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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.

[indistinct chatter]

- I am so sorry.

- Take it easy.
You made it, you made it.

Come here. Sit down.

Excuse me, can I get
a glass of wine here?

- Uh, did you hear
from your mother?

- Yeah, the last report
from Staten Island

is that the kids are
making popcorn,

they're watching movies

that they probably
shouldn't be watching,

but everybody's happy.

- Thank you.
- Uh...

Liv keep you late, or...?

- No, she had to kick me out.

I--I just--
I lost track of time.

I'm really sorry.
- No, no, no.

Relax, relax. Look.

Sounds to me like
you're finally back

in a job that makes you happy.

- I am.

Happy.

It's just weird.

- Why is that weird?
- I don't know.

I'm just--
I guess I'm just used to

hopping around different jobs,
and this feels...

permanent.

- Enjoy it.

Be bored.

- Mm.
- Just for a minute.

Here.

Happy second anniversary.

- Yes.

[glasses clink]

I don't think
that's how it goes.

- [chuckles]

- Uh, silence is almost eerie.

- Hear me complaining?

Hey, I'm gonna take a shower.

Don't you go anywhere.

- Mm.

[glass crunches]

[tense music]

♪ ♪

Sonny?

Sonny?

♪ ♪

Drop it.

- Lower the gun.

- Drop it or I'll shoot.

- Shoot and Counselor Carisi
dies, Sergeant Rollins.

- It's okay, it's okay.

- Put it on the ground.
Kick it to me.

- There's still time
to get out of this.

- Do it!

♪ ♪

I said to me!

- Just forget about the gun.

Just--just tell us
what you want.

- Back up.

- All right.

- He walks over slow.

You tie him up.

- I'm not doing that.

- I'm in control.

- Amanda.

- Do it!

Unravel it.

- No.

- Unravel it!

[grunts]

♪ ♪

- [groans]

- Don't move.

[gunshot]

- Are you okay?
- I'm okay, I'm okay.

Go, go. Go.

♪ ♪

- [panting]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Amanda, it's funny.
- Anything?

- Uh, not yet,

but we have every cop
in the city on the lookout.

- Okay, just make sure that
they have his full description.

Um, he was white.

Um, he was young,
20s, probably.

He had medium build.
He had brown eyes.

- Okay, Amanda, we got it.

Why don't--why don't you have
a seat, honey?

Okay?

Look, is there anything
at all familiar about him?

Did you--the sound of
his voice, a familiar scent?

- No, if we know him,
we didn't recognize him.

- No.

- But he sure as hell
knew who we were.

- Yeah, he knew our names.
And he knew how to break in.

He was waiting here
for us, Liv.

- Did he say anything that
gives us motive, anything?

- Oh, he wanted us both dead.

Okay? He didn't need to say it.

- And the way he referred to
us, Sergeant, Counselor--

like, I know that we're looking
at a targeted attack,

but I think
it could be revenge.

- I'm sending
a protective detail, okay?

To Staten Island for your kids
and your parents.

And I'm putting you two
in a hotel until we know more.

- Good.
- This could've--

this could have been
really, really bad.

- And it wasn't because
you kept your head about you

and you protected yourself.

And you are safe
and your children are safe.

We're gonna-
- Widen the perimeter.

And I want a patrol car
on every block

a mile out until
we say otherwise.

Hey, uh, I just wanted
to see with my own eyes

that you were all right.

- We're fine. Thank you, Chief.

- The department is devoting

every available resource
to this.

We will be meticulous
and swift.

Um, my personal number.

Call any time.
- Appreciate it, Chief.

- Yeah.

[both sigh]

- [sighs]
- You all right?

- You want the honest answer?

- Me neither.
- [sighs]

- When it happens to one of us,
it happens to all of us.

- Yeah.

- I'm here to support you,
whatever you need.

- Well, I want is for you
to take the lead on this.

And before you answer--

- Done.

- Wow, okay.

Uh, thank you.

- She'll, uh,
need to be on modified

while the shooting
is being reviewed.

- Of course.

- Give up her gun,

which I imagine will go over
like a lead balloon.

- She--
she understands protocol.

- Still, if you need me to be
the bad guy, I'll take the hit.

Tell her I won't listen
to reason.

- I appreciate that.

I'll handle it.
- Sure.

- And, um, I'll get her on top
of the list for the psych eval.

You just find who did this.

- I will.

Hey, what did we get
from the witnesses?

- Neighbor's a bust.

He heard the guy
in the fire escape.

He couldn't get a good look.

- But the Amazon driver did,

said that he saw
a man in a COVID mask

get into a blue Honda.

- We get a license plate?

- No. Let me show you why.

The plate's got some kind
of cover on it.

The guy knows what he's doing.

- It's too far away
to ID the driver,

but the perp gets into
the passenger side.

- Which means that
he had an accomplice.

- Did any other cameras
pick this up?

- No, none better than this.

We'll put out an APB
on what we got.

- Okay, did we get anything
back from the labs?

- No prints on the cord
that was left behind,

but they're pushing his blood
through CODIS.

- Hey, where's--
where's Rollins?

So tell me you wanna be alone

without telling me
you wanna be alone.

- I just needed to focus.

- Yeah, focus
on your old cases?

- I've got it narrowed down.

- Based on what?
- Motive and recent releases.

Here's Robert Watson.

He was a fire escape
peeping Tom

we collared few weeks ago
for the third time.

Somehow he made bail.

Michael Simmons, a rapist
who was escalating

when I arrested him
ten years ago.

He was released last month.

Then we got Bruce Ingram.

He threatened to kill Carisi
after his arraignment.

Um, he was just found
not guilty at trial.

- Yeah, I remember him.

He had a bogus alibi.
- Mm-hmm.

- But then DNA exonerated him
in the final hour.

- Could still hold a grudge,
so I figured I'll run 'em down,

uh, rule 'em out
with their voices.

- Yeah, okay, so, uh, we knew
that the review of the shooting

would come back clean.
- Yeah.

- But you still need
to clear psych.

- Yeah, but look, Bruno's out,
you know, for a funeral.

We're down a man,
so I just figured--

- You figured--figured what?

You figured I'd just
let you skip that part?

No, that's--that's--
it's just not good for anyone.

Plus, Tynan, uh,
is expediting your appointment.

- Great.
- Yeah.

- All right, so the quicker
it's done, the better.

- Yeah, the quicker you talk
to someone, the better.

Because, if you don't,
it'll only get worse.

In the meantime,
I'll have Curry and Griffin...

[taps table]
Pay these three a visit.

- Talk to my attorney.

- Not the best way to start,
Bruce.

- But they found me not guilty.

Can't you people
just leave me alone?

- This isn't about that case.

It's about Assistant
District Attorney Carisi.

- Never heard of him.
- No?

Well, he's the prosecutor
that you threatened to kill

after your arraignment.

Or does that not
ring any bells?

- What about him?

- He and his wife were attacked
last night.

- It's got nothing
to do with me.

- So threatening to kill him
was what, a hilarious joke?

- I was mad.

Cops accused me
of hurting that girl.

That prosecutor tried
to seal the deal.

He ruined my life.

- Sounds like motive.

- You already got my DNA.

- Yeah, we do.

But if you want me out
of your hair faster,

give me a voice recording
and an alibi.

- I was here working.

And I did my time.
Don't I get a second chance?

- Yeah, looks like
you're living it.

- [scoffs]
Only place that would hire me.

It's better than being locked
up like some caged animal.

- Well, ten years, oof,
it's a long time.

Maybe long enough to want
Sergeant Rollins dead.

- She's dead?

- No, but someone tried.

And it looks like that
doesn't surprise you.

- I didn't do it.

But you hear things
on the inside.

I'm not the only one
she put away.

- Anyone who's capable
of doing this?

- None I'd be willing to say.

- Hey.

You like being out
of the cage, right?

Let's keep it that way.
Give me names and your voice.

- Shoot, and Counselor Carisi
dies, Sergeant Rollins.

- It's not them.
- Are you sure?

- No, I'm positive.

Anything on the names
that Simmons gave us?

- Griffin checked them out.
They're all still in prison.

- Okay, and did we talk
to Robert Watson?

- Talked to his parole officer.

Watson was in Central Booking
at the time of the attack.

- Still nothing
on the blue Honda?

- Not yet.

I mean, my guess is,
they either ditched it

or they're laying low
somewhere.

- Or they uncovered the plates

and they're halfway
to the Midwest right now

and we are back to square one.

[knock at door]

- Okay.
- Yeah.

- Perp's blood came back
from the lab.

Matched an attempted murder
from a week ago in Brooklyn.

Vic's name, Diana Vitale, 62.

Neighbor found her tied up
with a cord.

Multiple stab wounds--
- Wait, I know that name.

Diana Vitale.
She's a court reporter.

She's retired now,

but she worked a lot of trials
with Carisi.

- Brooklyn Homicide
get any leads?

- Not yet, no.
But Vitale survived.

She's still in the hospital.

- Great, I'll talk to her.

- I can--

- Amanda, you still need
to get to your psych eval.

You gotta do it.
- Yeah.

Thanks.

[tense music]

- Diana Vitale.

A stab in the back
that led to paralysis.

Two more to the abdomen, one
of which punctured her stomach.

Led to sepsis
we couldn't control.

She was one of yours?

- She is now.

[door squeaks]

- Ready, Amanda?

- You come out of retirement
just for me?

- [chuckles]
- [sighs]

- I still fill in
from time to time,

especially at Olivia's request.

- Uh, yeah,
so I'm sleeping fine.

There's no insomnia,
no nightmares.

- Any re-experiencing?

- A little.
- What crosses your mind?

- What I would have
done differently.

What--what--

could have happened
if my kids were home.

- When you go to that place,
how do you feel?

- Angry.

Powerless.

But after that, um,
you know, I feel focused.

- So I've heard.

Benson tells me
you've hit the ground running.

- What else does she tell you?

- She told me
you returned recently to SVU.

Before that, a stint at Intel,
professor at Fordham.

You like to move around.

- I don't see how
that's relevant.

- I'm not trying to trick you,
Amanda.

You and I both know

that you'll come up
with a good answer

for every question
that I ask you,

but what you should also know
is that all I want out of this

is for you to be honest.

So why don't you like
to stay put?

- [claps softly]

I guess it comes
from how I grew up.

- Abusive father,
addicted sister.

That must be a very
unsettling way to grow up.

- Yeah, you're always waiting
for the shoe to drop.

And you're always
braced for impact.

I got out of there
as quick as I could.

- Still, it couldn't
have been easy.

Must have felt like you had
no control over your life.

Like you were powerless.

- Yeah.

- It's easy to equate movement
with survival.

Evolutionarily, it makes sense.

Motion has always meant life.

If you stay still,
you get left behind.

- I guess I don't like
being still, then.

- [chuckles softly]

Then I'd like to give you
a little advice.

After I clear you
and you return to the field

and you find the man
who did this,

what I would like for you
to do is to slow down.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- What else do we know
about Diana Vitale?

- Not much--retired last year,

widowed, no kids,
no known enemies.

- Aside from the
dozens of scumbags

she reported on the court
she shared with Carisi.

- And me.

So there's 82 cases where

Vitale, Carisi,
and I intersect.

- Okay, any stick out?
- I'm narrowing it down,

but I opened it up to ViCAP
and I got a hit in Queens.

Julia Pratt, all right?

She, um, she's 20.

Same MO--
the break in and wait.

She was tied up
with the black cord

and she was murdered
in her apartment building

with a knife two weeks ago.

- Any connection
to law enforcement?

- Not in ViCAP, but her sister
Rose is in Astoria.

She might be able
to tell us more.

- Okay, you two
stay on Diana Vitale.

Phones, emails.
See what you can dig up.

- Okay.

- How'd it go with Wong?

- Fine. He cleared me.
- Yeah, I know.

He, uh--I talked to him.

- You checking up on me?

- Yes, Amanda, I am.

The same way you would do
if it were me.

- Captain.

Dispatch called about
a white male at an urgent care.

Nurse said it's a gunshot
wound, left shoulder.

- Change of plan.
Head to the urgent care.

- He came in dodgy, aggressive
with my receptionist.

- And what'd he say
had happened to him?

- Said he was
working construction.

Said someone clipped him
with a nail gun,

but I took one look at it and
I knew that it was a bullet.

They tried to cut it out
themselves.

They tried to clean it.

- Who is they?
- He was with a woman.

White, brown hair.
She looked strung out.

- Okay.

We are gonna need the
footage from those cameras.

- They don't work,
but I did see them drive off.

- Blue Honda?
- Yeah.

Caught the first few digits
of the license plate.

- My sister lit up every room
she walked into.

I still can't understand
who would wanna hurt her.

- I'm so sorry, Rose.

We just have a few more
questions for you, okay?

- So we understand that
Julia worked in fashion.

Is that right?

- She went to FIT.

Her internship gave her a job
after she graduated.

- Was there ever a time that
she explored law enforcement?

- Law enforcement?

No.

Why?

- Because the man who hurt her

uh, may have been
targeting the justice system

and we're trying to figure out

if Julia had
some other connection to it.

- Our aunt is a judge.

She took us in
after our mom walked out,

became our legal guardian,
retired to Florida in May.

- Your--your aunt is
Judge Anita Wright?

- Diana Vitale, me,
and Carisi,

there's 82 overlapping cases,

but only 5 including
Judge Anita Wright.

- So it could have
been the defendant

in any one of those cases.

- No, no, I know who it is.

Henry Mesner.

We first encountered him
in 2013.

He was abusing
his little sister, Ruby.

- Yeah, so he was released from
juvenile detention in 2021.

He got out, he raped
a college student,

and then
he murdered his family.

- Yeah, I remember this case.

Rollins saved his sister
after he took her hostage.

- And after we arrested Henry,
he stabbed Carisi

in a competency hearing.

- This guy's not still just
walking around out there?

- No, no, no. He stood trial.

He's 5 years into 60
at Sing Sing.

- But that doesn't mean he's
not still pulling the strings.

And to find out how,
we need to go talk to him.

[phone buzzes]
- Maybe not.

TARU found the blue Honda
based on the partial plate.

It belongs to an 18-year-old

with a rap sheet
for drug possession.

- We know her?

[tense music]

- That--
- That's Henry's sister.

That's Ruby Mesner.

♪ ♪

- Our son moved to California.

That's when we got
the idea to foster.

Ruby was placed with us
five years ago.

She hardly spoke at first.

- But she had what she needed--

a bed, food.

- We tried to love her.

We thought she'd be okay
for a while, beat the odds.

- And then she started
having problems?

- School called
every other day.

Grades slipping, running away,

kept finding pills
under her mattress.

- We called her social worker,

and they put her into rehab
for a month.

But things only got worse.

- Was--was Ruby
ever, uh, violent?

- Only with herself.

She cut her arms so deep,
it was just awful.

- After Ruby turned 18,
got herself arrested for drugs.

That was enough.

I told her she had to leave,
and I'm not sorry I did.

It was the right thing.

- Do you have any idea
where she might be

or who she might be with?

- My guess is
with her boyfriend.

- What's his name?

- Phillip something.
We never met him.

- She was with him

when she called begging
for money a few weeks ago.

Heard her talking to him.

- The number we have for Ruby
traces back to this address,

but it went dead months ago.

- It wasn't her phone
she called from.

We still have the number.
I--I tried it a few times.

Ruby never picks up.

- TARU is looking into this
number that Ruby called from.

Hopefully,
it'll tell us something

about whoever this Phillip is.

- It won't tell us
about his connection to Henry.

We should be headed
to Sing Sing right now.

- Yeah, so Amanda, I haven't
made a decision about

whether talking to Henry
is the best idea.

- Well, that's all we have.

Uh, besides this phone number.

And we don't know if
the killing spree is over yet.

- But we do know Henry.

And we know that
he'd love nothing more

than to string us along
and play games

whether he knows something
or not.

- It's no coincidence that his
sister is the getaway driver.

And Henry can play games
all he wants,

but if he knows something,

I'll be able to tell
just by looking at him.

- I know you would.

But I would too.

And I'll be going to Sing Sing
myself.

- Henry hasn't
caused any problems.

- Was he close with anyone?

Maybe a guard or an inmate
who's been released recently?

- Uh, not that I know of.

Have a seat.

- Thank you.
- Yeah.

- And what about his
communication with the outside?

- Nothing in his incoming mail
to alert our staff.

And nothing outgoing.

- So he hasn't made any calls
lately or had any visitors?

- No.

His last visit was a year ago--
his sister, Ruby Mesner.

- Oh, well, you know what
they talked about?

No, there's not much
in the transcript.

Uh, the guards had to pull her
out of the room pretty quick.

- Why is that?

- Because she tried
to attack him.

[door buzzer blares]

- [sighs]

Have a seat, Henry.

You look happy to see me.

- It's been a long time
since I had any visitors.

- Well, I heard that you've
actually adjusted quite well.

No disciplinary measures,
no issues with other inmates.

- I'll probably die in here.

Shouldn't I be
making the most of it?

- Well, that depends on
what that means to you.

- I think it means reform,

rehabilitation, responsibility.

- For what you did
to your family.

For what you did to Ruby.

I heard that she actually
came to visit you a while back.

And, uh, things got a little,
little dicey?

- I don't think you came here
about my sister.

I think you're here
about something else.

- Why do you think I'm here?

- [chuckles softly]
Gotta say,

I'm surprised that you're
the one coming to see me.

- Were you expecting
someone else?

- Always had a soft spot
for Detective Rollins.

- Yeah, I remember that.

Well, she's actually
a sergeant now.

- Good for her.

And I heard she's married.

To what's-his-name?

Ah, Lawyer Carisi.

Tell them both I said hello.

- I will.

After I tell them
that I was right.

- Right about what?

[tense music]

- That talking to you was
a waste of time.

♪ ♪

- Maybe I'm just talking
to the wrong person.

You know, if Sergeant Rollins
was here--

- I'm not here to negotiate,
Henry.

- Well, then I guess we're
both walking away empty-handed.

- You wanna know
what I think?

I think you got nothing to say.

Goodbye, Henry.

♪ ♪

- Hey, was just in
the neighborhood.

I had to, um--
had to pick up some stuff.

- Yeah?
- Uh-huh.

- What stuff?

- [scoffs]
All right. Sue me.

Look, I'm just
checking in on you.

- Uh-huh.

- Listen, this, uh,
this Henry Mesner thing.

- Yeah.
Benson thinks he's bluffing.

She won't let me go in.

- Yeah, well,
maybe she's got a point.

Look, at best, he's full of it.

At worst, he's--he's not.
He could be dangerous.

- Are you saying that
as the ADA or as my husband?

- I'm saying it as both.

- Okay, I appreciate it,
but right now,

me going in to talk to Henry
might be the only way

we catch the guy that
did this to us.

[phone buzzes]

- What is it?

- TARU traced the number that
Ruby missed her call from.

A Phillip Wingate.
We've got an address.

- NYPD!

- Go, go, go, go!

- Phillip Wingate, NYPD!
We have a warrant!

[tense music]

- Pushing up!

[officers shouting]

♪ ♪

- Clear.
- Clear!

[floorboard creaks]

- Hey.

- These are the names
of the victims.

- Yeah.

Public court records on Henry's
cases, news articles about him.

- Got movement upstairs.

Bedroom door. Ready to breach.

- NYPD, coming in.

♪ ♪

Okay. Okay.

Ruby?

Ruby, where is Phillip?

♪ ♪

- Phillip Wingate, 28,
parents are deceased

and he's lived with his
grandmother since he was three.

- Spotty employment records.

He was fired from
his last job six months ago

right around the time
his grandma died

and left him the townhouse.

- No criminal record.

- Only juvenile, which is why
his DNA wasn't in the system.

When Phillip was 12,
he abused a younger cousin.

- Guy had a thing for hunting
squirrels in Central Park.

- Checks all the boxes.

- So what did we learn
from these journals?

- Yeah, guy is very prolific.

He writes his victims' names
over and over and over again

with what seems like either
poetry or gibberish.

- And a lot of writing
about Henry.

I mean,
he's obviously obsessed.

- But it doesn't explain
how they met

or whether Henry
put Phillip up to this.

- And nothing that indicates

where he is now
or where he's headed next.

- There's over a dozen
of these things

we're still sorting through.

- I say we just ask her.

- I know you.

- Yeah, you do.

We helped you out
a long time ago,

and we might be able
to help you out now

if you're willing
to talk to us.

- I don't know
where Phillip is.

- Yeah, but you do know

how this whole thing started,
don't you, Ruby?

We spoke with your
foster parents.

- They don't care about me.

- I think they tried to.

But look, after everything
that you've gone through,

I certainly understand
how it feels,

like nobody cares,
but that's not true.

We care.
And we'd like to help you.

But we need for you
to be honest with us

for us to do that.

Can you do that?

So why don't you
tell us about Phillip?

How did you two meet?

- He found me a few months ago.

He said he wanted
to take care of me.

- Mm-hmm.

- At first, it was fine.

He didn't really want
anything from me.

Until he started
asking questions.

- About Henry?

- [softly] Yeah.

What he was like.

How much I remember
from when he'd hurt me.

- Does Phillip know Henry?

- No.

No, no.

He--he said he heard about him
on a podcast

or the news or something.
[sniffles]

- Ruby, why is
Phillip doing this?

- I don't know.

He would just--

he would say things
I didn't know what they meant.

- Well, what--
what kind of things?

- He was like--

he was like,
in service of Henry.

I don't--he was like,
wanted to be close to him.

- So that's--that's why
he sought you out, huh?

- Once he did,
I couldn't escape.

- So you just...

went along with it?

[tense music]

You waited while
he murdered those people,

and you drove the getaway car?

- Phillip was gonna kill me.
What was I supposed to do?

- I don't know, go to the cops?

Call us?

Get out of there?

And instead, you helped him
kill those people

and come after me
and my family.

- No, he just told me to drive.

I didn't--I didn't know
what he was doing--

- Yeah, you don't know
a whole lot, do you, Ruby?

Like--like where Phillip is.
You don't know that?

- Sergeant.
- I was afraid!

- Oh, I don't believe you,
Ruby.

I don't.

I think you're protecting
Phillip and your brother.

- Okay, Sergeant,
that's enough--

- You know what?
I saved your life.

- I wish you didn't!

- So do I!

- Hey. We're done here.

Rollins, now.

♪ ♪

Are you kidding me?

- Yeah?
- What was that?

You need to cool down.

- Cool down?

- We need her to talk!

- Yes, and in her
current state,

I'm not sure that
she can tell us--

- Who cares about
her current state?

There's a murderer out there,
Liv, and she's involved!

- I care about her current
state, and so should you.

After everything that that girl
has been through?

Are you kidding me?
- She helped Phillip.

And now we don't know
whether Henry's--

Henry's behind him.

- Henry is playing us, and
she just about confirmed that.

All that guy wants
is your attention.

- Yeah, well, he has it.

You know, and I could use that
if you'd let me go talk to him.

- Because I'm trying
to protect you.

- I don't need your protection.

I need you to trust me.

- Okay, that's not
what this is about.

- Then why did you
take me out of the room?

- Because you're not yourself.

That girl needs our help,
not an interrogation.

She's a victim
of both Henry and Phillip.

And quite frankly, so are you.

- Oh, my God.
You never turn it off.

- What does that mean?

- It means not everyone
deserves your empathy, Olivia.

♪ ♪

[groans]

- I can't have you on
this case anymore, Amanda.

You're off.

- Hello, Amanda.

♪ ♪

- I had a feeling you'd come.

- You asked for me, didn't you?

- Do you remember
the last thing you said to me?

- I'm surprised if you do,

considering how drugged up
you were.

- If you ever go after anyone
in my family again,

it'll be your
last day on Earth?

Is that why you came?

- To kill you?
- No.

- You can't do that until
you know it was me or not.

- I know who it is.

Why I'm here is
to see if you do.

- You want to know
if I recognize them?

- No, I know you do.

These are all people
that helped put you away.

And the person who's
going after them, Henry,

I gotta tell you,
they're pretty good at it.

But this person is
smart, organized,

like they're on a mission.

It's your sister, Henry.
It's Ruby.

[tense music]

- Ruby didn't do any of this.
She's not capable.

- Are you sure about that?

- Are you dumb?

She's weak, pathetic.

She's a victim, always will be.

- Okay, thank you.

- W--what I meant to say was

she couldn't have done it
by herself.

She couldn't have known
how to hold the knife

or what it would feel like
when you push it into someone.

The soft belly,
the bony throat.

It's a very specific skill set.

- And who do we think
helped her navigate all that?

Who had that--
that right set of skills?

- I did.

It wasn't very hard.

Guards are easy,
let me use their phones.

I had a plan.

I just needed someone
to help me carry it out.

You know, Ruby works best
being directed.

- No, Henry,
I think she did this alone.

I think she broke into
these people's houses

and she stabbed them to death
all by herself.

- She couldn't have
done anything without me.

- Oh, so you're the mastermind?

- Yes, I am.

♪ ♪

- No, you're not.

But you are pathetic.

And you got one thing right.

Ruby didn't kill these people.

A man named
Phillip Wingate did.

He's the mastermind,

and you are
a cautionary tale at best.

You're nothing.

And now we both know it.

♪ ♪

- If I tell you what I know,
will you come back to see me?

- It's too late, Henry.

Goodbye.

- I know him.

I know of him, technically,

and I can tell you about it
if you promise.

And I mean really promise
to come back and see me

every now and again.

- Yeah, if what you tell me
is actually helpful,

I'll come visit you.

- I get a bunch of fan letters.

Never read them, but...

I know a ton of them came from
someone who signed them as PW.

♪ ♪

- Judge's niece,
court reporter.

Next I say hello to
the childhood doctor.

♪ ♪

Liv, Phillip is going
after the doctor

that Henry saw
when he was a kid.

He's going after Wong.

[sirens wailing]

- Oh, he's already here.

Okay, go, now.

[officers shouting]

- NYPD!
- Go, go, go, go!

- Clear!
- Move in.

- Wong, are you all right?

- Mm. Mm.
- You sure?

- [gasps]
- Where'd he go?

- Uh, he--he heard the sirens
and he went out the back.

- Okay. Get an EMT in here now!

- All right, all units,
suspect is on foot.

Back exit. I repeat, back exit.

[tires screech]

- Stop right there!

♪ ♪

- [panting]

- Hey!

No getaway driver, huh?

- 'Cause you took her from me.

- She was never yours
to begin with.

Drop the knife.

You're under arrest.

- But I already got what
I wanted, Sergeant Rollins.

For Henry to see me.

- I saw Henry.

He didn't even know who
you were until we told him.

Those letters?
He never read 'em.

♪ ♪

Don't do it!

[gunshots]

- Cover!
- Shots fired!

[indistinct police chatter]

- He can't hurt anyone anymore,
including you.

- What happens now?

- Given the circumstances,

the DA's willing
to make you a deal.

Conspiracy in the third.

You'll do five years'
probation.

The first year will
be inpatient rehab.

- But that deal only stands

if you're willing to agree
to do something for us.

The next time you're in...

a bad situation,

you call me.

- Why?

- Because I know what it's like
to feel stuck, Ruby.

I know what it's like
to feel powerless.

And the next time
you feel that way,

I wanna be there
to help you with that.

[indistinct chatter]

- She's the one who helps her.
It's amazing.

- Hey, sorry to interrupt.

I was just--

Nosy, just nosy.

How are you, Doctor?

- All right.

Recommitting to retirement.

- Yeah.
- How about you?

- You know, just, uh,
getting back to normal.

- Well, I'm grateful
for your insubordination,

if that helps to break the ice.

- Does not.

- Hey.

Thank you.
- Of course.

- Talk soon?

- Yep, talk soon.

Amanda, be well.

- Thanks.

Liv, I just wanna say--

- Don't--don't apologize
if you don't mean it.

- I'm--

I'm sorry
I lost some of your trust.

[soft dramatic music]

- Look, I understand why
you did what you did.

The same way you understand

that you will never
do it again.

- All right.

Deal.

And hopefully,
that's the last time

we'll ever have to think
about Henry Mesner again.

[sinister music]

♪ ♪

[footsteps approaching]

♪ ♪

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[wolf howls]