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- Officers are on the trail

of escaped inmate Greg Yates.

- I am going to need all the help that I can get.

- Erin still hasn't forgiven herself

for what Yates did to Nadia.

- Nadia talked a lot about you.

- The last time he was on the run, he went on a spree.

- Yates's crimes include rape, torture, and murder.

- Son of a bitch.

This is Yates.

- He won't hesitate to kill again.

[gunshot]

- Detective! Get back here!

- [groaning]

Aah. [groaning]

[groans]

Hey...it's okay.

I'm the police. Are you all right?

- My daddy.

- I need you to stay right where you are, okay?

[grunts]

[gunshots continue]

- Greg Yates escaped custody last night in upstate New York

after killing two state troopers,

two ConElectric workers, and a camper,

and shooting Sergeant Dodds.

Dodds, he'll make a full recovery, thank God.

- And Yates?

- Pennsylvania troopers found the pickup truck

abandoned on a state road.

State forensics lifted Yates's prints,

and a motorist there IDed Yates

as pretending to have car trouble

and knocking him out to take his car.

- He repeated the pattern in Ohio and Indiana.

The last vehicle brought him to the Illinois border.

Crime lab confirms Yates's prints,

but there's no leads after that.

- Yeah, except one.

Erin. The reason Yates is here.

- No. He's just trying to get in our heads.

We put out a BOLO, investigative alert,

and AMBER Alerts on the vehicle.

Troopers are watching every highway

coming into Chicago.

- SVU is questioning Carl Rudnick,

the guy Yates escaped with, who's back in custody.

Lieutenant Benson will be in touch

- Well, until then I want us on every transient hotel,

shelter, food bank in the city.

Remember, this guy will kill or maim to get what he wants.

Hey, flag the credit cards of the vehicle owners.

See if there was a safe haven he used last time he was here.

All right, let's get on it.

- How's your knee?

- It's okay.

I'm fine.

- All right, I'm gonna run with the carjack victims.

See if he grabbed any phones. - Okay.

Thanks.

[winces]

- Erin, Antonio, come on in here.

- So Rudnick said that Yates befriended a guard

who slipped him contraband phones.

We found this in his cell

with a search triangulating a Chicago neighborhood.

I'm texting you a screenshot that we recovered.

- South Loop. Around 16th and Indiana.

- That's near your apartment.

- It doesn't mean anything. - Erin.

- Hank, Burgess and Roman just made notification

of a triple homicide all in one apartment building,

a fourth woman hanging on.

All female. All nurses.

This sounds like your guy.

- Fin and I are on the next flight.

- You ride with me.

- A meter reader called it in.

He knocked, and the door pushed open to this.

Best we can figure,

the first victim opened the door.

He pushed in and knocked her down.

- What's this?

- Pieces of scalp covered with partial hair,

so he must have dragged her,

and there's multiple dents in the floor

where he slammed her into it.

[ominous music]

♪

- Roommate was in the shower? - Tub.

We think the first victim threw a vase to warn her friend,

but too late.

She must have heard her friend, got out of the tub,

and locked the door.

- Hank. You're gonna want to see this.

- Yours, come on. Thanks.

- He broke the door down,

slammed her into the wall in several places.

There's defensive bruising on her arms,

multiple lacerations on her knuckles.

She put up a good fight.

- [scoffs]

It's still warm.

- The roommate's on her way to Med.

This one must have not had heard anything downstairs.

Back door's open.

We think he heard the meter reader

and bolted before he could finish off the roommate.

- So thing is, boss, all the purses were emptied.

All the jewelry boxes were gone through.

- No, that's not his MO.

- Well, there's more than that.

That's not him either.

No victim shows any signs of a sexual assault.

- It's nurses. It's blunt force trauma.

This is Yates.

- This cut's neat, precise,

like a doctor would do. She might be right.

Now, what's happening on the third floor?

- It's clear. No sign of foul play,

and the tenant, Nellie Carr, she isn't there.

- Maybe she heard or seen something.

- Well, we got to find her.

Let's get an all call message going for this Nellie Carr.

Roman, get a list of what's missing, every item,

and somebody get me a print that can put Yates here.

- Me and Halstead should probably follow the ambo,

see if our victim comes out, then we can ID.

- I'll go with you. - No.

You and I are heading back to the 21st.

We're gonna find that third floor tenant.

- You're benching me. - I'm keeping you safe.

- We just left a scene with three dead nurses.

I'm not the one you need to worry about.

- Erin, he's baiting you. - No, he's not.

He's using me to get

under your skin, and it's working.

- You make one mistake with Yates, you're dead.

You get that? - If he wanted me,

he would have had me in upstate New York.

- Well, he's not getting a second chance.

[cell phone rings]

- It's Bunny.

She's back from Reno.

Kicked husband number five to the curb.

- She want more money? - I don't know what she wants.

Hank, if I'm bait, let me be bait.

I can draw him in.

Let me do my job.

- Get in the car.

- She never woke up?

- She lost too much blood at the scene.

I'm sorry.

- Yeah, there was never gonna be an ID.

- [chuckles]

All right, guys, have a good day.

See you.

- [panting]

Nellie Carr? - Do I know you?

- No.

I know you.

- Do you remember what you talked about?

- He was showing us a photo of Professor Carr on his phone.

- Wait, Carr? Nellie Carr?

- Yes, he said she was his college girlfriend

and he was in town for the week.

- She was covering a class.

I told him she was on her way to the parking lot.

Oh, God.

- Okay, thank you.

So he was looking for Nellie Carr this whole time.

First at the apartments, then here.

- But she's 40-something with red hair.

That doesn't make sense.

- Well, neither does the MO from this morning,

but everyone who IDed him said

he was specifically looking for her.

- Hey, guys.

There's a note left in the car Yates drove here.

- "Too bad you're at the station, Erin.

You're missing all the fun."

What the hell is going on?

- We swept the entire building in and out.

Sergeant, there is no way Yates

could know where Detective Lindsay is.

- Except he does, so figure it out.

- Yes, sir. - Lindsay.

- I've got an investigative alert out on Yates and Nellie,

her car, cell phone, and credit cards.

- All right, I want uniforms door to door

through that campus. Get recruits if you have to.

- We got to figure out what the connection

is between Yates and Nellie.

I need his working file. I--

- I pulled it.

We're setting up a hotline right now,

so blue is for sightings already called in,

green is for places we know he's been,

and red is for former crime sites

with photos and intel on each victim.

Also, there's a list of other hospitals he might target,

and this is hotline phone number for the news.

- Thanks, Trudy. Commander?

- I got the Superintendent and Mayor on the phone.

News Affairs is sending someone for an update,

and I've got a press conference set for a Public Safety Alert.

New York SVU is en route?

- Yeah, they're on their way. Hey, Detective Lindsay

can help gather information for the press.

She'll be here.

- Should she be home?

She's too personally invested in this case.

- The safest place for Lindsay

is right here in my station.

- Can I help you, Detective?

- You didn't put up Nadia's picture

with all the other past victims. Nadia is not up there.

- Yeah, her name is up there.

I--I thought maybe a photograph--

- She should be up there with everybody else.

- Absolutely. I'll fix it.

Sorry.

- Anything you can spare?

- [exhales sharply]

I have so many things to give you.

- A multi-state manhunt began yesterday

when convicts Gregory Yates and Carl Rudnick

escaped through a sewage pipe

at Green Haven Correctional in New York State.

Mr. Rudnick has been recaptured,

but Mr. Yates is at large,

a suspect in multiple New York killings

and this morning's murder of four Chicago nurses

and the abduction of a nursing teacher

from Chicago's Nursing College.

Yates was serving a life sentence

for murder and aggravated criminal sexual assault.

Multiple officers have been dispatched on foot patrol,

with K-9 units and helicopters added.

The Intelligence Unit has been called in

to lead this investigation.

- I got a hit.

Yeah, one of the nurse's phone cards

is being used a mile outside their neighborhood.

- All right, ping the cell. Text the address to Atwater.

- I will, but a second credit card

turned up at a Best Buy outside of Humboldt Park.

- And one of the nurse's bracelets

just showed up at a pawn shop.

They texted a photo of the woman there too.

- He's passing this stuff around.

Let's go. - Erin.

- It would be just like him to be in one of these places.

Let me do something. - He's playing us.

- Fine, then send uniforms and let's pin the maps

and triangulate his location. Hank--

- Sergeant, the front desk just called up.

A package was delivered for Detective Lindsay

by a homeless woman

who IDed Yates as the one who paid her to drop it off.

It's a big box.

- All right, get out of the building.

Call the bomb squad.

Get everyone out of the building now.

Let's go.

- Hey. - Hey.

- You okay? I heard you got the call.

- Yeah, it's crazy, right?

- Yeah.

- We x-rayed it. It's not a bomb.

Your people are safe,

but you're gonna want to check this out.

- It's addressed to me. - You want these?

- I got it. Thank you.

- Oh.

- Erin, don't.

- "Why don't you answer the phone

when your mother calls?"

- He knows she opened the box.

He's here watching.

Fan out now. Go, go, go, go.

- That means this morning it wasn't Bunny who called.

It was Yates. - He must have spoofed you.

He called from his phone, made it look like your mom's.

- Just answer it.

- Detective Lindsay.

Hey.

Do you know Nellie Carr?

Nellie, Nurse Nellie.

Hey, that is the wonderful Detective Lindsay.

Do you--are those dark circles under your eyes?

Couldn't sleep? - You've been keeping me busy.

You have my attention now. What do you need?

- Hmm. [chuckles]

Gosh, what do I need?

- Where is he? - I'm on with Lindsay's carrier.

A real time, loss of life,

exigent circumstances emergency.

I need information on a call connected to one of our phones.

- Did you want the concern of the city?

You got that.

Wanted the whole district to sit up?

Look. See?

You did all this,

but you keep sending notes to me,

so why don't you tell me where you are?

I'll come to you.

- Ah, you know where I am.

- Why don't you pretend I'm not that clever

and tell me anyway?

- And ruin all the fun?

- Then tell me why you killed those four nurses

when what you really wanted was Nellie?

- You are trying to get me to confess with witnesses present.

You are recording me without my permission,

and me without a lawyer present.

Shame on you, Detective.

- Okay.

Okay.

Then why me?

Why are you leaving all the notes for me?

- I've been thinking a lot about Cain and Abel, you know?

If they were the only descendants

of Adam and Eve, and Cain killed Abel, well,

you know what that means, don't you?

- They're pinging his phone right now.

- We're all descendants of a murderer.

[laughs softly]

I will see you soon, Detective.

- Wait. No! Come--damn--ah, dammit.

He powered down. They lost him.

- Mouse, how does he know where she is

or what we've been doing, huh?

- Your phone. Let me see your phone.

Detective Lindsay's phone,

it's using five times the regular data.

That means-- - Spyware.

- Yeah. Okay, he's been listening in on conversations.

He's probably been reading texts, e-mails.

He can turn on the camera in the car and in the bullpen.

- But how would he have access to it?

When?

- When we went to the jail we had to surrender our phones.

- The corrupt guard.

- Give it to me.

Wait.

Guys, I know where he is. He's in my apartment.

Picture's at my place.

- Let's go.

- It's clear.

- Sarge.

- Open it.

- No, no! Stop, stop!

- Where's Yates? Where'd he go?

- I don't know, I don't know. He's not out there?

- He left you here? - He said to stay inside.

He said if I left, he'd be outside waiting to kill me.

Is he gone?

- Come on. - You'll be okay.

- Well, look what the cat dragged in.

- Chicago, Chicago.

Now, why we got to keep coming here?

You can't catch these bad guys on your own?

- We wouldn't have to if New York

could keep killers in their jails.

- Wow, the loudmouth teenager.

- Lieutenant. - Been getting updates on you.

You okay?

- Glad you're here.

- So it's all about this nurse, Nellie.

- Well, looks like.

I mean, he terrorized that apartment building

when he couldn't find her, then he went straight to the college.

- She doesn't fit Yates's profile.

- Yeah, not to mention he's a few miles from Canada

but came here instead.

- We have to figure out who she is to him.

- I was about to head downstairs, start asking.

- How's Erin? - Pissed at me,

but she's alive.

- How about I interview Nellie with her?

- I--

I was putting books in my trunk.

He said he had a flat down the road

and asked if I had one of those...

- A lug wrench?

- When I reached for it, he--

I don't know him.

He wasn't my boyfriend.

I don't know why he wanted me.

I-I can't.

- Just--just take a breath, Nellie.

We just--we just need to find him, okay?

And you can help us do that.

- Did he say what he wanted

or why he came to you specifically?

- He--he talked about home,

how everybody needs a home.

He--he asked a lot

of questions about my past,

where I grew up,

what my parents were like, where they are now.

He kept saying how everybody wants a home,

to go home.

I thought he was gonna kill me.

- Is Carr your given last name?

- I'm divorced.

The last name I was born with is Williams.

Why?

- And Nellie is short for Penelope?

We need to talk. Excuse us.

- Did anyone reach my mother?

I-if she's seen the news-- is there just a phone I can use?

- Of course. Just give us one minute.

[door closes]

- The name "Penelope Williams"

was searched on one of the phones from Yates's cell.

- Then why would he let her go?

- To send a message to Erin.

Yates's first note said, "I'll see you at home."

- Mm-hmm.

- He asked Nellie about her home.

He went to Erin's apartment,

her home.

Where was Yates born?

- North Carolina.

- Let's find out for sure.

- Excuse me, sir?

I'm working on a case with the Chicago police.

Do you know a Penelope Williams?

- Oh, you're--

- Hey, boss? - Yeah?

- So, Nellie grew up Penelope Williams

to parents Susan and Michael Williams here in Chicago.

The thing is, is they also had a son by the name of Gregory.

- Yates is Nellie's brother.

- Nellie's mother is downstairs.

- All right, you and Halstead, as soon as she's seen Nellie,

interview her.

Run his name through DCFS.

Do a national check, too. Anything you can get.

- On it.

- Greg was a difficult baby.

He was...

off...

from the beginning,

and once he got language he said terrible things.

He became obsessed with fire and set one in our basement

by the time he was four years old.

It wasn't an accident.

When I became pregnant with Nellie,

small animals would turn up dead inside the house.

We were terrified of him.

Terrified for the new baby.

We decided that Michael should take Greg

on one of his hauls and--

- Put him up for adoption in another state.

North Carolina.

- A pastor agreed to place him.

Our marriage didn't last much longer after that.

- Are you in touch with Greg's father?

- No, Nellie is.

Oh, Michael's on the road most weeks,

but...

This Greg Yates

that's wanted for all of these awful things...

- So serial killers

often kill the same person over and over again.

Susan is a brunette. She has brown eyes.

She would've been 25

when Michael took him to North Carolina.

- But he's been in Chicago before.

He could have looked for her at any point.

- Michael and Susan Williams are pretty common names,

but she remarried and changed her name.

It might've taken him time to find that new name.

- Time he had plenty of in jail.

- But he's had a cell phone before,

and it's been 40 years since they gave him up, so what--

- Back at the hospital,

Rudnick said that Yates was obsessed with one thing.

Revenge.

- If Yates wanted revenge on anyone, it would be Rudnick.

Rudnick killed Yates's fiancée--

- Yates's pregnant fiancée.

She was pregnant when she was killed.

- Just like Yates's mother was with Nellie

when they gave him away.

- And that triggered something inside him.

- And when he couldn't find them on his own,

he went through Nellie.

He's come here to finish 'em off.

That's his end game.

- But what if it's more than that?

I mean, if you look at his movements,

he's--he's frenzied.

I don't think that he expects to make it out of here alive.

- Neither do I.

If the pregnancy led him back here to his mother...

- We need your address.

- Why? Do--do you think he's there?

- You--you and Nellie will stay here until it's safe.

Detective Lindsay will be here.

- Oh...

- Okay, great. Thank you.

- I had him.

In the woods, I had him.

If I didn't stop for that little girl,

if I kept moving through that cabin,

those four nurses would be alive right now.

- Erin, don't do this to yourself.

- That's reason number two.

That's reason number one.

- You're not going out, Erin. - Why not?

- This is exactly what he wants,

get in your head, throw you off your game.

- How can I be "off" my game if you won't even let me in it?

- And how am I supposed to put you out there?

You can't even keep your cool with me.

- I want to be the one to bring him in, Hank.

- You want to be the one to get in a confrontation with him.

That's not being good police.

- That is not where my head is at right now.

You have my word.

- I don't believe you.

You're staying here.

- Look, for what it's worth,

if I was your sergeant,

I would have done the same thing.

We'll get him.

- Detective.

It's my mother's.

It says it's coming from me, but I don't have my phone.

- Oh, it's my two favorite women

on my dear mother's phone. - [groaning]

- What are the odds?

- Dad?

- No. What is this?

Why is he doing this?

- Guard her. Get her mother.

Buzz me up.

- Did you think at all

about what I said about Cain and Abel?

I mean, we've all got a little murderer in us.

It's a gift from our parents.

Is that right, Dad?

- [whimpers and groans]

[heavy breathing]

♪

- Is that why you called?

To tell me that?

- Are you recording me again?

You are really just begging for a confession, aren't you?

- So are you.

You want to tell the story

of your sister, your mother,

your father so bad,

you created all of this,

so start talking or tell me where you are.

- [huffs]

I knew I could count on you, Detective.

- When we first met, you said I reminded you of someone.

I'm 5'4", brunette.

It's your mother.

I remind you of your mother, don't I?

- We'll talk about that,

but let's--let's begin with the fact

that your team went to the wrong place.

- No hot spots?

- Not that we can tell, Chief.

- What are you doing here?

- Greg Yates set this fire.

Is he here? Have you seen anything?

- Call just came in 30 minutes ago.

- 30? From where?

- Phone booth on the corner.

- Get on the radio. Call the unit.

Text Erin. Tell her now.

- Done.

- Now, that will be your sergeant.

[snickering]

Have you figured out where I am yet?

- Yes. - Then come.

Ooh, and we'll talk more.

- No, no, no, no. - But come alone

or there will be another body

to add to the list, and...

the answer is yes.

You do remind me of my mother.

Right before she threw me in the trash.

- Stand down. You are not going in alone.

You hear me? That's an order.

- He'll kill Michael Williams if I don't show up.

- That's what he wants you to think.

- It's 34th and Sangamon, Hank.

It's his childhood home. I'm almost there.

- 34th? We're five minutes away.

Erin, you are not meeting him alone.

You hear me? Erin.

- You know I can't do that.

[loud thud]

- Detective Lindsay.

So good to see you again.

- Let him go.

- [scoffs]

I could, but I am the only thing holding him up.

- [yelps]

- Let me call an ambulance for him.

Then it'll be just you and me, just like you wanted.

- No, he'll be dead long before they get here.

Put that away.

Then you shoot me, and he goes over.

- [whimpers]

- Stop. - No, no, no.

- Stop.

This is it.

- Have a seat.

- Ah, oh.

- Gillian Hale was a nursing student,

but what she really wanted to be

was a surgeon, a helper.

Do you know who suffers the most?

Helpers,

because right up until that moment

when you snap their neck,

they really believe in the goodness of people.

She thought that I would spare her

because she was three months pregnant.

I mean, tha--that is why I picked her,

a pregnant nurse,

as my first victim.

Mm, the symmetry.

You did want this from the beginning,

right, Detective?

Now, my first pair, oh,

that--ooh, that was electric.

Lisa and, uh, oh, Reb--Rebecca.

They fought for each other so hard,

but in the end--

- Ah! Ah!

- Because, you know,

you can keep a woman alive for days.

Oh, suffering.

It's such an underrated art, isn't it?

But you know who suffered

the most beautifully of them all?

Poor Nadia.

Look, we are so similar,

you and I.

Damaged by a terrible mother.

A father who abandoned us

when we could have saved it,

and we tried to overcome, didn't we?

To become healers,

but turns out, fixing people

doesn't pave over what you're born with.

- Then what do you want?

Why am I here?

- An execution always needs one thing.

- No. - A witness.

- No!

- There's no saving people.

We're killers,

and at the end of the day,

what is more liberating

than killing someone?

Bad begets bad

begets bad,

and you, my lovely,

you get to tell this story.

- Don't move. You hear me?

Stay where you are.

- You write my name down in a police report.

You talk to the press.

You testify in court.

You are my balladeer

singing the song of Gregory Williams Yates

over and over and over.

- I said don't move.

- You put me away.

Take me in.

Take me.

Take me!

[gunshot]

- We are pleased to announce

that the extended manhunt for escaped convict

and murderer Gregory Yates has come to a close.

At approximately 11:30 p.m. this evening,

the combined task force located Mr. Yates

at his childhood residence.

Yates killed Mr. Williams during an extended standoff.

He then threatened a member

of the Chicago Police Department's Intelligence Unit.

This officer, fearing for her life,

shot and killed Yates.

- I need to say that this Intelligence Unit

never gave up and never backed down.

This unit serves the city without recognition or medals,

but every single one of them deserves our thanks tonight

for their bravery and their continued service.

Our hearts go out to the victims and their families,

and our special thanks go to the state of New York

for the cooperation of Lieutenant Olivia Benson

and Detective Odafin Tutuola.

The multi-jurisdictional work

was instrumental in justice being served.

- You know, what Erin went through,

that can--that can screw a person up for a while.

- Well, for what it's worth,

she's got me to walk her through it.

- That's not such a bad thing.

- I wish you were here more often.

You'd be good for her.

- Hey.

- Looks like it'll be ruled a clean kill.

Fleeing felon with a weapon, so...

- [sighs]

- Hey.

Can I have that?

- Yeah.

- And you?

You doing okay?

- I don't know yet.

- You ever heard of William Lewis?

- Yeah, he's that killer in New York who you--

- What Lewis wanted was to get so far

into his victims' heads

that--that they couldn't get rid of him.

Right? That they couldn't live the lives

that they've planned.

That's what you're up against, Erin.

- Is it wrong

that I'm kind of relieved

that I'm the one who killed him?

- Greg Yates murdered your friend.

He came at you with an ice pick.

No.

It's not wrong,

but it doesn't mean that you'll sleep tonight.

- So what do you do?

I mean, what--what did you do?

- I'm still doing it.

My phone is always on.

Always.

- Liv.

- Erin.