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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.

- Pretty quiet back there.

Naomi, everything OK?

- Yeah, I'm just getting a head
start on college applications.

- That's cool, Ms. Harvard,
but you're debating today.

- I know, Coach.

Coaches.

I got this.

I'm dreaming Wikileaks,
Anonymous, FBI versus Fazaga.

- Well, just keep the
hand gestures down.

When a guy makes a chopping
motion, it's decisive.

When a woman does it...

Both: The judges
cross their legs.

[laughter]

- Do I have to be
partnered with Todd again?

- You and Todd are
our star debaters.

- But he constantly
makes fun of me.

Same with Sean.

- It's just because
they like you.

- At least you don't ride the
bus with any of them, right?

- Hey, your prissy teammate
too good for the school bus?

- Have you ever met her mom?

Lives in a van.

This bus probably triggers
her memories of her childhood,

peeing in some
empty water bottle.

- Not possible.

Little Ms. Fridge
probably pisses ice cubes.

- I bet every time she opens
her legs, a light comes on.

- Who taught you
dad jokes, Sean?

Thought yours ran off
with some chick from work.

- Shut up and keep
studying, Booker.

- All right, hustle, guys.

Everybody off the bus.

Let's go.

OK, Birchfield Prep, listen up.

We're going to go
check into the hotel,

then you're going to go
straight to your rooms,

drop off your bags.

We'll meet in the
ballroom at 15:00.

Suit jackets, ties.

- Look sharp.

We're here to kill.

- All right, let's go.

Do not get hit by a car, please.

- Activism benefits democracy.

We contend that fear of
hacking causes the government

to lock down information
it never intended

to share with the public
in the first place.

- Furthermore, can governments
actually become more secretive

than they already are?

As Michael Hayden, former
CIA and NSA director said,

"I got an email saying
Merry Christmas.

It carried a top secret
classification marking."

We contend that secrecy
in the government

doesn't lead to security,
only more secrecy.

Democracy cannot
thrive in the shadows.

Hacktivists uncover
governmental abuses,

inform the citizenry, and
keep politicians honest.

Hacktivism is a sanitizing light

shining into the dark corners

essential for the very
survival of our democracy.

- Yes, good girl!

Whoo!

[cheers and applause]

- I see the judges have
reached a decision.

The first round goes to...

Birchfield Prep.

- Yes! Whoo!

- Senior Todd Edmondson
and junior Naomi Hayes,

who may be the best reason

Birchfield went
coed two years ago.

[knock at door]

- Just a sec.

[knocking continues]

Just a sec!

Can I help you?

[upbeat music playing]

- Nice robe.
- It's a kimono.

- Your mom get it at Goodwill?
- Hey.

Don't listen to him.

- You guys are drinking?
- Want to join us?

- Resolved... hangovers
leave you stupid and slow.

Kubota et al 2001, alcohol
shrinks brain volume,

or as my Uncle Lew likes to say,

"you drink, you can't think."

- What'd I tell you?
Little Ms. Fridge.

- Yo, there they are,
the power couple...

Obi Naomi and the Toddfather,
you two killed it today.

- Et tu, Booker?

- I'm cutting myself off and
hitting the pillow in an hour.

- We have a 7:00 a.m.
wake up tomorrow.

- Look, I know I talk trash
sometimes, I don't mean it.

Come on, Nay. Just one?

- ♪ Everybody's
talking, talking ♪

♪ I don't hear a
thing, I just... ♪

- One of us.

- One of us, one of us,

one of us, one of us!

[ominous music]

[elevator dings]

- Naomi, you OK?

- I'm fine.

♪

[grunts]

[panting]

[grunts, shouting]

[blade swishing]

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

- [sighs]

- Self care?

- Peony and black currant.

- Smells nice.

- Yeah, you know,

15-minute meditation just
to get it out of my head.

- I'm surprised
that's all it takes.

- [exhales] Well, I'm learning
to take my moments when I can.

- Speaking of which,
Phoebe got tickets

to some lecture tonight at
NYU to expand our horizons.

- Oh, nice.

Well, you better go
while it's still quiet.

- It's almost too quiet.

Velasco and Churlish
close talking?

- [laughs]
- That pilgrimage to Maine

must have gone well.

- He got what he needed.

- So you two good?

- Yeah.

- Anything more you
want to tell me?

- Nope.

[phone buzzes]

Captain Benson.

- Naomi Hayes, 17,
straight-A student,

star of the debate team at
Birchfield Prep in Albany,

no record, no discipline issues.

- And you're sure she's the
one that set the bus on fire?

- She was sitting
on the sidewalk

right in front of the hotel,

had the knife used to slash
the seats in her hand.

- Wasn't even trying to hide it.

- All right, any obvious
signs of sexual assault?

- Something happened
to the girl tonight.

Her affect, the way
she's holding herself,

and her sweatpants
are on inside out.

- Got it. OK. We'll
take it from here.

I take it those are the parents?

- Team chaperones.
Staying in the same hotel.

- You talk to them yet?
- Saved it for you.

- OK, Churlish and Velasco,
you take the chaperones.

Muncy, you're with me.

Naomi?

I'm Captain Benson.
This is Detective Muncy.

Brought you some snacks.

- I told the other
detective I'm good.

- You're on the
debate team, right?

All about getting
down to the truth.

It's a lot like our job.

You want to tell us why
you set the bus on fire?

- I don't know why I did it.

- Well, maybe something
else triggered it.

Maybe something you don't
even realize is connected.

- Are you paying attention?
I said I don't know why.

- Naomi, something happened.

- Was anybody else
sharing your hotel room?

- I'm the only girl on the team.

- That's got to be rough.
- Yeah.

Guys can be jerks sometimes.

- How about all the time?

- You know, sometimes trauma,
um, can make us behave

in surprising ways, you know?

Like, make us angry,

make us violent.

- Classic cop.

See a result and
retrofit symbolism.

A narrative that someone was
hurt, so they lit a match.

- Were you hurt?
- No.

There's no symbolism here.

The sea is the sea.

The old man is the old
man, the boy is the boy.

That's Hemingway.

- Yeah.

I've heard of him.

- I did see Naomi when
she left the hotel.

She seemed fine.

- Were you aware of anything
that might have upset her?

- No. No, she won the debate.

- Well, maybe the guys
weren't too happy about that.

- To be honest, I'm not sure
why sex crimes is involved.

Wasn't this arson?

- The detective
who picked her up

thinks she may have
been assaulted.

- By one of the boys?

- What can you
tell me about them?

- Everybody was pretty
pumped, in a great mood.

I mean, we won the first round

of the East Coast finals today.

- Mm. Well, when was the
last time you saw Naomi?

- Uh, last I checked was curfew.

I found them all in Todd's room.

There was some
drinking going on,

but Naomi seemed fine with it.

She was participating.

I was hoping that they'd finally

accepted her as an equal.

- You're a very
smart girl Naomi,

and from what we understand,

you get really
great grades, huh?

But sometimes in life,
situations happen that we...

We're just not
equipped to deal with.

- Sometimes a fire
is just a fire.

- Yeah, sometimes.

Sometimes it's a way to
try and take control.

[soft tense music]

♪

After my mom died, I
kept getting in trouble

for stealing shopping carts.

I would race them down the
hill with my little brother.

- Did that make you feel better?

- Every time.

- Nothing I do makes
me feel better.

♪

- When did you start
cutting, Naomi?

- I don't remember.

- Well, whatever happened
to you in your past,

whatever happened tonight,

it's over now and you're safe.

You can tell us what happened.

- I was at a party,
the room next door.

I had some drinks, then later
I had sex but I didn't want to.

- With a boy on your team?

- I don't really
remember. It was dark.

I don't want to get
anyone in trouble.

I shouldn't have said anything.
- Naomi.

Naomi, we're just
here to help you.

OK? [knock on door]

Yeah?

- Naomi's mother is here.
- Thank you.

- I can't have my
mother know about this.

- OK. I understand.
That's your choice.

You know, Naomi, in
my experience, um,

sometimes keeping secrets
can make things worse.

- Can you just talk
to her, please?

- Sure.

- My... my... my baby girl?

- Listen, she's
been... There we...

- Oh, my poor baby.

All right, Ms. Hayes, Naomi's
going to get through this,

but we still do have more
questions for her and for you.

- Yeah, what about
the arson arrest?

- Well, the precinct
captain has agreed

to release Naomi
into your custody.

And they're going to give
you a desk appearance ticket

for a date for youth court.

- So we can go home?

- First, we need you to go
to the ER and get a rape kit.

- And Detective
Muncy will take you,

and I will speak
with you tomorrow.

Well, this isn't
going to be easy.

She admitted to being assaulted,

but she won't give a name.

Where are the Youngs?
- Went back to the hotel.

They got a dozen
boys to chaperone.

- All right, do they have
any idea which one of them

might have done this?

- They acknowledge the guys can
be bullies, but not rapists.

- So they're protecting them,
which is to be expected.

- Well, the tournament's
over in a few days.

Should we bring them in before
they all go back to Albany?

- You know, let's get
some leverage first.

Check the hotel
security footage,

wait for the rape kit, and then
we bring in the entire team,

debate or no debate.

- So this girl, after she
gets arrested for arson,

she discloses an assault, but
she won't name her assailant?

- Well, she claims
she doesn't remember.

- Is this just a
ploy for sympathy?

I got to ask.

- Hey, she says that she was
assaulted and I believe her.

And her debate team sounds
competitive, brutal.

I mean, maybe she's
afraid of reprisals.

Did you guys get anything
from the hotel security?

- Just elevator footage.

Naomi leaving, no
cameras in the hallway.

- I did get a room
assignment list.

The whole team's on one floor.

Todd Edmondson and Sean Richards

are in the room
connected to Naomi.

- Do these boys have a record?

Any discipline problems?
- No.

Straight A's, college bound.

- Which we know means nothing.

- Well, nothing is
what you're giving me

for evidence right now.

- Uh, Naomi's rape kit
just came back positive

for semen and abrasions.

No matches in the system.

- OK, pick up all the boys
who partied in that room.

- Will do.

- My son's no rapist.

He's the star of
the debate team.

- We have a credible allegation.

Just trying to rule him out.

- Naomi's accusing me?

- Was she in your
room last night?

- Yeah. So were
four other guys.

- I assume you're
talking to them.

- Yes, we are.

- You ask me, she was
afraid to compete today.

- Yeah, well, we're
not asking you.

- Except for a DNA sample.

- You want to test
Sean's DNA? I don't know.

I should call my husband.

- It'll rule your son out.

- Unless there's
a reason your DNA

is on Naomi's rape kit, Sean.

- No. No. Ms. Fridge?

I wouldn't go anywhere near her.

- But you two were
hanging out last night?

- She had one drink.

Then she went back to her
room supposedly to study.

- Supposedly?

What does that mean?

- It seems like she
had other plans to me.

And I'm not talking about
lighting our bus on fire.

- I don't know why
Naomi torched our bus.

I don't even know her that well.

- But you hung out
with her last night.

- Yeah, but I didn't rape her.

- My son's not involved
in this in any way.

He's a good kid.

- If he gives us a DNA sample,

we can rule him
out as a suspect.

- So he can be in
the system forever?

Give me one good reason
why any Black man

should trust the cops.
- I didn't do it.

- Booker, no more.
I'm calling a lawyer.

- That's your right, but...
- But what?

What are you gonna say
to me right now, brother?

- Dad, hold on.

I didn't do it.

Neither did any
of the other guys.

They haze her and make jokes,
but they didn't rape her.

I know who did.

[dramatic music]

♪

- No.

Has everybody at
school seen this?

- I'm sorry, Naomi.

- Are you gonna... are you
gonna tell my mom I lied?

- No.

But you are when you're ready.

- She just thinks
I'm always perfect.

- So the good girl...

who can never lie,
who can never say no.

Naomi, is that what happened
with you and the Youngs?

- It's complicated.

- Oh, it always is.

So how about you tell me how...

all of this started.

- I hated riding on the bus.

The guys were so loud.

They would pull my
things out of my backpack

and throw it around, they
would laugh at my tampons.

- Teenage boys can be cruel.

- And when Helene
and Parker said that

I could ride with them,

that made me feel seen.

- I get that.

But how...

How did it turn sexual?

- We had dinners together.

They... they served wine.

[stammers]

They treated me
like we were equals.

No one has ever done
that to me before.

At first, it was...
It was just kissing.

Mostly me and Helene.

Parker watched.

It made them both happy,
so that made me happy.

And I was performing at the
debates better than ever.

- So, Naomi, what happened?
What happened last night?

- I went to their room after
hanging out with the boys.

Helene and Parker and I
usually would celebrate

after a debate win.

Helene could tell that
I had been drinking.

I thought she'd be mad at first.

- But she wasn't?

- She was happy that
we won the first round.

She said that she
wanted to give Parker

what he'd been waiting for.

[ominous music]

- What does that mean?

- We made out with Parker
watching, like normal.

Except this time,

he came up behind me

and he started
touching my breasts.

And then Helene pulled me down

and he started
unzipping his pants.

- Did you consent,
Naomi, to any of that?

- I tried to explain to
them it wasn't a good idea.

I tried to talk
my way out of it.

- But it didn't work?
- No!

- So then what happened?

- And then he...

He raped me.

Helene held me down,
and he raped me.

That had never
happened to me before.

I was freaked out.

- Is that why you
set the bus on fire?

- If I had just
kept my mouth shut

and continued to ride with
the boys in the damn bus,

this never would have happened!
- Honey, this isn't about

the boys, and it's
not about you.

Naomi.

Naomi, this is about the Youngs.

And we're going to
get your power back.

♪

- I know this looks bad.

- That's an understatement.

- I realize there's no excuse
for a sexual relationship

with a student.
- Relationship?

That's what you call it?
- We were her mentors.

- Mentoring?

You and your wife were
using her for threesomes.

- The lines get blurred
sometimes with these kids,

especially when you spend
the amount of time with them

that Helene and I do.

Unethical, yes,
but not criminal.

Naomi is 17.

Everything that we did together
was completely consensual.

- Not according to Naomi.

What she described to
us about that night

sounds like sexual assault.

- Sounds like rape one to me.

- No, she's confused.

She's trying to hurt
us for some reason.

This wasn't rape.

- My heart breaks for Naomi,
but she's an angry kid

with an abysmal home life.

She's lying to protect herself.

- That's your theory.

- Her mother just found
out about our relationship.

And Naomi couldn't
tell her the truth...

That she was having
sex with us willingly.

- So she fabricated
a rape allegation?

- We saved that girl
from living in a van,

from a mother who has no idea
how smart her daughter is.

- Do you even hear yourself?

You had sex with a student.

- Sex that was
completely consensual.

- We saw the video. You
were holding her down.

- You've seen how
she hurts herself.

Naomi is a bit of a masochist.

But I'm not.

At this point, I
would have to be one

to talk to you without a lawyer.

- Well, she's right
about one thing.

- Oh, that she's
not a masochist?

She's a manipulative predator.

- That video does
not prove rape.

- But Naomi's testimony will.

- I need to be sure,
before this goes to trial,

there's nothing else
she's leaving out.

- You're... you're charging
the Youngs with rape?

But what about your scholarship?

- Mom, they hurt me.

- They're writing your
recommendation letter

to Harvard.
- Be that as it may, Ms. Hayes,

the Youngs will be
arraigned tomorrow.

- And she has to testify?
- Yes.

They're claiming
it was consensual,

so it'll be up to
us to refute that.

- I can make that argument.
That's what I'm good at.

- I also need to know
that there's nothing else

you're leaving out.

There's nothing that
you haven't told me?

- I realize now it
was a strategic error

to blame the boys.

- And just so we're clear,

you're not on that
stand to argue the law.

That's my job, OK?

- Are we charging the Youngs
as co-defendants, Mr. Carisi.

- That's correct, Your Honor.

- I assume, Ms. Samuels,
that your clients

have been made aware
of the inherent

conflict of interest here.
- They have.

- And do they
knowingly and willingly

waive their right
to separate counsel?

- That is their
decision, Your Honor.

- I need to hear it from them.

- I do.
- I do.

- On the charges of rape one,
Helene Young and Parker Young,

how do you plead?
- Not guilty, Your Honor.

- People on bail.
- We request $75,000.

We're talking a class-B
violent felony, Your Honor,

committed by a
couple who was tasked

with chaperoning a student.

This is a gross
abuse of their power.

- An ongoing
consensual relationship

that the alleged
victim knowingly

and willingly initiated.

- $75,000, borderline
generous Mr. Carisi.

Bail is set.

[indistinct chatter]

- I'm ready to talk to you
when you are, Ms. Samuels.

- A deal?

The media has already painted
her as a troubled girl.

Half the potential
jurors in the city

have seen TikTok videos
of a bus on fire.

- Let me make it
easy for you then.

Aggravated sexual
abuse II, 10 years.

- You'll be maxing out
a C violent felony?

- Well, it's better than 25.

Your clients are immoral,
they're unethical,

and they're upper middle class.

Juries already hate
authority figures

abusing their power,
especially rich Caucasian ones.

- Their race or class
isn't what's on trial here.

- Oh, it will be if I make it.

- Helene and Parker
are two of the most

devoted, caring people I know.

This crime that they have
been unjustly accused of

is unequivocally false.

- Is this one of your
character witnesses?

- First I'm hearing any of this.

My name is Colin
Sharpe, and I had

a sexual relationship
with Helene and Parker

when they were my coaches.

It was always consensual.

It was the best
relationship of my life.

- Why you coming forward now?
- Wow.

I see your star debater and
raise you a star witness.

No deal.

- I'll see you in
court, counselor.

.

- We won the first
round of the debate.

I had a few drinks with
the boys next door.

I left early.

That's when I went to
Parker and Helene's room.

- And what happened
in their room, Naomi?

- Helene started kissing me,

pulled me down on
the bed with her.

Parker joined us.

- But this wasn't the first time

that you had engaged in sexual
behavior with them, was it?

- No.

But usually Parker just watched.

That night, things escalated.

He took off his pants.

I said no. I wasn't ready.

But he didn't stop.

That's when he penetrated me.

- And where was Helene?

- Parker raped me, but
Helene held me down.

I looked into it.

When it comes to
criminal culpability,

New York State law
doesn't distinguish

between the primary
offender and the accomplice.

- Objection.

Your Honor, the witness
isn't a legal expert.

- Sustained.

- Ms. Hayes, did you consent

to sex with the
Youngs that night?

- No, I did not.

- Thank you. Nothing further.

- You had a busy night,
didn't you, Ms. Hayes?

A party with boys, then a
trip to my clients' room.

How many more drinks
did you have with them?

- I don't see how that
is legally relevant

to the issue of consent?

- Just answer the
question, Ms. Hayes.

- Yes, I had more
drinks with them.

And then they raped me.

- According to your story now.

- Objection. Is there
a question here?

- Sustained.

- After you were
arrested for arson,

didn't you tell SVU the
boys next door raped you?

- I was conflicted.
I liked the Youngs.

- So you lied to the police
to protect your rapist?

- I confabulated.

- Oh, that's just a $10
word for saying you lied.

Withdrawn.

Ms. Hayes, is it true you only
accused the Youngs of assault

after a video of you having
sex with them surfaced?

More to the point,
you changed your story

after your mother
found out you were

having sex with
your debate coaches.

- It wasn't sex. It was rape.

- Well, you can debate
that point within yourself

all you like, my
point is you lied.

Excuse me, confabulated.

So how can the
jury trust you now?

- Because now I'm
telling the truth.

- I see, so I guess

we're all just supposed
to take your word for it?

Withdrawn.

Nothing further.

- The jury didn't believe me.

- Look, juries are
hard to read, Naomi.

- I was trying too
hard to sound smart.

- Mr. Carisi is
doing everything

he can to protect you.

- Why is Colin Sharpe here?

- He's a character
witness for the Youngs.

- But you know him, Naomi?

- Yeah, he was star of the
debate team a few years ago.

Accepted to Harvard.

Middle of freshman
year, he dropped out.

- Who drops out of Harvard?

- Don't ask me. I
set a bus on fire.

- Why don't you get
her some fresh air?

- What... what do we know
about this Colin Sharpe?

- Well, He dropped out
to work for his brother's

moving company.

A couple of DUIs, agg
assaults all pled down.

- That's a pretty quick
free fall from grace.

- OK, and when is he
needed on the stand?

- We have until tomorrow.

- Muncy, loop in Fin and
Velasco, talk to Harvard.

There's got to be
more to this story.

- This is a difficult
question, Mrs. Young.

Can you explain the
intimate component

of your relationship?

- In retrospect, I am aware
of how ethically wrong it was,

but you have to understand.

A young woman that intelligent,
it felt like we were peers.

We... we got close.

We spent a lot of time together.

And Parker and I paid the price.

We've been terminated
from our jobs.

But what the three
of us had together

was a loving,
consensual relationship.

- But Naomi reported
she was raped.

- She was obviously
angry, suffering.

She was arrested for
arson, grilled by police

who pressed her to explain
why she set the fire.

I guess we were just her excuse.

- Mrs. Young, you went
to the police precinct

after Naomi's arrest, correct?

- Yes.

- And you were
told by detectives

that she had claimed assault.

- They said she blamed
one of the boys.

- When they asked you when the
last time you saw Naomi was,

what did you say?

To refresh your memory,

based off the police
notes, your response was,

"She was in the hallway."

- Well, if the
police wrote it down,

I'm sure that's what I said.

- So I tracked down Colin
Sharpe's old RA at Harvard.

- And?

- On record, he was officially
put on academic probation.

Didn't go to class,
didn't get the grades.

- Yeah, but the RA said
there was more to that.

He was also drinking
heavily, doing drugs.

- So he didn't set a bus
fire. He set his life on fire.

[soft suspenseful music]

♪

How's it going?

- Excuse me?

- Hey, man, I'm not
trying to pick you up.

I saw you in that press
conference about the Youngs.

Nice looking couple.

Whoa, but you really
did both of them?

- No, man.

Just her.

You really think I'd
sleep with some guy?

- Then why are you
protecting both of them?

- Helene asked me for help.

I'm doing it for
her, not for him.

- You must really love her.
- [scoffs]

- So Colin's relationship
with the Youngs

isn't quite what he
said it was, huh?

- He said he was in a
relationship with both,

but the kid is a
stone-cold homophobe.

- So what are we
looking at here?

- I can't cross a witness
because of a conversation

at the urinal.
- You'll figure it out.

You always do, but right now,

it seems like we're
looking at another rape.

.

- I met Helene and Parker when
I was a junior at Birchfield.

My home life was pretty chaotic.

My parents were
getting a divorce.

The Youngs let me
come over to study.

We became close.
- How old were you?

- 16.

On my 17th birthday, uh, they
threw me a birthday party.

We had some wine.

And Helene, she just, uh...

She kissed me.

We ended up having sex.

- And Parker?

- He watched at first.

And then things escalated.

Parker wanted to try an MFM.

- You were 17?

All this was
completely consensual

with both Parker and Helene?

- I wanted to have sex
with Helene. [chuckles]

I would have been
just happy with that.

- But again, everything
that happened

with both Parker and
Helene, you consented to?

- Yeah, I guess.

[soft tense music]

♪

- Uh, Your Honor,

I need a moment with my witness.

- Do you need a recess?

- No. No, I just want
to get this over with.

- Your Honor...

- Counselor, any more questions?

- Uh, not at this time.

Mr. Carisi, your witness.

- You doing all right, Colin?

- Yeah. Why?

- Imagine it can be confusing
when you're in a relationship

with your teachers.
- Objection.

- Withdrawn. Withdrawn.

What's the real reason you're
testifying here today, Colin?

- I don't want them
to go to prison.

- When was the last
time you saw the Youngs?

Or even heard from them?

- After I left the team.

- So is it fair to say
that you miss them?

- I guess.
- Yeah, it's natural.

You saw each other every
day for almost two years.

Then you went to Harvard.

Did you ever try to
get in touch with them?

- They said that all three
of us had our own lives now,

that I should move
on, that they had too.

- You mean, they had
moved on to Naomi Hayes.

- Helene didn't
tell me her name,

but she said that
they had a new one.

- A new one? A new what?

- Protégé.

- Oh. You mean they had...

They had replaced you?

- I guess.

- And how long
after you realized

that you've been replaced

did you start to
flunk out of Harvard?

- I was upset.
- Mm-hmm.

- Helene stopped
returning my calls.

I... I couldn't eat.

I couldn't... I couldn't
sleep. I couldn't focus.

- And so you turned to booze.

You started acting
aggressively with people.

Is it fair to say that this
changed your personality?

- I didn't know what to do.
- Because you were angry

at being thrown out like a
piece of trash by the Youngs.

- Objection!
- Withdrawn.

You testified that you
consented to having sex

with both Helene
and Parker, right?

- Yeah.

- Well, I'm going
to ask you again.

Did you really consent to
intercourse with both of them,

or was it just Helene?

- Just Helene. I loved her.

- And being penetrated
by Parker was what?

The price of admission?

- I didn't want to do
that stuff with him.

I'm not gay.

I didn't even want
your hands on me!

I didn't want to do any
of that stuff with you!

But you did it anyway.
And you ruined my life!

- Objection!

- I loved you, Helene.

I'm... I'm... stupid
enough to love you now.

How could you do this to me?

- Your Honor, I...
I need a recess.

- Hm. Nothing further.

[dramatic music]

♪

- My clients are
ready to talk to you.

- Ah, they're willing
to plead guilty to rape?

- Attempted rape in the first.
- A C felony?

They have to do time.

- Less time than if they
were convicted by a jury.

We're not accepting
more than five years.

- And the Youngs are willing
to allocute that what they did

was criminal and wrong?

Not for me, for the victims.

- Helene and Parker Young,

you've both pled guilty
to attempted rape one?

- They have, Your Honor.

- Well, before we
continue with sentencing,

I understand Mr. Young
has a statement.

- I do.

- If the People
have no objection.

- We do not, Your Honor.

- You may proceed, Mr. Young.

- I took the job
as a debate coach

because I wanted to guide
students to success.

I blame everything that
happened on the fact

that I'm a skilled debater.

But these students weren't
the only people deceived.

I framed an argument
to myself that

Colin and Naomi wanted me to
be more than just their mentor.

But I now see that that
was a grievous misuse

of the power of storytelling.

I know I can't take
back what I did,

but I will spend the rest
of my life trying to make up

for the way that those
stories have warped your sense

of control and autonomy.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Naomi, how you doing?

- Better now.

Can't believe I let myself
be fooled by the Youngs.

- No, you didn't let
yourself be fooled.

You... you thought you
finally found someone

to take care of you.

You know, I...

I understand what it is to, um,

be the parent in the household

when you're growing up.

It's time for you to
take care of you first.

- Thank you for
everything, Mr. Carisi.

- Yeah. Take care, Naomi.

- She will. I'll
make sure of it.

- We both have things that
we need to work on, Mom.

- Don't give up your
passions and the things

that you love because
of the Youngs.

You don't let anyone
take that from you.

- Life's one big debate,

but I don't want to
live it just to win.

I want to do what's right,
like you, Mr. Carisi.

- Future lawyer, huh?

Well, tell you what,
in a few years,

you come find me.

- Thank you.

- Bye.

[sighs]

- I'm gonna head home too.

Rollins and the girls want
Moo Shu take out tonight.

- Tell them I said hi.

- If you don't mind,
Liv, I'ma clock out too.

- OK. You going to another
lecture with Phoebe?

- Not if you paid me.
- [laughs]

I played some Jedi mind
tricks on that kid Colin.

- You feel bad.

- Considering how messed
up he is from all the lies

he's been told up till now...

- So go make it right.

♪

- Colin.

- You're a cop.

- Sorry I lied to you.
You've been lied to enough.

- Helene never loved anyone.

Just herself.

- Her and her husband did
tap dance on your mind.

Well, let me tell you something.

Your mind is yours.
It's no one else's.

- So what do I do?
- You take it back.

What's going on with
that Harvard thing?

Is it fixable?

- I'm on academic probation.

- OK, so your story
isn't over yet.

This heartbreak thing,
you'll get over it.

And if you live your life right,

you're going to get your
heart broken more than once.

Trust me on that.

♪

[wolf howls]