All language subtitles for Law Order SVU - 11x01 - Unstable.HDTV.en

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.

Let's face it. You're not
the type to offer yourself!

Don't know why

Since you're just
a waste of skin...

A lousy pus sack.

So you know what's coming.

What I can't figure

Is why the hell
you're crying about it.

[knocking on window]

- Hey, we got fives waiting.

So quit playing
with this douche.

- [breathing heavily]

- What's that smell?

- Suspect vacated
his bowels, sarge.

It couldn't be helped.

What's it look like?

- C.O.D.'s blunt force trauma.

- That's what happens
when a meth-head

Mistakes his three-month-old
for a basketball.

- The girlfriend claims
it wasn't her fault.

- As soon as I get
a warrant for blood,

I'll be charging
her ass too.

Call a bus.

- Hey.
- [screams]

No! Let me go!
Leave me alone!

- Nate kendall.
I'm a cop, all right?

- A man raped me.

He raped me.

- All right,
let's get you some help.

- No, no, please.
Please don't leave me.

[sobbing]
please don't leave me.

Pleased don't leave me.

Please, please.

- You svu?

- Stabler, benson.

- Nate kendall, the two-four.

Your victim ran
into my crime scene.

- Get any info from her?

- Rena west, 35,
raped in her apartment.

Superficial knife wounds
and wrist restraints.

Doc says no semen,
but evidence of tearing.

Everything was bagged, tagged,
and sent to forensics.

- Great.
We'll take it from here.

- Ms. West?

- Don't come near me.
Get out.

- We're sex-crimes detectives.

We just want to hear
what happened.

- I can't.
No, no, not again.

Where's nate?
Where's nate?

I-I already told him.

No, I can't take this.
- Try to calm down.

Listen to me.
We're here to help.

- [whimpers]
- rena.

Rena, rena,
you're safe here.

- Where's nate?
I need--I need nate.

- Try to take a deep breath.
- Don't touch me!

Never touch me!

[sobbing]
where's nate?

Nate, where are you?

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- Hey, csu get anything
from rena west's apartment?

- No forced entry,
no foreign prints and no semen--

Just bloody sheets
and green fibers.

- In other words,
a whole lot of nothing.

- Well, he's got skill, so
this can't be his first party.

- You mind checking the database
for any open rapes?

- Yeah, I'm on it.
- Thanks.

- You get a description
of your perp from rena west?

- We haven't had a chance
to talk to her yet.

She had to be sedated.

- Then why aren't you
back in the hospital

Waiting for her to come to?

- We set her off.

She bonded
with the first responder--

Nate kendall,
out of the two-four.

- Her hero--he saved her,
so she feels safe with him.

She basically told us
to get lost.

- Where's kendall now?

- Left a message
on his cell phone,

At the precinct.

He could be out in the field.

- Hey, paul, it's don.
Don cragen.

Listen, we need to talk
to one of your guys--

A nate kendall.

Yeah, thanks.

He's on loan
to street narcotics,

Pinching small-time dealers.

- Latina runner--
neck tat, orange top.

Be advised--
her lookout's on wheels.

- Move in.

Go, go, go!
- Freeze! Don't move!

- Get down on the ground!

- [sighs] what the hell?
- Remember us?

- Yeah, I got your messages,

But as you can see,
I don't have time.

- They'll be fine
without you.

Rena west won't.

- It's not my problem.

- You saw what this guy
did to her.

We've got to get him
off the street now.

- You saved
a woman's life, kendall.

Help us save another one.

- I don't like victims.

They cling.

- Not after you bag the trash
that assaulted them.

- Vic's hands
were loaded with groceries,

And the doer offered help.

Told her, "don't be afraid
of the black guy, lady."

Only truth he told

Was when he said
he didn't want her purse.

- Does she remember
what he looks like?

- Average black guy.

- You don't believe her.

- I think her focus
was on the knife at her throat.

Perp got her inside,
checked her mail and closets.

- Make sure she lived alone.

Means he probably
didn't stalk her.

- Bound her wrists.

Raped her with his clothes on
and flushed the wrapper.

- So how'd she get away?

- He went to cut more cord
from the blinds.

My--my hands
were already tied,

So I just figur--
figured--

- It's okay.

Take your time.

- [exhales sharply, sniffs]

I knew he was gonna kill me.

So when he went
in the other room,

I just got up,

And I was out the door,
running for blocks.

- First smart thing you did.

- It's not your fault.

- The hell it's not.

Her gut was churning

The second he approached her
on the street.

- You're in the way--leave.
- No, no.

Nate's right.

He--the--the guy
was wearing a nice suit,

And he was polite,
but I knew--

I knew
that something was off.

- Only a racist acts afraid
of a black guy.

That's what
you told yourself.

And he read you.

- Rena, you survived.

That's the only thing
that matters.

- Can you give us
a description?

- I only want to talk to nate.

- I don't catch rapists.
They do.

- It's you or no one.

- Rena, that--that's just
not how it works.

You're gonna have to repeat
your story over and over

To lawyers, a jury, a judge.

- I can't.

- The guy who raped you

Will rape another woman

And another and another.

- I don't care.

I'm alive--you said that
that's all that matters.

So just--just take me home.

- You aren't going anywhere.

The bastard who did you
is out hunting his next mark.

You're gonna let her get screwed
because you're fragile?

Park it.

- I don't think
I ca--can do this.

- There's only one way
to find out.

Give us a minute.

[door opens, closes]

- This was a mistake.

- Not if it helps us
catch our rapist.

- And then what?

You think kendall's gonna
hold her hand through the trial?

- Well, your victim
is not connecting

With either one of you.

At least
he's got her talking.

- Did you hear him?

He has no experience dealing
with sexual-assault victims.

- If he works this case,

We are gonna have to watch him
every second.

- We're out of options.

Either work with him,
or I'll find somebody who will.

- Average height, weight,
and build.

Round up the usual suspects.

- If you knew
how to talk to victims,

You'd get more facts.
- Here's one--

Victims make lousy witnesses.

Hope you catch your man.

- You're not done yet,
detective.

I need you to stay
with ms. West.

- I am not a babysitter.

- You talk like
you have a choice.

- Sounds like you already
boned me with my captain.

- You're mine
until I don't need you anymore.

- So what next?

- We know
our guy's opportunistic,

Prepared, controlled.

He didn't stalk her, so
picked her up off the street?

- Or at the local market.

That was her last stop.

- This the man
who attacked rena?

- You recognize him?
- Maybe.

I just can't place him.

You think she was followed
from my store?

- It's a possibility.

- Hey, any chance we could take
a look at that footage?

- Oh, sorry,
that camera's just for show.

Talk to spencer.

- Okay, he work here?

- No, he's
the neighborhood spy.

He's always watching.

- Spencer?

These are detectives benson
and stabler.

They want to see
your footage from yesterday.

- I know you.
You were in the store.

- Yes, I was.
We just came from there.

- Two years ago.

- Uh, it's possible,
but I think I would remember.

- No, trust me, my brother
never forgets a face.

- You have an awful lot of
surveillance equipment in here.

- Spencer's autistic,
detective.

Uh, loud noises
and human contact unnerve him.

This is his way
of being social.

- April 12, 2007,
5:28 a.M.

- Late night?

- I did good, tommy?
- You did great, buddy.

- Spencer, I, uh--

I'd like to show you a sketch.

Maybe you can help us find
the man we're looking for.

- It was 7:54 p.M.

He was pretending
to read the paper.

[keyboard clacking]

[computer beeping]

- [sighs deeply]

I just want to be sure.

- Take all the time
you need.

- That's him, nate.

- You're sure?

- Yes.

- Facial-recognition software
got a hit--

Markoster, 32.

He liked beating up
his ex-wife.

He did time
for aggravated assault,

And when he got out,
she filed an r.O.

- No rapes, though.
Isn't that unusual?

- Well, he already
abused his wife.

Wouldn't be surprised if h
sexually assaulted her too.

We have a current address
on this creep?

- He was evicted
from his midtown condo

After he lost his job
as a trader.

His recent w-2s
show him working

In the meatpacking district.

- Trading cattle futures
to cutting steak?

That's a long fall.

- Short jump
to carving up women.

Let's pick up the butcher.

- I'm riding with you.

- We got it.

Mark foster.
Police.

Stop!

[tires screeching]

- What the hell was that?

You trying to kill him?

- I hate to run.

- Hey, you.

- Excessive force with a car.

Are you out of your mind?

- You I.D.'d yourself,
he ran, period.

- Your stunt
could have damaged our case.

- You don't have a case yet.

- Rena west picked foster
out of a photo array.

- And it took her
15 minutes to do it.

Memory recall is immediate.

- You saying she's lying?

- I'm saying
rena thinks it's true,

So this whole mess
will be over.

- Badly enough
to pick out the wrong perp?

- She's white.
He's black.

Cross-race identification
isn't reliable.

- You know,
not all black people look alike.

- Thanks,
but you're not a victim.

Mistaken I.D.S
happen all the time.

- Rena didn't get a glimpse

Of some guy in the dark.

This was a prolonged
physical attack.

- With a big knife
he used to cut her.

Was she focused on the weapon
or his face?

- She saw his face.

- How can you be sure?
- Because she told us.

And I'm not gonna put her
through any more than I have to.

- Oh, no.

Four's a crowd.

- You cops make a habit of
hitting people with your cars?

- You make a habit
out of running

Every time a cop
orders you to stop?

- Just ask my lawyer
when she gets here.

- So you're refusing
to cooperate.

- You're wasting your time.

I didn't rape anyone.

- Who said anything
about rape?

- White woman gets attacked
in my old neighborhood.

Every brother
within 20 blocks

Is just waiting to get
hauled in for questioning.

- You could play the race card

If we were rounding up
all the brothers,

But right now it's just you.

- So where were you
two days ago, mr. Foster?

- I was working
in the morning.

I went on job interviews
in the afternoon.

- Where?
- Sorry.

You start asking questions,
I won't get hired.

- Well, you were seen
in the same market

Where the victim shops.

- So what?

I used to live there
when I had a real job.

My ex still has a place
in the area.

- The ex that had to file
a restraining order against you?

You got a short fuse.

- [laughs]

My fuse is plenty long.

You should see it.

- What for?

Couldn't keep your wife happy
with it.

Is that why
you beat her up?

- Which bought you
six months in rikers.

Now you can't trade stocks
with a record, huh?

Right?

Cost you your job,
your home, your freedom.

- Somebody had to pay, so you
whipped out your big knife,

And you carved up...

Rena west.

- I don't know that woman,
and I didn't touch her.

- Prove it.

Give us an alibi.

- Fine.

I violated my r.O.

When I went to see that bitch
I was married to.

- That's smart.

Confess to a misdemeanor
when you're guilty of a felony.

Good one.

- She's got custody of my kid,
and she's a damn crackhead.

What the hell
am I supposed to do?

- 93 seconds.

- Exunselor.

- No, no, no, no.

I may be wearing couture,

But I don't represent
scumbags.

- So who exactly
do you represent?

- The people.

Sonya paxton,
your new a.D.A.

How's it going?

- Where's alex cabot?

- Training in albany.

When she's finished,
she'll take my spot in appeals.

- Appeals?

Well, no disrespect,
but we do things

A little differently
down here in new york city.

- Oh, really?

I was trying homicides

When you were
fresh out of the academy,

Walking a beat,
and trying not to piss yourself.

- Executive a.D.A. Paxton got
the first capital conviction

When pataki brought back
the death penalty.

- Yes, I did.

So when I say
stop playing fast and loose

With defendants' rights,

That's what you'll do,

Or, uh,
you won't be working here.

- That is the commissioner's
decision, sonya, not yours.

- That's where
you're wrong, don.

There have been far too many
overturned convictions,

Especially
in the "he said she said" unit.

So jack mccoy sent me here

To clean house.

Oh, and one p.P. Thinks
it's a really swell idea,

So why don't you
walk me through it.

- The victim I.D.'d
mark foster

From a photo array.

- Was it sequential?

- That's not procedure.
Photo array's by the book.

- Yeah, well,
your book's out of date.

Presenting photos one at a time
is more accurate.

Studies show
that traumatized victims

Can't take in a lot of detail
all at once.

Okay, what else you got?

- We don't need
anything else.

- [chuckles]

75% of wrongful convictions

Came from
witness misidentification.

- We're supposed to be
victims' advocates.

We start doubting them,
they stop reporting.

- Putting innocent men in jail
costs taxpayers money

And leaves the real perps
on the street to hit again.

Now...

Barring that,
is there any forensic evidence?

- A few green fibers

That csu says are mass-produced
carpeting for vans

That discontinued
in the late '80s.

- Does foster own a van
with green carpet?

- No, but he could have
borrowed one or stolen one.

- Look, he was careful.

He kept his clothes on.
He wore gloves, a condom.

He wasn't stupid enough
to show up

At the crime scene
with his own car.

- What we're saying is
he's no first-timer.

He's got his rape routine
down pat.

- Wait, wait, I thought
there were no open rape cases

Matching this m.O.

- There aren't.

Maybe the victims
didn't report it.

My gut is telling me
that he's done it before.

- Or maybe
it's your acid reflux.

- We'll widen the search,
find his priors.

- Yeah.

Call me when you get them.

- Break foster's alibi.

Go talk to his ex.

[baby crying]

[glass breaking]
- come on, you whore!

- Please!
- Pull yourself together.

What's the matter
with you, huh?

Pull yourself together!

Get off me!
Get off me!

- Calm down!
Calm down.

Mrs. Foster, are you hurt?

- Real bad.

I need my medicine.
- It's okay, honey.

It's okay, sweetheart.

Are you okay?

- What the hell
are you doing here?

- I came to get
foster's alibi.

Stupid bitch is useless.

She was sucking on that pipe
when I got here.

The kid's filthy.

There's no food
in the fridge.

- That doesn't give you
the right togh her up.

- She's lucky
I didn't shoot her.

- If you need
something to do,

Why don't you take
the little girl

To social services?

Now.

- My little girl
likes cheeseburgers.

How about you?

- Okay, sweetie.

It's all right.

You're okay.
- Okay.

- Mrs. Foster?

I need to ask you some questions
about your ex-husband.

- Was he here?

- That's what we need you
to tell us.

- I need some rock.
[cell phone ringing]

- Listen to me.
Look at me. Look at me.

You're not getting anything
until you answer the question.

- Help me out,

And I'll say whaver
nte to.

- El, that was fin.

We got another problem.

[elevator bell dings]

- Ncic pinged a rape
that matches your m.O.

Right down
to the green fibers.

- I thought there weren't
any open rapes.

- There aren't.
It's a ten-year-old case.

Bought the perp
a 25-year bid.

- Whose case was it?

- Yours.

- In '98,
I collared victor tate

For the rape
of katie harris.

He threatened her with a knife,
tried to rape her.

When he couldn't perform,
he beat the crap out of her.

- And left the same green fibers
at the crime scene

That you found
on rena west.

- Vans are the vehicle of choice
for perverts.

Hundreds of thousands
have the same carpet.

- Or maybe
you got the wrong guy.

- Is that your
professional opinion?

- Just test the old fibers
against the new ones.

See if they match.
- We can't.

The lab used up the whole sample
ten years ago.

- Wait, wait, wait.

What are you telling me?

There's no way
to forensically link

The harris case
to rena west?

- No, I'm telling you
they're not connected.

Victor tate
didn't con his way in.

He didn't tie her up.
He didn't try to kill her.

- These guys adapt.

He's had a decade
to improve his technique.

- Tate gave
a detailed alibi.

It turned out
to be false.

He had bloody knuckles.

The victim I.D.'d him
in a photo array and a lineup.

- And yet ten years later,
someone's attacking women

With remarkable similarity.

- You're basing
tate's innocence

On green fibers
that we don't have.

- Not at all. I'm just saying
we need to take a second look.

53 convictions
have been overturned

In this state, don.

Even one's too many.

- Those men were exonerated
through dna.

There's a difference.

- Falsely imprisoned,

For decades I might add,
because, oh, yeah,

Detectives didn't do their jobs
in the first place.

- That isn't the case here,
ms. Paxton.

Tate's guilty.
- Really? Oh.

Wellthat's great, th.

You don't mind calling me

After you reinterview
katie harris

And show her
a sequential photo array?

- Take fin with you.

- I-I don't understand.
Why do I have to do this?

- This is just
a more accurate way

To identify your attacker.

- Victor tate.

It's the same man
I pointed out in the court room.

Why are you making me
go through it again?

- There's
a very slim possibility

That we caught
the wrong guy.

- What the hell
are you talking about?

That man raped my wife.

He's been sitting in prison
for ten years.

- A recent victim
makes it look like

Tate could be innocent.

- I don't believe it.
That man attacked me.

You think after what he did
to my face,

I wouldn't know his?

- Katie, a lot of victims
mistake I.D.S.

They'll be
absolutely positive,

And then dna evidence
will prove the guy's innocent.

- Is that what happened here?
- No.

But there's
other forensic evidence

We need to check out.

- How can you do this to me?

- I wouldn't be here
if I had a choice.

- Do you think he's innocent?

- I'm not sure.

- Don't come back
until you are.

[horn honking]

- You all right?

- I'm going over
the case in my head.

- I read the file.

You did your job,
and his alibi sucked.

- No, that--
see, that's the point.

Tate's alibi checked out
for the weekend before.

He's always said
that it was my questioning

That mixed him up.

That's why he got
the dates wrong.

- Come on, man,
don't beat yourself up.

- What if tate
is innocent?

- The man had
a fair trial.

If he's not the rapist,
the entire system failed,

Not just you.
[cell phone ringing]

- Stabler.

We're coming in.

Liv found two more victims.

- 12 years ago,

Two women reported
being raped at knifepoint.

- Let me guess--more green
fibers at the crime scenes.

- Yep.

- And you think
I'm the screw-up.

- These cases never
hit our desk.

- Why?

- Because both of these victims
are prostitutes.

They gave phony names.

So when no one believed them,
they took a powder.

- We need to find
these two women.

- And how should we do that
with 12-year-old aliases?

- You want to find a whore,
you ask a pimp.

- If you need any food,
just come to me, okay?

- This guy will have you
in lycra and plastic heels

Before you know it.

Get lost.

- Detectiv--

What do you need?

- You were a baller
back in the day.

Probably knew every skirt
in the city.

- If they was any good.
[laughs]

- We need a name
with the face.

- What's the pay?

- Not having me
come back here, willie.

- Heard the rumors,
kendal

I don't want to be your bitch
with a pistol down my throat.

Honeypot's deceased.

- Do you remember how?
- Strangled by some trick.

- What about her?

- She wasn't hooking long

Before she got
the beat-down.

Disappeared after that.

- I need a name.
- I need to make a call.

- I'd make it fast.

- Hey, you don't get
to knock heads,

Even when it's about a kid.

- It's no surprise
we don't see eye to eye.

- Look, it's more than that.

You slapped a mother
over a six-year-old.

Now, you're threatening him
over a girl recruit.

What's the matter with you?

- She reminded me
of my daughter...

Kelly.

- How old is she?
- Ten.

Only got to see her
two weeks out of the year.

Never enough time,
but we always had a blast.

- She live out of state?

- My ex ran to seattle
to get away,

And my kid ends up dead
because--

Because I wasn't there.

- I'm sorry.

- My ex too.

Got herself involved
with a meth dealer.

Blew them up cooking it.

- Kendall!

I got you a name.

- Beverly neal?

- Where did you get this?

Who are you?

- Special victims unit--

We're investigating another rape
that matched your case file.

- There is no case.
Didn't you hear?

I made up the whole thing.

- Look, your rapist
is still out there,

And we can't catch him
without you.

- I'm a court reporter now.

I've seen what goes on
in rape trials.

- There are laws
to shield victims.

- And tactics
to get around them.

- You just don't want anyone
to know what you used to be.

- You've got balls.

I dropped that baggage
long ago,

And now you expect me
to pick it back up.

- What you used to be
shouldn't have mattered.

The way you were treated
was wrong.

- And because you say so,
I'm supposed to bend over.

That's how pimps talk.

- Women are being raped.

Don't make me subpoena you.

- Fat chance.

- You don't know cops

If you think
that's an empty threat.

- I am not a whore
or a victim, detective,

And I sure as hell
won't let you treat me like one.

- How'd it go?

- One victim's dead,
and the other won't cooperate.

- Then we force her hand.

I'm calling paxton
to get that subpoena.

- You don't call the a.D.A.
Without clearing it with me.

- Look, either beverly neal
clears foster,

Or she'll put him in a cage.

- And what makes you think
that she'll be able to make

A positive I.D.
After more than a decade?

- We won't know
until we twist her arm.

- Yeah, but why trust her
and not rena west?

They were both attacked
with a knife.

- Black-on-black crime.

If neal picks foster,
he can't claim cross-race I.D.

- Race shouldn't make
a difference.

- Research studies
says it does.

- Well,
it doesn't matter now.

Foster's in the tombs.
There's been another rape.

- Where?
- Vacant lot, midtown.

Victim is a minor.
Everybody goes.

- You checking up on us?

- Get used to it.

Standing order
at central dispatch

Says I get called
when you do.

- She's just a baby.

- Lynn rivers, 16.

Her parents are out of town.

Preliminary c.O.D.
Is exsanguination.

She's got several slashes
to her throat and chest.

Carotid's severed.

- Well,
she wasn't killed here.

There's not enough blood.
- No fluids either.

- Victim's cell phone

Show 14 missed calls
from an angelina lupino.

- Any forensics?
- More green fibers.

She's practically
covered with them.

- She was raped in the van,
then dumped here.

- If foster
wasn't sitting in a cell,

I'd put him right back
in the box.

- Foster isn't
in the tombs anymore.

He made bail.

What?
It's his right.

- He violated an r.O.,

And rena west I.D.'d him.

- Yeah, well,
like I told you,

That isn't enough evidence,

Certainly not enough to argue
remand without bail.

- How much?
- Judge set it at $50,000.

- So he throws five grand
at a bondsman,

And he's free to murder.

- You know what?
Blame the constitution, okay?

You want to be a prosecutor,
go to law school.

Or better yet,

Just do your jobs, guys.

Find me something I can use
to put him away.

Two stab wounds
to the chest,

And a fatal blow
to the neck.

The blade you're looking for
will be long and tapered.

- Any evidence
of sexual assault?

- Tearing
in the vaginal vault.

And she's missing
both areola.

- Did he take her nipples
postmortem?

- Poor kid finally
caught a break.

- Foster never
took trophies before.

- This was his first kill.

- We stressed him.
He's decompensating.

- It makes him more dangerous
if he thinks

He has nothing to lose.

- Your victim's tox screens
came back positive

For thc and alcohol.

- Weed and booze--
what 16-year-old doesn't party

When mom and dad
are out of town?

- We got angelina lupino
who blew up her cell.

Maybe she can tell us
what happened last night.

- It wasn't really a party,

More like a make-out session.

- With alcohol and joints?

- We were having fun.

My mom didn't know
lynn's parents were out of town.

- Okay, so this
make-out marathon

Was at lynn's house.

- No, tommy porter's.

He lives on riverton.

- That's rena west's
neighborhood.

- Did anyone come over
and pick lynn up?

- No.

She got elected
to get more beer.

- Why her?

- Lynn had a fake I.D.

She was glad to go,
but never came back.

- Store manager said
he turned lynn rivers away.

- Well, if he sold beer to
a minor, he wouldn't admit it.

- Trust me,
he was telling the truth.

- Did anybody see foster
in the area last night?

- No hits on the canvass.

- Do we even know
where he is?

- If we'd known
he was being released,

We could have tailed him.

- Oh, you want to play
the blame game?

'cause if foster's
your guy,

You put an innocent man
in prison for ten years.

- Yeah, I know that now,
and I'll make that right.

- Oh, that's
really comforting.

But meanwhile, you have brought
me nothing to put him in chains.

So what do you think
he does--

Just cruise around
looking for victims?

- He's a predator.
That's what they do.

- And how does he manage that
without a car?

- He borrows it
from his old man.

I just ran background
on foster's family

And close associates.

Turns out his ailing dad
lives in the bronx

And let the registration lapse
on his late-'80s van.

- You satisfied, counselor?

- No sign of foster
or the knife upstairs.

- Why is my house
full of cops?

- We're looking
for your son, mr. Foster.

Do you know where he is?

- Mark was here
when I left for the store.

It says you want a knife.

- You don't sound surprised.

- My son
is a disappointment.

- El, the knives.

Test these for blood.

- That's a lot of steel.
- I was a butcher for 40 years.

I had my own shop.

- Sorry, detective.

- Murder weapon's not here.

- He killed someone.

- Mr. Foster,
we need to find your son now.

Did he take your van?

- Nobody drives
that gas guzzler.

- Where is it?

- In my neighbor's garage,
next door.

- Fire.

I'll cut across
the neighbor's yard.

- Meet you in the middle.
- Please.

Don't kill him!

- He's trying
to destroy the evidence.

- Bet the knife is
in the van too.

- Police!
Show us your hands!

- It's gasoline.
Liv, fall back.

- I'm not leaving.

- Oh, how sweet.

- Don't move, foster.

- You pull that trigger,
we all gonna blow to flames.

- Retreat.
- We can't.

The evidence is about the blow.
- Kendall.

We need him alive, kendall.

- You know
I want to kill you.

- Go ahead.

- It sounds like
you want to die.

- So do you.

- Don't do it.

- You should have taken
your shot.

- There's always tomorrow.

- What are you offering?

- How's life
without parole sound?

- Overconfidence.

- Really?

For second-degree murder
and four counts of rape?

Believe me,
if I could, I'd...

[sighs]
I'd mix the cocktail myself.

- Your sentence also comes
with free cable

And a gym membership.

- What's this?

- It's the murder weapon
that we found

In your client's van.

- Leniency depends
on what he tells us

About his crimes.

And, um,
it better be the truth,

Or I'm gonna take it
personally.

- Stick a fork in me.
- [chuckles]

You are so lucky
it's not a needle.

- The two whores--

I figured they'd be easy.

What's the world coming to
when a ho yells rape?

Made me mad.

So I played the john,
and I choked the bitch.

I guess one of them
ran scared.

And I looked hard for her too.

That was one lucky whore.

I had plans to gut her.

- What do you remember
about katie harris?

- Everything.

I put my knife
in her side,

And I forced her
to take me upstairs.

I had to slug her
'cause she fought.

- You hit her
'cause you couldn't get it up.

- That's a lie.

I put a hole
in her mattress.

- You couldn't perform,
so you got angry.

That's why
you cut her face.

- That's a boning knife,
sweetheart.

I just wanted to see
how it handled on human flesh.

- I don't recognize him.
- Take it easy.

Take it easy,
take it easy.

- [sobs]

- He's going to prison
for what he did to you.

- What about victor tate?

- [sighs]
we got to get him out.

- I didn't feel the urge
for a long time...

Not till I lost my job.

I was off my game
when that bitch got away.

I should have tied her ass
to the bed from the start.

The little girl...

She wanted to pay me
to buy her beer--

Easiest mark I ever saw.

I figured you'd move on,
thinking I was the wrong guy,

Just like before.

You cops just love to brag
when you pinch the bad guy.

You ever wonder how many times
you get it wrong?

- You're the last person
I expected to see.

What horrible thing
did I do this time,

Detective stabler?

- I made a mistake, victor.
I wanted to tell you myself.

[sighs]

We arrested
katie harris' rapist today.

- I never thought I'd hear
those words coming from you.

- That makes two of us.

Another man
confessed to the crime,

Got it on tape.

You'll be a free man soon.

- Does she know?

- Katie?
Uh...

She heard him describe
her attack in detail.

There's no doubt.

We finally got...

The right man.

- I told you I didn't!

Many timago!

And then
my life just stopped!

Lost my woman, my friends!

Hell, my mother
barely knows me!

- We'll fix that.

Victor, I owe you a debt,
and I can't pait.

I'm gonna get you out of here
as soon as I can.

I promise.

[lock unlatches, door opening]

- Is this really happening?

- Believe it.

- Yuck it up, fish.

You won't be laughing
for long.

- Like that sap
you pinched in my place?

An innocent man doing hard time
is so cruel, don't you think?

[laughing]

Sloppy work, elliot.

Surprised they let you
carry a badge.

- Hey.

Look, why don't you, um,

Give yourself a break?

Let me haul his ass
to the tombs.

- Take me to the can first.

- Just hold it.
You can go later.

- Either let me piss
or clean it out your car.

- You are begging
for a beat-down.

- I need to take a leak.
- Let's go.

- Is nate here?

- Uh, he--he doesn't work
this precinct, rena.

- Tell me where he is.

- Nate can't prop
you up forever.

If you want your life back,
you're gonna need counseling.

Why don't you give them
a call?

[glass breaking,
surprised reactions]

- What happened?

- Oh, my god!

- What the hell did you do?

- Nothing.
The guy just--

The guy just took a header
out the window.

- Did he jump,
or did you toss him?

- His neck's broken.

- Was that before or after
he grew wings?

- There's no way to tell.

- You think I killed him?

- I wouldn't put it past you.

- I didn't touch the hump.

I'll wait upstairs
for I.A.B.

- He did it.
- Who gives a damn?

At least foster
won't be able to rape again.

- Stabler.

He also can't testify
in court now,

Which leaves victor tate
stuck in prison.

- What are you talking about?
We got new evidence.

- No, it's hearsay.

- We have foster's confession
on tape.

- A dead man's confession

Doesn't meet the rules
of evidence

Or allow cross
in front of a jury.

It's inadmissible.

- What about early parole?

We can appear
on tate's behalf.

- No.

- An inmate
has to admit guilt

Before a parole board
will let him go.

- I just told an innocent man
he's getting released.

- Yeah.
You jumped the gun.

- I'm getting him out of there

If I have to hire
a lawyer myself.

- You can do that, but it's not
gonna change anything.

He's still gonna end up
serving the whole bid.

- That's another
15 years, sonya.

- Look, uh...

I don't know what to say.

I'm sorry.

- Tell me what to do.

- Uh, unless you know
the governor...

There's not a single thing
you can do.