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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.

[dramatic musical sting]

[sirens blare]

[phone ringing]

- Fin, I'm sorry.
- Where are you?

- Something's come up.

- You're the guest of honor.
Everybody's waiting on you.

What's going on?
- I'm not quite sure yet.

I got a 10-13,
a vic near Center Street,

so I'll be there
as soon as I can, okay?

Thank you.

[sirens blaring]

♪

Captain Benson.
What happened here?

- Car bomb.
We're taking the vic to Mercy.

Doesn't look good.

♪

- Kathy?

Kathy?

- We gotta go.

- Liv!

- [whispers] Elliot.

Oh, my God.

[music swells]

♪

- They tried to kill her.

They tried to kill Kathy.

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

♪

.

[soft dramatic music]

- Kathy, Kathy.
What's happening?

Her BP's crashing.
- Liv.

Liv.

You okay?

I followed Elliot here.
I barely talked to him.

Kathy just went into surgery.
How did this happen?

Why?
- Rollins is at the scene.

A uni told her
it was a rental car

parked on the street.

Kathy went to get in,
and the bomb went off.

Arson thinks it misfired
and threw her clear.

- A rental car--
where are they in from?

- They've been living in Italy.

Elliot had to come in

for some type
of a task force meeting,

and he and Kathy
decided to make it a trip.

He just called me
out of nowhere

and told me he was coming.

I may have spoken
about your award.

I thought enough time
had gone down between you two.

- Okay, a task force, what--
who's he working for?

- NYPD.

He's the international liaison
in Rome.

- Since when?
- Look, this is all I know.

You're gonna have to ask him.

- Fin.
- Hey.

I'm here for
whatever you need, man.

- Appreciate it.
- Okay, how's Kathy?

- They're still
working on her--

burns, concussion,
fractured pelvis.

What do we know?

- Local precincts
are canvassing,

and our explosion guys
are tearing that car apart.

Captain, if you don't mind,
can I get back to the scene?

- Go, go, go, go.

- Shouldn't have even
been driving.

I got a call.
I slipped away.

I gave her the keys.

She was worried we were gonna
be late for your award.

I meant to give you a call...
- It's okay.

- That we were coming.
- Elliot, please, no.

- Tell me she's gonna be okay.

- Kathy's a fighter.
You know that.

- Dad.
- Hey.

- What the hell happened?
- Um, we're not sure right now.

Um, she's alive,
and she's in surgery,

and that's what we know,
so let's go upstairs.

Come on.

- Olivia, you're here.
- Of course.

I'm just here to help.

Whatever you need.

- Come on.

Anything yet?
- Nothing.

Car was parked
under the bridge.

No witnesses.
- Traffic cams?

- Still going through footage.

Also, this may be unrelated,
but there was a curfew protest

just south on Center Street.

Bunch of guys in pickup trucks
and flags

met by counter-protestors.

Someone started targeting
police officers,

and they lit two police vans
on fire on Madison Street.

- That's two blocks
from where the car blew up.

Any arrests?
- Dozen or so.

- Talk to all of them.
- Okay.

- Captain.
- [sighs]

- I heard what happened.
How's the victim?

- Seriously injured
but hanging on.

So you know, the victim
is the wife

of my former partner
Detective Elliot Stabler.

- So I was told.
I thought he left the force.

- He did, but apparently
he's NYPD's man in Rome now.

- Any idea why he's in town?

- Department meetings,
I don't know.

- Local precinct on the scene?

- They are, and they're
doing everything they can,

but you know
there was a riot tonight.

- I'm aware.
Cops were targeted.

Were the Stablers
driving an NYPD vehicle?

- It was a rental, and...

I'm close with the family.

I was hoping that we
could take the lead on this.

- Family--he's got kids?
- Five.

I've known them all
since they were in diapers.

- I'll put a call into One PP.
- Thank you.

- To be clear, you're running
the investigation, not him.

- Course.

- Hey, how's Kathy?
- Touch and go.

- Arson said
she's lucky to be alive.

The blast went up and back,

throwing her out
before the fireball.

- Any witnesses?
- No, it's a quiet block.

All the action
was on Center Street,

but there was an NYPD placard
in the windshield,

so local detectives are asking
if any of the protestors

[phone rings]
knew about the award ceremony.

- Sergeant Tutuola.
Okay.

Intelligence picked up a guy
who threw a Molotov cocktail

into an empty NYPD van
three blocks south from here.

They're bringing him in.

- The government's
using the pandemic

as an excuse to deprive us
of our liberty.

If my brothers and I
don't fight back now,

we'll lose all our rights.
- Fight back?

By bombing police cars?

- You do this?

- That's Antifa.
- That's you.

- Proves my point.
Big Brother's everywhere.

Cell phone monitoring,
facial recognition.

- So it is you?
- This isn't real.

Someone photoshopped me
into this.

I'm being set up.

- Jacob Peters, unemployed,
five arrests in the past year

all for protests--
including D.C. January 6--

for arson, vandalism,
brandishing a gun,

and punching reporters.

- Well, he wasn't wrong
about Big Brother.

I was able to pull
his Google search history,

and he has been going
down a rabbit hole

of YouTube conspiracy videos
for 10 to 12 hours a day

for the last five years.
- Yeah.

He believes
that COVID is a hoax,

the election was rigged.

I mean, he shows up
at these rallies

in paramilitia garb
and just tears it up.

- And he thinks he's a patriot.
He hasn't asked for a lawyer?

- Not yet.
- Good.

Better--anything put him
near Kathy Stabler's blast?

- No, but he was ID'd
by multiple UCs tonight

as an instigator,
and they found explosives,

zip ties, and a Taser
in his backpack.

- Uni at the hospital
says you picked up a suspect.

- Elliot.
- This him?

- Uh, we just started
talking to him.

[click]
- Doesn't matter what I say.

You're just gonna railroad me.

- No, that's not--
that's not what we're doing.

Look, I know
what you're talking about

when you say
we're losing our rights.

- I know.
So you understand.

If we don't bring things
to a head fast,

you'll lose your guns too.
[click]

- What's his deal?

He's targeting cops
to protect cops?

- Yeah, there's a lot
of this lately.

These guys have been enabled
for the last four years,

so they're not
backing down now.

- Hi, I'm Elliot Stabler.
Who are you?

- I'm Officer Katriona Tamin.
- ADA Dominick Carisi.

- So the ADA is here.
You like him for this?

- Well, we know he's good
for two other firebombs

on cop cars tonight.
- He has a record.

He's been escalating.

- How would he make me
or Kathy out as cops?

- You had a--you had a placard
in your windshield.

[click]
- Maybe you saw something.

This car.

The woman may not survive.

- That blast,
yeah, I heard it.

I was half a block away.
- So you were nearby?

[click]

- [softly] Let me talk to him.
- I can't.

- He just put himself
a half block away,

close enough to see her
get in the car.

- And set off
the bomb remotely?

Yes, it's possible.
- It's an opening.

Let's work it.

- Detective, all due respect,
but you shouldn't even be

in the squad room right now.
- Said the lawyer to the cop.

Look, guys like this,
whatever their stripes,

basically, they're terrorists.

I've worked plenty
of these cases

over the last few years.
I need to talk to him.

- You need to be
at the hospital.

- Liv, I give you my word
I'll behave.

♪

- Fin, Rollins,

give me and Detective Stabler
the room please?

- No problem, Captain.
- Of course.

- I'm Captain Benson.
This is Detective Stabler.

- Terrorism Task Force.

- You think
I'm a terrorist now?

- Didn't say that.

Tell me about yourself.
- Just fighting for our freedom

like I told
those two detectives.

- Well, I heard you tell
those two detectives

that you were half a block away
when this car went up.

- Yeah, about that,
yeah, I don't know.

I guess.
- No.

No "about,"
"I don't know," "I guess."

Yes or no, Jacob?

Can you tell us what you saw?

Anyone running from the scene?

- When the police arrested me,
I heard them saying

the woman in the car
was a cop's wife.

- That's right.

- I could hear her moaning.

Oh, you know the vic?
She wasn't your wife, was she?

- Is.
She is my wife.

- [exhales]
That's gotta be tough.

Uh, so what are you doing here?
[chuckles]

Shouldn't you be with her?

♪

- Hey, Jacob,
we got two options here.

Either you saw who did this
or you did it.

- Detective,
do you need a break?

- I don't think it'll help.
He's a black and white thinker.

Instead of asking who,

you should be asking
yourself why.

- Okay.
You think this is a game?

- No, I don't.
This is as real as it gets.

- Well, you're goddamn right
about that.

♪

Did you do this, yes or no?

- Detective.

- Look at you all bowed up.
What?

You gonna take me out?

There'll be a hundred more
just like me tomorrow.

- Yes or no?
- Okay, we are done!

♪

- Sorry for your loss,
but there's a war going on,

and your wife bleeding out
on the sidewalk,

she's just another casualty.

- Detective Stabler,
get out now.

Get out.

Now.

♪

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- I should have never
let you in that room.

- I knew what I was doing.
- Yeah?

So did he.
He was baiting you, Elliot.

Look, you're raw.
I get it.

Your wife is in a hospital bed,
but you have been long gone,

and we don't do--
- Don't tell me

that we don't do it
that way anymore please.

I've been living in Europe,
not under a rock.

- Okay, hey,
even if he is good for it,

a victim's spouse
in interrogation?

- Yep, yep, yep.

- Whatever confession
we elicit--

- Gets thrown out, I know!

- Do you also know
that the cameras are always on

in interrogation?
- Brave new world, I got it.

So what do we do now?

You write me up
a rip there, Captain?

- You know what, Elliot--
- Dad.

Dad, do you answer your phone?
- What is it?

What's the matter?
- She's awake, Dad.

Mom's awake.
Let's go.

- How'd that go?

- Well, the good news
is that Kathy Stabler

is conscious.
- Can she make a statement?

- Stabler's on the way
to the hospital.

- If she can tell us anything,
another detective

needs to be in that room.

- Carisi, he's not gonna
blow the case.

End of the day,
he's a good cop.

- Stop. Look, I know you guys
have history,

but he can't be
anywhere near this,

and Jacob here,
now he's claiming

that he was just following
some Antifa thug

who threw a Molotov cocktail
into Kathy's car.

- It wasn't a Molotov cocktail.
- And he doesn't know that.

If I had to guess,
he's good for the first two,

but not Kathy Stabler.

- [sighs]

[dramatic musical sting]

- He's saying
all three were Antifa.

We know he's good
for two of 'em.

- Right, Molotov cocktails.

Look, he's not
going anywhere, Elliot, okay?

We're searching his apartment,
his truck.

- The size of that blast.
Where's Arson with all this?

- Well, they're working on it,
but they have

three different explosions
to look into.

Is Kathy lucid enough

to tell us what she remembers?

[soft dramatic music]

♪

- I'm sorry I ruined
your big award ceremony.

- Oh, did me a favor.
I hate making speeches.

Kathy...

can we go back to last night?

- I don't even remember
starting the car.

- Did you see anything
or hear anything?

It could--could be
the smallest detail.

- Elliot was on the phone.

It was dark.

I didn't see anything.

Sorry.
- It's okay.

- [whispers] You're fine.
It's fine.

- It's like the old days.

The two of you together.

Always so in sync.

You really didn't talk
for ten years?

- I didn't even know
that he was back on the job.

♪

- That's what Elliot told me.

I didn't believe him.

- It's true, Kathy.

- [sighs]

- Kathy, hey, Kathy?

[murmurs]
- I'm okay.

I'm just so tired.
- Okay.

Why don't we let you
get some sleep then?

♪

She's asleep.
- Okay.

- You want some water?
- No, I'm good.

Thanks.

- Back at the station,
I put you in a bad situation.

I know it's not the way
it was back in the day

when I had free run
of the place.

Know it's your house now.

- Thank you.
I appreciate that.

- Liv, I'm sorry.

- Elliot,
we don't have to do this.

Okay.

I guess...
you wanna do this now.

You're sorry for leaving?

Or are you sorry for walking...

For not giving me the courtesy
of telling me?

- Both.

I think I thought if I
talked to you about how--

- You walked away.

'Cause that's
what you did, Elliot.

I had to find out from Cragen.

- Olivia.
- Elliot.

You were the most...

single most important person

in my life...
- Olivia.

- And you just...disappeared.

- I know.

I was afraid...

If I heard your voice,

I wouldn't have
been able to leave.

[phone chimes]

- I gotta go.

That's my chief.

He needs me
back at the station.

Where's the exit?

♪

- Your former partner
always this aggressive?

He shouldn't have
even been in the precinct.

- This is on me.
- It is.

My sense from his affect
and his record,

this is a cop who's used
to taking things over the line

and getting away with it.
- You went through his record?

- Multiple firearm discharges,
six fatal shootings,

and I'm still going through
the IAB logs.

Disposition
on multiple charges,

oh, and referred
for counseling.

- We were both referred.

- Why did he resign
from the force?

There's no official reason.
- [sighs]

His last shooting
was a 16-year-old girl

who brought a gun
into the stationhouse,

and, you know, my guess...

my guess is
that he just didn't want

to go through the hoops--
IAB interviews, counseling.

He was done.
- Guess?

Come on, he didn't tell you?

- We never spoke after he left.

Look, he got too rough
back in the day...

But it wasn't
just testosterone.

It was because
he cared so much.

- And he was
your first partner,

the one who had your back.

You were his junior
when there weren't

that many female detectives.
I get it.

- Chief, I'm not
making excuses for him,

and I'm not apologizing
for him,

but I believe that he changed.
- I hope so.

Forgive me if I have my doubts.

A grunt former marine,
a night college degree,

and a CPI like this?

He's off the grid
for six years,

and somehow
the old boy network

got him back on the force.

- Because
he's a good detective.

- And lucky.
It wouldn't happen today.

Look, we can agree to disagree
about his evolution,

but to be clear again,
I will not have this behavior

in one of
my captain's squad rooms.

- That is understood.
- Okay.

♪

- Arson get anything?
- Maybe.

They found a cell
near a piece of the gas tank.

Must have been the trigger.
- DNA, prints?

- He was pretty thorough.
He used a burner phone.

Nothing on the outside,
but maybe they'll get lucky

and find prints on the inside
of the cell phone case.

- Do they know
the vic's spouse was NYPD?

- They do.

For what it's worth,
arson says

this doesn't look like Antifa

or some improvised
Boogaloo device.

It was more sophisticated,

so it might be
terrorist-related.

- I'll text Liv.

- Arson was asking me
about Stabler.

They wanna know
what he's involved with.

- I have no idea.
- But you're close with him.

You worked with him, right?
- Ten years.

- Unis in the squad room
were saying

that the way he treated Jacob
wasn't a one-off.

They've seen him go off
on suspects before.

- He did, but that was then.

He knows
things have changed now.

- Have they?

[phone chimes]

Hold on.
Captain's with Garland.

None of the old boys at One PP

will even tell them
why Stabler's in New York.

[dramatic musical sting]

- After SVU, I did a walkabout
for a few years.

Then I was doing
private security overseas.

- And that thing in Rome?

- That came out
of a terrorism task force

I was working on.

The liaison job,
that opened up four years ago.

- When you called me,
you told me

you were coming here for
a conference--anything else?

- A few training sessions--

next week, I'm supposed
to testify at a trial.

- What's that about?

- These two guys
involved in extortion,

money laundering.
They were hiding out in Puglia.

I picked 'em up six months ago.

They're--you know,
they're minor players.

- Okay, let's go back
to your terrorism task force.

Arson said
that the bomb signature

was more international
than domestic.

- I was worried about that.

I ought to give my supervisor
at Intel a heads up.

Half these cases,
I can't even talk about.

- Right.

How's Kathy doing?

- Hanging in there.

You know,
Kathy was the one who insisted

we go to Liv's ceremony.

- And Liv did not even know
you were coming,

didn't know
you were in New York.

Thought you told me
you were gonna call her.

- I know I told you
that I would,

and then I meant to...

I just felt
that so much time had passed

that I couldn't reach out
to you both.

- I get it.

Look, let me bring you
up to speed.

Liv moved on.

It took her a minute,
but she moved on.

She has a son now.

She's had a couple
of relationships.

One was pretty solid.

- Son. Good for her.

Who's the guy?
- [chuckles]

You have to ask her that.

- Hey.
- There you are.

Lab found DNA on the cell.
- Any matches?

- There's nothing
in the system,

so they're checking
for close kin DNA.

- Do you have enough
of a sample

for long-range familiar?

- Not to match the perp
once we find him.

- SVU does genealogical now?

- It has to be backdoor
for the ancestry sites

and these new DNA banks.

[alarms beeping]
- Hey, what's going on?

That's my wife.
- Step back, sir.

- Yeah, but I just spoke
with her.

- Sir, you have to move back.
- Elliot, let them get through.

- You can't be in here.
I'm sorry.

- We're losing her!
- Paddles.

- Kathy.

- She's coding.

- Okay, we're ready, clear.
- Clear.

- Go.
- Checking vitals.

- Okay, thanks.

You too.

- You too?

Phoebe just said
"I love you,"

and you couldn't say it back?
- Her ex-husband was a cop.

She knows the drill.

- How is she?
- Cardiac arrest.

But her heart rate's
stable now.

- Thank God.

- Just trying to figure out
what caused it.

- Elliot, I hate to ask you
in the middle of all this--

- You need my case files.

I'll ask Intel
to get 'em to you.

- Right, anything you can send
will be great.

And we'll keep each other
in the loop.

Great, thanks.

Turns out
Stabler has been working

anti-terrorism,
international sex trafficking,

and organized crime.

- That doesn't really
narrow it down.

- Nope.

Well, this particular
cell trigger,

it's common in the Middle east,
the Mediterranean region,

North Africa.

- Kat, put in a call
to Threat Assessment

and see if there are
any groups or individuals

who were targeted
by NYPD overseas.

See if they might
have a presence here.

- On it.

- Hey...do you think Stabler
was the target?

- I don't know,
but it certainly looks like it.

- You doing okay?
- You know, I've been better.

- Were you
and Kathy Stabler friends?

- You know, not at first,

and it's such a long story,
but over time,

we got really close.

- Kind of like us.

- Hm, yeah.

- You never talked,
uh, much about Stabler.

All I know is when I got here,
his desk was empty--

a shrine.

- Yeah, Stabler had
a pretty big presence

in the squad room.

- I know Nick
always felt the brunt

of trying to fill his shoes.

From what he told me,
you and Stabler had a...

Complicated relationship.

- We did.

You know, back then...

Nobody looked out
for me the way he did.

- I get that.

- Hey, I think
we caught a break.

The lab found a familial match

to the DNA
on the cell phone trigger.

♪

- You're district attorney?

I would have
taken you both for cops.

- Yeah, he gets that a lot.

- A DA drives
all the way to Green Haven

to talk to Yuri Lenski.

I must have something you want.

- You have
any cousins or nephews

who went into
your line of work?

- Gambling?
[chuckles]

You didn't come here
for slot machines.

The guard tells me
that you are SVU.

That cop's wife
who got blown up,

that was your unit, wasn't it?

[soft dramatic music]

- Whatever you tell us,

no one will ever know
it came from you.

- People still fall for that?

- Okay, Mr. Lenski,
you're a smart man,

but you're also up
for parole in a couple months.

- 79 days.
- You help us, DA helps you.

- I've already done four years.

I can do three more
with my eyes closed.

I don't turn on family.

♪

- Mr. Lenski
wasn't very forthcoming.

We checked his visitor log.
No cousins, no nephews.

- But he has a wife
and two mistresses

that visit him--
one on Tuesday,

one on Thursday,
and one on Saturday.

- Well, he can't
be making much money

while he's in Green Haven.

I'll have Kat and Rollins
follow up.

One of those women
wants him home.

[dramatic musical sting]

- Liv was right.

Lenski's second mistress

gave up his nephew
Sacha Lenski.

26, no record.

- Doesn't look like
an international terrorist.

- Yeah, well, apparently
he's been playing with matches

since he was five.

Supposed to blow up
the neighbor's boat

for the insurance, ended up
burning both houses down.

- Hm.

Hey, NYPD.
- What's this about?

- We need to speak
with one of your workers.

- Let me call
the local precinct.

We're tight with them.

- Yeah, your buddies
can't help you.

We have a warrant.

We could
shut you down for the day.

- Just make it
easy on yourself.

Tell us which one of these guys
is Sacha Lenski.

- We got a runner!
- Go, go, go.

♪

- Hey, NYPD!

♪

- Hey, hey, hey, stay down!
Stay down!

Hey, stay down!

You got him?
- It wasn't me!

I didn't do it!
- Yeah, didn't do what?

♪

- Let's go!
- Come on.

.

- Sacha Lenski, 26.
- Means nothing to me.

Who is he?
- No record.

No known connection
to any radical groups.

As far as we can tell,

he is a low-level earner
for random crews.

He used to do odd jobs
in electrical,

and now he's working
at an auto body repair shop

in Willets Point.

- This guy's DNA
is on the phone?

- Well, we're waiting
for the lab to confirm,

but it is likely.
He's got no alibi.

He says he had
nothing to do with it,

but he hasn't lawyered up.
- He's no mastermind.

- Yeah.

- Well, let's check
his financials

in the Iron Triangle--

that's Russian mob,
Italian mob, Albanian.

- He did live in Malta
for three years as a teenager.

You know, maybe the question
isn't who paid him, but why.

So aside from the defendants
that you're testifying against,

who else knows
that you're here?

- Joint Task Force,
my boss at Intel,

my kids.

- Any way they posted
on the internet, social media?

- Accounts are locked,
and I told them not to.

Give me five minutes
with Lenski.

- Do you hear yourself, Elliot?

Not a chance.
- Then we go in together.

- I already told
the deputy chief

that I wasn't letting you
back in that room.

- Garland? When was the last
time he put cuffs on anybody?

- How's Kathy?

- That was a good left turn.

She's fighting like you said.

- What do the doctors say?

- Well, what do they
always say?

They got a new machine,
and they can't wait to use it,

and they're gonna do
a CT scan on her spleen now.

- And the kids?
How are they taking it?

- Scared.

It's their mom.

Visiting is hard with COVID.

You know, you're only allowed
one family member

in the room at a time.

- That's why you need
to be here with Kathy.

I gotta get back.

♪

- For the hundredth time,
I don't know anything

about this car.

- We found the phone
that was used as a trigger.

There was DNA on it,
and it's gonna be yours.

- Did you?

You know, now that I
think about it,

I lost a phone in Coney Island.
You have my new phone.

- Yeah, we do, and did you know
that if you turn off tracking,

we can still trace it
to under the Manhattan Bridge

on Friday night
when the bomb went off?

- I don't think so.
I was at the shop...all day.

Ask my boss!
- Why?

Because he'll lie for you?

- I don't know anything
about bombs.

- Really?

So how did you blow up
your neighbor's house?

When you were 17?

- Whoever told you that,
they're lying.

- Yeah.
- You can ask my old neighbor.

I had nothing to do
with that either.

- [sighs]

- How long has this kid
been shadowboxing with them?

- All night.

- Keep him talking.

He thinks he's brighter
than he is.

- Captain, I made some calls.

Turns out young Sacha
isn't connected.

He's more of a wannabe.

That Iron Triangle garage
has been linked

to VIN switches on stolen cars
and insurance fraud.

- That's all penny ante.

That's a big step up from that
to a hit on a cop's wife.

- Or a cop.

It's more likely
that Elliot was the target.

- There's another
possibility here.

What if Sacha was set up?

- Carisi,
Sacha is still our guy.

- Yeah, even if he is,
maybe he didn't realize

it was a hit on a cop.
Who knows what they told him.

- Yeah, they might have
told him it was an arson job

for insurance.

- Either way, I think
it's time we arraign him.

- You do that,
he's gonna lawyer up.

- Exactly what I'm hoping for.

Listen, if he's a patsy,
and he's looking at 25 years--

- Then a lawyer will get him
to cooperate.

[dramatic musical sting]

- Counselor, are you with us?

- Oh, sorry, Your Honor.

Your Honor, my client
is pleading not guilty,

and we've requested
that he be released

on his own recognizance
pending dismissal

of the shoplifting charge.
- Wrong case, Counselor.

This is Sacha Lenski

charged with attempted murder
of a police officer.

- Okay.

Sorry again.
Just got this.

- Uh, Your Honor, can I request
a ten-minute recess

to bring my colleague Mr. Cryer
up to speed on this?

- Make it five.

- Hi, let's talk.

Your client needs to know

that in addition
to attempted murder,

he's also looking at use of
a weapon of mass destruction,

which carries
a maximum sentence

of life in prison
and use of a destructive device

in connection
to a crime of violence.

That's another 30 years.
- I get it.

You had me at mass destruction.
- Nah, I'm gonna keep going.

Because he also needs to know
that the victim

was a cop's wife,
and every corrections officer

is gonna know that
from the moment he starts

his life sentence.

- I take it you're looking
for something.

- I didn't know
it was a cop car.

I swear to God.
- Okay, that's enough, Sacha.

- No, that's actually
a good start,

but if this was a job for hire,

then we have to know
who hired your client.

- He cooperates,
he gets full immunity?

- Nah, not on attempted murder
he doesn't,

but if his information
plays out

and he's willing to testify
in front of a grand jury,

that would--
that would mitigate.

When your client's
ready to make a proffer,

I'm all ears.

[knocks]
- Excuse me.

Sacha Lenski,
don't say another word.

- Excuse me, he's my client.

- Yeah, we're in the middle
of a deal here.

- Not anymore.

I've been retained
by his family.

My client is innocent
of all charges,

and we look forward

to our day in court
to prove that.

- All right, Mr. Lenski,
you don't have

to go along with this.
You already have a fine lawyer.

- Yeah, and now
he's got a better one.

Perry Mason over here
didn't even know

what my client
was charged with.

[soft dramatic music]

- Spencer Cochran?
Guy's a major player.

There's no way
that Sacha's family

could afford him.
- No.

Whoever he was working for
brought Cochrane in.

- Where is Sacha now?
- He's on his way to Rikers.

He pled not guilty.

I did manage to get
the bail set at 10 million.

- You better get him
in protective custody.

- It's already been arranged.

[phone rings]

- That's Stabler.
I'll let him know.

Hey, how's it going?

[dark music]

♪

Elliot.

[melancholic music]

♪

I'm so sorry.

[music swells]

♪

I'm so sorry.

.

[soft dramatic music]

- Her spleen ruptured.

They took her into surgery,
but it was too late.

♪

I didn't get to say good-bye.

- I'm so sorry, Elliot.

- I just don't get it.

We were happy.

- Elliot, where are the kids?

- Uh, yeah, I gotta call them.

I gotta--I gotta--

- If there's anything
that I can do.

- I don't know
what to tell 'em.

Oh, my God, Eli is in Rome.
I gotta get him back.

- How about I call Dickie and--
- No, no, I'll do that.

You just make sure
this son of a bitch

goes down for murder.

[knocks]
- Carisi.

- What happened?

- Kathy Stabler didn't make it.

- I'm sorry.

How's he doing?
- Not good.

- Okay.

I'll arraign Sacha Lenski
for murder.

Up the pressure.
- Don't get your hopes up.

Whoever's paying for his lawyer

is not gonna let him
take a deal.

- Well, maybe Sacha
needs to figure that out.

- How about we just
pull him out of Rikers?

- Yeah, that's a good idea.

♪

- His lawyer's on the way?

He say anything
since he's been in here?

- Not a word.
Quiet type.

- Uh-huh.

[buzzer]

- Lenski, visitors.

Wake up, scumbag.

Oh!
- Call a medic!

- Don't bother.
He's gone.

- Who's been in this cell?
- Nobody, I swear.

- [sighs]

- Cause of death?

- They made it look
like an overdose.

- Is there any way that he

could have done this
to himself?

- We all know what this is.

- We do.

Find out who got to him.

♪

- So...what is this all about?

- Your nephew Sacha.

- They gave him a hot shot
this morning in Rikers.

He's dead.

- [whispers in Russian]

- They know that a DA's been
up here to see you twice now.

You're on borrowed time.

- What the hell's going on?

- Why don't you tell us?
Sacha Lenski was killed.

- That's a damn shame.

- Who paid him to blow up
that car?

- Wish I knew.
He was a good kid.

- Okay.

Check every VIN number
on every part in this place!

- I appreciate
how close you are to this.

- And I can be objective,

and Stabler knows
not to go anywhere near this.

- I'm sorry.
SVU has been called off.

- Chief, we've come this far.

We know all the players.

- Intelligence is taking over.
Get them up to speed.

- This is our case.
- Not as of now.

You need
to stand down, Captain.

♪

[emotional music swells]

♪

[wolf howls]