1 00:00:23,050 --> 00:00:27,010 In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered 2 00:00:27,010 --> 00:00:28,150 especially heinous. 3 00:00:28,490 --> 00:00:32,490 In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious 4 00:00:32,490 --> 00:00:36,050 felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. 5 00:00:36,290 --> 00:00:37,590 These are their stories. 6 00:00:48,510 --> 00:00:50,950 You going to bring these spears on me now or what? 7 00:00:51,330 --> 00:00:52,330 Earth a kick. 8 00:00:53,099 --> 00:00:54,099 Who? 9 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:02,100 I've got to run. 10 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:05,700 Hi, where's Mom? 11 00:01:06,180 --> 00:01:08,760 Check the twins at George Semple's birthday party. Is that your boyfriend? 12 00:01:09,140 --> 00:01:10,140 No. 13 00:01:10,500 --> 00:01:11,199 Introduce me. 14 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:12,200 No. 15 00:01:13,180 --> 00:01:14,380 How long has he been out of prison? 16 00:01:15,820 --> 00:01:16,719 Dad's mom. 17 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:17,720 What's his name? 18 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:19,940 Ryan Witherspoon. Witherspoon. 19 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:21,280 You got any school? 20 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:23,760 He's going to post next year, okay? 21 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:29,740 Okay, I guess it's cute. 22 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:38,080 On the L .A., a multiple vehicle accident just before the Midtown Tunnel 23 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:39,080 traffic clogged up. 24 00:01:41,260 --> 00:01:42,320 Is that a tattoo? 25 00:01:44,020 --> 00:01:45,020 No. 26 00:01:46,460 --> 00:01:47,620 No? Where'd you get it? 27 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:48,920 Well, you've got tattoos. 28 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:50,940 I was 18 and in the service. 29 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:53,280 It's henna. 30 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:54,520 It washes off. 31 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:57,300 Well, why didn't you just tell me that? 32 00:01:57,580 --> 00:01:58,580 I just did. 33 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:00,340 You're such a cop. 34 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,700 Yeah, wait till you have kids. 35 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:06,120 All the little witherspoons. 36 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:20,320 Stay here, lock the 37 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:21,400 doors, we'll open that window. 38 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:32,780 Watch yourself. 39 00:03:55,850 --> 00:04:02,350 Captain Cragen, one of your detectives reports, while bar hopping, picking up a 40 00:04:02,350 --> 00:04:06,650 suspect and having sex with him. Another confesses to fantasies about killing 41 00:04:06,650 --> 00:04:07,650 suspects. 42 00:04:07,930 --> 00:04:10,790 Just what kind of unit are you running, Captain? 43 00:04:11,210 --> 00:04:16,709 I was told that whatever the results, that the actual content of these psych 44 00:04:16,709 --> 00:04:18,130 evaluations would be kept private. 45 00:04:19,190 --> 00:04:21,410 Doctor -patient privilege is sacrosanct. 46 00:04:21,649 --> 00:04:23,510 Promiscuity and fantasies of murder? 47 00:04:24,610 --> 00:04:29,330 Detectives Jeffries and Stabler will undergo further evaluation and will 48 00:04:29,330 --> 00:04:31,630 formal explanations to this committee. 49 00:04:31,850 --> 00:04:36,310 I have assigned Prosecutor ADA Cabot to adjudicate SVU cases. 50 00:04:36,590 --> 00:04:42,050 You will apprise ADA Cabot of your case file ASAP. If robbery unit next. 51 00:04:46,410 --> 00:04:47,490 Captain Cregan. 52 00:04:47,730 --> 00:04:50,670 Miss Cabot. Alex. Yeah, right, of course. 53 00:04:54,180 --> 00:04:58,320 Let's not start off on the wrong foot. My assignment to SVU preceded the 54 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,540 behavioral problems under your command. 55 00:05:01,060 --> 00:05:02,060 Behavioral problems? 56 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:03,860 Trying to be polite. 57 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:05,400 Tiptoeing around the roadkill? 58 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,000 Where there's smoke. Who do you sleep with, Miss Cabot? 59 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,980 Are you so new at this that you haven't run into somebody you'd like to skip due 60 00:05:11,980 --> 00:05:12,939 process with? 61 00:05:12,940 --> 00:05:18,840 I'll apprise you ASAP if ASAP can be tomorrow. You understand, I have 62 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:20,400 issues. Certainly. 63 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:22,720 Breakfast, then! 64 00:05:25,330 --> 00:05:29,110 Two unis and a wobbly detective from the 1 -7 were kicked over to public 65 00:05:29,110 --> 00:05:30,870 affairs. Re -evaluation, thanks. 66 00:05:31,170 --> 00:05:34,490 Truly. Best crime stats in 30 years and they're re -evaluating? 67 00:05:34,730 --> 00:05:37,290 How it works, we get rid of the criminals they fear, they start fearing 68 00:05:37,470 --> 00:05:39,350 Public hates tough cops, so they need one. 69 00:05:39,570 --> 00:05:41,330 Jeffries, my office. 70 00:05:46,670 --> 00:05:49,510 You told the psychologist you slept with a suspect? 71 00:05:49,890 --> 00:05:51,710 What? No, that's not what I said. 72 00:05:51,950 --> 00:05:53,990 Well, that's how they interpreted it. 73 00:05:55,150 --> 00:05:58,270 I'm going to limit your field time. You're giving me desk duty? 74 00:05:58,810 --> 00:06:02,590 You need time to prepare a formal response for the Morris Commission. I am 75 00:06:02,590 --> 00:06:05,310 explaining my sex life to the Morris Commission. That's enough. 76 00:06:06,530 --> 00:06:09,250 I don't like it either, Monique, but yelling at me is not going to solve 77 00:06:09,250 --> 00:06:10,250 anything. 78 00:06:14,530 --> 00:06:15,610 Jimmy Buffett in town? 79 00:06:17,370 --> 00:06:19,250 Let's take a Maureen home from the beach. 80 00:06:19,490 --> 00:06:22,590 CT uniform is fighting its fire out by Black Bank Marsh. 81 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,940 I stopped to help. Turns out to be a body. Gunshot wound to the head. Flames 82 00:06:26,940 --> 00:06:27,960 leaping off the crotch. 83 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:29,780 My daughter sees the whole thing. 84 00:06:30,220 --> 00:06:31,099 Sure, eh? 85 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:33,480 I don't know. Kathy picked her up. I was on the scene all night. 86 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:34,439 In Queens? 87 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:35,440 Mm. 88 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,820 Dumb job. Looks like the victim was shot in his west side apartment. 89 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,240 Elliot! Off to a scene, now! 90 00:06:45,620 --> 00:06:46,620 You okay? 91 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,000 What possessed you to tell the shrink in your psych evaluation that you 92 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,480 fantasized about killing suspects? 93 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:55,980 Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. 94 00:06:56,660 --> 00:06:58,760 I said perps, not suspects. 95 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:00,780 Well, the Morris Commission doesn't see a distinction. 96 00:07:01,740 --> 00:07:02,800 They're inquiring. 97 00:07:04,540 --> 00:07:06,480 Inquiring into what? My private thoughts? 98 00:07:06,820 --> 00:07:09,640 They're supposed to be housecleaning the Department of Rogue Cops. 99 00:07:16,580 --> 00:07:17,720 My job at risk? 100 00:07:29,460 --> 00:07:31,120 Victim's Andrew Croft, 42. 101 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:35,260 Dump vehicle may be Alexis. DMV has one registered to this address. It's 102 00:07:35,260 --> 00:07:39,400 missing. Is he packing or unpacking? He was transferred here a month ago by his 103 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:41,100 new company, Radial Velocity. 104 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:42,580 Radial Velocity? Yeah. 105 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:44,580 Edge of the envelope defense contractor? 106 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:45,800 What's he do for them? 107 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,540 Still on his home life. He's single, lived with his son Michael, 108 00:07:49,540 --> 00:07:52,020 16. Neighbors say that they argued a lot. 109 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:57,900 Serious feng shui problem. 110 00:07:59,140 --> 00:08:00,140 Neighbors hear this argument? 111 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:02,420 Everyone was out. Beach, the park. 112 00:08:02,660 --> 00:08:03,660 What's the sun? 113 00:08:04,020 --> 00:08:08,380 Probably an old picture. I found some books labeled MacArthur High, so I 114 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,560 but there's no Michael Croft registered, but the books are all barcoded. 115 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,740 I'll take radio velocity with Jeffries if Cregan let her out of the office. 116 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:17,900 What? Moore's commission. 117 00:08:19,940 --> 00:08:22,340 Okay, what the hell's going on? Psych evaluation. 118 00:08:22,980 --> 00:08:25,920 Yeah? He said I felt like killing child molesters. 119 00:08:27,070 --> 00:08:29,870 Okay, so how can they have a problem with that? The commission's all cops. 120 00:08:30,210 --> 00:08:33,070 Yeah. When was the last time one of them stood in a room like this? 121 00:08:36,610 --> 00:08:38,150 Does this belong to Michael Croft? 122 00:08:38,650 --> 00:08:40,210 This is Michael Gorin's book. 123 00:08:40,429 --> 00:08:41,450 He's absent today. 124 00:08:41,890 --> 00:08:44,870 He wants to speak to his guidance counselor, Ms. Scheider. 125 00:08:45,370 --> 00:08:46,370 Okay, thank you. 126 00:08:47,750 --> 00:08:51,910 I need a release from Michael's guardian to give you his file. Ms. Scheider, 127 00:08:51,930 --> 00:08:53,350 Michael's father was murdered yesterday. 128 00:08:53,750 --> 00:08:54,890 Mr. Croft? Yes. 129 00:08:56,950 --> 00:08:58,490 It wasn't Michael's father. 130 00:08:58,690 --> 00:08:59,609 Foster parent? 131 00:08:59,610 --> 00:09:02,630 Guardian. I can see the problem with getting his signature, then. Right. 132 00:09:04,390 --> 00:09:05,390 This is terrible. 133 00:09:05,670 --> 00:09:06,910 What happened to Michael's parents? 134 00:09:07,110 --> 00:09:07,849 I don't know. 135 00:09:07,850 --> 00:09:10,030 Michael was born in Belgium. That's all that's there. 136 00:09:10,270 --> 00:09:12,830 Do you have a current photo of him? No, Michael's a new student. 137 00:09:13,070 --> 00:09:15,170 We don't take school pictures until homecoming. 138 00:09:15,450 --> 00:09:16,450 He's an A .B. student. 139 00:09:16,690 --> 00:09:19,330 He could be a straight A student if he made an effort. 140 00:09:19,670 --> 00:09:20,670 Why? Is he lazy? 141 00:09:20,910 --> 00:09:24,590 Withdrawn. I feel like Michael's in some pain that makes him gravitate to 142 00:09:24,590 --> 00:09:25,990 troublemakers. Yeah, like who? 143 00:09:26,850 --> 00:09:28,050 Primarily Jason Sloan. 144 00:09:29,470 --> 00:09:30,690 What's at the beach for him, look? 145 00:09:31,630 --> 00:09:32,630 It's Casual Monday. 146 00:09:34,010 --> 00:09:36,810 Cops do that? Michael Gorn. You know where he is? 147 00:09:38,650 --> 00:09:39,650 I don't know. 148 00:09:40,110 --> 00:09:41,390 When was the last time you saw Michael? 149 00:09:41,950 --> 00:09:44,070 Saturday, the day to my house. Oh, so you guys are close. 150 00:09:44,630 --> 00:09:47,990 No, but he hates going home to the creep, and I've got an extra bet. What 151 00:09:49,110 --> 00:09:50,110 Andrew. 152 00:09:51,550 --> 00:09:53,170 Andrew was shot yesterday. He's dead. 153 00:09:54,570 --> 00:09:55,570 Excellent. 154 00:09:57,230 --> 00:09:59,870 But he was a bad guy. I've seen him slap Michael around. 155 00:10:00,310 --> 00:10:01,470 So where's Michael now? 156 00:10:02,630 --> 00:10:03,730 Didn't I say I don't know? 157 00:10:04,110 --> 00:10:06,270 You don't know where he is, but you're the only friend he's got? 158 00:10:06,570 --> 00:10:07,570 He has friends. 159 00:10:07,930 --> 00:10:09,570 Some girl calls him from wherever. 160 00:10:11,890 --> 00:10:13,610 Wherever? Yeah, wherever. 161 00:10:15,150 --> 00:10:17,250 I'd love to help you do your job, but I'm a high school student. 162 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:32,960 I was Andrew Croft's supervisor. 163 00:10:33,180 --> 00:10:34,440 This is Ralph Noble. Security. 164 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:36,460 It's a sad day for us. 165 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:42,720 I wish I could say more. Anyway, this is everything from Croft's office except 166 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:43,619 what's classified. 167 00:10:43,620 --> 00:10:45,100 Was Mr. Croft's job classified? 168 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,580 He was a guidance system analyst. That's all I can say. He just transferred 169 00:10:49,580 --> 00:10:51,120 here. Can't be more specific. 170 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:53,280 Who was to be notified in case of an emergency? 171 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:55,440 Detective, it's classified. 172 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:57,720 Please, the man had a son. 173 00:10:57,980 --> 00:10:59,800 If something happens, who looks out for him? 174 00:11:00,060 --> 00:11:01,060 It's not our concern. 175 00:11:01,610 --> 00:11:02,810 Do we have to get a court order? 176 00:11:05,150 --> 00:11:06,150 Well, you can try. 177 00:11:06,550 --> 00:11:09,690 What are the odds you have a picture of Senator Joseph McCarthy tattooed on your 178 00:11:09,690 --> 00:11:10,690 ass? 179 00:11:12,810 --> 00:11:14,310 Leave the dolly in the garage. 180 00:11:20,410 --> 00:11:24,110 Radio Velocity's redacted 1 ,200 pages of documents down to the occasional 181 00:11:24,110 --> 00:11:27,890 adverb. There's not a complete sentence in anything Craig Prince gave us. It is 182 00:11:27,890 --> 00:11:31,010 national security, John. We're looking for a murderer and the victim's missing 183 00:11:31,010 --> 00:11:33,710 kid and Craig Prince has given us here's your hat. What's your hurry? 184 00:11:34,350 --> 00:11:37,730 You'd think they'd want to help us catch Croft's killer instead of burying 185 00:11:37,730 --> 00:11:39,350 everything under the rubric of national security. 186 00:11:39,890 --> 00:11:41,850 It's too convenient. There's something else going on here. 187 00:11:42,790 --> 00:11:43,709 It's Munch. 188 00:11:43,710 --> 00:11:45,850 No, no, no. I want to see your spook ass now. 189 00:11:51,290 --> 00:11:52,590 What do you want, Munch? 190 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,720 Anything I can get on a couple of missile geeks from Radio Velocity? 191 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:57,340 Who? Trent Prince. 192 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,160 No geeky suit. 193 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:00,440 What's his story? 194 00:12:00,980 --> 00:12:02,140 We've been looking at Prince. 195 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:03,760 Why? Kickbacks. 196 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:05,420 Guy's living way beyond his paycheck. 197 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,620 New co -op on Center Park West. New A8 garage. 198 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,020 He disperses classified money. 199 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:15,760 Ralph Noble. 200 00:12:16,260 --> 00:12:17,260 Head of security. 201 00:12:19,660 --> 00:12:22,360 Yeah? Vietnam vet, Purple Heart. 202 00:12:23,189 --> 00:12:25,570 Silver star, medal of honor. Anything else? 203 00:12:26,410 --> 00:12:28,870 He was hoping for an Oscar, but he's not in show business. 204 00:12:29,470 --> 00:12:31,990 Man's a war hero, Munch. Andrew Croft. 205 00:12:32,950 --> 00:12:33,950 Guiding systems. 206 00:12:34,290 --> 00:12:36,050 This guy's the king of the missile geeks. 207 00:12:37,090 --> 00:12:38,090 But I got nothing. 208 00:12:38,450 --> 00:12:39,470 We're off to the black hole. 209 00:12:40,310 --> 00:12:41,310 Who does that? 210 00:12:42,210 --> 00:12:44,130 D -O -D -N -S -A. 211 00:12:45,490 --> 00:12:46,490 Why? 212 00:12:48,810 --> 00:12:52,630 We can fire a missile off a ship in the Gulf of Oman. 20 minutes and 600 miles 213 00:12:52,630 --> 00:12:56,590 later, it's entering the front door of a Hezbollah safe house in al -Bashra. 214 00:12:57,170 --> 00:12:59,170 It doesn't even touch the doorframe. 215 00:13:00,770 --> 00:13:04,690 Anybody can build a bomb munch, but nobody delivers them like we do. 216 00:13:05,570 --> 00:13:06,570 Guidance systems, Joe. 217 00:13:06,950 --> 00:13:08,270 What are we willing to pay for them? 218 00:13:09,130 --> 00:13:10,130 Anything. 219 00:13:10,530 --> 00:13:12,310 Erase your enemies, erase your past. 220 00:13:13,310 --> 00:13:15,890 Like I said, across a black hole. 221 00:13:17,930 --> 00:13:18,930 Why the interest? 222 00:13:19,070 --> 00:13:20,070 Croft's dead. 223 00:13:20,870 --> 00:13:22,750 Michael, his 16 -year -old ward is missing. 224 00:13:23,210 --> 00:13:24,610 Prince and Noble aren't talking. 225 00:13:27,050 --> 00:13:28,150 How'd Croft buy it? 226 00:13:28,830 --> 00:13:30,770 Bullet to the head, Bunsen to the crotch. 227 00:13:31,830 --> 00:13:32,970 Ouch. Yeah. 228 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:50,400 What's the matter? What's the matter? 229 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,200 Come here. 230 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:57,360 Look, 231 00:14:05,860 --> 00:14:09,420 the recidivism rate for rapists and child molesters is far more onerous than 232 00:14:09,420 --> 00:14:13,220 that of murderers. The public knows that. The public cares about victims' 233 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:14,359 rights. 234 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:18,340 And, uh, live victims give better sound bites than dead ones. 235 00:14:19,050 --> 00:14:20,050 They vote, too. 236 00:14:21,190 --> 00:14:22,190 I don't. 237 00:14:22,630 --> 00:14:25,890 I used to, but, well, look at the choices. 238 00:14:26,690 --> 00:14:31,430 I don't much care for city politics these days. The mollifying, the 239 00:14:31,430 --> 00:14:34,390 scapegoating. That's why there's a Morris Commission. 240 00:14:34,790 --> 00:14:37,650 That's why you're at SVU. I gotta tell you something. 241 00:14:38,710 --> 00:14:42,490 Alex, I really don't see why I should trust you. 242 00:14:44,990 --> 00:14:45,990 Captain. 243 00:14:47,340 --> 00:14:51,020 I intend to stand on your shoulders to reach a broader constituency. 244 00:14:52,140 --> 00:14:54,300 Why would I do anything to shorten my grasp? 245 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:58,400 Okay. 246 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,840 Maybe this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. 247 00:15:02,940 --> 00:15:04,140 Our open cases. 248 00:15:05,140 --> 00:15:09,820 According to the ME, Andrew Croft was killed by a .38 slug behind the left 249 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:10,899 Point blank. 250 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:12,660 Burning was post -mortem. You got a weapon? 251 00:15:12,860 --> 00:15:15,500 Mm -mm. Hasn't turned up yet. But Croft owned a .38. 252 00:15:16,170 --> 00:15:17,170 What about the boy? 253 00:15:17,330 --> 00:15:19,290 Still missing, along with Croft's Lexus. 254 00:15:19,750 --> 00:15:20,870 Maybe the kid is dead. 255 00:15:21,190 --> 00:15:22,190 Why do you say that? 256 00:15:22,910 --> 00:15:26,790 My contact at the G says that Croft's supervisor, Craig Prince, is being 257 00:15:26,790 --> 00:15:28,130 at for kickbacks. So what? 258 00:15:28,690 --> 00:15:30,050 Well, maybe Croft had evidence. 259 00:15:30,350 --> 00:15:33,050 Maybe Croft was involved and they had a lethal disagreement. 260 00:15:33,330 --> 00:15:35,210 Looks like a sexual homicide, John, not an assassination. 261 00:15:35,950 --> 00:15:39,150 Very clever to throw us off track. Oh, God, John, I've got to hand it to you. 262 00:15:39,230 --> 00:15:41,690 When you go with a theory, you really go with a theory. Well, you think this 263 00:15:41,690 --> 00:15:43,650 stuff doesn't happen? No, I'm not saying that. All right, all right, hey, hey, 264 00:15:43,650 --> 00:15:45,750 hey, come on. Let's just keep our heads in the game here, all right? 265 00:15:46,330 --> 00:15:49,790 Now, the connection between Prince and Croft warrants further investigation. 266 00:15:50,170 --> 00:15:52,290 But in the meantime, we've still got a missing kid. 267 00:15:52,510 --> 00:15:56,030 And until I know otherwise, I'm going to assume he's still alive. 268 00:15:57,290 --> 00:15:59,510 You guys, find the Lexus, find the boy. 269 00:15:59,810 --> 00:16:04,300 Munch. Jeffries, let's find out how good this new ADA really is. We need a 270 00:16:04,300 --> 00:16:05,700 search warrant for radial velocity. 271 00:16:08,260 --> 00:16:11,540 You want me to secure a search warrant for the offices of a defense contractor 272 00:16:11,540 --> 00:16:14,720 to search classified national security files for evidence in a sexually 273 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:15,719 motivated homicide? 274 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:16,940 Yes. You got a problem with that? 275 00:16:17,620 --> 00:16:18,620 Judge Harriman, please. 276 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:20,720 This is Alex Cabot in the DA's office. 277 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:24,400 Uncle Bill. 278 00:16:24,620 --> 00:16:26,720 Good. Look, I need a little favor. 279 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:29,880 You gotta be. 280 00:16:29,950 --> 00:16:31,750 Kidding me. I said we should try. 281 00:16:33,450 --> 00:16:37,390 You do not just barge in here without proper notice. 282 00:16:37,730 --> 00:16:38,870 Read the fine print. 283 00:16:39,110 --> 00:16:41,150 Now step aside or I'll have these officers restrain you. 284 00:16:48,350 --> 00:16:49,410 Great, thank you. 285 00:16:49,810 --> 00:16:53,630 That was the state police. We located Croft Lexus upstate Millbrook, right 286 00:16:53,630 --> 00:16:54,630 outside Poughkeepsie. 287 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,340 Croft Chancellor from Poughkeepsie. Locals are surveilling it till we get 288 00:16:58,520 --> 00:16:59,520 Great. Find something. 289 00:17:05,460 --> 00:17:06,800 What? Pop it. 290 00:17:10,180 --> 00:17:11,180 Nobody home. 291 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:16,440 House belongs to Richard and Darlene Sadler. They own a hardware store over 292 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:17,279 Elm Street. 293 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:18,279 Daughter, Denise. 294 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:19,280 That's a high school. 295 00:17:19,700 --> 00:17:22,020 Looks like we found the girlfriend from wherever. 296 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:37,880 Denise is in her fourth period class. 297 00:17:38,180 --> 00:17:41,340 We were hoping that she might be able to help us locate Michael Gorin. Leave the 298 00:17:41,340 --> 00:17:42,500 Spurs home next time. 299 00:17:42,980 --> 00:17:43,980 Great kid, Michael. 300 00:17:44,220 --> 00:17:45,220 What do you mean locate? 301 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:46,700 We've been missing since Sunday. 302 00:17:47,660 --> 00:17:48,660 Michael's not missing. 303 00:17:49,740 --> 00:17:51,080 He's in our mentoring program. 304 00:17:55,620 --> 00:17:56,620 Let's go, Jimmy. 305 00:17:56,660 --> 00:17:57,639 Nice job. 306 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,040 Good job. All right, everybody. Just like Jimmy. Use the inside of your foot. 307 00:18:01,100 --> 00:18:02,100 Michael. 308 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:08,540 This is about Andrew, isn't it? 309 00:18:14,780 --> 00:18:16,020 Do you understand these rights? 310 00:18:16,620 --> 00:18:19,740 Yes. Do you understand that you don't have to talk to us without your lawyer? 311 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:22,040 I want to talk. 312 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:26,680 Go ahead. 313 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:29,320 I killed him. 314 00:18:32,140 --> 00:18:33,960 He hit me, I hit him back. 315 00:18:35,950 --> 00:18:40,630 First time I did that, he went crazy. God has gone and said he was going to 316 00:18:40,630 --> 00:18:41,630 me. 317 00:18:41,910 --> 00:18:44,810 I tackled him, and I heard this loud pop. 318 00:18:45,990 --> 00:18:47,930 When I looked down, he was laying there. 319 00:18:51,530 --> 00:18:52,530 Dead. 320 00:18:57,590 --> 00:18:58,590 Then what? 321 00:18:59,910 --> 00:19:02,550 I wrapped him in sheets and dragged him to the car. 322 00:19:05,830 --> 00:19:07,750 The next thing I knew, I was driving back home. 323 00:19:08,970 --> 00:19:09,970 To Millbrook? 324 00:19:11,490 --> 00:19:12,490 Yes. 325 00:19:19,050 --> 00:19:20,250 Michael, what's going on? 326 00:19:20,550 --> 00:19:21,550 It's nothing. 327 00:19:21,570 --> 00:19:22,570 Michael? 328 00:19:23,150 --> 00:19:26,570 I'm okay, Denise. It's okay. This can't be right. Not Michael. 329 00:19:26,830 --> 00:19:27,830 Step back, people. 330 00:19:28,250 --> 00:19:29,510 Give us a little room, please. 331 00:19:30,870 --> 00:19:32,510 Michael, we're all behind you on this. 332 00:19:33,730 --> 00:19:34,970 Give us a little room, please. 333 00:19:42,830 --> 00:19:43,830 What are you doing? 334 00:19:44,070 --> 00:19:47,850 They got a confession, made an arrest. That can all go back to radial velocity. 335 00:19:48,070 --> 00:19:49,070 Too tidy. 336 00:19:49,170 --> 00:19:52,550 Can't stand letting go of a theory, can you? It's not theory, Olivia. 337 00:19:53,330 --> 00:19:55,050 Confession, next case. I don't buy it. 338 00:19:55,410 --> 00:19:58,610 Heat of the moment murder is one thing, but taking time to set fire to the 339 00:19:58,610 --> 00:20:00,510 victim's crotch? What did you call that, Elliot? 340 00:20:01,010 --> 00:20:02,250 Sexually motivated homicide. 341 00:20:02,690 --> 00:20:03,569 You bet. 342 00:20:03,570 --> 00:20:06,850 Perpetrated by a child on a Guardian textbook, except for the little matter 343 00:20:06,850 --> 00:20:08,650 the blank pages, thanks to radial velocity. 344 00:20:08,890 --> 00:20:10,410 I want to know where they stand on this deal. 345 00:20:10,830 --> 00:20:11,830 Me too. 346 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:16,440 You have an appointment. Look, Captain, you know, this time of day, he's got to 347 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:17,760 go to his office. It's got to be an hour drive. 348 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:22,620 Elliot, this is must -do now, all right? The good news is that he's around the 349 00:20:22,620 --> 00:20:26,500 corner doing some outreach work at Christ Church. He's happy to see you 350 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:27,600 Thank you. 351 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:30,580 I'm not talking to you. 352 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:33,920 Fine. 353 00:20:35,060 --> 00:20:36,220 I'll just sit here. 354 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,200 You know I may lose my job because of the last shrink I talked to? 355 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:45,350 Why? Because she violated her ethical obligation to keep my confidence. 356 00:20:46,210 --> 00:20:49,870 If we believe a patient might do violence to someone, we're legally 357 00:20:50,090 --> 00:20:52,070 I have never done violence to anyone. 358 00:20:54,590 --> 00:20:55,890 Why would she think you would? 359 00:20:57,870 --> 00:20:58,870 Ask her. 360 00:20:59,610 --> 00:21:01,690 Detective Stabler, we've talked before. 361 00:21:02,850 --> 00:21:04,690 Come on, give me the benefit of the doubt here, will you? 362 00:21:08,150 --> 00:21:10,250 I'm sorry. I haven't slept a lot lately. 363 00:21:11,730 --> 00:21:12,730 Why not? 364 00:21:12,950 --> 00:21:14,590 I'm worried about losing my job. 365 00:21:17,750 --> 00:21:18,770 Oh, I'm angry. 366 00:21:19,370 --> 00:21:20,370 At? 367 00:21:24,230 --> 00:21:27,410 Are we really going to do this dance again, huh? I mean, what do you want me 368 00:21:27,410 --> 00:21:29,330 say? That I fantasized about killing the perp? 369 00:21:30,290 --> 00:21:34,490 Did you? Yeah, you're damn right I did. And this time I fed him my gun and I 370 00:21:34,490 --> 00:21:35,490 pulled that trigger. 371 00:21:36,130 --> 00:21:40,370 Until I caught him. And then there he is. He's a kid. He's a... 372 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,500 Good kid. He tutors Down syndrome children. 373 00:21:44,420 --> 00:21:45,900 He's a straight -A student. 374 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,500 He's a star athlete. He's Millbrook Township's favorite son. 375 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,520 Now, how that jives with cold -blooded murder. 376 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,460 How long have you been on the force? 377 00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:03,360 Fourteen years. 378 00:22:04,700 --> 00:22:08,280 In all those years, how many murders have actually made sense? 379 00:22:10,020 --> 00:22:11,020 None. 380 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:15,520 But... Some I understood. 381 00:22:16,180 --> 00:22:17,180 But this one? 382 00:22:17,780 --> 00:22:19,820 You let get under your skin. Why? 383 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,220 This one my daughter saw. 384 00:22:31,540 --> 00:22:32,540 Hey. 385 00:22:33,020 --> 00:22:35,440 How'd it go? I talked too much. Again. 386 00:22:35,860 --> 00:22:36,860 Where's Jefferson? 387 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:38,080 Turn on the couch. 388 00:22:38,620 --> 00:22:41,380 While you were probing your inner child, we did some probing of our own, sent 389 00:22:41,380 --> 00:22:42,680 Croft's prints to NCIC. 390 00:22:43,900 --> 00:22:44,980 You printed the corpse? 391 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:46,680 So? 392 00:22:46,780 --> 00:22:48,440 And? Nothing. So? 393 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,960 I mean nothing, not a bupkis. Zip, no parking tickets, no birth records. 394 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,600 to prove he even existed before 1991. 395 00:22:55,340 --> 00:22:57,440 The year he went to work for Radial Velocity. 396 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,200 So we're going through the stuff we got from the search warrant. We find this 397 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,940 passport issued ten years ago from San Diego. We call the local PD, ask them to 398 00:23:03,940 --> 00:23:04,739 run him. 399 00:23:04,740 --> 00:23:06,940 Bang, we get a hit. But not to Andrew Croft. 400 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,360 Then who? George Kaczynski, a convicted sexual predator. 401 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,660 Andrew Croft, a .k .a. George Kaczynski. 402 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,260 Little George liked little boys. 403 00:23:24,540 --> 00:23:26,620 Andrew Croft's been one busy guy. 404 00:23:27,020 --> 00:23:30,120 Eleven arrests, five aliases, four convictions. 405 00:23:30,700 --> 00:23:35,000 How'd you track him? San Diego PD faxed us his rap sheet, filed his priors back 406 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,460 from there, department by department, conviction by conviction. 407 00:23:38,180 --> 00:23:39,820 Only the feds can erase a file. 408 00:23:40,020 --> 00:23:43,420 Radio Velocity is the feds. That's why they call it a military -industrial 409 00:23:43,420 --> 00:23:44,420 complex. 410 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:48,320 You're accusing the federal government of sanctioning the sexual abuse of a 411 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,180 child. Please tell me you have a motive. 412 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:53,960 Where did you find these? 413 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:55,280 That's classified. 414 00:23:57,169 --> 00:24:00,730 There's only a handful of people that can calibrate the trajectory of a 415 00:24:00,730 --> 00:24:02,670 to within a hair's breadth of Saddam's mustache. 416 00:24:03,470 --> 00:24:04,990 Andrew Croft was one of them. 417 00:24:05,810 --> 00:24:08,790 Couldn't let a little thing like pedophilia undermine national security. 418 00:24:10,390 --> 00:24:12,070 The child is ruined in the process? 419 00:24:12,530 --> 00:24:13,970 That's not our concern. 420 00:24:14,350 --> 00:24:17,870 Detective, there are many things that take a backseat to national security. 421 00:24:18,050 --> 00:24:22,830 However, if I had known Croft was a pedophile, I never would have hired him. 422 00:24:22,910 --> 00:24:25,230 Right. And there were no Nazis in NASA. 423 00:24:26,390 --> 00:24:27,530 Mr. Noble will see you out. 424 00:24:30,150 --> 00:24:31,410 You don't talk much, do you? 425 00:24:31,810 --> 00:24:33,710 Not much fight left in the old soldier, huh? 426 00:24:33,910 --> 00:24:37,050 Don't you question my patriotism, mister. That's Mr. Detective to you. 427 00:24:37,670 --> 00:24:39,750 Take a little bit of tarnish off that medal of honor. 428 00:24:40,210 --> 00:24:42,270 We can find our own way out, thanks. 429 00:24:47,950 --> 00:24:49,090 Why are you provoking him? 430 00:24:50,150 --> 00:24:52,590 Guy's a war hero. He put his life on the line for principle. 431 00:24:53,230 --> 00:24:56,250 He's got to be gagging Stonewall and Cross pedophilia to protect radial 432 00:24:56,250 --> 00:25:00,030 velocity. Assuming he still has principles. War was a long time ago, 433 00:25:00,570 --> 00:25:03,290 Principles die harder than people. I want a shot at what's left of his. 434 00:25:06,410 --> 00:25:07,570 Wonder what he's doing for lunch? 435 00:25:08,830 --> 00:25:15,670 My parents died in a car wreck when I was eight. The only other family 436 00:25:15,670 --> 00:25:16,730 I had was Nana. 437 00:25:16,990 --> 00:25:18,910 She was old and in a hospital. 438 00:25:19,950 --> 00:25:21,370 Andrew offered to take care of me. 439 00:25:21,980 --> 00:25:25,460 Now, you're Belgian, and Andrew's American. How did you two hook up? 440 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:27,940 Andrew used to hang out at soccer practice. 441 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:29,560 Whose soccer practice? 442 00:25:29,820 --> 00:25:32,020 Mine. And this is when you were eight years old? 443 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,260 Yeah. He and Dad worked at NATO in Brussels. 444 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:37,180 Dad was a janitor. 445 00:25:38,300 --> 00:25:40,800 He was proud to have a rocket scientist as his friend. 446 00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:44,800 He said I was lucky to have such an important man take an interest in me. 447 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:46,800 How did he take an interest? 448 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,260 Andrew said I was a natural athlete. 449 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:50,640 Yeah, we saw your trophies. 450 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:53,440 He got me sailing lessons, tennis lessons. 451 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:55,880 My dad couldn't afford them. 452 00:25:57,260 --> 00:25:59,880 After your parents died, Andrew brought you to America? 453 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,280 First Bosnia, Israel, then Millbrook. 454 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:06,380 I finally made some friends. 455 00:26:06,700 --> 00:26:07,700 You even had a girlfriend. 456 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,580 Denise. Bet you weren't too happy about leaving her. 457 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,080 I never felt like that about anybody. 458 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:16,900 Not just her, her parents. 459 00:26:18,140 --> 00:26:19,940 They felt like a real family. 460 00:26:23,150 --> 00:26:27,990 Michael, did you know that in 1990, Andrew was convicted of sexually 461 00:26:27,990 --> 00:26:28,990 an 11 -year -old boy? 462 00:26:30,670 --> 00:26:31,670 No. 463 00:26:33,370 --> 00:26:35,710 When was the first time he assaulted you? 464 00:26:37,890 --> 00:26:40,050 He didn't. What are you talking about? 465 00:26:40,950 --> 00:26:43,510 Well, my experience, child molesters, they don't stop. 466 00:26:44,310 --> 00:26:45,310 You were a child. 467 00:26:45,830 --> 00:26:47,510 He didn't touch me. Michael. 468 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:51,660 You're in a bad situation. You're safe now. You don't have to lie anymore. I'm 469 00:26:51,660 --> 00:26:53,080 not lying. Michael. I'm not. 470 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:58,640 He didn't touch me. 471 00:27:00,660 --> 00:27:01,660 He didn't. 472 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:06,700 Hey, thanks for the heads up. I think I got the EED defense. 473 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:08,660 Not unless your client changes his term. 474 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,540 Are we working for the defense now? Yeah. You don't volunteer to do hard 475 00:27:13,540 --> 00:27:15,480 because you're embarrassed. This kid is hiding something. 476 00:27:16,639 --> 00:27:19,900 Okay, maybe an accomplice. Maybe somebody who scares them more than an 477 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,020 At what point did courage and integrity buckle to income? 478 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,340 Don't ever get in my face about money. If I cared about money, I wouldn't have 479 00:27:30,340 --> 00:27:31,159 been in the service. 480 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:32,160 What do you care about? 481 00:27:32,580 --> 00:27:34,840 Protecting the reputation of a dead pedophile? 482 00:27:35,060 --> 00:27:38,020 Part of national security now? I'm not protecting Croft's reputation. 483 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:39,580 What are you protecting? 484 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,280 Croft's missile guidance expertise was critical in the Gulf War. 485 00:27:44,830 --> 00:27:47,110 You erased sodomy convictions for national security? 486 00:27:47,570 --> 00:27:48,790 We didn't erase his convictions. 487 00:27:50,490 --> 00:27:51,910 Oh, is there another way to say it? 488 00:27:53,670 --> 00:27:56,910 Croft's felony record red -flagged him every time he crossed the border. 489 00:27:57,910 --> 00:28:00,450 A day's delay was a lifetime in a war moving that fast. 490 00:28:00,710 --> 00:28:02,430 So radio velocity erased his past. 491 00:28:03,910 --> 00:28:07,230 We were depleting our arsenal of smart bombs at more than a million bucks a 492 00:28:07,230 --> 00:28:10,330 minute. At that price, the Pentagon wanted pinpoint precision. 493 00:28:11,570 --> 00:28:13,510 A complaint was filed to the State Department. 494 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,260 A firewall was built around Croft so immigration wouldn't red flag him. 495 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,680 When the war ended, the wall should have come down. 496 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,200 I can't tell you why it didn't. I just don't know. 497 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,320 Meanwhile, a convicted child molester applies for guardianship of an eight 498 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,280 -old and... No red flags. 499 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,000 I'm sorry. 500 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:40,700 Oh, my God. 501 00:28:40,980 --> 00:28:41,849 Eleven arrests. 502 00:28:41,850 --> 00:28:44,250 Four convictions more than we knew about. One in Canada. 503 00:28:45,110 --> 00:28:47,510 Pickable. Get me Todd Earl at justice. 504 00:28:47,890 --> 00:28:50,350 Justice? We need to secure the chain of evidence. 505 00:28:50,570 --> 00:28:53,130 We didn't bring this to you so you could make a federal case out of it. What 506 00:28:53,130 --> 00:28:53,909 about Michael? 507 00:28:53,910 --> 00:28:58,490 What about him? He's a child. A child raised by a pedophile for eight years. 508 00:28:58,490 --> 00:28:59,690 was molested. He denies it. 509 00:29:00,210 --> 00:29:02,350 There's no evidence here to contradict that denial. 510 00:29:02,690 --> 00:29:04,210 Are you saying that he wasn't abused? 511 00:29:04,510 --> 00:29:05,510 I'm certain he was. 512 00:29:05,820 --> 00:29:08,500 However, absent Michael's admission, you're asking me to soft -pedal 513 00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:11,860 premeditated murder. You're protecting your one -loss ratio. Elliot. 514 00:29:12,060 --> 00:29:13,060 It's okay, Captain. 515 00:29:13,580 --> 00:29:16,740 Detective Stabler's judgment is clouded by the stress of the Morris Commission's 516 00:29:16,740 --> 00:29:20,680 review. And the fact that Michael did what he fantasizes about, kill a 517 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:21,680 perpetrator. 518 00:29:23,420 --> 00:29:26,760 It's not my fantasy, and I stand with Detective Stabler on this. 519 00:29:28,980 --> 00:29:30,280 The kid had choices. 520 00:29:30,740 --> 00:29:33,620 He could have walked away, told a teacher, told a cop. 521 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:34,880 Instead, he murdered. 522 00:29:35,690 --> 00:29:38,670 We let him skate on this. What kind of choice will he make the next time he 523 00:29:38,670 --> 00:29:39,910 faces an untenable situation? 524 00:29:45,130 --> 00:29:46,130 All right. 525 00:29:46,750 --> 00:29:50,530 But either he corroborates the abuse, or I ask the grand jury for an indictment 526 00:29:50,530 --> 00:29:51,530 on murder, too. 527 00:29:56,290 --> 00:29:57,290 No. 528 00:29:57,490 --> 00:29:58,490 Michael, please. 529 00:29:58,710 --> 00:29:59,710 Michael. 530 00:30:02,190 --> 00:30:03,250 Andrew Croft. 531 00:30:03,990 --> 00:30:05,970 Abused at least 11 other children. 532 00:30:06,310 --> 00:30:07,870 He's a sexual predator. 533 00:30:09,910 --> 00:30:12,630 Michael, he can't hurt you now. You don't understand. 534 00:30:13,670 --> 00:30:14,670 I won't. 535 00:30:15,230 --> 00:30:16,290 I can't. 536 00:30:17,410 --> 00:30:22,650 You're a victim. No, I'm not. I told you what happened. I will stay in jail. I 537 00:30:22,650 --> 00:30:27,050 will. But please, please leave me alone. 538 00:30:31,730 --> 00:30:32,730 It's murder too. 539 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:34,660 He's returning his own indictment. 540 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:37,160 I'm sorry, kid. 541 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:56,160 Dad? 542 00:30:57,900 --> 00:30:58,900 What are you doing up? 543 00:30:59,300 --> 00:31:00,300 I couldn't sleep. 544 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:02,460 What's the matter? You got nightmares? 545 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,000 You have to sleep to have nightmares. 546 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:06,500 Right. What was I thinking? 547 00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:08,340 Want something to drink? 548 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:09,640 No. 549 00:31:12,580 --> 00:31:19,540 Dad, what that boy Michael did to that man... That 550 00:31:19,540 --> 00:31:22,300 man was supposed to take care of Michael. 551 00:31:22,780 --> 00:31:26,700 Instead, he molested him. 552 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:31,000 He abused him physically. He betrayed his trust. And I think Michael... 553 00:31:32,270 --> 00:31:33,270 Just had enough. 554 00:31:34,890 --> 00:31:37,270 So what happens now? He's probably going to go to prison. 555 00:31:39,170 --> 00:31:40,950 All he's got to do is tell the truth. 556 00:31:42,150 --> 00:31:43,330 What is it with you kids? 557 00:31:44,170 --> 00:31:45,610 It's hard to talk to adults. 558 00:31:47,010 --> 00:31:48,010 Why? 559 00:31:48,810 --> 00:31:50,070 You're always judging us. 560 00:31:50,810 --> 00:31:53,790 You expect us to be like you, and you get mad if we're not. 561 00:31:54,310 --> 00:31:56,090 It's just easier to talk to our friends. 562 00:31:56,550 --> 00:31:57,630 What if you don't have any friends? 563 00:31:58,490 --> 00:31:59,490 Everybody's got friends. 564 00:31:59,690 --> 00:32:00,750 Well, who do you talk to? 565 00:32:01,230 --> 00:32:02,230 Dad. 566 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:04,840 Hey, talk to Ryan Witherspoon. 567 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:06,780 More than you talk to Mom. 568 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,700 Could the wound have been inflicted during a struggle for the gun? 569 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:18,879 Not likely. 570 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:19,880 Why not? 571 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,640 The size of the entry wound, the force at which it entered, suggests close 572 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,220 range. But there was no stippling. 573 00:32:25,660 --> 00:32:26,660 Stippling is? 574 00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:30,740 When lead leaves the muzzle, it's followed by the charge that fires at the 575 00:32:30,740 --> 00:32:33,100 gunpowder. At close range, it leaves a residue. 576 00:32:33,450 --> 00:32:35,190 Point blank, it embeds in his skin. 577 00:32:35,630 --> 00:32:36,630 That's stippling. 578 00:32:36,910 --> 00:32:40,170 The size and force of the entry and the lack of stippling lead you to 579 00:32:40,170 --> 00:32:43,670 conclude... The gun was three to four feet from the victim's head when it was 580 00:32:43,670 --> 00:32:44,670 fired. 581 00:32:44,730 --> 00:32:48,890 The victim's reach was only 32 inches. He couldn't have held the gun three feet 582 00:32:48,890 --> 00:32:51,610 from his skull, much less fired it into the back of his head. 583 00:32:52,350 --> 00:32:54,310 The body was discovered wrapped in a sheet. 584 00:32:54,610 --> 00:32:58,610 It was blood soaked from a head wound and the genital region was on fire. 585 00:32:59,170 --> 00:33:00,170 Where? 586 00:33:00,410 --> 00:33:04,990 In the dunes about 50 yards off Cross Bay Boulevard, a medical bracelet on the 587 00:33:04,990 --> 00:33:07,290 victim indicated he lived at West 83rd in Manhattan. 588 00:33:08,030 --> 00:33:11,310 Blood splattered the headboard wall and lamp in the master bedroom. 589 00:33:12,490 --> 00:33:14,650 Did the blood pattern indicate anything to you? 590 00:33:15,150 --> 00:33:17,630 Yes, the victim had been shot while lying in the bed. 591 00:33:18,350 --> 00:33:19,650 Any signs of a struggle? 592 00:33:20,070 --> 00:33:21,550 No. Forced entry? 593 00:33:22,550 --> 00:33:23,550 No. 594 00:33:24,470 --> 00:33:26,310 The victim's car was missing. 595 00:33:26,950 --> 00:33:29,210 State police located it in Millbrook, New York. 596 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,120 The murder weapon was found locked in the trunk. 597 00:33:33,380 --> 00:33:34,460 Who had the keys? 598 00:33:37,180 --> 00:33:38,180 Michael Gorin. 599 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:44,520 How'd it go in there? 600 00:33:44,820 --> 00:33:46,640 Oh, kid's toast. 601 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,500 I've been thinking about something Maureen said last night, something about 602 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:50,500 friends. 603 00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:51,900 What about him? 604 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:53,760 You up for taking a little ride? 605 00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,380 Denise, how long were you seeing Michael? 606 00:34:01,540 --> 00:34:03,820 What should I say? I really want to help him. 607 00:34:04,020 --> 00:34:05,620 Well, you can help him by telling us the truth. 608 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,940 We were dating about three months. 609 00:34:09,179 --> 00:34:10,320 You ever talk about Andrew? 610 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,000 Denise? 611 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:16,500 Did he? Please. 612 00:34:17,739 --> 00:34:19,760 They didn't get along. 613 00:34:21,699 --> 00:34:25,300 My dad would let Michael stay in our spare bedroom when Andrew was out of 614 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:27,840 My parents really liked him. 615 00:34:30,500 --> 00:34:33,540 Sometimes Michael lied about Andrew being gone so he could stay over. 616 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:36,659 Did Andrew ever find out? 617 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:38,360 I think he knew. 618 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:39,600 Reject. 619 00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:42,679 Not after that thing with Danny. 620 00:34:43,739 --> 00:34:44,739 Who's Danny? 621 00:34:45,699 --> 00:34:48,699 Danny Burrell, Michael's best friend. What happened? 622 00:34:48,940 --> 00:34:49,940 I don't know. 623 00:34:50,820 --> 00:34:52,020 But it had to be bad. 624 00:34:52,420 --> 00:34:56,820 I mean, one day they're best friends, and the next day it's like they hate 625 00:34:56,820 --> 00:34:57,820 other. 626 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,200 Yeah, front and center. 627 00:35:08,420 --> 00:35:10,720 We're not friends anymore. 628 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:11,960 Why not? 629 00:35:12,460 --> 00:35:13,460 Guy's weird, that's all. 630 00:35:13,700 --> 00:35:14,700 What do you mean, weird how? 631 00:35:15,660 --> 00:35:18,280 Just weird. Did Andrew Croft attack you? 632 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,640 Did Michael tell you that? Why don't you tell us about it? 633 00:35:24,340 --> 00:35:25,340 Man, he's a chore. 634 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,500 I'm sorry, I can't talk in front of her. 635 00:35:31,020 --> 00:35:32,020 Okay. 636 00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:36,860 Mike and me played ball. 637 00:35:37,580 --> 00:35:40,740 We went to his house afterwards to clean up. 638 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:46,540 He said that Andrew was gone, so I used the shower, and when I got out, he was 639 00:35:46,540 --> 00:35:47,238 standing there. 640 00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:48,240 Andrew? 641 00:35:48,700 --> 00:35:51,300 Yeah. Yeah, he was naked. 642 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:56,020 He was touching himself. 643 00:35:56,700 --> 00:35:59,080 He wanted to dry me off. 644 00:36:00,060 --> 00:36:01,060 Creep. 645 00:36:02,060 --> 00:36:03,880 Anyway, he said that Michael was... 646 00:36:04,220 --> 00:36:06,300 Too swarthy, but I was perfect for him. 647 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:07,520 He grabbed me. 648 00:36:08,420 --> 00:36:10,660 I fought him off. I screamed for Mike. 649 00:36:11,020 --> 00:36:15,060 Then I finally got the door open, and Michael was... He was just standing 650 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,220 So I just grabbed my clothes and I ran. 651 00:36:19,240 --> 00:36:20,240 I forgot my Nikes. 652 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:23,280 You and Michael talk after that? 653 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,960 Oh, no. No way. I just told the guy to leave me alone. 654 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,400 I think it's disgusting what he and Angela were doing. 655 00:36:29,620 --> 00:36:30,620 You think Michael liked it? 656 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:33,480 Well, what do you think? 657 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,500 I mean, Michael's six foot, guy benches, what, 220 pounds? I mean, he could kick 658 00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:38,680 his ass if he didn't like him doing them. 659 00:36:39,380 --> 00:36:41,980 He was eight years old when Andrew started doing them. 660 00:36:43,180 --> 00:36:44,560 Eight -year -olds can't fight back. 661 00:36:45,380 --> 00:36:48,480 Can you tell me where a 16 -year -old's gonna turn when his best friend turns on 662 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:49,480 him? 663 00:36:58,140 --> 00:36:59,980 You said the gun went off in the midst of a struggle? 664 00:37:00,860 --> 00:37:04,260 Yes. The police found no signs of a struggle. How do you explain that? 665 00:37:05,980 --> 00:37:06,980 I don't know. 666 00:37:07,300 --> 00:37:09,060 It's because there was no struggle, was there? 667 00:37:10,140 --> 00:37:11,140 We struggled. 668 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:12,960 Over the gun? Yeah. 669 00:37:13,180 --> 00:37:14,180 And it went off? 670 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,460 Yeah. In both your hands? Yeah. 671 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,560 The coroner found no trace of gunpowder on the deceased's hands. 672 00:37:21,100 --> 00:37:22,760 I told you what happened. 673 00:37:25,380 --> 00:37:26,660 Who is Danny Burrell? 674 00:37:33,930 --> 00:37:34,828 my friend. 675 00:37:34,830 --> 00:37:38,330 Did you witness the deceased sexually assault Danny Burrell? 676 00:37:38,890 --> 00:37:39,890 No. 677 00:37:42,430 --> 00:37:46,770 Danny Burrell will testify the deceased sexually assaulted him and that you 678 00:37:46,770 --> 00:37:49,310 witnessed it. Are you saying he's lying? 679 00:37:52,030 --> 00:37:56,470 I... Did Andrew Croft sexually assault Danny Burrell? 680 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:06,320 And you too. 681 00:38:16,820 --> 00:38:18,160 Since I was eight. 682 00:38:20,460 --> 00:38:23,880 You shot him to stop him from molesting you. No! 683 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,120 I hated it. 684 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,920 But I was used to it. 685 00:38:30,340 --> 00:38:33,380 I shot him because he was bringing over his friend. 686 00:38:35,690 --> 00:38:36,690 What friend? 687 00:38:40,570 --> 00:38:41,810 In Millbrook. 688 00:38:42,750 --> 00:38:44,430 This guy came up sometimes. 689 00:38:47,250 --> 00:38:49,290 Andrew made me do things with him. 690 00:38:49,810 --> 00:38:51,910 When we moved here, I thought it was over. 691 00:38:52,890 --> 00:38:58,110 Then I come home from school and he's there. We moved right across the street 692 00:38:58,110 --> 00:38:59,110 from him. 693 00:39:02,470 --> 00:39:03,710 Andrew was bad enough. 694 00:39:04,650 --> 00:39:07,690 Both of them, I... I begged him. 695 00:39:16,870 --> 00:39:18,090 Who is this man? 696 00:39:24,330 --> 00:39:26,550 He'll kill me. He can't hurt you. 697 00:39:27,830 --> 00:39:29,670 You don't know his powers. 698 00:39:30,390 --> 00:39:33,690 Michael, you're in the custody of the city of New York. He can't get to you. 699 00:39:34,540 --> 00:39:35,540 He can get to anybody. 700 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,840 And he willed to protect his secret. 701 00:39:40,180 --> 00:39:44,860 Child molester only has power as long as his secret is kept. You tell the truth, 702 00:39:44,980 --> 00:39:45,980 his power is gone. 703 00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:47,440 What's his name, Michael? 704 00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:49,400 I heard them talk about it. 705 00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:50,740 Nobody did anything. 706 00:39:51,180 --> 00:39:52,180 Talk about what? 707 00:39:52,940 --> 00:39:53,940 Who, Michael? 708 00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:00,220 Andrew and... 709 00:40:04,010 --> 00:40:05,010 And Craig Prince. 710 00:40:06,450 --> 00:40:10,090 They killed that boy in Belgium. And nobody did anything. 711 00:40:11,830 --> 00:40:13,650 When did this happen? What boy? 712 00:40:14,110 --> 00:40:15,110 I was eight. 713 00:40:15,290 --> 00:40:17,470 It was in the papers there. 714 00:40:18,070 --> 00:40:19,490 Nobody did anything. 715 00:40:20,590 --> 00:40:21,790 Craig Prince. 716 00:40:22,290 --> 00:40:24,070 Get away with anything. 717 00:40:28,330 --> 00:40:30,030 You can't protect me. 718 00:40:34,190 --> 00:40:35,290 Hideoffs in the third quarter. 719 00:40:36,290 --> 00:40:40,910 Adjusted by the bill... Oh, Craig, good news. Excuse me, this is a classified 720 00:40:40,910 --> 00:40:43,850 briefing. Yeah, cross -wards, Michael. 721 00:40:44,390 --> 00:40:46,010 Grand jury voted man two. 722 00:40:46,470 --> 00:40:49,230 DA is willing to cut him a deal. Well, I don't see what that has to do... Even 723 00:40:49,230 --> 00:40:52,870 better news, you're under arrest for sexual abuse, sodomy, assault, and 724 00:40:52,870 --> 00:40:54,170 endangering the welfare of a child. 725 00:40:54,530 --> 00:40:56,750 Oh, you're hurting me! That's not our concern. 726 00:40:57,150 --> 00:41:00,670 Craig Prince, you have the right to remain silent. If you give up that 727 00:41:00,790 --> 00:41:03,410 anything you do or say can and will be used against you. 728 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:05,060 Captain Cragen? 729 00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:29,520 This little boy's mother stuck his hands on a frying pan until his fingers 730 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:30,520 burned off. 731 00:41:35,220 --> 00:41:40,480 This rape victim required 12 hours of surgery to have a steel plate put into 732 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,040 head after her attacker pummeled her with a claw hammer. 733 00:41:49,580 --> 00:41:51,100 This one didn't make it. 734 00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:01,460 Is there anybody on this panel who doesn't share Detective Stabler's anger 735 00:42:01,460 --> 00:42:02,460 the perpetrators? 736 00:42:03,470 --> 00:42:04,710 This man is a good cop. 737 00:42:07,010 --> 00:42:12,030 As his commanding officer, I stand with him and every good cop who faces these 738 00:42:12,030 --> 00:42:16,090 horrors day after day and has the strength to keep their impulses in 739 00:42:17,570 --> 00:42:22,590 Now, if you can look at these pictures and not understand that, the problem 740 00:42:22,590 --> 00:42:23,690 isn't Elliot Stabler. 741 00:42:36,190 --> 00:42:40,110 Hello. All right, go get the kids. Yeah. Dinner is ready. 742 00:42:41,090 --> 00:42:42,090 Sure. Hey, 743 00:42:44,750 --> 00:42:45,750 Captain. 744 00:42:46,030 --> 00:42:47,050 Thanks for the support. 745 00:42:48,670 --> 00:42:49,670 Yeah. 746 00:42:53,690 --> 00:42:54,690 Well? 747 00:42:59,090 --> 00:43:00,370 Morse Commission cleared me. 748 00:43:25,900 --> 00:43:27,180 You're here for my job. 749 00:43:29,580 --> 00:43:30,660 This is awkward. 750 00:43:30,980 --> 00:43:33,220 Well, try my side in a moment.