All language subtitles for Law and Order_ SVU 23x06 - The Five Hundredth Episode (English)

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.

I really wish you would consider

getting out of that unit.

Come on, Mother. Let's not tonight.

Do you think this is healthy for you?

You were raped, for God's sake.

If your mom were still
alive, how old would she be?

Uh, my mother, Serena,
would have been 77.

- Wow.
- Yeah.

And you were already a
detective when she died?

I was.

Did she like that you were a detective?

Well, it sounds like you're
being the detective now.

- Do you miss her?
- Yeah.

'Cause she was a good mom like you.

Noah, you should know by now

that no one's as good a mom as I am.

Mom, not at school.

- Love you.
- I love you.

Have a good day. Put your mask on.

Sorry I was late. I...

so I'm walking Noah to school...

And out of the blue, he
asked me about my mother.

You went with short answer?

- Yeah.
- Good.

So what is this about a suspect?

He walked himself in.

He hasn't confessed yet, but he says

he will only speak to the captain.

And heads up, this guy's a charmer.

- I'm guilty.
- Oh, my God, Nick.

- Whose idea was this?
- Mine.

What, you're captain now,
you don't like surprises?

I've never liked surprises.

- Hey.
- Hey.

What brings you to New York?

Work, a job I've been
on the last few years.

- A company called FORYM.
- Yeah.

I thought you were a PI.

No, I told you he went
back to grad school.

In genetics and forensic science.

We test DNA samples

that used to be considered
too small or too degraded.

Solving cold cases.

That seems like a good fit for you.

Which means we can work together again.

Nick has an old SVU case
that he wants to reopen.

1996, Haley West is 15 years old.

Raped and strangled on prom night.

Hold on, this was one of Cragen's.

I remember... I remember
him talking about it.

But is it cold?

Didn't they catch the... the boyfriend?

Ian Ridley, yes.

He actually did confess,
and he's still doing time,

but he recanted at sentencing,

and the only DNA found on Haley's body

was from his saliva.

I was approached by a true crime writer

looking into wrongful convictions.

He asked me if we could
try to salvage old DNA,

so I'm coming to you.

Well, let's pull the files,
see if anything's there.

654.

West. Haley West, right here.

Wow, she's so young. And a sweet face.

Haley's mother never
got over losing her.

Ian's not the killer.

Hm, Burton Lowe, the writer, he's here.

Nick, I thought you said
this place was a dump.

Ah, well, they've
fixed it up since I left.

Burton Lowe, Detective Amanda Rollins.

- How do you do?
- Hi.

Captain's waiting for us.

Captain, Nick's writer is here.

- Burton.
- Olivia.

- You haven't changed.
- Neither have you.

And now that we've established

that we're both liars...

Nick, you didn't tell me

that your crime writer
was... was Burton Lowe.

Should I have?

Um, we are old friends.

From a lifetime ago.

www.TUSUBTITULO.com
-DIFUNDE LA CULTURA-

My mother was an English professor.

When I was 16, I started
dating one of her students.

He was a senior.

He was 21 years old, and
he asked me to marry him.

Look at this. Serena would be proud.

Well, if you recall,

that wasn't Serena's strong suit.

No, it wasn't, was it?

- Anyway, Haley West.
- Yeah.

Yes, of course. Please have a seat.

So I called my former captain, Cragen,

and he said that the boyfriend...

- Ian Ridley.
- Confessed within 48 hours.

He did, but he was 18,
concussed, traumatized...

Concussed?

His initial story was that he
and Haley were making out

when an unknown
assailant knocked him out.

When he came to, Haley was gone.

And they found her
strangled, beaten body

two hours later in Fort Tyron Park.

My take, he was
probably so guilt-ridden

about what happened.

He convinced himself that he did it?

How'd you get involved, Burton?

Ian's mother wrote
to me before she died.

I promised her I'd do right by him.

At his parole hearing,

the board was ready to release
Ian if he showed contrition.

When it was time for Ian
to apologize, he couldn't.

25 years behind bars,

two words away from walking free,

and instead he says,

"I believe in two things,
the truth and miracles.

I know the truth,
and I need a miracle."

New DNA technology can be that miracle.

If there's even 15 cells
from the original sample,

my company can tease
out a genetic profile.

- After 25 years?
- Oh, yeah.

I'll need to call
Carisi. That's our ADA.

Understood.

_

Here you go.

I had to send my
gnomes deep into the crypt

- to get this out.
- I owe you, Melinda.

Once an SVU detective,
always an SVU detective.

You're lucky this wasn't tossed.

You do know this is a closed case.

Yeah, we know that the saliva

on Haley West matched Ian Ridley.

We're just... we're hoping there
might be some other samples.

Barely... there was a
trace of seminal fluid

- in the autopsy rape kit.
- And it was never tested?

The quantity was too low in '96,

and, as is stated here,
the suspect confessed.

M.E. Rogers had no reason
to perform more testing.

- But it's still viable?
- Maybe.

The kit sat in freezer purgatory

this whole time.

As DNA degrades, it's
much harder to analyze.

But with our new tech,
mixture deconvolution,

KinSNP analysis...

You get a chance to
rebuild the genetic profile.

Well, look at you, Dr. Amaro.

Doctor, no, not yet,

but I am working on it, biophysics.

Yeah, it's good to see
you. And thank you for this.

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Cognitive reenactment?

How'd you get a judge
to sign off on this?

Oh, I didn't.

I pulled a favor from an ADA

who used to be one of my detectives.

- An ADA, a geneticist...
- Your ex-detectives go places.

Well, I wish they wouldn't,

because, as my mother
used to say, everyone leaves.

Serena was a little dark.

You know, Burton, if you
needed help on a case,

you could've just told Nick
you knew me or gotten in touch.

I guess I was afraid

that you'd just say no
considering how we ended.

You know, my mother made
me write that letter to you

to break off our engagement.

She told me that you had
a real girlfriend in college.

I did not.

I was in love with
you. I told her that.

But you disappeared.

Oh, I wanted to write you, to see you.

She told me if I even
tried to get in touch,

she'd have me immediately expelled.

Well, then she lied to both of us.

To be continued.

Hello, Ian.

This is Captain Benson of the SVU.

Hey.

Mr. Lowe got you to reopen my case?

If the detectives on the case
missed anything back then,

then I wanna find that out.

Okay, well, thank you.

I know it's been, like, 25 years,

but I'm kind of...

kind of freaked to be back here.

That's... that's completely normal, Ian.

Returning... returning to the scene

can trigger memories, right?
And that's why we're here.

So anything that comes

to your mind, a sound, a
smell, that can be helpful.

All right, guys, guys,
he's not going anywhere.

Yeah, just give him a minute.

Prom night.

Haley and I booked it out
here past the chaperones.

I snuck a bottle of champagne.

We just wanted to be...

we just wanted to be
together alone, you know.

Okay, so what kind of night was it?

Warm, pitch dark.

These lights... they
weren't here back then.

So I lit a cigarette.

Haley looked so pretty in the dark.

Then we started kissing.

Okay.

Kissing and then?

Well, then we went under the bleachers

to, you know, go further.

- But you didn't get that far?
- No.

Haley was leaning against that post.

I was kissing her. I had
my eyes closed and then...

Okay, Ian, your eyes were closed.

Did you hear anything?

Yeah, footsteps on the gravel,

then somebody bashing me on the skull.

I remember Haley
screaming, him dragging her,

and then it all just went black.

So you're there now. You're there now.

My ears were ringing.

There was blood everywhere.

I saw her corsage in
the grass over there.

Do you remember calling the cops?

My parents did that. I ran home.

They took me to St.
Luke's. I got 12 stitches.

And the cops still thought you did it?

I was so messed up, I
thought maybe I did do it,

but I didn't. I swear I didn't.

I loved Haley.

My whole life ended
the night that she died.

Haley.

It's okay.

He was 21 years old, and
he asked me to marry him,

and I said yes

because I wanted to
get away from my mother.

It's kind of interesting, isn't it?

Him showing up in your life now?

Stabler, Burton. Something's going on.

Nothing's going on.

I mean, Burton is
obsessed with his work.

You realize that his
last podcast series...

- he got a man off death row.
- Yeah, I Googled him too.

You also saw that he just
split up with his girlfriend?

Yeah, the French
journalist. I did see that.

And right after, out
of all the cold cases,

he chooses one from SVU?

Because Ian Ridley is innocent.

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The rape kit sample was corrupted,

but we did find a tiny amount

of seminal fluid on her underwear,

enough to tease out a genetic profile.

And it's not Ian's.

No, no, we excluded him right away.

No hits in CODIS.
We're looking at RMNE.

So random man...

Not excluded.

- I know.
- Of course you do.

Then you also know that the DA's office

is unlikely to exonerate Ian...

Without a viable suspect, mm-hmm.

That's the downside of CODIS,

just doesn't have all the answers.

But now that we have a genetic profile,

FORYM can start a search of multiple

geological databases
and ancestry sites.

With any luck, we
find distant relatives,

digital shoe leather.

So we start wide. We bore in.

I mean, it's all new
bells and whistles,

but it's basically old
school. Work the tree.

- So I'm getting out of here?
- One step at a time, Ian.

The lab did find male DNA

on Haley's body that wasn't yours.

Whose was it?

Well, we don't know that yet,

but someone who uploaded their DNA

to a genealogical website

is a close relative, either
a brother or a cousin,

and we've identified
three possible suspects.

One of the men lived
in California at the time,

one in Ohio, but one
of the men was local.

In fact, he worked at your high school.

Mr. Murray?

I mean, he was the girls' tennis coach,

but there's no way he
did this. He loved Haley.

Well, like I told Liv,

Roger Murray was never a suspect.

I mean, how solid is this new tech?

It works, but we don't
have Murray's DNA yet.

We do have a familial match.

Captain, you interviewed
him three times... why?

Well, he was one of the
last people to see her alive.

He was a chaperone at
the prom, and he also said

that he saw Haley
and Ian get in a fight.

Hm. Yeah, what else did he say?

Well, he said that
Ian was really weird,

couldn't get a date in his own grade,

and that Haley had confided in him

that she thought he was kind of creepy.

And you believed Murray?

Well, I had no reason not to, Amanda.

Ian confessed.

And Haley's mother has said

that Roger was like a
second father to that girl.

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I've never changed one
thing about this room.

Helps me remember Haley as she was,

not as a murder victim.

We're sorry if this brings up

any painful memories, Mrs. West.

They've never gone away.

She was an artist, an athlete.

She loved tennis. Roger
Murray saw her potential.

What can you tell us about him?

Well, after my husband's death,

he saved me.

He tutored Haley on her SATs,

helped her with college planning.

So they spent a lot of time together?

Is this about that
writer and his podcast?

I told him I'd never
let my daughter's death

be entertainment someone
listens to while they work out.

We're only here as NYPD.

We're just trying to
give you some closure.

Closure?

My husband and daughter are dead.

I'll never see Haley
walk down the aisle.

I'll never bake cookies
for my grandchildren.

And we can't change
what happened to Haley.

Hey, leave me alone. Ian confessed.

And Roger sends me a card every year

on the anniversary of her death

just to let me know...

I'm not mourning alone.

- Excuse me, Mr. Murray.
- Can I help you?

Yeah, I'm ADA Dominic Carisi.

I was wondering if we could
talk to you about Haley West.

Yeah, her mother told me that
you guys were nosing around.

Look, I told everything
I knew to the police.

It was Ian Ridley.

Yeah, we know. I'm Nick Amaro.

Yeah, my old captain, Cragen,

told me he appreciated
all your help back then.

That's why we're here.

I don't understand, Ian's in prison.

Oh, he is,

but, you know, he's
trying for an appeal.

Yeah, he's trying to get
the DNA re-examined.

- Unbelievable.
- Yeah, tell us about it.

Look, as a precaution,
we're gathering samples

from anyone Hailey
interacted with that night,

and Haley's mom told us you chaperoned.

- Yeah, I chaperoned, but...
- What's going on?

How you doing, ma'am?

I'm Dominic Carisi.
I'm with the DA's office.

Ian Ridley is trying
to reopen the case.

I mean, it's a bunch of nonsense...

Which is why we need
your husband's help.

We know how much Haley meant to him.

Roger, do whatever they ask.

Haley was beautiful that night.

Her mother said that she
was like a daughter to you.

I loved that girl, and I
would never hurt her.

- She knew that.
- I'm sure she did, Mr. Murray.

You looked out for
her. You protected her.

That was all I ever tried to do.

At the night of the prom?

I let her down.

I mean, I saw Ian dragging her out.

I should've stopped him.

You should have, or you did?

Well, that was a long time ago.

Uh, whatever I said back
then, that was the truth.

The thing is, Mr. Murray,
with this new DNA technology,

it picks up the tiniest amount.

Like, even if you were to
have touched her corsage...

Yeah, and I might've done that.

Okay, that's helpful.

Yeah, and now that
I think about it, I did.

I touched her arm because
I pulled her away from him.

Well, was that at the
dance or on the field?

Just in case we find
your DNA on her corsage.

They found that at the field.

What, and they kept that?

No, I really don't remember,

but it... it might've been
after the... afterwards, sure.

So you did follow them. It makes sense.

- You were worried about her.
- Haley gave me a look.

She was afraid of Ian,

and she wanted me to protect her.

Which you always did.

Yeah, and I was the only one.

I'm... no dad, her mom overwhelmed,

and that Ian, he was a bad kid.

So you had to follow her and Ian?

Yeah, and he was all over her.

Hand on her... her breast.
His mouth everywhere.

You had to stop that for Haley.

Who knows what he might've done?

So, yeah, I stopped
that. I stopped that good.

How'd you stop Ian, Mr. Murray?

'Cause we know Ian was hit on the head.

They found a bottle at the scene.

Yeah, it's champagne

because the... the
kid brought it himself.

She was only 15.

So you had to step in for Haley.

I really don't remember,

and I'm gonna need
my digitalis and a lawyer.

All these years lying to himself.

My guess: he was aroused. She screamed.

He put his hand over her mouth.

- Okay.
- Sorry, my writer's head.

I'll tell Ian.

- Oh, let's wait for the DNA.
- Oh, right, right.

Wow, Olivia, how do you do this?

It's a lot, you know,

but I spend time with my son.

I listen to music. I go
on walks when I can.

How about a walk now? I could use one.

Give me a minute.

New York, still my favorite city.

Not Paris?

Didn't you live there
with your girlfriend?

- Ex.
- Oh.

She may have ruined that city for me.

An old man dating a young woman

always ends up playing the fool.

- Have you been to France?
- I have, Paris once.

- Romantic trip?
- It was, actually.

Oh, is he still in the picture?

He's not.

Well, here's my hotel.

Plaza?

Podcasting has been very good to me.

You have time for a nightcap?

I could be persuaded.

Uh, I'm sorry.

That wasn't very gentlemanly.

I didn't mind.

When a father is absent,

it is not unusual for a younger girl

to be attracted to an older man.

That's what this is about?

It happens a lot more than you think.

How old were you?

- Almost 17.
- And he was?

Older than 17.

Hey, beautiful. Midnight snack?

Raided the minibar.

What you thinking about?

I'm just time-traveling.

Can you believe?

All those years,

and it didn't matter.

They added up.

Well, in certain places.

Do you know what I think about

- when I think of you?
- What?

Us cycling through Central Park,

picnicking on the
Great Lawn as night falls

and the city lights surround us.

What?

That was a sweet night.

So is this.

Oh, I'm sorry.

That could be my nanny.

No, it's a text from Amaro.

"Good news. The semen sample came back

"from Haley's underwear,

and it is a match to Roger Murray."

I don't even know
how to respond to that.

And it is my sitter.

I'm sorry. I gotta go.

Listen, I will... I will call Carisi,

and I will push him
to get Ian released.

Okay, he needs a lawyer.

And I know exactly who to call.

My client was completely absolved

by the DNA evidence.

He spent 25 years in prison
for a crime he didn't commit.

What possible reason
could there be for a delay?

The DA's office is supportive.

We've agreed to release
Mr. Ridley from prison.

But you haven't vacated the conviction.

You said Roger killed her.

He should pay for what he did to Haley.

Yes, he should.

We all want justice, but I can't

just declare Murray
guilty without due process.

You did it to Ian 25 years ago.

Burton, please.

Look, I'll ask the judge to expedite,

but I'm gonna need to
start prepping my witnesses.

I'm happy to testify.

My expert witnesses.

Where's Amaro?

Well, thank you, counselor.

Before I put Ian in the car, he told me

he feels safe in your hands.

I just wish he'd had a
real lawyer the first time.

It's gonna be an adjustment for him.

He knows that.

Excuse me. Showtime.

We get it.

I do have a podcast to promote.

Two words of advice. Watch yourself.

I used to have clients in publishing.

He's got a reputation.

So just... eyes open.

Always.

- Captain.
- Liv, I'm glad I caught you.

I've been thinking about Roger Murray.

Yeah, he's fighting the DNA evidence.

That's why I'm calling.

He always felt so guilty about
letting down Haley's mother.

Make sure that she is
at that hearing tomorrow.

We'll do, Captain. Thank you.

Well, thank you, Captain.

You don't know how proud
it makes me to say that.

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Our company's Brooklyn lab
has New York State Department

of Health approval to
perform forensic DNA testing.

Thank you, Mr. Amaro.

And here is that
certification, Your Honor.

Thank you, Counselor Carisi.

Your Honor, again, my
client is a retired teacher

who spends Saturdays coaching

his granddaughter's softball team

on a field that's been named after him.

He still gets holiday cards

from kids he taught three decades ago.

We're not addressing
any of that at this hearing.

The people have presented their case.

Frankly, Your Honor, I worry
that the ADA and this court

are being used to publicize

this DNA company before it goes public.

Enough, Mr. Roth.

I've heard your arguments,

and I've heard this state's case.

I'm ruling in favor of the state.

The DNA will be admissible at trial.

Thank you, Your Honor.

I need to change my plea.
I want to change my plea.

Not the time. Not
the place, Mr. Murray.

Mr. Murray, we can talk about this.

No, I don't wanna
talk about it anymore.

I killed that poor girl.

I'm sorry, Joyce.

I've... I've never forgiven myself.

So is it over?

The judge will want Murray to allocute,

make sure that the guilty plea

was knowing and voluntary, but...

So, soon?

I'll speak to the DA, insist it's time.

Congratulations.

To both of us.

I'm gonna call Ian, and then dinner?

- That sounds great.
- Excuse me.

You're a Captain
Benson, the head of SVU?

I am.

Can I ask you what you're doing

- working with a predator?
- I'm sorry?

Whoa, what's going on?

You don't remember me, Burton?

Andrea Malone.

Yes, of course. I remember you, Andrea.

You were my editor's intern on...

On your last novel 10 years ago.

Ask him what he did to me back then.

I was only 20 years old.

Andrea, if I've upset you in some way,

this isn't the time or the place.

Upset me? You raped me.

I want him arrested.

Is she okay? Did you talk her down?

No, Burton, I didn't talk her down.

I listened to her.

Fin and Rollins are
taking her to the station

to get her statement.

Olivia, I swear to
God, I did not rape her.

Well, that's not Andrea's recollection.

I haven't seen her in 10 years.

I am completely blindsided by this.

So you're saying that you
two were never involved.

- I'm not saying that.
- Burton, so what did happen?

We had a flirtation

the summer she worked for my editor.

The night before she
went back to college,

I took her out for
dinner to say thanks.

We had a few drinks.

We ended up back at my hotel room.

- It was completely consensual.
- And after?

She left later that night.

I gave her the cab fare home.

She never said a word.

I have never been in
this situation before.

Just tell me. What do we do now?

We don't do anything.

I have to recuse myself from the case.

My sergeant will call you
and let you know next steps.

Understood.

It was the night before I left

for my senior year at Holyoke.

I tried to put it out of my mind.

I managed to do that for 10 years.

Why come forward now?

All the press about the case,

Burton freeing an innocent
man, putting a rapist behind bars.

I thought, "How dare he?
He should be behind bars."

You interned for Burton?

No, for his editor, Kristin Thorton.

I wanted to be a writer.

Burton would come into the office.

We'd talk.

He asked me who my
favorite authors were.

He gave me books. We
talked about art, music.

He put a bunch of songs
on a zip drive for me.

"Girl from Ipanema."

- And the night of the assault?
- He took me to Balthazar.

A few martinis later, we
ended up at his hotel...

kissing.

I remember lying back on the bed.

I was drunk.

I must have passed out,

because when I came
back to, he was inside me.

I just let him finish.

Have you ever told
anyone else about this?

No, not until today.

When I saw Burton,
I just went off on him

and your captain.

It's a 10-year-old "he said, she said."

He wasn't violent, but she was drunk.

She may not have
been capable of consent.

No outcry at the time. No rape kit.

Well, if she's not capable
of consent, that's rape three,

but 10 years ago, past the statute.

What did you tell her?

That we don't have
enough to arrest Burton.

Should I call Carisi and see
if he thinks there's a case?

He won't unless other
women come forward.

So call his publisher,

his editor, and his podcast producer.

Want me to deal with Burton?

No, Fin, I... I'll talk
to him. Thank you.

I am so sorry.

This woman... is she credible?

She was.

Whether you can prove
its rape three, I don't know.

Burton was 50. She was 20.

He spent the summer grooming her.

How? What... what did he do?

He solicited her
opinion about his novel,

took her out to nice restaurants,

- gave her books, music.
- Music?

Yeah, like a Brazilian compilation.

"Girl from Ipanema." Older man move.

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"To the girl who's tall and
tan and young and lovely."

He gave you "The
Girl from Ipanema" too?

And I thought he was so sophisticated.

Did you get anything?

All his editors and
publishers acknowledged

he's a ladies' man, but no HR issues.

As of now.

Andrea posted on her
Instagram last night.

Saying what?

Saying that she thinks
that we're protecting Burton.

She gave the details of her assault,

and five women replied

saying Burton did the
same thing to them.

I have their usernames here somewhere,

but, well, you get the point.

Burton's a stalker. Our
PR firm used to rep him.

I was an office assistant.

Can you elaborate on the stalker part?

He brought me coffee, then flowers,

got too close at events,
asked me out for drinks.

- One night, I gave in.
- He asked for a nightcap.

So you went to his hotel room?

He came to mine with champagne.

I let him in, and it happened.

Did you want to have sex with him?

I didn't stop him.

You're asking if he's a predator?

You wouldn't have come to
me if you thought otherwise.

How many women so far?

With Alexandra and
Stacey, uh, eight or nine.

What do you have?

So all of the women say

they felt pressured, uncomfortable.

None of them say
that he assaulted them.

- Okay, so he's not a rapist.
- Maybe not, but he's a creep.

Or an old-school player.

He played me, but had to
have known you worked here

when he asked me to look at this case.

He used me to get to you.

Nick, he wasn't trying to deceive you.

I asked him about that.

He said that he wasn't
sure how I would react.

So I know that his wanting
to free Ian Ridley is sincere.

Is it? Or this about his career?

His podcast? Liv, I'm angry right now.

- Okay.
- I knew this guy was bad news.

All right, why don't you let
these ladies go home, please?

Nick, Ian Ridley has been exonerated

after 25 years.

I don't want whatever
this is to overshadow that.

I'm sorry I walked
him back into your life.

Please. I'm... I'm a big girl, Nick.

Still, I mean, how old were you then?

16? He was 21.

My daughter's 15.

And it was a different time then.

We were in love.

Anything that we did, I wanted to do.

It was my choice.

Well, that's the thing
about predators, Liv.

The good ones, the smart ones,

they make their victims believe that.

Nick, thank you, and I appreciate

that you have graduate degrees,

but I've also been here
for a very long time,

so I don't need your expertise,
but thank you so much.

Well, physician, heal thyself.

I think we're done now.

She told me that if I
didn't stop seeing him,

that she would have
him kicked out of college,

and I told her that I was moving out.

She was halfway
through a bottle of vodka,

and she dropped it.

It shattered all over the floor,

and then she picked up
the jagged edge of the bottle,

and she came at me,

screaming,

"I'll never let anyone else have you."

- Oh, Liv, come in.
- Hey.

I'm so glad to see
you. I've been calling.

Yeah, I know.

Can I... can I get... can
I get you something?

No, no. No, thanks.

Listen, first, I wanna apologize again

for the incredibly awkward situation.

Yeah, it's been a long couple of days.

Are you... are you sure I
can't get you something?

No, trust me.

Well, I'm gonna have
another because it's been a hell

of a 48 hours for me too.

My publisher's having a
meltdown, my publicist.

Do you know this woman, Andrea Malone?

Do you know that her
posts just went viral?

- I know.
- You know?

I did.

I mean, do you what that
means in this day and age?

Cancel culture? My podcast's on hold.

My reps are useless.

Have we resolved this?

Burton, my detectives
found Andrea's story credible.

What?

Do I need a lawyer?

The case is beyond
the statute of limitations,

so there's nothing that
we can charge you with.

Well, 'cause there's nothing to charge.

I didn't do anything, Olivia.

And this one woman
is destroying my name!

First of all, it's not one woman.

There are others.

Oh, no. Oh, oh, God.

Wait, who?

I have a right to know my accusers.

Look, none of the allegations rose

to a level of chargeable offenses,

so you're off the hook.

I haven't been a saint, Olivia.

If a beautiful, younger woman
seemed interested in me,

I'm human. I was grateful.

Yes. Did I sleep with some of them?

Absolutely.

But I never took
advantage of anyone ever.

That's not what these women are saying.

Burton, listen to me. Come on.

You were a powerful, successful man.

These women looked up to
you. You abused their trust.

Oh, come on.

They didn't complain at the time.

Have I pursued women? Yes.

You know what it used to be called?

Seduction, not rape.

Come on.

You know me, Olivia.

Do you really not understand
the power differential?

Do you not understand
that you were their mentor?

I was, and so what?

It's okay for them to
obliterate a lifetime's work?

My reputation? Over
these... these fabrications?

That's okay. But what about Ian Ridley?

What about all the good I've done?

I need you to stand up
and defend me here, Olivia.

You're a captain at the
SVU. You can do that.

- I can't.
- Why not?

You slept with me

when I was 16, Burton.

You were 21.

And technically, that
is... that is sexual assault.

Oh, are you saying

that you're a victim now?

We were in love.

I was a teenager. My house was a mess.

You knew that.

You knew that I would do anything

to get away from my mother.

Oh, please don't get
her voice in your head.

We both know she was stone crazy.

Was she? Was she, Burton?

Or maybe...

maybe she was trying to protect me.

Do you remember the
first night we had sex

40 years ago?

I do.

You didn't put up much of a fight.

And the other night,
are you gonna change

the narrative there, too,
and say that I raped you?

No, Burton, of course not.

Because that sure
seemed like consent to me.

What the hell do you
want from me, Olivia?

An apology because I
was in love with you?

Maybe.

Maybe I wanted

some sort of acknowledgement

because I was so young.

Well, you're not gonna get it.

I can see that.

Oh, come on.

Where... where you going?

Oh, that's it? We're done?

Goodbye, Burton.

I hate him for what he did to you.

So do I,

and if he hadn't,

you would not be here.

Nick, it's Liv.

I wanted to tell you that
you were right about Burton,

and I'm sorry for being so defensive.

And thank you.

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