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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.

[lively techno music]

♪

- Where are you ladies headed?

- To the Bishop Formal Dinner.

- Not at their club?

- They're taking us on a party
bus to Grade A Steakhouse.

But only nine girls
made that cut. [chuckles]

- Wow.

Okay, well, have fun.

But be careful, okay?

- Okay.

- Oh, and Sarah?

If you're gonna hide
a bottle behind your back,

do it before
I come in the room?

- [scoffs]

- There it is, Saint Paul's.

- Is that your church
or your school?

- Both--K through eighth
for me and my sisters.

Mass every Sunday.
- Hmm.

- I got my first home run
right there.

- Are we talking girls
or baseball?

- An altar boy never tells.
- [laughs]

- [exhales deeply]

- You're more nervous
than I am.

- Look, just don't
take anything personally, okay?

My mother can be...

- She's not tougher
than my mom.

- She's different, all right?

Remember, you go to her first.

- I know, Sonny.

Kiss the ring. I know.

- Hey, Ma, we're here!

- Finally, you made it.

- Oh, come on, Ma,
don't start.

The BQE was a mess. Hi.

- Mrs. Carisi, hi.
So nice to meet you.

- Here, let me take that.
- Oh, um...

Amanda.

You've got a lovely home.
- Eh, it's falling apart.

Not that I can get
Dominick's father to help.

- Come on, Ma, be nice.
Where is Dad?

- Your sister's
bathroom's flooded again.

For her,
he drives to Connecticut.

[Rollins chuckles]
- Ow.

- So. Girlfriend.

She needs to eat.

- [chuckles]
- Oh.

Well, that's why I'm here,
Mrs. Carisi.

You know, all Sonny does
is rave about your cooking.

- I tried to teach him.
He never learned.

- Sorry, Nonna. Traffic.

Hi, hi.

Hi, Uncle Dom.
- Hey, Mia, how you doing?

Amanda!
- Hey.

- So glad you're here.
- Hi, Mia.

- Finally.

So...how's it going?

- Could we talk over dinner,
please?

The lasagna's
going to get all mushad.

- All right.
- I'll take this.

- Thank you, thank you.

[lively techno music]

[indistinct chatter]

- Let's play the game.
- Goldstein?

- Let's just try--
let's just try it.

- All right, once again,
the game is called

Zoom
Schwartz-Parlato-Goldstein.

- Annabel--zoom.

- Zoom?

[laughter]

- No, you
can't zoom the Zoomer.

You can only
Schwartz the Zoomer.

Drink.

[all cheering]

[techno thumping from bus]

- We're here, folks.

- Ladies!

Leave your phones, coats,
and bags on the bus.

Sorry, club rules.

- Time to eat, drink,
and make merry, huh?

- Hell, yeah.
Let's get this party started.

[laughs]

[indistinct chatter]

- I understand
you have two girls.

- Oh, yeah.

- So the father's
not in the picture?

- Ma.
- What?

I-I-I'm just
making conversation.

- Yeah.
You know, it's complicated.

- Billie and Jesse
are amazing kids.

Amanda is doing a great job.

- Like you would know.

The first time Dominick babysat
for the Rizzos next door,

he dropped their
one year-old on his head.

- Oh, goodness.

- Well, he hasn't done that
with my girls--yet.

- [chuckles]

- So Mia, how's school going?
You like being the dorm RA?

- [scoffs]
Talk about babysitting.

- Yeah, what your uncle tells
me that you're doing

some work as a campus advocate?

- Yeah, for sexual assault
awareness.

- Not at the table.

All right, who wants dessert?
- Oh, I'm--

- Don't you dare say no
to my sfingi.

I made a care package
for the girls.

[soft orchestral music]

[indistinct chatter]

[glass clinking]

- Attention, ladies?
Everyone having a good time?

[cheering]

Good, because we have
some exciting news.

President Yates,
you have the conch.

- Non-members
are almost never asked

to accompany us back
to the Bishop Club.

But tonight,
you are invited past the doors

of one of the oldest,
most prestigious,

still operating finals club
at Hudson University,

for after-dinner brandy
and sweets.

Now we have one condition:
you are sworn to secrecy.

You are not allowed
to tell another soul

what you've seen or heard.

No photos, no social media.

The only thing you'll
take home with you tonight

are memories of the most
exciting night of your life.

Who is ready
to swear that oath?

[laughter]

- Got dinner
for two weeks now.

- Oh, please, you got off easy.

- I think that went well.

- Eh...
- What?

[cell phone ringing]
Did it--?

- Oh. Hey, Pops.

No, we missed you tonight.

Mom said that she liked Amanda?

- [quietly]
She likes me, she likes me...

- [chuckles] Wait, hold on,
I got another call coming in.

- She likes me.

- Hey, Mia, what's up?

- Uncle Dom, I need your help.

[tense music]

- Uh, okay.

Take her to Mercy emergency
room. I'll meet you there.

Tell them
that your uncle is on the job.

Pops, I'll gotta call you back.

No, no, no, everything's fine.

Yeah. I love you too.

- What's going on?

- Mia just said that
one of the girls

in her dorm was raped tonight.

- I'm coming with you.

- [sighs]

[dramatic music]

♪

- I called campus police
right after you,

and they said go
to the student clinic.

- That's good.

It's on the record,
but it's better you came here.

- And Annabel is
getting a rape kit?

- Yes, but she showered
before she told me.

I told her to save her dress
in a paper shopping bag.

- Hey, Captain, you didn't
have to come to the hospital.

- Of course I did.
- Thank you, Olivia.

- Yeah, so this girl, Annabel.

How old is she?
- 18, a freshman.

I called her dad in Kansas.

He said he's gonna
try to get here.

- Good.
- She's, um, kind of alone.

- Well, we'll talk to her.

- I'm gonna get you
antibiotics, Annabel.

Are you on birth control?
- What? No.

- We'll get you
something to take.

- Thanks, Jen.

- So Annabel,
how are you feeling?

- I don't know.
I just feel so stupid.

- You're not stupid.

You got yourself back to your
dorm room, you told Mia.

- We both know
that you probably

don't feel like
talking right now,

but if there's anything
that you remember,

it can be really helpful.

- I was pretty drunk.
- That's okay.

So Mia told us that
you went to a dinner party?

- The Bishop Club
Formal Dinner.

They invited some of the girls
back to their club after.

I was looking for my purse.

I left it on the bus.
They told me to do that.

- Who told you?
- I don't know his name.

Tall, dark hair?

After dinner, he said that I...

had to get my purse back
at the club.

- Okay, so, what happened
after you got to the club?

- Another guy said
that maybe it was upstairs.

[soft solemn music]

He insisted
on giving me a piggyback ride.

- You know his name?

- Austin.

- And once you got upstairs?

- Austin brought me to a room
that had these old paintings.

I was looking for my purse.

And..

That's when
I must have passed out.

I woke up,
Austin was on top of me,

inside of me.

And two other guys,
maybe more, were there...

holding me down.

- I'm so sorry.

Do you remember the boys,
um, saying anything,

or calling each other
by name, or--

- I remember Austin called them
Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

My roommate Sarah
talked to them at dinner.

- Okay, good.
That's really helpful.

♪

- I should have looked out
for Annabel.

She doesn't really drink.

Is she okay?

- She'll be at the hospital
for a few hours.

They're giving her fluids.

- Those Bishop douchebags.

It was like lambs to slaughter.

All the booze,
everyone being cheesy-nice.

- So you went to the club
with Annabel?

- For a while.

I left early
to meet my boyfriend.

I should've--

- Did you see her go upstairs
with anybody?

- Could have been Austin.

He was the one
leading the scavenger hunt

for some of the girls' purses,
coats.

- Right, the stuff they
told you to leave on the bus?

- They claimed
it was club rules.

I didn't buy that.

- Annabel said that
there were two other guys

in the room when
she was assaulted.

Tweedledee and Tweedledum?

- Those two? Ugh.

Jacob and Brad.
I sat with them at dinner.

They kept subtly
refilling my wine glass.

- Mm, she mentioned a room
upstairs with old paintings?

- I didn't get past
the front room.

I guess those guys could tell
I wasn't wasted enough.

- Okay. Thank you, Sarah.

- And just--if you don't
even like these boys,

why go back to their club?

- I wanted to see the inside.
This was my only chance.

I'm an anthropology major.

- Oh.

- Officers, I'm Whitaker Yates,
Bishop Club President.

I'm told you needed
to speak to someone.

- We do, Whitaker.

We heard you had
a party here last night.

- Every night.

If this is a noise complaint,
I'll talk to the guys--

- It's a sexual assault
complaint.

A girl was raped.

- That's horrible.

But it wasn't at the club.
I was here all night.

- In every room?

The complainant
gave us a description,

so we're gonna need
to look around.

- I'm sorry, that's--
that's just not possible.

You do know that
this is a private club?

- We appreciate that.

- But either you let us in,

or because this house
is a crime scene,

we're gonna have
to clear everyone out

while we wait for a warrant.

- And once this
goes to the DA's office,

it takes on a life of its own.

You don't want that.
- No.

- [softly]
Okay.

- Okay, looks like
you did have a party.

We're gonna need to confiscate
all those glasses.

- You can leave that, Oscar.
- Sure thing, Mr. Yates.

- The room the complainant
described was upstairs.

- Ah, okay, um...

I think you'd really have
to get a warrant for that.

- Okay, so while we're waiting
on that warrant,

we need
to talk to Austin Drake.

- And Tweedledee
and Tweedledum.

Jacob Hoffman
and Brad Calloway.

Actually,
we're gonna need to talk

to every member who was
here last night.

- I-I can't
just hand over names.

It's a privacy issue.
We don't even keep a list.

Roosevelts, Kennedys,

rumor has it they slept here

whenever
they visited the campus.

- Yeah, well, luckily,
we don't need to talk

to any dead presidents.

Just Austin, Jacob, and Brad.
- [chuckles]

Look, I don't even
think those guys are here.

Most likely they're
at the library, studying.

- Well, they have two choices.

Either meet us at the precinct,

or we can drag them out
of the library in handcuffs.

[soft tense music]

♪

- Annabel, yeah.
She was there last night.

Whatever she's saying,
it's not true.

- What do you think
she was saying?

- Look, there was no rape.

- How do you know?
You were in the room?

- Maybe I should call my dad.

- By the way,
which one are you,

Tweedledee or Tweedledum?

- It's a nickname.
Austin changes it.

- Sometimes Dee, sometimes Dum?

- Depends on his mood.

- What was his mood last night?

- I can tell you
what hermood was.

DTF.

- Hmm.

How do you know?
Were you watching?

- Come on, man,
she was putting on a show.

That's all I'm gonna say.

- Guys, I said goodnight
to Annabel when she left.

She had her purse, her coat.

She was a little drunk,
but fine.

- We're just trying
to figure out

why she told her RA
she was sexually assaulted.

- Mia?
[scoffs]

More like the other way around.

- What do you mean?

- Mia and her coven?
They hate men.

- Well, this is
about what we expected.

- Yeah, they more or less
put themselves in the room.

They're not denying the sex.

- We have enough for an arrest.
- And an indictment.

But a conviction?
Three against one.

- This was an orchestrated,
coordinated attack.

Look, they have
done this before.

- Captain?
The boys' parents are here.

- Your sons all came in
voluntarily.

- Under threat of arrest.

- It wasn't custodial.

They knew they were free
to leave at any time.

- And now they're leaving.

- If you question them again,
it's with a lawyer present.

- Oh, when we bring them
in to talk to them again,

they'll needa lawyer present.

Look, this is
an open investigation,

and we strongly advise that
your sons don't leave town.

Thank you.

- We should just
arrest these punks.

- They're not going anywhere.
They're too entitled.

- And you know what?

It's not just
the three of them.

It's like you said.
This was coordinated.

They invited specific girls,
they pick the compliant ones,

and they got 'em
even more drunk.

- Separating out
the most vulnerable.

- If this was a group of kids
from the housing projects,

we would have
locked them all up.

- These guys have
already lawyered up.

They're not gonna
turn on each other.

- But there are people
that work in the club.

People that
work at the steakhouse,

people who drive the bus.

These kids don't see the help.

- But the help sees them.

- They can lay out the plan.
We start from here.

♪

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- Bishop Club?
They're polite, good tippers.

I have no issues.
- Yeah, well, we do, Lloyd.

One of the girls
who was at that party

was sexually assaulted
that night.

- I'm sorry,
but that's not on us.

- No?

This girl's 18 years old.
Did you card her?

- [sighs] Come on, man.
They all had IDs.

- None of them were legal.

How does multiple counts

of serving alcohol to a minor
sound?

- Not to mention this place
losing its liquor license.

You're out of a job.

- What do you want?

- How'd you get that big tip?

- Instructions were
"no empty glasses."

No matter what the girls asked,
keep pouring the wine.

- And who gave you
those instructions?

- They all did.

They wanted those girls
to stagger out of this place.

[tense music]

Look, nobody was driving.

They had a bus waiting
to take 'em home.

- It's all fun and games
with these guys.

They got the life.
Young, rich--

- White.
- That, too.

Anyway,
it's none of my business.

- You recognize this girl?

- They all kind of look alike.

- She left her purse
on the bus.

- Okay, yeah.

She was pretty upset when
it wasn't here after dinner.

- Tell us about that.
- [chuckles] Just a prank.

Guys call it club rules.

Not all the girls go along.
Some leave coats, phones.

They all get it back
at the club.

- How does that happen?

- While they're at dinner,
they have me drive over

to the Bishop Club,
leave the purses with Oscar.

He takes it from there.

- I don't really
know anything.

- How long have
you worked here, Oscar?

- Over thirty years.
Close to my pension.

It's changed.

The old days,
the boys were more respectful.

- Oscar,
what happened Saturday night?

- You know about that girl,
don't you?

- I saw them
taking her upstairs.

I don't know what
happened after that.

I gave her her purse
when she left.

She was crying.

- Has this happened before?
- I don't know.

Sometimes these girls,
they have too much to drink.

- Or they give them
too much to drink.

- Well, for parties,
they put in a special order.

Lots of sweet stuff.
Peach schnapps, brandy...

- Stuff that'll
knock 'em out?

- They don't want
the girls to get sick, just...

- Like a rag doll?

- I'm sorry for what happened.

I asked Austin
about her the next day.

He said she was fine,
that she had a good time.

[phone ringing]

I have to answer that.

♪

- You think these guys were
any better back in the day?

- Some of them.

Fin, look at this.
Isn't that Parlato-Goldstein?

- The detective
from Hate Crimes.

- Yeah.

- How'd they
let him in this club?

- Detective.

Thank you for coming in.
- Of course.

Going after these guys
for rape?

I assume the vic is credible,
the guys claim consensual?

- Yes, she is, and they are.

- Dominick Carisi, ADA.

You were a member, weren't you?

You're not saying this doesn't
sound like the boys you knew?

- 20 years ago,
when I was there,

it was still the vestige
of a gentlemen's club.

We drank, we had girls over,
but nothing like this.

- Uh-huh.

- Counselor, he's here to help.

- So we have corroboration
that this girl was targeted,

and they got her drunk,

and then they separated her
from her friends,

and they took her upstairs
to a room

that she describes as having
a lot of old paintings?

- The Boom-Boom Room.

There's so much DNA in there,
forensics won't help.

- Ugh.
- And these guys, they'll--

they'll never talk
to outsiders.

- So what do you suggest?

- You need them
to incriminate themselves.

Get someone
on the inside they trust.

- Someone like you?

- Back when I drank,
I was kind of a legend there.

[rhythmic knocking]

♪

- The Bishop Club knock.
Welcome.

- Brother Parlato-Goldstein.

I come bearing gifts.

- No frickin' way.
TheParlato-Goldstein?

[chuckling]
You're alive?

Yo, guys--yo, you're
never gonna believe this.

Yo, somebody get Whitaker!
[laughs]

- Oh, hey, what's up, man?
- Who called the order in?

- Sup, guys?
Yeah, here you go.

- Is it really you?

[laughs]
We're not worthy!

- The creator of Zoom
Schwartz-Parlato-Goldstein,

in the flesh, wow!

- Zoom
Schwartz-Parlato-Goldstein?

A drinking game?
I guess he is a legend.

- Apparently,
it doesn't take that much.

- So what do you need, Carisi?

- I'll know when I see it.

[chatter and laughter]

- Yep, that was my room.

And this...

this was the Boom-Boom Room.

Tie on the door was the code.

- We upgraded.
The Grand Prix Room now.

- Like the chess opening?

Grand Prix Attack? Nice.

[all chuckling]

♪

- Your throne, sir.

- I'm honored.

♪

- I understand that we have
an icon in our midst,

a legendary forefather who
gave us one of the greatest

drinking games Hudson
University has ever seen.

- I'm not worthy.

- Bishop men, I believe it is
only right that we serenade

Sir Andrew Parlato-Goldstein
with our pledge song.

- "Bishops and Knights
and Pawns"?

[all chuckle]
- No, we have a new one.

Kind of a remix.

[horn blows]

all: ♪ Oh, we are
the Bishop Club ♪

♪ Sluts and bitches and hoes

♪ And in this club
we have a code ♪

♪ These bitches are our foes

♪ With a few shots here
and edibles there ♪

♪ Jungle juice,
get her loose ♪

♪ No more needing to seduce

♪ Oh, we are the Bishop Club

♪ And everybody knows

♪ That when we have
a boys' night out ♪

♪ We turn fresh girls
to hoes ♪

♪ Take her purse
and take her shoes ♪

♪ Take away her right
to choose ♪

♪ On her back
and on her knees ♪

♪ Crying out,
"Please, please, please" ♪

♪ Oh,
we are the Bishop Club... ♪

- Seen enough, Carisi?

- Yes, I have.

And I will be charging
the entire Bishop Club

with conspiracy
to commit rape one.

♪

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- [sighs] An assault
at the Bishop Club?

I have to tell you,
Captain Benson, I am so upset.

I had hoped that we
were finally making progress.

- Well, I'm sorry
to say that we're not.

We have ample evidence
that this assault did occur.

- For what it's worth,
I did speak with the club,

alumni, and the boys' parents.

They have a different story.

- Don't they always?

- And this is also
complicated by the fact

that the alleged assault
didn't take place on campus.

[sighs]

I'll reach out
to the Bishop Club again,

get the campus adjudication
committee to weigh in.

I'll need Annabel
to file an official complaint.

- President Freeman,
I'm gonna stop you

because we are way past that.

We have arrest warrants.
- For which students?

- Every single member
of the Bishop Club.

For conspiracy.

- Wait, wait,
what are you talking about?

- I came here as a courtesy
to let you know

that we are
executing a search warrant

and we're making arrests.
- When?

I need to speak
to the trustees,

the boys' parents.

Can you give me
a sense of the timeline?

- It's happening now.

[dramatic music]

[sirens wailing]

- Okay, these four
in that first van.

Cell phones are a priority.

Dump texts, emails,
photos, videos, ASAP.

- Come on, Judas,
you couldn't do this inside?

It's cold.

- We'll preheat
your holding cells.

[phone ringing]

- You didn't hand over
your cell phone?

- [slurring]
I forgot I had it.

It's probably my dad.

He'll bust a gasket
if I don't answer.

- Oh, well,
you can use your one call

at the station
to call him back.

Ah. Thank you.

♪

- Hey, I know this is a lot.
How you--how you doing?

- I'm okay.

This is why I came back
to Hudson.

To make a difference.

- You have the right
to remain silent--

- This is such a joke.

- Hey, hey, boys!
No talking over there.

I'm sorry, Sergeant. Continue.

- You have
the right to an attorney,

if you cannot afford one--

- We can.
- [giggles]

- One will be appointed
for you.

- Hey, for the record,
none of us will be speaking

to police without
our attorneys present.

- Yeah, less you talk,
the better.

Get in the van.

♪

- I have an econ presentation
later.

- Yeah, right.

[knock at door]
- Yeah, come.

- Chief, you wanted to see me.

- A 7:00 a.m
shock-and-awe raid

on the most prestigious club
at Hudson U?

- Okay.

- Shouldn't I get a call
on this?

- Things were moving
pretty fast.

- Yeah, a little too fast,
according to President Freeman.

So you asked me
to loosen the reins,

and then you just gallop off
the track into the parking lot?

- We couldn't risk
the university

alerting the boys' parents.

- Fair enough, but then
you arrested the whole club?

I mean, the DA's office
had to know about this,

but you don't tell me?

- I was giving you
plausible deniability.

- Oh, well,
thanks for small favors.

So what's the plan?

You're just gonna arrest
everybody and their brother

in the hopes
that somebody flips?

- Listen, actually,
this is a conspiracy.

They were all involved.

Not just the three that
we're charging with rape one.

And quite frankly,
I wouldn't mind seeing

all of them ending up
on the registry.

- Yeah, well,
I have no more love

for these spoiled brats
than you do.

But these measures,
they look punitive.

Like--like cancel culture
on steroids.

Look...

pick the cases you can make.

We're here
to put bad guys away,

not make political statements.

How was that?
- Understood.

- No, no, no, not the content,
but the delivery.

I'm trying to manage my affect.

You know, express myself
without projecting anger.

I'm on the road to Damascus.

- And you are...

getting there.

- All these yours, Mr. Carisi?

They get a group discount?

What am I looking at?

- 16 defendants charged
with conspiracy

to commit rape one,
three of them also charged

with rape one
and unlawful imprisonment.

- And these 16 defendants
are the entire membership

of the Hudson University
Bishop Club?

- They are, Your Honor.

They were unjustly rounded up,

and every single one
will be pleading not guilty.

- Good to know.

Let's start with Austin Drake
on the charges of rape one

and conspiracy to commit
rape one; how do you plead?

- Not guilty.

- Whitaker Yates,
how do you plead?

- Not guilty, Your Honor.

- Jacob Hoffman?
- Not guilty.

- Brad Calloway?
- Not guilty.

♪

- What happened today
is every parent's nightmare.

If you have a son at college,
you should know

it's open season
on young men right now.

Not only doesn't it seem
to matter to law enforcement

or the DA whether or not a rape
even occurred in this case,

but their opinion is

merely being in the same house
where the complaint was made

rises to the level
of conspiracy

to commit this unproven rape.

- We've heard
this from Barth before.

I can't listen to it anymore.

- Didn't she
use to be a judge?

And she believes thisnow?

- She believes in her payday
times 16.

She's just lucky
the judge granted bail.

- Carisi.

Okay, we'll meet you there.

- What?
- Carisi is at Hudson with Mia.

Her advocacy group
staged a march

down to the Bishop Club.

They were attacked.

[tense music]

♪

[indistinct radio chatter]

- What happened here?
- Protest march turned ugly.

Some of those
Bishop guys were waiting.

- Where are they?
Why aren't they being arrested?

- They're all inside.

But the protesters
initiated contact,

went onto their property.

- We were marching
from campus.

It was peaceful
until we got to the Bishop.

- They were waiting for you?
- Yeah.

All out on the porch,
screaming stuff at us like,

"Hoes go home,"
and "Ugly bitches,"

blowing rape whistles,
they maced us.

- Did they ever leave
the yard to come after you?

- No, but when we saw them
take out the hoses,

we ran in to grab them away,
and they just sprayed us down.

- First, we got soaked,

then people were screaming
'cause their eyes were burning.

- From the pepper spray?

- Annabel, are you okay?
- No.

Look what they did.

They put my face
on that blow-up doll!

They're mocking me.

- We're gonna
get that taken down.

Let's get you out of here.

♪

- So the Bishop Club guys

stayed on their property
the whole time.

- And they're gonna argue

that the protesters
were trespassing

and they were just
protecting themselves,

defending their castle.

- Mace is legal and banners
are free speech,

water is water.

- This is like
a war on all women.

- I can haul them back
into court,

see if the judge
will revoke bail.

- And they'll just tell
them not to do it again.

- Counselor,
let me ask you something.

We talk about this
all the time.

How come you never
charge rape as a hate crime?

- Rape as a hate crime
based on gender?

It's just not something
the DA's office does.

- You know what?
Maybe it's time.

.

- We appreciate your concern,
President Freeman,

but these boys
are accused of rape.

SVU had no choice
but to arrest.

- They didn't have to arrest
every young man

in the Bishop Club.

- Actually, we did.

- They were all in on it.
- So you claim.

I need your assurance

that there will be
no further arrests

stemming from this incident.

- We have no idea what
the fallout is gonna be.

- But we do understand.

Look, it's not NYPD's intent
to inflame the situation.

- Thank you, Chief McGrath.

Captain Benson, in the future,
I hope we can coordinate.

The process works better
for all with more transparency.

- I couldn't agree more,

and I know that
you're new to your post.

But in the past,

campus security has been where
rape allegations go to die.

I believe that
your intentions are good,

but you have to understand

there's just
a lot of history here.

- I understand.

I look forward
to a better relationship

than you've had with Hudson
in the past.

- So do I.

- Okay.

Where are we
with this girl's rape?

- We're looking
to attach a hate crimes charge.

- Based on what?
- Based on gender.

I think these boys
have made it pretty clear

that they have
a bias against women.

This is a perfect case
to make that precedent.

- I think we'll let
the lawyers handle that one.

- So you're okay with it?
- I am.

But my daughter texted me

some social media video
from that rally.

The blow up doll, the language?
It's just horrible.

I'll fight back. Understood?

- Thank you.

- Just because
McGrath's on board

doesn't mean
the eighth floor is.

- What did Maxwell say?
- She's intrigued.

But she also reminded me
about ten times

that there's no precedent
for this.

She's afraid that we're
gonna lose on the rape case.

- There's never
been much appetite,

even with Hate Crimes
prosecutors.

- Yeah, because it's a lot
of risk for an enhancement

that only adds three years
to the sentence.

I mean, juries can be sensitive
to piling on charges.

- But that doesn't mean
that we shouldn't do it,

because it sends a message

not only to victims,
but to the entire community.

- Also, even though
these guys are misogynists,

that doesn't necessarily prove

that that is what
motivated Annabel's rape.

- Hate Crimes only attaches

if the victim is chosen out
of bias.

- Exactly...

[cell phone beeps]
So I need evidence that shows

that she was targeted
because of her gender.

- So in addition
to the action of hate,

you need language
that shows their motivation?

- How about this?
We just got a text from TARU.

They went through the Bishop
Club members' cell phones.

The boys were texting pictures
to each other.

[tense music]

♪

They wrote, "Slut," "Whore"...

"Grade A meat" on my body,
and took pictures?

- And you don't remember?

- Not them taking pictures.

I remember someone writing.
I tried to knock his hand away.

When I got home,

I didn't even look in a mirror.

I just scrubbed myself.

What does this mean?

- What I would
like it to mean

is that we go after them
for more than the rape.

That we charge them all
with a hate crime.

- A hate crime?

- The slurs that they used,
the banners, the--

the blow-up doll.

- I don't get it.

What did I do?
- You didn't do anything.

- They just...hate women.

- Why?

♪

- Motion to dismiss
a hate crimes enhancement.

On 16 defendants?

- Actually, Your Honor,
the hate crime will only attach

to the three charges
of rape one.

- Your Honor,
this is still an overreach.

There's no precedent
to attach a hate crime to rape.

The alleged victim was not
targeted due to race,

color, or national origin.

- No, but she was targeted
because of her gender,

which is also a specific
protected class in the statute.

- But there's no precedent
for that, either,

is there, Counselor?

- No, Your Honor, but we're
arguing that there should be.

- So your claim is that
the defendants hate women?

- Your Honor, this is insanity.

All these young men have
mothers, sisters, girlfriends.

It is not unusual for those
who commit hate crimes

to claim that they have friends
or even family members

in the same group
they targeted.

It's simply not
a legitimate defense.

This assault has all the
hallmarks of a hate crime,

no different than if the victim
were Black, Muslim, or Jewish.

It includes written
and spoken slurs,

evidence that
Annabel Nelson was targeted

because she is a woman.

- First of all,
she wasn't targeted at all,

she was a willing participant.

- Not what we're arguing here,
Your Honor.

We don't need
to have already proven

the underlying crime in order
to attach the hate crime.

- That is true,
Counselor Barth.

- Again,
this is a gross misreading

of the hate crimes law.

The prosecution is showboating.
He's playing politics.

It's a performance
of the politically correct

in the theater of the woke.

- Save that for the trial.

I'll review the evidence
and make my ruling shortly.

[gavel bangs]

♪

- Congratulations, Counselor.
Oh, you know what?

Keep piling on charges.

It'll just make it easier
to show a jury it's a vendetta.

- Always nice to see you, too,
Counselor.

- She's a warm and fuzzy.

- Looks like her motion
got denied.

- Yeah, she lost this round,

but she could still be right
about the trial.

- Carisi, take the win.

- Counselor, Captain?

There's no way
I'm letting my son be charged

with a hate crime.

- I'm sorry, Dr. Hoffman?

- Tell them, Jacob.

- I know everything
that happened that night.

I'm willing to testify.

- Against your brothers?

.

- Writing "whore"

and "slut"

and "grade A meat,"

that this was
because you like her?

- They made me do that.
We're trained to obey.

The point of pledging
is to drill in

that we're the pawns there
to protect and serve the king.

- Protect.
[clicks tongue]

And a blow-up doll
with Annabel's face on it?

Who is that protecting?

- [sighs]
I'm sorry about that, I--

I'm really sorry
about all of it.

- Mr. Carisi,
my client is only cooperating

if the hate crime charge
is off the table.

And he's not pleading guilty
to rape one.

- He's in no position
to call the shots here.

So Jake,
you wanted to talk, so talk.

How did Annabel get up
into the Grand Prix Room?

- Um...

Austin gave Annabel
a piggyback ride upstairs

to look for her purse.

- All the purses
that you guys took

and made them leave on the bus?

- This is Austin Drake?
Who else was there?

- Uh...

Brad Calloway, me,
Chuck Hammond, Trey Gibson,

and a couple other
freshman boys.

They got to watch.

- [quietly] Oh, wow.

And Jacob, what did you do?

[tense music]

- I held her arms while
Brad wrote on her breasts.

And then Brad held her legs
while Austin...

did the deed.

♪

I didn't rape her,
I swear to God.

- But you helped them.

And that's something that
you're gonna have to live with,

Jacob, for the rest
of your life.

- Jacob's a rat.

- Yep, and he got the cheese.

- In exchange for Jacob's
testimony against you, Austin,

and the rest of the club,
he'll be doing a year in jail.

That deal is off the table
for you.

- What's still on the table?

- The most I can offer
is attempted rape one.

- With what recommendation?

- The minimum:
three and a half years.

- I'm not turning
against my brothers.

- That's fine, Brad.

You stay loyal
to your fellow rapists,

and then I get
to take you to trial,

where you'll be looking
at double digits.

- Let me talk to my client.

- You want my client to plead
guilty to rape and conspiracy?

There's nothing
on that rape kit.

And anything else that happened
in that room was consensual.

- Not according to the victim.

Also, not according
to Jacob Hoffman

and Brad Calloway.

- They're lying
to save their own asses.

- What about the others
who were watching?

And your club president,
Whitaker Yates.

- Whitaker wasn't in the room.

- No, but he told us

you gave him a pair
of Annabel's underwear

as a trophy of your kill.

It has your DNA on it.

Checkmate, Austin.

- I'm sure there's all kinds
of chain of-custody issues.

You know what, Detective?

You've really covered yourself
in glory here.

This club has a
drinking game named after you.

Are you gonna tell me that
none of these mating rituals

went on when you were a member?

- We weren't angels,

but what we didn't do was
target women for rape.

- [chuckles]

My father always said the club
never should have let Jews in.

What are you getting out
of this, Goldstein?

A promotion?

How many pieces of silver
are they paying you?

- No, no, no.
Let him keep going.

I'll put hate crimes
right back on the table.

Do you want to talk
to your client?

♪

[protestors chanting]

- Annabel wanted me
to thank you for her.

- I'm glad we were
able to spare her

this going to trial.

- So is she.
- How's she doing?

- She's gonna
take the semester off,

go home for a while.

[protestors chanting]

I can't believe
this is actually happening.

- Permanently
shuttering the club?

Bishop Club alumni and trustees
signed off on that?

- In exchange for dropping
the conspiracy charges, yeah.

It was a difficult negotiation.

- Yeah, President Freeman
made it crystal clear

that if they wanted
their kids to have

any chance
of getting into Hudson U,

or getting
a recommendation upon leaving,

then they'd have
to sacrifice the club.

- Thank you for hearing us.

You don't know what it means
to all of us to be heard.

- I actually do.

[crowd chanting]
- Get them out! Get them out!

Get them out! Get them out!

Get them out! Get them out!

Get them out! Get them out!

Get them out! Get them out!

Get them out!

[dramatic music]

♪

[wolf howls]