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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.

- Shadowerk,

the site that posts murders and rapes for hire.

- You pay in Bitcoin, and a total stranger takes the job.

- [crying] He knew my name, and he took a selfie.

- A judge is dead.

Why?

- Well, we think it's a paid hit in response

to an electronic surveillance warrant

that she issued for us.

- And you can't take down the site

until you know who built it.

- We have a name.

- The server is located in Dublin, Ohio.

- Out of our jurisdiction.

- But it's not out of McCrary's.

- I had Rollins work up a psych profile

of the guy we're after.

- He's weaponized anonymity.

- Jet has an IP address out of an escrow office.

We're waiting on a warrant for physical surveillance.

- Linda, where are we on that four bedroom in Heather Glenn?

- Still waiting on the lender appraisal.

- [sighs] Gosh, it's been two weeks.

- I'll call Bill over at Chase. He always needs a goose.

- A strawberry Chobani, the only one in the fridge.

Had my name on it.

- Don't look at me, Sandy.

I'm lactose intolerant.

- Larry, was this you?

- I didn't see your name. - It's right there.

- Geez, Sandy, what do you want from me?

- At least we got him on felony yogurt theft.

- Maybe they're speaking in

some sort of code or something.

- All I know is another week of this,

and I'ma blow my brains out.

- Make it murder-suicide. - Yeah.

- You sure this lady hacker at OC got the right address?

- Will one of you reassure my friend, Avital, here

that we are at the right spot?

- Despite an education system that churns out people

like Krispy Kremes...

- I think that a simple address

is within our capabilities.

- How sure are you one of these escrow people is our perp?

- That, I don't know, but the server is in there.

- Look, Agent Bowman, I know that your people

are anxious to get this resolved,

but a little patience, please.

- Benson, a word?

- How much you want to bet it's a four-letter one?

- Yeah, like boss.

Hey, if I'm not out in a minute,

will you please come get me?

Chief. You're looking well.

- Yeah, yeah, don't give me that, huh?

God, it's been a week.

Uh, so how close are we to catching this guy?

- We are working on it.

- Meanwhile, Feds waking me up every three hours,

not to mention Interpol.

You have any idea how many time zones this case involves?

- And in each one of them,

there are victims of rape and murder.

- Our only job is to worry about New York.

- Right.

- So where are we with our suspects,

with the five open rape cases?

- Look, this isn't gonna end

until we make an arrest in Dublin, Ohio.

- Did you hear nothing I just said to you?

1PP wants arrests, here in New York.

- I understand that.

- So what's the holdup? - For starters,

whoever put this site up

was watching the federal warrant system

and knew that Judge Ziegler had signed the court order.

So I think we need to proceed

as if he's keeping an eye on the NYPD systems as well.

- Oh, you know, this...

This Shadowerk guy is playing games with us.

He's playing games, and he's winning.

- For now.

At least, we have to let him think that.

- [sighs]

- If we arraign our perps here in New York,

there's no telling how many other judges

he's gonna put hits out on.

- So what do we do, just hide?

- Justice deferred doesn't mean that we're not gonna get it.

We have to be patient.

- No, no, no, everyone has to see

that the NYPD is being proactive.

[knocking on door] I want all of...

Hey, all the New York perps

to be arraigned and arrested today, OK?

Today.

[soft dramatic music]

♪

- How much of that did you hear?

- Enough to knock a lot earlier than a minute.

- He wants all of our New York perps arraigned today.

- Kind of jumping the gun, isn't it?

- That's what I told him.

- And he wouldn't listen?

- Oh, he listened...

To his side of the conversation.

- Guy who coded this site is full of ego.

- How can you tell?

- He's found a unique way

to implement every kind of shortcut,

like he's trying to validate his skill.

Maybe we can mess with him a little.

- What are you doing?

- If it works, the server will lag,

and he'll have to come and fix it.

- How can I help?

- You know how to code?

- I can barely reboot my laptop.

- Then just keep me company.

- You're going out?

- I'm stir crazy.

- Then why don't we just go back to Columbus?

- I told you.

I'm not leaving until the NYPD actually does its job

and arrests my rapist.

- Your ex-boyfriend Gil is the one who caused all of this.

I don't know what you ever saw in him.

- Mom, not helpful.

- I'm sorry, but it's true.

- [sighs] I can't take this anymore.

- Kate, where are you going?

- Sightseeing.

♪

[seagulls cawing]

- Hi. - [gasps] Oh.

- Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.

- It's OK.

- Amazing, huh?

- It is.

- It's absolutely incredible what people are capable of.

♪

- Yeah.

[ominous music]

[gasps, grunts]

[whimpers]

- Get on your knees. - What?

- You heard me!

You scream, I'll snap your neck.

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

- Now, it has been said that evil thrives in the darkness

and cowers in the light.

But today, it is anonymity that allows criminals to...

- You made it. - Did I have a choice?

- Billy Vitale, on the charge of rape in the first,

how do you plead?

- Not guilty, Your Honor. - I didn't rape her!

- You just paid someone to do it.

Then you watched, you sick son of a bitch!

- Counselor, you might want to remind your client

that he's being charged with rape one

on the basis of his solicitation

of the crime online. - Thank you, Mr. Carisi.

Bail?

- Today, that anonymity is ended

with the vigilance of the NYPD.

- People on bail?

- We request $50,000.

- My client has a stable job with no priors.

- And ordered up the sex assault

of her former nanny like ordering a pizza.

$50,000 granted.

Next case.

- Junior Suarez, also charged with rape one

in the attack on Maria Varga.

- Today, the city of New York, the NYPD,

and the mayor's office will stand its ground...

- Not guilty, Your Honor.

- Shining a beacon of light into the darkest corners

of human depravity and predation.

As chief of detectives, it is my profound honor

to stand here with Manhattan SVU

and Organized Crime and announce

that we have formed an elite task force

together with the FBI and Interpol

to track down and apprehend the criminals

behind the revenge crime website

known as Shadowerk.

Today, we put all perpetrators

who have profited off of this on high alert...

- Not guilty, Your Honor. - People on bail?

- That whosoever has weaponized anonymity

for the purposes of committing a crime

will be arrested and prosecuted

to the fullest extent of the law.

Darkness will hide you no longer.

- Given the defendant's assets,

we consider him a flight risk... $100,000.

- Oh, you've got to be kidding me.

Rosie, whatever I did,

it was only because I wanted you back.

- Shut up, Harvey.

- I'm ordering the defendant

to refrain from addressing the gallery.

- But I love her.

- Bail is set. Next case.

- Not guilty, Your Honor.

- People on bail?

- This defendant is a suspect in two rapes for hire...

Evie Quinn and Kate Wallace.

We have DNA evidence that ties him to both crimes,

and we consider him to be a flight risk.

We request remand.

- Granted. Next case.

Gil Hughes?

Oh, also charged with rape one of Kate Wallace

by solicitation.

How do you plead, Mr. Hughes?

- I thought the site was a joke.

- My client pleads not guilty, Your Honor.

- Thought Kate was gonna be here.

- So did I.

- We only stayed in the city

so Kate could see her rapist arraigned.

And then she changed her mind and refused to go to court.

- She say why?

- No, she went out to do some sightseeing yesterday

and came back upset.

She won't even talk to me.

Maybe you could talk to her.

[door beeps]

- It was all my fault.

- No, it wasn't, Kate.

- I knew he was a bad person.

I should have listened to my instincts.

- Your mother said you went out yesterday.

Can you tell us where you were?

- There isn't anything you can do.

- Look, what you say may really help us.

But first, you have to talk to us.

- [sighs]

I was on the piers looking at the Manhattan Bridge.

This big guy, I saw him on the walk.

He came up to me.

And I was scared, but I didn't want to stereotype him,

you know, just because of what happened to me.

- We get that.

- What'd he do next, Kate?

- We were talking.

And then, all of a sudden,

it was like a shadow fell over his face.

He...

He... he ordered me to get on my knees.

Unzipped his pants. He grabbed my head.

I didn't have a choice.

Was it Gil?

Did he...

Did he hire somebody else?

- No matter what the truth is, I promise you,

it isn't anything you did wrong.

- I want to give you something.

♪

- What's this?

- [sighs] After he was done,

something told me to spit inside the hood.

- Something?

- Like a voice that didn't use words.

- I'm glad you listened.

- Thank you.

♪

[door clicks]

- Another sexual assault in my city off of Shadowerk?

- If it makes you feel any better, it was a different MO.

- So Kate Wallace wasn't called by her name,

and there was no selfie.

- And we got nothing else to go on?

- She had the good sense to spit in her hoodie.

- We sent it to the lab for DNA.

- Have her work with the sketch artist.

- [sighs] What about the, uh...

The guy who contracted her first rape,

the one that's in Rikers? - So Gil Hughes.

I already have Muncy and Velasco

trying to see what they can get out of him.

- Which is... was...

Was her new rape even on the website?

- No new posts on her at all.

- There were new posts?

- A few.

- We're coordinating with law enforcement in each location.

- Look, unfortunately, this guy in Dublin, Ohio

didn't watch your speech.

- Well, is there anything that we can do?

- Well, Jet's working on a virus.

- Well, what does it do?

- It's a way to slow his whole system down.

- So he'd have to replace the entire server?

- It's a great way to lure him out.

- Actually, it's pretty genius.

- And the best part is it's already written.

- I watched her code it myself.

- So what do you need?

- Ideally, to make sure everything's running

the way that it's supposed to, a few days.

- And wait for another judge to get killed?

No, we don't have a few days.

- Actually, Chief, in this situation, I think...

- No, no, just do it, all right?

Just do it now.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Kate was attacked?

- Is this news to you?

- It's not like we're on speaking terms.

- So you're saying you didn't have anything to do with it?

- I mean, it's... It's kind of weird.

You know, the site is in Ohio.

You're from Ohio.

- Wait, are you serious?

- Does it look like we're kidding?

- Did you or anyone you know

hire someone to sexually assault Kate?

- In case you haven't noticed, my client is locked up.

- Yeah, and in case you haven't noticed,

incarceration is not exactly an impediment

to criminal behavior.

What is wrong with men?

- Ask your brother, Terry.

- That is not funny.

- What, too soon? - [clears throat]

- All right, all right.

- Can I tell you something? - No.

- McGrath pulled me aside after the press conference.

- Oh, yeah? What'd he want?

- Wanted to congratulate me on arresting Elias Olson.

- Wow, he noticed? - Mm-hmm.

- Figured 1PP had their eyes all over that Shadowerk thing.

- No, he said my contribution to the city

hadn't gone unnoticed.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

And he wanted to offer me a job on a DEA task force.

- So you get your own car? - Yeah, unlimited overtime.

- What'd you say? - Told him I'd think about it.

- How long did he give you? - A few days.

- A few days?

- You sad?

- [chuckles] No.

- Promise you won't tell anyone?

- Who am I gonna tell? All I do is work.

You're my only real friend.

So it's not looking like Gil Hughes had anything

to do with Kate's second assault.

- I mean, he's locked up.

Guard said he hasn't even been assigned a full-time cell,

much less gone to the library.

- Still think it's connected to the site?

- Nah, Jet said there was no post.

- So this is looking like an old-school, analog assault.

- Well, statistically, vics are more prone

to getting attacked a second time.

- Two times within the same week?

- DNA in her hoodie, is it in the system?

- No.

- If you want, Velasco and I can run the MO through ViCAP.

- Hey, maybe we get lucky. - Might not need to.

Sketch artist we hired to talk to Kate came through.

- Black, bald head, beard.

- Kate says he's at least 6 foot 6".

- Sketch is gonna be sketchy.

- Either way, let's call in a 49,

have DCPI blast it on news, social media.

We'll get this guy.

- Linda, I've been waiting two hours

to hear back from the buyers.

- You try calling them?

- I sent an email, and now I'm seeing the connection's dead.

- Not dead... it's slow.

- OK, your virus seems to be doing its job.

- Site traffic's way down.

- It's a real tech genius here.

So what happens if this...

This guy's just using their server remotely?

- It's a possibility that none of them are involved.

- And that's very likely

because none of the employees at the escrow company

had any criminal record.

- Yeah, so what are we supposed to do,

just sit around and wait for somebody to show up?

- It's like hunting.

- Yeah, but for how long?

- These computer crimes cases can take months, even years.

- Well, we don't have months or years.

- Chief, if we move too aggressively,

this guy is just gonna shut the site down forever.

So you tell me, which one is longer?

♪

- So it wasn't Gil?

Are you... are you sure?

- We're still investigating.

But he's locked up, so he has no access to anything.

- But regret.

- A-and nothing from the website?

- Unfortunately, I'd say it looks like it was random.

- It's not the first time we've seen this.

- Do I look like a victim now?

- It's this city, right?

We should go home.

- It's not uncommon for rape victims to be revictimized.

We can't say for certain why.

But it may have something to do with what you talked about.

- If something feels off, it usually is.

- You're saying this is just gonna keep happening to me?

- No. [phone buzzing]

But it's entirely possible

you may have to relearn how to trust yourself.

[soft dramatic music]

- We'll keep you in the loop with the investigation.

♪

- It's gonna be OK. [door clicks]

Perp struck again... The same MO, same description.

This time, the vic's a 14-year-old boy.

[siren wailing]

- Yo, I told you, I didn't even call no cops.

- Who did?

- She was worried when she saw me.

- Why? What happened?

- Nothing, man.

I just... I just got something in my eye.

- All right, maybe we start with her.

- Good idea. Maybe she saw something.

Ma'am.

- Yo, yo.

I had left my friend's house, OK?

I was sitting here waiting for the bus

when this Black dude comes up to me.

He gets real close, hovering.

I asked him what he wants.

- What'd he say?

- He's like, "Get on your knees."

Told him to get out of my face, but...

Please don't make me say it, man.

- It's OK, Manny.

Can you tell us what he looked like?

- Black, big.

I tried to fight him off, but he was too strong.

- What happened afterwards?

- Didn't say a word.

Just walked away like nothing happened.

- OK, we're gonna have to get you to the hospital,

have you checked out.

- We're also gonna need to call your parents.

- What? Why?

I didn't do nothing wrong.

- Listen, man.

- Man, my moms is gonna be mad at me, man.

- Listen, listen, nothing you did here was your fault.

- Please, just let me go home.

♪

- Um, yeah, thanks, Fin.

OK, listen, you and Bruno, uh, stay at the hospital with him.

[softly] I'll take that.

Yeah, keep me posted. [sighs]

- That doesn't sound good.

- Spree case... the perp who assaulted Kate Wallace

just attacked a teenage boy.

- Same MO?

- Forced oral sodomy.

- How old?

- 14.

- Just doesn't get any easier, does it?

- Captain, Detective, Chief's in the conference room.

Something you should see.

[tense music]

- So what did you do?

I mean, what the hell just happened?

- He just shut down the site.

- Well... so that's it?

He's... he's just gone?

- It's looking like it.

- Because of your virus, right? - It's not her fault.

- I thought it was supposed to just slow things down.

- It's either that, or we're being manipulated.

- You know, not another word out of you, all right?

- Take it easy.

- No, I'm not gonna take it easy.

A federal judge was just murdered in broad daylight.

- We still have eyes on the escrow office.

- Yeah, we could get lucky. We could bust a yogurt thief.

- Chief, enough. - Oh.

- Where are you going?

- You know, someone has got to tell the Feds

that Judge Ziegler's murderer just got away.

And that's on me!

You want that?

- At least people aren't being raped and murdered.

- Yeah.

Nice work, Slootmaeker. Good job.

♪

- Manny, how did you let this happen?

You have to be more careful.

- Sorry, Ma.

- Ms. Lopez, this wasn't your son's fault.

- Never mind whose fault it is. Where are his clothes?

- We had to take them, get them checked for DNA.

The attacker might have left traces.

- It's all part of the rape kit.

- Rape kit? What are you talking about?

I thought he got beat up.

- [sighs] We know this isn't easy,

but Manny was sexually assaulted, Ms. Lopez.

- If we're gonna catch whoever did it,

we're gonna have to collect evidence.

- What kind of evidence?

- We need to take a sample of your hair,

scrape your fingernails, swab the inside of your mouth.

- What for?

- We like to check anywhere the assailant

might have left his DNA.

- No, absolutely not.

I can't hear this, and neither will anybody else.

You understand?

How can you be a man now?

- Sorry, Ma.

- No, I'm taking him home.

- Before you do, would you mind talking to me outside?

Please, Ms. Lopez.

[soft dramatic music]

- [sighs]

- I'll be right back.

♪

- Manny, your mom is old school and proud.

- She's worried I'm gay now.

- That's not how it works, man.

- Don't let them do anything.

- You're upset, and I get that.

- No, I don't think you do.

This is the hospital he was born in.

And every second since then,

I've been trying to raise a man.

- He will be a man. What kind of man is up to him.

♪

- Do you have kids, Detective?

- No.

But I had a father that raised me

the same way you're raising him.

Thought it would make me tough.

It only made me hate him.

The only way he becomes a man is to heal,

find peace within himself instead of shame.

And then maybe he just might be able to move past this.

♪

- Liv?

- How are you feeling?

- Big, tired.

- Well, you couldn't look more beautiful.

- Hmm. I'm not complaining.

- Well, then what are you doing here?

'Cause all I get are complaints.

- From McGrath?

The techno-jihadist site?

- Yeah, the perp has taken down the site.

- Well, that seems about right.

- What is this guy's end game, Professor?

- Anyone that outwardly destructive,

it starts with them.

- Speaking from experience? - Hm.

It's just this site is his sole reason for being alive.

He didn't take it down to evade arrest.

He doesn't care about that. - Then what?

- He took it down 'cause it was sullied, tainted.

- Because of the virus? - Yeah.

It'll be back up again.

- So I should stop hoping that he's taken himself out?

- He might try to do that.

- But only when there's no life left

in his little market for revenge.

- Because he's not selling revenge.

He's trying to take it...

On the world.

What?

- You enjoying this.

- Oh, yeah.

Sick, right?

♪

- Are you sorry you left? - Mm.

Stabler really knows how to gossip, hmm?

- No, not Stabler.

Amanda, I can see it.

- Don't... don't get me wrong, I love my students.

- But you love all of us more.

- [laughs] Hmm.

I mean, my life could be so easy.

I mean, part-time teaching, get to spend time with my family.

But...

yeah, it's...

[sighs] Yeah, it's not me.

- And Carisi doesn't know?

- Carisi doesn't know, no.

I'm really... I'm really good at...

- Compartmentalizing? Yeah, I know.

- Hmm.

[phone buzzing]

- Fin.

OK. [sighs]

- What is it?

- Our serial rapist just struck again.

[dramatic music]

- Where's the vic?

- Yves Nettey, 22.

He told the responding officer he was coming home

from Kingsborough College when a Black male attacked him.

- Tried to force him to perform oral.

- Yves?

- Yeah, that's me.

- The man who attacked you, he say anything?

- Told me to get down on my knees,

but I don't get on my knees for nobody.

- So what happened?

- I carry a knife for protection.

I work at the restaurants.

- You're not gonna get in trouble.

- I stabbed him right here.

There was a lot of blood.

- OK, Muncy, Velasco, call central,

have them put a radio car in front of every hospital

within 25 miles... City MDs, too...

Anyone that matches the description

with a stab wound in the abdomen.

- Copy that.

♪

- Hey. How you holding up?

- Well, considering I've been up for 24 hours,

I'm not gonna lie, I'm a stale sandwich of a human being.

How are you holding up?

- Uh, I'm not great.

I'm actually pretty pissed off.

- About?

- The thought of bringing a...

Bringing a kid into this world

knowing there's people trying to burn it down.

- Carisi. - [sighs]

- Are you kidding me? Knowing you and Amanda,

that kid is gonna bring way more good into this world

than that guy took out.

- It's tough being a litigator sometimes.

- I know, all that talking.

- No, I got to wait for everybody else

to finish their job before I can even start doing mine.

- Well, just think about how great it's gonna feel

once some court officer carts him off to prison

because of something that you said.

- That never gets old.

- We're gonna get this guy, Carisi,

together, like we always do.

- Getting this guy? That's the easy part.

Getting him to shut down this site for good?

That's a whole other story. [phone buzzes]

And he's the only one holding the key.

- Fin.

Great, pick him up. [chuckles]

Well, here's some good news.

The serial predator that assaulted Kate Wallace,

he's in some urgent care uptown

because some vic stabbed him in the stomach.

- I'll take the win.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Randy Gordon?

- Who are you? - An angel. You're dead.

We've come to welcome you to heaven.

- Know why we're here? - Not really, no.

- What happened?

- [weakly] I, uh...

I was carrying a box cutter at work.

I tripped on it and cut myself.

- Look, man, we got things to do.

So unless your box cutter had a 4-inch blade

and you can present it right now, stop messing with us.

- You're under arrest. - For what?

- Three charges of criminal sex act in the first.

- I guess you shouldn't have come to a clinic.

- It wasn't worth dying over.

- Maybe you should have thought of that

before you assaulted three people.

- Hemp yogurt. I'm impressed.

- That's Bruno's. Go for it. It's yours.

- We have to label everything at the task force

or risk a public caning.

- I'm sure Bell gives you more respect than that,

Detective Second Grade.

- Holy crap. Second Grade?

- Yeah, it all just happened.

Still not sure how I feel about it.

- I say take the money. - Mm.

- Yeah.

I should get back to it. - OK.

McGrath offered me a promotion.

- Really? Congratulations.

You gonna take it?

- I don't know. Benson's always been good to me.

- And she doesn't exactly do well with people leaving her.

- Yeah, you think?

- But hey, look, Benson and Stabler seem good.

Rollins is here and it's fine.

People adapt. You do you, boo.

- Take your time, Kate.

- I don't need to.

Number three. - OK.

- Positive corporeal ID plus DNA for all three assaults.

- Give me a minute with my client.

- That should be about all the time you need to let him know

that pleading guilty is his only option here.

Thank you, Kate.

I'm truly sorry.

On behalf of New York City,

I hope you can give us another chance.

- I'm not sure I can promise that, Mr. Carisi.

- Take care of yourself.

- What happens now?

- Well, with your ID and the IDs and DNA

from the other two victims,

he's going away for a long time.

- So he won't be able to hurt anybody else?

I guess that makes me feel a little better.

I think I'm done with New York.

Parting gift.

- Too slow, money bags.

- You guys can fight over it later.

- You're gonna be OK, Kate Wallace.

- Don't tell my mom.

The more guilty she feels, the more she'll stay off my back.

I love her, but... - Hey, we met her.

♪

- Live your life, give it time.

- And never stop trusting that voice inside yourself.

- It doesn't lie.

♪

- Well, it turns out Randy Gordon assaulted

seven people in the last year.

- Same MO... He copped to all of it.

- Even scumbags have watershed moments.

- He's looking at life, no chance of parole.

- Crazy bastard.

Good thing there's psych services on the inside.

- Yeah, I wish I could give them

to the rest of the country.

- I'll let Manny and his mother know he won't need to testify.

- All right, Liv, you need me for something else?

I'ma head home. - No, go.

- Me, too. I mean, I can stay if you...

- No, no, no, please go. Thank you.

♪

- Guess you're stuck with me. - [laughs]

Like two hunters in the same duck blind.

- Yeah, it's a frustrating wait.

[mouse clicks] [employees chattering]

- It comes from a lot of places, I think.

- It comes from all over. It comes from...

- This guy's manipulating all of us.

♪

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- They change the sauce?

- That must be your palate.

This guy's been making the sauce the same way

since beginning of time.

- Well, you would know.

- Ha.

You know, Woo Hop is my second longest partnership

that I've ever had.

- Wish I could bottle this.

- Bottle what? - This. This moment.

Things just keep changing, though.

- And then they change again. - And keep changing.

You rebuilt, huh?

Good team?

Hmm?

You and Rollins talk?

- Yeah. Boy, we needed it.

- Mm-hmm.

What's with the Christmas present?

- That is from

Noah's half-brother's adoptive parents.

- I know, I met them when we picked up Noah... the McCanns.

- You talked to them?

- I didn't have much of a choice.

- They're normal.

- What's that mean?

- They're... They're like a TV family.

They're wholesome.

- Maybe that's easy to get when, you know...

- When what?

- When you're not seeing what we see on a daily basis.

What if it's perishable?

- [chuckles] Oh, then it's definitely stale.

- Can I?

- Open it? No.

- You have a Christmas present unopened in the middle of May.

It's kind of a crime. - Right, and it's my gift.

- I'm not gonna take it from you,

but I will tell you why you're not opening it.

- [scoffs] Maybe there is no why.

- There's always a why.

- OK, Detective, tell me why.

- Whatever's inside this box,

you're afraid it's too normal.

- Too normal? - Mm-hmm.

- I didn't know there was such a thing.

- There is, and it scares you more than anything

you'll ever face in your life.

- Well, thank you, Dr. Stabler.

- You're welcome.

- I have normalitis.

- Liv, deflect all you want. It's the truth.

- So you and Rollins really have been

spending a lot of time together.

- Ha-ha-ha.

If it were me, I'd open it.

- You're not me.

- Detective, detect thyself.

- You're coming over now?

It's 5 o'clock. We're all leaving.

- I'll call McCrary. [line ringing]

- OK.

[scoffs] This can't wait until tomorrow?

- Can you put the seat up next time?

- Shh, it's happening. - What?

- It's happening. [keyboard clacks]

- Fine, fine.

Just get here as soon as you can.

- Who was that? - Some IT guy.

He's coming over to check the system.

- Now? You can't reschedule?

- I didn't make the appointment.

- Don't look at me. I can barely spell IT.

- Well, but who did? - I made it.

For tomorrow.

- [sighs] Must be some sort of mix-up.

- You're not coming to McClellan's with us now?

- You know how these guys are.

We reschedule, and they'll never show up again.

- When this IT guy shows up, it's go time.

- Copy that.

- So this guy just shows up out of nowhere?

- The escrow girl, Karlie,

the one with all the tchotchkes on her desk,

she called an IT guy.

But when we followed up with the company,

they confirmed the appointment was for tomorrow.

- Yeah, their guys come in marked trucks.

- We run his plates? - Yeah, Jacob Bettencourt.

The guy's a college student, goes to Kenyon College, some...

Some liberal arts school in Gambier, Ohio.

- That's about an hour's drive from Dublin.

- Guy's got a legit presence doing IT for TaskRabbit,

but they never called him.

- So this could be our perp?

- Hello?

- Ah, great, you're here. - Ah.

Hey, I got a call.

Someone said your server needed to be replaced.

- Yeah, where are you from?

- TaskRabbit. - TaskRabbit.

Yeah, well, it's been slow,

but nobody from this office called TaskRabbit.

- Well, somebody did.

They had the address, the name of the company.

They even told me what kind of server it was.

- The server and Internet router,

they're in the back room.

- All right, thank you.

- We called GlobalCast, but they were no help at all.

- Ah, well, don't worry. I got a new one.

Same make and model, out in my car.

- Well, I'll be up front if you need anything.

- Yeah, thank you.

[dramatic music]

♪

[computer beeping]

[softly] Think I found the problem.

- He's taking it with him.

If we lose it, we don't have any evidence.

- We've got to go. Move in.

- Go! Go!

[tires screeching]

♪

[woman screams] [overlapping chatter]

- What? - What is going on?

- OK, OK. - FBI. Set it down.

Back away. Turn around.

- OK.

[handcuffs clicking]

- I got it, Chief. - What's up?

- He wants us on the next flight to Ohio.

- I'll tell the Feds to keep the suspects

at their field office in Columbus.

- All right, just the two of us?

My guys are still working these cases.

- I got you.

- Hope you had a good flight.

- Well, it was short, so there's that.

- Free peanuts.

- Where do you want us?

- We've got you set up with your own interview rooms.

- These people have anything to say?

- Nothing helpful. - Well, we saw the arrest.

It's clear they have no idea what's going on.

- There's some deer caught in the headlights

with more awareness of their situation.

- Good news is they haven't lawyered up.

- Let's talk to them before they change their mind.

- Hey, Jet.

- We got a problem.

The site's back up. It's running faster than ever.

- The site's back up.

- Pull it up.

- And there's something you should probably see.

- What's going on?

- She says there's a new hit listed...

[ominous music]

♪

- With a $50,000 bounty on each of our heads.

- Who is this guy?

♪

[wolf howls]