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

I'm sorry.

I don't speak any title.

Oh, help me.

That's the plan, bro.

Come on.

What's your name?

Nadia.

Nadia.

Nadia.

Take, but I can't do it because we are.

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.

Nadia, who will again?

Attention, all units, be on the lookout for a white female.

Twenties, nadi ado, grey sweats, tennis shoes, fled Mercy Hospital, believed on foot, requires medical attention.

That's just a few blocks away, right?

Spam.

Wife and I joined this new gym.

Ever since we keep getting peppered with ads for 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 gonna get you some help.

Sector 27, we made contact with Nadia Bill, 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 21075 and combusted all failed units at 28 and left.

Get out of the way.

We're gonna black SUV Westbound on 31, Jersey Plates.

Alpha Romeo George 264.

So it's that would seem like a bad thing.

What the hell happened?

You have so much blood.

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.

Do you get a physical in 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.

Only.

Is this some kind of prayer card?

Found it in the pocket of her sweats?

Timchenko.

I'm gonna get this to Finn.

He's got some free time on his hands.

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

trick and i'll head to the er see what they missed before not even made a run quit this was at 1136 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?

You seem 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 gonna send it on over.

Where are we on the vehicle?

All right, guys, listen up.

We got video of the SCV 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.

Well, he killed someone in broad daylight and did not hesitate to shoot at me, so let's be ready.

Okay?

Let's go.

Honey, you're gonna be with the father of this team.

Man, man.

Wait, come on, come on, stairs.

Smoke, get back, get back, get back.

Hey.

AE 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 Pence Station from the garage.

Yep.

Two minutes after parking, they'd be on the subway, Amtrak, Jersey Transit, 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 ones answers were circling the drain.

Autopsy, Zed.

So, Nadia Do was not the victim of sexual assault?

She was not.

But 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, right?

Okay?

The name on the prayer cart is Timchenko.

He's a priest.

He presides over Nadia's church back in Ukraine.

You get in touch with him?

Yeah, I just talked to him on the phone.

He said Nadia flew out here about two months ago.

He said 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, Fenfer.

Thank you.

There's our girl, and clearly pregnant.

11:14 a.

m.

, August 2nd.

Direct flight from Kyiv?

No such thing anymore.

Ukrainian airspace is closed.

She's waiting near Bangstream 14, Terminal 1, and the guy takes her suitcase and they head for the exit.

Where does that exit take him?

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 with 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.

Okay, no, I'm a nobody.

No, no, today, today, you're definitely a somebody.

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 lands in my account.

I don't ask any questions.

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 a means of foreign commerce.

So, whatever crime you committed during that process is federal.

So, we could 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 and wonder if not talking was the right decision.

Is she insane?

Good luck!

Hey, wait!

That means you got something to say, something useful?

Yeah.

I haven't told Benson and Brady this way dropped off Nadia after she got to the U.

S.

At an abandoned power plant?

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

No way of knowing what's inside.

No way to find out.

NYPD Police

Hey, careful.

Man, it doesn't look like anybody's been here for a while.

Why would he bring Nadia here?

What about that door?

Give me that light?

Ready?

Smell that?

Bleach.

Yeah.

Ready?

Found the bleach smell.

Wow.

Found the bleach over here.

Empty.

More diverse.

These doors are locked from the outside.

Whoever was sleeping.

A bunch of baby pacifiers over here.

Most of them still in the packaging.

Still warm.

They just left.

Guys!

This is like a maternity ward.

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

With a bunch of other ones.

Jesus.

Is that what we're looking at?

Some kind of baby mill?

So Jess, the Emmy found tropoblastic degeneration in Nadia's uterus and an inflamed

And Dometrium.

All right, English perfect.

So, Nadia didn't give birth.

She suffered a miscarriage, but here's what's strange: 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, purchased in cash.

The mail to a postal box rented under fictitious name.

Okay, great.

Hang on.

I got good news.

They found the car that brought Nadia to the ER.

It's down on Houston in a second.

Bruno.

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

Then I got a hit.

Caught this on a security camera outside of Bodega, three blocks from the ER.

There's Nadia getting out of this car.

You can see a woman drove and dropped her off.

I can't make out any features.

She's wearing a hat.

The sunflower on it.

You run the pipes?

They're stolen from Staten Island.

Created an ALPR hot list.

Car got ticketed for a parking meter violation, so I got a ping.

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 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 my 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?

Uh, I don't know because you just told the driver that he's going on death row.

Well, we're allowed to lie to that.

Yes, I know that, but then you just told the priest that you're gonna 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 would?

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 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 US, said that he would take me to a doctor near Kiev who would implant it, and then I would give birth in the US.

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 happened?

To the babies?

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.

I brought her to the hospital.

Okay, 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.

Can you describe him?

Average.

Quiet.

About 35.

Holina, we can take you to a safe house where nobody's going to hurt.

I'm safe here.

And I'm with my people.

Okay.

Okay, we will be in touch with you, okay?

But in the meantime, I just leave that with you.

Thank you.

There are 20 pregnant women out there somewhere.

You wanna play follow the embryos?

How do we do that?

Well look, if this Nisha 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 ideas.

Okay, so you can't just hop on a plane.

With liquid nitrogen, there has to be some kind of 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, think it worked.

All right.

Isn't Misha the nickname for Mikhail in Russian?

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.

Winds up with the age that Plana Kravitz gave us.

And then lists an apartment in Long Island City as his home address.

Hey, pull his picture, bring it over to Paulina.

If she says that's the guy, that's the guy.

Uh-huh.

He lives here.

Alright, get back downstairs where it's safe.

Kiss him clear.

Bathroom clear.

We saw off.

Show me hands and get on the ground.

Get on the ground!

Show me a 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 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, now here.

Oh, 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.

It's like the last one was from two days ago.

It 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, so give me a sec.

Thank you.

Misha Orlov was shot today in his apartment at 11:30 a.

m.

, we think.

Can you tell us where you were?

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 to read 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, text and 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 going to come after him with everything you've got.

Our son, he's changed everything, you know?

And.

So we wanted to have another, and we sent him Isha 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 your son unwittingly on the black market.

Wait, 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 you go to the league.

Stop talking without a lawyer.

Get the hell out of our house lawyer.

Why would you need a lawyer unless you're involved?

He said lawyer

This is a highly unusual situation, but we understand that you need assurances before you'll share more information 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 and take him away.

I'm a father, Ms.

Valenti.

I get it.

So it took some prodding.

But we won those accommodations.

The judge has issued a protective order that will keep your identities, 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 Misho Urilov and we need 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 to 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.

That you need to do the right thing as well.

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

I I can't.

I can't.

That 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 something 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 Valentes identified the charity they used to adopt their baby as this outfit called Hope Lifts.

We ran it down.

And it's fraudulent, like we figured.

Our principals registered the charity under false names and addresses in Malta.

Malta?

Apparently, it's a hotbed for stuff like this.

I mean, all kinds of fraud.

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 facts from an office in Tribeca belonging to a lawyer named Derek Hobbs.

Derek Hobbs?

Ring a bell?

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

There are Cobbs and YPD.

Okay, what do you want?

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

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?

Or see weight 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 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 really 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.

And you're trying to hide behind the law?

I don't have anything to hide from you.

Great.

You don't have anything to hide from your daughter either.

Come on out, Darcy.

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

Come on out.

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

Stop, hey, no.

Stop!

Please!

It's up to you.

We could do this however you want.

So, according to your lawyer buddy Derek Hobbs.

This is the husband and wife team that operated a fraudulent charity.

Sergei Volkov and Sarah Tandon.

What do we know about them?

Kay Volkov's a Russian national, been in the U.

S.

for a decade.

Short sheet, nothing remarkable, nothing violent.

Saratanda, well, couldn't find much on her.

No property holdings, no criminal record, no business licenses, but this is from the ER.

Now, this is the guy who claimed to be Nadia's brother.

Then put a bullet in their head.

That's the 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 sin.

Which was theft of the plates that were on the SUV Volkov was driving.

One that almost took your eyebrows off in the pregnant garage?

That's the one.

Check this out.

I found some security footage from the block where the plates were stolen.

So there's Volkov.

Gets into that van.

Now, those plates come back to him, and two hours ago, they popped in the Verizano Narrows.

They tracked the van with Argus to a warehouse in Staten Island.

Hit it.

Yo, I'm not sure if I can do it.

Oh, it's a cryo bag.

These are frozen embryos.

Snowflakes.

There's gotta be hundreds of them.

All right, let's keep moving.

I'm going to push the best.

Oh

See now, sing out.

Let me go.

That's some sort of PCC.

Yeah, but no pistol.

Now, murder weapon's probably long gone.

Found these by the 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 embryo has got to be from there.

All right, let's go.

Ms.

Born, 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?

Oh, no, there are charities for that.

They receive the embryos here.

Match them with devout couples with the promise that these children eventually will be raised in faithful homes.

Right, so Hopelifts is one of these charities?

Yes.

Who did you speak to from Hopelifts?

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 gonna become U.

S.

citizens so they pay for their own trafficking and your raw materials?

The embryos?

You get donated from the fertility clinic as just pure profit.

But what's the end game?

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 our own fraud related to the fake charity, but the trafficking piece is not a slam dunk by any stretch.

And there's no hard evidence.

Tying are the mergers of Nadia and Misha.

We can't even put Sarah Tendon 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.

She 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 have and put the rest together on the fly.

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

I got it.

The warrant landed.

Getting us into Volkov, Saratandans, encrypted Discord messages.

Let's hope there's something useful

In there, 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.

That a woman is murdered within six inches of you in broad daylight, and you can't make the case?

Yeah, wait, hang on.

All right, check out this flurry of messages from November 30th between Vokov, Saratandin, and Sambadi.

We'll take them all.

Is in all of the embryos?

Who would want to buy 400 embryos?

Maybe they mean all the babies that were set to be born in the next few months.

Well, I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but who would want 20 babies at the same time?

Oh, look at that.

Saratandon 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.

Do it.

Clear!

Clear!

Clear!

I don't think anybody's home.

Hey.

Main house is clear.

Check this out.

My God.

It's a Baugeist.

Ancient Germanic thing, the 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 got one more structure to clear.

All right, let's go.

Found a 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 does a hate group have to do with a baby mill?

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!

Now!

Move!

Move!

Everybody out!

Now!

Oh my god.

Bruno.

Oh, God.

I need a bus now.