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(narrator)
In the criminal
justice system,

sexually-based offenses

are considered
especially heinous.

In New York City,
the dedicated detectives

who investigate
these vicious felonies

are members of an elite squad

known as
the Special Victims Unit.

These are their stories.

(Amanda)
I don't care
how much money I'll make.

I'm going
to med school.

You're not
going to make

the big bucks
working at an HMO.

And those loans?

Why do we have
to be rich?

I want my life
to be meaningful.

Who says having a ton of money
isn't meaningful?

I love you,
but your values suck.

[Woman screaming]

Oh, my God.

Kyle!

(Amanda)
Kyle, be careful!

Kyle!

(Bamford)
Folks there say
she came running

down the street
already on fire.

You think it's a rape?

That's why I called
the panty police.

Found her torn underwear
in that doorway.

Guy must've ripped them off
before he torched her.

She's pretty crispy.

Any prayer
of getting DNA?

(Warner)
Only if you have
a special connection upstairs.

With any luck,

lab will find something
on the underwear.

The guy was careless.

Maybe he left
somethin' else behind.

Looks like there's blood
on that pipe.

He could've hit her
in the head with it.

(Stabler)
Smells like fuel oil.

You have to add an accelerant
to light her up.

We'll run a gas chromo,
see what he used.

(Benson)
There's no mailing labels
on these magazines.

But we've got
a register receipt.

Time stamp says 7:14.

Witnesses said
they saw her around 7:40,

so maybe she bought
the magazines nearby.

We'll find the newsstand.

Or better yet, get prints.
Any ID? Purse?

Fire melted it onto her body.

I've never seen a woman raped
and then burned alive.

Guy's lookin'
to send a message.

Whoever you're looking for
is sicker than I thought.

Setting her on fire
isn't sick enough?

Not for this guy.

There are pubic hairs
in that blood.

He raped her
with the pipe.

To be sure,

I stained the skin cells
scraped off the metal.

They're cervical.

VICAP should tell us
if any rapists out there

use foreign objects
and burns their victim.

He didn't burn
quite all of her.

She was wearing
high boots.

You see that?
It's made from henna.

(Stabler)
Some tattoo.

Drawn on the skin
and set with oil.

It's a traditional
Muslim design

for weddings
and family celebrations.

Only Muslim?

Mostly. You see it
in Africa, India,

and all over
the Middle East.

Burning Muslims?
Could be a hate crime.

Let's not say that too loud.

Last thing we need
is copycats.

(Stabler)
Nothing from VICAP.

Men in India
burn their wives

when they don't play
by the rules.

Yeah, like
having an affair.

Husband's family
helps do the burning.

An angry husband
makes sense.

Especially if his wife
cheated on him.

(Cragen)
That would cover
a lot of men.

He burned her alive.
What does that tell you?

Fire's a form
of purification.

We burn witches, garbage.

Anything that makes us feel
evil or dirty.

And of course,
fire's a metaphor for passion.

Freud believed that
setting fires was a sign

of disturbed
adolescent sexuality.

Maybe we're dealing with a man
who lives with his mother.

We found the guy
who sold her the magazines.

Doesn't remember
what she looked like,

what she said,
or if she was with anyone.

Considering what
he was snorting,

it's a miracle
he remembers his name.

Whatever this is,
let's be careful not to say

Muslim men like
to burn their wives.

No. If they want
to burn people,

they fly an airplane
full of gasolene

into an office building.

Excuse me,
but they were extremists.

Sorry. But my next door
neighbor's Iranian.

At airports, even he's scared

when he sees
Middle Eastern passports.

I mean, let's get real.

People know it's wrong,
but they think it anyway.

Okay.
(Stabler)
Thanks.

Lab caught us a break.

(Cragen)
Talk to them.

The prints on the magazines
are smudged.

Basically useless.

Is that the good news?

Be patient.

Her purse burned
with everything inside.

We tested the ash residue.

It was made of suede.

And we were able
to clean up the label.

(Stabler)
"Lant ve lyn?"

(Benson)
Probably a private label.

That's what I was thinking.

Okay, I give up.
Private label?

Well, small stores go
to manufacturers

who provide them
with custom labels

to make it look like the purse
was made only for that store.

Now, I'm guessing
that the "lyn" is Brooklyn.

Indian or Middle Eastern
neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

(Stabler)
Atlantic Avenue.

Let's see if somebody there
recognizes the tattoo.

(Chadoury)
It's beautiful,
but it's not my work.

This wasn't done
by an Indian.

Do you have any idea
who might've done it?

Someone from Egypt,
I would think.

See the narrow pinpoint style
of the detailing?

Zara. Hey, Zara!

Zara, come look.
Is this your work?

They're police officers.

Well, of course,
I did that.

Aha. I thought so.
It's lovely.

Remember who you did it for?

Mira Elbisi. She was attending
a celebration.

The birth
of a friend's baby.

You know Mira well?

Mira's just a customer.
I like her.

Her name in Arabic
means princess,

like mine,
Zara, from the Hebrew.

(Stabler)
You Jewish?

Oh, no, no. She's Muslim.

(Zara)
Uh, languages,

Arabic, Hebrew dialects,
they blend together.

What's this all about?

(Stabler)
Do you know
where Mira's family lives?

May I see
your identification?

[People chattering]

Mira's husband
and his mother, Jazlyn,

they publish
The Arab American,

the newspaper.

It's around the corner,
near the mosque.

My wife?

Haven't seen her
since last evening.

She's with a friend.

Which friend would that be?

Uh, my wife has
many friends.

You two not getting along?

Of course, we are.

Mr. Elbisi,
is this your wife?

Not to be rude, but it seems
that if everything was fine,

you'd know
where she spent the night.

You know
what I find strange?

We ask you
about your wife,

you're not least bit curious
why we ask.

Did she file
a new complaint?

How I mistreat
and harass her?

Why? You like
to beat her up?

I would never hurt Mira.

(Stabler)
Where were you last night?

My mother and I worked late
putting the paper to bed.

My mother's Jazlyn Elbisi.

She's well-known
in the community.

She here today?

She took the day off.

And how late
did you two work?

Mira hates being alone
in the apartment after dark.

Sometimes she visits friends
in Bay Ridge and stays over.

Which friends?

L... I don't know.

(Benson)
Recognize this tattoo?

Yes.

And that mole.

It's Mira.

Why do you have
that photograph?

Mr. Elbisi, we're very sorry.

Your wife was murdered
last night.

No.

(Stabler)
She was burned to death.

Who could have done this?

We're hopin'
you can help us with that.

I wouldn't have any idea.

(Jazlyn)
Of course I was at the paper

with my son all evening.

Could you translate evening
into something more specific?

I went to the office
around 5:00.

I left at midnight.

Your son told two detectives

that you left at, uh,
10:00 p.m.

10:00, midnight.
It was a long day.

What's the difference?

The difference is
your stories don't match.

Which probably means
you're not telling the truth.

You just want to make Arabs
look like bad people.

That's why you're here.

All right.

I came home
with my grandson.

I took him to the office

and I brought him home
to put him to bed.

(Munch)
Where was his mother?

I don't know.

Nana, where's Mama?

When's Mama coming home?

Sonny boy must've called Mom
and warned her.

They couldn't keep
their stories straight.

Every word out of her mouth
was a lie,

except maybe good morning.

(Cragen)
Casey.

Who talked to a reporter
about this burned woman?

And it's nice
to see you, too.

"Burn victim said to be
target of hate crime.

"Sources say Special
Victims Unit detectives

"refused to release
the woman's ethnicity

for fear of setting off
more attacks."

I hope this didn't
come from here.

We don't leak
to the press.

Only person I talked to
about this was you.

Well, then how'd they
get the story?

Somebody heard a rumor,
made up the rest.

When this hits the papers
before I brief my boss,

I look incompetent.

Three weeks ago,
Mira Elbisi called the 74,

said she was afraid
of her husband.

Cops respond,
she apologizes.

She overreacted.

One week later,
neighbor calls.

Shouting from
the Elbisi apartment.

This time the mother-in-law
sent the cops away.

If he was abusin' her,

Mira had a lot of courage
callin' the cops.

Let's find this neighbor

and see what the shouting
was about.

I think maybe he hit her.

She had a split lip
the next day.

(Benson)
Why did they fight?

Don't know.
Mira said she cut herself.
I didn't believe her.

You must have a reason
for that.

She was struggling, you know.
It was obvious.

She had no one to talk to.

She told me
she was true to Islam,

but you could see
this lady wanted some freedom.

(Stabler)
You ever talk to her husband?

I don't go
where I'm not wanted.

You got a problem
with Arabs?

No. He's got a problem
with me.

He's an educated guy.

I think he looks down
on trades people.

Did Mira fight
with her mother-in-law?

She hated living
with the old lady.

She felt squeezed.

When they shouted,
they turned up the stereo.

She ever mention anybody
that she confided in?

Uh, there was
one friend.

A guy who works for some
do-gooder religious group.

He's Jewish.
She wanted me to meet him.

Name's, uh, Feldman.
Joshua Feldman.

Guess she thought
since I'm Jewish,

I'd make a donation.

(Feldman)
He beat her up, didn't he?

That lunatic husband of hers.
Is that why you're here?

Mr. Feldman, did you see Mira
last night?

Is she in the hospital?
Tell me.

(Stabler)
Was she here last night?

I was expecting her.

We're trying to build bridges
between Muslims and Jews,

and she wanted to be
a part of it.

When she didn't show up,
I called her.

Her mother-in-law answered
and I hung up.

Why didn't you
leave a message?

Strange man calling
a married Muslim woman?

Might not go over too well.

So she kept
her work here secret.

(Feldman)
Yes.

Mira's afraid her husband
will keep her from coming.

Please, tell me,
is she all right?

Mr. Feldman,

last night Mira was attacked
two blocks from here.

Maybe you read
today's paper.

No.

That was Mira?

Oh, God, no.

So you two
were more than friends.

We were in love.

She was going to leave him.

We were
goin' to live together.

Did her husband
know about all this?

Yes.

When she told him
I was Jewish,

he said he'd never let her go,
never let her leave.

[Feldman sighing]

Mira and I fought.
We argued.

We are from
different generations.

We didn't get along.
This was no secret.

You had some secrets
last time we talked.

Like where your
daughter-in-law was

when you were
babysitting.

I don't know.

Your wife is out at night,
you have a young child,

and you don't know
where she is?

(Elbisi)
She didn't always tell me.

I wonder why.

I don't know
what you mean.

(Benson)
I mean her boyfriend.

Please. My wife is dead.

Don't defame her good name.

Did you leave
the newspaper office

at around 6:00
with a can of fuel oil?

We got a warrant.
We searched your car.

Our lab found traces of oil
in your trunk.

You want to explain that?

Our boiler in the office
went out.

You need oil to prime it

and the service company
wouldn't come out,

so we had to
get some ourselves.

We figure you left
your grandson at the office

and went out with your son
to start a fire.

We're not barbarians.

We're faithful Muslims.

And you couldn't bear
that your daughter-in-law

was in love with a Jew.

(Elbisi)
She cheated on me.

She disgraced our family.

But I still loved her.

Your wife wanted a divorce
and you refused.

If Mira wanted to go,
she could go.

Not if you threatened
to kill her.

I would never do that.

Yeah, you would.
The neighbor said
that you split her lip.

It was an accident.
We were both ill-tempered.

That's not
what her boyfriend said.

See, Mr. Elbisi,
I want to believe you, I do.

But you find out
that your wife

is having an affair
with a Jewish man,

and I'm wondering how
somebody like you would react.

Someone like me?

He puts his head down.

He cries.

He mourns the loss of his son
because his wife gets custody.

He doesn't set the woman
he loves on fire.

(Cragen)
Circumstantial.

Unless you get permission
to talk to his kid.

A 6-year-old whose mother
was just murdered.

No judge'll let us near him
unless we indict the father.

(Fin)
Sure we got the right people?

Yeah. Why?

Then we got a copycat.
(Novak)
What?

94th Street
and Second Avenue,

near the big mosque.
Man set on fire.

Name was Tariq Assad, 27.

Didn't live to make it
to the ambulance,

but we got a witness.

(Benson)
The witness is Jason Mullavy.

He said the guy in flames
came toward him

and he heard
somebody shouting:

"Killer, you'll burn in hell
for what you did to us."

Just what the city needs
to read in tomorrow's papers.

Mr. Mullavy?

Jason. Capt. Cragen.

How you doin'?

Look, we'd like you
not to repeat

what you saw to the press.
You think you can handle that?

I guess, yeah. But I could get
real money for this.

Well, that could compromise
our investigation.

I think The Enquirer
would pay me for an interview.

You could turn them down.

That depends
how much they offer.

Det. Munch.

Yes, sir?

Take this young man
into custody
as a material witness.

Lock him up
somewhere comfortable.

I know just the place.

You can't do this to me.

He just did.

Same M.O. Torn underwear
on the ground

and the smell of fuel oil.

Didn't release anything
about fuel oil.

It's definitely
not a copycat.

We've got a pipe
with blood and tissue

like the first victim.

(Warner)
Only the last one
had cervical cells.

With a male victim,

I'm betting this one
will be rectal.

We got to figure out how
this guy picks his victims,

and we got to do it fast.

(Fin)
There's one distinction
he's not making.

The first one's a female, 29.

The second victim's
a male, 27.

They both look Middle Eastern.
Other than that,

they've nothing else
in common.

Except that he symbolically
raped and set them on fire.

(Cragen)
Crime of opportunity,
or does he stalk them?

It's hard to say.
But he seems impulsive.

He brings a pipe with him.
That's premeditation.

Any leads off the pipes?

(Fin)
Old corroded junk,
different manufacturers.

Could've picked it up
off the street.

Using a pipe as a penis.
So he's just your

garden-variety
sexually-repressed racist.

Actually, I think
the racism is a cover,

a mask for inadequacies.

He probably has
conscious feelings

of being wronged,
cheated by life.

And using a pipe
on both sexes?

(Huang)
A need to humiliate.

These offenders
were often humiliated
or abused as children.

So you're sayin' racism
is what sets them off.

In a way, yes.

He sees these features
that are Middle Eastern.

That person is the "other."

This killer needs
someone different

from himself to hate.

He sees an Arab,
he thinks terrorist.

Well, he's not alone.

Even normal people
have crazy thoughts,

but we don't act on them.

The new victim, Tariq Assad,
I found his brother.

(Assad)
We came here
to study engineering.

Our parents live in Cairo.

We're trying to trace
your brother's movements.

Can you help us with that?

Uh, as far as I know,

he would've been in class
till noon.

Then he'd go to the mosque
for religious instruction.

He was a much more
observant Muslim than I.

Did he socialize in the
Arab community in Brooklyn?

You mean the woman
who was killed?

No, he wouldn't know her.

You seem
pretty sure of that.

My brother and I...

Well, that's not
our sort of people.

You know, they're still
very isolated in Brooklyn.

Tariq was quite social.

He spent a lot of time

teaching Christians and Jews
about Islam.

He called it
"building bridges."

(Stabler)
Building bridges?

Did he use
that specific phrase,
"building bridges"?

Yes. He was a bit
of an idealist.

Is that important?

You know if he belonged
to any organizations?

Uh, a place downtown,
the Interfaith Council.

Now it's Tariq Assad?

Don't tell me
Mira's crazy husband

is killin' people
she met here.

We don't think he's involved.

So you knew Tariq?

This is a nightmare.

He was such an optimist.

I mean, how many
Arabs tell you

Israel is a great country?

Could Tariq
have known Mira?

Mira and Tariq were
on the same panel last week:

The Modernization of Islam.

(Stabler)
You sell tickets
to that event?

No, people just show up.
It's open to the public.

How about, uh,
that thing up there?

(Feldman)
Security. We have plenty

of metal detectors,
cameras, guards.

We record everything
just in case.

(Feldman)
This is the tape
after the panel.

Camera 3 is the reception.

(Benson)
There's Tariq Assad.

And there's Mira
in the front.

(Stabler)
The guy in the baseball cap.

He was standing next to Tariq.
Now watch.

Sidling up next to Mira.
Do you know him?

No, never seen him before.

What's on his jacket.
Can you freeze that for me?

Can you
bring it in closer?

"Donaghue Heating Service."

Heating. As in fuel oil.

(Donaghue)
Yeah, it's Sean Webster.
Drives a truck for us.

Is he in trouble?

We just want
to talk to him.

He's clockin' in,
top of his shift.

Hey, Sean,

some cops here
want to talk to you.

Sean. Se...

[tires screeching]

[Horn blaring]

(Benson)
What are you
running from, Sean?

[Sean groaning]

We just want
to have a little chat.

You're under arrest
for the murders

of Tariq Assad
and Mira Elbisi.

(Sean)
You don't want to do this.

Listen to me.
You'll let me go.

Shut up. You have the right
to remain silent.

If you give up that right,
anything you say

can and will be used
against you in court.

But you're like me.
I know you are.

You have the right
to an attorney.

I've been
in some trouble before.

So when I saw you two comin',
I automatically ran.

But not because
you burned two people alive.

No, it's like...

If somebody was gonna do
what you say that I did.

Somebody?
Meaning not you.

Yeah.

If this man was to do this,

and maybe he knew
that these people

only pretended to be good,
but secretly they weren't,

well, then you'd understand
why he did it.

This man knew
they were bad.

How'd he know?

Maybe by the color
of their skin,

their voices,

and because they're a danger
to our way of life.

Way of life?
Which way is that?

Freedom. Democracy.

If these people don't believe
in those things

and they get money
for terrorism from overseas,

then somebody
ought to kill 'em. Right?

(Huang)
Almost dissociating,
as if this isn't about him.

Sounds like he wants Olivia's
and Elliot's approval.

Makes you wonder

whose approval
he really wants.

The fuel oil in Sean's truck
is a perfect match

to the victims.

36 million gallons
sold every 10 seconds.

Dumbest lawyer in town
can do an O.J. DNA with it.

The lab says the oil was
accelerated with benzene.

Munch and Fin
need a search warrant

for the kid's apartment.

It's done.
He saying anything?

(Huang)
Not directly.

Likes the sound
of his own voice.

Call me if he gives us
anything useful.

Any suggestions?

(Huang)
Keep him talking.

This man
wants to confess,

but first he needs
to be heard.

Till he says the magic words:
"I want a lawyer."

No, he won't hide
behind a lawyer.

They keep listening,
he'll keep talking.

What did my son do?
He's not a criminal.

Yes, ma'am.

Sean's boss called.
He said you dragged him away.

I called
the police department.

They said they've never
heard of my son.

He's at our precinct, ma'am.

You have to stop.
You have to leave right now.

You'd better look
at that search warrant.

If you don't stay
out of our way,

we'll arrest you, too.

(Munch)
Check this out.

"The Citizen's
Survival Manual,"

published by
the White People's Press.

"Chapter 6: Fires
and How to Start Them."

Why do these publishers
always have post office boxes

and not real addresses?

Because they know
we're lookin' for 'em.

Cleanin' fluid.

Ingredients: Dichloromethane
and what do you know, benzene.

Sean, you got some
decisions to make here, man,

and you got to make 'em now.

(Sean)
Why?

No one's gonna put me
in jail, you know?

Once they understand.

Well, what are they
gonna understand?

Talk to me. Talk to me.

What are they
gonna understand?

How in the hell did you get
yourself into this mess?

I don't know.

You come from
where I come from and...

[sighs]

Things are supposed
to be different.

I'm a real American.
I was born here.

L-lt should be easier.

I understand
what you mean

and it obviously
pisses you off.

So what do you do?
What do you do?

[Phone ringing]

Just got some news.

They found your can
of cleaning fluid.

It's got benzene in it.

You used it
as an accelerant.

I told you what I know.

How much longer
you gonna keep me here?

That's entirely up to you.

See, you just don't
get it, do you?

Things were different
when I grew up.

You didn't have
these people.

Look, there's always been
foreigners here.

We're all foreigners.

This country is built
of immigrants.

Yeah, now they come here
and rent places in Jersey

and they set up
their little cells

and bomb buildings.

Did somebody tell you
that Mira Elbisi

and Tariq Assad
were involved in 9l11?

I heard Arabs
all over the country
had advance warning,

sold their houses
and moved back

to their hell holes
in the desert.

Street vendors and cabbies
were told to stay away

from the Trade Center
that day.

Those were rumors, Sean.
Rumors.

I call 'em like I see 'em.

What do you think?

[Sighing]

Well, I'll tell you,
I see those people

walkin' down the street
and I admit

I don't like 'em being here.

Yeah?

Yeah.

(Sean)
Stabler?

Yeah.

That Irish?

Yeah.

[Snorting]

I, uh,

I went to Holy Name.

You?

(Stabler)
Sisters of Mercy.

You go to college?

I went to night school.

Just got out of the Marines,
but, uh, I got my B.A.

How come you had to go
into the service

instead of
straight to college?

My dad was a cop,

I got two sisters,
three brothers, you know.

Not a lot of money
goin' around.

You see,
that's exactly my point.

I didn't get to go myself

because all the places
were taken up by Arabs,

who come over here
with their oil money

and buy all the slots
in the schools

with the money
that we paid 'em.

You're right.
That's not fair.

That's not fair.

Yeah, it's a bitch.

So, you understand?

One of my best friends died
in the World Trade Center.

What do you think?

You see, you don't get it.

He gets it.

[Phone ringing]

Gas chromo on the benzene
is a dead-on match

to the residue
on both victims.

This goin' anywhere?

You know, I thought
he'd crack.

He's having too good a time.

I can try and go
and light him up.

It's been
four and a half hours.

Knock yourself out.

[Door opening]

Det. Tutuola, Sean Webster.

What's he doin' here?

You invited him?

You don't like me
very much, do you?

Actually, I'm not
all that invested either way.

What do you see in her?
You know what I see?

I think she's got
some color in her.

What's in you?
Arab? Raghead?

Oh, you look it too, boy.

You got some
raghead in you?

In Africa,
folks moved around intermixing

for thousands of years.
I could be part Arab.

Oh.

That would explain

why your coon brothers
went to the enemy.

Black Muslims, traitors
to the American people.

You can call me
anything you want, Sean.

Coon, traitor,
raghead, towelhead.

I got some words for you.

Killer, psycho.

Hey.

I'm no psycho.

You burned
two innocent people to death.

They weren't innocent!

They had to die
or they would kill us all.

Who was Mira Elbisi
gonna kill?

She was workin' for peace.

I didn't want to kill her!

You tore up
that innocent woman
with that pipe,

then you burned her alive.

You're sick.

She said that
she was a good American.

And that raghead said
that he was our friend.

They're all liars!

We had to stop 'em
or they're gonna kill us all!

You okay?

I'll take words anytime
over being raped with a pipe.

You've got thicker skin
than me.

Couple of hundred years,

races will be so mixed up
it won't matter.

No one will know
what color anyone is.

He got to you?

A little.

He thought he'd rattle me
by calling me an Arab.

But the truth is,

I don't know anything
about my father.

Race and color are the least
of my questions.

Probation report.

Sean Webster, age 16,

attacked a Pakistani kid
at school.

Tried as an adult,
sentenced as a juvenile.

No time served.

Father died when he was 10.

Mother had
a nervous breakdown,

had to move out of the house
from Long Island.

Brought the kid into the city.

He's been in and out
of trouble ever since.

You want us
to feel sorry for him?

Oh. No,
he's a racist son of a bitch.

With a damned good lawyer.

The confession's
inadmissible.

He was Mirandized.
He never asked for a lawyer.

You can stop
grandstanding, Oliver.

This isn't
a press conference.

You kept him hidden
from his own mother.

No, no. Our detectives
told his mother we had him.

He was offered his phone call.
He declined.

The confession was provoked.
I'll get it excluded.

There's not much law
on provocation.

And considering
how wired your client is,

I'd say he provokes easily.

The confession will stick.

Maybe you're right.

See you in court.

[People chattering]

I've seen that smile.

Usually before he demolishes
the prosecution's case.

How did that kid's mother
find Oliver Gates?

He was one of
the major opponents

of the hate crime statute.

Well, he picked
the right case.

We'll deny him the pleasure.

I don't need
a sentencing enhancement.

Uh, we'll convict Webster
for both killings.

He does consecutive time.

It's 50 years before
he sees a parole board.

My opinion?

You need a hate crimes charge.

Goes to motive.

I think we should
prosecute action,

not thought.

Webster killed out of hate.
That matters.

Okay, you tell me.

Does that mean a black man
who kills a Klansman

does additional time?

Or a... a gay man
who kills a homophobe?

I mean, where do we
draw the line?

Hate crimes
incite other people.

It's a kind of terror.

We use the statute
to make a point.

[Phone ringing]

Cragen.

Yeah. We'll be right there.

Sean Webster just killed
a Muslim prisoner

at Central Booking.

(Willis)
Webster was in the pens
waiting for arraignment

when he flipped out.
Stomped the Arab to a pulp.

Why didn't you
segregate him?

He's booked
for two murders.

We didn't know
about a racial angle.

Nobody said squat, okay?

Your lawyer's
gonna be pissed, Sean.

You just convicted yourself.

One less Arab,
one less terrorist.

(Oliver)
Sean, seal your lips.
Not another word.

Actually, my client
just proved my theory correct.

What? Another murder
gets him off?

No, it gets him sent
to a mental hospital

for the treatment
he so desperately needs.

An insanity defense?
You've got no grounds.

Sure, I do. His genes.

The motion will be filed
tomorrow.

Sean Webster is
biologically and genetically

predisposed to hatred
and violence.

He had no control
over his actions.

It'll never fly.

You put a man's genes
on trial,

nobody'll ever be responsible
for anything.

It's the ultimate defense.

(Novak)
Your Honor,
this defense is absurd.

The defendant sodomized
and burned two people

and beat a prisoner to death.

His guilt cannot be determined
by his genes.

Are you citing the law,
Counselor,

or is this
just your opinion?

The law is clear.

New York doesn't have
an insanity defense

of irresistible impulse.

We ask that it be excluded.

Thank you, Ms. Novak.

(judge)
Proceed.

Thank you, Your Honor.
My client, Sean Webster,

believes that Muslims
are a danger to our society

and therefore,
he's driven to kill them.

Now, we will prove
that he's not responsible

for these crimes
because he was born

with hatred and violence
hardwired into his brain.

Your Honor, the defendant
ran from the police.

He knew right from wrong.

That negates
a mental disease defense.

Michigan v. Carpenter.
Not wanting to be caught

is different than knowing
right from wrong.

And what better proof
he can't control his actions

than killing an inmate
while awaiting two trials?

(judge)
You haven't convinced me
that biology is the issue

or that it's proper for me
to allow this defense.

U.S. V. Robertson.

The trial judge must consider

the defendant's ability
to control himself.

I know the case, Counselor.

I went to law school, too.

I'll review your
scientific evidence.

And I presume you have
a bang-up expert witness.

The esteemed Dr. Emily Sopher,
Chair of Neurobiology

at the Mid-Hudson Institute.

(judge)
Documents in my chambers,
48 hours.

You'll make
your witness available

to the District Attorney.

The whole defense is bogus.

The judge should've
dismissed it.

He still might.

Casey,

now this is gonna be a blast,
don't you think?

I think it's a bad joke.

Your client killed
that inmate

just to make himself
look crazy.

No. He can't control

his genetic predisposition
to hatred.

Why are you doing this,
Oliver?

It's the next frontier.

I like being
on the cutting edge.

You like being
in the spotlight.

That, too.

Why, it must be genetic.

You think his expert
can convince a jury?

Sopher's a world-class
neurobiologist.

There's no telling
what they're gonna think.

You talk to Sopher.
See what you think.

Read the research
on brain chemistry.

Multiple studies,
not just mine.

Genotypes that cause
low levels

of monoamine oxidase A
predict violence.

Maybe violence
is genetically influenced.

But hatred
is a learned behavior.

Actually, my research shows

that emotions
are genetically determined.

Some day, we'll treat
the Sean Websters of the world

with gene therapy before
they commit terrible crimes.

You start treating people
you think will be criminals,

you turn psychiatry
into social control.

All due respect, Dr. Huang,
you're living in the past.

You're living
in the future.

You might be able
to prove your theories then,

but you can't do it now.

I can convince a jury.

Do you think
that a courtroom

is the right place
to test-drive your ideas?

Where should we do it?

At some academic conference
where no one will notice?

You might not want to testify
after you read my research.

(Oliver)
Dr. Sopher,

are hatred and racist violence
mental diseases?

(Sopher)
Yes. They're caused by

genetic abnormalities
in the brain.

Where in the brain
does this occur?

In the prefrontal cortex,

which controls emotions
and which is smaller in people

convicted of violent
hate crimes.

Dr. Sopher, were you able to
examine Sean Webster's brain?

Yes. First slide, please.

These images
are called PET scans.

The one on the left shows
a normal prefrontal cortex.

On the right
is Sean Webster's.

His is abnormally small.

More important, violent people
have more activity

than normal people in
another section of the brain,

it's called the sub cortex.

How can you tell?

Well, for example,
here's a scan

of the sub cortex
of a neo-Nazi skinhead,

who was convicted
of attacking Jews.

This is his sub cortex after
he hears the word, "Jew."

Note how it lights up.

(Oliver)
Did you perform this test
on Sean Webster?

Yes.

His sub cortex
lit up the same way

when he heard the word,
"Arab."

(Oliver)
Your conclusion,
Dr. Sopher?

The mere mention of Arabs
puts Sean Webster

into a state of extreme hatred
and violence.

Thank you. Your witness.

Can you tell by looking
at pictures of people's brains

whether they'll kill
other people?

That's difficult to say.

Your Honor.

Answer the question,
Dr. Sopher.

With enough time
and sufficient PET scans, yes,

I'll eventually be able
to predict

who will become violent.

Eventually predict?

Eventually.

But not now?

No.

(Huang)
I turned to colleagues

at the
Ranney Psychiatric Institute

to replicate
Dr. Sopher's experiments.

Tell us what you found,
Dr. Huang.

We interviewed
several people.

Number one is the PET scan
of an orthodox rabbi.

We showed him that picture
of Nazi officers.

His sub cortex responded
exactly like Sean Webster's.

Number two
is the sub cortex

of an
African-American minister.

We showed him that picture

of the Ku Klux Klan
at a rally, burning a cross.

So both of these men

have the same
subcortical activity
as Sean Webster.

That's correct.

What do these results
mean to you, Doctor?

That even if behavior
is partly genetic,

it's about
our experiences also.

After you've been
bitten by a dog,

you might not like them,

but you weren't born
to hate them.

Your witness.

Dr. Huang, is high cholesterol
genetically caused?

We think so.

Can you identify the genes
which cause it?

In the average patient,
not yet.

No. So if I have
high cholesterol

and I die of a heart attack,

it may have been
genetically predetermined.

Yes.

But you're saying
that Sean Webster

and not his genetic makeup

is responsible
for his violence.

Dr. Huang?

It's not that simple.

Thank you.

I was thinking
the same thing.

I wasn't finished.

Dr. Sopher identifies
violent people

after they've committed
hate crimes.

That doesn't mean
she can predict violence

based on
their brain patterns

no more than you can
predict a heart attack

based solely
on their cholesterol level.

But your rabbi or minister

could become violent
at any moment.

Any of us could.

My point. Thank you.

That includes Sean Webster.

(Sean)
When I was a kid,
I was always in trouble.

The school sent me
to a therapist,

but it never helped.

What kind of trouble?

Fights, mostly.

Who did you fight?

Arabs.

People like Tariq Assad
and Mira Elbisi?

Yeah.

What made you choose them?

I saw this poster
for a panel they were on.

I went and I listened.

You know, they say
that they're our friends.

They're more dangerous
than the ones

who admit
they're our enemies.

Did you hear voices
telling you to kill them?

No, sir.

Crazy people hear voices.

I'm not crazy.

But still you felt
you had to kill them.

They hate and want
to destroy our country.

You think killing people
is wrong?

We kill people in wars.

And we're at war
with these people, right?

Thank you.

Your witness.

So you hate Muslims.

Do you hate black people,
too, Sean?

No, ma'am.

Well,

I mean, except for the ones
who are Muslims.

Do you hate the Chinese,
Japanese?

No, ma'am.

So your hatred's
pretty specific.

Muslims come here

and they study
engineering and aviation

and then they use it
to attack us?

And we fought for them
in Bosnia?

And my dad fought for them
in Desert Storm,

and he died
for his country.

They killed your father?

Muslims killed your father?

And they turn around
and they attack us?

And they're going to explode
chemical warfare
in the subways.

Sean!

And poison
our water supplies!

And blow up bridges!

(Oliver)
Your Honor,
may we have a recess?

(judge)
Five minute recess

while the defendant
regains control of himself.

...stockpile weapons
of mass destruction!

[Gavel pounding]

He said his father died
in Desert Storm.

I need to know
whether Sean killed

out of hate or revenge.
Find out how the father died.

Casey, just accept it.
It's over.

If you want a deal,
the answer is no.

Thought you'd jump
at the chance.

Won't give you
the satisfaction.

The jury's buying it.

You see,
they understand hatred

because at one point,

they've hated someone
themselves.

None of them
have killed three people.

But they understand
the impulse and won't blame
Sean for his.

No deal. There's no way

I acknowledge
an ounce of validity

in this cockamamie defense.

You will realize that
it's based on speculation,

on maybes and could-bes,
on maybes and...

[knocking on door]

Practicing your summation?

Yeah. It's not working.

It may not have to.

I think I found
what you wanted.

Seth Webster,
Sean Webster's father.

He fought in Desert Storm.

He didn't die there.

[Bell buzzing]

What's this about?

You still want a deal?

You've come to your senses.

It's about you
coming to yours.

He pleads three counts.

Murder two,
consecutive sentences.

Have a nice day.

[Door closing]

(Oliver)
Who's this?

Get him out.

Don't you want
to introduce Dad?

Sean, what's going on?

(Stabler)
He never told you?

His father met
an Arab woman in Kuwait,

divorced Sean's mother,
remarried,

and moved to Detroit.

You still think
it's genetics, Oliver?

Why don't you just go back
to where you came from?

Go back to your Arab whore.

Sean, I'm sorry.

(Sean)
What do you care, hmm?

Because this is my fault.

Yeah, you're damn right
it's your fault.

My mom told me
that you died a hero.

And you never came around
to tell me different.

I go to get benefits
for college,

and I find out
that he's still alive.

Sean, listen,
I wanted to see you.

Your mother wouldn't let me.

She had custody.

She threatened that
if I tried to come visit...

Liar!

You were too busy
with your half-breed kids!

Admit it!

She filled your head
with all this crap about Arabs

because she was angry
with me.

Can't you see that?

She poisoned you
with her hate.

My mom worked her ass off
to take care of me.

You never gave a damn.

Oh, Sean.

I hate your stinking guts!

If I had a gun right now,
I'd shoot you in the head!

And then I'd go back
and I'd set your wife

and your bastard kids
on fire!

Get off me!

Sean Webster
wasn't born that way.

I don't believe anyone is.

It takes a human being
to teach you to hate.

Some mysteries pass
all understanding.

Letters of St. Paul.

The Muslim who
Sean Webster killed

in Central Booking,

he had friends.

Webster was just
stabbed to death

in the yard at Rikers.