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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.
Every cop has weakness.
You just gotta know
how to exploit it.
They think they are so smart.
They treat you like
you're an imbecile.
If you're not careful,
you start to believe them.
It's a game for them.
They get off on it.
They got these huge egos.
That's their biggest problem.
All you gotta do is let them
know who's in charge.
Not them.
You.
They used to call FBI agents
gangsters with badges,
one step away from being
the worst criminals in society.
Stabler's like that.
Big time.
Who's Stabler?
Jarhead detective.
You know Stabler?
I do.
And he knows me, too.
He's been thinking about me
for a long time.
He'll try to hang you
with your own words, catch you in a lie.
You're dead once that happens.
What do you tell him?
The truth will set you free.
Mr.
Rickett, let's get you set up
in more hospitable surroundings.
Okay, have a seat.
Thought this would be
a little more comfortable.
- You all right there, Mr.
Rickett?
- I'm fine.
You sure you don't want
an attorney?
I'm sure.
Okay, we're gonna start in a few minutes
when the case detective gets here.
In the meantime, you can relax.
You want anything,
like a soda, coffee?
Hey, you wanna look
at the sports section?
We might be here for a bit.
I was never much into sports.
My high school basketball coach said
I looked like a retarded gazelle
with a spastic disorder.
Mr.
Daley.
Real loving guy.
You look like you're
in pretty good shape.
You work out, Mr.
Rickett?
I've been thinking about
getting a trainer myself.
You know, bulking up a little bit.
I think it might help me
with the ladies.
Is that why you work out?
Ah, here we go.
Classifieds.
"Single white male.
"
"Wanted for my wife's playmate.
"
"Prefer hedonist who likes
pleasure mixed with pain.
"
"I get to watch.
"
This could develop into something
really meaningful for you.
Didn't somebody tell me that you
lived in California for a while?
You gotta be nuts
to come back to this city.
In a few years when I get my pension,
meager though it is,
I'm heading straight to the
beautiful San Fernando valley,
live the sweet life.
I can't believe you came back.
Why did you?
You have a girlfriend
in California, Mr.
Rickett?
I don't feel like chatting
anymore, friend.
I hear you.
Might as well wait till we get started.
Plus, it'll give you more time
to come up with an answer.
Detective Olivia Benson.
Gordon Rickett.
Where's your partner?
Just taking care of a few things.
We were just going over the classifieds,
trying to help out Mr.
Rickett with his sex life.
He's very open-minded.
- You want something to eat, Mr.
Rickett?
- I'm fine.
He is so easy to please.
Well, I see you're gonna have
a lot to talk about.
Good night.
We gonna start now?
Just waiting for my partner.
Your partner's detective Stabler?
Want my advice?
Get yourself a new partner.
Tell you the truth,
I'm surprised he's still got
a job with this outfit.
Unless he's on medication
or something.
Whack job.
Total lack of control.
Like an animal.
You can tell him yourself
when he gets here.
You think I'm an idiot?
You think I don't know he's
right outside right now?
What, are they afraid
to let you in here with me?
Too unstable, detective Stabler?
- They got you on a leash now?
- There's no one there.
Come look for yourself.
Forget it.
I wish she wouldn't do that.
He wasn't coming out.
Wouldn't risk looking that stupid.
- Smart enough to beat a *** wrap.
- Nothing to do with brains.
Rickett lucked out
because a jury wouldn't convict
on the strongest circumstantial evidence
we could've given them.
Well, he may luck out again.
No forensics, no weapon,
no crime scene,
and no idea how he transported
the body to the dump site.
I'm aware of this, captain.
How long since
you arrested him?
Three hours.
Then you got 21 more till he walks.
He was packing up his apartment.
If I hadn't collared him,
in a couple hours he would've skipped
and gotten away with another one.
Not this time.
He really wants you in there.
I'm gonna make him beg for it.
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I never touched that girl.
I know my rights.
You can't drum this up
after 14 years.
The jury found me innocent.
You're not here about
Dana Macnamara, Mr.
Rickett.
Then what are the boxes for?
When the interview begins,
you're gonna answer our questions.
See, that's the way it works
around here, Mr.
Rickett.
- In case you've forgotten.
- I don't have to answer anything.
I don't have to say a word.
That's true.
You know what
they said about me?
Do you know what that
trial did to my life?
- That was before my time.
- Oh, really?
You don't know?
You never heard anything about it?
Then why even bring it up?
Come on.
Let's get this over with.
Why'd you leave
California, Mr.
Rickett?
- I didn't like it.
- Why not?
It was too hot.
Tell me about Dana Macnamara.
No.
Thought you wanted
to get this over with.
I don't want to talk about that.
This is a frame job.
I'm not stupid.
Oh, nobody's calling
you stupid, Mr.
Rickett.
In fact, I believe that that was detective
Stabler's mistake 14 years ago,
not respecting your intelligence
the first time around.
There was no first time around.
Dana Macnamara.
Last seen on January 10th, 1991.
Witnesses say that she was
walking up the street with you.
She also lived in your building.
Not true.
She lived in
the apartment above my bar,
where lots of people come and go, lots
of suspects that you guys never talked to.
Police questioned Vanessa Serafino,
your fiance at the time.
Now, miss Serafino stated,
and later testified at trial,
that you were prone
to violent outbursts.
She's a liar.
/ And whenever you
had *** relations with her,
you made her wear pigtails,
because it made her look younger.
And although she complied
with your request,
you often beat her.
Dana Macnamara was found
in a drainage ditch on Staten island
a week after she went
missing, naked.
Her clothing dumped
next to her dead body.
She was sexually assaulted.
Her hands and feet were bound.
She was strangled manually.
That's not all.
I've heard all this before.
You beat her after
she was already dead.
Kicked repeatedly, post-mortem,
in the ribs and the head, and then
- That's enough.
- You mutilated her body.
Took a knife and
carved out her chest.
I'm innocent.
/ Tell me, Mr.
Rickett,
what kind of man does that?
A smart man or a sick man?
Somebody intelligent or an animal?
A man with no control.
Shut up!
- There he is.
- Sit.
Detective Elliot Stabler,
shining star of the New York
police department.
You miss me?
You old ***.
You know I missed you.
This is Kerry Lynn Palmer,
Her body was found
in the Hudson river a week ago.
She'd been ***, strangled,
mutilated post-mortem,
same way as Dana Macnamara.
The medical examiner
estimates she'd been dumped in the river
one hour before she was discovered.
I'll bet the killer
wasn't counting on that.
Now we can start.
Sure you don't want
a lawyer, Gordon?
I'm sure.
I gotta tell you,
I don't think that's too smart.
Shoot me when I start to care
about what you think.
How was California?
Hot.
- Why'd you leave?
- Because it was hot.
How have you been, Gordon? Life been
treating you well since we last spoke?
- I'm fine.
- Financial problems?
I get by.
- What's your job again?
- I work with hazardous materials.
- You dispose of hazardous materials.
- That's what I said.
So you're a garbageman?
I'm a taxpaying citizen.
I'm not ashamed to say that.
What happened to
that bar you owned?
I sold it.
/ Wasn't that in your family
for a few generations?
You inherited that place
from your mom.
- It's a shame.
- Thanks for your sympathy.
So you went to California.
You fly?
No.
/ Drive?
- I don't own a car.
- Teleport?
I took the bus.
Directly to California or did
you live someplace along the way?
A lot of states between here and there,
like Nevada, Arizona
did you live in those states
before you got to California?
- Why'd you leave California?
- What, are you deaf?
I said I dn't like it.
You were there almost a decade.
Maybe he was getting his head together.
That's what they do there, you know.
He was deciding what he wanted
to do with his freedom.
I think he's decided
he's gonna be a garbageman.
But you can pick up garbage anywhere.
Why come back here?
My aunt died.
I needed to take care of things,
decided to stay.
That's very decent of you, Gordon.
I'm sorry for your loss.
No, you're not.
You're laughing at me.
You wrecked a man's life,
and you think it's a big joke.
- I wrecked your life?
- Tried to.
I must be a pretty powerful guy.
- I know you think you are.
- Are you hungry?
I'm starting to get hungry.
Would you like something to eat, Gordon?
- No.
- Mr.
Rickett
where were you between the hours of 4 P.
M.
Sunday and 3 A.
M.
the following monday?
- Home.
- Entire time?
- Yeah.
- There was nobody there with you?
I was alone.
/ Home alone,
that's what you said last time.
That's a 14-year-old alibi, Gordon.
- Spend a lot of time alone?
- Yeah.
- You don't have a girlfriend?
- Nobody special.
Nobody special?
- No.
- When did your aunt die?
- A month ago.
- Why weren't you at work?
When? / Sunday at 4:00
to the following morning?
I don't work weekends.
- Because you're a trash collector.
- I work with hazardous materials.
What are you driving these days,
besides a garbage truck?
- I said I don't own a car.
- Mr.
Rickett, do you know this girl?
- No.
- You've never seen her before?
Not once.
/ So nobody will ever tell us
that they saw you talking to this girl
or even were in the same
vicinity as she was?
No way.
/ Why did you and
Vanessa Serafino break up?
Because you told her
that I killed that girl.
No, she called off the wedding
long before I arrested you.
I just can't remember why.
Didn't it have something
to do with medical school?
Yeah, that's it.
You told her you were
getting your medical degree at NYU.
I was going to night school.
You were pretending
to be a medical student.
I mean, how long did you think
you were gonna pull that one off?
You gonna pull people off the street,
start performing surgery on them?
I couldn't get financial aid.
Money had nothing
to do with it, Gordon.
You never finished high school.
Come on.
Lie to your fiance.
Don't lie to me.
I'm not lying about anything.
You lied about your
current girlfriend.
No.
I said there
was nobody special.
So who's this woman
that keeps visiting you at work?
You're the detective.
Your ex-fiance, Vanessa,
the one with the pigtails,
she took out a restraining
order against you after the trial.
She changed her name, left town.
What happened?
- You threaten her?
- I never spoke to that *** again.
You said that your aunt
died a month ago.
Yeah? / That's why you
came back to New York?
So?
You came back six
months ago, Mr.
Rickett.
She was sick.
I took care of her.
Like you're her doctor?
She needed help.
I didn't want to put her in a
nursing home, so I came back, period.
It's very loving of you, Gordon.
Those places are hellholes.
She needed help.
I stayed with her till she died.
Why did you leave
California, Mr.
Rickett?
You already asked me 20 times.
Dana Macnamara was murdered a couple
weeks after Vanessa broke off the engagement.
On a scale of 1 to 10,
how mad did Vanessa make you?
I didn't care.
/ Now, you were fired
I wasn't fired.
They gave the jobs to one
of their mafia buddies.
- They screwed you.
- It was political.
Yeah, but you get caught up
in the process.
- They treat you like you're nothing.
- They're nothing.
I know, but they got the power and
you're the one who's unemployed.
Because I'm being disrespected
again, as usual.
Why is that, Gordon?
Why are people always disrespecting you?
- I don't know.
- How can you take it?
I'm not gonna take it anymore.
- They don't know!
- They don't know anything about you.
That's right.
- I'm gonna show them.
- You're gonna show them, aren't you?
- Yeah.
- Who?
Everybody.
/ Yeah, because
no one's innocent.
Your bosses
- That's right.
- And girlfriends.
- Yeah.
-The kids.
- Even the kids!
- What are you gonna do to them?
I'm gonna hurt the kids!
Hurt your kids, Stabler.
We're talking about
Kerry Lynn Palmer here.
I'm gonna kill all the kids!
What are you gonna do about it, huh?
Tell me how you killed her.
And then I'm gonna kill their puppies,
then I'm gonna kill their kitties.
I'm a psycho killer!
What are you gonna do
about it, huh? Come on!
Come on!
I'm a psycho killer!
What are you gonna
do about it, huh?
What are you gonna do?
Come on! Come on!
You're a hoot, Stabler.
"Kill the kids!"
You're just like I remember you.
Only now they send you in here
with a babysitter.
You bust on me because
I'm a garbageman?
Well, what about you?
You're an animal.
A neanderthal.
Sit down, Mr.
Rickett.
You see that?
It's a little reminder
I've got of your partner.
I never forgot him.
I had a little accident last time we
were together in a room like this.
I accidentally let him put me
through a plate glass window.
Did I cry about it?
Did I sue the city? Look for a handout,
like all the other schmucks?
No.
Because I'm a man.
He didn't hear what he wanted from me,
and he had a temper tantrum.
He has no self control like a baby.
Like a stupid, selfish, whiny child.
Who wants something to eat?
I want cheese on that,
whatever has a really strong smell,
and extra raw onions,
like double the normal amount.
That's it.
Good.
Thanks.
Why don't we really mess with him
and order a couple of filet mignons?
If only we had it in the budget.
Good luck, Elliot.
Good night, cap.
Elliot, we're almost
five hours into this.
I can still get to him.
We gotta start thinking about a different
tactic than getting creative with takeout.
Listen to that last thing
Rickett said about kids.
They're greedy.
They're out of control.
They're stupid.
Now, for Rickett,
that is the worst insult he can give.
This guy is never gonna confess.
Captain, I know this guy.
He's like an addict.
He's hooked on the rage.
Not expressing it, controlling it.
He gets off on denying himself
an outlet for his anger.
And it builds,
and it builds
till he finds a girl,
and he takes it out on her.
Rickett was playing you in there.
He was perfectly in control.
Were you?
Rickett thinks he's in charge.
You make sure he knows he's not.
Just keep pushing his buttons.
See which one lights him up.
Boy, that was good.
You sure you don't
want anything, Gordon?
No.
/ You're gonna
spend a long time with us.
Might as well get a free
meal out of it, you know?
- I'm not hungry.
- God, that was good.
Could you explain
one thing to me?
- Why'd you leave California?
- You're out of your mind.
No, seriously, just give me
an explanation I can grasp.
Why here? Why now?
My aunt died.
Mr.
Rickett,
you don't have an aunt.
Your father was an only child,
and your mother had two sisters,
long deceased.
You got wrong information.
That's your problem.
What's this?
Oh, detective Tutuola.
What's up, Gordy?
All that talk about telling the truth,
"I'm a genius, cops are punks.
"
You're embarrassing yourself, man.
You're lying your *** off,
and everybody knows it.
No, I'm not.
Talk to Sandra Brophy lately?
Remember?
Your girlfriend from California.
She told us to tell you "hello",
then rip off your nuts
and feed them to you.
You're making friends all over
the country, aren't you, Gordon?
Whatever she told you is a lie.
She told us you tried to ***
her 14 year-old daughter.
And then you ran away
like a little girl.
The only reason you're
sitting here right now is
because that kid's too scared
to talk to the cops.
The girl had emotional problems.
The only problem that she had
was running into you.
We also heard you got evicted
from your apartment down there
a week and a half
before you attacked her kid.
Let's see, you murdered Dana Macnamara
after your fiance dumps you.
You *** Kerry Lynn Palmer
after you get fired.
Tell us about Nevada.
And Arizona.
Carson, Nevada?
Chloe Lynch, age 13.
Missing.
Presumed dead.
Carson police questioned
you about it.
Tempe, Arizona.
Heather Morrison, 11.
Missing.
Presumed dead.
You were questioned and
released for lack of evidence.
That's why you kept moving.
That's why you left California.
That's why you were
packing to leave New York.
You know, I've dreamed
about this day.
Seeing that look on your face when I
catch you in every lie and every mistake.
And you've already made
your biggest one.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, you came back here.
You haven't forgotten me?
I haven't forgotten you, either.
- Where are you going?
- To the crib.
See you in 30.
Okay, let's get in there.
- No.
- Why?
Rickett's sleeping.
And you're letting him?
About ten minutes.
Then I'll wake him up.
Let him sleep some more.
Wake him up again.
Just keep doing it
till the sun comes up.
Okay.
I'll go in
when you wake him.
No.
Why not?
Look, I'm changing it up.
Nothing personal,
just changing it up.
Oh, so you're gonna
do this by yourself?
- What, are you a one-man squad now?
- He called you my babysitter.
- So what?
- So I wanna use that!
I want him to think
that when I go in there,
I'm gonna throw him right
through that window again.
I know what I'm doing.
Okay.
Wake up, Gordy.
Enough time
to sleep when you're dead.
You drink it.
You look like you could
use it more than me.
I'm getting a second wind.
I feel pretty good.
Get this look, Elliot.
It's like I'm a cheating boyfriend.
Don't worry, baby.
I'll always love you.
You're funny.
Yeah, you're hilarious,
acting all betrayed.
We snowed you, Rickett.
Get over it.
You're a good actor.
Unless that wasn't acting.
You on the pipe back in the day?
I think he's mad at you, Fin.
Bet it was real tough,
growing up in a studio
apartment, like cockroaches.
You should be real
proud of yourself.
- This guy's good.
- I know.
It's like he's turning
the tables or something.
Damn, he's like some reverse
psychology evil genius.
You're both pathetic.
Who's pathetic?
It's amazing how much you know
about being a *** child.
That's personal
experience, Rickett?
I know who my daddy is.
I do, too, but mine stuck around,
not like your daddy.
What do you know about it?
Everybody knows everything
about you, Gordon,
because you told the shrink who evaluated
you before your trial 14 years ago.
Let's see now, your father abandoned
you when you were 18 months old.
Shrinks make a big deal
out of everything.
Six months later, your mother
gets pregnant again
by another guy
who won't marry her.
Your sister is born.
How is your sister, Gordon?
- Ask her.
- Yeah, I did.
Must be a big kick in the balls
to know your own blood
thinks you're guilty as sin.
No, Gordon doesn't care
about his sister.
She ruined his life.
That's what he told the shrink.
So now you got
two babies in the house.
Only that's too much work for mommy,
so you're forced to grow up, huh?
No more bottles, no more diapers,
definitely no more crying.
Your mom would kick your ***
if you shed a tear, huh?
That selfish ***!
You ruined my life because
you wouldn't take care of me.
I'm not gonna talk to you
about my mother.
"My mommy never loved me.
I had no childhood.
"
I never said that to the shrink.
No, that's what the shrink
said about you.
"Subject" That's you.
"has a childlike view of the world.
"
"Believes the world has conspired
to deny him success and happiness"
"in spite of his inflated estimate
of his own intelligence.
"
She just called you a moron, Gordon.
Think I care what that *** said?
Oh, yeah, I do.
Look at you.
It's eating you up.
If "that ***" were
in this room right now,
you'd tear her apart.
If "that ***" was
in this room right now,
and she were 11 years old,
you'd kill her.
I don't need a Ph.
D.
to know
what kind of person you are.
You're a loser.
You had a tough childhood.
That makes you special?
That makes you a victim?
You're nothing.
You contribute nothing.
The reason your life sucks
is because you've done nothing.
I've done nothing.
You counting the little children
that you've *** and murdered?
Is that what you're saying to me?
You wanna walk me through that,
you piece of garbage?
Tell me how good you are
at torturing children!
Tell me how strong you've gotta
be to kill a little girl! Huh?
What's the problem? A grown woman
too much of a challenge for you?
I should do to you what you do
to those little girls.
I should put you in pigtails,
you little ***.
Come on, you little ***,
I want you to cry for me.
Come on, tell me!
Come on! Cry for me!
- Elliot!
- Get out!
- Come on, man.
- Come on!
Come on, you little ***!
Tell me about the little girls, huh?
Tough guy.
- What the hell was that?
- Nothing.
So Elliot screams at him
for a couple of hours,
and what's the plan after that?
I don't know.
That was the end of the plan.
Night again.
Looks like you and me are gonna
say good-bye pretty soon.
Messed with my chair, huh?
Screwed with the lights,
cranked up the heat.
I miss anything?
Here, fix the chair if you want.
The food
get you to eat or drink
so you have to ask to use the John.
Try to make you
need something from us.
Food, sleep, whatever.
You didn't need anything.
You are your own man.
And you know what else?
You're smarter.
At the end of the day, that's
one thing I'm pretty sure of.
You don't know how much
it pains me to have to say that.
And it's weird because
back then, with Dana
I thought I knew it all.
That it didn't matter that
we couldn't find the place
where you murdered her.
Didn't matter that we couldn't
prove how you dumped the body.
I knew you were guilty.
I thought that was
enough, but, uh
we both know
how that turned out.
See, back then, I thought
you were a ***.
And pedophiles, you know, in their
own sick way, think they love children.
They, uh, build
a relationship with them.
They, they believe that they have
an emotional connection to the child.
You know how you get
a *** to confess?
You offer him the opportunity.
Some of them just feel
so guilty about it,
that they're dying to tell you.
But that's not you, is it, Gordon?
I was all wrong.
Working in SVU, I learned the difference between
a *** and a man who rapes children.
You don't care about the kids.
You hate the kids.
It's not about attraction
or power or dominance.
It's about annihilation.
You defile and destroy her,
because she has what
you'll never have.
Hope.
Trust.
Potential.
Is that why I do it?
That's part of it.
The other part, the part
that I've been trying to get at all night,
is the rage.
You're very good at hiding it.
It's
unbelievable.
But I know it's there.
I mean, I can see it, even when
you're sitting still like now.
Gordon
you're kidding yourself
if you think you're controlling it.
It's controlling you.
Every lie you tell
to cover your inadequacies,
every perceived insult
you think you're getting,
just feeds it.
You're lecturing me about rage?
Are you kidding?
I'm not.
What do you know about
controlling anything?
I don't *** people.
Give it time.
You say you see something in me.
Well, I see something in you, too.
You think you control.
You can't.
You're controlled.
By your boss, by your job,
by your wife, your kids.
What would you be if all
those controls went away?
I'd be you.
Mr.
Rickett,
you're free to go.
Look, I know we're all disappointed about
this hump being back on the streets again.
But we get past it,
and we find the link between
Rickett and Kerry Lynn Palmer.
Or something that leads us
to where he killed her.
They never found
that 14 years ago.
I doubt we'll find it now.
When I arrested Rickett
for Dana Macnamara's ***,
he lawyered up immediately.
This time we got 24 hours worth
of interrogation.
I wanna go over everything
that came out of his mouth.
That's what we've been doing, Elliot.
You know this crap about
"the truth will set you free"?
Every other word out of
Rickett's mouth was a fabrication.
No, not everything.
The dude couldn't even
tell us about his job.
He kept saying he worked
with hazardous materials.
Okay.
Let's start with that.
Why lie about something
that's insignificant?
Same reason he told his fiance,
that he was a med student,
just to make himself look better.
Okay, so let's call his work
and education exaggerations?
Vanity lies.
What else? / Everything that
went down in California.
That's a guilt lie.
He attacks his girlfriend's daughter.
That's incriminating.
It's obvious why he lied about that.
Claims he didn't have a car
or access to one.
We can't prove it,
but we know it's false.
No other way to dump
the body in the river.
Guilt.
/ He's lying about having
a girlfriend now.
You'd think that he'd
want us to know that.
Just to prove that he doesn't need
to have sex with little girls.
Did we get the LUDs on his phone?
No, we're still waiting.
You think he would tell
a girlfriend about this?
Rickett does work alone,
but if he's hiding her,
maybe he's afraid she'll lead us
in the right direction.
What about his aunt?
- Doesn't have one.
- So why lie about her?
To explain his move from California?
A lot better ways to do that.
That means something.
If the phone dump gives
us the girlfriend,
she may be able to illuminate.
That's good work, Elliot.
Not good enough.
Apartment Of Linda Cusick
Thursday, February 24
- Linda Cusick?
- Yeah?
Police.
We'd like to talk to you
about your boyfriend, Gordon.
Oh, no.
God, you guys are brutes.
Yeah, did Gordon warn you
we'd be coming around?
No.
But he told me how you
framed him and everything.
How long have you
two been dating?
I don't remember.
And anyways, we broke up weeks ago,
so I can't help you.
Try again, sweetheart.
You call him twice a day, every day.
Hey, Linda?
You don't want to
lie to us anymore.
I'm not in the mood.
We've been dating two months.
Last Sunday night and Monday morning,
did you see him or speak to him?
- No.
- Why not?
We don't spend
every second together.
You ever meet his aunt?
No.
He doesn't have any family.
- Does he?
- Do you have a car?
No.
Who needs a car in New York?
Your boyfriend did.
He ever borrow someone's?
Ask him.
I don't know.
I swear.
I never saw him driving
if that makes you happy.
Linda.
Did he ever make you
dress up, you know,
play games where you're
supposed to be a little girl?
That should set off some bells.
What is this?
Aphrodite salon.
What is it?
I'm allowed to take stuff home
to test it out.
I work there.
Two blocks from
Kerry Lynn Palmer's apartment.
Sorry, I've never seen her.
Well, have you ever heard Linda's boyfriend
talking about a girl named Kerry?
Not that I can remember.
I know Gordon's a thug,
but I didn't think he was into little kids.
Why do you call him a thug?
Because all Linda's
boyfriends are.
She picks up guys in this neighborhood,
even after I've told her it's not a safe place.
My salon gets robbed,
my car gets stolen.
When did your car get stolen?
- Couple weeks ago.
- Did you report it?
Cops said it was probably
just kids, joyriding.
Took it to Staten island
and torched it.
- Staten island.
- Where Dana's body was found.
Staten Island, New York
Thursday, February 24
Fire burned hot and long.
Definitely used an accelerant,
which means any and all trace
evidence was probably gone.
Now, there's a lot of crap
to sift through in this lot,
but we'll look at everything.
So other than dumping Dana
Macnamara's body here 14 years ago,
what is his connection
to Staten island?
Never made one.
So Dana was found
less than a mile from here,
Kerry Lynn was dumped
in the Hudson,
and then he drove all the way
out here to dump the car.
Why is he so comfortable here?
He knows this place.
Look at that.
- Nursing home.
- Remember what Rickett said?
He'd never put his aunt
in one of those dumps.
He doesn't have an aunt.
They're not really
blood relatives.
Mrs.
Larson grew up with
Gordon's mother back in Illinois.
- Is he in trouble?
- You could say that.
I just want to know
in case he shows up.
I can't have my patients in danger.
Why does Mr.
Rickett come
here anymore? His aunt died.
No, she didn't.
She's been paralyzed
for 20 years,
but for her age, Mrs.
Larson's
healthy as a horse.
Well, I'm certainly
a popular girl these days.
You getting a lot
of visitors, Mrs.
Larson?
Especially since Gordon
is back from India.
He was a doctor
without borders, you know.
Does he come and visit you a lot?
He's my lifeline.
Now that he's back,
he's taking care of all my, my finances,
pays all my hospital bills.
What else does Gordon
do for you, Mrs.
Larson?
Well, there's the
gardening, of course.
And, uh, general maintenance.
And he said that he just bought
some new storm windows.
For your house?
He's been taking care of it
until I move back in.
Where's your house?
Car doesn't look like it's seen
the road since Dana Macnamara's ***.
What do you want to bet that
CSU could find her DNA in there?
It's freezing in here.
No heat.
He's taking care
of this place for her?
More like selling everything
that's not nailed down.
Final notice
collection agencies
these are all months old.
He's robbing her blind.
I'm surprised he didn't just
sell the house out from under her.
He didn't sell the house because
he needed a place to work.
He's paying the electrical bill.
Hey, Mrs.
Larson's been
in a wheelchair for 20 years.
No way she'd ever
make it down there.
It's like a bunker down here.
Nobody would ever
hear a sound.
We got blood.
Kerry Lynn Palmer was wearing those
the day she went missing.
Please, I want my mom!
Please, I want my mom!
Shut up!
Police! Get your hands up!
Get them up now!
Rickett, get away from the girl!
Gordon.
There's no way out of this.
- Let go of the girl.
- Please, he's hurting me!
Rickett, let her go
or I'll kill you.
You're gonna have to shoot me.
I swear to god, I'll kill you.
It's what you wanted
all these years, isn't it?
Go ahead, huh?
Elliot!
It's over.
Gordon Rickett, you're under arrest for the ***
of Kerry Lynn Palmer and for kidnapping.
You have the right to remain silent.
You give up that right,
anything you say can and will be
used against you in a court of law.
You have the right to an attorney.
If you can't afford one
We got there just in time.
Rickett didn't *** her.
CSU found two types of blood
in that basement.
One is recent and the other
is likely years old.
Did you think I froze?
Is that why you fired first?
I fired first because you
would've killed him.
He deserves to die.
Maybe he does.
But he wanted you to kill him.
He wanted you to always remember
that you took his life.
Not because you had to,
but because you were angry.
You wanna get something to eat?
Come on.
I'm just gonna go home.
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