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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.

[machinery whirring, beeping]

Did you get the job?

I told you, man.

I told you.

- You know, your cousin's one of my best guys.

Let's hope his work ethic runs in the family.

See?

Thank you for the work.

See you bright and early.

- I'm gonna own a company like this one day.

- OK. Are we going back to your crappy little apartment now?

- Nah, man, it's your first night in the city.

So?

We're going to Manhattan.

To do what?

It's New York City, cuz.

Whatever we want.

We gotta call Grandma

and tell her about your new job.

She'll be happy you'll finally put

some calluses on those soft hands of yours.

You bring enough clothes?

- Hey, don't get too used to me.

- I thought you were staying until you made

enough money for art school.

- I don't even know if I'm gonna like it here.

I mean, New York is freezing.

And I'm not just talking about the temperature.

- I'm gonna introduce you to the city.

Only if you wear this.

- [laughs] I'm an artist.

And you think I'm scared of a few sparkles?

[laughs]

Thank you.

You gotta at least stay until the weather gets warmer.

Yeah?

And what happens then?

- Well, for a start, Sundress Day.

What's Sundress Day?

First day of spring,

every woman in New York wears a sundress.

- You gotta be kidding me, right?

Yo, yo, yo, check this out.

What?

- Broadway, the soundtrack of New York.

all: * Three little maids who, all unwary *

* Come from a ladies' seminary *

* Freed from its genius tutelary *

* Three little maids from school *

He likes your shirt.

all: * Three little maids from school *

- You want to go in? - No, no, no, thanks.

- Come on, man. He's just being friendly.

- I'm not--I'm not friends with guys like that.

- That's the beauty of New York.

You don't have to be friends with everybody.

To get along, you gotta show some respect.

- There's gotta be another bar around here.

- Throw a rock in any direction.

both: * Dat, da-da-da, dat-da, da-da *

[laughter]

- Oh, you still cold? - A little.

- Subway's right around the corner.

[foreboding music]

* *

[laughter]

[tires screeching]

[engine revving]

[laughter]

- You two homos going home to pound some meat?

- What did you just say? - Javi, come on.

- Let's just go. - Oh, you must be

- the power top. - Watch who you're pushing.

- Hey, hey, hey, come on. Come on. He's just drunk.

- Javi, calm down. - You don't know me.

I grew up in Medellín, white boy.

- Javi. Javi, calm down.

Drop the bat!

Fight like a real man.

[grunts]

Zach, are you stupid?

- Javi, get up. Get up.

- Come on. Let's go! - No.

I'm gonna teach the little homo here a lesson.

Get up. Come on. Come on.

- Hey. Come on. Do it. - [laughs]

- Your bitch just abandoned you!

[both grunting] [laughter]

Mo, you just gonna stand there?

Help!

Stop!

You're gonna kill him!

We gotta go now!

Zach, come on!

* *

- No, no, no. - [screams]

[bat clangs]

[high-pitched ringing]

Please.

Please, please, stay with me.

[soft music]

* *

[siren wailing]

So what are we looking at?

- Hispanic vic in his 20s, half conscious when we arrived.

- Any ID? - Didn't take time to look.

He was pretty beat up. My partner's with him.

He'll look for a wallet.

All right. Sexual assault?

- Pants around the ankles, bit of blood.

My sergeant said to call you.

Yeah.

These people see anything?

Arrived after the fact.

The guy over there with the dog

said a homeless man heard the perps yell "homo."

- Homeless guy? Where's the homeless guy now?

- Long gone. - Ah.

Well, tell your guys to find him.

[tense music]

- So two different kinds of assault plus a hate crime.

- Yeah, that's some pretty grim math right there.

It's gonna be a long night.

- Remind me when the last short one was.

* *

[dramatic music]

* *

- Hey. - Hey.

Any word on the vic?

Just got done with surgery.

- Broken ribs, internal injuries.

- Someone took a blunt object to his genitals.

- Oh, God. Were we able to ID him?

- I had a Colombian driver's license, Javier Lopez, 22.

- Did we find a phone or an address?

- Just some cash in his pockets.

- Yeah, we're combing through 911 calls.

A witness said that she was almost hit

by a black 4x4 with a rack of lights

a block from the scene.

OK, we get a plate?

- Just said it was headed uptown.

Checking traffic cams.

- We're also running license plate readers

at the bridge and the tunnel.

OK.

So a homeless guy from the neighborhood

said that he heard homophobic slurs.

- I'll canvas the block, see if anybody had a Ring cam.

- I don't need to tell you this, but with a hate crime,

we're gonna have a lot of eyes on us.

- Speaking of which, big dog's here.

Oh. I've seen that look.

- Hang in there. - Want me to stick around?

- You know, you're probably better off

covering the crime scene.

And everybody is on forced OT until we pick up the suspects.

- Captain Benson, Detective, tell me we have leads.

We're tracking them down now.

- What do we know about the vic?

He's a Colombian national.

- So this is anti-immigrant? Anti-gay?

We're still sorting that out.

- Well, 1PP is being flooded with calls

from gay rights groups.

- Do you want us to loop in Hate Crimes?

You caught the case.

I assume there's some kind of sex component.

Yes, unfortunately.

- Then you're the lead, Captain.

Oh.

A word of warning.

The city is on edge as it is.

A hate crime like this--

I'm aware, Commissioner.

- [phone buzzing] - OK.

Yeah?

The world is losing its mind.

- Just wait. It's an election year.

- Captain, Detective, Mr. Lopez is out of surgery.

Well, that's great news.

Is he able to talk to us?

- He might be out of it from anesthesia,

but he should be able to answer questions.

How is he physically?

Broken ribs, punctured lung.

He's lucky to be alive.

- Our detective told us that he had a groin injury.

A severe one.

How severe?

- Surgeon had to remove one of his testicles.

The doctors, they...

they said they had to operate down there.

We're so sorry, Javier.

- Why would they do that? I did nothing.

- Well, can you tell us what happened last night?

What do you remember?

It was dark.

I had a lot to drink.

You said they.

How many?

Three.

Can you describe them?

Young, looking for a fight.

They say anything?

They, um...

they thought we were gay.

Why--why would they say that?

Who was with you?

My cousin Mateo.

- What's his last name? - Garcia.

And where is Mateo now?

He's not here?

- Well, if he is, he hasn't reached out.

- Well, he probably doesn't want to get in trouble.

- Well, he's not gonna get into any trouble,

but he is a witness.

So we do need to speak with him.

- You have his number, his address?

- I don't know his number offhand.

He lives in a small apartment in Brooklyn.

OK. Which neighborhood?

Somewhere in Gowanus.

He got me a job yesterday. Construction.

We walked to the train from there.

You have a MetroCard?

There was another man there.

After I got hurt, he--

he held my hand.

Can you describe him?

- He was from a bar we passed earlier.

They were singing Broadway songs.

He--he stayed with me.

He was--he was like an angel.

- Well, we will do our best to find him.

And your cousin Mateo.

[solemn music]

Any lead on his cousin?

- Well, there's no number. There's no address.

We're running the names,

but there's dozens of Mateo Garcias in New York.

- Javier says he's lived in New York for years,

works construction.

He's probably paid under the table.

What about the attackers?

- Well, you know, like I said, they used anti-gay slurs.

- Is it possible that there was a racial component?

- It seems like a straight-up gay bashing.

- Well, Javier swears that neither he

nor his cousin are gay.

- Well, it doesn't matter if they are or they aren't.

If the perps thought they were, that's a hate crime.

- So Javier also mentioned another witness

who stayed with him and held his hand.

- Was this one of the 911 callers?

- No, he said it was a guy from a bar

that has a show tune sing-along.

Show tunes, huh?

Shouldn't be too hard to find.

- Well, canvassing, but nothing so far.

- Captain, transit got a hit off Javier's MetroCard data.

- And? - Our vics took the 7 train

from Flushing station last night at 6:45.

- I can check construction sites on that line.

Great idea.

Take Sykes with you and find out

who hired Javier yesterday.

I'm driving, moneybags.

- All right, so other than Mateo,

do we have any other witnesses?

I mean, what about this-- this homeless guy?

- Neighbors say he has a regular corner.

We have unis staked out.

But he hasn't shown up?

So he could be anywhere in the city.

- We're canvassing shelters. - Nobody else?

- Well, it was a deserted street.

It was 2:00 a.m.

- So much for the city that never sleeps, huh?

- Hey, folks, Pettis is on the news.

Pull him up.

[tense music]

- I want to reassure every vulnerable community

in the city that the NYPD is working around the clock

to apprehend these criminals.

I have utmost confidence in

Captain Olivia Benson of SVU,

who is heading up the investigation,

that the men responsible will be brought to justice.

* *

- OK, well, the city might be able to sleep.

But you won't.

You heard the man.

* *

Yeah, that's Javier.

I saw on TV. It's just--it's horrible.

- Is he gonna be all right? - We hope so.

- Listen, the kid said he was only in town for a few months

trying to make money for art school.

I was just trying to help out.

- We're not here to check for work visas.

- Yeah, we're just looking for Mateo Garcia.

He might be a witness.

- Explains why he showed up late today.

[tense music]

* *

Mateo Garcia, NYPD.

* *

- [grunts] - Whoa!

[suspenseful music]

* *

- Don't make me cuff you. - I didn't do anything.

Here's some advice.

Next time you didn't do anything,

stop when a cop calls your name.

Pretty fast for a Fed.

We just want to talk to you, man.

My cousin, is he OK?

No.

But I think you know that.

* *

Let's go.

* *

I'm telling you the truth.

I didn't know the guys who attacked Javier.

So why'd you run?

Because I was scared, man.

I'm not documented, all right? You read the news.

Javi's your cousin, right?

- Well, he's like my brother. We're super close.

I know I should have stayed.

Aren't you worried about him?

- Yeah. I went home.

I--I prayed, and then I saw on the news

he was in the hospital.

He almost died.

What do they want with us?

I mean, we aren't gay.

- Anything that could have made him think you were?

No.

I mean, we were walking together,

and I had my arm around Javier's shoulder.

Can you describe them?

Three of them.

White.

20s, maybe.

One of them might have been Latino.

I don't know, it was dark,

and I was pretty drunk.

That's not illegal.

- We just want to catch the guys

who put your cousin in the hospital.

- Some things in life you can't run from, man.

- OK, so what do we know about this Mateo Garcia?

- Homeland confirms he traveled to the U.S.

three years ago from Colombia.

- He had a work visa that he overstayed.

- Is there anything else that's gonna impact

his credibility with the jury-- gangs, drugs?

- I mean, his boss said he's a hard worker,

never missed a day, no problems.

OK, the car, Mateo.

Think. What color?

Think.

Black.

Make? Model?

I'm not sure.

There were LED lights on the roof.

OK, OK, that's better.

- I think--

I think there were Jersey plates.

- Jersey plates. That narrows it down.

- Yeah, over two dozen black 4x4s

went back over the GW Bridge in that time frame.

- We're still running them. - All right, Jersey plates.

Let's focus on that.

- I'll have the Feds call the Port Authority

to expedite the search.

OK.

So these three idiots from New Jersey

come to the city looking for trouble.

- They see two guys walking arm in arm

in that neighborhood.

- Just make an assumption about their sexuality.

- It's a believable narrative, but I need a prosecutorial one

and the perps.

- Local coffee shop called the tip line.

Our homeless guy showed up.

- Let's bring him in. - Wait, wait.

Let's meet him on his turf.

* *

We're so grateful that you're meeting with us, Mr. Thomas.

Call me Venable.

That's how they know me around here.

OK.

- What can you tell us about last night?

- I was sleeping in a doorway near where it happened.

It's a quiet block.

But I woke up, heard boys yelling.

Kids up to no good.

I was moving slow.

But by the time I went around the corner,

it was almost over.

- But you--you told someone.

- Guy walking his dog called 911.

You tell anybody else?

- No, but I'm not the only one who saw.

OK. Who else saw?

- A woman looking out her apartment window.

You know which building?

Not good with numbers.

How about you show us?

- No offense--I'm not good with police either.

- So, Venable, the young man that was attacked last night,

he was almost killed.

What they did ain't right.

So you'll help us?

[soft music]

* *

- I saw her looking out her window.

- All right, so the attack happened on this street.

You saw her, but you didn't see the boys?

- Like I said, I turned the corner,

kept my head down, just saw the car driving away.

- How can you be sure the woman in the window did?

I saw her face.

She was crying.

Second story, pink curtains.

Hey, man, thank you.

Use this to get yourself a room for the night.

- Thank you. - God bless.

* *

[door buzzing]

Anne Holmes, 2D.

Uh, Anne Holmes?

How do you know?

You have packages out here.

- We just--we just need a moment of your time.

Can we do it like this?

Well, um...

I don't see how these packages

are gonna fit through the crack of the door.

I'll get them later.

How long is this gonna take?

- This is about the young man who was attacked last night.

I don't know anything.

- But we know that you wanted to help him.

His name is Javier.

Is he all right?

No, he's not.

He was very badly hurt,

and we're trying to find the men that did this to him.

I sit at my window at night.

It's all I need to know about the world.

- How about you come to the station with us

- and tell us? - No.

I never leave here. I'm not going anywhere.

Well, Anne, neither are we.

[tense music]

* *

OK. But just you.

OK, I'd appreciate that.

- Liv. - It's OK.

I think Anne and I will be just fine.

Won't we, Anne?

I'd never hurt anyone.

I can see that.

- I'll wait here. - OK.

[lock clicking]

* *

- Is it OK here? - Mm-hmm.

* *

- Wow. You have a lovely, lovely home.

* *

.

You got butterflies,

hummingbirds, flowers.

They calm me.

Hmm.

I know that it wasn't easy

for you to let me in here.

- What do I have to tell you so you'll leave me alone?

Oh, what you saw last night.

It was horrible.

That poor young man--

Javier.

- It's like he was surrounded by predators.

Can you describe them?

Young, angry.

- And how many of them were there?

Three.

One had a bat.

And they got out of the car and surrounded Javier.

And then what?

The guy with the bat...

raised it.

And?

- And brought it down on him while he was lying there.

Mm.

[solemn music]

Javier said that when he was lying there on the street

that another man came up and held his hand.

Another man?

- Mm-hmm.

No.

Javier was alone.

Are you sure?

Yeah.

I watched until the police showed up.

OK.

OK, so the attackers...

what do you remember about them?

What do they look like?

- The one with the bat was white,

longer hair.

The other one was white too.

And the third, darker skin.

* *

They all knew each other.

* *

OK, did they say anything?

- I don't say hateful words like that.

The world's hateful enough as it is.

That's why I don't leave here.

Mm. All right.

You said that they knew each other.

- Yes. They called each other by name.

* *

I'm gonna need those names.

- So the homeless guy confirmed that he heard anti-gay slurs.

- Yeah, he was reluctant, but cooperative.

But he didn't see the perps?

- No, but he saw somebody who did.

- Well, don't keep me in suspense, Detective.

So there's a third witness,

a woman who lives on the block.

Saw the entire attack from her window,

and she described the perps in detail.

- Then why isn't she here making a statement?

- Well, because from what I gathered, she's agoraphobic,

and she hasn't left her apartment in years.

OK.

How is she gonna get to court to testify?

- Well, one step at a time, Counselor.

She heard the perps' names.

First and last?

Zach and Mo.

- OK, that's better than nothing, I suppose.

We can run the names through ViCAP.

- Got a hit on a black 4x4 with Jersey plates.

- Tell me this is good news. - As good as it gets.

The car was reported stolen two days ago

from a garage in Roselle Park.

Where's the car now?

Recovered an hour ago.

It was abandoned eight blocks from where it was stolen.

- What about the condition of the car?

Any evidence?

- Fast food containers, beer bottles.

- Great. We can pull prints and DNA.

- Roselle Park precinct is gonna expedite.

They're aware that this could be related

to our hate crimes case.

- We have an even better shortcut, first names.

Zach and Mo.

- And Roselle Park is a small suburb.

- These idiots, it can't be the first time

they got in local trouble.

- So head to Jersey and run their names and descriptions

by the precinct cops.

And oh, did you find the witness from the bar

where they were singing show tunes?

Not yet.

- Well, he may not exist, because the woman

who saw the whole attack said that Javier was alone.

- Could be a case of the third man syndrome.

Third man syndrome?

- It's a weird hiccup in the human brain

when it's trying to comfort itself in survival situations.

- So you're saying that he saw someone that wasn't there?

- It's not too different than an imaginary friend

or a guardian angel.

* *

- Well, pick up the three guys from Roselle Park,

because we know that they're not angels.

* *

- They got SVU on this? Not Hate Crimes?

- Guy had to have a testicle removed.

- Oh, jeez. He gonna be OK?

Eh, it's touch and go.

- Well, anything we can do to help.

- Any prints or DNA on that black 4x4?

- The lab knows it's a rush. But you know the lab.

- Yeah, well, we're getting the Feds to goose.

- It's a long shot, but we've got descriptions, first name.

- Officer Quarles works Community Crimes--

disorderlies, assaults, possessions.

- So he knows his 20-somethings?

- Nick. - Yeah?

- NYPD is here about that hate crime in the village.

How can I help?

I'm Sergeant Tutuola.

This is Detective Bruno.

We only got the first names on our perps.

- Two white kids, 20s, called each other Zach and Mo.

- Well, if I had to guess, I'd say Zach Swann and Mo Franks.

Bunch of bottom feeders from Bayles Avenue.

They got a record?

- Bar fights, possession, public urination.

All pled down.

Well, they may have added

another page to their rap sheet.

A hate crime?

Doesn't sound like them.

But after a few years on this job--

Nothing surprises you.

- There was another kid with them.

He may have been Latino.

- They got a crew? - Yeah.

Jordan Ramirez, he hangs with them.

Where can we pick him up?

[tense music]

* *

What's this about?

NYPD is looking for Jordan.

You know where he was at two nights ago?

- With friends in the city getting pizza.

- Must have been some good pizza.

- We'd love to talk to him about it.

* *

Is he in trouble again?

- He'll be in a little less if he cooperates.

* *

Jordan!

* *

- I wasn't part of it, Ma. I swear.

So you know why we're here?

Where are Zach and Mo?

* *

Those guys are inside.

What'd they do now?

- Nothing good, but it sound like you already knew that.

* *

- All right, Zach, on your feet.

What's this about?

- Zach Swann, you're under arrest.

- For what? I didn't do anything.

- Where's Mo? - He ain't here.

Mo Franks.

What'd you tell them, Zach?

- What do you think he said? - Hands behind your back.

- Look, we didn't steal that car.

- Yeah, well, the owner reported it stolen.

- You lied to me? - The guy's an ass.

- Shut up, Mo. Just wait for a lawyer.

- I'll call my uncle. - He can't help you.

Not unless he has a license to practice in New York.

- Hey, you can't take us across state lines.

That's trafficking.

- Once a judge signs off--

and the judge will--we can.

[protesters shouting]

[siren chirping]

all: Hey-hey, ho-ho,

homophobia has got to go!

Hey-hey, ho-ho...

all: Trans rights are human rights!

- Why'd you do it? - You almost killed him.

- Those immigrants attacked us. - We're innocent.

- Keep talking. You're only hurting yourself.

- You're just making my job easier.

[indistinct shouting]

.

- I mostly stayed in the car. - Mostly?

- I just jumped out to stop those guys.

My client didn't hurt anyone.

- I was yelling, "Let's go. Let's go."

You didn't call the cops.

You didn't get that kid help.

He's still in the hospital.

He may never be able to have children.

I didn't do that, I swear.

- But you saw him lying in the street

and you saw your buddy hit him with a bat.

I'm sorry.

I wish that had never happened.

Sure, now you do.

You don't understand.

What don't we understand?

It wasn't my idea.

Whose idea was it?

I stayed in the car.

- Nice try-- we have an eyewitness

who puts you on the street.

- My client never touched that bat.

- A distinction without a difference.

He brutally kicked the victim

while he was lying there helpless.

- Whoa. Who gave me up? - Mo.

- The weasel Jordan? - Listen to me.

No, I wasn't even driving.

I never would have stopped the car.

OK. You know what?

I am not hearing anything that mitigates

a charge of attempted murder.

What?

- My client is here cooperating.

- No, your client is here because we brought him here.

- And I am still waiting on that cooperation.

OK. OK.

This is all on Zach.

- Zach? - Yeah.

All right, he was amped up.

OK.

You're willing to tell us everything he did,

and you're willing to tell a jury,

and our ADA might be interested.

Is Zach gonna know?

- Those Hispanic guys came after us,

yelling, ready to fight.

You were in a car.

- I didn't know if they had a gun or what.

I was afraid for my life.

- You're actually going for self-defense here?

We got witnesses.

- From what I understand, you have a homeless man

who didn't actually see my client.

- Maybe I went a little overboard, but I was scared.

A little?

You're lucky you didn't kill that kid

or we'd be talking about a murder charge right now.

Let's dial down the rhetoric.

No, actually, I can't.

Because he was lying in the street, he couldn't move.

You pulled his pants down,

you hit him with a bat, and you were laughing!

- What are you, playing bad cop?

Oh, he's not playing.

- You didn't treat this kid like he was even human.

Why, because of the color of his skin?

Or because you thought he was gay?

Or both?

- Hold on-- it's my understanding

these victims were not gay.

Doesn't matter.

- Your client thought they were.

No! You're scaring me.

You scared? Good.

You should be, tough guy.

You better hope I don't run into you on the street.

- Aren't you gonna do something?

- You need to tell your client to take a plea.

You take this to trial,

good luck finding 12 jurors

that think different than my partner.

- Well, that wasn't exactly helping.

- Don't see these guys confessing.

Maybe turning on each other.

Sorry about that, Captain.

- Well, don't be. - What now?

- Well, the other two are weak links,

but I need more than just

the testimony of co-conspirators.

You need the victims.

Bring in Javier and Mateo

and put these three in a lineup.

[suspenseful music]

* *

I don't know.

I'm sorry.

I think--

I need you to be sure.

- I am. It's number five.

I think we're done here.

* *

I was so sure.

I mean, is it over?

No, no, it's not over.

Javier still has a chance to ID these guys.

* *

Hey.

Javier.

[somber music]

* *

Oh, my God, look at you.

Oh, it's all right.

It's all right. It's all right.

Hey.

I'm so sorry.

We're all good.

I'm so sorry.

I'm OK.

[crying]

* *

There you go.

* *

I don't know.

Well, maybe--

- No, I need you to be sure, Javier.

* *

I'm sorry.

It's OK, son.

Let's get you back to the hospital.

- Neither one of them could make the ID?

No. It was dark outside.

They were drinking,

- Cross-race IDs-- - Very difficult.

- We sent Javier back to the hospital.

Mateo went with him.

- What about the weapon? The bat?

- They likely threw it in the river.

- Carisi, tell me that you have enough to make a case.

- I would feel a lot better if I had that corporeal ID.

- Well, there is someone who saw all three of them clearly.

Anne Holmes.

The agoraphobic woman?

The one that refuses to leave her apartment?

- Yes, but let's just hope that her conscience

is stronger than her fear.

- What are you doing, Liv? I'll go.

You stayed up all night.

You heard Pettis.

This is on me.

It's the cost of being a boss.

- I told you I haven't left here in five years.

- Believe me, I wouldn't ask you if there was another way.

- They're gonna get away with it?

There's a chance.

This city,

the world, chaos, disaster--

why even try?

Because it's our only choice.

[soft music]

Listen to me, Anne.

You know, we can look away from the ugliness,

but it's still there.

And you didn't look away, did you?

- No. - No.

* *

I promise you, I will make our squad room

as peaceful as I can for you.

It's my home.

And I will be with you every step of the way.

* *

OK.

* *

So we're here.

OK? You ready to keep going?

I'm good.

OK.

[tense music]

It's quiet.

Not what I thought it was going to be.

* *

So you're OK?

* *

- Let's just get this over with.

* *

Don't leave me.

- I'm gonna be right next to you.

* *

.

- This is really cool. What is it?

- That is called a challenge coin.

- Your office-- you've made it really lovely.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

So what's going to happen next--

so in this room there,

six men are gonna come in, each holding a number.

And that's gonna happen three times.

Take your time.

And if you recognize any of the men from the street,

you just let us know.

- So you can see them, but they can't see you.

So you're completely safe here.

- But their lawyers will have to be in the room with us.

Is that OK?

- I understand. - OK.

So we want to, you know, do this quickly, obviously,

but you take as much time as you need,

because we need to be sure, all right?

Now?

- Are you good? - Let's do this.

OK.

[tense music]

[knocking]

* *

Number three.

- You can take more time. - I don't need to.

Number three. He was the third man there.

- OK. - But he didn't do anything.

- All right. Anne, you don't have to say anything else.

* *

Number four.

* *

It's OK.

Numbers up.

* *

- Number one. - OK.

The one with the bat.

OK.

I'll need to talk to my client.

You sure he can't see me?

- This is one-way glass.

- I feel like he's looking right at me.

Anne, he cannot see you.

That's too bad.

I want him to see me.

* *

That was Carisi.

We get all these guys?

- Jordan Ramirez took a plea for criminal possession

of stolen property, pled to a mis-d, no jail time.

He got off easy.

- DA needed his testimony against Mo and Zach.

- And once their lawyers heard that, the dominoes fell?

- Mo Franks, attempted assault one

and furtherance of a hate crime.

He'll do 15 years.

- And Zach? - Attempted murder two.

- As a hate crime. - [chuckles]

I guess Carisi's taking a victory lap.

- Mm-hmm. - We all should.

Until the next time.

Captain.

Oh, come on in.

- Hey, we just want to say thank you for everything.

- So you're both going back to Colombia?

No, only him.

Where it's sunny and warm.

At least till next year,

when he's on his break from art school.

- I'm not gonna let a couple meatheads from Jersey

- scare me away. - Yeah.

I'll pull the car around.

[sighs]

So how you feeling, huh?

- I never dreamed four days in New York

would cost me so much.

Yeah.

You know, this might be

impossible to imagine right now, Javi,

but you know, maybe someday,

you'll be able to use all of this pain

that you're feeling and--

and turn it into something beautiful,

you know, as an artist.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Of course.

- Oh, that guy that held my hand,

the one who stayed when I was hurt...

- Mm-hmm. - Did you ever find him?

- Uh, no. No, we tried to, but--

- I still want to thank him someday.

- Well, maybe--

maybe you thank him here in your heart.

[soft music]

He'll hear you.

How do you know?

* *

- You know, when we look for people,

we usually find them.

And it's seeming more and more

like he really was an angel.

* *

[wolf howls]