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In the criminal justice system,

sexually based offenses

are considered especially heinous.

In New York City, the dedicated detectives

who investigate these vicious felonies

are members of an elite squad

known as the Special Victims Unit.

These are their stories.

I'm starting to question your supervision.

My team is the best in the department.

Dad wasn't who I thought he was.

Were there things we did back in the day

that wouldn't fly now?

Sure.

I'm being reassigned.

She's doing this to get to me.

What is that?

It's from a shooting in a bar

involving a Lieutenant Jimmy Griffin

and Detective Kathryn Tynan.

You're wrong about Benson.

I'm not gonna look the other way when

you're doing something wrong.

You are suspended,

effective immediately.

Please turn over your service weapon and badge.

You have to get back in the fight.

We broke up.

It's fine.

It's for the best.

Everything you said, that dude was not right.

Yeah.

The last straw, he said he didn't believe in birds.

"Hollow bones don't make sense, Jess."

Dumbass.

- He backed into me! - That's a lie. I saw you.

We all saw it. She's at fault.

That man didn't do anything wrong.

All right.

What's up, brother? Are you all right?

Just fine, Officer.

Witnesses say you got hit.

Any injuries?

None at all.

All righty.

Look, we're gonna take a report.

You can give it to your insurance or whatever.

Can I see your license and registration, please?

- Not necessary, thank you. - You sure?

Just a second. Hold on.

How we doing over here?

You hurt your head, sir?

You got any neck pain?

I did not.

You had anything to drink tonight?

Just water.

Gun!

Hands up.

- Hands on the steering wheel. - Hands now, do it!

Is that your gun?

You got a permit for that gun, sir?

All right, keep your hand on the wheel.

With your left hand, open the car door.

Get out and get on your knees.

No clip.

Check the trunk.

There... There's a kid.

There's a kid here. Oh, my God, buddy.

All right, we got you. We got you.

Come here.

I observed the butt of the handgun

from underneath the passenger side seat.

I alerted Officer Acosta, who then proceeded

to arrest the defendant without incident.

And what happened next?

We observed the handgun was missing its ammo clip.

We initiated a search.

Upon opening the trunk of the vehicle, we discovered the boy.

Thank you, Officer Rodriguez.

Nothing further, Your Honor.

Officer Rodriguez,

where were you standing

when you observed the butt of the handgun?

I was standing at the open passenger side window

of the defendant's vehicle.

- How close were you to the door? - Right next to it.

But how close?

Were you a foot away, two feet, leaning up against it?

I guess a foot, give or take.

And when you looked down, what did you see?

I saw the butt of the handgun sticking out

from underneath the passenger side seat.

And you did not search the vehicle

before you saw the handgun.

You didn't reach in or anything like that.

No, I did not.

Your Honor, I'd like to play a video taken by an eyewitness

on the night in question.

This is you here, Officer Rodriguez?

Yes.

You had anything to drink tonight?

And where is your head, Officer?

Uh... I was...

I was looking at the bottle, trying to see if...

Is your head outside the vehicle

or inside the vehicle, Officer Rodriguez?

It was for a second, but it was...

And in that second,

by putting your head inside the vehicle,

you initiated a warrantless search,

and then you saw the gun.

Is that correct, Officer Rodriguez?

All right, all right, that's enough.

You may step down, Officer.

Get up here.

You better have more than what came out

of that search, Carisi.

I, uh... I do not, Your Honor.

I cannot believe this.

I cannot believe you're putting me in this position.

I apologize.

This was a complete surprise to me.

So get out of my sight.

Go sit down.

First, I'd like to acknowledge and thank

the Manhattan Special Victims Unit

for their excellent work in this case,

specifically, Captain Benson,

who obtained a full confession

just hours after the defendant's arrest.

And to Officers Rodriguez and Acosta,

we owe you a debt of gratitude as well.

Their street smarts and intuition

saved a young boy's life,

and we must never forget that.

Now, we call this a Mapp hearing,

named after the landmark Supreme Court case.

And at the risk of sounding like an old windbag,

I'm gonna quote from the majority opinion.

"Nothing can destroy a government"

"more quickly than its failure"

"to observe its own laws."

And that is where we are now.

The search of Mr. Caine's vehicle

was a violation of his 4th Amendment rights

and was illegal.

So I am suppressing the gun, the boy, and the confession.

And since the government has no further admissible evidence,

I am required to dismiss this case and release Mr. Caine.

Process him out. We're done.

I'm gonna kill that kid Rodriguez.

I prepped him three times.

He's been out of the Academy for all of five seconds.

Captain Benson.

I just wanted to say, I really hope we can

put all of this in the past.

You could play hardball, you can be uncooperative,

and then, you know, the judge is

gonna give you the maximum.

Or...

Or, Richard, you can help yourself.

And I think you're smart enough to do that.

I mean, if you're forthcoming,

the judge notices that. It matters.

I've seen that. I've seen it a million times.

I need you to hold your questions until the end.

I just want you listening.

I can agree to that.

Okay.

I saw him a few times on the street.

His mom, she's distracted,

a lot going on, always on her phone.

Sometimes she lets him go to a friend's

down the street, by himself.

He likes to take a shortcut through the alley,

climb over the fence.

It's not very safe.

I waited in the alley.

It was cold, felt like rain was coming.

I scared him.

That was on purpose.

I figured if I threatened to hurt his mother,

he'd do what I said.

I was right.

So I told him to get into my trunk.

He didn't even fight, he was so afraid.

It all worked amazingly well.

Hey, Cap.

I can come back if you're busy.

No, it's fine.

What's up?

Hey.

What the hell are we gonna do?

Everything we can.

Carisi is on his way down for a brainstorming session.

What have you got?

I traced the gun,

that I found on my dad's storage unit, all right?

Unregistered serial number goes back to a robbery from '97.

And my dad was the responding officer.

Must have held onto it.

And then dropped it on some low-level mob guy

who he just shot in the knee?

Yeah.

Tynan helped him cover it up.

So, Griff, what are you gonna do with this information?

I'm gonna put it away for now.

Let's get this son of a bitch back behind bars permanently.

Well, the car's still in impound.

Give us a warrant to search it before he clears it out.

It's the fruit of the poisonous tree, Amanda.

- Come on, you know this. - It's in our custody, though.

Yeah, because of the search,

that was just thrown out. No way.

Listen, you guys, anything that is tied

to the search of this car is out.

All right, Dr. No, what do you suggest?

Hey, don't you give me that crap.

I'm trying to prevent this department from violating

civil rights again.

All right, we're going back to the beginning.

We're gonna talk to every known associate

that we talked to the first time around.

It's been six months.

- Memory won't be better now. - And that can't be helped.

Bruno, Finn, go talk to the ex-wife.

I'm going to talk to the family.

- What, of the kid? - Yeah.

I'm gonna tell them what happened

and then tell them what we're gonna do about it.

Okay. I will come with you as backup.

- No, that's not necessary. - Boss,

you don't gotta do this alone.

Listen, everybody.

Anything, I mean, anything that you find

has gotta be completely independent

of the search of that car.

All right, this is our last shot.

All right, guys, we go back to square one.

We're gonna make this bulletproof.

Sorry, I don't understand. You let him out?

He had a kid in his trunk.

It's a long story.

When'd you talk to Richard last?

Not since he got arrested.

I heard you're divorcing the dude.

That's a good choice.

Yeah.

I always wanted a six-month marriage

and a divorce before 30.

Maybe next time don't marry a dude after just

two months of dating.

Nobody else was asking.

All right, we're gonna need you to think back

to that night six months ago.

Did Richard say anything at all about his whereabouts,

anyone he spoke to?

Maybe he went to a place with a security camera

that we can check?

I really don't remember.

Analisa, you married a piece of garbage.

That makes you gullible, not bad.

Now is your shot to get him out of your life for a long time.

Think.

Look.

I worked really hard not to think

about Richard at all, ever.

So I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna be any help.

Really messed up you had to let him go.

I don't understand.

We lost the case?

Well, we didn't...

We didn't lose the case.

We, um...

We never even got to try it.

There was a mix-up during the search of Caine's car.

It wasn't a mix-up, it was a mistake.

It was... It was a big mistake.

And I'm in charge,

and I take full responsibility for it,

and I cannot tell you how sorry I am.

How sorry you are?

That man took my son.

He could have done God knows what to him and you're...

- Mr. DeBoer... - You're sorry?

Let him talk.

He won't tell the therapist.

- He won't say what happened. - In time, he will.

And now you want us to tell him that that monster

is still out there?

You don't wanna practice today?

Coach said I didn't have to.

Oh, good. Take your time.

Boom.

So how do you like your therapist?

- She's all right. - Yeah?

Therapy can be weird.

I remember when I first went.

I just thought, like, why should I tell a stranger,

anything about me, when they don't know me?

But then I realized they didn't have to know me.

All they had to do was listen.

Boom.

Some therapists like to play games.

Does yours?

She had some stupid baby game.

I didn't wanna play.

Oh, baby games?

That's dumb. You're not a baby.

You know, I bet if you told your therapist that,

she'd come up with some other games.

- Bobby! - Get outta here.

He remember anything more?

No. I didn't ask him.

He's not ready.

Cheer up.

Rollins and Curry got something.

He had another identity.

- Caine? - Yeah.

His old boss gave us some union paperwork, and on it was

an old Hotmail address that we didn't know about.

We traced it back to a Matthew Parker

in Jacksonville, Florida.

Matthew Parker died in 2014.

Caine must have bought the Social Security number,

- and nobody caught it. - So Curry's on

with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office now.

They questioned him three years ago.

- Guess what it was about. - Kidnapped kid.

Missing kid, still missing three years later.

All right, thanks. Yeah, standing by here.

I sent Jacksonville Caine's mugshot.

It's definitely the same person.

They're sending me everything they've got on him.

Hang on, and he was interviewed three years ago?

Yeah, they tried to track him down a few days later,

- but he was gone. - Look at this.

It's a photo of the missing boy in Jacksonville.

Brown hair, just like Bobby.

Caine's got a type.

There are more victims out there.

Good morning.

Need a ride?

Get in, Jake.

Steve, why don't you get yourself a coffee?

Curry's suddenly back in with SVU?

What's this I hear about her digging up

retired old fossils from IAB?

I think you know.

I just wish you would have come to me

with questions about your father.

The clandestine meetings are so unnecessary.

I found the gun.

And the payments that he was getting from Dennis Reeves.

Thousands...

Thousands of dollars over the years.

Dad was on the take, getting paid to look the other way.

And then he shot Reeves when Reeves was unarmed.

And you helped cover it up.

I told the stupid son of a bitch

to throw that gun in the river.

How-how can you sit here and justify this?

- You let me believe that... - Believe what, Jake?

That your father was a good man?

He was.

He shot an unarmed guy,

and then he planted a gun at...

Reeves was an unrepentant criminal.

Do not waste one drop of sympathy on him.

This is unbelievable.

I cannot believe you are defending him.

I had two ways it could have gone in that situation.

Turn my partner in, he goes to prison,

I get labeled a rat, and my career is over.

Or...

Plant a gun on a lowlife who deserved it,

and the world's a better place.

You broke the law.

All right?

You broke the law, and you chose

what was gonna save your ass and his.

Absolutely, and you would do the same thing.

I would have done the right thing.

How far would you go to protect your partner?

Your captain?

I already know the answer to that, Jake.

So do you.

I imagine that you've, you know, done this before.

Right?

That's a big imagination.

Oh, come on.

So good. It was so clean.

You made no mistakes.

That car accident was a fluke.

If that hadn't happened,

nothing would have stopped you.

Did you... Did you practice for this or...

Or are you just that good?

Tell me about the others, Richard.

How many were there?

Well, how many do you think?

Only you can answer that question.

What would be a number that would make you go,

wow, this guy is something else?

Cap, we got a visitor.

Detective Torres from Jacksonville.

Retired last year.

Parker still keeps me up at night...

Or whatever the hell he's calling himself now.

Parker was his fake identity.

So ten years ago, Caine was snagged in a pornography sweep

up in Westchester,

pled down to a misdemeanor and went off the grid.

Then three years ago, he resurrected Caine

and came back to New York.

The question is, why?

'Cause I was gonna arrest him.

Back in 2021, we got a call.

A man was loitering around a middle school.

Dispatched a car, went and talked to him.

He said he was looking for his cat.

Got him on a list anyway.

We started finding bodies not so long after that.

Hurricane Nicole hit November of that year.

Lady was walking her dog on Neptune Beach

and found a skull.

Cole Finch went missing two years prior.

Played the clarinet, the oldest of three.

We found Aidan Glover on that same beach.

He was an only child, real smart.

We couldn't find all of him.

Probably washed out to sea.

You thought Parker was good for it?

Yeah, we called him in for questioning.

He was an odd guy, but nothing to hold him on, really.

It all started coming together

when the third boy went missing...

Oliver Cohen.

He was walking home from a friend's house.

This was in 2023.

He never made it home.

You said you tried to arrest Parker.

Yeah, I realized there was a pattern.

He was a lineman for the power company.

I checked his service areas.

All three kids lived in the zone.

I got the go ahead to pick him up.

But by the time we got there, he was gone.

Call the supervisor. Find out his service area.

On it.

I knew it.

The first time I talked to him, I knew it.

Sometimes you can just feel it

when you're in the room with 'em.

It's on your skin, in the air.

What's it feel like?

Evil.

That's right.

I know he's dead already, but I'd sure like to find him.

You know, Caine had a different car in Jacksonville.

This was a red Nissan.

Well, how did he get to New York?

Okay.

Okay, it was ticketed and towed three years ago.

It's still at the impound lot.

Abandoned property. We don't need a warrant.

Go.

Red Nissan with Florida tags.

That's it.

That guy's probably got a lockout kit.

There's no time for that.

I thought it was gonna be a lot more terrible than that.

This trunk is full of sand.

I spoke too soon.

Bag it.

Looks like they went sightseeing

before they ditched this car.

Midland Beach, Staten Island.

You think the suspension goes away?

I don't know.

Tynan got the commissioner to put a tribunal together,

and if she's got enough friends, she can make it hard.

That's her strategy, though, right?

Just make things hard enough so it's not worth fighting for.

Yeah, well, between that and this case, it might be working.

What the hell is this?

- Help you? - Yeah.

That guy thought you might be thirsty,

wanted me to give you some drinks.

Gave me 50 bucks.

Said if you wanna talk, come on in.

Damn it.

I'm half-tempted to take him up on it.

Yeah, well, if I sit in a room with that guy,

there's no guaranteeing what I'll do.

Yeah, Cap, he made us.

I'm sorry. I don't know how.

He's never met us before.

All right, go back to the house.

Yeah, I'll be in touch.

Hey. Hi.

Hey, do you stay around here a lot?

I'm not bothering anybody.

No, no, you're not in trouble.

We're just looking for someone.

Hey, you ever seen this guy?

Oh, yeah. Sandwich man.

Very generous.

Does he come around this beach a lot?

I see him once in a while.

He's always got a sandwich and a couple bucks.

- Okay, is he ever with anyone? - Don't know.

I've never seen him with anyone.

Usually asks me to take a walk.

And what about, uh...

Did he have any favorite places?

Walks around there a lot, digging for clams, maybe.

This water... I wouldn't eat 'em.

Thank you.

We're gonna need a K9 unit,

a medical examiner, and a backhoe.

Captain, got something!

How long do you think it's been there?

Unknown at this point.

This environment, rate of decay is fast.

Over here!

How many do you think are out here, Captain?

How long have they been buried?

Hard to say without knowing when they went missing,

but they were buried at different times.

Most recent was probably a year ago.

No more than five for the others.

Your guy likes his routine.

All of them had duct tape around their wrists, ankles,

and over the mouth.

Two of the three had a broken hyoid bone,

indicating asphyxiation or strangulation.

What about the third?

Didn't find a hyoid bone.

Which one was wearing that?

Based on the deterioration of the clothing,

I'd estimate he's been here the longest.

Regular day at the office for you?

Top five worst.

What I don't have for you...

Anything identifying your perp.

We're testing some hair and fibers, but it's so degraded,

- I don't have a lot of hope. - That's all right.

I think we have enough to bring him in.

We absolutely do not.

It's identical MO to Jacksonville...

duct tape, buried on the beach.

Jacksonville has three unsolved cases,

and the chief suspect's got a different name.

Got IDs on all three remains.

More extensive testing is needed, but with a 90% match,

it's all but confirmed,

and Oliver Cohen from Jacksonville was one of them.

Someone needs to tell Torres.

He's on a plane home. He already knows.

Okay, well, we got Jeremy Thatcher from Darien.

He was considered to be a runaway.

And Tommy DiStefano, believed to have

been a family kidnapping.

Plus, Horowitz ran the DNA from the T-shirt

that Bruno found in the car.

It matches Tommy DiStefano.

That has to be enough, Carisi.

It's a T-shirt that was found in a car

that's been abandoned for three years.

Look, Liv, this is all circumstantial,

not to mention every one of those kids

is not in our jurisdiction.

It goes to pattern.

Yeah, but I cannot say pattern,

because that case was thrown out.

Look, we need a smoking gun.

A smoking gun is gonna be another dead kid,

which is going to happen if we don't stop him.

We can stop him if we track him.

That's a warrant that I can't get.

But you enjoy it.

You enjoy hurting people.

You're the one who carries a gun wherever you go.

Maybe you enjoy hurting people.

I do carry a gun.

But I only use it

to defend myself against people

who are stronger than me,

who are bigger than me, dangerous.

And you hurt children.

Innocent children...

Who can't defend themselves.

I wouldn't say that.

Children sometimes can really fight back.

You know what I think, Richard?

I think that deep down,

you're just a coward...

Who has to hurt children,

so you can feel brave.

Did you fight back when it happened to you?

I'm not talking about me!

You gotta knock that off.

I'm just trying to see if there's something I missed.

You didn't.

And if you keep doing that, you're just

gonna drive yourself nuts.

Okay? We're tracking this guy.

If he moves, we got him.

Fin, I don't know how much longer I can do this.

Maybe you were right about the whole retiring thing.

Yeah?

Well, I revised my whole position,

and I'm never retiring.

And I'm never gonna die.

You better not.

They found a familial match

from one of the genealogy databases.

From the T-shirt you found in the car.

It's Tommy DiStefano. That's the kid from Philly.

Not his DNA.

It was Caine's.

We have enough to arrest him.

- Call Carisi. - I'm on it.

Hey, I need a location on Caine's vehicle now.

You two with me.

- Hey, get out of the car. - What?

Okay, okay, I'll move.

Hey.

- Where's the car? - I don't know.

- I don't see it. - It should be here.

Wait.

It's here.

He took it off.

All right, Park Police is dispatching

everyone they've got to the beaches,

but there's over 500 miles of coastal property

in New York alone, so it won't be enough.

Still nothing on the cell phone front.

Probably doesn't have one or he's got a burner.

No credit cards either. Can't track his financials.

All right, so we do this door to door,

run down everyone he knows, and see if he's reached out.

You know, Jeremy was taken when Richard was still married.

You think she knew?

We have a date and time.

I wanna talk to her first.

Hey, Cap, just got word... child abduction in Queens,

11-year-old named Eli Brooks.

My God.

You're with me.

I didn't know.

I swear to God, I didn't know.

Analisa, we're not blaming you.

But I need you to put your emotions aside right now

and just think.

Where were you that day?

I can't remember.

It was so long ago.

You have your calendar in your phone, right?

Why don't you check that and see if it jogs your memory?

No, I'm sorry, I don't.

I know that you wanna run away from this, but you can't.

This happened right under your nose.

And now you finally have a chance to do something.

I never knew where he went, okay?

He never told me.

If I'd ask, he'd just, like, explode on me.

I can't help you. I wish I could.

Did you ever go to the beach with him?

No. God, no. He hated the beach.

He hated everything about it.

How do you know he hated the beach?

Just bad memories.

He used to go camping with his grandfather

or his step-grandfather, I guess.

I always thought something bad happened with that guy.

- Do you remember his name? - Um...

Parker something.

Matthew Parker?

- Yeah, that's it. - Okay.

And do you know where they camped?

Car located on the east side of camp.

Car!

Nobody in it.

Listen.

You hear that?

Let's go!

Caine! Let's go!

Eli? Eli.

Oh, thank God.

Thank God. Oh, my God, it's okay.

I'm the police.

Okay, honey, are you hurt, Eli?

- I want my mama. - Of course you do.

And I'm gonna take you her.

I'm gonna take you to her right now.

Okay?

I'm gonna take you to her.

I need paramedics, now!

He's gotta be in there.

We're at the chapel, south side.

This guy armed?

Expect him to be.

- Okay. - He's okay?

This ends tonight.

Go.

We're inside. No sign.

- I'm hit! I'm hit! - Everyone down!

10-13, shots fired. Shots fired.

Help me!

Help us now!

Okay, okay, okay.

We got you. Okay, okay.

Okay, okay. We got you.

Griff, are you hit?

Oh, my God.

Griff!

Griff!

You know how many of them are out there?

How many I put into the ground?

I can't even count.

Shut up, Caine.

They were so innocent.

And you wanna know what they were like before they died?

What they sounded like?

You know that nobody...

Nobody in this whole world would care

if I blew you away right now.

Hey. Hey.

I got you. Give me that.

I got you. I got you.

You're okay.

I guess you're the one who's gonna get punished now.

You're done.

- Hallway clear! - We got eyes.

Here. Come on.

- Hey. - Hey.

Oh, he's up.

Yeah, and the doctor said we could go in when they're done.

Good.

Hey, Sleeping Beauty.

Huh?

I'm not asleep, I'm meditating.

- Got your coffee. - Is that decaf?

What do you think?

Got his things.

Curry made me bring the fuzzy slippers.

Well, they're adorable, so of course I did.

What's up with Caine?

Arraignment is later this morning

after they take the bullet out of his leg.

You hear anything about the boy?

Doc sent him home. No physical harm.

I saw Parks. She's gonna be okay.

The... The bullet missed the artery, so.

I'm starving. You think the café's open yet?

Yeah, I was just there.

- Breakfast? - No, I'm okay.

He's okay.

He lost about a foot of his intestines,

but from what I understand, we have some to spare.

I'm gonna have your badge for this.

I'm sorry. What?

What are you even talking about?

You putting your team in danger for no valid reason.

The valid reason is locked up because of Griffin.

He's the hero here.

I don't care about heroes, Captain.

I care about survival, and it's a shame you don't.

Your career is over,

and I am no longer sorry about that.

Yeah, I don't...

I don't think that's gonna happen.

Because you think you have some dirt on me?

Whatever Jake told you is not relevant,

and can't be proven, in any event.

You sure about that?

He recorded it.

I'm not interested in ruining your career, Chief.

I'm really not.

But I'm not gonna let you ruin mine.

How's he doing?

Thank you.

How you doing?

- That was a close one. - Yeah.

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