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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.
- Stop that man! Stop him!
- Hey! Police! Stop!
Previously on Law & Order: SVU
Williams Lewis, we have
three witnesses we saw him
expose himself in Central Park.
- How bad's his record?
- We don't know.
We can't run his prints,
because his fingers are burned.
I can't plaid guilty to
something I didn't do.
Defendant is released.
- Case to be set over for trial.
- We're gonna need you to testify.
- If you'll excuse me
- You did very well darling.
It's Lewis.
He broke into her apartment, ***
- and tortured her for eighteen hours.
- Find him.
Police! Don't move!
You want to hear how I tied her to the bed.
She did things that she
never expected to do.
What you did to her
You're lucky I didn't kick your teeth in.
What I did you should be so
lucky someone does that to you.
The state's relentless harassment
has taken a toll on my client.
The judge declared a
mistrial.
He's out on bail.
This guy he knows every trick.
Go home.
Stay there two days.
- Captain, that's
- Liv, that's an order.
Hello?
Welcome home, Detective Benson.
Hey.
There she is.
Those big, beautiful brown eyes
So beautiful.
Give me a smile.
Still feeling woozy, huh?
That's all right.
We got time.
Oh, come on, don't be shy.
We're past that.
You've been so sweet
when you were knocked out.
Another drink?
Oh, why don't I take off
that tape so you can say yes?
One thing you scream again,
I'll shove your own gun
right down your throat.
You know what?
Shoot me.
That's the endgame, sweetheart.
We got a lot of shock and
awe to go before we do that.
Hey, it's Liv.
Leave a
message.
I'll get back to you.
Hey, Liv, it's me.
We were talking about getting together.
That's probably my boyfriend.
He's N.
Y.
P.
D.
He's on his way over here now.
Boyfriend, huh?
- Yes.
- Does he have keys?
Yes, he does.
It's funny that I don't see
much of his stuff around.
One robe in the bathroom, one toothbrush.
You wouldn't lie to me, would you?
Let's think about what you're doing now.
Oh, I'm thinking about it.
You walk out that door right now,
no one will know anything happened to me.
What about that pert little
detective, the blonde one, huh?
She's not gonna notice all
the bruises, all the cuts?
Cab stopped short.
I hit
my face on the divider.
What about this?
What about these burns, huh?
She's like a dog with a bone, that one.
So what?
You've done far worse
and gotten away with it.
Your lawyer friend, the redhead
she'll accuse N.
Y.
P.
D.
of
framing you after the trial.
- Mistrial.
- Lewis, go.
Get the hell out of New York.
You walk out that door,
and we will pretend
that this never happened.
You'd pretend that this
didn't happen, would you?
You're lying.
There's something I think
that you should hear.
Hey, Liv, it's me.
Uh, look, I know we were talking
about getting together, um, tomorrow,
but these guys are jerking
me around over here.
I got to pull a double.
Uh, anyway, don't be mad at me.
Hey, I'm the one stuck at
the Bronx courthouse, right?
I'm sorry about this.
I owe you one.
All right, bye.
Guess he's not coming.
Billy
I'm offering you a way out.
You're still bargaining with me?
Really? We're past that.
I'm an N.
Y.
P.
D.
detective.
My partner, my squad
the entire department will hunt you down.
You think that you've
put people through hell.
It will rain back down on you.
You know what?
Let it rain.
Hey ***, you haven't paid your coffee
*** since March.
Well I don't drink coffee.
You know, the unis see
that as bad for morale
- A detective not putting in.
- Seriously?
All right, here's a
a 10.
What, 20?
Please, don't make me beg.
It's beneath my dignity.
- All right, fine.
30.
- Today you are a man.
I thought you didn't drink coffee.
Well, I'm paying for it.
I'm taking it.
- Yo, Munchie Munch.
- Brian, flowers
You didn't have to.
Dream on, pal.
Hey, have you seen Liv?
- Cragen gave her two days off.
- She didn't tell you?
No.
We were supposed to hook up yesterday,
but I got roped into a double shift, so
So you stood her up.
Nice move.
I left her a couple messages.
I haven't heard back from her.
- Hey, Brian.
- Hey, Cap.
- How's Liv doing?
- He hasn't seen her.
When's the last me you spoke to her?
Uh, Monday.
I left a few messages.
Well, she was pretty down
when Lewis got released.
Yeah, well, can you blame her?
They just let this guy walk? Come on.
It went straight to voice mail.
Hey, Liv, it's Nick.
Give me a call.
You know Liv she can't turn it off.
She's probably deep into
his case file by now.
- Still.
- Captain.
Pizza boy folded like a slice.
All right, good work.
Uh, listen, I need a favor
before you two punch out
just swing by Liv's apartment.
Yeah.
Everything all right?
Yeah, I just want to make sure
she hasn't gone down
one of her rabbit holes.
Hey, Cassidy, you coming with?
Uh, no, I'm back on tour in 30.
Hey, Ollins, if you talk to her,
will you have her give me a call?
Easy, Romeo.
Just check in on her.
She's not picking up her landline.
Yeah, well, the girl had a tough week.
I mean, she could just be
catching up on her sleep.
Liv!
Okay, so either she didn't come home,
or she hasn't left her
apartment in two days.
It's Fin! Liv!
It's him.
It's Lewis.
Yeah, he tied her up.
He duct-taped her mouth.
Her hair, her blood
Captain, i it's everywhere.
He might have taken her
down the fire escape.
The window's open.
Her bedding's gone.
Any sign of her cell?
No, it's not in the apartment,
but Taru's tracking it.
Canvass the building, the neighborhood.
Check all surveillance cams.
There's a pan on the stove with keys.
It smells like burnt hair or flesh.
Son of a ***.
A detective has been
kidnapped.
You bag everything.
I got to call one P.
P.
You find him.
We got a ping off her cell.
It's Bushwick
Lewis' halfway house.
Where is he? Where's Lewis?
- I don't know.
I swear.
- He was here!
What? N no.
N no way, hand to God.
- Was she with him?
- Who?
Where's her phone?
I don't know about no phone.
No?
What's this?
Uh, dude, I had no idea he left that.
He said not to tell anybody he was here.
That guy's crazy.
- When?
- Uh, I
- Yesterday morning, early.
- What time?
Really early, before breakfast.
- What did he want?
- My car.
- You got a car?
- Yes, my aunt's Lincoln.
- Where'd he go?
- I don't know.
- He asked how much gas was in it.
- Where was he going?
I don't ask him that stuff.
He was in a real rush.
He didn't want to keep her waiting.
- "Her"? Who?
- That lawyer
the one who got him off.
Your Honor, my client has ties
to the community, no record.
We request she be released
on her own recognizance.
- Your Honor, if we could.
- Order.
This is an urgent police matter.
We need to question Counselor Mayer.
We're in the middle of an arraignment.
- I understand that.
- Captain Donald Cragen, SVU.
Your Honor, Counselor
Mayer may have information
about a suspect who's holding
an N.
Y.
P.
D.
detective hostage.
Lewis was right.
You do have a vendetta against him.
Counselor, your client
broke into Detective Benson's
apartment two nights ago.
Now, he either killed her,
or he's holding her captive.
You're out of your mind.
I just saw him.
When? Where?
This is harassment.
I don't have to answer your questions.
Counselor, hey.
Look, these
these are pictures from
that Detective's apartment.
You have the wrong suspect.
I was with him all day yesterday.
Where?
We drove out to Long Island.
- In a Lincoln?
- Yes.
He stole it.
Where'd you go?
He said he wanted to go to
the beach to clear his head.
Okay, so, on this drive, did
he did he stop the car?
- Did he ever check the trunk?
- No.
We have reason to believe
Detective Benson was in that car.
- No, the car was empty.
- Did you stop anywhere?
I had to get back to the city.
And before he dropped
me at the train station,
- we stopped for dinner.
- Where?
At my parents' house in Bellport.
Were they there?
There's the car.
Fin, check the trunk.
William Lewis, N.
Y.
P.
D.
I got one.
He's cold.
He's been here a while.
- There's a blood trail.
- I got a bedspread.
That's lot of blood.
Whoa.
Liv's necklace
hidden by the spare tire.
She left that for us.
Okay, she was alive in the trunk.
Canvass every house on the block.
He took their car.
Call that lawyer girlfriend,
find out what her parents drive.
They spent some time here.
Nick.
Dear lord.
She's alive.
Help me get her down.
Get an ambulance, now!
My daughter brought him.
We all had supper together.
He drove her to the train station.
And then he came back.
Can you tell me what happened
after Lewis came back?
He held a gun on me,
and he m made me take off my clothes.
He made oh, God.
He made her watch while he *** me.
And this woman did she say anything?
No.
She had duct tape on her mouth.
He told her to keep her eyes open.
Anytime she tried to close them,
he held put a lit lit cigarette on me.
Was this woman was
she with him when he left?
- Detective.
- She she passed out.
She was alive.
Could you tell that she was alive?
You're done, Detective.
No hit on their E-ZPass,
we've got alarms out
on the couple's S.
U.
Vs.
Their credit cards, bank cards.
Will do.
They still don't know where she is?
What the hell are they doing?
Everything they possibly can, Brian.
- Yeah, I'm going out there.
- You can't go out there.
- You're involved with the victim.
- Victim?
They've got the zone flooded
State Troopers, Suffolk P.
D.
, N.
Y.
P.
D.
You won't see something they don't.
Two days, Munch
- What's he doing to her, man?
- You can't think like that.
- If she's even still alive.
- Liv's alive.
She's a survivor.
Hey, I'm back.
I got us some supplies.
What, are you resting?
Upsy-Daisy.
That a girl.
There you go.
Okay, arms behind your back.
There you go.
There you go.
Okay.
Man
I love hardware stores.
I got a tarp, some rope,
uh, extra duct tape,
some surprises for later,
and some drinks.
How's that sound, huh?
If I take the tape off,
you'll be a good girl?
Yeah?
Okay.
There you go.
You thirsty, sweetheart?
Yeah?
Here you go.
Oh, no, no, no.
Hey, hey.
You don't get to say "no" anymore
Okay?
All right, you have some ***,
and I'll give you some water
Okay?
That's it.
Suck it down.
Suck it down.
Yeah, that's it.
Swallow.
The Vicodin and the sleeping pills
they give you dry mouth, right?
- Water.
- I know.
I promised.
I'm a man of my word
Like when I told you about that lady.
And I told you what I was
gonna do to her, right?
I told her everything,
and then I did everything
that I said, didn't I?
Didn't I?
Yeah.
There you go.
Okay, that's enough.
I think we're gonna find it soon.
- Find what?
- Someplace special.
One move, lights out.
I'll do you cold.
Hey, Captain, any word?
They're still searching.
The last witness we have saw her alive.
- Was Liv okay?
- Compared to the witness, yeah.
We know this guy's car.
We we know where he's been.
What, he just ups and disappears?
But he's done this before, okay?
Uh, Munch and I have gone over his M.
O.
Lewis doesn't preplan.
He's a savant, instinctual.
But he does follow certain patterns.
He's like a cat playing with a mouse.
When he can, he moves them to a safe house.
He takes his time.
Kentucky, his girlfriend's mother
he offers her a lift in
the circle "K" parking lot.
He stops at a hardware store.
He gets duct tape, rope,
and a soldering iron.
Then he stops at a liquor store.
Right, and he ties the vic up.
I mean, he force-feeds her alcohol, drugs.
He he drives around until he can find
an abandoned mobile home out in the woods.
He works her, and he leaves her there.
A hunter finds her.
- And the two girls in Alabama.
- Roommates.
He breaks into their apartment,
puts them in the trunk of their own car.
He drives them to a fishing cabin.
Then he holds them there for three days.
He rapes, tortures.
Um, he leaves them there tied up,
but they manage to escape.
So he lets them all live.
Not always.
His first lawyer girlfriend, in Maryland
he took her to a foreclosed house.
He holds her there for almost two days,
- leaves her for dead.
- No news is good news.
The car hasn't been spotted
on any bridges, tunnels,
- or ferries.
- Okay.
Then he's still on Long Island.
Well, yeah, well, he told his lawyer
that he wanted to clear
his mind, go to the beach.
The beach in Long Island?
Which beach, hmm?
North shore, South shore, the bay?
Do you know how many beach
houses there are in Long Island?
Oh, come on.
He's young.
One move, and he's dead.
Good evening, officer.
Is there a problem?
You know you ran through a
blinking red light back there?
Oh, I did?
I looked both ways.
Slow night, right?
I'm sorry.
I really should know better.
Well, can I see your
license and registration?
Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
Uh, the registration's
in the glove compartment.
It's my in-laws' car.
There it is.
And the license?
Yeah.
I left the house in such a rush.
I must've left my wallet.
What's that on the floor there?
- You been drinking?
- What? Oh, no.
No, officer.
What do you got back there?
Where?
I think your job here is done.
Officer Jimmy Hamilton.
Three months on the job,
shot once in the head.
- Lewis took his gun and badge.
- Anything in the vehicle?
Traces of blood and hair.
He had Liv on the floor of the backseat.
And that's Hamilton's squad car?
Lewis used it to pull
over another driver
pistol-whipped her,
locked her and her baby
in the squad car trunk,
drove off in her minivan.
We got a BOLO out on a white minivan
with Connecticut plates.
He'll ditch that as soon
as he can, go to ground.
We've moved the grid search east and south,
checking every home, foreclosed home,
second home, even boats,
from here to the water's edge.
All right, check hardware
stores, gas stations,
anywhere they could've stopped
between here and Montauk.
I got to lose the car.
It won't take me that long, though.
Are you gonna miss me?
Hmm?
Of course.
It's been a long time.
All that ***, right?
Let's go.
Do you need help?
I can help you.
Yeah, that's the guy.
He said he was using
his wife's credit card.
Hey, my terminal was down last night.
I didn't know it was stolen
till I ran the card this morning.
- Well, was his wife with him?
- No.
- He said she was in the car.
- When?
When I was closing up.
Let me check the receipts.
Uh, 7:45.
What did he buy?
Tarp, rope, wire, hand-held blowtorch.
I didn't know this.
He said he and his wife were going camping.
Look at you.
You going somewhere?
Not without me, you're not.
I told I'd be right back.
We'll cuff your hands right here.
We'll tie up your feet
Right here.
Oh, man
A real old-fashioned iron-frame bed.
This
I knew this place would be perfect.
You want me to burn your
clothes off or cut them off?
Scissors I need some scissors.
Where's the scissors?
There's got to be some
scissors around here, right?
Oh, not in here
the kitchen.
Nope.
No luck.
Oh, wait a second.
That's pretty perfect.
What's that look?
Are you feeling sad?
Thinking about someone you're
never gonna see again
Mom
Dad
Boyfriend?
No, huh?
Someone else
someone who you would give anything
to see just one more time.
You're gonna cry his name out
at some point.
They always do.
Well, just try to put him
out of your mind, okay?
'Cause you don't make it out of here alive.
You know what?
You might want to keep me around.
I know what you like.
Well, then you've been holding out on me.
Yes, but that's what you want, isn't it?
Hard to get and then begging for it.
Hmm?
I know how to get you off.
- You do?
- Yeah.
Kentucky
Alabama
I've seen the photos.
I probably know more details
about it than you remember.
Oh, I doubt that.
I've seen a lot of things,
but I've never seen anything like this.
You're not some punk.
- Don't try and play me now.
- No, I'm not playing you.
No, 'cause I know you don't like that.
Those two girls at the cabin
you hung one by her arm in the closet,
and you made her listen
while you did the other one
for two days.
Did you
did you even sleep?
I don't need sleep, not
after I get on a roll.
You're gonna find that out.
- When?
- Now.
Well, then you might
want to loosen these cuffs
or take them off.
Yeah?
- Is that right?
- Yeah.
I know you like a struggle.
You want to show me how strong you are,
overpower me, pin my arms behind my back.
- No.
- Come on.
No!
You don't tell me what to do.
Okay?
Now you say
I want to live.
I'll do anything.
I'll do anything
anything.
- I'll do anything.
- Yeah.
Yes, you will.
Help!
Miss Linda, is that you?
I can't find the key!
Shut
Up.
Hi.
- Can I help you?
- Oh, I'm sorry.
Miss Linda wanted me to
come before the weekend.
She didn't tell me anyone was staying here.
Yeah, it was a last-minute kind of thing.
I'm supposed to clean in here.
- I'll call Miss Linda.
- Oh, no, no, no.
Don't worry about it.
Who is this, huh?
Who's this beautiful little girl?
This is my daughter, Luisa.
Miss Linda knows I bring her.
Luisa.
¿Cuantos años, Luisa cinco, seis?
- Luisa, vamonos.
- ¿Cómo estás, Luisa?
- Bien.
- Bien.
Yay.
- We'll come back later.
- No, no.
No.
No, stay.
I think I saw some ice pops in the freezer.
Come on inside.
Just come inside.
- Luisa.
- Come on.
I come home, there's a
strange car in the driveway
the one I saw on the news, so I called 911.
- You see anyone in the house?
- I didn't go inside.
Police told me to wait for you guys.
Whose bike is that?
Oh, my God.
That's Janey's, my daughter.
All right, just wait here, Mr.
Thurber.
Come on.
William Lewis, police.
Liv.
Don't shoot.
Don't shoot.
Daddy!
I hate to be rude, but we have to hurry.
We have company.
The maid showed up with her
five-year-old daughter
sweet little Luisa.
- What did you do?
- Nothing yet.
That little one
she's a cutie.
Little girls, huh? Old ladies.
What is it with you? Are you afraid of me?
Oh, no, sweetheart.
I was just hoping we could take our time.
We've been together for four days.
There's a lot of talk, but
there's not a lot of action.
It's coming, baby.
I wonder if
if you're not man enough to get it up
for a real woman.
- I just wondered about that.
- Huh?
You see, I profiled you
a tyrannical *** who preys on the weak.
I think you're afraid of me.
I do.
Do I look afraid to you?
I think you're afraid of me.
Let's get to the action.
Don't move.
Why?
What are you gonna do?
One move
lights out.
Okay.
All right.
You want to be in
control for a while, baby?
I can play that.
- Did he hurt you or your little girl?
- Estamos bien.
Listen, I want you to take your daughter,
and I want you to get out of here now.
- I call the police.
- Listen to me.
I am the police.
He's a very bad man.
Now, he's gonna go away for a long time.
Let me ask you a question are you legal?
¿Tiene usted una tarjeta verde?
Okay.
If the police find out that you are here,
they will take away your daughter.
Escuchame.
No digas nada.
¿Entiende?
- Si.
- ¿Y tu, entiendes?
- Si.
- Okay.
Ya vete.
Hey.
Hey, you.
You're out cold, are you?
I haven't called anybody yet.
I think I want you to suffer first.
Maybe I could burn you
or cut you.
Or I could use the blowtorch on you.
But you might enjoy that too much.
See, you you'd know what to do.
Your whole life, you know what you want,
and you just do it.
What I want to do
I want to shoot you in the head right now,
watch you bleed out.
Or maybe that's too easy.
My old partner he'd know what to do.
He wouldn't question himself
after what you've done.
He would kick your teeth in,
break your legs, break your arms,
break your back, break your face.
Maybe I should call him.
Maybe I should get him
to use that metal bar on you
huh?
And make you beg for your life.
Then do it.
Do something.
Please, God, that speech
that's the saddest thing
I ever heard in my life.
Shut up.
Your partner would know what to do.
I would know what to do,
and you just stand there
wondering what to do.
- I will hurt you.
- Then take the cuffs off.
- Stop talking.
- Or what?
Are you gonna shoot me?
You don't have it in you.
You want to, but you can't,
'cause you're a nice girl.
You don't know who you're dealing with.
That old partner of yours
well, he sounds very macho, doesn't he?
No.
It must've been tough for you
all those long nights alone in the car.
You don't get to talk about him.
Did he ever do you?
He did, didn't he?
You still want him.
I can hear it in your voice.
- You're all bottled up.
- Yeah.
All your life, you've been
listening to stories
women telling you about the
worst night of their life.
- Shut up!
- What about you, huh?
- What are you working through?
- Shut up! I said shut up.
Something your daddy did to you?
- Is that it?
- Shut up!
I'm onto something, aren't I?
Yeah, call me what you want,
but I can always smell a victim!
- Yes!
- Can you smell that?
That's it.
There's the ***.
Point taken.
I got it.
Daddy's off-limits, right?
Okay.
Why don't I talk about mine, then?
How about you don't? I'm not interested.
- No, you are.
You are.
- I don't want to hear it.
My daddy well
he used to leave me at my babysitter's.
He used to put me in front
of the TV to watch cartoons,
and he'd take her in the back
and do her on the water bed.
One day, he got wasted.
He passed out, right?
She comes out of the room.
She asks me if I want to play.
She puts me in her mouth.
God, it felt good.
Then my daddy came out.
He slaps her in the face.
She's bleeding
from the nose and the mouth.
Then he grabs her, pulls her pants down,
and does her on the floor, hard,
while she's screaming, begging him to stop.
While you watched.
Are you kidding me?
Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?
Sorry?
Oh, no, honey.
I think you missed the point.
My daddy got up,
pulled up his pants, brought me to the car,
and took me to dairy queen for ice cream.
One of the best days of my life
the moment I knew what I was put here for.
I know what I want.
What about you?
I do.
I know exactly what I want.
I want you dead.
I want a bullet in your head.
That's it.
I want you in the ground.
Come on.
Nobody will miss you.
Nobody will mourn you.
Oh, just do it.
Do it right now.
Come on, while you're
angry just shoot me.
Do it.
It's gonna feel so good.
Just shoot me.
Just shoot me.
Don't wait.
Don't let
this go to trial, baby.
I've got a long history of winning streaks.
I'm gonna get off, I promise.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No.
No, come back.
I knew it.
You don't have the balls.
It's over, Liv.
It's over now.
He's still alive.
I don't know how.
You did what you had to do.
Let's get you out of here.
Come on, let's get you out of here.
I was able to break free of my restraints.
There was a struggle.
Uh, I managed to incapacitate the suspect
and get the gun.
I, uh, got the handcuff
key from his pocket.
I freed myself, called for backup.
And then before help arrived,
the suspect tried to escape?
He managed to get to a standing position
and lunge at me.
I used the metal bar from the bed frame
to subdue him.
Rather than shooting
him at point-blank range?
I made a judgment call.
Thank you, Detective Benson.
I'll forward her statement, the case file,
the *** kit, and forensics to the D.
A.
They'll be in touch.
Thank you, Detective.
Well, as far as the
department is concerned,
you're a hero.
They're gonna want a press
tour as soon as you're up to it.
- And the lawyer's mother?
- She's doing better.
She's gonna be released
from the hospital tonight.
Where's she gonna go now?
She can't go back to that house.
Where am I gonna go now?
Your place is a crime scene.
The department will put you up in a hotel.
Okay.
For how long?
Liv, don't worry about it.
You got a concussion, a
broken wrist, cracked ribs.
W what you've been through
you're on mandatory
leave until you recover,
and I don't want any arguments.
I'm not gonna give you any.
Hey, hey, Captain, there's a
there's a lot of press outside.
I should get Liv out of here, okay?
Okay.
Hey.
Hey, you want to go to a hotel?
Uh
maybe your place is a better idea.
All right, let's go.
And when he was finally subdued,
he was handcuffed.
He kept taunting me
like he knew every raw nerve.
You were in a very vulnerable state.
It almost seems as if
you're blaming yourself.
I know better
but he still got to me.
Got to you?
Yeah.
Yeah.
But not the way you think.
Time to wake up, sweetheart.
Hey, Liv, I wish you'd
let me do this for you.
Yeah, I just, uh I
wanted to open some windows.
You okay?
Wait.
Let me get that for you.
Stop.
I got it.
All right.
- I'm fine.
- Right.
I'm okay.
Two, three
I mean, I know that he's locked up,
and I know that he can't get to me,
but I feel very angry.
If I hadn't let my guard down,
if somebody had put him away,
then he wouldn't have ***
Alice Parker or *** Mrs.
Mayer or
or you.
That wasn't ***.
That was an assault
an ugly, violent one, but
But they had it worse.
You can take care of yourself.
You're fine.
- Are you saying that I'm not?
- Olivia, I'm suggesting
that you've undergone
a traumatic experience
and that even you are not a superwoman.
We went there today.
Your apartment?
The first time since the assault
how was that?
Not good.
Returning for the first
time can be a trigger
Yes, I know.
I know all about that.
Thank you.
- I'm sure you do.
- I'm sorry.
It's just, uh
that place it was so dark there.
And I realize that I haven't
thrived there.
We can talk about that
some more if you'd like.
In our next session?
Or not.
You know, I I think
I think I'm just
I'm just ready to go back to work.
I know you feel antsy.
But right now is SVU
the best place for you?
Excuse me?
I hear you reevaluating your home,
your relationship.
I wonder if you've given any thought
to the toll your job takes.
Not for a second.
He doesn't get to take that from me.
Does the thought of doing
something different
does that frighten you?
What I'm afraid of is walking back to my
to my squad room
and having everybody look at me and
wonder if I'm okay.
Hey, guys.
What, no cake?
We were gonna get you cupcakes.
Rollins, I was I was joking.
They're they're beautiful.
Thank you.
It's so nice.
Welcome back, Detective Benson.
Hi.
Want a picture? Come on.
- It's Mo-Mo!
- Hey
Buddy! Hi.
- Hi, there.
- It's Momo.
Hi, Mo-Mo.
Hi.
Hiya, what's your name?
Buddy.
- You don't run from me, okay?
- Is that your daddy?
Do you want him to take a
picture of you with Mo-Mo?
Ten bucks take a video.
- You want a picture, don't you?
- Back off.
- Hey, don't push me.
- Excuse me, please.
It's just five bucks per kid.
Hey, it's for him.
- Whoa.
- What?
Not again.
What's going on?
That guy started it.
He pushed me.
Take the head off, sir.
I need to see some I.
D.
In front of these kids?
Pa?
Pa? Where's Pa?
You here with your dad, son?
We'll find him.
What's your name?
Sorry.
Nick, it's okay.
You don't like my haircut?
It'll grow.
Where's your ring?
It is what it is.
An abandoned kid in Times Square
another Mo-Mo incident.
Again? What is it with these guys?
Go wake up your partner and find out.
We got this, Captain.
Liv, it's just your second day back.
Captain, you're paying me to be here.
You sent me home yesterday after two hours.
It's a lost kid.
Please, I can handle this.
Hey, Cap
we're good.
Okay.
- He doesn't know his own name?
- Or he won't say
or his parent's name or where he lives.
Okay, he's young.
What, seven, eight?
Doesn't know his birthday.
He just says he wants to go home.
- But he does speak English.
- When he speaks, yeah.
I don't know something's
off developmentally.
Could he be autistic?
Nah.
My nephew's on the spectrum.
This is something different.
- What about the father?
- Okay, thanks.
That dad he started it.
The boy was he
comfortable with him, scared?
The dad scared me.
And the kid he he was weird,
clinging to me like I was real.
Hi, there.
My name's Olivia.
I'm here to help you.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Is it okay if I hold your hand?
So can you tell me your name?
What's your name?
Buddy.
Buddy.
A lost boy and the man with
him took off when he saw cops
that's not good.
All the crowd, the tourists
the guy just melted away.
Mo-Mo's getting us a police sketch.
Taru's checking all the security cameras.
Kid show any signs of abuse?
Doctors say he's underweight for his age.
But he's bright, aware,
physically unharmed.
We ran his profile through missing persons.
There's no matches yet, and
his DNA is not in the system.
No maternal or paternal hit.
Still, it's ***, should be
able to tell us something.
Ok, Buddy, so who's this?
Ma.
Ma?
Ok.
Do you live with Ma.
In house.
Who are these other two?
Auntie
and Sissy.
She plays with me the most.
And that man that you were with today
Who was he?
No.
He'll come back.
He'll be mad.
So this man, tell me
w what's his name?
Pa.
And you live with Pa?
When he's at house.
He goes sometimes
but he always comes back.
So, when Pa comes and goes,
do you know where he goes?
Don't ask.
Be quiet.
Then he won't be mad.
If you're quiet,
you get ice cream or go out.
Out
out, like today
like today when you saw Mo-Mo.
So did did you and Pa walk
to see Mo-Mo?
Yeah, we walked a long way.
Then we go up stairs.
- Up stairs?
- To the train, high up.
I look out the window.
Then it got dark.
Sissy taught me trick to
make the walk go fast
count the cracks.
In the sidewalk?
I bet you're a really good counter.
Me and Sissy have lots of tricks.
We count lots of things.
Yeah?
Do you count the train stops?
That's train.
Okay.
Good, Buddy.
Is there anything you
remember hearing, Buddy,
maybe at night sirens?
Dog one and dog two they bark.
I don't like it when they bark.
Keep looking out the window, Buddy.
Tell me if you see where you walk.
That bridge.
We cross that bridge.
There's lots of cars.
It's loud.
Okay, how many sidewalk cracks to house?
Okay, around this corner? This way?
Yes.
- To house?
- Yeah.
Okay, Buddy, tell us if you see house.
There
house.
Police!
You sure we got the right place?
The kid's positive.
- Open up!
- You looking for Tony?
Tony? The house is owned by Angie Minetti.
Yeah, Tony's her son.
They live together.
Where's Tony right now?
I ain't seen him since yesterday.
Mr.
Minetti! Police!
- Left in a hurry.
- Nobody's upstairs.
Open up.
N.
Y.
P.
D.
Mr.
Minetti?
Hello?
Anybody in here?
What kind of hell is this?
One cell
two cells
three.
Hey, there's somebody in here.
Hey, come cut this open.
Hey.
Hey.
Gonna need an ambulance.
Hey.
Hi.
Hi.
Listen, we're here to help you.
We're police.
Hey, you're safe.
There's no sign of him.
He may have left with two other women.
It's a house of horrors.
It's sick in there.
He's got tasers, zip-tie restraints.
There's German Shepherds out in the yard.
Another Ariel Castro, my
God.
What do we have on him?
The neighbors say he's Tony Minetti,
son of homeowner, Angie Minetti.
Neighbors know the mother?
Nobody has seen her in years,
but her social security checks
get direct-deposited every week.
Neighbors see anything?
Three complaints to the
local precinct this year,
including a woman tied up
outside in the doghouse.
Cops showed up, no answer.
They left.
Incredible.
This is incredible, incredible.
- I had beers with this dude.
- You ever been in this house?
No, my backyard we'd have a smoke.
He was just a regular dude, until today.
You never heard or saw
anything that didn't seem right?
- No, sir.
- What about the little boy?
Quiet little fella.
Tony said it was his girlfriend's nephew.
But, you know, it could have been his son.
That's Auntie.
Can I see Sissy?
It's over now.
The press is here?
Please tell me that you have something.
An address on the homeowner's son.
Fin and Amaro are en route.
- Is the vic any help?
- Rollins says she may have
issues.
- You okay with all this?
- Are you?
I got a seven-year-old in the car
who's spent his entire life in a basement.
And God knows what else went on down there.
We have no idea where this Pa
is or or or who he is.
And now the feeding frenzy begins?
Welcome back.
There's no sign of the other women
at Tony Minetti's apartment
they're bringing him in.
And he claims to have no
idea about any of this?
What do we know about the first vic?
Um, uh, Rhonda Davis, 24
she's been missing since 2002.
How did she end up in that basement?
Well, Rollins says that
it's been very slow going.
Um, she seems to have
diminished mental capacity.
Grew up in Delaware, in
and out of foster care.
- Any family?
- No, the parents are deceased.
Last we know, she was living
in a group home in Brooklyn.
They didn't even report her missing
until two years after she ran away.
They wanted the government
checks to keep coming.
Come on.
Somebody tell me what's going on.
Shut up.
I haven't been to that
for-crap house in 20 years.
So you haven't seen your
mother in two decades?
No, and if she says I have, she's lying.
Where'd you pick her up?
I told you.
I never seen her before.
We found her chained up in your house,
in your basement! It's not my house.
I don't even like women.
So what are you saying you're gay?
That's why my mother hates me.
When I came out, she spit in my face
and told me I was going straight to hell.
So, no, I've never seen the girl before.
My mother must have set me up.
That's not Pa.
That's not Pa.
I want to get out, out, out.
Okay.
All right, you want to
get out, we can do that.
You want to get something to eat?
How about some ice cream?
No.
No ice cream.
Sissy says that's for Buddy.
Sissy she's a good sister.
Can you tell me about her?
She sleeps with Pa
except when he sleeps with me
or Ma
except he doesn't sleep.
He stays awake and awake and awake.
Okay.
And Pa, he he took
Ma and Sissy with him?
Yes.
He didn't want me to go.
He said only Ma and pumpkin pie.
And Sissy's pumpkin pie?
That's when she came to live with us.
Pa said, she's our pumpkin pie
our Thanksgiving blessing.
We think one of the girls from
the basement is Kayla Greyland.
She went missing in the
Poconos area nine years ago
around Thanksgiving
it was a big media case.
Buddy I.
D.
'd the age-progression photo.
So this guy's been holding
two missing girls for 11 years?
What about the third woman?
We're checking her sketch
against old missing-persons
records no hits so far.
Could it be Angie Minetti?
It's unlikely.
Angie's 85.
And Angie's real son
has no idea who is impersonating him?
No.
So who is this guy?
No mail, no prescription bottles.
Utilities, phone all
in Angie Minetti's name,
paid direct deposit.
And C.
S.
U.
ran prints no hits.
So you're nowhere closer
to finding this guy
- or the other two women.
- Look, at least we can tell
Kayla's parents that their
daughter's still alive.
Well, take the police sketch.
Predators tend to work
their own neighborhoods.
That doesn't look like anyone we know.
The police, after all these years,
said we shouldn't expect too much,
but you're saying she's alive, with him?
- It's possible.
- It's
I told you.
I kept praying every day.
They said on the news there
were other girls in the house
and a little boy.
Do we know
Well, when you reported Kayla missing,
the police didn't collect a DNA sample
Kayla's toothbrush or hairbrush?
They said there was no point
unless they found a body.
Okay.
Kayla's things you saved them?
I have her first lost tooth.
He kept her alive nine years.
He must be attached.
He wouldn't do anything now, would he?
C.
S.
U.
found human skeletal remains
in the backyard in Greenpoint
wrapped in a bedspread.
Nice sheets.
Liv.
Was it another girl?
Well, they're checking dental records.
- It might be Angie Minetti.
- So he kills this old woman.
Liv, it may have been natural causes.
He buries her in the backyard.
The M.
E.
didn't find
any signs of foul play.
He keeps cashing her check.
He keeps these girls chained,
and he keeps raping them over and over.
Okay.
No, no.
Okay.
When's the last time you slept?
Captain, please.
I'm fine.
Fine.
Even so
take a few hours.
Okay, you have to stop
treating me like I'm broken.
Well, nobody is saying that.
They found Kayla.
She got picked up by New Jersey
police shoplifting in Kmart.
She wanted to get caught.
- Any signs of our suspect?
- He bolted.
Witness says he was with
an older woman in her 30s.
They thought the three of them were family.
- Kayla, over here.
- Kayla, over here.
My name is Kayla Greyland.
I've been missing from home for nine years.
I want to see my mom and my
dad, and I want to see Buddy.
I just want to go home.
Everybody's been so nice, but
I don't need to be in a hospital.
The doctors just want to
make sure that you're okay.
I'm fine.
When can we take our daughter home?
The doctors have a few more tests.
We have a few more questions.
She doesn't need to be upset right now.
Mr.
and Mrs.
Greyland, let
me buy you a cup of coffee.
I'm not leaving her ever again.
You're daughter's safe here.
Mom, dad, it's okay.
- You want to come with?
- I'm gonna stay.
How you doing, Kayla?
I'm worried about Buddy.
When can I see him again?
You know, uh
- The doctors just
- I'm not gonna hurt him.
I told you he's my baby, I swear.
And we believe you.
Auntie told us that
that Buddy's your son
but he doesn't know it.
No.
Pa said our our names
were Sissy, Auntie, and Ma.
Can you tell us about Ma and Pa?
Were they always together?
I think so.
She was in the car when they
When Pa took you?
You remember?
It was Thanksgiving.
I was watching TV at my
friend's house, and
my mom called and said that
the the turkey was ready,
so I started walking home.
This car pulled up.
Ma was driving.
And
she asked for directions, so I came over.
Then the back door opened.
Then I just felt jolted.
I I I was shaking.
They tasered you.
When I woke up, I was chained to the wall.
There was a bucket.
They told me that they
were my new family
my new Ma and Pa
and that I would learn to love them.
Maybe after about a week,
Pa said that it was time for me to help him
and that I could better
help him if I wasn't chained.
Then he took off my clothes and
and his, and he had sex with me.
I didn't even know that that
was what that was called,
but Ma explained it to me,
and she said that I was lucky
that I was Pa's favorite.
And Ma
she wasn't locked up?
No, she went upstairs.
Sometimes Pa would go away.
I would I would ask
her to let me let me go,
but she said she couldn't,
that Pa was coming back.
She was just sitting in a
McDonald's by herself for five hours.
The manager finally called the cops.
Any sign of the man she was with?
No, he must've dumped her
left her with no cash, no nothing.
She say anything?
Just that she had to wait there.
It took two of us to haul her into the car.
Are you Ma?
We're gonna need you to come with us.
No.
Pa's coming back.
He's coming back, and he won't find me.
- We brought this woman in?
- We need to interrogate her.
- She's a victim.
- Or a suspect.
You heard Kayla.
She was in on the kidnap.
She had free rein of the house.
She was in control when he left.
No, no, Liv, she has classic Stockholm.
Look at her.
I mean, the woman has been brutalized.
What she needs right now is a psych eval,
- not to be inter
- Well, that can wait.
This guy is getting away.
She won't tell us her name or his.
Because she's covering for him.
- Or maybe she doesn't know it.
- You both could be right.
At the very least, she
had this guy's trust.
She's our best shot to apprehend him.
And you think she's gonna
open up to the two male cops
that cuffed her and dragged
her in here against her will?
Let us talk to her.
Hi.
I'm Detective Rollins.
This is Detective Benson.
What's your name?
Everyone calls me Ma.
We know that that was Pa's house rule,
but we need to know your real name.
Or how about
Pa's real name?
Pa.
He didn't tell me any other name.
Are you sure?
Because we know that you
lived upstairs with him.
You shopped for him.
You you got to come and go.
Hmm?
It wasn't like the other girls,
like Rhonda, hmm, Kayla.
Auntie, Sissy.
We're gonna keep you safe.
He can't hurt you anymore.
You can't hold me here.
I want to go.
- No, you're not going anywhere.
- I haven't done anything.
Well, you were in the car.
You took Kayla.
You're as guilty as he is, okay?
You're gonna be charged
with kidnap, assault, ***.
- That's life in prison.
- I didn't *** nobody.
No, no, you just kept them
chained up so he could.
They love me.
I took care of them.
It's okay.
No, no, you took care of yourself.
You see, Rhonda has nerve damage.
She will never be the same.
She was always trouble.
He had to do it.
She asked for it.
And Kayla asked for it?
And Buddy asked for it?
- He never hurt Buddy.
- He's a seven-year-old,
terrified, locked in a
basement his whole life!
Stop, stop!
He will never, ever, ever be the same.
Stop! I love Buddy!
Detective
My office, now.
I was getting somewhere.
No, you were attacking
her.
She was shutting down.
I made a mistake.
You're too raw.
She knows who he is and where he is.
- I'm going back in there.
- No, you are not going back in.
You are going home.
It was too soon for
you to come back to SVU.
Everyone's been sending toys, money.
Everybody wants to help you and Buddy.
I hope so.
I don't know.
S sometimes it's
it just feels like the top of
my head is gonna go flying off.
All that time, all I wanted was more
more to do, more to see,
different things to talk about.
Now I can do whatever I want, and I just
I just want to stay in bed.
I'm just tired of
of everyone looking at
me like I'm gonna break.
I saw on the TV that you found Ma.
We did.
Buddy wants to see her.
When her face came on the
TV, he touched the screen.
I don't know how to
how to tell him that she's not his Ma.
The doctors are gonna help you with that
tell you how, tell you when.
She must miss him.
All that time we were on the road,
she just kept saying that she hoped
that Buddy didn't think
that we had left him behind.
If she wants to see
him, that's fine with me.
I don't want to take anything from anybody.
Hey.
Olivia, listen, if Cragen
sees you, he's gonna
Ma did you talk to her today?
Yeah.
But she's so traumatized,
she's never giving him up.
What's this?
It's something to trade for.
Okay, you want me to give it a shot?
No.
I need to do this.
How long's this gonna take?
This guy could be in South Carolina by now.
We keep going at her, she's
gonna shut down for good.
Liv.
I was wrong before
but she knows who he is,
and I can get her to tell me.
How?
I talked to Kayla at the hospital.
I said
You're off this case, Olivia.
Cap, she can get through to her
take my place in there.
If you can't trust me
then I'm done.
- Buddy made that for me?
- Yes.
He says that he misses you.
I miss him.
Sissy says that she's she's fine
with you seeing Buddy.
- I don't believe you.
- Sissy has a good heart.
I know you know that.
And I know that you know that
that she wouldn't lie about that.
When?
You can have Buddy in your life
but just not as his mother.
He needs to know the truth.
But you can still be family.
And all you have to do is talk to us.
Can you tell us Pa's name?
I can't.
Can you tell us yours?
I just can't say it.
Okay.
So how about you
how about you write it down?
Tell us the name that they used to call you
when you were a little girl.
So, April Hendricks
she went missing 18
years ago in Greenpoint.
She grew up two blocks from that house?
Any connection to the Minettis?
None we can find.
She was raised by a single
mother, now deceased, a junkie.
Yeah, and there were allegations of abuse
from the mother's drug-dealing boyfriend.
April ran away from home multiple times.
So N.
Y.
P.
D.
didn't work the case?
No, police questioned a few
suspects two are dead.
And one, Michael Williams,
whereabouts unknown,
was a maintenance worker
at her parochial school.
Some of the students say
she had a crush on him.
Claimed he was counseling
her.
Police ruled him out.
The school has no contact for him?
No, it closed down five years ago.
Track down everybody who worked there.
See if they know where he is.
I wasn't a principal then.
I was a teacher.
This poor girl everyone
thought she ran away.
She's the one on the news?
Yeah, she was held prisoner for 18 years.
Mm.
Horrible story.
At the time, the police
questioned a maintenance worker.
Michael Williams.
They said he didn't have
anything to do with it
you know where he is now?
I can get you his phone number.
He works here.
He had an accident a few days ago.
He's on sick leave.
- Police!
- Open up!
Can I help you?
We're looking for Michael Williams.
That's my husband.
What's this about?
Is your husband home?
He's in the back playing with our boys.
- Can you tell me why
- Ma'am, please just back up.
Michael Williams.
Yeah.
Who the hell are you?
N.
Y.
P.
D.
Game's over, player.
Come on.
Slaves?
- That's what the girls told you?
- No.
That's what the chains, the
fences, and tasers told us.
I was the slave.
I worked my *** off for them.
I clothed them, fed them,
took care of their needs.
Is that what you call raping them?
There's no mistake.
He kept three women imprisoned
in Angie Minetti's house for 18 years.
I worked there, taking care of his mother.
- I would have known.
- It wasn't his mother.
I mean, they didn't even
share the same last name.
After his parents' divorce,
she went back to her maiden name.
He tells me everything.
April and Rhonda they came after me.
April was 12 when you took her.
- No, when I saved her.
- Like you saved Rhonda
beat her and put her in
the backyard with the dogs.
She was on drugs.
She was out of control.
I was the only stability in her life.
I told you I do not know these women.
I took care of his mother upstairs.
- That was my job.
- Until she died?
What? She's not dead.
She has Alzheimer's.
Michael stays with her all
week long taking care of her.
No, you know what? That's
not who he's taking care of.
Angie Minetti died nine years ago.
Kayla Greyland she was ten.
Kayla was was different.
She was she was special.
But it was it was for the greater good,
see, 'cause I'm not evil.
I got problems
and she she helped me.
And after her, I di
I didn't need any others.
He's a good man.
He's so good with the boys.
He taught me English, helped
me stay in this country.
By marrying you.
Then he moved you to the Poconos?
Yes.
Tell me more about that.
He said it would be
better for the children.
The city he said it
was filled with bad men.
Angie Minetti was a friend of my mother's.
I took care of that woman.
I got her house in shape.
Well, see, the neighbors
they think you were
that woman's son, right?
Your wife does too.
Yeah, well, I was like a son to her.
Till you killed her.
What, did she find out about
the girls in the basement?
She didn't find out.
And,
no, I didn't kill her.
One morning I took in
some breakfast, and
she was gone.
So, naturally, you
buried her in the backyard
and kept cashing her
social security checks.
- I didn't kill her.
- No.
What'd you think was
gonna happen to Rhonda,
the girl you left chained in the basement,
when you took off with Ma and Sis?
Well, you can't save them all.
Look, I was gonna call for help, you know,
or I was gonna go there myself and
and get her after I found us a place.
But then Kayla she took off.
And what was I to do with with just Ma?
But I saved those girls.
They're alive because of me
me!
I gave them life.
I gave I gave Kayla a son.
He's my boy.
His wife didn't know any of this?
I believe her.
She was compliant.
It's a green card marriage
doesn't ask questions.
What about April Hendricks Ma?
She knew all of it.
Uh, he took her when she was 12.
She thinks that it was consensual
because he saved her from
her mother's boyfriend.
You cannot be thinking of charging her.
She did help keep Kayla
and Rhonda imprisoned.
She is still scared to death.
She is a shell.
She needs long-term help
not more punishment.
I hear you.
I hear you.
She's suffered enough.
But this guy there's not
enough suffering on earth for him.
He's never gonna see
the light of day again.
The guy's a coward.
He kept those girls
locked up all that time.
I wonder how long he'll last in prison.
- Think he'll kill himself?
- So what if he does?
Why can't we go?
They're working on moving the press away.
This, uh
this isn't gonna be easy.
I don't care about me.
It's it's Buddy.
I tried the best I could, teaching him,
but I didn't want him to know
too much about the outside
because I was afraid
that he would want things
that he couldn't have.
I want him I want him to go to school
and have friends and family
and a normal life.
And he's never gonna be normal, is he?
He doesn't even have a name.
You know, what I've seen
is that people who have gone through
unfair, horrific experiences,
is that they have this will.
And when they get support
a chance
they cannot only survive,
they can thrive.
Buddy.
Buddy, wake up.
We're home.
We're home.
I'm glad you decided to come back.
How have you been?
Better.