

Eddie!

It's the Bronx!

Cara was involved
with the gangs,

if she was cooperating,
they'd find out--

- The only person I mentioned
Cara's name to was you!

And now she's dead.

- My cousin has been
at IAB too long.

He thinks everybody
is corrupt.

Eddie, that reflection you see
in my eyes--that's your soul!

- Father--
- Not mine!

It's you who turned
your back on God, not me!

- Let's go, Ed.

- They've got something on you.

- You're unbelievable.
And you should leave now.

Please.

- Let's go.

Let's go--Ed!

- I know it was you, Eugene.
I know it was you!

- Tucker, enough.

I said enough!

♪

- You better get yourself right
with that God you love so much,

because I'm coming for you.

He's not gonna help.
- Let's go. Now.

♪

- That pious little snake
is lying.

- He didn't kill Cara.
He was at the school all day.

- But he set her up.

- Or maybe he just
let her name slip.

- Not a chance; Eugene wouldn't
do that--he's a politician.

Every word out of his mouth
is calculated.

- You really think that he's
running a sex trafficking ring?

- Or protecting it.
I don't know.

I want a warrant
for his phone, his financials,

his computer, everything.
I'm gonna tear into his life

until I find out
what he's hiding.

- No, you're not, Ed.

He's your cousin,
not a cop, okay?

If he is a suspect--
- He's more than a suspect.

- Then let SVU pursue it.

Not your case.
Not your case.

I will ask Barba
for the warrants.

- That nun.

They're gonna be
looking for her.

She needs to come inside.
- She's safe.

- So was Cara.

- That's so cool!

- Sister Nina?

There you are.

- I-I fed him, 'cause he seemed
a little hungry.

I hope that's all right.
- Oh, of course. Yeah.

Um, Sister Nina,
this is Captain Tucker.

Okay. Hi, my love.

Hi, what are you playing with?

[kisses]

- So who is he,
and why is he here?

- He's all right, Nina.

Captain Tucker,
and he's investigating

Russo and Jefferson.

- The Vice cops
who haven't been charged?

- I'm working on that,
believe me.

- Nina, it's okay.

Captain Tucker knows that Russo
and Jefferson are dirty cops.

He wants them off the force.

- And in jail.
But I need your help to do that.

- Look, we already know
that most of those girls

were students
at St. Fabiola's.

- Is there someone at the school
we should be looking at?

- I don't work there.

- Please.
Please.

- Okay, y-you know,

sometimes the guidance
counselors at these schools

have their fingers on
the pulse of what's going on.

- Are you saying we should be
talking to Father Eugene?

- What, you know him?

- Yes, we do.
Uh, Eugene is actually, uh,

he's actually Tucker's cousin.

- Father Eugene
is your cousin.

Hey, you need any help
with that, Noah?

What are you doing?

- Did any of the girls say
he may be involved?

No one will know
where it came from.

I promise you that.
- You know what?

Let's say good-bye
to Mr. Tucker.

- Bye.
- Bye.

He's gotta go.
He's gotta go right now.

- Nina--
- No, no, no.

She's right.
It's okay.

I'll go
and let you two talk.

♪

[door closes]

- Nina,

I need you to put my son down.

Nina, listen to me.

Look, Tucker's gone.
All right?

I know you wanna help
those girls,

but it's not what you think.

Nina, I need you
to put my son down...

right now.

♪

Thank you.

Okay. Everybody wants
to hug you.

Everybody wants to hug you.
Don't they, sweet Noah?

Okay, baby,
how about you and me,

how about we go play
with mommy's iPad, okay?

Okay?

I'll be right back.

Come here, baby, come here.

Nina.

- You know, I actually thought
you were on my side?

- I am on your side.
- Father Eugene's cousin?

He's in charge
of the investigation?

- Yes, but listen to me.
There's no love lost there.

And if Eugene is involved,

then Tucker and I
will go after him.

- You know, everyone said
I could trust you--

Sister Ida, Jen.
I should've known that you were

gonna sell me out.
- I would never do that.

- Are you gonna have me
committed again, huh?

- No.
- Sent for more shock treatment?

I am not crazy!

You bring Father Eugene's
cousin here?

Either you're in on this
with them,

or you're an idiot.
- Nina, listen to me.

Just take a breath.
Listen to me.

I can't even imagine

what's going through
your mind right now.

But, please,
please don't leave here.

It's not safe out there.
You know that.

- You wanna know what's going
through my mind?

I think--I think you brought me
here to kill me.

- What?
- But you don't have to.

Look, I don't know anything
about your trafficking ring.

And I'm not talking to anyone
about it ever again.

- Stop, listen--

[dramatic music]

♪

- Thank you, Monsignor.

- I know I've put a heavy burden
on you, but I have faith

that the D.A.'s office
will do the right thing.

- Of course.
- Please, this has to end.

I want to spare these girls
any more exploitation.

- We all do.

- Mike Dodds.

- Monsignor Mulregan.

Ah, nice to see you.

You know Lieutenant Benson?

- I've heard
only good things.

I wanna thank you
for rescuing our girls.

- I'm...sorry
that we lost one.

- Cara Gutierrez.

I was there
when she received confirmation.

Such a pretty young girl.

- What's the Monsignor
doing here?

- I'm still trying
to figure that out.

What can I do for you?

- We're waiting on warrants
for Father Eugene

and Father Father Akintola.
- So am I.

A lot of judges are reluctant
to hand out financial

and cell records of priests.

A-are we--are we making
the wrong turn here?

Where's IAB on Vice?

- Well, Tucker's keeping
that investigation active,

but we have reason to believe
that priests are involved

in Cara's death.

- And you're getting all this
from Sister Nina?

- Sister Nina is no longer
involved in this investigation.

- Why not?
[door closes]

- Because when Tucker and I
spoke to her,

I mentioned that he was
Father Eugene's cousin,

and let's just say that she...
had a bad reaction.

- Like what?
A panic attack?

- No, it was much more
than that.

She became...convinced

that Tucker was in
on the whole thing,

that we were gonna have her
committed, have her killed.

I mean, she was paranoid,
and...completely shut down.

- Can you blame her?
Vice and God knows who else

have been trafficking these
girls to elected officials.

Somebody leaked that Cara
was cooperating.

Listen, who beside Tucker
knew about Cara?

- My squad, you, Sister Nina,
and...Father Eugene.

- Dodds, can you give us
a minute?

- Sure.

- You wanna tell me
what's going on?

- You sure Father Eugene knew?
- Oh, yes.

Tucker told him.

- What do you really know
about Tucker?

- We go way back,

he's a straight shooter,
intense.

No nonsense.

- You've never known him to--
to abuse his power,

overreach, or...

he almost destroyed both
of your old partners.

- Yes, he arrested me too,
but we're way past that.

Wh--what is this about?

- [sighs]

Monsignor's Mulregan's visit
was not a social call.

He has made
some very serious allegations.

- Yeah.
Against Father Eugene.

- No. Against Tucker.

- Allegations against Tucker?

What did the Monsignor say,
exactly?

- He said that
he and Father Eugene

went to Tucker
a year ago.

That they had information

that Vice was running
some of their students.

Father Eugene even violated
the seal of the confessional

to provide evidence.

- He claims that?

- They also named Russo
and Jefferson.

And Tucker buried it.

- And he's telling you
this now?

This is about protecting
Father Eugene.

I was there, at that church,
when Tucker confronted him.

I thought he was gonna
rip his head off.

- I don't know. I don't know.
I mean, maybe that's--

Maybe that's what
he wanted you to think.

- No, Ed is
not capable of that.

- Since when?

I thought SVU hated this guy.

He's gone after each
and every one of you.

- That's his job.
He has to be relentless.

You're wrong about him.
Trust me.

- Wait.

Are you involved with him?

- Don't ask me that.

♪

- When were you
gonna tell me?

I am informing you
that a captain at IAB

may be involved in a sex
trafficking ring,

and you don't mention

that the two of you
are sleeping together?

- You're wrong about him.

Bring him in here,
ask him yourself.

- You and I are done talking.

[somber music]

♪

- Thanks for coming.

- Of course.

- Nobody saw you, right?

- Here? No.

- So what have you heard?

- That Group One
is investigating you

for sex trafficking,
corruption, murder?

- Yeah. I've been invited to
come in early tomorrow morning.

- Oh, my God.

- Cousin Eugene
really set me up good.

- [sighs]
- You get those warrants yet?

- No, they're stalled.

I don't know if it was before
or after Barba found out

that I was...
biased towards you.

- Oh. Okay.

You know how this goes.

Don't stick your neck out.

It'll look like
you're covering for me.

Hey.

They can't prove anything,

because I haven't done anything.

All right?
I'm gonna be fine.

- And we just let
these guys skate?

- You wanna go after the church,
City Hall, and Albany

for an IAB investigator

who's loathed
by half of NYPD?

Stay out of it.

[cell phone buzzes]

- Well, it just
might be too late.

One-P-P wants to see me.

Immediately.

- Whatever's going on,
Barba wouldn't talk about it

in front of me.
- Did you call your dad?

- Yeah. He's not
calling me back.

Someone high up the chain
must be starting to sweat.

- Because we're taking on
the Catholic Church.

Sorry.
- No, I get it, Rollins.

Look, 99% of these priests
are good guys.

The Church just
brought this on themselves.

At least the Monsignor came
to Barba on his own, right?

That's got to be a good sign.

- Yeah, they probably realized

transparency's
their only salvation.

- If you say so.
- Rollins, Carisi.

Get me some
evidence boxes, please.

Carisi:
Uh, yeah, on it.

- Dodds, a minute.

- Is everything all right?

- Oh, I'm fine.

- Lieutenant,
what's going on?

- You'd know better than me.

- Did something happen?

- You're telling me
that you didn't know?

- Know what?

- That I'm out.
Effective immediately.

Uh, Carisi, Rollins,
as of now,

Sergeant Dodds is acting
commander of SVU, so...

congratulations.

That's it.

You're dismissed.

[dramatic music]

♪