All language subtitles for Law and Order SVU s27e07 False Idols.eng

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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.

[indistinct chatter]

[light music playing]

* *

- Yeah, but Lord Mathias

was dimming her light.

- Yes, he's so hot,

but also, like,
poison to her soul.

God, you get me.

* *

[siren wailing in distance]

[metal clicking]

* *

- You read her work
before anyone else?

- Sometimes.

- Hey, you need help?

- I am the help.

Go enjoy yourself.

* *

[sighs]

[glass clinking]

[tense music]

[footsteps approaching]

* *

- Well, she didn't need
her wings

because she had the magic
to move her, you know?

- Yeah.

- [grunting]

- Oh, my God!

- [screams]
- Oh, my God!

- Somebody help!
Call 911!

[people screaming]

- OK, OK. Someone's coming.

Someone's coming, OK?

- [wheezing]
- Help is coming.

Help is coming.
Help is coming!

- [wheezing]

- Central units,
11th precinct,

10-34 K, assault with a knife,

male stabbed torso, conscious,

perp at large,
described as white female,

black sweatshirt,
fled on foot.

243 East 10th off 1st Avenue.
5 minutes past.

- Damn, that's close.

- Mm-hmm.

* *

Bro.

[dramatic music]

* *

[siren chirping]

- Police!

Don't move.

- Hands up!

- Hands!
- Now!

[dramatic music]

* *

- OK, are you sure
that you got it?

- 1,000%. Totally got it.

- OK, 'cause I'm walking away.
- Oh, my God.

- Give it to me.
Give it to me now.

- No, no. Hold on. Hold on.
Hold on. Shut up. OK.

- Not that hard.

- Bacon, cheese, salt, pepper,
over medium.

- Make that two.

- Look at this guy.
Not a scratch on him.

- Good to see you, man.

Rollins, it's so good
to have you back.

- It's good to be back.

- Hey, I never got word
that you were already cleared.

I mean, full-full duty?

- Of course.
Should be in your inbox.

- OK.

- Who are you?

- I'm-uh, new guy.

- OK, cool. Get off my desk.

- Oh, I'm-I'm so sorry.

Yeah.

- I'm just messing with you.
- Oh.

- Welcome to the squad.

Heard great things about you.

- Yeah.

- Does anybody dust
around here?

I mean, this is disgusting.

- It is very great
to have another body here,

because Curry is in Orlando

for her son's
basketball tournament.

Welcome back.

[tense music]

Officers.

* *

Hey, can I help you?

- Officer Martin, Ramos,
11th precinct.

- OK.

- Perp's Leah Henning,
under for assault one.

Stabbed a male in the chest
last night around 20:05 hours.

Victim's Stuart Morgan
at New York Presbyterian,

critical.

Our boss said
to bring her to you.

- And why is that?

- She said she was raped
by our vic.

* *

[dramatic music]

* *

.

- Can I-can I get you
some water, Leah?

You know, maybe a cup of coffee
or something?

It looks like
you can just go ahead

and slip those off, huh?

- Is he dead?

- We don't know yet.

Look, I just want to remind you
that at any time,

you can request an attorney.

- [scoffs, sniffles]

Nothing you do
is gonna help me.

- I can't erase
what brought you in here,

but I do want to know
your side of the story.

So can you tell me
what happened?

- I went for a walk
past the bookstore,

saw Claire,

saw him.

Something just came over me.

- So how did you meet them?

- Uh, I was Claire's assistant.

- And what kind of boss
was she?

Was she-was she
a good boss, or...

- Amazing.

It's like, maybe you should
meet your heroes, actually.

Her-her writing,
it-it saved me.

- From what?

- My family, my past.

I lived with her,
kept her organized.

- OK.

- She was my whole life.

I was so happy.

[tense music]

- And what about the husband?

* *

I can't help you
unless you tell me the truth.

* *

- Claire wasn't home.

I was in my bed writing.

I looked up,
and Stuart was just...

standing there naked,

like it was normal.

He sat on the bed.

He pinned me down,
ripped my clothes,

and I was bleeding,
and he wouldn't stop.

[crying]

That was the first time.

- So it happened
more than once?

- I don't even know
how many times.

And it's like,
do you just deal with it,

because the rest of the time,
you get to be around

this amazing woman
who changed your life?

I-I couldn't give that up.

- OK, did-did Claire know?

- I never told her.

Claire is an empath.

She cries when she sees
a dead pigeon.

She feels so much
for so many people.

* *

This is gonna destroy her.

I-I kept it inside
for so long.

I-I can't anymore.

* *

- I tried to help Leah.

I wanted to,
and I tried really hard.

But, uh, she was damaged,

and I guess I let my empathy
cloud my judgment.

- Did you have much interaction
with Leah, Stuart?

- No, uh, I saw that she was
bad news fairly early on,

uh, so I just tried
to steer clear until Claire

had to give up on her latest
bird with a broken wing.

- What's "bad news" mean?

- I'm used to avid fans,
but Leah was...

obsessed, and she hated me.

- Why do you think that is?

- Because I'm not
Claire Morgan.

- Leah seems fixated on you.

You have any issues?

- Leah is a convicted stalker.

We had to file an order
of protection against her.

Claire's terrified,

too traumatized to hire
a new assistant.

And then now Leah is
putting us both through hell.

Whatever she is accusing me of,
it's a lie.

[footsteps approaching]

- Uh...

- I got hurt on the job
before, Liv.

- I know.

I'm just, you know,

checking on you
'cause it's my job.

It's not personal.

I don't even like you
that much.

- Likewise.

I'm good. I'm very good.

- And you're getting everything
you need from the department?

All the support, and you know-

you know, Fin,
time to process everything.

- Yeah, eyesight's good,
no headaches.

I'm out-working kids
in the gym half my age.

I've never felt better.

- Great.

- You doubtin' me, Liv?

- No, you have been
extremely clear

about how physically prepared
that you are.

- I'm prepared, period.

- Good, 'cause we missed you
around here.

Hey.

- Hey, so the temporary order
of protection checks out.

Neighbor saw Leah breaking
into the Morgans' home

after they fired her.

ACD with a six-month order.

- When was this?
- Sealed three months ago.

Leah did the time,
and then her record was wiped.

- Well, that didn't last long.

- Do we buy Leah's story, boss?
- I think so.

Look, she was very dissociated
when I talked to her.

But I think,
with a little bit of rest,

then we'll get some clarity.

- Her arraignment's set.
It's in two hours.

- We need more time than that.

- Well, if you want
to hold her here longer,

you need to get her
to waive her arraignment

and accept the charges.

She's gonna need
a lawyer for that.

- Well, good thing
you know lawyers.

- All right, I'll ask around.

In the meantime,
get more than Leah's word.

- All right.

- Stuart Morgan,
he have any priors?

- Squeaky clean, 45,

no income going back
at least 10 years.

- Yeah, Stuart's
only interaction

with law enforcement is
the stalking complaint.

- Well, I have to say
that Leah does seem

very infatuated with Claire.

I mean, she's still
protecting her

months after she was
slapped with this TOP.

- She sounds like a stalker.

- Well, she sounds like
a Claire Morgan fan.

They're known to be
pretty intense.

[laughs]

- And who are they?

- I've read her books.

I mean, all of them...

a few times.

And her recent biography.

- Rollins, do I need
to put you on modified

for this one, Sergeant?

- I have a unique insight
to the readers of her work.

Claire's writing can feel
very, um, personal.

It's like a lot of misfits
finding out

they have secret powers
or, you know,

finding their voices
or-or wings.

- Oh, OK.

Well, it sounds like, um,

Claire makes people like Leah
feel seen.

- That can be powerful.

Plus, Claire kind of
feeds into the fervor.

I mean, she's been
a bestselling author

for ten years.

She still goes by book clubs.

She sends fans gifts.

She volunteers at a DV shelter.
- OK.

- But as soon as we brought up
Leah's allegations,

Claire shut down quick.
- She did.

But I'm-I'm curious to see

what she would say
outside of his presence.

- I think that we need more
before we do that, right?

So look, Leah lived
in the house for two years.

Somebody must have seen
something.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I ran the financials.

They had a dog walker,
a housekeeper,

and a personal chef.

- OK.
- I'm on that.

I'm not looking
for desk duty today.

- OK.

- Working at the Morgans'
was fine.

A bit boring.

Claire had a lot
of food sensitivities.

Miss the hours, though.

Pull it.
- Yes, Chef.

- How about Stuart?

What was he like?

- This is about Leah, right?

Saw what she did to him.

All over the news.

Yeah, pretty horrific.

- You don't seem too horrified.

- Behind.
- Can we do this later?

Not in the middle of all this?

- What are you
worried about, Nicole?

- You using something I say
against Leah.

I don't want to be
part of that.

- So we're not
investigating Leah.

We're investigating Stuart,
Nicole.

[tense music]

* *

- I saw something once,

about a year
after Leah moved in.

Stuart was in Leah's room,
which was totally weird.

I could see her
in her underwear.

She looked dazed.

Her makeup was all smeared.

Something about it felt wrong.

Stuart saw me
and shut the door.

- Did you report it?

- Stuart's married
to a famous feminist author.

Who's gonna believe me
over him?

Claire had to have known,
right?

- You talk to Leah about it?

- Didn't get a chance.

Stuart fired me the next day.

- Did you tell anybody
about this?

A friend?
- Yeah.

Texted my boyfriend
right after it happened.

[elevator bell dings]

- Hey, Brian.
Thanks for coming down.

- Hey, Sonny, good to see you.
How are the kids?

- Ah, you know,
a handful, as always.

This is Captain Olivia Benson.
- Hey.

- This is Brian Moss.
- Nice to meet you.

- General practice,
but he dabbles in criminal law

for the right cases.
- Mm.

- An old pal from law school.

- Well, thank you so much
for coming in,

especially on
such short notice.

- Oh, of course.
Anything else I should know?

- You know, Leah is-
she's vulnerable.

She's not denying the stabbing.

- So if she waives
the arraignment,

then she can assist SVU
in verifying

a sexual assault allegation.

- So we just want
to make sure, you know,

somebody has
her best interests in mind.

- Well, I'm your guy.

Where's my client?

- Second door on the right.
- Yeah.

- Great, thank you.
- Mm-hmm.

- Hey, how are we doing
on the personal chef?

- I love people that
don't delete their texts.

- Nicole Sandoval texted
her boyfriend in detail

after seeing Stuart
in Leah's room.

Saw red marks on Leah's arms.

She seemed scared,
and Stuart seemed suspicious.

- We still thinking that
Claire had no idea about this?

- Well, Nicole had suspicions.

- OK, so we have a witness
with Nicole.

So if Leah corroborates-
- Well, then, we got a case.

I mean, especially
with the potential perjury

on the TOP.

- Oh, well, that was fast.
- Good news.

Leah has agreed
to waive the arraignment.

So that's all set.
- That's great.

- Great.

- She's done talking
until she gets a deal.

- What?
- Brian, come on.

Of course, I'm gonna try
to get you a deal.

- It's deal or no cooperation,
and that's it.

- Sorry, I-
we need access to Leah.

We have to investigate her
allegations to prove her story.

- It's not a negotiation.

So you call me
when you got something.

Good to see you, Sonny.

- Are you kidding me?

* *

.

- Look, we all know that Leah's
situation is complicated.

But Brian is doing exactly
what we asked him to do.

- Are you his lawyer now?

We asked him to help Leah,

not bone us
on this investigation.

- Look, there's a chance
we'd be here,

no matter who represented her.

At least I know this guy.

- Look, the question is,
do you trust him?

- Yes, I do.

Look, Brian is gonna
fight for Leah.

I'm gonna fight for a deal.

But we can't count
on Leah's cooperation.

And I can't go to trial with
text messages and no victim.

- So we need a new witness
and new evidence,

something solid.

- Bruno found a bunch
of Claire's ex assistants.

Now, none of them want to talk,

except there's one in Queens,

and he's on his way there now
to talk to her.

Look, I think that it's time
for us to have a chat

with poor, frail Claire.

Look, Rollins, you can bow out.

But you do know her,

and I think
it would be helpful.

- Yeah, I mean,
if she's guilty, screw her.

- Thank you.

- Hi, I'm Captain Benson.

I think you know
Sergeant Rollins.

We wanted to talk to you more
about Leah's allegations.

- Two women, that's really-
it is refreshing.

- Look, we understand

you wanting to protect
your husband.

But if you care about your fans
as much as you say you do,

now would be the time
to speak up.

- Do you two want a bite to eat
or some tea, maybe?

- No.

- OK, good,

because I have nothing
in the house,

because I have no appetite,

and I can barely write.

- Your former chef,
Nicole Sandoval,

do you remember why she left?

- Yeah, she was
a real perfectionist

and a-a true Virgo.

What are your signs?

- She said that
Stuart fired her

right after she witnessed
a interaction

between Stuart and Leah.

- This is all fairly
traumatizing for me.

And I-I had a migraine
earlier.

Now I think it's coming back.

Um, but I think
Nicole witnessed

one of Leah's
many health crises,

and I feel for her.

I really do.
- Do you?

Because it seems like
you're calling her crazy

to cover for Stuart.

- Have either of you
read my books?

- Yeah, I have.

- OK, good.

You know that
my primary responsibility

is to other women.

And Nicole feels
abandoned by me.

She cooked up this story
to damage my reputation with-

- So let me stop you
for a second.

Our job is to protect
victims of sexual assault,

not your reputation.

- Yeah, I know.

That's-that's-

it's not about me.

It's-but I do know

that Leah's false claim

is a problem for real victims,

and that could be used

to call genuine accusations
into question.

And I know you don't want that
on your conscience.

- So you're saying
charging Stuart with rape

is actually bad for all women.

- No. No, no, no, no.

That's a very ungenerous
interpretation.

But, yes, generally,

false rape claims are
bad for women.

- I think we can all
agree on that,

that false rape allegations are
definitely damaging to women.

But that's not
what this is here.

And we're gonna prove it,

with or without your help.

[tense music]

- I started a Claire Morgan
fan account on Twitter.

Her writing was immersive,

a world where
I could be strong,

and I loved it,
and I met great people,

including Claire.

- Yeah, so, uh,
so how'd that happen?

- DM'd her.

I couldn't believe
that she replied.

Claire was my idol.

And we'd chat.

She was always
asking me how I was,

which was really needed
at the time.

- What was going on?

- I was in
an abusive relationship.

I couldn't admit it to myself,

but Claire really
got me to open up.

And next thing I knew,
I was moving into her house.

[chuckles]

Honestly,
that job saved my life.

- Did you hear what happened
to Claire's husband?

- Yeah, stabbed or something.

I-I don't know much.

I try to stay offline.

- Claire's former assistant
stabbed him.

[somber music]

* *

What was your experience
with Stuart?

- I was in the shower.

Stuart didn't say a word,

just took off his towel
and stepped in.

It was so bizarre.

I was paralyzed.

After, when it was
all over, he-

he just smiled at me, like,

wasn't that amazing
for both of us?

It kept happening.

I got pregnant.

He made sure I had an abortion.

- Did Claire know
about all this?

- Yeah, Stuart said
it was an affair.

Paid me in cash,
sent me on my way.

My shoulder still hurts

every time I write
on a chalkboard.

Oh, he broke my collarbone.

I tried to fight back
that time.

I got hurt.

He still raped me.

* *

[dramatic music]

* *

[indistinct chatter]

- Is that our guy?

Checked out early.

- Not early enough.

* *

Hey, Stuart Morgan,
I got a different car for you.

- Stay back.

- Your hands off me right now.

- NYPD.

* *

Stuart Morgan,
you're under arrest

for the rapes of Leah Henning
and Alex Corbin.

- That's not necessary.

He's not running anywhere.

* *

.

- Captain Benson,
thanks for making the time.

- Of course. I'm sorry.

I didn't know that
everybody was already here.

- Yeah.
- Hey, Downes.

- OK, so Leah Henning.

Benson and Carisi say
she's a victim.

Downes and Price think
she's a perp.

I'm tired of hearing about it,

so we're gonna work it out
together right now.

- The charges against Leah
should be dropped.

She's a victim
of long-term sexual abuse.

She was clearly acting

under extreme
emotional distress here.

- Leah Henning sought out
Stuart Morgan

nine months after
she'd last seen him.

There is no self-defense
argument here, Carisi.

- She confessed
and showed no remorse.

- Well, hold on.

She showed no remorse

for attacking
her rapist, right?

Now, Leah lived
with Stuart Morgan

for two years,
and that situation shows

all the hallmarks
of an abusive relationship.

- No matter her state of mind,

she committed a B-violent
felony at a public event.

If she walks clean here,
what are we saying?

That-that vigilante justice
is acceptable?

- No.
- That it's encouraged?

- We can't completely drop
the charges on Leah.

It's against public safety.

Move on, Carisi.
- Move on to what, sir?

What's gonna happen
at the trial?

Because your argument
falls apart

when Leah's rape comes up.

Nolan, there's no case here,
so let's act like it.

- Assault two,
five-year sentence.

- Five years? Please.

- Stuart Morgan is scum.

He's going to trial
for raping Leah

and at least one other woman.

So however extreme
her actions are,

I mean, she may be bringing

a potential serial rapist
to light.

This woman,
she's been through hell.

What she needs
is-is treatment,

she needs healing,

and she needs a little bit
of understanding.

Now, she's gonna get that
from the public.

I think she needs it
from the law as well.

- All right,
let's give her a split.

One year house arrest,
four probation,

ROR, ankle bracelet,

and mandatory therapy.

Take it to her lawyer.

You got a deal.

* *

- Will Claire be at the trial?

- There is a good chance
that she will be.

- I don't think I can say
any of this in front of her.

She'll be traumatized.

- OK, Leah, have a seat.

Look, I-I admire
your concern here.

I really do.

But my hope is that
you can focus on yourself.

Claire is not
the victim here, right?

You, you deserve
to tell your story.

- You don't know how she gets.

She'll be so hurt.

- Leah, you've been
protecting her for so long.

Don't you think
that she's the one

who should be worried
about protecting you?

* *

- I tried to tell her.

- And what happened?

- I tried,
and I couldn't get far,

because I was so nervous,
and I was shaking,

and she wouldn't talk to me
because she had a migraine.

And then Stuart fired me
a week later

and made me sound crazy,

said that she was afraid of me.

* *

In a way,
I guess it made it easier.

I got to blame
everything on him.

But she knew.

Claire knew,
and maybe the whole time.

Once, I was wearing a tank top,

and I had these bruises
on my arms from him.

* *

I guess I just wanted her
to see them

and ask what had happened,
but...

she just avoided me
until they were gone.

* *

- So a cry for help.

- She acted like
she didn't hear it.

* *

- What are you doing at
a lowly pre-trial arraignment?

We're gonna be in and out.

- I want to see
if Claire shows up.

- This is calendar
number seven,

People of the State of New York
versus Stuart Morgan,

indictment 823 of 2025.

- Dominick Carisi
for the people.

- Meryl Smith for the defendant
who's present beside me.

- Your Honor, I am filing
and serving the indictment.

- Counsel, have you received
a copy of the indictment

for your client?

- Defendant
acknowledges receipt

and enters a plea of guilty.

Mr. Morgan accepts
full responsibility,

and he'd like to read
a short statement.

- That's-that's not
appropriate here.

We're not giving a rapist
a public forum.

- Hang on.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.

What-what is the purpose
of this statement, Ms. Smith?

- To apologize.

- To what end?

- Order, Mr. Carisi.

Mr. Morgan, you may proceed.

- [clears throat]

What I did to Leah and Alex

was inexcusable.

I take full responsibility,
and I'm sorry.

And to my wife, Claire,

whose trust I betrayed

and whose world
I shattered last week

when she first learned
of my horrible actions,

I am so very sorry.

* *

- Stuart will go
for at least 15.

He's a convicted rapist.

This is a win,
but it doesn't feel like it.

- Because he's doing it all
to protect Claire.

- Yeah, so no trial
means no discovery.

So whatever's still out there

to implicate Claire
stays secret.

- Can you tell us about this?

- My heart is with
Stuart's victims.

And now I would really like
to put this chapter behind me,

because I have worked hard
to become who I am,

and frankly,
to have my name tethered

to someone else's misdeeds
would be unjust.

* *

A woman must use her own voice
to tell her own story,

and I do hope
you will listen to mine.

* *

- Leah still needs
her day in court.

We got work to do.

* *

.

- Now I'm just taking it
one day at a time,

and I'm processing
this personal apocalypse

the only way I know how,
and that's through writing.

- Should we be expecting
a Claire Morgan memoir?

- I don't know.

All I know is that
it's gonna be smaller.

- Wow, she is shameless.

- More like cutthroat.

- And gets to keep
making a living off women

while ignoring their assaults
in her own home.

- But she has no duty
to protect.

Look, I'm telling you,
this is gonna be a tough case.

I might be able
to get witness tampering

or intimidation, maybe,

but if you want
conspiracy to commit rape,

there needs to be an overt act.

Knowing after the fact
is not enough.

So we need to prove
that Claire actively helped

plan or facilitate these rapes.

- So what, dig up more people
who might have seen

something in that house,
hope they want

to denigrate
a supposedly great writer?

- We may not have to.

Claire's biography is long,
and it's intimate,

and the writer spent time
with Claire.

He had access to her friends,
collaborators,

her archives.

- Jacob Engel, UNY professor?
- Yeah.

- Yeah, interview here
bragging about

his exclusive access
to Claire Morgan.

- OK, so Claire trusted him.

- Or thought
she could control him.

- Either way,
she made a good bet.

Stuart comes off looking
perfect in that book.

- Jacob says it took over
1,000 hours of research.

- 1,000 hours.

He must have recorded it,
right?

[muffled indistinct speech
on recording]

- Hey, how's it going?

- Not great.
- Kill me.

- So a disturbing number
of people in Claire's orbit

had strong reservations
and suspicions about Stuart.

- Surrounded herself
with sycophants,

people more concerned
with protecting her career

than the women
that Stuart victimized.

- Hey, I got something.

Claire and our biographer,
Jacob.

- Everything seems
to be reduced to

how much our mothers
have damaged us.

And I really want
to explore the-

Jacob, can you just
pause that for a moment?

Just one minute.

And go into the kitchen,
please.

Stuart, can you come
in here, please?

- Now here's the good stuff.

Our boy Jacob kept recording.

- Thank you, Jacob.

- It gets quiet. I'ma blast it.

- I saw that look.

- I wasn't doing anything.

- You know I hate it.

I hate it when you lie to me.

We've discussed this.

That one, it's-
that one isn't yours.

- She's here every day.

You can't expect me to-

- I do so much for you,
Stuart,

more than a reasonable person
might expect.

So do something for me too.

- All right.

- I know you need an outlet,
you know,

to expel that energy.

- Ugh.

- And, um, I've-

I found a new one.

So...starts next week.

I think you'll-
I think she'll stick around.

More like-more your type.

- What is the date on that?

- May 5, 2022.

- Leah's first check
from the Morgans

was cut in June of 2022.

- OK, she hired Leah
for Stuart.

How's that for conspiracy?

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* *

[sirens wailing]

[dramatic music]

* *

- Step aside, please.

* *

- [whispering indistinctly]

I'm not taking
any more questions.

- Oh, that's OK.
We don't have any.

- So why are you here?

* *

- You're so good
at finding them,

these vulnerable women
who idolized you,

confided in you.

They were so desperate
for your approval,

for your-for your closeness,

you knew that
they would do anything.

- But when that didn't work
anymore,

then you threw
your fame at them,

you threw your money at them.

- If you had something solid,

we wouldn't be here right now.

We wouldn't be talking
about this.

[chuckles]
But clearly you don't.

All you have is this story,

um, to justify what?

Like, arresting the wife
of a sexual predator?

You can't sell that story.

It's-it's too messy.

And it-there's so-too much
room for interpretation.

- Hold on.
You don't like our story?

- Hmm.
- That is devastating.

- Well, you know what?

I bet the DA is going to be

a lot better at telling it.

- Yeah, Claire Morgan...
- [scoffs]

- You're under arrest.

- No, that is-
- Turn around.

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* *

[indistinct chatter]

- What's going on?

- Claire!
- Is she okay?

- Claire!
- Claire, what's going on?

[crowd clamoring]

[shouts echoing]

- Back up, please.

[crowd shouting]

Got her?

* *

[crowd clamoring]

.

- Leah used to be
one of them, and now-

now they're all
rooting against her.

- I'm glad we could be here.

Leah needs our support.

- I think Leah's pretty tough,
right?

She's already done
the hard part.

She's admitted something that's
incredibly difficult to admit.

She's very courageous.

I think she's, uh-

I think she's free now.

- Liv...
- Yeah.

- Me getting jumped...

you think that could have
happened back in the day?

- I think that could have
happened to any one of us, Fin.

- Yeah, but even
a couple years ago,

I would have been faster.

I would have caught on quicker.

Definitely wouldn't have
lost my gun.

- I don't see it that way.

- [sighs]

- I don't think anybody does.

- Yeah.

I just think
I need a little bit more time

before I come back,

just to get my head around it.

- Yeah.

Take all the time you need.

There's always,

always gonna be
a place here for you.

- Thanks.

- I thought I was
hallucinating at first.

Claire Morgan walked
into our book club meeting.

Everyone tried to corner her,

but within minutes,
Claire was only talking to me.

- What did you two talk about?

- About reading her books

and feeling like
I could escape,

how I moved to the city
and felt lost.

I felt like she cared.

- But you don't feel
that way anymore?

- It feels like
I was being studied,

recruited for Stuart.

- Objection, speculation.
- Speculation?

Your Honor,
these are her feelings.

- Overruled,
but be careful, Mr. Carisi.

- Go ahead.

- Claire was only interested in

hearing about why
I felt broken.

It was research,

a checklist of vulnerabilities
for Stuart to exploit.

[somber music]

Claire wanted everyone
to see her

as this empathetic
champion of women,

but it's just a story.

- Thank you, Leah.
No further questions.

* *

- Who assaulted you, Leah?

- Stuart Morgan.

- And was Claire ever present
when these assaults occurred?

- No.

- Did you tell Claire
what Stuart did to you?

- I tried.

- In fact,
you were deliberately

hiding it from her, correct?

- Yes, but I-
- No further questions.

* *

- My life is
turned upside-down.

I can't sleep.

I can't eat.

I'm-I'm in analysis
three times a week,

and I'm only beginning
to process the trauma

of living with a rapist
for 15 years.

So I hope the jury can see

how cruel and unjust
this trial really is.

- Thank you.

No further questions.

- Mrs. Morgan, Leah Henning
and Nicole Sandoval

worked at your home
at the same time, correct?

- Correct.

- And you felt it appropriate
to only designate Leah

as someone that
your husband could pursue.

- I didn't designate anyone.

It was a harm reduction

because Stuart
can't help himself.

- What couldn't
he help himself from?

- Stuart likes young women,

and young women like
to work for me,

and so I figured

if an affair was
going to happen,

it might as well be with
someone who's replaceable.

- So why did you think
that Leah was replaceable?

- Nicole's work is specialized,

and so it requires expertise

and-and time and skill.

- But you didn't see
Leah's job that way?

- No, Leah's job is
doing things

like organizing my desk and-

and making reservations

and shipping off gifts to fans.

- Did Leah ever travel
with you?

No, she never tracked
your expenses

or maintained your calendar
or anything like that?

- No, I do all of that.

- Oh, OK,
well, that doesn't sound like

much of a job at all.

I mean, if you didn't hire her
to do that work,

then why did you hire her?

- I wanted to help her.
- Huh.

Did you tell Leah
that it was possible

your husband could be
interested in her sexually?

- No.
- So, to be clear,

you told your husband
that she was for him,

but you never bothered
to mention that to Leah,

and you're somehow surprised
that all of this has happened?

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* *

I'm done with her.

* *

- Has the jury reached
a verdict?

- Yes, we have.

- On one count
of witness tampering,

how do you find the defendant?

- Not guilty.

- On two counts
of conspiracy to commit rape.

* *

- Guilty.

- Thank you to the jury
for your service.

You are dismissed.

[crowd murmuring]

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

* *

- Your Honor,
may I make a statement?

* *

.

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* *

[wolf howls]

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