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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.

WOMAN: How many times have I got to tell you "No shutdown"?

We got a problem with 8-G.

It's the only way...

Do you have any idea how much this is going to cost us?

I don't shut the tank down, and the diffuser motor blows,

how much is that going to cost us?

I got something.

What is it?

OFFICER: Victim's a white male, late teens, early 20's.

Looks like something's been shoved up his, uh, you know...

Figured we'd throw this to Special Victims.

Good call.

What kind of security does this place have?

Building's been locked up on nights and weekends,

but anyone with a pocketknife can break in.

I mean, who steals sewage?

Any luck ID'ing the victim?

No wallet, no clothes, no nothing.

Keep looking.

All right.

WOMAN: The diffuser creates artificial turbulence

in the aeration tanks, and the swirling action

keeps solids from rising to the surface.

So that's why the body didn't float.

How long would decomposition take?

Oh, there's about 10 trillion microorganisms

in that sludge.

Anything organic, they eat.

Best guess, about a week.

Well, the body's still intact,

but I bet the microbes had enough time

to eat up all our trace evidence.

Well, whoever dumped our victim...

really knew their crap.

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Judging from the putrefication of the abdominal cavity,

I'd say the body went in the water

about 36 hours ago.

So, late Saturday night.

We know how he died?

Blunt force trauma to the head.

Sewage washed away most of our evidence,

but I did find this

embedded in the victim's scalp.

Glass.

Pyrex.

Our murder weapon was Corningware.

Possibly.

Didn't find any glass at the site.

He must have been murdered somewhere else.

He was also sodomized

with something that caused severe lacerations to his anus.

Okay. Something like what?

Won't know until I open him up,

but I found this on his arm.

Tattoo.

The body was too bloated from immersion

to identify it first.

I had to remove five layers of epidermis

to get a clear look at the ink.

Those look like Greek letters.

Tau Omega Fraternity.

I found your John Doe in the fraternity face book.

My husband's Alpha Phi Alpha.

He keeps his Greek directory

right next to

his Harry Potter hardcovers.

Okay.

"Tyler Henry,

Treasurer Pan Hellenic Council."

Ran it through Missing Persons.

One of his housemates, Robb Sweeney

reported him missing yesterday.

MAN: I knew something was up

when he didn't show up to Pong night last Saturday.

Rob, do you always call the cops

when someone misses a beer bash?

Ty was Pledgemaster this year.

He'd been planning this since August.

Man, what am I going to tell his dad?

We'll notify Tyler's parents.

Do you know where we can find them?

They're divorced.

Mom lives in Maine.

Dad's a partner in a law firm uptown.

I want to tell them.

He should hear it from a brother.

Tyler's dad's Tau Omega.

Class of '74.

Pretty cool for an old guy.

Let me borrow his Jag

for a job interview in Hartford last week.

He and Tyler get along?

Are you kidding?

They were pals.

I guess Dad is pretty cool.

Not that cool.

Xander only paid tuition.

He's big on learning the value of the dollar.

So, how'd Tyler pay for all this?

Doing web design, hosting sites.

Net-geek kind of crap.

Must be pretty damn good at it.

Or he's supplementing his income.

So, how much do you figure's in the Pan Hellenic treasury?

70, maybe 80 grand.

He wasn't stealing from the council,

if that's what you're thinking.

He was just good with money.

Look. It's all right here.

Your victim was a lot of things,

but he wasn't a thief.

So, where'd he get his money?

$40,000 came from via direct deposit

from a variety of web retailers.

Well, he couldn't have made that much designing websites.

He didn't.

He made it off his own site.

BENSON: "The Rack Menagerie."

Wet T-shirt contests, girl-on-girl action.

He made money from porn.

Technically, no.

Accessing the video was free.

The money was coming from advertisers.

$40,000 in pop up ads and banners last year.

Don't tell me. Ads for hard core porn sites.

So Tyler would show the voyeurs

a free sample and then they'd have to pay for the real deal.

Funny thing is,

he had plenty of the real deal to show.

Here's Tyler's other website.

He calls it his Free Fun House.

Hi, everybody.

You're about to see Joann in action.

She's a freshman from Chicago.

Shh.

She's not the only one.

He taped himself having sex with a dozen different girls:

Black, Asian, blonde, brunette. Even got one with pink hair.

Okay, we'll need pictures of all the girls

and a list of Tyler's advertisers,

starting with locals if you got them.

MAN: So, Tyler Henry's dead?

Damn.

Do you want a tissue?

He was a good kid.

Made me a lot of dough.

I thought you paid

to advertise on his website.

Yeah, but I wouldn't of had nothing to advertise

if he didn't dream up Ladies' Night.

"Ladies' night at Moose's Pub.

"Wednesdays, free cover, two-for-one drinks

"for the ladies, $10 cover: gentlemen.

Doors close at 11:00"?

That's when

the wet T-shirt contest starts.

Hotties are tanked up by then, guys cheering them on.

I clear three grand on what used to be a dead night.

Tyler videotapes the show and uses it for promotion.

The kid was a genius.

Any of these hotties ever get upset

with kid genius for plastering their goods

all over the Internet?

You'll have to talk to Tyler's dad about that.

FIN: What's he got to do with it?

He represented Ty and me, the time we had a problem.

Excuse me.

MAN: Thank you for your sympathy.

It's hard enough losing a son,

then you have to spend the entire day

making a million decisions about the service.

Mr. Henry, we're sorry for your loss.

Detective Munch. Tutoula.

Do you have a lead?

We need to ask you about Tyler's legal problems

with his website.

Do you think that had something to do with his murder?

MUNCH: We're not sure. What happened?

A girl threatened to sue Ty to shut down his site.

She didn't have a leg to stand on.

She stripped in a public place.

Zero expectation of privacy.

A court in Texas awarded a girl

who stripped in a bar $5 million dollars.

Ruled she had a right to privacy.

They ruled that a video company couldn't profit

from distributing her likeness.

The footage from Ty's site was free.

He wasn't making any money from distribution.

You didn't have any problem with your son exploiting

drunk college girls?

My son is dead.

You should be out looking for his killer

instead of standing here questioning his ethics.

He was running a perfectly legal business.

Which might have had something to do with why he was killed.

Her name's Chloe Spears.

One minute you're having

a couple of drinks with some friends,

and the next thing you know,

you're all over the Internet

like some kind of porn queen.

Yeah, but, Chloe, you took off your clothes in public.

Nobody forced you to do that.

Yeah, well, 50 guys feed you booze all night,

then they carry you on their shoulders to the stage

and shine a spotlight on you.

What do you call that?

I got drunk. I got stupid.

How well did you know Tyler?

Just from that night.

He seemed like a nice enough guy.

Did you talk to him after he put your video on the Internet?

I asked him to take it off.

I could have lost my scholarship if coach saw it.

That must have pissed you off

when Tyler wouldn't take that video off the site.

You think?

Chloe, where were you Saturday night?

We had an away game.

Got myself a triple double.

Beat Penn 82-45.

So, at the time of the murder,

our prime suspect was in Philly?

Maybe she had somebody do her dirty work for her.

No boyfriend.

Finn's checking on the family.

Whatever happened to keggers, anyway?

I mean, college kids don't even party anymore.

They're too busy making money organizing strip shows

and selling porn on the web.

We live in perverted times, my friend.

How many girls posed topless on that website

and how many had a problem with it? One-- Chloe.

Just because the others didn't sue,

doesn't mean that they were any less exploited.

You think all the girls on that site felt violated?

Pretty much, yeah.

Oh, please, our culture

teaches women the easiest way to become rich

and famous is to objectify themselves.

Why get a job, an education

when you can become the next winner on The Bachelor.

It's the new American Dream.

Chloe's not the only one with the motive.

Who else?

Chloe's father, Vernon.

He did three years in Sing Sing for assault and battery.

Just got collared last week

after he busted into Tyler's fraternity

and took a swing at him.

That sounds like a winner.

It gets better than that.

Our man Vernon took a job as a truck driver

when he got out of the pen.

He spent the last year delivering furniture

from a warehouse four blocks away from the treatment plant.

VERNON: I was making deliveries till midnight.

On a Saturday?

I can't even get Domino's to deliver past 10:00 PM.

We pride ourselves on service.

What's going on?

That frat kid you tried to beat up last week.

We found his body this morning.

I didn't have nothing to do with that.

But you're not sorry he's dead, right?

The kid deserved a good ass-whooping.

Don't mean I killed him.

I get it.

Some rich punk takes advantage of your little girl.

You go to teach him a lesson and it gets out of hand.

No, you've got the wrong guy.

If you ask me,

your daughter's a very fortunate girl.

She goes into a bar full of horny guys,

does a striptease.

She's lucky nothing worse didn't happen.

Nothing worse?

That son-of-a-bitch humiliated her.

Come on. She knew that camera was there.

She knew what she was doing.

Hey, hey, hey, take it easy, Vern.

We're going to take a little ride

down to the precinct.

Medical examiner got some evidence

she wants to talk to you about.

What evidence?

Come on. Let's turn around.

Huh? What evidence?

Two kinds of fibers in your victim's anal cavity.

It took me all day

to match the samples with anything in our library.

Plate "A" is a strand of hair.

The killer's?

Only is he's related to Seabiscuit.

The hair found in your victim is horse hair.

Mongolian stallion to be precise.

So, maybe a sex toy, a whip

or a cat-of-nine tails?

Not a bad guess.

A lot of floggers are made with horse hair,

usually attached to leather, though.

Our horsehair was bound

to a rare wood known as pernambuco.

Imported exclusively from Brazil

for the manufacture of violins and violin bows.

He was sodomized with a violin bow?

I've been checking on line.

A violin bow, like the one used on Tyler

costs over three grand.

Vernon Spears doesn't make that in a month.

Could be he stole it.

Maybe it was just handy.

Tyler play the violin?

Checked with his dad. Nope.

FIN: Captain, only one place in the city

makes these fancy violin bows.

Sold one last semester to some rich kid

at Wallace University.

Name's Nathan Angeli.

He's a pledge at Tau Omega.

Gentlemen, we're looking for Nathan Angeli.

Guys, police.

Nathan Angeli.

Not a word, pledge.

Eyes front.

Sorry about that.

It's quiet day.

Pledges aren't allowed to speak.

BENSON: Well, make an exception.

We need to talk to Nathan Angeli.

Nathan's history.

The brother's voted him out last week.

Why?

What happens during pledging

stays within the fraternity.

I can't get into it.

Well, come here.

I'm gonna suggest you do get into it

before I arrest you for obstruction.

What do you think of that?

Pledge Patsy, tell the officers

why Pledge Nancy's bid was withdrawn.

You may speak, Pledge Patsy.

Sir,

Pledge Nancy's bid was withdrawn because he didn't understand

the concepts of unity and bonding, sir.

What the hell does that mean?

Meaning no one wanted him around

if all he was going to do was whine.

BENSON: Where can we find him?

Webster dorm.

Nathan Angeli?

I'm his roommate, Will.

BENSON: Do you mind if we come in?

Kind of late to be getting out of bed.

Yeah, I pulled an all-nighter.

Look, um, Nathan's not here.

I can tell him you came by.

Chemistry experiment?

Oh, man, you can't tell my parents about that.

They'll freak.

Liv.

Take a look at this.

This yours?

WILL: It's Nathan's-- he used to play.

I mean, he quit last month

when he started pledging.

Mind if we take it with us?

Um, you can't.

It's not mine.

I'll tell you what:

How about we take that bong and you?

Well, no... the violin's cool.

BENSON: Where's your roommate?

He's probably with Alicia,

this chick, uh, girl, woman he's been dating.

Excuse me, we're looking for Alicia Morley.

I'm Alicia.

I'm Detective Benson.

This is my partner, Detective Stabler.

I was just going to brush my teeth. What's up?

Know where we can find Nathan Angeli?

Um, is he in trouble?

Just want to talk to him

about a friend of his, Tyler Henry.

You know him?

No.

Then how did he end up

with a video of you and him having sex?

Oh, my God...

You saw it?

Uh, yeah.

He was a total pervert.

I didn't know he was taping us.

I dumped his ass as soon as I found out.

Alicia, did you take these pictures?

For a class.

I'm an Eco-Science major.

Why?

Does Nathan know about this place?

He drove me there.

Look, Nathan had nothing to do with Ty getting killed.

He was with me.

We didn't tell you when Tyler died.

Whenever... he's been with me

every second all week.

"I thought you were meeting me."

Is this from Nathan? Okay...

Hey...

Where were you meeting him?

Cannon Cafe, by the bookstore.

Nathan Angeli?

Are you Nathan Angeli?

That's me. And you are...?

Arresting you.

Turn around.

Turn it off.

I've seen it.

Where?

Tyler showed it to the pledges.

He knew me and Alicia were a thing,

so it was like, "Let's watch a tape of me doing it

with Pledge Nancy's girlfriend."

Just to piss you off, huh?

I was a pledge.

Making me miserable was his mission in life.

MUNCH: So, Nathan, what did you do

to get kicked out of pledge class?

Ty didn't like pledges who spoke their minds.

Best thing that ever happened anyway.

Alicia hated the fraternity.

So, that's why you killed him?

Alicia put you up to it?

You've got to be kidding me.

Ty was a pig, but that's no reason to kill him.

So, who dumped his body

at the water treatment plant last Saturday night?

How should I know?

We were at the movies.

That's just a coincidence

that Tyler ended up at the same facility

you'd been researching.

I don't know. I can't explain it.

FIN: How do you explain that?

What's that?

Fibers we found inside Tyler.

They match your violin bow.

FIN: You shoved that bow

so far up your buddy's backside,

you left wood and horsehair

up there.

That is sick.

And it wasn't me.

My bow's in its case.

Your fancy one's missing.

The cheap replacement was in the case.

Okay, so I-I-I stepped on the old one,

so I threw it out.

I wasn't going to spend three grand to replace it.

You should've replaced your violin strings, too.

Your bow left hair residue on them.

It matches the hairs we found inside Tyler.

I didn't kill Tyler.

But Nathan did, didn't he?

Now you better start telling us what happened

or you're both going to jail.

Do you hear me?

It was Will.

Nathan's roommate?

ALICIA: He called my place around midnight.

He was freaking out

and said he needed to talk to Nathan.

How did Will know Tyler?

He pledged with Nathan, but quit last month.

( door closing )

Nathan's still not giving us anything.

You get a hold of Will?

Nobody on campus has seen Will

for the last couple of hours.

He's not in his room, not in class, not in the library.

What about Nathan and Alicia's alibi?

It checks out.

The concessions manager at the theater

remembers the pink hair.

The LUDS also confirm a phone call

from Will's cell phone to Alicia's room.

12:55 A.M.

So, Will's our guy.

This is ER at Bellevue.

Will gave Nathan as his emergency contact.

He just drove his car into a wall.

Police.

Hey, excuse me-- where are you taking him?

To surgery.

He's ruptured his spleen.

Give me one second with him. Will?

Will... can you hear me?

Hey... it's the violin cops.

BENSON: Will, did you kill Tyler?

STABLER: Look, we know

you called Nathan.

We know he went to help you.

Did you kill Tyler?

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

JUDGE: Docket number 101771, People v. William Caray.

One count murder in the second degree.

Let the record show

that we are at the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward

where the defendant is recovering

from life-threatening injuries.

How do you plead, Mr. Caray?

Not guilty.

NOVAK: The defendant seems to have forgotten

he confessed to the crime, Your Honor.

His parents are extremely wealthy.

He's a significant flight risk.

The People request remand.

He's looking at six month's physical therapy

in a rehabilitation center.

He's not going anywhere.

Let's make sure of that.

Mr. Caray will surrender his passport

and wear a monitoring device at all times.

Bail is set at $200,000

and if there's nothing else,

I'd like to get back to my courtroom.

Man One, he serves five to seven.

I have a confession and a pile of evidence.

No deal.

There are mitigating circumstances.

My client just tried to kill himself.

Doesn't make him any less of a murderer.

Will Caray is the victim here.

He just attempted suicide because he was suffering

from rape trauma syndrome.

Since when was Will Caray raped?

Tyler Henry sexually assaulted Will

when he was making his pledge for Tau Omega.

Why didn't Will go to the police?

Because he was ashamed and embarrassed.

Like most rape victims.

How lucky for your defense

that he finally decided to talk about his ordeal.

Do you know what teabagging is?

Do I want to?

Tyler Henry made his pledges

get on their knees so he could rub his testicles

across their faces.

Disgusting, but not rape.

He sodomized Will

with a pledge paddle.

That is rape.

Can you prove it?

Of course not.

Because, conveniently,

your client killed his alleged rapist.

You don't believe me?

Have your shrink talk to him.

WILL: Why do we have to do this?

My lawyer already told you what happened.

HWANG: Yeah, he said you and Tyler

went down to the basement of the frat house,

where Tyler sodomized you.

Did he force you to go down there?

No, he just grabbed his paddle

and said it was time to make me a man.

He ordered you to take your pants down

and quote, "Assume the position."

And you did.

Why?

Pledgemaster says "Jump," you say, "How high?"

So you were

just going to take whatever

punishment he dished out even if it meant

being sodomized with a paddle?

Did you tell him to stop?

No.

Why not?

I was afraid he'd hurt me worse if I complained.

Why didn't you quit?

I didn't want to be a wuss.

But you quit later.

I was sick and tired of his crap.

I didn't want to take it anymore.

Is that why you killed him?

I didn't mean to.

He came over

to my place, he started yelling,

calling me a quitter, pushing me around.

I thought he was going to rape me again,

so... I grabbed a blender and I hit him.

Will, he was just lying there.

Why did you sodomize him with the violin bow?

I wanted to do to him what he did to me.

Because you were still angry.

Yes.

You let him rape you, didn't you, Will?

Yes.

He's a text book example of rape trauma syndrome.

He was raped, but like most victims,

he blames himself for not trying harder

to stop the attack.

Except Will didn't fight back.

All he had to do to stop the alleged rape was quit pledging.

And make himself a social outcast.

None of his frat rat buddies

would have gone anywhere near him.

Doesn't get worse for a scared freshman.

HWANG: Initiation is all about

making the pledges prove themselves as men.

If you fail, you're not a man.

NOVAK: How does shoving

a paddle up anyone's tailpipe prove anything?

CRAGEN: It's about dominance.

Like a rapist wanting to feel power over a woman.

Same reason they give the pledges girls' names.

Okay, say Tyler did sodomize Will.

Where's the paddle?

I'm not considering a plea without proof.

We're going to need warrants.

Search orders, phone records.

You'll have them.

But find the paddle or a corroborating witness.

Otherwise, I'm indicting Will for Murder Two.

NATHAN: No way Tyler raped Will.

He went a little medieval sometimes,

especially during encounter sessions,

but he'd never do something like that.

What's an encounter session?

Um, Ty and one of the brothers

would take a pledge down to the basement.

They'd smack you around,

see how much you'd put up with,

but someone always went with Ty

to make sure it wouldn't get too out of hand.

Someone like who?

I-I don't know.

They keep the basement dark,

there's, um, there's loud music.

I'm sorry, I got a midterm.

He doesn't want to get the brothers in trouble.

If he keeps lying about what happened in that frat house,

he's the one who's going to be in trouble.

I'll talk to him.

You do whatever you have to do,

but I'm telling you,

if he doesn't start cooperating with us,

Nathan's going to wind up in jail.

BENSON: Well, that was Fin.

The lab found nothing

on the paddles that were seized from the frat.

They've searched Xander Henry's apartment.

Tyler spent a lot of time there with his dad.

There's nothing there, either.

And both the alleged victim and his best friend

say there was no rape.

Nathan's covering.

He's still trying to show his frat buddies

what a standup guy he is.

There is no case here.

Why are we even debating this?

We're waiting on the LUDS from both places.

Elliot.

Everything okay?

I got what you wanted.

What's this?

The Tau Omega initiation ledger.

They keep a journal of what they do to the pledges.

This one goes back to the '70s.

Did you steal this?

Is has everything you need to nail the Taus.

I can't accept it.

It's all here.

Not just pledging stuff, either.

It's like an instruction manual.

"Spike a girl's beer with grain alcohol

"and watch her eyes roll over.

"Tell her she can sleep it off upstairs

"and let the games begin.

Just make sure you dress her again when you're done."

Please, just read it.

We've made cases before with stolen evidence?

Okay.

Let's roll the dice.

"I think we cracked Pledge Susie's skull tonight

"playing hammer ball.

"We couldn't wake him up,

so we dumped him outside the ER."

Where'd this come from?

An informant.

And every entry is worse than the last.

It's like each pledge class

wanted to outdo the one before it.

"Pledge Kathy was being a weenie tonight,

"so we showed him what we do to weenies.

"He'll crap blood tomorrow,

but we'll make a man out of him yet."

That entry is dated the day Will Caray says he was raped.

This wasn't an initiation, this is pure sadism.

We should close these idiots down.

NOVAK: Does the ledger give any names?

Just frat pseudonyms.

What's Tyler's?

The pledge master

is referred to as Brother Dahmer.

Oh, that's cute.

What do you want to do, counselor?

Well, I was wrong about Will's rape trauma defense.

I'll plead him out. Man Two.

With this evidence,

he'll probably get five years probation.

That's getting off pretty easy for murder.

If Will Caray was a woman who killed her rapist,

would it be an issue?

The question is, what do we do about the frat?

I mean, Tyler Henry's already been punished,

he's dead.

But I bet he didn't act alone.

BENSON: You're right.

The day of Will's rape,

two frat boys ran the initiation.

Brother Dahmer and Brother Kong.

Who's Brother Kong?

The guy who's been writing in the ledger this year.

Let's get him.

Even if he just guarded the door,

he's still an accessory to rape.

Will should be able to give us his real name.

So should Nathan Angeli.

I told you, I don't know anything about Will being raped.

Nathan, do you know anything

about pledges being dragged unconscious to the hospital?

No.

A copy of the Tau Omega Initiation Ledger.

"We dumped Pledge Susie by the ER doors.

"Pledge Nancy dropped his legs twice,

so I had to take a hockey stick to his knuckles."

You were Pledge Nancy.

We're not discussing a deal

until I've had a chance to look through that.

Well, knock yourself out.

Your client knows exactly what it says.

You're already on the hook

for helping Will dump Tyler Henry's body.

That's hindering prosecution.

Two and a third to seven.

With this, I've got a shot at assault,

depraved indifference,

maybe even conspiracy to commit rape.

( gasping )

You got to help me out.

What are you offering?

Suspended sentence.

No jail time,

in exchange for Nathan's testimony

against the fraternity.

You've got a deal.

Good.

Who is Brother Kong?

Rob.

Rob Sweeney.

Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!

Faster, faster, faster, Pledge Patsy.

Detectives, you want a beer?

Anybody who doesn't want to be arrested

for underage drinking, I suggest you leave now.

Rob Sweeney, you're under arrest

for aggravated sexual abuse.

I didn't abuse anybody.

What do you call beating up a pledge

with a hockey stick?

Pledge hockey.

You have the right to remain silent, smartass.

You give up that right, anything you say can and will

be used against you in the court of law.

You have the right to an attorney.

In the unlikely event

that daddy can't afford one for you,

the court will appoint one to you.

SWEENEY: Weren't you people

ever young?

Don't you know the difference

between a harmless prank and assault?

Why don't you explain it to me.

But speak up, 'cause I'm starting to lose my hearing.

Not another word, Rob.

I want to see your arrest warrant.

Mr. Henry, you can't represent this client.

Why? Because I might expose the fact

that you cut a sweetheart deal with a murderer

and now you've decided to prosecute an innocent kid?

No.

Because Mr. Sweeney's abuse of Will Caray

led directly to your son's death.

That's a clear conflict of interest.

XANDER: She's letting my son's killer go.

Mr. Henry can't be an objective advocate.

He has a personal stake in this.

He's the murder victim's father.

He's representing the interests of his son.

That's incentive, not conflict.

My son would want his best friend acquitted

and his killer's ludicrous defense discredited.

There is no diverging interest.

He's right.

But it's your call, Mr. Sweeney.

The court will grant you a continuance

if you want to find a new attorney.

I don't, Your Honor.

The record will show

Mr. Sweeney waived his right to an alternate counsel.

Is there anything else?

Motion to suppress the Tau Omega ledger

as an illegal seizure, Your Honor.

Detective Stabler

received the ledger from an informant.

Alicia Morley, who broke into the Tau House

and vandalized it to the tune

of $4,000 and stole the ledger.

Even if the ledger had been stolen,

that doesn't automatically make it inadmissible.

It's inadmissible

if she was acting as an agent of the police.

Alicia came to the police on her own.

After Detective Stabler told her to do whatever she had to

to help the police make their case.

Which means she was acting under his direction,

which means the ledger's inadmissible.

JUDGE: I agree.

Motion to suppress granted.

Tyler's dad came to see me.

He said I was going to get arrested

for stealing the ledger.

I freaked.

I told him I was just doing what you told me.

STABLER: I didn't tell you

to steal anything.

And I sure as hell didn't tell you

to vandalize the fraternity.

I swear,

I didn't wreck the place.

Then who did? I don't know.

Tyler's dad said

I was going to go to jail.

I'm sorry.

I was just trying to help.

STABLER: I think the brothers vandalized

their own house and made it look like a break-in.

Yeah, criminal trespass is just a slap on the wrist.

Felony vandalism, on the other hand,

buys you three years in jail.

And Tyler's father scares Alicia into saying

I told her to steal that ledger.

Makes the ledger disappear.

You've got to challenge her statement.

Tell the court you never told Alicia to steal anything.

Olivia will back you up.

And Alicia goes to jail for trying to help us out.

I don't think so.

Without the ledger,

all we have are the testimonies of Nathan and Will.

And they've seen Sweeney in action.

Let them just paint the picture for the jury.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, the word of two fallen pledges

against the all-American fraternity.

Xander Henry will say they're lying.

I can't prove otherwise. I lose.

Casey, Rob Sweeney enjoys causing pain.

This is a bad guy who needs to be put away.

All right, I'll do what I can.

But in the meantime, you and Olivia keep looking, all right?

Find me something I can use to nail the bastard.

WILL: Rob would make us stand naked in the snow.

He'd hit us with hockey sticks,

kick us sometimes.

A couple of guys wound up in the ER.

How was Tyler Henry involved?

Tyler was pledge master.

He made sure he did everything Rob told us to do.

Tell the jury

what happened on the night of December 5.

Rob and Tyler took me to the basement.

Rob said they wanted

to see if I was man enough to take a good paddling.

So, I took my pants down

and Ty paddled me.

What did the defendant do?

He kicked me,

he flicked lit cigarettes at me.

Said, "Hit him harder, hit him harder,"

and when Tyler wouldn't,

he grabbed the paddle...

and he called me a queer.

What did he do then?

He grabbed the paddle

and he turned it around and he stuck the handle in me.

He was like, "Are you going to quit now, fag?

Are you going to quit now?"

When he was finished,

I heard Ty tell him that I was bleeding.

NOVAK: What did Mr. Sweeney have to say about that?

He said, "What do you expect from a woman?"

NOVAK: Thank you.

Nothing further.

Why did you kill Tyler?

I was afraid he was going to rape me again.

But you just said that it was Rob

who raped you. Why be afraid of Tyler?

Because he was a part of it.

He did whatever Rob told him to.

Well, if Tyler didn't rape you,

then why did you tell your lawyer that he did?

Because I didn't want to get Rob in trouble.

So you lied.

Yes.

And you told the same lie

to the police psychiatrist, Dr. Huang.

Yes.

And now you're lying to the jury.

No, I'm telling the truth.

The truth is, you cut a deal

with the police and you will tell

any lie, blame anyone, just to save your own skin.

Objection.

Withdrawn.

Nothing further.

While you were pledging Tau Omega,

please describe what the defendant would make you do.

Push-ups, jumping jacks, stuff like that.

Push-ups, jumping jacks, what else?

That-That was basically it.

NOVAK: You were never paddled

or forced to stand in the snow

or made to drink until you threw up?

I wasn't forced.

I did it because I wanted to.

Your grand jury testimony--

"We had to stand in the snow so long

"I thought I'd freeze to death.

"Rob made us drink so much

I puked for three days."

You were forced to do these things?

Or are you changing your testimony?

No, no, we had to, but...

it was, it was fun.

Rob didn't make us do anything

we weren't okay with.

What's that on your jacket, Nathan?

It's my pledge pin.

You were invited back to Tau Omega?

Yes.

As long as you didn't testify against Rob Sweeney.

Objection.

JUDGE: Sustained.

NOVAK: Nothing further.

So Nathan changes his story

and you're going to let him walk?

He violated the terms of the deal.

No, he didn't lie,

he just gave a different interpretation of events.

We can't arrest him.

Okay, so we still got the weekend.

What can we do?

I have to convince the jury

that Will Caray was raped and that Rob Sweeney did it,

but without another witness

or some physical evidence, I'm sunk.

I called every single member of that pledge class.

Nobody will talk.

Checked out the LUDS.

Tau Omega's, Will and Henry's, Tyler's home.

The only thing that doesn't add up

is a bunch of calls from the mortuary

to Xander Henry's home.

Six of them in the last 48 hours.

Three weeks after the funeral?

Check it out.

WOMAN: I kept calling and calling.

This jerk Henry wouldn't return my messages.

What was so important?

We always double-check with the family

before incinerating any personals.

Thanks.

Personals?

Mementos people put in the coffin--

photos, letters, that kind of thing.

Guy finally calls back yesterday,

says he doesn't have time to come down.

Just burn everything.

Have you done it yet?

It's waiting in line. Be my guest.

Letterman jacket,

high school yearbook...

...condoms for the after party.

Someone tried to bleach it clean,

but it's your paddle, all right.

I found traces of blood and fecal matter

deep in the grain of the wood.

Does it match Will Caray?

It's definitely his DNA.

That's my property. You had no right to seize it.

You told the funeral home to burn it.

That makes it discarded property.

We can do whatever we want with that.

Have those lab results faxed over to my office.

Thanks.

STABLER: Spin it any way you want, counselor.

You know Rob Sweeney's guilty.

I've Rob since he was a freshman.

He's a good kid.

He's a rapist.

That's some nice ink on your arm.

How many men in your platoon

got heat stroke or broken bones trying to earn that tattoo?

You were pushed as far as you could go

so you would bond as a unit.

That's what a fraternity is all about.

Rob Sweeney doesn't give a damn about bonding.

You've read the ledger.

That's just talk.

He wrote down exactly

what he did and that paddle proves he raped Will Caray

and sent your son over to his apartment

to beat on him some more.

Or was it you who told Tyler to go over there?

Why would I do that?

You tell me.

It's your phone records that show

you spoke to your son twice on the day he was murdered.

Did you call to give him your little pep talk on bonding?

What we talked about's none of your business.

Pledge master whose pledge quits on him.

That's got to be the ultimate failure, huh?

So, you tell Tyler to bring Will Caray

back in the fold any way he has to.

But Tyler didn't want to, did he?

He knew Sweeney

had gone too far.

I didn't believe what Ty was telling me.

Because you didn't know what Sweeney was doing.

Now you do.

Sweeney caused all of this.

Your son's death.

How can you defend him?

It's my job.

NOVAK: Mr. Sweeney...

have you seen this before?

That's Tyler Henry's fraternity paddle.

Why was Will Caray's blood found on the handle?

Ty shoved the paddle into Will.

Will Caray said

you sodomized him with the paddle.

No. I tried to stop Ty.

Will was drunk.

He was confused.

Why did you put the paddle in Tyler Henry's casket?

Ty loved his fraternity.

He would've wanted to been buried with his paddle.

The police searched Tau Omega for the paddle.

Why didn't you tell them where it was?

I didn't want them calling Ty a rapist

on top of everything else.

So you put the paddle in his casket

to keep the police from finding it? Yes.

Because you knew it implicated you

in the rape of Will Caray.

No. I was trying to protect Ty.

Of course you were.

Nothing further.

Did Tyler Henry rape Will Caray?

Yes.

As president of the fraternity,

have you ever intentionally hurt one of your pledges?

No.

You've never made a pledge stand for hours in the snow

or hit them with a hockey stick.

No, never.

And you never instructed one of the other brothers to physically hurt a pledge?

Sidebar, Your Honor.

The witness just denied beating pledges with a hockey stick,

but in the Tau Omega ledger he said, and I quote,

"Pledge Nancy dropped his legs twice,

so I had to take a hockey stick to his knuckles."

The People move

to re-admit the ledger in rebuttal.

The ledger was illegally seized. It's inadmissible.

It was until you opened the door.

Then I'll withdraw the question.

Strike the witness' response.

You can't un-ring the bell, Mr. Henry.

The ledger's back in.

Mr. Sweeney, you've stated under oath

that it was Tyler Henry who raped Will Caray, is that right?

Yes.

Please read the highlighted passage.

Go ahead.

"Pledge Kathy was being a weenie tonight."

Louder, please, so the jury can hear you.

"Pledge Kathy was being a weenie tonight,

"so we showed him what we do to weenies.

"He'll crap blood tomorrow,

but we'll make a man out of him yet."

Who was Pledge Kathy?

Will Caray.

Please continue.

"Pledge master Dahmer paddled Pledge Kathy

for about 20 minutes."

Pledge master Dahmer being Tyler Henry?

Yes.

"I kicked the pledge and I burnt him with my smoke,

"but he still wouldn't break.

"So I took the paddle...

"...and I jammed it into him.

"Dahmer said to stop, but I kept going

"until Pledge Kathy cried like a girl.

"Dahmer saw the kid was bleeding and he stopped me.

Just like a bitch to be on the rag during initiation."

You wrote that entry, didn't you?

Mr. Sweeney?

You raped Will Caray, didn't you?

Yes.

You did it on purpose.

Did what?

Let the ledger back in.

That would be a breach of ethics.

Was it because he called your son a rapist,

or because he caused his death?

I defended my client to the best of my abilities.

For what it's worth,

you did the right thing.

It really used to be about brotherhood.

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