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In the criminal justice system, the
people are represented by two separate

equally important groups, the police who
investigate crime and the district

attorneys who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

It's okay.

I got you. I got you.

I'm sorry.

Help me. That's the plan, love. Come on.

What's your name?

Nadia. Nadia.

Said she walked in? 20 minutes ago.

Won't say what happened. She'll only
give us her first name, Nadia. She's

Russian. A Ukrainian?

She allowed a cursory eval?

We found vaginal trauma. It looks like
sexual assault. We're hoping you can get

her to talk. Okay.

Nadia, see you again.

Attention,

all units, be on the lookout for a white
female, 20s, Nadia Doe, gray sweats,

tennis shoes, fled Mercy Hospital,
believed on foot, requires medical

That's just a few blocks away, right?

Wife and I joined this new gym ever
since we keep getting peppered with ads

longevity supplements and testosterone
boosters for men of a certain age.

And you qualify?

Apparently.

Hey, I think that's the Nadia Doe.

Nadia?

Nadia, right?

Nadia? Okay.

It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. We're
going to get you some help.

Sector 27, we made contact with Nadia
Doe, the bullet from the ER.

Hey, Nadia, why don't you come take a
seat in our car, okay? Come get warm.

You're safe, okay?

It's safe now, all right?

Nadia, look, I promise.

Shots fired. Shots fired. Tickets in 2,
10, 75.

I need to post an all -fail unit to 28th
and left.

Go, go, go.

I guess you'd be Westbound on 31. Jersey
plates.

Alpha, Romeo, George, 264.

Jess, what the hell happened?

God, you have so much blood here. It's
okay. Don't worry about it. One shot to

the head from a distance.

She saw the perp.

She knew the guy, no doubt.

Did you get a physical on the shooter?

No. He was in the passenger seat, masked
up, gloved up. Same thing as the

driver. We have no identifiers at all.

Did you find anything on the body? Yeah.

This is some kind of a prayer card.

Found it in the pocket of her sweats.

Timchenko.

I'm going to get this to Finn. He's got
some free time on his hands.

I'm coordinating with Riley and Walker
trying to find this prick.

And I'll head to the ER and see what
they missed before Nadia made a run for

This was at 11 .36 a .m.

That's the guy.

Okay, and it was after you told Nadia
that her brother was here that she took

off, right? Okay.

You think there's some connection?

He seemed like a super nice guy.

Yeah, maybe not so much.

Can you go back to when he first walks
in?

See if you can get us an image of him
before he puts his mask on, whatever's

clear.

There you are.

Did he show an ID when he came in? No.

Okay, so we don't have a name.

But you got a face? Yeah.

That's not nothing.

Hey, I got a decent image of the perp.
I'm going to send it on over. Where are

we on the vehicle?

All right, guys, listen up.

We got video of the SUV entering this
parking garage seven minutes ago, and

there's no indication our guy left. This
is the guy we're looking for, white

male, 40s, average build. He killed
someone in broad daylight and did not

hesitate to shoot at me, so let's be
ready, okay?

Go.

Honey, you're going to be with your
father this evening. Ma 'am, ma 'am.

What? Come on, come on, come on. All
right, here we go.

Get back! Get back! Get back!

Hey.

Hey, he says the fire was started with a
flare, intentionally, obviously, and

that any potential DNA evidence in that
vehicle is gone.

ESU was scouring cameras in the area. No
dice so far. And these two had direct

access to Penn Station from the garage.

Yup. Two minutes after parking, they'd
be on the subway, Amtrak, Jersey

you name it. What about the plates on
the SUV?

Stolen. Oh, you two are full of good
news.

You know, my phone's ringing off the
hook.

This woman was shot in broad daylight.

The brass one's answers were circling
the drain.

Autopsy's in.

Nadia Dill was not the victim of sexual
assault.

She was not.

The nurse at the ER says she was. She
got it wrong.

Nadia was recently pregnant.

Like within days.

What about her trauma, her wounds?

They were caused by medical forceps used
crudely. So what are you saying? Was

there a delivery?

And there's a baby out there somewhere?

It's possible.

I need to do more tests to try to figure
that out, but yeah, it's possible.

Hey, what's up? Benson had me look into
the prayer card found on the victim.

Nadia Tetsun. That's Nadia's real name.
Nadia Tetsun. All right.

Okay. The name on the prayer card is
Simchenko.

He's a priest.

He presides over Nadia's church back in
Ukraine.

You got in touch with him? Yeah, I just
talked to him on the phone. He said

Nadia flew out here about two months
ago.

You say why?

Nobody said she came by herself.

Okay, so we can run it against Pastor
Manifest, figure out when and how Nadia

got to the U .S.

Absolutely. Thanks, Simchenko. Thank
you.

There's our girl. And clearly pregnant.

11 .14 a .m., August 2nd. Direct flight
from Kyiv?

Not this day anymore. Ukrainian airspace
is closed.

She's waiting near Bags Lane 14,
Terminal 1, and... Who the hell is that?

A guy takes her suitcase, and they head
for the exit.

Where does that exit take them?

Short -term parking's right there.

What about the cameras at the pay
stations in the parking lot?

Yeah, we can pull those.

Let's do that.

She's dead.

Well, now, see, I'm surprised that
you're surprised.

Oh, no, you guys got the wrong idea
here. No, see, we just call balls and

strikes here. Now, our detectives have
video footage of you picking up

Nadia at JFK and men leaving seven
minutes later out of short -term parking

Nadia, which means, you know what that
means. That means that...

That you were the last person to see her
alive, and that's a strike.

Yeah, OK. No, I'm a nobody. No, no.
Today, today, you're definitely a

Guys, what are we doing here? I accept
driving assignments on Telegram.

They're encrypted. I pick up. I deliver
a little bit of crypto lens in my

account. I don't have any questions. All
right, so after you picked up Nadia at

JFK, where did you take her?

Lady. It's Captain.

Captain.

In my line of work, answering questions
like that is bad for my health. You feel

me? No.

Not even a little. The truth is, we
don't really care if you talk or not.

Oh, is that right? Yeah, that's right.
The second you met Nadia at JFK,

technically your actions crossed
international borders, and you used the

of foreign commerce.

So whatever crime you committed during
that process... Which was nothing. ...is

federal.

So we can just hand you over to the
feds.

Tell them everything we know. You were
her only point of contact in the U .S.,

and now she's dead.

Oh, and just to be clear, this is a
death penalty offense, so while you're

sitting there in your little cement
cell, you can think back on this moment

wonder if not talking was the right
decision.

Is she insane?

Good luck.

Hey, wait.

That mean you got something to say?
Something useful?

Yeah.

I was told Benson and Brady this way
dropped off Nadia after she got to the

Had an abandoned power plant?

Yeah, we've been set up on him, but
there's no signs of life in there.

No way of knowing what's inside.

No way to find out.

NYPD!

Hey, careful.

It doesn't look like anybody's been here
for a while.

Why would he bring Nadia here?

What about that door?

Maybe that light?

Ready?

Saw that?

Bleach. Yeah.

Found the bleach smell.

Wow. Found the bleach over here.

These doors locked from the outside.

Whoever was sleeping here was locked
inside.

A bunch of baby pacifiers over here.

Most of them are still in the packaging.

It's still warm.

It just left.

Guys!

They're like a maternity ward.

So they brought Nadia to this place and
then they kept her here?

There's a bunch of other women.

Jesus.

Is that what we're looking at?

Some kind of baby mill?

So, Jess... The ME found tropoblastic
degeneration in Nadia's uterus

and an inflamed endometrium. All right,
English, por favor. Okay, so Nadia

didn't give birth. She suffered a
miscarriage, but here's what's strange,

that the fetal DNA that was found in her
uterine lining is wholly unrelated to

Nadia's DNA.

So she was a surrogate, carrying someone
else's baby.

Is that what this is? Nadia was flown to
the U .S. to give birth to someone

else's child? Not just Nadia.

These women are being trafficked, and
they're forced to carry someone else's

baby.

Hey, so we scrubbed the basement, found
traces of DNA, but no hits on CODIS or

any other database.

We tracked the SKUs of the baby supplies
we found. They were all bought with

Amazon gift cards.

Purchasing cash, then mailed to a postal
box rented under a fictitious name.

Okay, great.

Hang on.

I got good news.

They found the car that brought Nadia to
the ER. It's down on Halfpin and 2nd.

Bruno.

I couldn't figure out how Nadia got from
the abandoned power plant to the ER,

and I got a hit.

Caught this on a security camera outside
a bodega three blocks from the ER.

There's Nadia getting out of this car,
and you can see...

A woman drove and dropped her off. I
can't make out any features. She's

a hat. There's sunflower on it. You run
the plates?

They're stolen from Staten Island.

Created an ALPR hot list. The car got
ticketed for a parking meter violation,

I got a payment. But what's this woman
doing here?

Hey, Brady, check this out.

No, I cannot help.

Okay, will you look again, please?
Because this is very important.

I'm telling you, I've never seen this
woman.

Excuse me.

Are these people living here?

Just visiting.

Can we see your change of use permit?

I'm sorry?

Well, you're zoned for assembly, not
lodging. And if you haven't changed your

zoning, then you're subject to up to $1
,000 a day in fines. You're going to

need sprinklers.

ADA access, and the city will most
likely shut you down until you get up to

code. These women are war refugees.

You can't just put them out on the
street. I'm very sorry about that, but

hands are tied. I have to make a call.

Hey, are you okay?

I don't like begging people to help me
solve a freaking murder, but yeah, sure,

I'm fine. Why?

I don't know, because you just told the
driver that...

She's going on death row. Well, we're
allowed to lie to them. Yes, I know

but then you just told the priest that
you're going to put his war refugees out

on the street. I'm just doing my job.
Look, I understand.

A woman just got her head blown off six
inches from you. She pushed me out of

the way, Liv.

What?

She what?

Nadia knew she was going to die, and the
last thing she did was put up her hand

and make sure it was her and not me.

I didn't... I didn't know that.

Okay.

Okay, we're gonna get these guys.

I can't believe she's dead.

Paulina, we need to understand what
happened to you, to Nadia.

So, please, let's just start at the
beginning, okay?

Okay.

Well...

A man found me and Nadia back home in
Ukraine, and many others too.

And this man, he said I would receive a
baby.

An embryo?

Yes. He brought the embryo from the U
.S., said that he would take me to a

doctor near Kiev who would implant it,
and then I would give birth in the U .S.

Did they ask you any questions about
yourself, like any qualifications?

He wanted to make sure I was not Jewish
or Muslim.

How much did they pay you?

We paid them. Wait, what?

You paid them?

For what?

He said we would give birth to anchor
babies, become U .S. citizens.

I bankrupted my family to get here.

When we arrived, when we were locked
away.

Then we knew it was all a lie.

What happens to the baby?

I don't know.

When one of us gives birth, they are
just gone.

What about Nadia?

Something was wrong with her baby.

They brought her to the bed, but they
could not save the baby.

The pain was horrible.

And it became clear they were not going
to help her. So we escaped.

We stole the keys to that car.

And we ran.

And brought her to the hospital.

Who was involved in all this? Who was in
charge of the place?

A man and a woman.

But they are very careful. We never see
their faces.

I don't know their names.

The only person I know is the man who
recruited me.

What is his name?

Misha.

That's all I know. Well, can you
describe him?

Average.

Quiet.

About 35.

Paulina, we can take you to a safe house
where nobody's going to be able to...

No, I'm safe here.

And I'm with my people.

Okay.

Okay, well, we will be in touch with
you, okay? But in the meantime, I

I'll leave that with you. Thank you.

There are 20 pregnant women out there
somewhere.

You want to play follow the embryo? How
do we do that?

Well, look, if this Misha character is
flying embryos to Eastern Europe, that

means that they have to be on ice,
right?

Embryos that are stored before they're
implanted into a surrogate are kept in a

tank of liquid nitrogen. They call them
snowflakes. My sister did IVF. Okay, so

you can't just hop on a plane with
liquid nitrogen. There has to be some

approval process.

I mean...

There can only be so many people that
apply for that. So we pull the

applications and see who's flying
snowflakes to Ukraine.

Lou, I think it worked.

I'm right.

Is Amisha the nickname for Mikhail in
Russia?

Yeah, I think so.

Okay, take a look at this guy. He filed
17 applications to fly with liquid

nitrogen in the last two years.

39 years old. Lines up with the age that
Paulina Kravitz gave us. And they left

an apartment in Long Island City as his
home address.

Okay, pull this picture, bring it over
to Paulina. If she says that's the guy,

that's the guy. Uh -huh.

He lives here.

All right, get back downstairs. We're
safe.

Kitchen clear.

Bathroom clear.

Misha, hold on.

Show me your hands, but get on the
ground.

Get on the ground!

Show me your hands!

Doesn't look like Misha is going to be
much help.

Okay, we're in.

Great. Hey.

Hey, no sign of forced entry, so he
probably invited them in. Well, it looks

like he was offering them tea.

Okay, so what do we actually know? We
know Misha travels regularly to Eastern

Europe. He recruits women.

Christian women. Under false pretenses
to come to the U .S., where they

basically become vessels and are under
lock and key at some twisted baby farm.

We don't know whose embryos are getting
implanted. We don't know what happens to

the babies. We do know the people who
this Misha worked for understand we're

looking for them and they're trying to
cover their tracks.

First at the baby farm and now here.

We have no idea who they are.

We just found some WhatsApp messages
from somebody.

Demanded that Misha make good on some
sort of financial arrangement.

And this person was very unhappy.

Looks like the last one was from two
days ago. Says give us our damn baby or

we're coming at you with everything
we've got.

Misha never responded.

Hi, Lieutenant Brady, Captain Benson,
NYPD.

Can I help you? Yeah, well, we hope so.
Is this your residence?

It's his place now. We just work here.
Right, right. And your name?

Carrie, Carrie Valenti. Who is it,
honey?

What's this about?

Messages were sent on WhatsApp recently
to a man named Misha Orlov. We think

from this apartment based on the IP
address.

And? And he's been murdered.

What?

Could we come inside?

Uh, yeah. Yes.

I'm just putting the baby down for now.
Give me a sec. Thank you.

Misha Orlov was shot today in his
apartment at 11 .30 a .m., we think. Can

tell us where you were?

Uh, Jason was at work.

The baby was at my mom's. I was here. I
had a bunch of Zooms.

You can't possibly think we had
anything. Well, I have a text I'd like

you. Give us our damn baby or we're
coming at you with everything we've got.

Not my finest moment, but we had nothing
to do with this. You're going to need

to come up with a better explanation
than that.

We've tried for years to have a baby,
but we couldn't conceive.

So we thought about adoption, but in
this city, it's 75 grand.

We went online, we found a Christian
charity that made adoption affordable.

Misha was our point of contact, and it
was a dream.

You met in person?

No, no, over the phone, you know,
texting stuff.

And what about the birth mother you meet
her?

No, it was a closed adoption.

Okay, I'm still not following why you
were so angry, and you said you were

to come after him with everything you've
got. Our son, he's...

He's changed everything, you know? And
so we wanted to have another, and we

Misha the payment, and then he just
ghosted us. He vanished.

Well, I'm sorry to have to tell you
this, but we believe that you acquired

son unwittingly on the black market.

What? If that's what you think. We're
not saying another word.

In fact, I think it's time that you
leave. Well, we're not leaving until

We're not talking without a lawyer.

Get the hell out of our house. A lawyer?
Why would you need a lawyer unless

you're involved? Jess, I'm not... He
said lawyer.

This is a highly unusual situation.

But we understand that you need
assurances before you'll share more

with us.

Do you?

This is my son.

This is...

This is our family. We can't live with
the idea that someone might just come

take him away. I'm a father, Ms.
Valenti. I get it.

So it took some prodding.

But we won those accommodations.

A judge has issued a protective order
that will keep your identity and any

statements you provide and all records
relating to your son sealed and

restricted so that only essential
parties can see them forever.

If we make an arrest in the murders of
Nadia Tetsun and Misha Orlov, and we

your testimony, you will testify under a
pseudonym, and you'll be immune from

any criminal liability.

And we guarantee that no one from the
NYPD or this office will ever alert CPS

even the existence of your son.

They're right. This court order, this is
as much protection as the law provides.

Mrs. Valente, we get it. We want you to
live your life.

to raise your son.

But what that means is that you need to
do the right thing as well.

So we need you to tell us everything
that you know.

I can't. I can't. This idea that my son
is the product of some

criminal underworld.

It makes me sick. I understand that. I
understand that, and that's not

that we can undo.

But there are at least 20 pregnant women
out there in the world right now who

are in grave danger.

One of them is already dead, so we need
to find the rest of them.

The Valentis identified the charity they
used to adopt their baby as this outfit

called Hope Lifts. We ran it down.

It is fraudulent, like we figured.

The principal's registered the charity
under false names and addresses in

Malta? Apparently it's a hotbed for
stuff like this. I mean, all kinds of

They still use fax machines, too. Oh, a
literal paper trail. I've missed those.

So this bogus charity's articles of
incorporation were filed by fax from an

office in Tribeca belonging to a lawyer
named Derek Hobbs.

Derek Hobbs?

Ring a bell?

Mm -hmm.

That's who the Valenti said delivered
their son to their front door.

Derek Hobbs?

NYPD.

Okay, what do you want?

We're on the way to my daughter's
basketball game.

That's you?

About a year ago?

At the home of Jason and Carrie Valenti,
handing them their adopted son?

So? We believe that child is the product
of...

Some kind of underground baby farm where
women are exploited and trafficked.

Trafficked? Darcy, wait in the car.

No, what are they talking about?
Nothing. It's just my work.

Wait in the car.

We need to know who your clients are and
who runs this operation.

As I'm sure you know, I have no legal
obligation to answer that question or

reveal the identity of any of my
clients.

So if you'll excuse me.

Tell you what, I'll come with you.

What do you mean?

Well, I'll explain to your daughter
exactly who you are and what daddy

does for a living.

We've got two people dead, Derek.

So whoever you do your grunt work for to
make a buck, they're killers.

They kept women as slaves to make
babies, which they then sold for profit.

you're trying to hide behind the law?

I don't have anything to hide from you.

Great. Then you don't have anything to
hide from your daughter either.

Come on out, Darcy. Come on, come on,
come on.

We're going to talk about what daddy
does for work. Stop!

Leave!

It's up to you.

We can do this however you want.

So, according to your lawyer buddy,
Derek Hobbs, This is the husband and

team that operated a fraudulent charity.

Sergey Volkov and Sarah Tandon.

What do we know about them? Okay,
Volkov's a Russian national, been in the

for a decade.

Short sheet, nothing remarkable, nothing
violent.

Sarah Tandon, well, couldn't find much
on her.

No property holdings, no criminal
record, no business licenses. But this

the E .R. Now, this is the guy who
claimed to be Nadia's brother, then put

bullet in her head.

That's a clear match.

This is our guy. Now, all we got to do
is figure out where the hell they are.

Whoa, guys, I got something.

Went back to the original synth. Which
was?

Theft of the plates that were on the SUV
Volkov was driving.

And that almost took your eyebrows off
in the parking garage?

Go on, check this out. I found some
security footage from the block where

plates were stolen.

So there's Volkov.

Uh -huh. Gets into that van. Now, those
plates, they come back to him. And two

hours ago, they popped in the Verrazano
Narrows. They tracked the van with Argus

to a warehouse in Staten Island.

Hit it.

It's a cryobank.

These are frozen embryos.

Snowflakes. There's got to be hundreds
of them.

All right, let's keep moving.

Sergey Volkov, Sarah Tanner, get on the
ground!

Some sort of PCC.

Yeah, but no pistol.

Murder weapon's probably long gone.

Found these bloody embryo tanks.

Consent forms, medical disclosures, and
custody transfers.

They're all from the same clinic, a
place called Hudson Fertility Group.

So some of the embryos gotta be from
there.

All right, let's go.

Ms. Warren, how did this work?

Our clients who undergo IVF, they
typically generate extra embryos.

They can donate them to science. They
can elect to have them disposed of as

medical waste. That can be tough.

For religious people especially.

Right. So you match the donors with the
recipients?

No, there are charities for that.

They receive the embryos here, match
them with devout couples with the

that these children eventually will be
raised in faithful homes.

Right, so Hopeless is one of these
charities.

Yes. Who did you speak to from Hopeless?

The lady who ran it.

Her credentials were impeccable. Diana
Hill?

Is that Diana Hill?

Yes.

Thank you.

Ms. Tandon, these charities perform a
real public service.

For faithful people struggling with what
to do with extra embryos, people who

want to be loving parents, and you knew
that.

And you exploited it.

I can almost admire the business model.

I mean, you tell these women they're
going to become U .S. citizens so they

for their own trafficking, and your raw
materials, the embryos you get donated

from the fertility clinic, it's a sure
profit.

But what's the endgame?

What's the plan here? I mean, what are
you gonna do with 400 embryos?

Lawyer.

Sarah Tandon denies everything. Other
than that, she's not saying a word.

No, we have a solid case against her on
fraud related to the fake charity, but

the trafficking piece is not a slim dunk
by any stretch. And there's no hard

evidence tying it to the murders of
Nadia and Misha. We can't even put Sarah

Tandon at the baby farm at all. How many
years are we looking at on the charges

we feel good about?

Seven years, maybe. What happened here
is unspeakable. As far as we know, Sarah

Tandon is the architect of this entire
thing. She stole these women's lives.

stole their bodies.

For profit. And you're saying she could
be out in three years? Unless something

changes. Yes.

So we've got to chase whatever leads we
can. We'll push forward here on the

charges we haven't put the rest together
on the fly.

Do whatever we have to do to hold Sarah
Tandon accountable for this whole damn

thing.

Got it. The warrant landed.

Getting us into Volkov and Sarah
Tandon's encrypted Discord messages.

Let's hope there's something useful in
there and not just Sarah telling Volkov

to go take out the trash.

There's got to be something right. I
mean, this can't just happen. What, that

woman is murdered within six inches of
you in broad daylight and you can't make

the case? Yeah, that. Wait, hang on.

I checked out this flurry of messages
from November 30th between Volkov, Sarah

Tandon, and somebody.

We'll take them all.

And then...

All the embryos? Who would want to buy
400 embryos? Maybe they mean all the

babies that were said to be born in the
next few months. Oh, I don't mean to

beat a dead horse, but who would want 20
babies at the same time? Look at that.

Sarah Tandon says, I can make a delivery
on December 2nd. Well, that's

yesterday. So whoever's communicating
with them here, let's try to tie these

messages to an IP address to a location.

Got it.

I don't think anybody's home.

Hey.

Main house is clear.

Check this out.

My God.

It's a bow guy.

Ancient Germanic thing.

Vandals.

Appropriated by some very bad people. If
you hang this, it means you're willing

to die for the cause.

What's the cause?

Hate.

We've got one more structure to clear.

All right, let's go.

the freaking bomb factory.

There's a lot of hardware.

So, Volkov and Tandon were talking to a
bunch of white supremacists. White

supremacists with an arsenal.

But what did the hate group have to do
with the baby milk? Whatever the reason,

we need to get the bomb squad in here.
I'll give them a heads up. Shh, hold on.

You hear that?

Everyone out!

Move now! Everyone out now! Move!

Move! Move!

Everybody out, now!

Oh, God.

I need a buck now.