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Narrator: 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.

[trap music from car]

[♪]

"What you doing, Chris?"

He says he's "just chilling."

Send him a pic.

Mm?

Nah, not that one.

Yeah, now you talking.

"I need you.

Now a good time
to come over?"

- He says yes.
- Now me.

- Yes, send it.
- Ooh!

"Your bro home?
He want some too?"

- Oh, that's good.
- Okay, okay.

[chuckles]

299 Madison Street.

Good job.
Go.

[♪]

♪ Move with it,
I'm about to make them learn ♪

♪ Take them to school
with it ♪

♪ I've got a flame
that'll make them burn ♪

♪ They'll walk around
"Who did it?" ♪

♪ Who did it?
Who did it? Who? Bow! ♪

♪ Always gonna keep
my lil tool with me ♪

♪ What is this guys
won't do for me ♪

♪ Losing my shirt,
it was $2.50 ♪

♪ Hey, ma, hey, ma

♪ Chuckin', all of
these guys be chuckin' ♪

♪ Chuck it, lying,
lying, bluffing ♪

♪ Talking, but it
ain't about nothing, nothing ♪

- Yo, that is fire.
- Wait, it's not done yet.

- That's your OCD kicking in.
- [scoffs]

It's ready.

- You sure?
- Hell yeah.

[doorbell chimes]

Chris is coming.

Girls are here.
We'll post it later.

You know,
I gotta be minty fresh.

Hey, Tori.

- [gasps]
- [shouting]

Uh-oh,
caught you slipping, man.

- Stash and cash, now.
- Stop scaring my brother!

- Just do what he says.
- Do what I say.

- Hey!
- No!

No!
[screaming]

- [shrieks]
- Do what I say, boy.

No!

Boy, get up!
You wanna live?

Take me to the safe.

Take me, go, open it up.

- Come on, open it up.
- [whimpers]

- Come on, let's go!
- The safe.

All right, get it open.

Boy, you better hurry up.

Get it open, let's go.
Let's go.

- Put the money in the bag.
- Pick it up.

- Come on.
- All right, let's go.

Let's go, get out.
Get out.

[whimpers]

[panicked breathing]

- [laughs]
- [shrieks]

Come on.
We gotta go.

- No.
- Let's go!

No!
Wait, come back.

- Jasmine!
- Jas, come on now!

- Let's go!
- Don't leave me here!

- Jas!
- No, Jasmine!

[wheels squealing]

[whimpering]

What is going on?

Carisi's first case
as riding DA.

He caught that triple homicide
in Alphabet City last night.

What does this have
to do with SVU?

He just wanted us
to meet him here.

- All right. Carisi.
- Hey, thanks for coming.

The perps are in the wind,
except for an accomplice

who got shot in the leg,
left behind at the scene.

- But she's refusing to talk.
- She?

Yeah.
Tori Warshofsky, 17.

There was a surviving vic.

Chris Miller says
that she was the honey trap

that got the shooters inside.

Did he ID the shooters?

Chris claims he knew Tori,
not the other girl there.

And the rest were in masks.

They took him away to surgery
before I could get more.

- So Tori's under arrest?
- Yes, and we need her to flip.

Shouldn't this be
on Homicide?

Yeah, it should.

But the doctor found bruises
on her body.

Some fresh, some old,

like she's been systematically
beaten over time.

Also, the blood tests revealed

that she had
two different STDs.

So is she a suspect
or a victim?

I don't know.

But she flinched every time
a male detective came near her.

[soft tense music]

[♪]

Why am I under arrest?

I never wanted anybody
to get hurt.

Why don't you tell us
what happened?

Do you know who shot you?

No.

'Cause we know that
you texted Chris for a date,

and then you showed up
with a crew.

He made me do it.

Who did?

I can't tell you.

[♪]

He'll kill me too.

[dramatic music]

[♪]

TARU went through
Tori Warshofsky's phone.

Chris Miller
is telling the truth.

She texted him.
She asked to come over.

- So she's in this pretty deep.
- She was afraid.

She didn't want to ID them.

Well, she's gonna have to.

She's looking at
multiple murder charges.

What do we know
about this girl?

Well, she's a senior at
Edward R. Murrow High School,

made the honor roll, played
the flute in the orchestra.

- She lives with her mother.
- Where's the mother now?

Um, apparently, she's been
in Poland for the last month.

She's on a flight back now.

- Does Tori have a record?
- No, clean.

I mean nothing.

This home invasion
makes no sense at all

in the narrative of her life.

Well, she's been running
with gangsters,

so she must have crossed over
at some point,

The hospital is ready
to release her.

Okay.

Pick her up.
Bring her in.

I know you've been
through a lot, Tori,

but three people were killed
during that robbery.

And under New York State law,

you'll be charged
with three counts of homicide,

even if you didn't
pull the trigger.

What?

You sent the text
that set everything in motion.

But you can help
yourself out.

You can tell us who
you were working with,

how we can find them.

And I do that,
I can go home?

We can't make any promises.

But Counselor Carisi
can speak with his bosses.

And the more you help us,
the more I can help you.

Do you understand?

Yeah, okay.

Tori, you said that
somebody made you do that.

Who was that?

Ah, well,
I... I just know him as G.

We hang out in parks
and trap houses.

You move around a lot.
How about a cell number?

No, him and his crew change
out their burners

every two days too.

The guy that you texted,
Chris,

said that there was
another girl with you?

- Yeah, Jasmine Cruz.
- Okay.

But she didn't shoot
anybody either.

Okay,
so G made her participate

or she pressured you?

She used to be my friend.

Do you know where G is?

Is there a restaurant
that he likes or a club?

A basketball court?

Well, G's a rapper.
He goes by Gutta18.

Is he signed with anybody?

I don't know about that,
but... but him and his crew have

this whole YouTube channel.

G's kind of a star.

- Got him.
- Let's get it, let's get it.

[trap music from speakers]

♪ I've been gutta
my whole life ♪

♪ It's just the way
it had be ♪

Okay,
what am I looking at here?

The music's called "drill."
It's made famous

by Chief Keef out of Chicago.
It's spread everywhere.

It's like competition
on whose crew is the hardest.

[♪]

I've seen this crap
in Street Crime.

They be shooting each other up
all over the city.

Okay, well,
that's clearly Tori.

What about... what about
this girl right here?

Is that Jasmine?

It could be.
[computer dings]

What is that?

A new video just dropped.

♪ Bow! Couldn't slip, ha!

♪ Always stay strapped
for the po, the po! ♪

♪ I never lack 'cause I know

♪ Always move,
attack on a row ♪

♪ Gah, gah, bow!

♪ I like going in and out
your crib, what? ♪

♪ That's something
you'll never know, brah! ♪

♪ That's something
I really did ♪

♪ That's something
I really lived ♪

♪ Brah, brah!

This looks like a confession.

Look,
Glock with extended mag,

that's probably the same strap
they used in the robbery.

And check out G.

He's waving
the vic's chain around.

Can they really be
that stupid?

Man, these kids are
clout chasing.

The dummies wanna be
famous so bad,

they're doing our job for us.

♪ Every other night,
I've been with it ♪

♪ We knew
that you not the kite ♪

Yeah, that's G and Jasmine.

Did this just drop?

Do you know
where this is, Tori?

Yeah, that's the...
That's the alley outside

a trap house in Bushwick.

You sound sure.

Well, I've spent
a lot of time in the back room.

Doing what?

♪ That's something
I really lived ♪

How about I just
give you the address?

[intense music]

[♪]

[indistinct chatter]

[people shouting]

[coughing]

NYPD, let me see your hands.
Get on the ground.

On the ground now!

Hey, step away,
or I'll shoot.

[♪]

- Caught you slipping, G.
- Mm!

Get on the ground.

Well, can I get
my damn pants first?

Get down on the ground.

That bitch dimed me out,
right?

- Give me your hands.
- She got you fooled.

Tori planned this whole thing.

And I can prove it.

[♪]

Tori's tip paid off.

G turns out to be David Graham

from the Flatbush projects.

Sealed juvie record.
We got him dead to rights.

I'll tell the Eighth Floor.
Has he lawyered up yet?

- He doesn't seem to care.
- Keep me posted.

Mr. Graham, Captain Benson.
Got bad news for you.

The guns in your trap house

matched the ones
used in a triple homicide.

Congratulations, genius,
you're gone.

Cost of doing business.

- That's it?
- That's all you got?

And Tori's damn sure
gonna go down with me.

Hold up, you and your boys

shoot up the whole place,
and it's her fault?

That bitch played her part,
and she shouldn't get a pass.

All right.

My curiosity is piqued.
Go on.

Crew that we hit, they
disrespected us in this video.

That's how nobodies
try to be somebodies,

and I wasn't gonna have it.

So?

So it had turned out
that Tori

- knew Milly2
- K's little brother Chris from school.

And I told her his bro
was moving some weight.

Them dollars and drugs

in their videos
weren't just for flash.

Okay.
So the robbery was your idea?

Nah, man, it was Tori's.

She told us that
she could text Chris,

say that she wanted to hook up,
find out where they were.

And she said the kid
couldn't resist her.

And she was right.

[tense music]

Nobody dies without her.

[♪]

Mike was the gangster,
not... not me.

It just wasn't my thing.

What was your thing?

I'm a movie geek.
Horror, Kung Fu.

But I knew
I'd never get to film school.

Mike said I could learn
by cutting clips for his crew.

How'd that go?

I have my own style,
and people liked it.

Other drillers started
to hire me.

All because of my brother.
He always looked out for me.

I got him killed.
I can't even look at my mom.

How is it your fault?

Tori.

I'm the one who trusted her.

Tori?

No one had
to recruit that girl.

She was looking for action,
following us around.

- She got hooked.
- On what?

Drugs, sex, the videos.

She was down for whatever,
the wildest one.

Was she also down
to turn tricks too?

Me and G didn't even know
Mike and Chris.

- She was the connection.
- All right.

So you were
just along for the ride, huh?

[scoffs]

What are you?
Puerto Rican, Dominican?

Some kind of mix?

What does that matter?

Just didn't think you'd fall

for that white girl magic,
that's all.

But I guess everyone does.

How much longer do
I have to stay here?

This is better than Rikers.

But I cooperated.

Those guys were
at the trap house like I said.

They were.

But G and Jasmine insist

that this whole thing
was your idea.

No, it wasn't.

Chris confirmed.
That's three against one.

I told you,
they made me do this.

Well, then you're gonna
have to explain...

How you met those guys,

how long you've been
running with them,

and what exactly
they made you do.

Can I still get a lawyer?

[♪]

I met Jasmine when I was 14.

We smoked weed together
and hung out

with these rap kids
in the park by my school.

Then she introduced me to G,

and things changed.

He was cute,
and he had this rep,

and I wanted to please him.

- What does that mean?
- I let G have sex with me.

My client was 15.
He was 19.

That's rape.

And then he wanted me to have
sex with other guys for money.

And that's trafficking.

I tried to get away,
but he beat me.

And one time,
he cracked my skull.

Did you go to the ER,
to your doctor maybe?

Yeah, Beth Israel,
but I... I was scared.

So I lied, and I said
that I fell down the stairs.

What else did G do to you?

It was like, uh, he had
total control over my mind.

And I knew that he would
beat me if I crossed him.

[♪]

But I... I also wanted him bad.

None of this
is your fault, Tori.

By this time, I was stripping
in a sleazy club in Queens,

and turning tricks
in the room above it.

And I gave all the money to G.

And through all of this,
you're going to school?

Making good grades?

Yeah, school was easy.

Nights were hard.

But I-I couldn't escape.

I had to do whatever G wanted.

He made me text Chris,

and he would have killed me
if I didn't go along.

Okay,
so Tori is telling the truth.

- She was clearly trafficked.
- Yeah, looks like it.

But in New York, that is not
a defense for armed robbery,

let alone murder.

She was scared for her life.
She was coerced.

Not in the moment
the crime was committed.

That's the legal standard.

So there literally had to be

a gun to her head,
that's the law?

Guys, can we get
a reality check here?

- This is a triple homicide.
- Yeah, we get it.

They're not gonna let her walk.

Carisi, she's
a cooperating witness, right?

You can't cut her a deal to
testify against G and Jasmine?

She did lead us to them.

There should be
some kind of a deal here.

But this is my first case
with the Homicide Bureau.

I don't know these people.
I barely even met them.

You'll figure it out.

We have multiple suspects
in custody.

They will be prosecuted
to the full extent of the law.

The victims' families
and our city deserve no less.

That's all at this time.

Ms. Maxwell, Mr. Baptiste,

can we talk
on the way upstairs?

Mr. Carisi,
nice job on the arrest.

Thank you.
That's actually why I'm here.

We were only able
to identify them so quickly

because Tori Warshofsky
led us to them.

Tony Warshofsky,
the same girl

that walked the shooters
into the apartment?

Yes, but SVU's investigation
has determined

that she was trafficked.

She was raped and beaten
by Jasmine and G

for the last two years
since she was 15 years old.

The honor student,
the one that the perps

and the vic
say instigated the attack?

Well, it's more
complicated than that.

But to charge her
with three counts of murder,

when she's cooperating with us,
that seems like...

- The law.
- Technically, yes.

But given
the circumstance...

Let me give you
some circumstances.

G... rather Gutter18's... video has
garnered a million hits

in two days.

That's a lot of eyes
on this case.

I understand that.

I cannot have this office
charge a Black man

with triple murder
and cut a deal

with the white woman who set
the whole crime in motion.

But it's not as black
and white as you make it sound.

You got to hear her story.

I'm sure it's tragic,
but the jails are chock-full

of sad stories,
and nobody gives a damn.

Counselor, I've been told
that you're ready

for the next step
in your career.

This is a high-profile case,
a chance to make your bones.

I understand.
I won't let you down.

They won't give Tori a deal.

If I hear the word optics
one more time.

You know that Carisi
got her a good lawyer.

- She's got a fighting chance...
- Excuse me.

Are you Captain Benson?

I am.

You must be Tori's mother.

I'm Magda Warshofsky.
I need to see my daughter.

I don't understand
any of this.

She's being charged
with murder.

That's not possible.
Tori would never do that.

Well, she wasn't the shooter,
but she was involved.

This is my fault.

I work so many hours
cleaning offices.

I left her alone.
I thought she was okay.

What is going to happen to her?

David Graham, three counts
of felony murder.

How do you plead?

We plead not guilty,
Your Honor.

People on bail?

This is a brutal
triple homicide, Your Honor.

We request remand.

So ordered.
Bailiff, next case.

Jasmine Cruz, Your Honor.

Jasmine Cruz, three counts
of felony murder.

- How do you plead?
- Not guilty, Your Honor.

We request
the defendant be RORed.

Again, Your Honor,
we request remand.

- So ordered.
- Bailiff, next case.

Tori Warshofsky.

Miss Warshofsky,
on the charge of felony murder,

- how do you plead?
- Not guilty, Your Honor.

My client is
an innocent victim here.

She was shot as well.

- Save it for the trial.
- Mr. Carisi?

Remand, Your Honor.

So ordered.
Bailiff, next case.

[somber music]

- George Smith, Your Honor.
- Victoria!

- [speaking Polish]
- [speaking Polish]

Miss Warshofsky, wait here.
I'll be right back.

So that's that?

The Eighth Floor doesn't care
if she's a victim?

All they care about
is the optics.

- Ugh.
- I'm sorry.

Look. maybe
if Tori's story gets out,

that will be the tipping point.

So we're done.

The rest is
up to Tori's defense.

Maybe not.
We're SVU.

We can open
our own investigation into G

as a rapist
and as a trafficker.

[♪]

I appreciate you coming in,
Captain Benson,

but what am I looking at here?

This is the ER reports.
These are the x-rays

from Tori Warshofsky's
admission a year ago.

She sustained
a grade three concussion

and a skull fracture.

Okay, and this supports
her trafficking story how?

Did the hospital
call the police?

The attending nurse
told my detectives

that they were about to
when the boyfriend,

who signed her in,
dragged her out,

a young Black male
matches the description of G.

Oh, here we go.

The generic "young
Black male" strikes again.

The nurse said she's willing
to pick G out of a lineup.

She said that Tori
was obviously terrified.

The nurse is also willing

to testify for the defense
at Tori's trial.

Again, counselor,
whose side are you on here?

SVU's sex trafficking
investigation into G

has uncovered
a credible pattern of abuse

and forced prostitution,
correct?

- Yes.
- You know better than I do.

But isn't that
all Brady material?

And when the defense sees it,
they're gonna call me,

and I'm going to have to
testify that, in my experience,

Tori Warshofsky was coerced

and acting under duress
from years of abuse

when she played her part
in these homicides.

But the law is clear here.

Yeah, it is.
But juries can be swayed.

I mean,
the press certainly can.

Come on, an immigrant's
honor student daughter?

She's pimped out, she's beaten,

and then she's forced
to stand trial with her abuser.

It doesn't get
more lurid than that.

[♪]

Okay, Mr. Carisi,
you've made your point.

Don't oversell it.

Thank you.

Conspiracy
in the second degree?

No, that's up to
25 years in prison.

25 years?

I'll be here longer
than I've been alive.

You'll be eligible
for parole in ten.

You'll still have
a future ahead of you.

And if this goes to trial
and you're convicted,

you could be looking at life.

And I should tell you
that Jasmine has been offered

the same deal.
She's agreed to take it.

She's gonna testify
against you.

- How is this even possible?
- Tori...

Tori, three people are dead.

If you hadn't texted Chris,
they'd be alive.

That's... that's just reality.

I didn't know
they were gonna kill anybody.

And that's exactly what
she's gonna say on the stand.

And she will testify
to the rape,

the abuse, the trafficking.

My office
is cutting her break.

And if you don't take this deal
now, it's off the table.

Okay, Rollins, thanks.

Tori's not taking the deal

after Carisi jumped
through all those hoops.

I don't blame her.
It's obvious she was coerced.

But she's counting
on the jury to believe that?

Well, you don't?

Look, man,
we agree she got turned out,

but once she got
a taste of the life?

I had a partner who got gutted

by this sweet faced working
girl he was trying to help.

She stuck the blade
in his stomach

and twisted it real slow.
Anybody can go wrong, man.

I don't think
that's Tori though.

Why is that?

Because I get where she's at.

How?

Well, when I was 14,

I was running errands with
this crew in Juárez, right?

Now, I wanted to be in
with the leader, Hector,

- any way I could.
- Go on.

So one day Hector says,
"Little Joe, I need a favor."

They had to lure some rival
into a location.

I guess this guy, Angel,
was into boys.

So Hector was trying
to turn you out?

No, no.
I just had to get him there.

And I did, and Hector's crew
was waiting for him,

and they took him
in the bathroom

and they tortured him.

I think they were burning him.

I could hear this wailing
in this high pitch.

Anyway, just like Tori,
I got caught up.

And I swore to God
that if he lived,

I would
only do good from then on.

So what happened?

He lived.

Angel gave up his stash,
saved himself.

I told my mother
I was in trouble.

And, two days later,
I was on my way to Nebraska.

Ended up in Washington Heights
a year later.

My point is I got away with it,
and I kept my promise.

I've never told anyone that.

Well, I did my share of dirt
back in the day.

And a lot of it,

I'm still trying to balance
the scales myself.

Peace.

We're reporting live
from the hip hop home invasion

murder trial
in lower Manhattan.

The question,
was defendant Tori Warshofsky

a thrill-seeking teen who set
this whole tragedy in motion

or a sex trafficking victim
who feared for her life?

I told you the press
would be all over this.

And you think I wouldn't have
figured that out on my own?

We offered a deal.

One that you knew
that she would turn down.

Honestly, Captain, we thought
that Counselor Carisi

would be able
to close that out.

Now, I am sure that he was
a great detective for you,

but the jury is still out

on whether he'll be
a good prosecutor for us.

Have a good day.

The jury has heard
from the police, ballistics,

the M.E.'s office about
the brutality of this crime.

Ms. Cruz, can you tell us

what led to these victims
being targeted?

Yeah, it started with bad
blood between G and Milly2K.

- ...Milly2
- K, that's Mike Miller,

who was murdered by
a gunshot wound to the chest?

Yes.

We saw one of Milly's videos
with all this cash and coke.

Tori said she was friends
with Milly's brother, Chris,

that she could get him
to walk us inside.

Then we rob the place.

Tory Warshofsky,
the defendant?

Yes, it was all her idea.

But you went along with it?

Yeah, Tori told me
to send Milly a pic.

I'm sorry I did,

but I didn't think
anyone was gonna get killed.

She's trying to play
this good Catholic girl,

acting like she didn't know.

But she started the text,

and she was the first one
through the door.

Thank you, Miss Cruz.

Ms. Cruz, you made a deal
with the DA's office

for a reduced sentence
in exchange for your testimony.

Yeah?

Yeah,
but I'm also under oath.

Uh-huh.
What is that saying?

First rat gets the cheese?

- Objection.
- Sustained.

Nothing further.

I was finishing up
a new video for my brother

when I got a text from Tori.

Your Honor, the prosecution
puts these texts into evidence.

Exhibit A, is this the text
you received from Tori?

Yes. I was excited.

I had a crush on that girl
since, like, sixth grade.

I was like, "Let's get it."

Can you tell the jury
what happened when she arrived?

I opened the door.
She and Jasmine were there.

And then behind them, G and
his crew pushed in with guns.

It just popped off.
Everyone started shooting.

I got shot in the stomach,
and I lost my spleen,

but that doesn't matter,
'cause my brother's gone

'cause of me.

Murderer!
You killed my brother.

- Delia, no.
- Sit down, young lady.

I sympathize
with your emotions,

but there will be order
in this courtroom.

Thank you, Mr. Miller.

I'm sorry for your loss.

[dramatic music]

No questions.

Mr. Miller.
You may step down.

Prosecution rests.

We'll begin with the
defense's case after lunch.

We're adjourned.

[♪]

Tori testifies next.

That's right.

I don't think you wanna
be here for that.

I've missed too much.
I'm not leaving her this time.

G pressured me into having
sex with him when I was 15.

And by G you mean?

Sorry, David Graham.

A few months later,

he made me start having sex
with other men for money.

Made you?

Yeah, I-I tried to
get away once, but he beat me.

One time he fractured my skull.

Defense exhibit H.
These are x-rays and photos

of when she was admitted
to Beth Israel,

describing her injuries.

What happened after that?

Well, I was terrified that
he'd beat me again or worse.

So I went along
with anything he wanted.

He forced me to turn tricks
in the back room

of a strip club, trap houses.

It got rough.

I-I was gang-raped
several times.

Were there other things
that G forced you to do?

Yes, this robbery.
It was his idea.

I just told him that I knew
the guys from the video,

and it was all
he could talk about.

And he wouldn't let up
until I agreed to text Chris.

What did you think
would happen if you refused?

Well, he said
that he'd sell me

to someone else
who would really work me over.

And he had a gun in the car.

I never wanted anyone
to get hurt.

I-I feel sick
about Chris and Mike.

But I was scared,

and I had to do it.

Thank you, Tori.

Miss Warshofsky.

When you first met
Jasmine and G,

you were living at home
with your mother, correct?

- Yes.
- You went to school every day.

You maintained
a straight-A average

and then you went home
every night.

I went home after.
Yes.

And you slept
in your own bed,

and your mother was there?

Most nights she worked.

But you had access
to a phone.

You could have called her
at any time.

Yeah.

You could have told
a teacher, a friend.

I was afraid to tell anyone.

If you were afraid
for your life,

why didn't you call the police?

[dramatic music]

I didn't think to do that.

Ms. Warshofsky, did you drink
alcohol with Jasmine and G?

- Sometimes.
- You take drugs?

To get through it, yeah.

Didn't you tell the police
in your statement

that G would buy you things?

Designer clothes,
shoes, jewelry.

I didn't want any of that.

But you kept these gifts.
You wore them to school, right?

Well, he would have
been mad if I didn't.

Didn't you also say to
the police in your statement

that you wanted G to love you?

- Objection.
- I'll allow.

[♪]

Yeah, I did like it at first.

The drugs, the parties,
the excitement, all of it?

I... I know that this is

difficult to understand,
but it...

No, it's actually not that
difficult for me to understand

because I'm a former
SVU detective.

I know that G's a bad guy.
He's charismatic.

He's manipulative.

I also know how hard it is

to say no to the life
once you get a taste.

I did say no.
I tried to say no many times.

Did you?

You went to Poland
with your mother.

You took a two-week vacation
from your supposed trafficking,

and then you came back and you
resumed your double life.

You were never locked
in a room.

You took drugs,
you received expensive gifts,

and you partied
was celebrity rappers.

In fact, you never told anyone
that you were being exploited

until you were
arrested for murder.

- Isn't that true?
- Objection.

Witness may answer.

[♪]

No, I never told anyone.

So here is the problem,
Ms. Warshofsky.

How is this jury supposed to
know if what you're saying now

is the truth or just an excuse
to avoid going to prison?

- Objection.
- Withdrawn.

No more questions.

The witness may step down.

This court is adjourned
until tomorrow.

That's the way it's done,
Dominick.

Nice work.

[♪]

I guess your boss
is pretty proud of you.

Hey, don't start with me,
Rollins; I already feel sick.

- Never saw you as a bully.
- Oh, well, I'm sorry.

I don't get to pick
and choose when I do my job.

Are you mad at me about that?

No, I'm not mad at you.

I'm sad at you.

I don't even know
how to take that.

That cross might've gotten
Tori convicted.

You really think
that could happen?

Yeah.

There's... there's no one
to corroborate her side.

There might be actually.

Does anybody doubt that Jasmine
was turned out the same way?

Well, Jasmine's
G's bottom girl.

They get trafficked
first and hardest.

She's made a deal
with prosecution.

She did.

And she may have told the truth
about that night,

but not the whole truth.

[♪]

My client already
made a deal.

I don't know what more
she can tell you.

She can explain these.

You've been to the ER four
times in the past three years,

broken nose, fractured wrist,

split lip, burst eardrum.

Guess I'm pretty clumsy.

Or your pimp G
knocked you around?

That's the way I like it.

And me and G
took it to the edge.

Oh, you guys took it
way past the edge.

And we both know
exactly who he is.

And it's really rough
for a girl like you.

The only way you can survive
in that life

is to recruit new girls.

Or maybe it's
because you got jealous.

He gave you over for her.

Snow bunny gets to star
in all the videos,

- and you're just an extra.
- You don't know me.

We know Tori was looking
for a friend,

and you turned her out,
sold her off.

Was that your idea or G's,

or can you even
tell the difference anymore?

What are we doing here?

Is this a therapy session

or are you making
some kind of an offer?

We're trying to make
a case against G.

And if Jasmine corroborates
Tori's story,

we can take it back to the DA.

Pass.
I'm no snitch.

Nah, you're pretty tough,
huh?

I know you're scared
of him right now.

[dramatic music]

Even though he's in jail,
you still think that

somehow he can reach
through that wall and hurt you.

He placed that fear so deep
in you that he controls you.

Jasmine, look at me.

[♪]

Look at me.

[♪]

You're worth more than this.

[♪]

No, I'm not.

I'm spending
the next decade in here.

And what am I gonna
be worth then?

Then talk to us.

Come on, he's the bad guy,
not you.

Help us.

[♪]

SVU is talking to Jasmine?

She already took a deal.
She testified.

Yes, she did.

But they're looking to bring
additional charges against G

for sex trafficking and rape.

I assume you informed them
the police don't press charges.

They did not come to me
before they talked to her.

But now Jasmine has made
a series of new disclosures

to SVU on
her own systematic abuse by G,

and the abuse of Tori
that she witnessed.

Counselor, Tori is
on her way to conviction.

- What are you doing?
- I'm giving you a heads-up.

It's one thing for Tori to
claim that she was trafficked.

It's another thing for Jasmine
to get on that stand

and back Tori's story.
Now we wanna avoid that.

We need to get
in front of this.

We got to renegotiate
her deal and Tori's.

This office doesn't bargain
against ourselves.

- I'm well aware of that.
- And according to the law,

none of this has any bearing
on Tori's guilt.

We all know that the law
is a lagging indicator.

Society is changing.

We no longer
ruin a teenager's life

because he got caught
with a joint.

We've moved on from prosecuting
sex workers for prostitution

to prosecuting the Johns.

I'm well aware too,

but you are at the end
of a murder trial.

The only question is,
are you a closer or not?

These young women
were brutalized,

and we all know it.

We use our discretion
all the time

for the rich,
for the connected.

Why... why can't we do that here?

You didn't answer
my question, Mr. Carisi.

Let him finish, Philip.

[♪]

Sometimes...

sometimes justice is
about compassion.

And all due respect,
the question should really be

what kind of office
do you wanna run?

[♪]

Today the People are
dismissing the murder charges

against Tori Warshofsky
and Jasmine Cruz,

and are pleased
that they've accepted

a deal on robbery charges

that sentences them
to 200 hours community service,

mandatory counseling,
and ten years' probation.

In this day and age,
this office has no interest

in prosecuting women for crimes
when they are the real victims.

The law is
a lagging indicator.

Sometimes justice is about
compassion and not punishment.

And that's what
this office stands for.

"Lagging indicator"?

That sounds like
something you would say.

I'm just glad
they saw the light.

- Rough case.
- Mm.

[reporters chattering]

Are we good?

We are.

Let's get out of here.

[♪]

Please don't tell my mom.

It's the only bad thing
I do now.

Okay.

How are you doing otherwise?

Looks like I'm gonna graduate
on time.

Hoping for SUNY New Paltz.

So you know why I'm here,
Tori?

The counselor said that you
missed your last two sessions.

It's a violation
of your probation.

And I was thinking that

maybe a part of you believes

that you should be in prison.

Maybe that is
where I belong.

I miss the excitement
of the life sometimes.

But then I think about Chris,
about his whole family,

and how I'm out here free,

and they've lost everything.

Maybe I could have stopped it.

It's natural for you
to feel guilty.

I actually don't
feel anything.

[somber music]

Tori, you were 14

when all of this started.

You had to put on a lot
of armor to protect yourself.

I feel like
I can't take it off.

You can, and you will.

[♪]

But it's gonna be
uncomfortable.

It's gonna feel different.

You have to retrain your brain.

Please, be... be patient
with yourself.

[♪]

- Gotta get back inside.
- Okay.

Work your program, Tori.

Make the most of this chance.

Okay, it's the one thing
I'm gonna ask of you.

- I'll try.
- No.

You can do this, Tori.

I know that you can.

[♪]

[dramatic music]

[♪]

[wolf howls]