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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.

I'm starting to question
your supervision.

My team is the best
in the department.

Dad wasn't who
I thought he was.

Were there things
we did back in the day

that wouldn't fly now?

Sure.

I'm being reassigned.

She's doing this
to get to me.

What is that?

It's from a shooting
in a bar

involving
a Lieutenant Jimmy Griffin

and Detective Kathryn Tynan.

You're wrong about Benson.

I'm not gonna look
the other way when

you're doing something wrong.

You are suspended,
effective immediately.

Please turn over your
service weapon and badge.

You have to get back
in the fight.

We broke up.

It's fine.

It's for the best.

Everything you said,
that dude was not right.

Yeah.

The last straw, he said
he didn't believe in birds.

"Hollow bones don't
make sense, Jess."

Dumbass.

- He backed into me!
- That's a lie. I saw you.

We all saw it.
She's at fault.

That man didn't do
anything wrong.

All right.

What's up, brother?
Are you all right?

Just fine, Officer.

Witnesses say you got hit.

Any injuries?

None at all.

All righty.

Look, we're gonna
take a report.

You can give it to your
insurance or whatever.

Can I see your license
and registration, please?

- Not necessary. Thank you.
- You sure?

Just a second. Hold on.

How we doing over here?

You hurt your head, sir?

You got any neck pain?

I did not.

You had anything
to drink tonight?

Just water.

Gun!

Hands up.

Hands on the steering wheel.
- Hands now, do it!

Is that your gun?

You got a permit
for that gun, sir?

All right, keep your hand
on the wheel.

With your left hand,
open the car door.

Get out and get on your knees.

No clip.

Check the trunk.

There--there's a kid.

There's a kid here.
Oh, my God, buddy.

All right, we got you.
We got you. Come here.

I observed the butt
of the handgun

from underneath
the passenger side seat.

I alerted Officer Acosta,
who then proceeded

to arrest the defendant
without incident.

And what happened next?

We observed the handgun
was missing its ammo clip.

We initiated a search.

Upon opening the trunk of the
vehicle, we discovered the boy.

Thank you, Officer Rodriguez.

Nothing further, Your Honor.

Officer Rodriguez,
where were you standing

when you observed
the butt of the handgun?

I was standing at
the open passenger side window

of the defendant's vehicle.

How close were you
to the door?

Right next to it.

But how close?

Were you a foot away, two feet,
leaning up against it?

I guess a foot, give or take.

And when you looked down,
what did you see?

I saw the butt
of the handgun sticking out

from underneath the
passenger side seat.

And you did not
search the vehicle

before you saw the handgun.

You didn't reach in
or anything like that.

No, I did not.

Your Honor, I'd like to play
a video taken by an eyewitness

on the night in question.

This is you here,
Officer Rodriguez?

Yes.

You had anything
to drink tonight?

And where is
your head, Officer?

Uh--I was--

I was looking at the bottle,
trying to see if--

Is your head
outside the vehicle

or inside the vehicle,
Officer Rodriguez?

It was for a second,
but it was--

And in that second,
by putting your head

inside the vehicle, you
initiated a warrantless search,

and then you saw the gun.

Is that correct,
Officer Rodriguez?

All right,
all right, that's enough.

You may step down, Officer.

Get up here.

You better have
more than what came out

of that search, Carisi.

I, uh--
I do not, Your Honor.

I cannot believe this.

I cannot believe you're
putting me in this position.

I apologize.

This was a complete
surprise to me.

So get out of my sight.

Go sit down.

First, I'd like to
acknowledge and thank

the Manhattan
Special Victims Unit

for their excellent work
in this case,

specifically, Captain Benson,

who obtained a full confession

just hours after
the defendant's arrest.

And to Officers Rodriguez
and Acosta,

we owe you a debt
of gratitude as well.

Their street smarts
and intuition

saved a young boy's life,
and we must never forget that.

Now, we call this
a Mapp hearing,

named after the landmark
Supreme Court case.

And at the risk of sounding
like an old windbag,

I'm gonna quote from
the majority opinion.

"Nothing can
destroy a government

more quickly than its failure
to observe its own laws."

And that is where we are now.

The search of
Mr. Caine's vehicle

was a violation of
his 4th Amendment rights

and was illegal.

So I am suppressing the gun,
the boy, and the confession.

And since the government has
no further admissible evidence,

I am required to dismiss this
case and release Mr. Caine.

Process him out. We're done.

I'm gonna kill
that kid Rodriguez.

I prepped him three times.

He's been out of the Academy
for all of five seconds.

Captain Benson.

I just wanted to say,
I really hope we can

put all of this in the past.

You could play hardball,
you can be uncooperative,

and then,
you know, the judge is

gonna give you the maximum.

Or--or, Richard,
you can help yourself.

And I think you're
smart enough to do that.

I mean, if you're forthcoming,

the judge notices that.
It matters.

I've seen that.
I've seen it a million times.

I need you to hold your
questions until the end.

I just want you listening.

I can agree to that.

Okay.

I saw him a few times
on the street.

His mom, she's distracted,

a lot going on,
always on her phone.

Sometimes she lets him go
to a friend's

down the street by himself.

He likes to take a shortcut
through the alley,

climb over the fence.

It's not very safe.

I waited in the alley.

It was cold,
felt like rain was coming.

I scared him.

That was on purpose.

I figured if I threatened
to hurt his mother,

he'd do what I said.

I was right.

So I told him
to get into my trunk.

He didn't even fight,
he was so afraid.

It all worked amazingly well.

Hey, Cap.

I can come back if you're busy.

No, it's fine.

What's up?

Hey.

What the hell are we gonna do?

Everything we can.

Carisi is on his way down
for a brainstorming session.

What have you got?

I traced the gun that I found

on my dad's storage unit,
all right?

Unregistered serial number goes
back to a robbery from '97.

And my dad was
the responding officer.

Must have held onto it.

And then dropped it on
some low-level mob guy

who he just shot in the knee?

Yeah.

Tynan helped him cover it up.

So, Griff, what are you
gonna do with this information?

I'm gonna put it away
for now.

Let's get this son of a bitch
back behind bars permanently.

Well, the car's
still in impound.

Give us a warrant to search it
before he clears it out.

It's the fruit of
the poisonous tree, Amanda.

Come on, you know this.

It's in our custody, though.

Yeah, because of the search
that was just thrown out.

No way.

Listen, you guys,
anything that is tied

to the search of this car
is out.

All right, Dr. No,
what do you suggest?

Hey, don't you give me
that crap.

I'm trying to prevent this
department from violating

civil rights again.

All right, we're going
back to the beginning.

We're gonna talk
to every known associate

that we talked to
the first time around.

It's been six months.
Memory won't be better now.

And that can't be helped.

Bruno, Finn,
go talk to the ex-wife.

I'm going to talk
to the family.

- What, of the kid?
- Yeah.

I'm gonna tell them
what happened

and then tell them what
we're gonna do about it.

Okay.
I will come with you as backup.

No, that's not necessary.

Boss, you don't
gotta do this alone.

Listen, everybody.

Anything, I mean,
anything that you find

has gotta be
completely independent

of the search of that car.

All right,
this is our last shot.

All right, guys,
we go back to square one.

We're gonna make this
bulletproof.

Sorry, I don't understand.
You let him out?

He had a kid in his trunk.

It's a long story.

When'd you talk
to Richard last?

Not since he got arrested.

I heard you're
divorcing the dude.

That's a good choice.

Yeah.

I always wanted
a six-month marriage

and a divorce before 30.

Maybe next time don't
marry a dude after just

two months of dating.

Nobody else was asking.

All right, we're gonna
need you to think back

to that night six months ago.

Did Richard say anything
at all about his whereabouts,

anyone he spoke to?

Maybe he went to a place
with a security camera

that we can check?

I really don't remember.

Analisa, you married
a piece of garbage.

That makes you gullible,
not bad.

Now is your shot to get him out
of your life for a long time.

Think.

Look.

I worked
really hard not to think

about Richard at all, ever.

So I'm sorry, but I'm
not gonna be any help.

Really messed up
you had to let him go.

I don't understand.

We lost the case?

Well, we didn't--
we didn't lose the case.

We--we never even
got to try it.

There was a mix-up during
the search of Caine's car.

It wasn't a mix-up,
it was a mistake.

It was--it was a big mistake.

And I'm in charge,
and I take full responsibility

for it, and I cannot
tell you how sorry I am.

How sorry you are?

That man took my son.

He could have done God knows
what to him and you're--

- Mr. DeBoer--
- You're sorry?

Let him talk.

He won't tell the therapist.

He won't say what happened.
- In time, he will.

And now you want us to tell
him that that monster

is still out there?

You don't wanna
practice today?

Coach said I didn't have to.

Oh, good. Take your time.

Boom.

So how do you like
your therapist?

She's all right.

Yeah?

Therapy can be weird.

I remember when I first went.

I just thought, like,
why should I tell a stranger

anything about me
when they don't know me?

But then I realized
they didn't have to know me.

All they had to do was listen.

Boom.

Some therapists
like to play games.

Does yours?

She had some
stupid baby game.

I didn't wanna play.

Oh, baby games?

That's dumb. You're not a baby.

You know, I bet if you
told your therapist that,

she'd come up
with some other games.

- Bobby!
- Get outta here.

He remember anything more?

No. I didn't ask him.

He's not ready.

Cheer up.

Rollins and Curry
got something.

He had another identity.

- Caine?
- Yeah.

His old boss gave us
some union paperwork,

and on it was
an old Hotmail address

that we didn't know about.

We traced it back
to a Matthew Parker

in Jacksonville, Florida.

Matthew Parker died in 2014.

Caine must have bought
the Social Security number,

and nobody caught it.

So Curry's on with the

Jacksonville Sheriff's Office
now.

They questioned him
three years ago.

Guess what it was about.
- Kidnapped kid.

Missing kid, still missing
three years later.

All right, thanks.
Yeah, standing by here.

I sent Jacksonville
Caine's mugshot.

It's definitely
the same person.

They're sending me everything
they've got on him.

Hang on, and he was
interviewed three years ago?

Yeah, they tried to track him
down a few days later,

but he was gone.
- Look at this.

It's a photo of the missing
boy in Jacksonville.

Brown hair, just like Bobby.

Caine's got a type.

There are more victims
out there.

Good morning.

Need a ride?

Get in, Jake.

Steve, why don't you
get yourself a coffee?

Curry's suddenly back in
with SVU?

What's this I hear
about her digging up

retired old fossils from IAB?

I think you know.

I just wish you would have
come to me with questions

about your father.

The clandestine meetings
are so unnecessary.

I found the gun.

And the payments that he was
getting from Dennis Reeves.

Thousands--thousands of dollars
over the years.

Dad was on the take, getting
paid to look the other way.

And then he shot Reeves
when Reeves was unarmed.

And you helped cover it up.

I told the stupid
son of a bitch

to throw that gun in the river.

How--how can you sit here
and justify this?

You let me believe that--

Believe what, Jake,

that your father
was a good man?

He was.

He shot an unarmed guy,
and then he planted a gun at--

Reeves was
an unrepentant criminal.

Do not waste one drop
of sympathy on him.

This is unbelievable.

I cannot believe
you are defending him.

I had two ways it could
have gone in that situation.

Turn my partner in, he goes
to prison, I get labeled a rat,

and my career is over.

Or plant a gun on a lowlife
who deserved it,

and the world's a better place.

You broke the law.

All right?

You broke the law,
and you chose

what was gonna save
your ass and his.

Absolutely, and you
would do the same thing.

I would have done
the right thing.

How far would you go
to protect your partner?

Your captain?

I already know
the answer to that, Jake.

So do you.

I imagine that you've,
you know, done this before.

Right?

That's a big imagination.

Oh, come on.

So good. It was so clean.

You made no mistakes.

Car accident was a fluke.

If that hadn't happened,
nothing would have stopped you.

Did you--did you
practice for this or--

or are you just that good?

Tell me about
the others, Richard.

How many were there?

Well, how many do you think?

Only you can
answer that question.

What would be a number
that would make you go,

wow, this guy is
something else?

Cap, we got a visitor.

Detective Torres
from Jacksonville.

Retired last year.

Parker still keeps me up
at night--

or whatever the hell
he's calling himself now.

Parker was his fake identity.

So ten years ago, Caine was
snagged in a pornography sweep

up in Westchester,
pled down to a misdemeanor

and went off the grid.

Then three years ago,
he resurrected Caine

and came back to New York.

The question is, why?

'Cause I was gonna
arrest him.

Back in 2021, we got a call.

A man was loitering
around a middle school.

Dispatched a car,
went and talked to him.

He said he was
looking for his cat.

Got him on a list anyway.

We started finding bodies
not so long after that.

Hurricane Nicole hit
November of that year.

Lady was walking her dog
on Neptune Beach

and found a skull.

Cole Finch went missing
two years prior.

Played the clarinet,
the oldest of three.

We found Aidan Glover
on that same beach.

He was an only child,
real smart.

We couldn't find all of him.

Probably washed out to sea.

You thought Parker
was good for it?

Yeah, we called him in
for questioning.

He was an odd guy, but nothing
to hold him on, really.

It all started
coming together when

the third boy went missing--

Oliver Cohen.

He was walking home
from a friend's house.

This was in 2023.

He never made it home.

You said you tried
to arrest Parker.

Yeah, I realized
there was a pattern.

He was a lineman
for the power company.

I checked his service areas.

All three kids
lived in the zone.

I got the go ahead
to pick him up.

But by the time we got there,
he was gone.

Call the supervisor.
Find out his service area.

On it.

I knew it.

The first time I talked
to him, I knew it.

Sometimes you can just feel it

when you're in the room
with 'em.

It's on your skin, in the air.

What's it feel like?

Evil.

That's right.

I know he's dead already,
but I'd sure like to find him.

You know, Caine had a
different car in Jacksonville.

This was a red Nissan.

Well, how did he get
to New York?

Okay.

Okay, it was ticketed
and towed three years ago.

It's still at the impound lot.

Abandoned property.
We don't need a warrant.

Go.

Red Nissan with Florida tags.

That's it.

That guy's probably
got a lockout kit.

There's no time for that.

I thought it was gonna be
a lot more terrible than that.

This trunk is full of sand.

I spoke too soon.

Bag it.

Looks like
they went sightseeing

before they ditched this car.

Midland Beach, Staten Island.

You think
the suspension goes away?

I don't know.

Tynan got the commissioner to
put a tribunal together,

and if she's got enough
friends, she can make it hard.

That's her strategy,
though, right?

Just make things hard enough
so it's not worth fighting for.

Yeah, well, between that and
this case, it might be working.

What the hell is this?

Help you?
- Yeah.

That guy thought
you might be thirsty,

wanted me to give you
some drinks.

Gave me 50 bucks.

Said if you wanna talk,
come on in.

Damn it.

I'm half-tempted
to take him up on it.

Yeah, well, if I sit
in a room with that guy,

there's no guaranteeing
what I'll do.

Yeah, Cap, he made us.

I'm sorry. I don't know how.

He's never met us before.

All right,
go back to the house.

Yeah, I'll be in touch.

Hey. Hi.

Hey, do you stay
around here a lot?

I'm not bothering anybody.

No, no,
you're not in trouble.

We're just looking for someone.

Hey, you ever seen this guy?

Oh, yeah. Sandwich man.

Very generous.

Does he come around
this beach a lot?

I see him once in a while.

He's always got a sandwich
and a couple bucks.

- Okay, is he ever with anyone?
- Don't know.

I've never seen him
with anyone.

Usually asks me to take a walk.

And what about--did he have
any favorite places?

Walks around there a lot,
digging for clams, maybe.

This water--
I wouldn't eat 'em.

Thank you.

We're gonna need a K9 unit,
a medical examiner,

and a backhoe.

Captain, got something!

How long do you think
it's been there?

Unknown at this point.

This environment,
rate of decay is fast.

Over here!

How many do you think
are out here, Captain?

How long have
they been buried?

Hard to say without knowing
when they went missing,

but they were buried
at different times.

Most recent was
probably a year ago.

No more than five
for the others.

Your guy likes his routine.

All of them had duct tape
around their wrists, ankles,

and over the mouth.

Two of the three had
a broken hyoid bone,

indicating asphyxiation
or strangulation.

What about the third?

Didn't find a hyoid bone.

Which one was wearing that?

Based on the deterioration
of the clothing,

I'd estimate
he's been here the longest.

Regular day
at the office for you?

Top five worst.

What I don't have for you--
anything identifying your perp.

We're testing some hair and
fibers, but it's so degraded,

I don't have a lot of hope.
- That's all right.

I think we have enough
to bring him in.

We absolutely do not.

It's identical MO
to Jacksonville--

duct tape, buried on the beach.

Jacksonville has
three unsolved cases,

and the chief suspect's
got a different name.

Got IDs on all three remains.

More extensive testing is
needed, but with a 90% match,

it's all but confirmed,

and Oliver Cohen from
Jacksonville was one of them.

Someone needs to tell Torres.

He's on a plane home.
He already knows.

Okay, well, we got
Jeremy Thatcher from Darien.

He was considered
to be a runaway.

And Tommy DiStefano,
believed to have

been a family kidnapping.

Plus, Horowitz ran the DNA
from the T-shirt

that Bruno found in the car.

It matches Tommy DiStefano.

That has to be
enough, Carisi.

It's a T-shirt that was
found in a car

that's been abandoned
for three years.

Look, Liv, this is
all circumstantial,

not to mention every
one of those kids

is not in our jurisdiction.

It goes to pattern.

Yeah, but I cannot
say pattern

because that case
was thrown out.

Look, we need a smoking gun.

A smoking gun is gonna be
another dead kid,

which is going to happen
if we don't stop him.

We can stop him
if we track him.

That's a warrant
that I can't get.

But you enjoy it.

You enjoy hurting people.

You're the one who carries
a gun wherever you go.

Maybe you enjoy
hurting people.

I do carry a gun.

But I only use it
to defend myself

against people who are
stronger than me,

who are bigger than me, dangerous.

And you hurt children.

Innocent children
who can't defend themselves.

I wouldn't say that.

Children sometimes
can really fight back.

You know what
I think, Richard?

I think that deep down,

you're just a coward...

who has to hurt children
so you can feel brave.

Did you fight back when
it happened to you?

I'm not talking about me!

You gotta knock that off.

I'm just trying to see
if there's something I missed.

You didn't.

And if you keep doing that,
you're just

gonna drive yourself nuts.

Okay? We're tracking this guy.

If he moves, we got him.

Fin, I don't know how much
longer I can do this.

Maybe you were right about
the whole retiring thing.

Yeah?

Well, I revised
my whole position,

and I'm never retiring.

And I'm never gonna die.

You better not.

They found a familial match

from one of the genealogy
databases.

From the T-shirt you found
in the car.

It's Tommy DiStefano.
That's the kid from Philly.

Not his DNA.

It was Caine's.

We have enough to arrest him.

Call Carisi.
- I'm on it.

Hey, I need a location
on Caine's vehicle now.

You two with me.

- Hey. Get out of the car.
- What?

Okay, okay, I'll move.

Hey.

Where's the car?
- I don't know.

I don't see it.

It should be here.

Wait.

It's here.

He took it off.

All right, Park Police
is dispatching

everyone they've got
to the beaches,

but there's over 500 miles
of coastal property

in New York alone,
so it won't be enough.

Still nothing on
the cell phone front.

Probably doesn't have one
or he's got a burner.

No credit cards either.
Can't track his financials.

All right, so we
do this door to door,

run down everyone he knows,
and see if he's reached out.

You know, Jeremy was taken
when Richard was still married.

You think she knew?

We have a date and time.

I wanna talk to her first.

Hey, Cap, just got word--
child abduction in Queens,

11-year-old named Eli Brooks.

My God.

You're with me.

I didn't know.

I swear to God, I didn't know.

Analisa,
we're not blaming you.

But I need you to put your
emotions aside right now

and just think.

Where were you that day?

I can't remember.

It was so long ago.

You have your calendar
in your phone, right?

Why don't you check that and
see if it jogs your memory?

No, I'm sorry, I don't.

I know that you wanna run
away from this, but you can't.

This happened right
under your nose.

And now you finally have
a chance to do something.

I never knew
where he went, okay?

He never told me.

If I'd ask, he'd just,
like, explode on me.

I can't help you.
I wish I could.

Did you ever go
to the beach with him?

No. God, no.
He hated the beach.

He hated everything about it.

How do you know
he hated the beach?

Just bad memories.

He used to go camping
with his grandfather

or his step-grandfather,
I guess.

I always thought something
bad happened with that guy.

Do you remember his name?

Parker something.

Matthew Parker?

- Yeah, that's it.
- Okay.

And do you know
where they camped?

Car located on
the east side of camp.

Car!

Nobody in it.

Listen.

You hear that?

Let's go!

Caine! Let's go!

Eli? Eli.

Oh, thank God.

Thank God.
Oh, my God, it's okay.

I'm the police.

Okay, honey, are you hurt, Eli?

- I want my mama.
- Of course you do.

And I'm gonna take you her.

I'm gonna take you
to her right now.

Okay?

I'm gonna take you to her.

I need paramedics now!

He's gotta be in there.

We're at the chapel,
south side.

This guy armed?

- Expect him to be.
- Okay.

He's okay?

This ends tonight.

Go.

We're inside. No sign.

- I'm hit! I'm hit!
- Everyone down!

10-13, shots fired.

Shots fired.

Help me!

Help us now!

Okay, okay, okay.

We got you. Okay, okay.

Okay, okay. We got you.

Griff, are you hit?

Oh, my God.

Griff!

Griff!

You know how many of them
are out there?

How many I put into the ground?

I can't even count.

Shut up, Caine.

They were so innocent.

And you wanna know what they
were like before they died?

What they sounded like?

You know that nobody--nobody
in this whole world would care

if I blew you away right now.

Hey. Hey.

I got you. Give me that.

I got you. I got you.

You're okay.

I guess you're the one who's
gonna get punished now.

You're done.

- Hallway clear!
- We got eyes.

Here. Come on.

- Hey.
- Hey.

Oh, he's up.

Yeah, and the doctor said we
could go in when they're done.

Good.

Hey, Sleeping Beauty.

Huh?

I'm not asleep,
I'm meditating.

- Got your coffee.
- Is that decaf?

What do you think?

Got his things.

Curry made me bring
the fuzzy slippers.

Well, they're adorable,
so of course I did.

What's up with Caine?

Arraignment is
later this morning

after they take the bullet
out of his leg.

You hear anything
about the boy?

Doc sent him home.
No physical harm.

I saw Parks.
She's gonna be okay.

The--the bullet
missed the artery, so.

I'm starving.
You think the café's open yet?

Yeah, I was just there.
Breakfast?

No, I'm okay.

He's okay.

He lost about a foot
of his intestines,

but from what I understand,
we have some to spare.

I'm gonna have
your badge for this.

I'm sorry. What?

What are you even
talking about?

You putting your team
in danger for no valid reason.

The valid reason is
locked up because of Griffin.

He's the hero here.

I don't care about
heroes, Captain.

I care about survival,
and it's a shame you don't.

Your career is over, and I am
no longer sorry about that.

Yeah, I don't--

I don't think
that's gonna happen.

Because you think
you have some dirt on me?

Whatever Jake told you
is not relevant

and can't be proven,
in any event.

You sure about that?

He recorded it.

I'm not interested in
ruining your career, Chief.

I'm really not.

But I'm not gonna
let you ruin mine.

How's he doing?

Thank you.

How you doing?

That was a close one.
- Yeah.

♪ Time and memory
fade away ♪

♪ We got our own roads
to ride ♪

♪ Chances we gotta take ♪

♪ We stood side by side ♪

♪ Each one fighting
for the other ♪

♪ And we said until we died ♪

♪ We'd always be
blood brothers ♪