All language subtitles for Law.and.Order.SVU.S26E07.1080p.x265-ELiTE-ENG

- 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.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Those two girls,
they're underage.

- I don't know what
you're talking about.

- Yeah, you do.
You're staring at them.

You're staring at my daughter.

Let me see your ID.

- You a cop?
- What do you think?

- I heard something.
- Like what?

- I don't know,
but I heard something.

- [groans]
- She's alive.

She's barely breathing.

Hey! Hey!

Can you tell me what happened?

- I was raped.

[siren wailing distantly]

- You got your warpaint on.

- I guess.

- You look nice,

when you want to.

- Thanks, Mom.

- I guess you're gonna
be out late.

I know.
None of my business.

But I don't like waiting up
all night,

wondering if the police
gonna knock on my door,

telling me
you're not coming home.

- You don't need
to worry about me, Mom.

I'll be home before
you and Freddie know it.

- Baby girl, let me tell you,

all my man Sammy does
is play "League of Legends"

and drain my Zelle account.

- Oh, honey,
he found out about that?

- Stopped playing his game
long enough to go through

my bag while I was asleep.

Next day, I wake up to nothing
but a bunch of triple zeros

on my phone screen.

He gonna come home one day

and find that I sold
his goddamn computer.

[laughter]

- What about your pimp?

How much a percentage
he let you keep?

- I don't have a pimp.
- Oh!

We got ourselves
a entrepreneur.

- New girl likes
to keep a low profile.

- New girl,

what's your name?

- It's Wallen.

- I'll be honest, I'm not gonna
remember that by tomorrow.

- Better off that way, I guess.

I ain't doing this forever.

- Yo, Alondra,
time to clock out.

- I'm coming.

Gotta go.

Someone's hangry.

Have a good night, Jade.

See you tomorrow, new girl.

- Hey, break time's over,
all right?

Your man Charlie's waiting
for you back at the diner.

Hustle up.

- You OK?

You want my jacket?

- No, I--I'm all right.

- What's under
all that coverup?

It's a bruise?

When's your man picking you up?

- I'm not a good earner.

To be honest, I don't think
I'm cut out for this.

- Here, clock out early.

- I--I can't take that.

- The good book says,

"You cast your bread
upon the water,

it will return to you tenfold."

That's Ecclesiastes.

[tense music]

♪

[car horn honks]

♪

[gasps]

[grunting, gasping]

- What are you guys
still doing here?

- We just wrapped up that
dollar store ejaculator case.

- Oh, let me guess.

He's making you
do the paperwork?

- What can I say?
Seniority is a bitch.

- Well, unless
you're trying to actively

get some kind of award
for most OT this month,

guys, go home.
Get out of here.

- If you say so.
- See you later.

- You want to get a beer?

- Does that mean I'm buying?

- No, this one's on me.
You're doing me a favor.

- Is Phoebe out of town?
- Her mother's visiting.

- Say no more.

[phone ringing]

- Yo, Benson said
we're off the clock.

- Yeah,
but if I don't answer it,

then I'm gonna be up all night

wondering who the hell
called my desk phone.

- You Detective Bruno?

- This is Sergeant Tutuola.

- Who's the vic?
- Sex worker.

Pretty banged up.
Found your card in her purse.

- "Detective Terrence Bruno,
Bronx SVU."

- Wallen?

What are you doing
in Manhattan?

- So you remember me?

- Of course, I remember you.

- What happened?
- I'm not sure, but I--

I think I was raped.

[sobbing]

- It's OK.
It's OK.

It's OK.

We got you.
- [sobbing]

[dramatic music]

♪

- Hey, I gotta talk to you.

- Oh, OK.
Well, good morning to you too.

- OK, look, you remember that--

that pedo that
I was telling you about?

- The one who checked out Jesse
a couple of weeks ago

outside the phone store?
- Yeah.

So I saw him again last night,

hanging around a couple girls
at the pizzeria

in my neighborhood.
you believe that?

- OK, well, you said
that you looked at his ID.

So did you check him out?

- He is a substitute teacher
in the New York City

public school district.
- OK.

- Turns out that
his latest placement

was at some elementary school
over on the Upper West Side.

[chuckles]

- All right, Carisi, and what
would you like from me?

- Well, I want you to come
with me to talk to the school.

- Really, Carisi?

Aside from how busy
you know I am,

I think nobody knows better
than you

that there's
mandatory reporting

in the public school district.

- That's if it was flagged
on the record.

Liv, you know these schools.

You know, they just pass
the trash sometimes.

- [sighs]

- What, you think I'm crazy?
- A little, yeah.

But I also know and understand
that you are a father.

- Liv, look,

if I find out that this guy

molested someone's kid,

I-I'm never gonna be able
to forgive myself,

or you.

- OK, I'll go with you.
- Good.

[phone buzzes]
Thank you.

- You're welcome.

Fin.

- Just wanted to give you
a heads up.

Me and Bruno are still at
the hospital with that case

we caught last night.

- Yeah, the woman
from the Bronx.

She has a memorable name.
Wallen.

Wallen, right?

- Yeah, last name Sipes.
- And how is she doing?

- She's being examined
right now.

- Keep me posted.

- Initial exam shows signs
of sexual assault.

- Anything specific?

- Tearing, abrasions,
vaginal and anal.

- Did you photograph the
ligature marks on her neck?

- I tried.

She wouldn't agree
to a rape kit.

She's pretty adamant.

She doesn't want
the system involved.

- Yeah, well,
we're involved now.

- If you want to try
and reason with her,

I'd hurry up 'cause
she's already dressed.

- Whoa!
Wallen, where you going?

- I got somewhere I need to be.
- The stroll?

- I'm clean now.

I'm not working
the stroll no more.

- Well, you have to forgive us,
then, because the cop

who called us said
you were found two blocks

from one of the biggest strolls
in Manhattan.

- I was visiting a friend.

- Why you leaving, Wallen?

You told us you
may have been raped.

- The doctor confirmed.

- I gotta go.
My mother called me.

She needs me at home,
and I've been raped before.

- Yeah, we know.
- We solved that case.

We want to solve this one
for you too.

- But you got to help us.
Any idea who did this?

- Anyone you got beef with?

- Anybody
threaten you recently?

A pimp?
A rival?

- No, I told you
I'm not hoeing.

- Whoever this guy is,
he tried to strangle you.

- Almost killed you.

- What if he goes after
one of those girls

that is not as lucky as you,

one of the girls
still out on the stroll?

- Damn, you really trying
to play me with

this nice cop/mean cop stuff?

You think I don't see it?

- Just get a rape kit,
please, will you?

- Same thing as before?

- Standard.

- OK, fine.
I'll do it.

First, I got to text my mom.

- Thought your mama called you?

- Well, look, just go back
to your cubicle,

and we'll send the same nurse
to come see you.

- Benson said
you might need backup?

- Thank you.

- We got a victim
that doesn't trust cops.

- Think she's
hiding something?

- Well, at least
she agreed to a rape kit.

- Yeah, but something tells me
we need to stay here

to make sure
she goes through with it.

- OK.
What do you need from us?

- We haven't had time
to look for cameras

or physical evidence yet.

A good canvass could help.

- Any idea what
we're looking for?

- Ligature, like a belt,
electrical cord,

maybe some kind of rope.

- From the scrapes on her legs,

looks like she was strangled
and then dragged.

- Got it, Sarge.

- My mother wants to know
how long this is gonna take,

and I don't know what to say.
- Hold on.

I'll talk to her.

- Vincent said this vic
was from a case

you two worked before?

- First case
we ever worked together.

- Well, you must have done
something right

'cause it seems like
she trusts you guys.

I don't see any cams
on these warehouses.

- Oh, you want this to be easy?

We know that there was contact
with our vic.

- And every contact
leaves a trace.

What is it?
- Huh.

Broken heel.

Maybe Wallen can ID it as hers.

- OK.

All right,
so drag marks start here.

- And they fall off
the curb here.

- Mm-hmm.

- CSU might be able
to pull prints

off one of these bumpers.

- This is an electric car.

- And it looks like
someone dumped it.

- Well, unless they also
stole the battery,

these cars all come
with cameras in them.

The footage will tell us a lot.

- Well,
just because she thinks

there's nothing substantial

doesn't mean there
isn't something there.

So what's the next move?

- OK, without a specific
complaint, Carisi...

[phone buzzes]

We're out of them.

- What,
so I just go back to court?

Maybe I-I wait till I see
this guy as a defendant, huh?

- Hold on, Curry and
Silva need a warrant

for a car security cam.

- It was parked near
where Fin and Bruno's

victim was assaulted
last night?

- Yeah, can you bring it
to the judge?

- Yeah.

Is this you trying to
distract me from Cottle?

- Well, if keeping you
focused on a perp

who committed an actual crime
will distract you, then yeah.

- What's taking the judge
so long on that warrant?

- You were right.

The car owner
reported it stolen

from a driveway in Jersey.

- So it's gonna take
another phone call.

- Carisi is well aware.

- Does anyone know
how these cameras work?

- Motion-activated.

When someone gets too close,
they turn on.

- With coverage in
almost every direction.

- OK, anything else?

- Yeah, we found a heel
at the crime scene.

- Three-inch stiletto.

- OK, did Wallen ID it as hers?
- Not yet.

- All right,
so it's 24 hours later,

and your vic is still denying

that she was working
the stroll?

- Yes, she is.

- Here's something that's
gonna be hard to deny.

Wallen's rape kit came back.

Multiple samples of
condom lubricant,

with three distinct
semen samples.

- Any matches in the system?
- Unfortunately not.

- And the only way to connect
one of these samples

to Wallen is Wallen.

- And she won't even cop
to the sex work

we know she's doing.

- So you mean to tell me
that you have

a relationship with Wallen,
and she's still lying to you?

So does she trust you or not?
- To a point.

- So figure it out.

Do your job

and win her over.

- I did a rape kit.

What else do you want?
- It's morning.

New day.
Figured you might be hungry.

- So now you're trying
to bribe me?

- Oh, if we were trying
to bribe you, we would have

taken you someplace
a hell of a lot nicer

than this dump.

- Wallen, you got us in
hot water with our captain.

- She doesn't think
we can do our job.

- You must have known
we were gonna get

multiple samples
on the rape kit.

- Hey, look, no judgment.

We all get behind on our bills.

- Take us through the night.

How many customers
are we talking?

- Enough to pay
for half my mom's rent

and night classes
at Hunter College.

- You taking night classes?

- For my GED.

Don't laugh.

- Nobody's laughing, Wallen.

- All right, three of the guys
on the rape kit,

you had sex with them
without a condom?

- Some guys pay extra for that.

- Anyone pay extra
for something else?

Doctor said you had tears
in another part

of your anatomy.

- The guy who raped you
later that night,

you see his face?

- He came up from behind me,
threw something around my neck,

and dragged me
till I passed out.

But there was a guy
earlier in the night,

around 11:00, who wanted ass.

I said no.
- OK, tell us about that guy.

- He got rough.

I fought him off,
got out of his car.

He just drove away.

- Is it possible that
the guy that drove off

earlier that night
is the same one

that followed you
to the bus stop?

- I guess.

- Can you describe the first
guy you saw around 11:00?

- Some Spanish dude.
- Was he Puerto Rican?

Dominican?
Cuban?

- He asked for Jade.

Seemed like
one of her regulars.

- But you took
the date instead?

- Jade was having a slow night.

I gave her some cash,
sent her home.

- Now, hold up,
you gave her cash?

Wasn't the whole point
of you working

to make money that night?

- The good book says,

"If you cast your bread
upon the water,

it will return to you tenfold."

- Hope this Jade woman
finds it in her heart to help.

- Why?

'Cause Wallen gave her money,
sent her home,

then got attacked
by one of her regulars?

- How's that for karma?
- You believe in that?

- Maybe it just moves slower
for some folks.

[knocks]

- New York doesn't give
a rat's ass about karma.

- Are you the owner
of this domicile?

- Yeah. Why?

- We got a call
about a domestic.

- Nothing going on here.

Right, babe?
- We're good.

- See?
She say we good, we good.

- Yeah, we're not gonna leave
until we talk to her.

- Mandatory follow-up.
- From who?

- Your parole officer.

- Two nights ago,
did a woman named Wallen

help you out with some money?

- I don't really
even know her, but yeah.

Why?

- She was attacked that night
and raped.

- Is she gonna be OK?

- She will be.

But we need to catch the guy.

- I don't know
what to tell you.

Second she gave me the money,
I clocked out.

- She thinks she may have
picked up one of your regulars

after you left.

- Latino, 30s.

- Offered to pay extra.

Was pretty forceful
about having anal sex.

- His name's Miguel.

He's from the Bronx.

- Know his last name?

- OK, well,

what kind of car does he drive?

- It was old but, like,

in the middle
of getting fixed up.

It's with that gray patchwork
stuff on it.

The rest of the car is
some ugly champagne color.

- Everything all right in here?

- Fine, babe.

- We were just leaving.

- Thanks.

You ever need any help
getting away from him,

don't hesitate to call.

- OK, so what do we know
about the timeline

of Wallen's assault?

- It only takes five minutes
to drive to the stroll

from the exit ramp
off the bridge.

- If I was him, I would have
hopped back on the bridge

to go home
right after the assault.

- Did you get him
leaving the city?

- Not yet.

- So for all you know,
he could have abandoned

his car on the Manhattan side.

- Yeah, this is why
we focus more on his commute

into the city.

- We gave it a window
of three hours.

- And?

- We had a traffic jam of
1,223 cars to wade through.

- Well, you can cut that
in half right off the top.

- Yeah,
the half driven by women.

- But how many
champagne-colored cars

could there have been?

- I'm glad you asked.
- Answer is 36.

- How many of them
are registered

to a guy named Miguel?

- Four.

But only one had
epoxy bodywork.

- Meet Miguel Rivera.

- 5'7", 35, 163 pounds.

- What do we know about him?

Does he have any priors, solicitation?

- He's clean.

He's employed at
an auto shop in Sunset Park.

- And Wallen is
still cooperating

with the investigation?

- Reluctantly, but yes.
- OK.

So show her an array and see
if she can pick this guy out.

Counselor.
- Hey, you got a minute?

- Sure.

You went to the
Board of Ed's HR Department

and asked about Cottle?

- Well, no, no,
I didn't do anything.

My investigators did.

- And?

- And they found a complaint
on file about Cottle.

- From when?
- A little over a year ago.

Some teenage girl's mother

called the
district superintendent

in Long Island City.
- Saying what?

- Saying that Cottle gave
her daughter "ick vibes."

- OK, did the Board of Ed's
HR follow up

with any form of investigation?

- The file said the claim was
unsubstantiated or whatever,

but they removed him
from the school.

- So what's your plan now?

- [scoffs]

All right, look,
I'm gonna--

I'm gonna turn this question
around on you, OK?

What would you do
if this were Noah's school?

- Oh,

the exact same thing
that you did...

so far.
- So far?

All right, so, what, you think

I should back off here?
That's what you're telling me?

- What you're talking about
falls in the morally gray area

of predictive policing.

- This guy is going to offend.

- But he hasn't yet.

- What if he does?

- Carisi,
we are public servants.

We're not vigilantes.

- So, what, we're just
supposed to wait around

until this guy escalates
and actually does something?

- The system is built
like that for a reason.

Innocent until proven guilty, remember?

- Yeah, I remember.

But in this case--
- You don't like it.

- Do you?

- They all look alike.

- All we need to do is prove
that he's the same guy

that attacked you
later that night.

- Then what?

- Then we arrest him,
take him to court.

- Are you crazy?

I'd have to move
out of the Bronx.

People from Tremont
don't go to the police,

much less rat people out
in open court.

I don't know--
- Look, Wallen,

the second that uni
found my card,

we were back in your world.

- You cops are all the same.
Just a whole lot of talk.

I am putting myself out here.

You're never gonna
catch this guy.

- Not with that attitude,
we won't,

but we did a pretty
damn good job

of solving your last case,
didn't we?

- That's him.

That's the guy
I got in the car with.

- Remember what color
the car was?

- Applesauce.

- Close enough.
- That's good.

- Now what?

- The guy with
the applesauce-colored car,

he pay you?

- Money up front, or
I don't even get in the car.

- Good, then we can pick him up
for solicitation.

[phone chimes]
- I'm already late for class.

- Relax.

We'll drive you.

- What?

- Warrant came through
on that car footage.

TARU is going through it.

- My assault is on video?

- Hey, look, I know
you're late for your class.

We'll write you a note.

- We're gonna need you
to come in with us.

- To the station?

A room full of cops
so that they can arrest me

on a prostitution charge
or worse?

- No, our captain sets the tone
for our squad.

She's not like that.

This is not the Bronx,
I promise.

Nobody's gonna arrest you
or judge you.

- We're not gonna
abandon you

until we figure this out.

All we're asking is for you
not to abandon us either.

[soft dramatic music]

- Wallen, I'm Captain Benson.

We appreciate you coming in.

- Thank you, I guess.
- Yeah.

Look, I know
you've been through a lot.

I want you to know that we take
all the cases seriously here.

But--but this one is personal.

And not just to them,
but for me too.

Why don't you have a seat?
OK.

You ready?

- Yeah.
- Let's do this.

[dramatic music]

♪

So around midnight, right,

that's when you told Fin
and Bruno that you headed home?

- That's right.
- OK.

[tense music]

♪

I know that this is
difficult to watch.

♪

- I can't.

I can't anymore.
You understand me?

I just can't.
- OK, OK.

OK.

Let's--let's take a break, OK?

OK.

Just take a breath.

So the one thing
that I need to ask you,

is there anything,
anything at all,

about the guy in this video
that matches Miguel Rivera?

- His--his shirt, maybe.

I remember it was
like a work shirt.

He was wearing it when I was
in the car with him earlier.

- OK.

- You see that?

He's missing a button.

That's because
I ripped it off in the car

when he tried to get me
to turn around.

- Thank you.

That is very helpful.

Pick up Miguel Rivera
and find out what time

he went back to the Bronx,
and get a warrant for that car.

♪

- I don't know who that is.
- Problem is, she knows you.

- Her name's Wallen.

She said you picked her up
under the Macombs Dam Bridge

a few nights ago.

Says she got in your car,

and you tried to coerce her
into anal.

- She's lying.

- We got a license plate reader
that got you coming over

that bridge at 10:55 p.m.,

and we got a girl
named Jade Walker,

says you're one
of her regulars.

- Are you gonna take
some hooker's word over mine?

- Yeah, we are.

- OK, so we swab your DNA.

What do you think
the chances are we find that

in Wallen's rape kit?

- OK, look, we had sex,
but I paid her for it.

Why would I do that
and then rape her?

- 'Cause you didn't get
what you wanted.

- So you took it.

- Put a belt around
her neck from behind.

- Dragged her up the street.

- And you raped her
between two cars.

- Only you were too dumb
to realize

one of the cars had cameras.

- I have no idea who that is.

- OK, let's just pretend
that's the truth.

- Are you denying you got
in a fight with Wallen

in your car earlier that night?

- 'Cause we're searching it
right now.

- You won't find anything.

All I did was pay
a woman for sex.

Then I drove home right after.

I was in bed 20 minutes after
that ho turned her trick.

- Can anyone vouch for that?
- Yeah, my sister.

We're roommates.

And I'm not answering
any more questions.

Not without a lawyer.

- So we know that Wallen's rape
occurred just before midnight.

Can we pinpoint what time
Miguel left Manhattan?

- Got him coming
into the borough,

but nothing on
the outbound tag reader.

- So if he did go home
after he raped Wallen,

chances are he took
a different route.

- So find out which one.
Check the traffic cams.

Check the Triborough Bridge.

Where are we on his car?

- CSU garage is going through
it with a fine tooth comb.

- OK, and what about
the button that

Wallen ripped off
Miguel's shirt?

I specifically told CSU
to look for that.

- They still
haven't found anything.

- Well, make sure that
they are still looking.

And in the meantime,
check his alibi.

- OK.
- His sister?

Do we really believe that
she's gonna tell us the truth?

- Well, maybe not,

but what she doesn't tell us
might be just as valuable.

- I know my brother's
not perfect.

I'm sure he's got his secrets.

- Like going to prostitutes?

- I didn't know that,
but it doesn't surprise me.

I know he goes to strip clubs.

I found body glitter
on his pillow last year.

But Miguel would
never hurt a woman.

- You seem pretty sure
about that.

- He protected me.

- From what?

- My father.

- There's a history of abuse.
- Every family's got stuff.

Is yours perfect?
- No.

- Neither is mine.

- These sex workers,
they're just after money

all the time.

One of those strippers
I talked about

drugged my brother
a few years back

so her boyfriend could rob him
out in the parking lot.

Came home with
a broken eye socket.

- You know what
that sounds like?

Half a story.

- What time did your brother
come home the other night?

- Midnight.
- And how do you know that?

- He forgot his key.

Rapped on the window,
woke me up.

I was so pissed,
I could have killed him.

- Hi.

Where are we
with Miguel Rivera?

- Well, the sister is
sticking to her alibi.

- He was at home sleeping
in bed at the time

of Wallen's assault.
- Like a little angel.

- There's still no evidence of
him driving back to the Bronx?

- Still checking cams.
- Guy turned off his phone.

- Oh, that's not
suspicious at all.

What about
the search of his car?

- It came up clean.

For all we know, he could
have had it detailed.

- And so this button that
Wallen was so sure of

was not found in his vehicle?

- Which leaves us where
with you, Counselor?

- Well, he's under arrest
for patronizing a prostitute,

which is a misdemeanor.
It's his first offense.

So, likely,
he'll just pay a fine.

- I better go break
that to Wallen.

- Tell her I'm sorry.

- Well, if it's where we are,
it's where we are.

- Are you doing all right,
Counselor?

- Eh, I've been better.

- I'm Timothy Cottle.

Did he tell you about me?
- I know who you are.

- What are you doing here?

- You just got me fired
from my teaching job.

Asking about my record?
- Yeah.

- Why?
- Because we were following up.

- On what?

That you think I was
staring at your daughter?

- Oh, no, no, no,
you were staring at her.

She's nine.

- It's not against the law
to look at other pedestrians,

is it?
- Nobody is saying that it is.

- She's nine years old.

And you seem like a smart guy.

You seem smart enough to know
that there is a difference

between looking and intent.

So I want you to look me
in the eye right now

and tell me that day
on the street,

I hallucinated
that whole thing.

Huh?
Come on! I'm waiting.

Tell me that!
- Carisi.

- He's right.

[soft dramatic music]

I am sexually attracted
to young girls.

- What'd I tell you?
What'd I tell you?

- But I swear,
I swear I have never once

ever acted on any impulses.
I--I never touched anyone.

I--I never looked
at child porn. I--

- All right.
Why are you here, Mr. Cottle?

- I came to ask for help.

- Help? Help?

- OK.
- Help?

- All right.
- [sobbing]

♪

- All right.

So we are going to need
some time to think about that.

♪

- What are we
supposed to do now?

- I don't know,

but I know
that we have to do something.

♪

- So this Miguel guy,
he's just gonna get

some weak ass
solicitation charge?

- Unfortunately,
his sister alibied him out.

- She's lying.
- We both know that.

But you can't ID him
from the video,

so we can't prove it.

- I fought with him.

We got physical.

What about the button?
- They didn't find it.

- Then he's just gonna be
right back out on the street.

How is that fair?

- We're not gonna stop
working the case.

- You're not gonna
finish your burger?

- I was so stupid
for keeping your card.

- Ouch.

- Can't say that I blame her.

We let her down.

- Day's not over, man.

Besides, this guy's MO
is pretty specific.

- Lassoing a woman with a belt,

using her own drag weight
to choke her out.

- If this guy's a regular
on that stroll,

it might be worth a canvass.

[horn honks]

- Hey, baby!

- Hey, baby.

- [laughs]

- Evening, gentlemen.
- Good evening.

- Looking for some company?

- I don't go raw
or the back door.

- No kissing, no filming.

- Money up front.

- How much for just
a conversation?

- $250, officers.

- Well, actually,
it's detectives,

but we're not vice.

We could do $250.
Pay her $250.

- What?
- Come on, give her $250.

- Each.

- Ah, come on.
- Give her $250.

Hey, stop.
That's half.

You get the other half
if you meet us down the block.

[horn honking]

- What do you want
to talk about?

- You hear anything
about an attack

down here the other night?

- Baby girl from the Bronx.

Choked from behind with a belt.

- You know him?

- Yeah, what happened to her
almost happened to me.

I was in the back seat
of his car.

We were doing our usual.
He couldn't finish,

so I tried to get out
of the car.

- He come after you?

- Pulled his belt off,
made a loop,

started choking me with it.

- What made him stop?
- I did.

- No one goes with
that fool anymore

unless they're desperate
or new to the stroll.

- You ever hear any other girls
talk about him?

- Miguel Rivera
assaulted other sex workers.

- A few that we
found out about,

but there could be more.

- And in one case,
the woman was raped.

- Any of these women
willing to come forward?

- No, but two of
the incidents were reported.

- But how were they reported?

- Some citizen found
one of them passed out,

and she gave a description
that sounded a lot like Miguel.

- And the other one,
an anonymous call

that reported Miguel
specifically

to the NYPD Complaint Service.

- Sounds a lot like
he bragged to some friend

with a conscience.

- So neither of these victims
were willing to cooperate.

So, what, the investigation's
just dead-ended?

- It's worse than that.

In both of the cases
we followed up on,

Miguel was alibied out
by his sister, Tiana.

- Well, when we spoke to her,

she said that
he had altercations

with sex workers before.

- It sounds like it's time to
have another chat with Tiana.

- To prove that she's lying?
- Oh, no.

It's not about convincing her
to tell the truth.

It's about confronting
her with it.

Let's do it.

You see the time stamp
on that, Tiana?

- Let me read it for you.

11:58.
- That's not my brother.

- Yes, it is.

- And I don't know
who that woman is.

- That woman has a name,

and her name is Wallen.

- This is Amalia
and Yvonne and Delphine.

- [sighs]
You're lying.

- Yeah, I wish we were.

- Cops will do anything
to make their cases.

- Yeah? Is that what
your brother told you,

maybe when you asked him why

there were two detectives
in your dry cleaning shop

earlier today?

- Miguel works hard.

He's a good man,
a good brother.

- Look, I get it.

He's your brother,
and you want to protect him

the same way he protected you.

- But knowing
what you know now,

you're just as guilty
of hurting these women

as he is if you continue
to protect him.

- Which could also be a crime.

- You're a seamstress
for a living, is that right?

- That's right.

- Yeah.

[tense music]

Let me ask you a question.

Have you recently sewn a button
on to one of Miguel's shirts?

- Yeah,

Miguel said it just popped off.

- It didn't just pop off.

Tiana, she ripped it off.

She ripped it off while
she was defending herself.

- From what?

- When Miguel didn't get what
he wanted from her, he took it.

- [sobbing]

How many times
has he done this?

- You tell us.

How many times have you
given an alibi for him?

- [sobbing]

- Come on, video from
a car camera at night,

with a durag pulled down
over the assailant's face?

Not to mention,
this victim couldn't pick

Miguel out of a photo array
as the man who assaulted her.

- Because your coward
of a client

attacked her from behind.

She never saw his face.

- Besides,
we don't need her ID.

We have a preponderance
of evidence.

Go ahead.

- Where'd you get that?

- Well, your sister gave it up.

- Admitted to sewing on
a missing button.

- Which matches
the victim's story exactly.

- That's because we fought,

but earlier in the night,
before we hooked up in the car.

I didn't choke nobody.
I was home in bed.

I swear.
I swear.

- OK, well, your sister
also gave us this.

- There must be hundreds,
if not thousands, of men

in the Bronx
who own white bandannas

and brown leather belts.

- Yeah, but how many of them

happen to own a belt
with Wallen Sipes'

DNA caught in the buckle?

- You see, Miguel,
I really don't even have

to put your sister
on the stand.

But I will.

- And she's made it clear
she doesn't intend

to do jail time for perjury.

- I got no family now.

You just took that from me!

You two scumbags happy
with yourselves?

- Sit down.
- Miguel, stop talking.

[tense music]

♪

All right, cards on the table.

We're willing
to consider a plea.

- Well, Counselor,

what I'm willing to offer you,

you're not gonna like.

- Miguel confessed.

- Yeah, he agreed
to a plea deal.

He's in Rikers pending his
sentencing this afternoon.

- What about your other case?

- What other case?

- The one you found
on the street.

- Timothy Cottle?

- He looked you in the eye
and he asked for help, Carisi.

- Yeah?
Well, boo-hoo.

- I'm serious.
- Yeah, so am I.

You don't think
he was just saying that?

- Either way,
you told me that

you would never
forgive yourself

if he ever harmed a child,

and he seemed
genuinely remorseful

when he told us
about his urges.

So, technically, I think
that puts us on the same side.

- How am I supposed
to help this guy, Liv--

- There are options.

I've never used them before,

but there are.

So what do you say
I make a few calls?

♪

- Counselor, what's the word?

- Miguel's gonna do
double digits

for the assault on Wallen.

- And what about
the other women?

- Well, with his sister's
grand jury testimony,

the DAs in Queens
and the Bronx,

they're gonna reopen
those two cases.

- We'll let Wallen know.

- I gotta head out too.

- About what we talked about?
- Yeah.

- All right.
I will meet you there.

- Sometimes I feel
like a monster.

- Instead of pushing
our feelings aside,

let's try to understand them.

Make sure we're in control,
not our urges.

- Sexual behavior modification.

Does this stuff even work?

- There's no guarantees.

I consulted some experts
I know from the courts,

and it seems like
behavioral therapy,

coupled with androgen blockers,
might help you

make a pretty
significant change.

That's what you want, isn't it?

- Thank you.

You didn't have to do this.

- Actually, I did.

It's not gonna stop me from
wishing you good luck, though.

♪

- Excuse me, everyone.
This is Timothy.

- Thanks for having me.
- Good to meet you.

- He's in good hands, Carisi.

- Yeah, I hope so.

Thanks for the recommendation.

- Of course.

Hey.

I'm proud of you.

- You're proud of me?
For what?

- For not decking him,
like your father would have.

- [chuckles]

- Yeah, maybe you can take
the Staten Island

out of the boy after all.

- Maybe you can.

Let's get out of here.

- Miguel will go to prison?

- For a long time.

- And I don't need to testify?

- Nope. You helped enough.

- Which we know wasn't easy.

[baby cooing]

- So are you ready to tell us
the real reason

you were hesitant to cooperate?

- And why you told us
Miguel's car

was the same color
as applesauce?

- His name is Freddie.

- Congratulations.

- I was afraid
once you found out,

the system would force you
to get CPS involved.

- CPS isn't gonna hear
anything from us.

- Wallen, you got a lot
to think about.

This is the second time
we worked a case with you.

- It's one thing
to protect your son,

but it's another thing
to protect yourself.

- I'm tougher than you think.
- I know.

But everyone's luck
runs out eventually.

- What am I supposed to do?

- Let us help you,

if you need it.

Tell you what,
you keep going to get your GED,

and I'll see
what I can do to find

a scholarship or some kind
of vocational program.

- The way you helped
those other girls,

you might make
a hell of a social worker.

♪

- You want to meet Freddie?

- Been waiting on you to ask.

- Meet Sergeant Tutuola...

- Hey, Freddie.

- And Detective Bruno.

- Hey, big guy.

- You want to hold him?
- Oh, no.

- Here.
- I'm not good with kids.

All right.
Hey.

[laughter]
Hey.

- You'll be OK, Wallen.

- I told you.

- Told me what?

- I cast my bread
upon the water.

[soft dramatic music]

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

[wolf howling]