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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.

- Look at this.
Original 2002 Levi's.

- So excited for this.

- I mean, I love that
for you, but doesn't it hold,

like, three songs?

- It's got real buttons.

[button clicks]
Mm! That's so satisfying.

- All right, let's see
if this thing works.

- Maybe this is a mix tape.

- How much did you
get that for?

- 30 bucks.
They're like 100 at Urban.

- [scoffs]

[static crackling]

- You're not
supposed to be here.

Hey, come on. Don't do that.

No.

No. I said no!

Please!

[sobbing]
Get off! Please!

Please!
- Shut up.

You know you want it.

- [sobbing]

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- That sounded real.

- Where's the case?

♪ ♪

I'm gonna show this to my mom.

[drill whirring]

Mom?

- Hey, pass me the Phillips
number 2, will you?

And don't you have
a Mandarin quiz tomorrow?

You ready?

What's up?

- I think you should
listen to this.

- [sobbing]
No! Please!

Please!
- Shut up.

You know you want it.

- [sobbing]

- I listened to the rest
of the tape, both sides,

and it's all blank
except for this section.

- Okay, and this is
the only tape like this

that you guys had?

- The rest was music.

- Well, that must have
been hard to listen to.

- It's fine.

It's whatever.

- The thrift store
opens at 11:00.

They may be able to tell us
where the tapes came from.

- Okay. Well, Gabe, thank you.

Thank you so much
for bringing this in to us.

- Yeah. No problem.

- All right, go on.
I'll see you after practice.

- You know, I gotta say,
I can't believe that you

pay money for cassette tapes.

I still have my old
Dire Straits collection.

You think that might
be worth anything?

- Is that a band?

- I hate you.

Go to school.
- [laughs]

- You okay?
- Well, you know how boys are.

They act like nothing gets
to them, but I can see it does.

He's got a therapist.
He'll be all right.

- Yeah? And what about you?

- I got a therapist too.

- [chuckles]

- We'll hit the store
as soon as it opens.

- Here's what I'm thinking.

There's a forensic audiologist
that we've worked with before.

They might be able
to clean this up,

see if there's
anything more to hear.

- So what we have here
is a tiny win.

Out of 120 minutes,
I was able to successfully

recover four seconds.

- And that's a win?

- I did everything I could.

- Anything you can tell us
about the tape itself?

When it was made,
how readily available

was this particular format?

- Sony HF Type 1,
mainly used for dictation.

I can even tell you exactly
when the tape was recorded.

[whirring]

- October 2, 1999.

403 West 24th Street.

- And that's all she wrote.

My guess is someone
tried to degauss this.

- De-what?
- Degauss.

These tapes are magnetic.

That's how they hold
the information.

So you wave
a demagnetizing wand over it,

and all that data is toast.

- Someone knew they
recorded a crime

and didn't want
anyone finding out.

- We sell dozens
of tapes a day.

Can barely keep 'em
on the shelves.

Funny how all this stuff
comes back.

- Well, this one looks
like a home recording.

It had "number 56"
written on it.

- You know when he bought it?

- Sunday afternoon.

- Let me see what I can find.

- Oh, my God.

I would have died for one
of these when I was little.

- That one's got her adoption
papers and everything.

- Come on.
- [laughs]

- Oh.

No, I'm good.

- I can drop a hint to Carisi.

Birthday gift.
- No.

Maybe.

- Mm-hmm.

- Friday night we got
a decent haul

from this estate sale
on West 46th.

Whole building
was being demoed.

We took everything they had.

- Got the building
for next to nothing,

comparatively speaking.

Foreclosed property
built in 1910.

Last of the tenants moved out,
so we started demo.

- You recently had
an estate sale.

Where'd you get the items from?
- Basement.

It was loaded with crap from,
like, generations of tenants.

Still a ton of stuff
down there.

Gonna take me another six
months to sort through it all.

- You mind if we take a look?

- Oh, knock yourselves out.

- All right,
so I just wanna warn you,

if we encounter
a rodent of any kind,

my reaction will be intense.

- Noted.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- Hey, Rollins?
There's something back here.

You wanna help me out
with this?

♪ ♪

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

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- The remains are with the ME.

They're still working
on cause of death,

but preliminary report
says our vic was a woman,

roughly 22 to 25 years old.

- And CSU turned that
building inside and out,

what was left of it.

No other human remains
were found.

- Okay, is there any updates
with Missing Persons?

- UF 61 was filed
October 7, 1999.

Right age range and exactly
five days after the date

we heard on the tape.

- Tameka Davis--she was 24
when she went missing.

Single.

We found some
employment records from '97

saying she waited tables,
but nothing from '99.

- She got a record?

- No, but she
rented an apartment

at 403 West 24th Street,

the same address
mentioned on the tape.

She was living there
when she went missing.

- What about next of kin?

- Her mom, Tiffany Davis,
who reported her missing,

she's still around.
She's 67.

Tameka also had a son, Jayden.

He's 31, but he was just
a little guy at the time.

No dad on the
birth certificate.

- It's not a coincidence
that there was a dead body

and a recording
of a sexual assault

in that building.

So the former owner
was Brendan Kearney,

a known Westies enforcer.

And the FBI seized
the building in '99.

- That makes sense.

The Westies were mostly
disbanded by then,

but there were still
a few running around.

They were good for two things:

running coke
and contract killings.

- Well, we could
track down whoever

was heading up OC at the time.

- I actually already found
a detective who was undercover

for Narcotics back then.

- Ha!

Welcome back, Sergeant.

- It's part-time for now.

- You look good.
Glad to have you back.

- Thank you.

Well, I looked into that
24th Street apartment.

That whole 24th Street block
was a hot zone.

All kinds of gangs
fighting for territory.

But I happen to know
a guy who took down

the Westies back in the day.

I'ma hit him up.

- You want company?

- Let's roll.

Black with a packet
of Sweet'N Low.

- Half a pack now,
but with your ugly mug,

I'll burn a cheat day.

Bring it in, brother.

- Good to see you.

This is Sergeant Rollins.

She's with me at SVU.

- Chess partner call in sick?

- Moved to Florida 24 hours
after hanging up his badge.

What can I do
for you, Sergeant?

- Well, I'm wondering if
you recognize this woman.

- Sorry, I can't place her.

There were so many of them.
So many bodies.

Doesn't mean that
this one didn't matter.

- Mm.
- Where'd you find the body?

- Found the body in a basement
on West 46th Street.

We think she was killed
on West 24th.

- 24th?

That would have been
Gibbs' territory.

- Mm-hmm.
- Miles Gibbs.

Bed-Stuy born and raised,
just like you, Fin.

Started dealing south
of the Lincoln Tunnel.

Little upstart grew his empire

all the way up
to the West Side.

And man, were those
turf wars bloody.

Remember that?

- Hey, man, back then, somebody
would try to serve you a baggie

just for sitting
where you are now.

- What a world.

[knocking]

- You must be Jayden.

- Uh, can I help you?

- I'm Olivia Benson.

This is Renee Curry.

We're from NYPD--
Special Victims Unit.

Is your grandmother home?

- Who is it, honey?

- The--the police.

- Well, it's about time.

Tameka's dental records.

Pulled them for some cops
a couple of years back.

Hiked all the way up
to the precinct in Chinatown

just to find out they had
already ID'd their Jane Doe.

- At least Captain Benson
and Captain Curry

came in person, Gran.
- Mm-hmm.

- If it's all right, we'd like
to ask you a few questions.

- Okay.
- Okay.

- Does the name Miles Gibbs
mean anything to you?

- He was Tameka's man
for a bit.

Didn't last long, though.

- She ever tell you
what happened?

- Mm-mm.

How about you, Jayden?
You remember Miles?

- Uh, sure. Yeah.

Um, he bought me a race car
when I turned five,

but that's about it.

- When did they break up?

- A couple of days
before she went missing.

Miles was a bad egg.

I guess I don't have to tell
you what he did for a living.

But he was paranoid,
always accusing Tameka

of talking too much.

- Was she involved
in Miles's business?

- Absolutely not.
She hated drugs.

Hated what they were
doing to the community.

- So Tiffany,
there's something else

that we need your help with.

- Whatever you need.

He's old enough now.

He deserves the truth.

- We have a sound recording
of what we believe

might be the last moments
of Tameka's life.

This is gonna be
very, very hard to hear.

So if you don't wanna do it,
we completely understand,

and I won't ask you again.

- It's your choice, Jayden.

- Okay. Yeah.

- All right.

[somber music]

- You're not
supposed to be here.

Hey, come on.

Don't do that.

No.

No. I said no!

Please!

[sobbing]
Get off! Please!

Please.
- Shut up.

You know you want it.

- [sobbing]

♪ ♪

- Um...

that's her.

That's my baby.

- I didn't think
it'd be so hard.

- [sobbing]
Please! Please!

- Shut up.
You know you want it.

- [sobbing]
- Turn that off.

- You know who that was.

You recognize that voice.

- Yeah.

Whoever that dude was,
it wasn't me.

- Okay, then who was it?

If you know something,
you're not just helping us.

You're helping her.

- I don't work with cops,
no matter how nice

you bat those long eyelashes.

- Come on, man.

I came up in Bed-Stuy.

I rolled through boys
and girls high just like you.

- Here we go with the "you and
me, we're not so different"

psychobabble BS.
- Hey, come on.

We know from her mom
that you two were on the outs.

Huh?

What happened there?

- It was dark days back then.

Stash houses got cleaned out
left and right.

Took a minute before I even
realized that she was gone.

You're shaking down
the wrong perp.

My crew, we sold crack.

The Westies,
whats-ever ever left of them,

they did the contract cleanups.

But there was a third crew that
nobody likes to talk about...

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

'Cause they all
dressed in blue.

♪ ♪

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- What is all this?

- Griff and I pulled
every file that

was ever filed in the
original Miles Gibbs case.

An undercover op from the 2-9
was what eventually sunk him.

The cops had Tameka's apartment
bugged for months

without Miles knowing,
and that is where

our cassette tape came from.

We went through
every cassette tape

in the storage boxes.

Tape 56 is the only one
that is missing.

- So the cops knew
a rape had been recorded.

They tried to erase it
then chucked the tape.

- Okay, so a possible rape
and murder from 27 years ago,

and our main suspects are cops.

Let's hear it.
- Okay.

Four cops, front and center.

First, we got Jerry Kuenzel.

He put his papers in shortly
before Miles was arrested.

He bought a house
upstate in Hornell.

And besides cashing his pension
checks, he keeps a low profile.

- Okay, next we've got
Paul Holliday.

He retired as soon as he
could get his full pension.

Deceased as of five years ago.

Before then, he was
living large in Florida.

- Well, it looks like
Kuenzel cashed in too early.

- No kidding.

Thomas Ahearn retired from
the force seven years ago.

Got into private
security consulting.

He lives in Nyack.

- Going private
certainly pays, huh?

- Leo Eichmeier--
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.

I know Leo.

This guy's a DA investigator.

If Leo's involved in this,
then Baxter

might want me to call in
a special prosecutor

from another borough.
This is a conflict of interest.

- Hang on, because we don't
know what he did or didn't do.

So I think for now, this all
has to stay under wraps.

- Miles said that
cops were raiding

stash houses left and right,

but these logs
only show two busts.

- Two of these cops
are stacked with assets.

The best way to swipe loot from
raids is to not report them.

- It says here that both busts
were off intel from CI 17-A52.

- Okay.

[suspenseful music]

It was Tameka.

She was
the confidential informant.

- Her mom did say that Miles
said she talked too much.

- So we're saying
she was a CI

and the very cops
she was helping killed her.

- Care to visit your old
stomping grounds to find out?

- Happy to.

♪ ♪

- Here we go. Intake photos.

You know how to use this thing?

- I do.

Had to look up some
old RICO files last year.

Yep. 17.

A1, A2.

Liv was right.

CI 17-A52.

That's our girl.

- Dental records were a match.

These are the remains
of Tameka Davis.

Impossible to tell
if she was sexually assaulted,

obviously, but hyoid bone
was fractured,

indicating strangulation.

COD was blunt force trauma
to the head.

Her last moments weren't easy.

She fought hard.
- Okay.

I appreciate your thoroughness,

but you could have told me this
over the phone.

- This is why you're here.

We've got a second victim.

Found them in the same bag.

These over here,
skull fragments,

and these are hands and feet.

- So this is
a professional hit.

The killer wanted to make sure
that the body couldn't be ID'd.

- Yep, and based on bone volume

and the right foot's
talus length,

odds are your victim was male.

- So where's the rest of him?

- Kind of shocking, isn't it,

how small we all are
at the end?

Thank you for bringing
my daughter home.

- So there is one more thing
that I need from you, Tiffany.

I need you to tell me if you
recognize any of these men.

- No.

They're police.
- They are.

- Tameka never had
no problems with them.

- So we learned that
Tameka was actually

helping them as an informant.

- And you think
one of these men

might have done this to her?

- What we're trying
to figure out--

- Wait, I know him. I know him.

He came to the apartment not
too long before she went away.

[suspenseful music]

They were yelling
at each other in the kitchen.

- Did he--did he threaten her?

- No, no,
he was afraid for her.

He said if she left that night
that he would help her.

I mean, it's one
of the last things

I remembered about my mom.

- Thank you, Jayden.
That's--that's very helpful.

- I've been mad at her
for leaving me

for so long, you know?

- I've been telling you
for years, Jayden,

you gotta let that go.

- Me being mad at her
kind of...

kept her alive.

♪ ♪

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- Keep your ass in your pants.

I'll be right there.

- Hi.

I'm Detective Bruno.
This is Detective Griffin.

We're with the NYPD
Special Victims.

Is Jerry here?

- Out of town.

Not exactly sure
when he'll be back,

but I'll let him know
you stopped by.

Have a nice day.
- Okay.

Hey, can we get his
cell number, Mrs...?

- Letitia.

I'm his--we live together.

Look, am I under arrest
or something?

- You're not under arrest,

but it wasn't very
considerate of Jerry

to leave you home alone
and not tell you where he was.

Is he treating you right,
ma'am?

- Not as good as I deserve.

But we broke up
a long time ago.

- Jerry doesn't
live here anymore.

- No.
- Huh.

That's interesting,
because, uh,

someone has been cashing
his pension checks.

- Look, the jerk
walked out on me.

- We just wanna
know how to reach him.

- Well, good freaking luck.

I haven't heard
from the loser in 25 years.

[tense music]

- Jerry's been
missing for 25 years,

and you didn't report it?

- He was a dumbass!

First, he quits his police job.

Says he can't stand
the place no more.

Then he goes off on a bender
with his ex-cop buddies.

Goes off to some cabin.

Probably just got too pissed
to come home and show his face.

- Letitia, do you still
have anything of Jerry's?

Like old clothes, a hairbrush?

- Probably got, like,
an old cop uniform.

Why?

- We found some remains.

It might be him.

Lab results came back.

They pulled a hair from the hat
in Kuenzel's uniform.

DNA was a match
for the extra body parts

found with Tameka's remains.

- Okay, so we got a dead CI
and now a dead cop,

both connected to the Miles
Gibbs op and both found dead

in the basement of a building
that was owned

by a known Westies associate?

What are we thinking?
- All right.

Tiffany said Miles accused
Tameka of talking too much.

We know Kuenzel warned her.

So maybe she feared she was
burned, tried to back out,

and the other cops
wouldn't let her.

- One of them gets violent,

and the others, they're all
lining their pockets.

One of them goes down,
they all do,

so together,
they clean up shop.

- Well, when there's a cleanup,
we know that one of them

has a weaker stomach.

And in this case,
that was Kuenzel.

- Last Letitia heard from him,
he was headed up to a cabin

with his cop friends.

Eichmeier's got one
up in Roscoe.

- If these snakes kept
this secret for this long,

they'd be willing to do
anything to keep it buried.

- I hope you're right.

- Thomas Ahearn.

- Good morning, detectives.

- I'm Captain Curry.
This is Sergeant Rollins, SVU.

- Beautiful property
you got here.

- I can't complain.

So what can I do for you?

- We caught a case that might
involve some people you helped

put away back in the day.

We're hoping maybe you
can walk us through

some of your old case files.

- Which case?

- Miles Gibbs.

- Oh.

My memory's shot, Captain.

And to be honest, Sergeant,

I try not to think about
those days too much.

- But maybe we can walk you
through what we have.

It won't take longer
than a minute.

- Gotta go!
Have a nice day, detectives.

- NVIDIA is gonna double
by March.

I promise you that.

- Leo Eichmeier.

What are the chances?
Oh, sorry to interrupt.

I'm Jake Griffin.

My dad was a detective
in the 2-9.

He talked about you guys
all the time growing up.

- Griffin, Griffin.
You're Jimmy's kid.

- Yeah, sure am.

- By the look at you,
you made detective.

- Yeah.
- What do they got you on?

- Special Victims.

- Oh, sex police.

You're a bit of a pervert, huh?

- [laughs] You know, I just
go where they tell me to.

- Great to meet you.
Jimmy Griffin.

Whoo!

That's a blast from the past.

- Uh, to be honest, I knew
you'd be here, and, uh...

[whispering] I, uh, think
I gotta tell you something.

- [laughs]

I won't be more than a minute.
- No problem.

- So my dad spoke
very highly of you.

He always said that
you put your guys first, okay?

So I, uh--I wanted to tell you

that SVU is looking into
the Miles Gibbs undercover op.

- What does SVU
care about Gibbs?

That case was all Narcotics.

- [laughs]
Honestly, I'm just the new guy.

Still trying to figure out why
SVU looks into

half the cases it looks into.

All I'm saying is, if there's
a particular direction

that you want me to turn
everyone's neck...

[tense music]

- Jimmy worked days.
I worked midnights.

I offered to get him
a shift on my crew.

I told him
the overtime was killer.

You know what Jimmy, the rookie
detective making peanuts, said?

- What?

- He said, I've got
a little guy at home.

I gotta take care of him.

Good luck with
the investigation, kid.

♪ ♪

Hey.

I just got nudged.

Jimmy Griffin's kid.

- Oh, yeah? How's he?

- Eh, bit of a putz.

- I mean, he's not wrong.

- Okay, quiet.

- I'm wondering
about our old friend.

- I'm thinking
there's a chance

he comes over for dinner.

- When?
- Soon.

He still like that place
you got upstate?

- Yeah.

- Then let's make sure
it's spic and span.

- He's gotta be talking
about Eichmeier's cabin.

- They're gonna get rid
of the body.

- I'll expedite a warrant.

♪ ♪

- NYPD!

- Don't move!
- Hold on a minute.

Why don't we all calm down?

♪ ♪

- Put your hands
behind your head, now.

Watch them.

Everybody else, fan out.

♪ ♪

Griff!

[clattering]

After you, new guy.

- [grunts]

- Griff!

- [straining]

Ladder stops here.

- How much further you got?

- I think I can make it.

[grunts]

- You all right?

- Yeah.

- You see anything?

- Found the rest of Kuenzel.

♪ ♪

.

- You wanna explain to us
how half of Jerry Kuenzel

wound up on your property?

- And what were you
and Thomas Ahearn doing

with an angle grinder
and a couple of tarps

at 10:00 at night?

- You got nothing to say?

You know, my old partner
at Bronx SVU used to say

there's only
two kinds of perps--

honest crooks
and crooked police.

Well, at least one of them can
look themselves in the mirror.

- Back in the day, Bronx police
used to pull stunts.

Made the 2-9
look like honest Abes.

- [laughs]

Oh, how they let you within

an inch of the DA's office,
I have no idea.

But you know what?

You are not as slick
as you think you are, man,

because we found something.
Oh, yeah.

We found the cassette tape that
you and your friends doctored,

and it has got cover-up
written all over it.

So we're gonna look into
every aspect of your life

until we find the truth.

- I bet you all
of Jimmy's buddies

told you your daddy was
clean as a baby's soul.

[tense music]

Keep believing that, kid.

- That big house,
that cute boat,

the condo you just
bought your daughter,

we're gonna go after all of it.

You tell us what happened to
Tameka Davis, Jerry Kuenzel,

we may try and get you
a lighter sentence.

- You wanna know how SVU
got ahold of that tape?

Hmm?

My teenage son found it,
accidentally listened to it,

and then Captain Benson and I
had the true pleasure

of playing it
for Tameka's mother.

Hadn't heard her daughter's
voice in 27 years,

and now this is the last memory
she's gonna have of it.

The sound of Tameka
pleading for her life,

pleading to be with her son.
- You know something,

and you wanna sit there
and say nothing.

- Thomas, did you hurt her?

Did you use Tameka for intel?

And then when you realized you
couldn't squeeze her anymore,

you raped her.
- No.

- You beat her.

- No, I could never--
look, look,

we manipulated her to get us
all rich, like you said.

Leo was her handler,
and he had this, um...

let's call it
a fixation for her.

- Okay.

Was he in her apartment
that night?

- He and I both were.

And yeah, Leo--

Leo got a bit fresh.

- Did you see him hurt her?

- No, he didn't--

he was just flirting, you know?

He put his hand on her waist.

- You didn't feel
the need to step in?

- Leo told me to get lost.

Told me to meet him
at the corner pub.

An hour later, the guy
shows up, and he's panicked.

He said that Tameka
just flipped out on him

and he had to put her down,
and then he needed our help.

And Kuenzel and Holliday
and me were

the only guys he could trust.

- So Eichmeier rapes
and kills her,

and then he calls you all
to clean house.

- It's not like
we had a choice.

- How'd she end up
in a basement

in a building on West 46th?

- Leo had a Westie contact.

It's like calling a guy who--

to come pick up
your dry cleaning.

You ring him up,
and no questions asked.

- So what happened
in Leo's cabin?

- Leo was always scared
that Kuenzel

was eventually gonna crack,
so we put the screws to him.

I can still see it to this day.

We had poor Jerry there,

swearing on
his dead mother's grave

he's never gonna tell a soul.

Then Leo just--

♪ ♪

Leo just reached into his couch
cushions, pulled out a gun,

and shot the guy mid-sentence.

But it's been 27 years.

I can't carry this thing
no more.

- What are we thinking here?

Rape and first-degree
murder charges

for Leo Eichmeier on top of
all the corruption charges?

- Hard to believe
Leo's capable of all this.

- I know.

What do you wanna do
with Ahearn?

- Look, everything that he said

matches up with the evidence
we found.

- Let's charge him
with conspiracy

for the cover-up as well as
the corruption.

We'll plead down on sentence
if he helps us nail Eichmeier.

- Chief Tynan,
it's nice to see you.

- I would have given you
a call, but since you're here,

Ahearn just flipped
on Eichmeier.

We're discussing a plea deal.

- I see.

Look, nobody likes
to force open old wounds,

least of all 1PP.

But I'd just like to underscore
how much locking up

two dirty cops would
give the department

the boost it needs

in light of
all the, uh, recent bad press.

And Captain Benson has done

such a terrific job
investigating.

- It was a group effort.

- No need to be modest.

We all know how much you
love being in the trenches.

- Let's offer Ahearn
five years.

- You want me to call
the Brooklyn DA,

get a special
prosecutor assigned?

I mean,
Eichmeier does work with us.

- Not anymore, he doesn't.

- I was weak,
plain and simple.

And I'm not trying
to get a free ride here, okay?

I'm gonna do time
for my corruption charges.

But I never hurt that girl.

And I didn't kill
Jerry Kuenzel.

Leo Eichmeier did.

- Thank you, Mr. Ahearn.

Nothing further, Your Honor.

- Everyone loves
a reformed cop.

Now, Mr. Ahearn, please tell
the jury how you know

a Michael Christopher Lally.
- Objection. Relevance?

- Overruled.

Answer the question,
Mr. Ahearn.

- Michael was an acquaintance.

- He was a member of
the notorious Irish gang

called the Westies, wasn't he?

- That's what I heard.

- And isn't it also true,
Mr. Ahearn,

that Mr. Lally was
your ex-wife's first cousin?

- That's correct.

- And isn't it also true
that it was you,

Mr. Ahearn, not the defendant,
who called Mr. Lally

to help dispose of the bodies?

- Yes, but I did it
at Leo's behest.

- Thank you for answering
the question, Mr. Ahearn.

What did you do
with the drugs that you stole?

[tense music]

- We sold them.

- So all four of you
went to the streets

and took up slinging crack
as a side gig?

- We sold them
to Michael Lally.

- Ah, so through your
connection to Mr. Lally,

you're the reason
everyone got rich.

And you're the reason
that Tameka Davis

and Jerry Kuenzel's remains
wound up in that basement.

Now, you're saying that
my client was the one calling

the shots, but it sounds
to me like you were the one

keeping the machine running.

Could any of this--

the corruption,
the murders, the cleanup--

could any of this have
happened without you?

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- So that makes the rest of
his testimony null and void?

- Vaughn's gonna pin this
whole thing on Ahearn.

If we're lucky,
Eichmeier does minimal time

for the corruption
and conspiracy.

- And Tameka just gets
lost in the shuffle.

- Well, Miles Gibbs,
he's the first one to hint

that cops were involved.

- Well, he wouldn't
give up details then.

What makes you think that
he's gonna talk now?

- I'll tell him we listen.

I saw the look on your face
when you were

listening to that recording.

Tameka just wasn't some girl.

You cared about her.

You loved her.

I also know you applied
for parole last year

and got denied.

Tell me what you know,
and I promise I will show up

to your parole hearing
and tell the parole board

what you did to help Tameka.

- I do some cop dirty, what you
think they're gonna do to me?

- This won't reopen your case.

You've done your time.

You help put some murderous,
raping cop away,

and the parole board will
look at you differently.

- Leo Eichmeier
put me in bracelets.

And when he did, you know
what that pig said to me?

That he gave Tameka
what she deserved,

that she liked it,
that she died begging for more.

- You'll tell that to a jury?

- I probably can do better
than that.

FBI had ears all up
in my business.

My place was bugged,
just like Tameka's.

I learned that in court.

- You're saying
this is all on tape.

- I don't know.

What, am I supposed to do
your job for you?

Go talk to the Feds.

- All right. Okay.

- There was a lot of ugliness,
a lot of violence back then.

But Tameka, she was innocent.

She was good.

You know, when I met her
she was waiting tables.

I left her a $100 tip.

I shouldn't have done that.

And maybe--well...

if I hadn't asked her out,

we wouldn't be here now,
would we?

♪ ♪

.

- When you're in the game,
you don't make it to the top

'cause you can
shoot a gun straight.

You get there because you
can look a man in his eye

and know if what
he's selling is BS.

Leo Eichmeier did what he said
he did on that tape.

- Mr. Gibbs, can you enlighten
the jury on the charges

brought against you in '99?

- It might be best you do it.

The DA tells me I don't
do lawyer-speak right.

- Possession and distribution
of controlled substances,

racketeering, obstruction
of justice and--ah,

here's the one--

lying to federal officers
while under oath.

Do you remember doing that?

- I said some things.

I did some things back then,
a lot of things.

But every man's gotta have
a code...

and this here's mine.

[tense music]

I never raped
or murdered anyone.

All the crimes I did do,
I served my time.

And Leo Eichmeier's
gotta do his.

♪ ♪

- Guilty on all counts.

Gibbs did good, but Fin,
I gotta tell you, man,

it's great to have you back.

- Actually,
that was just a one-off.

Fin is not back full-time yet.

- What are you talking about?
Why?

- Still making my way
through "GTA V."

- Hey, well, look,
seeing as I just put away

one of my own investigators,
there's an opening in my office

if you're ever looking
to take things down a notch.

- What? Okay, hold on.
What is happening here?

Now you're poaching
people from my unit?

- What? No, never.

Come on. It's just an idea.

- Fin is fine. Fin has a job.
- Okay.

- Hey, yo, I'ma let
you two hash this out.

I've still got a ton of gold
bullion waiting on me to boost.

- Well, come on.
It's just an idea.

- Oh, what is the idea?

That Fin needs to
take it down a notch?

Is that--is that any of
your business, Carisi?

- No, it's not,
but that's not what I said.

- He doesn't need to take it
down a notch or slow down.

He needs SVU.

- Liv, are you
talking about Fin,

or are you talking about you?

♪ ♪

- [scoffs]

- Junior's?

- Eileen's.

- Jimmy raised you right.

Mm.

So what's on your mind, kiddo?

- I, um--

I interrogated Leo Eichmeier.

- Leo Eichmeier is
a murderer, rapist,

and an embarrassment to this
department and this city.

Keep that at the forefront
of your mind

whenever he opens his mouth.

- Yeah, well, he said Dad
wasn't who I thought he was.

I just gotta know
what's what--for me.

I could find out myself,
I guess,

but I wanted to ask you first.

- I need you
to understand something.

Back then,
it was a different world.

The perps were different.

The rules and standards
were different.

Were there things
we did back in the day

that wouldn't fly now?

Sure.

But was Jimmy a good cop?

Absolutely.

He was brave. He was loyal.

- Well, Leo Eichmeier
valued loyalty too.

He valued loyalty so much,
in fact,

that he killed Jerry Kuenzel
over it.

- What's the ideal outcome
of you and I

engaging in this conversation?

- The truth.
- To what end?

- To know who he was, you know?

And if he was
something different, then--

- You'll stop loving him?

You'll stop being a cop?

- No.

- I'd suggest figuring out
what you want

before asking those questions,
Jake.

[apprehensive music]

Things going well at SVU?

- Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Smooth sailing.

- I might need you to look into
something for me down the line.

- What's that?
- Just some old cases.

Which is evidently
right up your alley.

- Yeah. Okay.

Um, well, you know, I'm pretty
busy over there, so--

- You'll find the time.

- Well, thank you
for the chat, Chief.

- You're welcome.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[wolf howls]