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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.

♪

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- 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]