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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.

[distant sirens wailing]

- Which is worse, finding a spider in your cereal

or a snake in your bed?

- Snake.

Wait, hold on.

What kind of spider?

- Big and hairy, like a tarantula.

- Hmm.

Is the snake maybe harmless?

- Nope.

- It's still a snake.

Jay, you're spilling cereal everywhere.

- Is that coffee?

Can I have some?

- You don't need coffee.

You're nine, you goofball.

Get ready for school.

- Can we visit Mom and Dad this weekend?

- Yeah, sure.

Get moving.

We're gonna be late!

- You look pretty.

- Dress for success.

- When you're the boss, do you think you could get me a job?

- Sure.

I'll make you my COO.

- Then I can quit school.

And maybe we could,

I don't know, go on a trip?

- You have your homework? - Got it.

- Your keys?

Show me.

Okay.

See you at 6:00.

Love you.

- Love you too.

[indistinct chatter]

- Tom.

Yeah, it's Steve from AmeriWatch.

- My first job is to protect you and your company.

- I'm not here just to sell you a bunch of policies.

It's a relationship.

- Big, fat commission, baby!

Boom!

Throughline Trucking.

Whoo!

- Kyra?

Frank wants to see you.

- Of course.

What's it about?

- He's got a new prospect.

Frank's been trying to get the guy's business for years.

- Kyra here is a real up-and-comer.

She's bright. She's quick.

She's really going places.

- Yeah, terrific.

It's a pleasure to meet you, Kyra.

- Jim owns an aviation company.

- Well, I own a helicopter business, actually--

Helivate.

- I've heard of it.

- So who's doing the sales pitch?

- Kyra is.

Tonight, with me.

You can go get the file from Grace.

- I will.

I'm grateful for the opportunity.

- Ah, please.

Looking forward to it.

- Hey, there they are.

Come on in, guys.

Good to see you.

- You too. Thank you.

- Yeah, they sent up a cheese plate.

- Nice.

- So would anybody like a glass of wine?

- Uh, sure. That sounds good.

- Okay.

- Kyra?

- I'm okay. - Ah.

- Thank you.

- [chuckles]

This girl of yours is all business, huh?

- [chuckles] She's a machine.

Why don't you, uh, start your pitch?

- Now?

- Yeah, you're ready, right?

- So Kyra, tell me, why should Helivate give

their liability coverage to AmeriWatch?

- I've compiled an elite plan, which is--

[phone buzzing]

Comprehensive and highly tailored

to a commuter helicopter operation.

- Sounds great. - Guys, sorry.

I'm so sorry.

This is my wife.

Hi, hon. I'm in a meeting.

What's up?

[sighs] Can it wait?

Yeah, I'm-- okay, I'm on my way.

Sorry. [clears throat]

My son has a peanut allergy.

- Oh, jeez.

- And my wife is rushing him to the hospital.

I really should go.

- Is he gonna be all right? - Uh, yeah.

He'll--he'll be okay.

Jim, sorry. - No, no, no.

No apologies necessary.

You go take care of your kid.

- Why don't we reschedule?

- No, no, Kyra.

Come on.

You've been at AmeriWatch for two years.

You deserve this.

- Damn.

- Some night, huh?

- Yeah.

Excuse me, sweetie.

- Should I keep going?

- Yeah, yeah.

I'm just going to get this while it's still wet.

- Well, your helicopters--

[water running] Your Airbus H125s,

are state-of-the-art assets.

- I'm listening.

- Okay.

Um, our policy will not only provide full replacement

for damages or accidents,

but liability and reputation protection,

meaning if an incident occurs,

we don't just provide legal costs,

we provide PR and management services.

- That all sounds great.

- Oh. - Wonderful.

It's okay.

Settle down.

[tense music]

You are beautiful.

♪

You see this smile on my face?

♪

You know why that's there?

- No.

- Because I know I'm in good hands.

- [chuckles nervously] Yeah.

- Yeah.

So are you.

Okay?

Yeah.

- Velasco, you put in for 20 hours of OT last week?

- Yes, I did--all legit.

- What, you want me to investigate, Sarge?

Because I got an in with IAB.

- Nope, don't drag me into it.

- Fin, 1PP is asking for last month's OT.

- Still working on it. - All right.

Well-- - Captain.

- Hi.

I'm Captain Benson.

How can I help you?

- Jay Thompson, nine years old,

walked into the 11th precinct instead of going

to school this morning.

- Okay, did something happen to him?

- I think he's just worried about his older sister.

She didn't come home last night.

Her name is Kyra Thompson.

- Okay, well, I'm sure that he's worried,

but that sounds like a missing persons case, no?

- I made a few calls.

She's over at Mercy.

Sounds like sexual assault.

- Oh.

- I didn't know what to tell the kid.

- Okay.

Well, have you called his parents?

- They're out of the picture.

I didn't want to get CPS involved if I didn't have to.

- Good.

Thank you, Officer Moore.

I'll take it from here.

Thank you.

Okay. Jay?

Hi.

My name is Olivia.

So you wanna tell me what's going on?

- My sister, she didn't come home from work last night.

She said she'd be a little late because she had a meeting,

but I haven't seen her.

I didn't know what to do.

- Okay.

So Jay, do you have a grandmother,

or an aunt or uncle or somebody

that I can call for you?

- It's just me and Kyra.

My mom and dad died last year.

- Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

Um, how about I get somebody here to take care of you?

- Who's going to take care of my sister?

[solemn music]

- I will.

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

- So I'm here for Kyra Thompson.

She was sent on a bus from Belmore Hotel.

- We treated a bruise on her head.

- Yeah, did she say anything about a sexual assault?

- She doesn't seem to want to talk about it.

She's worried about her little brother.

I lent her my cell, but he hasn't picked up.

- All right. Thanks, Jen.

I appreciate it.

- Jay, I'm worried sick.

Please call me back as soon as you get this.

- Kyra, hi.

I'm Captain Benson.

We have Jay.

He's at our precinct, and he's safe.

- How did he get there?

- Well, I guess when he woke up and you weren't there,

he just marched straight into the local precinct.

He's a very resourceful little guy.

Let me get him on the phone for you.

- Okay. [phone beeps]

- Silva. Hey.

Um, I'm here with Jay's sister.

Will you put him on? - Okay.

- Kyra. - Jay.

- Is that you? - Yes.

Um, I'm fine.

I'm fine.

How are you?

- Detective Silva, they found Kyra!

- I know. That's great news.

- I'm fine too.

What happened to you?

Why didn't you come home last night?

- I worked really late.

[clears throat] I'm sorry.

I'll come get you as soon as I can.

Okay, goofball?

I love you.

- I love you too.

- There you go.

Uh, where-- where are you going?

- Uh, I have to go pick him up.

- Oh, I'll drive you.

Before we do that, though, I would love

to make sure that you're okay.

- I'm--I'm fine. - You sure?

Because the nurse said that you may have been

sexually assaulted.

- I was in a business meeting.

I never should have let myself be alone with him.

- Okay.

Can--can you tell me more?

- I can't. I can't.

- And why not?

- You don't understand how badly I need this job.

- Because you take care of your little brother on your own?

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay, so Kyra, uh, I don't want to pressure you

into doing anything that you don't want to do.

I'd really like you to walk me through what happened.

- Went in to clean this morning,

found the girl locked in the bathroom, scared.

- What name was the room booked under?

- Uh, Jim Hogan.

Ordered room service, wine.

- Okay, so the guy came expecting a party,

and things went south.

- Is this where you found Kyra?

- I heard something.

I tried the knob-- wouldn't open.

I told her I was housekeeping.

She asked, what happened to the man who booked the room?

When I said he was gone, she opened the door.

- Then what'd she say?

- That he forced himself on her.

- Sexually.

We called 911.

- Did she say anything else?

- She couldn't find her phone.

- After she left in the ambulance,

we found it under the couch.

- We'll get it to her.

- So what did this Hogan guy look like when he checked out?

- Seemed fine.

[knock on door] - In here.

We're going to need CSU to process the scene.

- We're also going to need to look at your security footage.

- It was supposed to be a business meeting

with the three of us.

But my boss had to leave early.

- How come?

- His kid has peanut allergies.

- And what is your boss's name?

- Frank Bailey.

- And, um, the name of the man who assaulted you?

- J-Jim Hogan.

- And so when your boss left,

it was just you and Hogan in the hotel room?

- I was nervous.

It was my first real sales pitch.

- Okay, so you did the pitch.

And then--and then what happened?

- He spilled wine on his shirt.

He went into the bathroom, came out,

and I turned around.

He was towering over me.

- And what did he do?

- He, um, got down on his knees.

He pulled my skirt up,

m-my underwear aside,

and he started going down on me.

- And you didn't want that to happen?

- No. [crying]

I pushed him away, ran into the bathroom.

He tried to come after me.

I put my weight against the door.

And that's when I hit my head.

I barely managed to lock it.

- So you stayed locked in the bathroom all night?

- I--I gotta go.

I, um--I already told work I'd be late,

so they're--they're gonna be worried about me.

- What did you tell them?

- That I hit my head. I had to go to the hospital.

I--please, I-- I should go.

- Okay, so Kyra, what you're describing,

what this man did to you, is a crime.

- I'm already in trouble.

I have to tell my boss I blew the deal.

- Okay, I understand.

And you can tell them whatever you want.

But--but I'd really like you to do a rape kit, okay?

- Sorry to interrupt.

These were delivered for you.

- Okay, thanks.

- "Thanks for the great evening.

"No hard feelings.

Jim."

- Jim, the man who assaulted you?

- A great evening?

A great evening?

That's what he thinks it was?

He thinks he can just get away with it?

- So Kyra, it's up to you whether or not he's successful.

- I want to file a police report.

- Okay.

[tense music]

- I'll do a rape kit too.

♪

- Is there any update on Kyra's case?

- Got an outcry statement from the housekeeper

that talked her out of the bathroom.

- Oh, that's good. That's helpful.

- And the Belmore Hotel got us their security footage.

- Okay. So this is our perp.

- Jim Hogan, leaving the hotel at 8:30 p.m.

- After he assaulted Kyra.

- The doorman says he saw him get into a QuikRide

and the records indicated he headed home

to Darien, Connecticut.

- Does he have a record?

- DUI a few years back. - Okay, good.

So he's in the system.

- As soon as we get the results from Kyra's kit,

we'll see if there's a match.

- What else do we know about him?

- He's recently divorced, a couple of kids in college.

- And he owns a helicopter commuting business.

- Yeah, he shuttles rich people to airports,

the Hamptons, Westchester County.

- Must be nice to look down at the slobs during rush hour.

- So this was a big contract for AmeriWatch.

I mean, Kyra's boss has to have some intel.

- Couldn't hurt to ask.

- All right, Curry and Velasco, you two talk to Frank Bailey.

Fin, Silva, speak with Jim and tread lightly.

- Before he lawyers up.

- Yeah, get him to commit to something,

and maybe it'll trip him up.

- Yeah, I was at the Belmore. I had a business meeting.

What are you guys here about?

- We're investigating an incident

that happened in your hotel suite.

- An incident?

[chuckles] What are you talking about?

- That business meeting that you had with Frank Bailey

and Kyra Thompson, right?

- Yeah, she was a hell of a saleswoman.

We closed a big deal. Why?

- Anything go on between you two?

- Nah. No.

No.

- So there was no physical contact at all?

- Well, I mean, you know, I--

I took my shot.

- What's that supposed to mean?

- I'm a guy.

- So that's a yes?

- What exactly is it she's saying?

- That you sexually assaulted her.

- No way. No. No.

We were having a great time, and it was mutual.

- Except only one of you got a rape kit done yesterday.

- Doesn't sound mutual to me.

- Look, there are only two people

who know what happened in that room,

and I can tell you this.

She was selling something, and I bought it.

And I'm done talking to you without a lawyer,

you understand?

Ramon, escort these people out, will you?

- To be honest, I don't really know what happened

in that room between Kyra and Jim.

- Why did you leave? - My son was sick.

- So you trusted your assistant to close the deal?

- Well, I've been mentoring Kyra for over a year.

She was ready.

When I talked to Jim this morning,

it sounded like it went well.

- Like it went well?

Your employee was sexually assaulted.

- By Jim?

When I called Kyra this morning

to talk about her commission check,

she sounded pretty damn happy to me.

- So according to Kyra's boss,

he just left her to close the deal?

- Yeah, and Jim is claiming that he got mixed signals.

- And Kyra's standing by her story?

- So far, yes. - Oh.

Well, if she does, I can charge the guy.

Would be helpful if the DNA was on his kit, though.

- Captain, Kyra's little brother

just called me on my cell.

- Jay? What--what's going on?

- He's worried about her.

He says that she won't come out of her room,

and he doesn't know what to do.

- Well, tell him we're on our way.

- Jay, it's Detective Silva.

- Kyra's in her bedroom.

I tried to talk to her, but she won't stop crying.

- Okay, well, you did the right thing by calling us.

- What's wrong with her?

She won't tell me what happened.

- Let me find out.

- Yeah, how about, uh, we make something to eat?

- Okay.

- Kyra, hey.

What's going on?

- I'm all spun out.

- About?

- I spoke to Frank. - Uh-huh.

- Business Affairs at AmeriWatch

just issued my commission check--

50,000.

- Wow. That's--that's a lot of money.

- Not just for me, but for Jay too.

- Is that what you thought you were going to get?

- [sniffles] Frank said Jim called him

personally to apologize.

They both decided to add a little extra

to my commission check. - So Kyra--

- But what if I'm confused

about the way I'm remembering things?

Yeah, I don't want Jim to get in trouble

for--for something that's just a misunderstanding.

- Misunderstanding?

Kyra, the way you described it to me in the hospital

didn't sound like a misunderstanding.

- Jim sounded surprised I even filed a police report.

[phone buzzes]

- Well, uh, your rape kit results just came back.

And his DNA was on your body.

He did exactly what you said he did to you.

And my ADA can make a very good case out of that.

- I don't know if I can go through with this.

- Either way, we already have enough to arrest him.

[tense music]

♪

[helicopter whirring] - Hey, Jim!

- You again?

Am I going to have to get a restraining order?

- Very funny. Sorry to interrupt your trip.

You're under arrest. - For what?

- Sexual assault! - What are you talking about?

- Okay, what about our trip? - You can go on it,

just not with him. - You stay here, all right?

It's a misunderstanding. What are you doing?

- You have the right to remain silent.

Anything you say can and will be used against you

in the court of law.

- Since when is pleasuring a lady illegal?

- That usually depends on whether she wants it or not.

- So why are you wasting our time?

- And yours?

- You told our detectives that you tried something

with Kyra Thompson?

- That's right.

- Well, it turns out what you tried was a sexual assault.

- Aren't you forgetting the word "alleged"?

- There's nothing alleged about your DNA on her vagina.

- You're looking at rape three.

- This is not my fault.

- So you had just accidentally ended up between her legs?

- I was trying to go down on her, all right?

I'm more of a giver than a taker.

- Kyra said that she was so scared

that she locked herself in the bathroom.

- Look, I just figured she was my closing gift.

- You have to explain that to us.

- Go ahead. Tell them what you told me.

- When I was in the AmeriWatch offices earlier that day,

the boss, Frank, said that he had

some kind of a deal sweetener for me.

- Something to get my client to close.

- So he brings Kyra into the office,

and she seemed very excited about seeing us

that night at the hotel.

This business of his kid having a peanut allergy--

that's why he left early-- that's total BS.

- So what you're saying is

Frank Bailey gave Kyra to you in order to get your business?

- Yeah, I figured the three of us had an understanding.

That's the truth.

- You believe this?

That Frank Bailey offered Kyra up to Jim?

- That, plus the padded commission check?

I mean, he sells insurance.

I mean, maybe he got himself a piece.

- Does Kyra know something?

- Maybe, maybe not.

Look, the fact of the matter is that Frank Bailey

is looking more and more like an accessory.

So what can we get him for?

- Well, right now, he could be looking at first-degree rape

as an accomplice if he facilitated the assault.

But if he threatened to go along, that's coercion.

- Only Kyra knows the answer to that.

♪

- Kyra, thank you so much for coming in.

- Captain Benson, this is Grace Callahan.

- You're the COO of AmeriWatch, right?

- And a friend of Kyra's. - Yeah.

- It's cold out, and she offered me a ride.

- Oh. Thank you so much.

- You want me to come in with you?

- You know, actually,

it's probably best if you just have a seat here.

We won't be long.

- Is this about you arresting Jim?

- Well, actually, it's about a little more than that.

Okay, why don't you go ahead and have a seat?

So Kyra,

when we were interrogating Jim,

he seemed to insinuate that Frank

had something to do with your sexual assault.

- What? What do you mean?

- The call that Frank got, well, that wasn't true.

It turns out that that was made up to get you alone with Jim.

- No.

- And Frank told Jim that you would be willing

to do anything to close the deal.

- Couldn't Jim just be lying?

- Well, we spoke to Frank's wife,

and she said that she never called.

- Then who did?

- Someone from AmeriWatch.

So is there anything, any reason that you can think of,

that Frank may have thought that you would be, you know,

willing to, um, go further or to do more to close that deal?

Is--did he have any leverage over you or--

- Last December, I ran an errand to the liquor store

to get supplies for our Christmas party.

When I went inside to pay,

an envelope that Grace had given me

with 2 grand in cash wasn't in my purse.

I must have dropped it in the parking lot.

- And how did Frank respond?

- To be honest, I thought I was gonna be fired,

or even worse, arrested.

- And have Jay taken from you?

Is that what Frank insinuated?

- Frank said he didn't want to go that far.

And it wouldn't have to,

as long as we found a way to work it out.

- How did he suggest that you do that?

- By earning commission.

He said he was thinking about promoting me to sales anyway.

- Mm-hmm.

- And when the deal came up,

he told me he found my first promotion.

- With Jim Hogan?

- He said, if I closed that deal,

he would write off the money I lost.

- There's a word for what he did to you.

It's called coercion.

- No.

No.

- He wanted to close that deal.

And you were the signing bonus.

And I'm gonna take him down for that.

- This past December, Frank threatened to report Kyra

to the police over some missing cash

if she didn't close the deal?

- He's a white collar pimp.

- Well, if Kyra's willing to testify to that,

then I can make a case.

But it would help if I could establish some sort of pattern.

- Meaning other victims.

- A guy like this, this isn't his first time.

- How long has he been in business?

- 20 years.

- And nobody's ever complained to HR?

- This company doesn't even have an HR.

- All right, well, then let's see

if we can find any young female employees

that left the firm under duress.

- Thank you for meeting me here.

- Yeah, of course.

I could have just come to your office,

but I think we both know that would have been bad for morale.

You know what else is bad for morale,

is a young employee being assaulted under your watch.

- I feel awful about what happened to Kyra,

but that's not on management.

- Frank tell you that?

- Not in so many words.

- He sounds like a hell of a salesman.

- Look, our only misstep was

leaving a young, inexperienced girl

to make a sale on her own before she was ready.

- Mm.

- It's a tough business, especially for women.

Not everyone makes it.

- But as COO, you must have something

to do with the hiring, right?

- I meet with people before they're hired, yes.

- So what I'm gonna need is a list

of all the young and impressionable females

that you've hired in the last couple of years.

- And why would I give you that?

- Well, I was trying to save you the embarrassment

of a subpoena.

- For what?

- To find out who really called Frank

about his kid's peanut allergy.

I think you and I both know that it wasn't his wife.

[tense music]

- How old were you when you were hired at AmeriWatch?

- I was 18.

It was my first job out of high school.

- What was your job there?

- Frank said it was to cultivate new clients.

- Okay, and what exactly did that entail?

- Well, first, it was just kind of being table candy.

- Table candy?

- Yeah, that's what Frank called it--

you know, looking pretty and laughing

at the male clients' dumb jokes.

- So I'm guessing Frank Bailey eventually expected more?

- He wanted me to have sex with them.

- What did he say would happen if you didn't?

- That he would find someone else who would do

what it took to make AmeriWatch successful.

- When I finally refused, Frank said

I had nothing else to offer AmeriWatch.

- Is that when he threatened to fire you?

- Not exactly.

He just said they already had too many assistants,

so I kind of just stopped seeing my name

on the schedule one day.

- Yeah, I worked at AmeriWatch.

Worst year of my entire life.

- Well, we read your employer report.

It says that you were fired for showing up to work

with a bottle of tequila.

- And standing on top of your desk

in the middle of the bullpen screaming,

"Screw Frank Bailey."

- Yeah, they called security, dragged me out of there.

- Why not just quit?

- Everything Frank put me through?

I sure as hell was going to get unemployment.

- Can you tell us exactly what he put you through?

- He somehow found out about the nudes

I posted on my ForMyFans page back in college.

Threatened to tell my family unless

I was table candy for one of his prospective clients.

I didn't know it at the time, but apparently, he had

already taken screenshots of some of those pictures

and showed them to the client in question.

- What happened next?

- Well, he told me if I didn't entertain the guy,

I'd pay a price.

I mean, he was basically blackmailing me.

- We think we can make a case against him, with your help.

- Well, if I was willing to stand on top of my desk

and call Frank a prick,

I'd sure as hell be willing to do it in open court.

[phones ringing]

- NYPD.

I need everyone to stand up and step away from your desks.

Step away from your computers

and any devices you may have, now.

Thank you. - For how long?

- For as long as it takes.

- We have a warrant to search the premises.

- You have any idea how much money this is costing me?

- And a warrant for your arrest--

two counts of sexual coercion in the second degree.

- I'll call you a lawyer. - Oh.

You're still covering his ass, I see.

Yeah, if I was you, I'd start thinking about your own.

♪

- Yes, I had a meeting with Frank Bailey

and his junior agent, Kyra,

at my suite at the Belmore to discuss an insurance policy.

- But Frank had to leave early?

- Yes, but I wasn't surprised.

- Why was that?

- Well, in his office, he told me

that I'd been such a pain in the ass to negotiate with

that he'd send Kyra

to put a little sugar on top to close the deal.

- What did you take that to mean?

- That she'd be open to making me happy

in order to secure the insurance policy

on my new aviation company.

- Open?

Sexually?

- Well, yeah. - And was she?

- No, I--I made my move,

but she made it very clear very quickly

she was not interested.

Look, I've--I've got two daughters Kyra's age,

and I'm very sorry about what took place.

But Frank Bailey led me on.

- Did you call Mr. Bailey, the defendant,

after you left the hotel?

- Yes, I did, and I recorded it.

- People's Exhibit 1, Your Honor.

[tablet beeps]

- Frank, what the hell?

I just left Kyra at the hotel. She's a mess.

- What do you mean?

- You told me she'd do whatever I wanted,

but she freaked out.

- Jim, come on, don't put the fact

that you struck out on me.

Do you want the deal or not?

- Yeah, I want the deal.

- So just send her flowers, and I'll talk to her.

Don't worry. We'll get the deal done.

[tablet beeps]

- Did Mr. Bailey deny

that he had offered up Kyra to close the deal?

- He didn't deny anything.

- Thank you. Nothing further.

- Mr. Hogan, did Mr. Bailey ever tell you

specifically that Kyra would offer sex

in exchange for the deal?

- Well, not in those words exactly,

but he certainly talked around it.

- So not in any words?

- Well, it was pretty clear what he meant.

- Or did you just jump to conclusions?

- Look, I'm not a lawyer. I'm a businessman from Texas.

- Also, you're a straight shooter.

- Yeah.

- But you're currently under indictment

for sexually assaulting Ms. Thompson.

Did the prosecutor offer you a deal to testify today?

- Yes, but I'm here because it's the right thing to do.

- And your plea got the charge reduced to sexual misconduct.

A misdemeanor?

- Yes.

- Well, that is one hell of a negotiation.

You really are a businessman, aren't you, Mr. Hogan?

Withdrawn. Nothing further.

- The boss, Frank Bailey,

began to ask me to meet with potential clients

to do what it took to get them to make a deal with AmeriWatch.

- Well, what did you take that to mean?

- It was pretty clear he wanted me to screw them.

- Well, how did he make it clear?

- Well, the first time a client tried to have sex with me,

I complained to Frank.

He said this was part of my job.

And then he threatened me.

He found ForMyFans account I had back in college,

suggested he would email it to my father if I didn't comply.

- Thank you. Nothing further.

- Did Frank Bailey give you bonuses

when you, um, closed a deal?

- Yes, he did.

- What kind of percentages we talking?

- Well, it depended on how nice I was.

Frank's very transactional.

- Are you?

- Objection.

- Sustained.

- Morgan, over the year you worked with AmeriWatch,

you were paid in excess of $65,000 in bonuses.

Did you cash those checks?

- Yes.

It was my money.

I earned it.

- Nothing further.

- When I was first hired at AmeriWatch as an assistant,

I brought the agents coffee,

lunch, ran errands for the office.

- When did that change?

- December of last year.

We were planning the office Christmas party.

Grace, our company's COO,

had given me $2,000 in cash to buy liquor.

Somewhere along the trip, I must have lost the envelope.

- And how did Frank respond to this?

- He was understanding at first,

said there was no need to call the police,

that he had a way I could work it off.

- Work it off. Did he explain how?

- He said he was thinking about promoting me to sales agent.

And that included me doing

whatever it took to, uh, "close the deal."

- So basically doing what the client wanted?

- Yes.

The first few meetings, Frank was with me.

I would sit next to clients,

smile, make conversation.

- But this all changed with the incident with Jim Hogan?

- Frank left the meeting early.

What I didn't know, Frank had told Jim

I would do whatever he needed to get his business.

- What did that mean?

- Jim obviously expected that I would have sex with him.

He assaulted me.

- Thank you, Kyra.

- Ms. Thompson, were those Frank's exact words?

That he would report you to the police

unless you let the clients do whatever they wanted?

- He was more subtle than that.

- What were his exact words?

- That he would look the other way

about the $2,000 that went missing.

But I needed to do my part for AmeriWatch.

- How much did Frank pay you

for closing the deal with Mr. Hogan, Kyra?

My records indicate it was $50,000.

That sound about right?

- Yes.

- And even though you claim to be assaulted, you, um--

you cashed the check?

- I needed the money to support myself and my little brother.

- Nothing further.

- Insurance sales is a very high-pressure business.

It's up to every employee in my office

how they choose to respond to that pressure.

- So you never threatened any of your employees

to get them to engage in sexual acts

for the good of your business?

- Absolutely not.

- Well, how do you explain Kyra Thompson's testimony

that you blamed her for losing $2,000?

- Everybody makes mistakes.

But at AmeriWatch, we're like a big family.

We help each other out.

I had no idea she was gonna take it the way she did.

- And Morgan Tynes' contention that you

threatened to send screenshots

of her ForMyFans page to her family?

- Now, that's just a pure lie.

- You're saying she lied under oath?

- What I'm saying is, incentives

dictate outcomes 100% of the time.

And Morgan has a pretty big incentive to lie.

- You're referring to the possible civil suit

that might follow this trial? - I am.

- Objection, speculation.

- Withdrawn. Nothing further.

- Mr. Bailey, did you just promote Kyra Thompson to sales?

- Yes.

- And as a condition of that promotion,

did you expect Kyra to have drinks

with the CEO of Helivate? - Yes.

All the salespeople at AmeriWatch

have drinks with clients.

- But why, on the night in question,

did you lie about your son being sick

in order to leave her alone with Jim Hogan?

- I deeply regret that now.

But I thought that I was giving her

some valuable life experience to complete a sale on her own.

- But if you were simply giving her valuable life experience,

then why didn't you just tell her that?

- I thought that she might balk.

- It wasn't because you had promised Jim Hogan,

in your office on the day of Kyra's assault,

that Kyra would do whatever he wanted her to later that night?

- Absolutely not.

I never said anything even remotely like that.

Jim lied about that to get a deal from you.

Like I said, incentives dictate outcomes.

[soft dramatic music]

♪

- My God, that was painful.

- Well, watching somebody perjure themselves

with no shame about it usually is.

- We know that this guy is lying.

- He's a good salesman.

All it takes is one person on that jury to buy it.

- What do you need to make sure that this bastard does time?

- I need something that is undeniable.

- Another victim?

- Or somebody that colluded with him.

♪

[car beeps, doors click]

- Grace.

- Captain Benson? What are you doing here?

- My job.

Just checking to see if--

if you had a conscience.

Your boss perjured himself on the stand today.

- Just so we're clear, I am not testifying against Frank.

- Right, well, you've been with him for 20 years.

He promoted you to COO.

You have a big chunk of equity in his company.

That's a hell of an incentive.

But I think that you know

how he uses young women in your office for his own gain.

- And theirs. They were paid off.

- You're admitting that this isn't the first time

that AmeriWatch has written a big check for Frank's behavior?

- Cost of doing business.

You're a cop.

I wouldn't expect you to understand that.

- Oh, I understand what it means to be a woman

in a male-dominated field.

I've been with the NYPD for 30 years.

- And look at you. You survived.

- You're right. I survived. - Things were different

when you and I first started our careers, weren't they?

- Yes. Things have changed.

But from what I'm seeing,

nothing has changed at AmeriWatch.

- It's a sales culture.

What am I supposed to do about that?

- What are you supposed to do about that?

You're the chief operating officer.

[soft dramatic music]

Or is that just some vanity title

that was given to you for your collusion?

You didn't have a female COO

when you were coming up, did you?

These girls do.

♪

Call me if you want to talk.

♪

- What happens now?

- Well, Carisi is gonna make

his closing statements, and then--

and then we wait for the jury verdict.

- What if they don't believe me?

- Your testimony was strong, Kyra.

- Yeah, well, so was Frank's--

[elevator dings] Even though he was lying.

He's gonna get away with it.

- Captain Benson?

- Grace.

- Last night, I know you thought I didn't hear you,

but I did.

What you went through, Kyra,

that never should have happened.

I'm going to try to make up for that.

[soft dramatic music]

♪

- I'll call the ADA.

- After the meeting with Frank, Jim, and Kyra,

Frank called me into his office.

- To tell you what?

- Not to worry about the Helivate Aviation account,

that it was practically a done deal.

- Did Frank say why he was so sure?

- He said that he and Kyra were meeting with Jim that night,

that he would duck out early, leave Kyra alone with Jim,

and that she knew what to do to close.

- What did Frank mean by that?

- He said Kyra would be willing to provide

sexual favors for Jim if that's what Jim wanted.

- Because Frank still had the $2,000

that she lost to hold over her head.

- Yes, the supposedly lost $2,000.

- Supposedly lost? What do you mean by that?

- That money never went missing.

Kyra didn't lose it or take it.

Frank did.

- Well, how could you possibly know that, Ms. Callahan?

- Because I saw him take it out of her purse

when she went to the bathroom.

- And that's it? There's no other reason?

- And because...

20 years ago, Frank Bailey did the exact same thing to me.

He held missing money over my head

in order to leverage me into providing

sexual favors for clients.

- To what end?

- In order to close deals.

- Ms. Callahan, why are you testifying here today?

- Because I made a choice to stay silent 20 years ago,

to sacrifice my conscience for the sake of my career.

[somber music]

I deeply regret that all these young women

were hurt because of that choice...

♪

Including Kyra.

As the COO, it was my duty to protect you.

[crying]

And I fell short of that.

♪

- Members of the jury, have you reached a verdict?

- We have, Your Honor.

- What say you?

- On the first count of coercion in the second degree,

we find the defendant guilty.

On the second count of coercion in the second degree,

we find the defendant guilty.

- Members of the jury, the State of New York

thanks you for your service.

We're adjourned.

[gavel bangs]

[soft dramatic music]

♪

- You feeling good? - Yeah, I am.

Guilty on both counts, 1 1/3 year for each,

served consecutively.

- Yeah, I was, you know, hoping for more.

- Oh, I'm not done.

- Oh, you're saving the best for last?

- Frank lied on the stand.

That means I could charge him with perjury.

- Another trial? - It's gonna be worth it.

If he's found guilty, he'll do 5 to 15.

That's a lot more than the coercion charges.

- Okay. [sighs]

- What?

- I find it a little unsettling that lying about a crime

is worse than actually committing the crime?

- Yeah, well, nobody promised

that justice would make mathematical sense.

- Well, you know what does make sense?

A controlling son of a bitch like Frank Bailey

doing 15 years in Green Haven.

[dramatic music]

♪

[wolf howls]

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