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- In the criminal justice
system,

sexually based offenses

are considered
especially heinous.

In New York City,
the dedicated detectives

who investigate
these vicious felonies

are members of an elite squad

known as
the Special Victims Unit.

These are their stories.

- And the living room--

swimming in natural light,

floor-to-ceiling windows
to showcase the view.

- Not bad.

- "Not bad"?
It's spectacular.

- Sunset at Iguazú Falls
is spectacular.

The omakase at Sukiyabashi Jiro
is spectacular.

- My husband is
a stickler for words.

- All I'm saying is,
let's just save the hyperbole

for something spectacular.

Shall we move on?

- That would be spectacular.

- Wait until I show you
the master bedroom.

The view is amazing.

It's truly a highlight.

You get
floor-to-ceiling windows,

breathtaking city views.

It's perfect for waking up.

- Skyline everywhere.

What the--

- Inspector.
- Captain Benson.

- We got a call
about a sexual assault.

- Guy apartment-hunting
across the street

saw it through a telescope.

Says he saw a woman
in her bra and panties

in this building getting
assaulted at gunpoint.

- And no other 911 calls?
- She hasn't reported it.

- What floor was he looking at
through his telescope?

- Fifth floor.

- And any sign of the gunman?
- No.

We secured what the witness
said was the apartment

and cleared the building.

- Okay, we'll go talk to him.
- Yeah.

All right, Inspector.
Thank you. We got it from here.

Hey, Eric.
- Captain.

- So what do we know
about this building?

- Uh, no doorman.

There's a part-time super.
He's on his way.

- Any security cams?
- Just in the elevator.

- All right, well,
when the super gets here,

have him pull all the footage

and track down
whoever lives in that unit.

- You and I cover the scene?
- Yeah.

So we have
a high overhead angle.

Let's hope that it caught
something usable.

- If our perp
didn't take the stairs.

- Well, criminals
tend to be lazy.

- You and your wife
were looking at apartments?

- We can't afford anything.

We just like going
to open houses.

- And this one happened to have
a telescope by the window?

- They stage these places.

- And what made you look into
the windows of this building?

- Curiosity, I guess.

- Okay.
Just tell us what you saw.

- A young girl--I could see
she was being forced

to put her clothes back on
by some guy with a gun.

- Did it look like
he assaulted her?

- Yeah.
To me, it did.

- Can you describe the guy?

- Black, 6 feet.

- Okay.

- Whatever they were doing,

it looked like
they were finished,

and they were getting ready
to leave.

- Thank you.

- All right, make sure that
you get all of this bedding

and the mattress pad, too.

- Whoever it was left these,
but there's one missing.

- All right, a condom.

You find one in the bed
or on the floor?

- No, Captain.

- All right,
so snake the plumbing.

I don't care if you have
to pull those pipes.

- Captain, Sergeant.
- What do you got?

- I found
three impressions here.

- Okay.

Looks like some kind
of camera tripod.

- If it was, the perp
could have filmed the assault.

- Yeah, so cut this section out
and get it to the lab.

- Maybe we get lucky, and
the vic will just call it in.

- Who's to say
she's not still being held

at gunpoint somewhere?

- I don't know, but I'm sensing
some kind of theme.

- What is that?

- Telescopes, camera--
voyeurism.

- You think the guy
with the telescope

knows more than he's saying?

- A peeping Tom
with a telescope

clocks a rape
through a random window

at the exact time
it's happening?

What's the odds of that?
- In this town?

Better than you think.

- So a witness saw
a young woman in her underwear

being held at gunpoint?

Did he see an assault?

- No, but we have
reason to believe

that whatever happened
may have been recorded.

- Is there any chance
this guy with the telescope

just saw a porn shoot?

- It'd have to be pretty rough.

I mean, consensual non-consent?

- Maybe the gun was a prop.

- It might explain
why it was never reported.

- Where are we
with the building surveillance?

- We got elevator footage
from 9:00 a.m. this morning.

- Well, there's the girl
and the gunman,

like the witness said he saw.

- Wait, who's this guy?
- Maybe her boyfriend.

- Whoever he is,
he's trying to protect her.

- Send this over
to Real-Time Crime,

and have them put it
through facial rec.

- You got it.
- I thought you said

this was filmed--
I don't see a camera.

- We have footage
of the perp carrying up

a tripod and a camera bag.

- So this was premeditated?

- But who's the vic?

- We'll know a lot more
once we get an ID.

- Okay, so show this
to the eyewitness

and have him confirm
that this is the young woman

that he saw
through the telescope.

- Did you run the apartment?

- Yeah, the owner lives
in Florida.

Neighbor says he sublets
his place in New York a lot.

- He just landed this morning.

We have some unis picking him
up from the airport now.

- We ran his record.
He's clean.

- Okay, so can you get a
subpoena for his bank records?

I mean, that might be
more telling.

- Call the judge.
- All right.

- I'm the real victim here.

Your techs ripped out

50 grand's worth
of plumbing fixtures.

What are you going to do about
putting it all back together?

- Wait, Mr. Ziegler,
you went into your apartment?

- It's a crime scene.

- I, uh, ducked
under the yellow tape.

I wanted to show my lawyer
proof of damages.

- Oh, yeah?
What's your lawyer gonna say

if I arrest you
for tampering with evidence?

- Or better yet,
when he finds out

that you rented your place
to a rapist?

- What are you talking about?

- We suspect
that this young woman

was assaulted
in your apartment.

- Who did you rent
your place to?

- I, uh, got it listed online.

I emailed back and forth

with a nice woman
from Houston, Texas.

The credit card cleared.

- What's her name?

- Here's the rental agreement.

- Virginia Hefferman.

- All right,
so this is the woman

who rented the apartment.

- Virginia Hefferman--
60, no record.

She reported
her credit card stolen

after discovering
fraudulent charges.

- And when was the last time
she used it?

- A few weeks ago at a
gas station outside of Houston.

- So did our eyewitness ID
the people in the elevator?

- He did.

He said
that two of them matched

the description
of the woman and the perp

he saw through the window.

- He didn't even know there was
a third person in the room.

- And nobody else
reported this crime?

- Nope.
- All right.

Well, what about the DNA
from the apartment bathroom

or, you know,
something in the sheets?

- They found a few hairs,
sent them to the lab.

- Okay.
Condoms?

- Yeah, CSU had
a lot of luck with that one.

- Almost too much.

- Okay. What does that mean?

- They pulled
upwards of 25 condoms

from the building's plumbing.

- The lab's working
on them right now.

- Real-Time Crime ran
facial recognition.

- No ID on the shooter,

but we got
an ID on the girl and the boy.

- Who are they?

- Josephine DeWinn, 18,
goes by Josie--

senior honors student
at Whitman Hall.

And she was just accepted
into Stanford pre-law.

- And there's more.

Her father's a big-time CEO

at an insurance company.

- Gordon DeWinn,
and the guy's loaded.

- And his wife's
no slouch either.

- Natalie DeWinn--
top lawyer for Goldman Sachs.

What about the boy?

- Natalie's son, Atlas,
Josie's stepbrother--

also a senior at Whitman Hall.

- Well, now we know
why he was consoling her.

- If she's 18, then we don't
need to notify the parents.

- Well, they didn't tell
the cops,

so maybe they didn't tell
their parents.

All right, start with her.

- So this is where
she wanted to meet?

- Well, she said
she didn't want us

to go to her house, so...

- Well, it means
that we were right.

She didn't tell her parents.

Josephine DeWinn?

- Yeah.
- Hi.

I'm Captain Curry.
This is Detective Silva.

- Mind if we ask you
a few questions?

- Like what?

- Well, as we said
on the phone,

we're following up
on an investigation.

- About?

- An eyewitness said that
they saw something suspicious

this morning and called 911.

- Did he tell you what he saw?

- He said that he saw a man
holding you at gunpoint,

forcing you to get dressed.

Does that sound about right?

- Josephine...

it seems like
you were sexually assaulted

this morning.

Is there a reason
why you didn't call the cops?

- He told me not to.

He said if I did,
he was gonna hurt my family.

- Well, this guy--he can't
hurt you or your family now.

- That's right,
not if we're involved.

We can protect you.

- And we can do that better
if you help us catch him.

- Can you tell us
what happened?

- I was raped.

Okay? Is that
what you wanted to hear?

- We are here to help you.
- I don't want your help.

- We need you to file a report.
- No, no, no.

Didn't you hear me?
I don't want all that.

- Okay, okay.

Josephine, you said
that you were raped, right?

Don't you want us
to catch this guy?

- I'm going to college
in the fall,

3,000 miles away from here.

The last thing I want to do
is take any of this with me.

I agreed to talk to you.

Now, please,
just leave me alone.

- Josie.

- She didn't mention
being filmed.

- Or the fact
that her stepbrother was there

when it happened.

- Maybe she's trying
to protect him.

- Well, he's only 17,
so it's not her call.

- So Josie admitted
to being raped

but doesn't want to cooperate
with the investigation?

- She seems pretty shut down.
I think she's in denial.

- Well,
which is understandable.

But she's not
the only person involved.

- She didn't even mention
her stepbrother being there.

- If she's trying
to distance herself

from what happened,
then it's not surprising

that she would distance herself
from him as well, right?

- I couldn't even imagine
what it would feel like

to be present while your
stepsister's being assaulted.

- Well, one thing Josie did say

was that the assailant
threatened her family.

- Well,
her very wealthy family,

which might be the reason
that they were targeted.

- Okay, so what's
the next move here, Captain?

- Well, I think it's time that
we pay the DeWinns a visit.

- And given their high profile,
it might not be a bad idea

to have an ADA involved.

- I'll call Carisi.

NYPD.

We're here to speak
with the DeWinns.

- They're expecting you.

- Thank you.

- Thanks.

- Wow.
This is something.

- Just like the place
I grew up in.

- Captain Benson.
- Special Victims Unit.

And this is ADA Carisi.

- You said this was something
about our children?

- This is
an ongoing investigation.

- Mom, what's going on?

- Atlas, go to your room.
We need to talk to the police.

- What about?

- Just go, honey.

Your dad and I need to have
a conversation in private.

- Oh, my God.
- Who is that man?

- We were hoping
that you could tell us.

- Yeah.
Take a look at his face.

Do you recognize him?

Maybe he's
a disgruntled employee?

- Maybe it's somebody
that you fired.

- Absolutely not.
When were these taken?

- Yesterday morning.

- You mean my children had

a gun pointed at them
yesterday?

- I'm assuming
from your response

that, uh, they didn't tell you.

- No, not a word.
- Okay.

So what time
did they come home yesterday?

- They were here
when I got home from work.

- Same as always.

- And you didn't notice
any change in their demeanor?

- No, nothing.

- I mean, they were
a little quiet at dinner, but--

- Well, they're teenagers.

- What the hell
happened to them?

- That's what we're trying
to find out.

- They were obviously taken
against their will.

- Okay. Have you been contacted
by anyone?

Gotten any kind of ransom?

- Did somebody tell you
not to speak with the police?

- No, no.

- I have to talk to Atlas.

- Where's Josie?

- She went for a walk.

- Are you kidding me?

I'm calling my head
of security--he's ex-Mossad.

- Mr. and Mrs. DeWinn,
I understand

how traumatizing this can be,

but you need to let us
handle it from here.

- What are you gonna do?

- Well, the first thing we need
to do is talk to Atlas.

- What about Josie?

Don't you want to wait
until she gets back?

- Two of my detectives
already spoke with her.

- What? You--you talked
to our daughter without us?

- And what did she say?

- I'm sure
that she'll tell you.

- But she is 18 years old.

- And we have to respect
her privacy.

So right now
what would be most helpful

is if you and Atlas came
with us down to the station.

- Take us through your day.

- Yeah, I woke up.

Josie was in her bathroom
getting ready,

and then I made us both
some toast.

And then we went to school.

- You guys take
the same route every day?

- We usually walk up West End.
Why?

- Because people like this
sometimes observe their targets

a few days in advance.

- The apartment was a sublet
on the path you walk to school.

- You think he planned this?

- You ever see this guy before?

- No.

- Maybe he was following you,
watching you.

- No.

Like I said...

never seen that guy before.

- Then maybe someone hired him?
- Why do you say that?

- We're exploring
all possibilities.

Here.

- What's this for?
- A list.

Anyone who might want to hurt
your family.

I'm the CEO

of a publicly traded
insurance company

who's been cost-cutting
in flood and fire regions

for the past year.

I'm gonna need a thicker pad.

- So Josie is
Gordon's daughter,

and Atlas is--is your son?

Yes, but, uh...

Gordon and I met
when they were toddlers.

We married soon after, so...

um, Atlas and Josie were
raised as brother and sister.

- Okay.
And how did you two meet?

- Well, it's, uh--
it's a bit of an awkward story.

We worked together.

We were each married
to other people.

But, uh, we both had
small children.

But what we had was undeniable,
and we fell in love.

- So you both had to go through
divorces to be together?

- I'm not proud of it,
but, yes.

- And if you don't mind
my asking,

how are your relationships
with your ex-spouses?

- Gordon and his ex-wife
get along swimmingly.

- And your ex-husband?

- Derek lives in the Bahamas.

He runs a-a boat-rental place
there for tourists.

We don't talk very much.

- Is there
any residual bad feeling or...

- Um...

well, now that you mention it,

Atlas is about
to go off to college.

Gordon and I came to
an agreement that it would be

the right time for me
to stop paying his alimony.

- Okay.

I mean, you don't think
that your ex-husband is capable

of doing something like this?

- Hurt Josie because
he's about to be cut off?

I-I don't know what to think.

- So yesterday morning
when the guy approached you...

- Yeah, we walked by
the front door of this place,

and he was just
kind of leaning there.

- Then what?
- He showed us his gun.

Josie gasped.

Next thing I knew,
he was just pushing her inside.

- And you followed?

- Yeah.
I wasn't gonna leave her alone.

- That was brave.

- Yeah, he saw that I was
behind him following.

I think
it kind of pissed him off.

- Why do you say that?

- Because he made me get
in the elevator, too.

- Okay.

What happened in the room?

- After he closed the door...

he put me in the bathroom...

and he told me
that if I came out,

he was gonna kill Josie.

- You stay in there
the whole time?

Yeah,
and I could hear Josie crying.

- Once he let you guys go,
did he say anything?

No.

We just went to school,
acted like nothing happened.

I guess we were in shock.

- You guys talk
about calling the police

or telling your parents?

- I brought it up,
but Josie didn't want to.

Uh, the guy with the gun--

he said that he would hurt
our family if we did.

- So have you connected
with Josie yet?

- No, I-I left her messages,
but she hasn't called me back.

- And this may be
a difficult question,

but is there anyone

that you can think of
in Josie's life

that has a criminal history?

- No, absolutely not.
She's a straight-A student.

She's valedictorian
of her class.

She's going off
to Stanford next year.

- And Atlas--what about him?

Wel--

Josie and Atlas
are best friends,

but they're very different.

- How so?

- Atlas takes after his father.

Um, we had to make a donation
to Hudson's endowment

for Atlas
to even be considered, so--

He's--he's still finding
his way.

- I understand.

- Oh, maybe that's Josie.

It's, um--it's a text
with a video attachment

from a number
I don't recognize.

- Why don't you go ahead
and press play?

- I'm--I'm scared.
- Okay. All right.

- Kiss.

- I said, kiss!

On the lips, now.
Come on.

Now strip.

Come on, take these pants off,
your shoes, your shirt.

Come on!
- Oh, my God!

- You're taking too long.

Now put this on.

- He made them have sex?

Is this even real?
- I don't--I'm not--

- Oh, my--
- I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry, Natalie.

- So these two kids,
brother and sister--

they're forced at gunpoint
to have sex with each other?

- Yes, and I was
with the mother

when she received the video.
- Was there a ransom demand?

- No, but just sending it is
an obvious threat of exposure.

- Which explains why the son
wasn't completely forthcoming.

- And the daughter's
unwillingness to cooperate.

- So they were protecting
each other from the shame

and protecting the parents
from the truth.

- Where are we on suspects?

- The father runs
a multinational

home-insurance conglomerate,

and he sent a list
of recent complaints

about denied claims.

- Does this seem like the work

of an irate insurance customer
to you?

- I mean, there's so much anger

around Corporate America
these days.

- Or it's deeply personal.

I mean, the wife mentioned
an ex-husband

who's about to get
his alimony cut off.

- Seems personal to me.

- We think this guy
is sick enough

to have his own son be
collateral damage?

- Well, it's not
just about alimony.

Natalie left him for the guy
she had an affair with.

- So run his record.

And then call him
and tell him that something

happened to his son
and we need to talk to him.

- If he says no,
that'll tell us a lot.

- And in the meantime, we need
to re-interview these kids.

I mean, maybe now that they
don't have to hide their shame,

they'd be willing
to unburden themselves.

- IDs.
- We're NYPD.

- We're here to see the family.

- Not without showing your ID,
you're not.

- Want to see my ID?

How's this?
That good enough for you?

- Mrs. DeWinn.

- Are you any closer
to finding who did this?

- We are doing our best.

- But we do need
to talk to your kids again.

They're upstairs.

They haven't come
out of their rooms.

- We won't take up
any more time than we have to.

- Why would they send
that video to my mother?

My father thinks
they want money.

- Well, we don't know that yet.

They still haven't made
any demands.

- If they release that video,
my life,

Atlas's life would be over.

- We're gonna do
everything we can

to prevent that from happening.

How are things
between you and Atlas?

- He's hiding in his room.

My father hasn't even been able
to look at me.

My mother barely can.

- Josie, none of this
is your fault, okay?

None of it.

Come.
Come sit down.

Look, I know
how hard this is.

But can you please try
to walk us through

what happened
in that apartment?

- The guy pointed
a gun at us...

made us kiss...

Threw a condom at Atlas,
told us to get naked.

Um...

I looked over at my brother.
I saw the look on his face.

I told the guy
I would have sex with him

if he just left Atlas alone.

- You were just trying
to protect your little brother.

- We were trying
to protect each other.

In the end, it happened anyway.

- Josie...

you were raped.

And so was Atlas.

- We were?
- Yes.

And when we catch this guy--
and we will--

he's gonna go down
for kidnapping,

unlawful imprisonment,
and rape one.

- You weren't locked
in that bathroom,

were you, Atlas?

- No.

I'm sorry I lied.
- We understand why you did.

But now that we know the truth,

why don't you tell us
what actually happened?

- Because we're really trying
to catch this guy,

and we're not gonna
be able to do it

without the full cooperation
of you and Josie.

- Is she talking
to detectives, too?

- Yeah.
They're in her room right now.

- Well, is--

is she mad at me
for--for doing it?

- No, you had a gun
pointed at your head.

- You know she offered to sleep
with that guy instead of me

so that we didn't have
to do it together?

But for some reason, he...

he wanted us to do it.

- That obviously
was part of the plan.

There was nothing you could do.

Well, I'm pissed at myself.

- For what?
- Because...

I shouldn't have--

I shouldn't have even been able
to get, you know...

hard.

- Your body's response
is not a sign of consent.

- It's a reflex, not a choice.

- Were they able
to tell you anything?

- Unfortunately,
not anything that helps us

get closer to finding out
who did this.

We just got a ransom demand.

- How much?

- $5 million.

- Did they tell you
how to pay it?

- Not yet.

- Derek Rhodes just landed
in Newark.

- What's your ex-husband
doing here?

- I-I didn't call him.
- We did.

- Why?
- We checked his record.

He had an arrest in the Bahamas
a couple of years ago.

- What for?

- Exploitation of a minor.

- You think
he had something to do

with our children
being targeted?

- Unfortunately, we're unable
to discuss it right now.

- But he earned himself
a police escort

from the airport.

- I've never seen that man
before in my life.

You think that I hired him?

- Did you?
- To kidnap my own son?

- It wasn't a straight
kidnapping, Mr. Rhodes.

- What are you talking about?

- Your son and his stepsister
were sexually assaulted.

"Sexually assaulted"?

Atlas?

By that guy in the elevator?
- Not exactly.

- There's no easy way
to say this,

but they were forced
to have sex with each other

at gunpoint.

- And it was filmed.

- But then again...

maybe you knew that.

- You think that I had
something to do with this?

- Let's start by asking you
about the arrest you had

in the Bahamas two years ago.

- We checked your record.
The arrest was voided.

But it is the Bahamas, so--

so why don't you
break it down for us?

- I really can't.

- Well, from the cops
that we talked to in Nassau,

it sounds like
it had something to do

with underage photos
in your phone.

- The clerk
at the electronics store

called the cops on you, huh?

- They found about 100 photos
of Josie in a bikini.

- Locked away
in your hidden folder.

- And that was
a few years ago, too.

- Oh, yeah.

She was only 16 years old, man.

- Okay.
Okay, okay.

I know how this looks.

I'm going to tell you
the exact same thing

that I told the cops
in the Bahamas.

- We're listening.

- Atlas always spends
the summers at my house,

and that year he asked
if he could bring Josie.

I asked Gordon and Natalie.
They were fine with it.

And those two kids
are inseparable.

- So you took photos
of the vacation.

- Just pictures of Josie,
not your son?

- And putting them
in a hidden folder?

- Okay, look, at the end
of the vacation,

Atlas dropped his phone
from my second-story balcony,

and it stopped working.

He had his mom's credit card,

so he bought himself
a new phone.

After they went home--

I probably should have
asked Atlas, but I didn't--

I brought the phone
to the electronics store

to see if they could fix it.

And they got it working.

I gave them his PIN.

And the next thing I know,
the cops are in the store

questioning me.

- So what you're saying is,
you didn't take those photos,

Atlas did?

- Yes.

- Why would he hide them?

- Well, I asked him,
and he said

that because they were
mostly bikini shots,

he didn't want
to embarrass her.

- You buy this guy's story?

- It's a pretty
convoluted excuse.

- Trying to lay it all off
on his son?

- Do we really think
that a father

would hire a guy
to force his own son

to have sex
with his stepsister?

- Well, if he wanted
a $5 million alimony payment

in one lump sum...

- Did TARU get anything
on the phone number

that the video and the ransom
note were texted from?

- They say
they're still working on it.

- We need something concrete
to connect Derek to.

What about the credit card

that was used
for the apartment?

- We're still waiting
on the security footage

from the gas station in Houston
where it was supposedly stolen.

- All right, so, in
the meantime, we talk to Atlas.

We see if he can confirm
Derek's story.

- Or maybe Atlas
doesn't want to incriminate

his biological father.

Talk to Josie,
away from her family,

and find out if the father
was inappropriate with her

that summer.

- Yeah, I remember
that vacation.

Atlas and I had a great time.-
Okay.

How'd you get along
with Atlas's father?

- Derek?
He's really cool.

- Did you have
any one-on-one time with him?

- Sometimes.

Atlas always slept in

because he was playing
that stupid game.

- What game?
- "Rainbow Six."

- It's a tactical
team-based war game.

What did you and Derek do
while Atlas was sleeping?

- Take walks down to the beach.

Why are you asking?
- Well...

Did you know
that Derek was arrested

at the end of the summer
after you and Atlas flew home?

- No.
- He didn't tell you?

- No.
And we talk about everything.

What was he arrested for?

- He had photos of you
on a phone.

- Nothing too revealing--
it was mostly bikini shots.

- I was in a bikini 24-7.

- Well, they were
in a hidden folder.

- He was arrested
for photos of me?

- Yeah, it's called
exploitation of a minor.

- Do you remember
any of these being taken?

- No.

Did Atlas's dad
really take these?

- Well, that's what
we're trying to figure out.

- Derek said
that Atlas took the photos.

- Why would Atlas
need to hide the fact

he's taking photos of me?

- Silva, we got footage from
the gas station in Houston.

- What gas station in Houston?

- It's just a lead
that we're following up on.

- We'll let you and your family
know if it leads anywhere.

- Okay.

- The woman
whose credit card was stolen.

- Virginia Hefferman.

This is the last date and time
she used it.

We ID'd the cashier,
Jaden Thomas.

Fast forward
to the end of the shift.

- Yeah.

- What's he doing?

- He's grabbing a skimmer
off a legitimate card reader.

- It allows criminals
to copy details

off of credit cards
and use them later.

- It explains why this woman

didn't clock it
till afterwards.

- We got to extradite
this guy from Houston.

- Hold on. How sure are
that this is the same guy

from the elevator footage?

Can we do a side-by-side?
- Yeah.

- Carisi, that is the same guy.

Should we notify Houston PD?

No. I'll alert the DA.

Get an arrest warrant.

We'll start working
on transport.

- Josie.

Whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Slow down.

Okay. No, we'll--we'll be
right there.

- What?
What is that about?

- Josie says
that she told Atlas

that we were talking to her
about his father.

He grabbed a baseball bat,
went to his father's hotel,

and he threatened to kill him.

- All right, you two get
to the hotel immediately.

When you spoke to Josie,

did she incriminate
Atlas's father?

- No, not at all. I mean,
she said that he was cool.

- She said
that she didn't remember

anyone taking photos of her.

- Well, obviously,
somebody did.

- What did you do?
- That one.

- You went after my sister,
you pervert!

What, are you crazy?

- Hey, drop it!
- Put it down!

- Drop it!

He's the one that hurt us!

- No, wait.
Please don't hurt him.

My son has been
through so much.

- Call a bus!

- You're under arrest.
- For what?

- Assault, and if you're lucky,
that's all it is.

- A metal bat like this could
have easily been a homicide.

- Come on!

- I never should have said
anything--Atlas got so angry.

- So what did he say exactly?

- He said he was gonna
kill his father.

- Because he took
photos of you?

- Atlas has always been
protective of me.

- How?

- Like, at school during lunch,
he always sits next to me.

He says he wants to keep
the guys in line.

Normal brother stuff, you know?

Have you guys talked
about what happened?

- No, I tried.

I don't know
if it'll ever be the same.

I'm so sorry.

Oh, you know, I wanted
to ask you about that trip

that you guys took
to the Bahamas.

Do you remember Atlas dropping
his phone from the balcony?

- Yeah.

He had to buy a new one.

- Okay.

- He said
that Atlas has been arrested?

- It's just a formality,
all right?

I mean, he did assault
his father.

- Because that pervert did this
to my daughter.

- We're talking to Derek,
building a case.

- Look, what we really need
to do is--

is look in Atlas's room.
- Look for what?

- Something that may
incriminate his father.

Hey, Carisi.

Look at that.
- That's pretty retro.

- Yeah, except
it's one of those new ones.

It's digital.

I mean, maybe he didn't want
photos on his phone anymore.

- Is it charged?
- Nope.

But he could have printed out
some photos.

- Well, if he did, I doubt
he left them out in the open.

- Like, maybe he hid them?
I might know where to look.

I have a 14-year-old son.

Ah, bingo.

Okay.
Casual, candid photos.

Doesn't look like
she's posing in any of these.

- Probably didn't know
they were being taken at all.

- We need to get a warrant
for all his electronics.

- I'll call a judge.

- Hey, Atlas.

How you doing?
- I'm fine.

- My son has been
at Central Booking all night.

When can we go home?

- Well, we just have
a few more questions.

Atlas, why would you do that
to your father?

I mean, attacking him
with a baseball bat.

- Because he's a perv.

- That might be true,

but right now
you're in the hot seat.

You put him in the hospital.
- He had 18 stitches.

- After what he did to Josie?

I don't want anything to do
with that bastard anymore.

- And neither do I.

- Okay.

So I understand
about the photos

that he was arrested for,

but do you--
do you really think

that your father is responsible

for kidnapping you
and your sister?

- Who else would it have been?

- Well, just between us,
we have a viable suspect.

- Really?
- Yeah.

The one in the elevator--
you know, the one with the gun.

- Wait, you arrested him?
- You recognize him, right?

- I-I don't think so.

- You don't think so?

- I was scared, okay?

- Are you saying
that you don't know him?

- No.

- Well, that's funny.
He knows you.

- I mean, he was quite candid
with our ADA

on the drive from the airport.

- Atlas, what
are they talking about?

- I don't know, Mom.

I swear.

- I think I should call
my lawyer.

- I think you should, too.

But in the meantime,
why don't you get up,

and you can wait with your son
in our interrogation room?

- So that's your story?

That Atlas DeWinn
set this whole thing up?

- It's not a story.

- My client's telling you
the truth.

- And I got proof--
texts, Discord chats.

- Okay, so what was the plan?

- This all started
because he was simpin'

for his own stepsister.

- "Simping"?
- Yeah.

He wanted to get with her.
- And you know this how?

- Me and Atlas--we go way back.

- But you live in Texas.

He lives in New York.
How the hell did you even meet?

- We got a whole squad
on "Rainbow Six."

We run ops, do raids.

Been playing this video game

for at least three years
together.

- That's how long
you've been planning this?

- No.

Only since he found out

his sister was going away
to college.

- Well, why would Atlas
want you to film it?

- Why do you think?

I assume to watch later.

- Whose idea was the ransom?

- Mine.

Atlas only offered me
two grand,

but then I googled
how rich his parents were.

And I know all
about the legal system, too.

And I'm not about
to do hard time

just because I'm poor

and Richie Rich wanted to get
all SugarFap with his sister.

- So you're here to cooperate?

- Enthusiastically.

- What are we looking at,
Captain?

- We're looking
at a fully cooperating witness

to the crimes of kidnapping,
rape, and assault.

- Who is also a co-conspirator.

- Who has evidence

that your client
was behind this.

He has receipts, texts.

- Which he's willing
to give us.

- In exchange for what?

- Avoiding the wood chipper
of the American justice system.

- We also have
hundreds of photos

that your client took
of his sister

without her knowledge.

- On hidden folders
in multiple devices.

- Well, then we'll see you
in court.

- Atlas,
tell them you didn't do this.

- Yeah, tell us, Atlas.

Oh, and while you're at it,

can you tell us
why these photos of Josie

were hidden under your bed?

Can you tell us
that, Atlas, hmm?

- This was all your fault.

- My fault?
- Yeah.

Ever since we were little,

you were always talking about
how "incandescent" Josie was.

- What?

- Everybody loves her.

She's perfect.
- So you wanted to ruin her?

Is that why you raped her?

- No!
That is not what it was like!

- So what was it like?

- She was going to leave me.

- Leave you?
You mean by going to college?

- She was going to change.

- That's it.

Atlas, stop talking.

- No, she's my--
- Stop--

She is my Josie!

We're stepsiblings.

We're not even related
by blood.

- Do you have any idea
what you did?

- I had never been
with a girl before.

Mom, I love her.

- No, you have destroyed
this family!

- No. Why does someone else
get to be with her?

Why?
- Atlas!

- Natalie,
it might be a good idea

for you to leave the room.

I'll need some time
with my client.

- I know you will.

- Wait, does Josie know?

- Uh, she will.
I'll make sure of that.

- No, no, no, no.
She's my best friend!

Look, just--

I need to talk with her.

Just--you can--you can let me
explain--explain it.

- Hey, Atlas...

That's not gonna happen.

- But...

do you think I'll be able
to hear her voice again?

- You will.

In court.

- Come on.

- What's going to happen
to my son?

- He's gonna be arrested
and arraigned.

- And if he doesn't take
a deal,

this is gonna go to trial.

- My husband is Josie's
biological father.

He's already made it clear
he doesn't intend to spend

a cent on Atlas's defense.

But...

no matter what he's done,

he's still my son.

I'll pay whatever it takes.

- Hire lawyers,
delay the process,

spend as much money
as you want.

You're only prolonging
the inevitable--

that your son is going
to prison for a long time.

- He won't survive in prison.

- And what about
your stepdaughter, Mrs. DeWinn?

Who's gonna tell her the truth
about what happened to her?

- I need to worry
about my son right now.

- My whole relationship
with my brother is a lie.

- You didn't see it,
but now you do.

You know, these things--
these things take time to heal.

- What am I gonna do
about college in the fall?

No one can answer
that for you, Josie.

But you'll--
you'll know when you're ready.

- I can't stay here.

My stepmother--she thinks
it's best if we don't talk

until the case is over.

She's hiding in the guest room.

I heard my father crying
last night

through the walls
of their bedroom.

I have never
heard him cry before.

- He loves you.
- So did Atlas.

- I don't know
that that was love, Josie.

He was obsessed with you.

And there's a difference.

- How did I not know?

- How could you know?

He was your little brother,
and all you did...

was love him.