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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.

- Come on, you guys wanna be
lifeguards or what?

Almost there. Finish strong.

That's what I'm talking about.
Let's go!

Come on, Worsley,
don't gas out now, man!

You're so close!
Every second counts!

- That's what
I'm talking about.

Here. Cover yourself up.
- Oh, thanks.

- Nice swimsuit.
- Thanks.

- What's your name?
- Martina Rodriguez.

- Martina, nice to meet you.

Now wait--

don't tell me you're
this guy's little sister.

- I met you last year
when I came to pick

Diego up from the beach.

- Oh. Yeah, right.

Damn, son.

Been hitting the gym
since last year, huh?

- Started doing jujitsu.

- Well, I haven't seen
your sister's times,

but she looks like
a real fish in that pool.

- All right, people, listen up.

Chief's gonna handle
the CPR portion of the exam.

- Hey, Rodney, have you
seen that prop dummy?

- It wasn't in the
storage closet?

- No.

- Those Water Rescue guys
from Queens

must have packed it
in the van by accident.

- All right,
I'm gonna need a volunteer.

Uh, what's your name again?
- Martina.

- Martina, right.

Hey, can you--
you lay down right here?

- Thanks.

- Here you go.

- Like this?
- Perfect.

- Okay.
- Just lay back. Good.

All right, guys, today,

we're gonna be graded
on our ABCs:

Airway, Breathing, Circulation,

which means
I'm gonna be looking

for the proper head tilt,
rescue breaths,

and the timing
of your compressions.

Got it?

- Hey, Rodney, can you ask
Rodriguez's sister

to come in for a second,
please?

- Yeah, sure.

- Thank you.

- You wanted to see me?

- Yeah, Martina.

Come on in.

Close the door.

- So what's up?

- Well, technically,
you did great with your CPR,

but it's your times.

You're on the bubble.

- What? I didn't qualify?
- Relax.

I'm gonna give you a chance
to do it again next week.

But listen, it--it's not about
how often you practice but how.

And if you don't mind my
asking, who's training you?

- My brother.

- That's the problem.

Kid's too easy on you.

Come here.

Let me show you something.

Give me this.

All right.

Put your arms up,
all the way up.

There we go.
Imagine you're in the water.

Speaking of the water,
you're too flat in the water.

You got to move your
hips, all right?

There we go. There we go.

That's the one move.
That works.

And move, and move.
There you go.

You feel the difference?
- Mm.

- Yeah. Feel the water.

All right. That's it.

[suspenseful music]

♪

- Martina, hey.

What were you doing in there?

- Greco just wanted
to go over my scores.

- Hey, yo, Chief.
- Hey. What'd I do?

- Diego! Diego!

- Yo, yo, chill! D, get off.
D, get off.

- Get away from me!
- That's enough!

- I mean it!
- That's enough, bro.

- If I ever see you here
again, I'll kill you, bro.

- Stop! Stop!
- I swear to God.

Let's go.

- What is wrong with you?

♪

Dude, what's your problem?

- What were you doing
in his office?

- I told you.

Said he'd help me pass,
but not after what you pulled.

- Diego, what'd I say about
drinking under my roof, huh?

- Whatever, Ma.
I'm out of here then.

- Qué?
- [speaking Spanish]

- Mira!

You better not
walk out that door.

- [speaking Spanish]
- You better not leave.

No. You better not leave.

- You got plans for tonight?

- Yeah,
gonna put the girls down,

eat my feelings on the couch,

wait for Carisi to come over.

- You two don't
live together yet?

- He has a drawer.

- It's a waste of gas,
if you ask me.

And by the way,
I got something for you.

- Hmm?

A bullet?

- Same caliber as the one
you got shot with.

You have to own your trauma,
or your trauma will own you.

- Hey, guys.

Just got a call from the 1-1,

asking for somebody
to go down there.

You guys take it?

Thanks.

- Why don't you go home?

- No.

I got this.

But, um, I'm driving.

- Diego Rodriguez, 19, picked
him up in a bar in Midtown,

drunk, picking fights,
talking about some guy

who had a run-in
with his sister.

- What kind of run-in?

- How the hell would I know?

Sergeant had me call you guys.

- Heard that before.
- Hmm.

Hey, there.
I'm Detective Rollins.

This is Sergeant Tutuola.

- So what's going on, man?

What happened with your sister?

- You know, when my--
my pops was dying,

he said to look out for her.

And I was just trying
to protect her.

- Protect her from what?

- From Paul Greco.

He's the head
of the lifeguards.

[suspenseful music]

- So what,
he raped your sister?

- No.

He raped me.

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

- Am I under arrest?

- Your arrest was voided.

- Good,
because I want to go home.

I didn't have
dinner last night.

- You're free to leave,
but I got you a sandwich,

something to drink.

Have this first.

- We wanted to talk to you.

Diego, do you remember
telling us last night

that your boss
sexually assaulted you?

- No, no, no, no, no.

I was just wasted
last night, man.

Greco's going after
my sister, Martina, okay?

- Martina's a lifeguard too?

- She wants to be.

Greco has the power
to make it happen or not.

- Okay, yeah.

Can you tell us more
about that?

- At the pool yesterday,

we both took
the qualifying test.

Later, I saw her coming out
of Greco's office upset,

and I snapped.

- And what did she say
happened in that office?

- Nothing. She's innocent.

Martina doesn't see Greco
for what he really is.

- And you do.
- Of course.

- Where's my brother?
- What do you think Greco is?

Do you know that girl?

- Diego!
- Martina!

- Are you okay?
- What are you doing here?

- Hey, hey.
- I told her not to come.

She don't listen, apparently.
- You know what?

- Are you okay?
- Martina, what are you doing?

I told you not to come.

- I'm gonna go talk to her.
Everything's okay.

Come with me.
Come with me this way.

- Look, man.
- She don't listen. I'm sorry.

- Your sister's got your back.

- Can you just tell her that
I'm all right, that I'm okay,

everything's good?

- Look, man.

I know how hard it is to talk
about this, but what happened?

- Nothing happened.

You don't understand that,
or what?

- Even if something did,

doesn't make you
any less of a man.

[solemn music]

- I heard lifeguards make bank.

I needed money for college,
so I test.

- With Greco?

- Yeah, with Greco, last year.

He called me into his office
after, said I didn't qualify,

that I picked up some bad
habits on the school team.

I could pass if I let him
retrain me.

- It was craziness yesterday.

I came out of Greco's office,

eyes leaking because
I didn't qualify, and...

Diego saw the tears.

He flew into a roid rage.

Why?

Did Greco press charges?

- No.

- Then why is my brother here?

- One day,
Greco says the only reason

he hooked me up with the job
was 'cause of my...

This was before I started
learning how to fight.

- It's okay, man.

- He forced me down
on his desk, face down.

And he--

He did it to me.

After that, I cleaned up.

From that point forward,
I got all the posts

and all the OT I wanted.

And he never tried
nothing again.

- You ever tell anyone?

♪

And when your sister
wanted to be a lifeguard,

you never warned her?

- Nah, man.

I didn't even realize it.

I just thought
he was into guys.

- So talk to me about
this Chief Greco.

- He works for the
lifeguard division

of Parks and Recreation,
Bronx County, administrator.

- He oversees all the
public pools in the Bronx,

some of the beaches.

He's been there for ten years.

- Okay, any priors?

- Not in the system.

- The job pays double
the average salary

for teens and 20-somethings,
plenty of OT.

- You get paid a lot
to sit on a beach.

- Sign me up.

- We called around
the Parks Department.

They all say Greco's friendly,
smart, single,

got a bit of a rep
as a player but nothing

like what Diego's saying.

- All right, so what do we know
about Diego

and the sister Martina?

- Good kids from the projects,
straight A's.

Diego had a massive
stress reaction

when he told me what happened.

He's got no reason
to lie to me.

- Well, that's not good.

But no outcry at the time
and no rape kit.

- You want us to keep digging?

- It's a bit of a risk, right,

having Greco find out
that we're onto him?

- Yeah.

So we'll go straight to him,
see if he blinks.

- Diego said that
I sexually assaulted him?

- He did.

We're here to get
your side of the story.

- [exhales]

- So, did you?

- Of course not. No.

Diego was upset yesterday

because I was talking
with his sister.

- It's retaliation?

- Why didn't you report
the physical assault?

- Because I like the kid.

He was so sweet last year.
Then this year, he comes in.

He's all jacked up.

He wants to start a fight.

I don't know.

It's none of my business.

But honestly,
I wouldn't be surprised

if the kid's on some kind
of steroids or something.

- Those muscles are armor.

- Armor for what?

- You tell me.

[tense music]

- So what exactly happened
between you and Martina

in your office?

- She didn't qualify.

I told her. She cried.

I felt bad.

These are--
these are hardworking kids

from a really poor family.

She got so close,
so I offered to train her.

You can ask my

second-in-command,
Ronnie Volpe.

He's at Jonas Bronck Beach
today--

with Diego.

- So you're telling me
Diego went to work?

- I care about the kid,
and I'm short-staffed.

Diego was a little late today.

So now I understand why.

I'm sorry.
None of this makes any sense.

If I assaulted the kid, why--
why would he come to work?

- So you never had any
sexual contact with Diego?

- No.

♪

- I had to pull Diego
off Greco.

Look, I don't know
what happened

between last year and now,

but the kid's like
a totally different person.

- You sure nothing happened
to his little sister?

- Oh, I'm sure.
- All right.

So when he showed up
for work this morning,

what was that like?
Were you surprised at all?

- After he tried to kick
the chief's ass, yeah.

But to be honest,
I was more taken aback

by how he looked
when he clocked in.

I could smell the booze.

- Where is he now?

- Out swimming laps
between the buoys.

Pinsky's rules.

Any time one of
these kids shows up

after a late night of partying.

Quick way to sober up.

- Thank you.

Say what you want
about Fin and Benson.

At least they don't
make us swim laps.

- What do you think this
little trip to the beach is?

- What, you think kid's lying?

- I mean, you hear Volpe.

The kid came to work
like nothing happened.

- Maybe Diego figures
if he acts normal,

everything might
actually be normal.

- Would you go out partying
in--in the same day

you accused somebody of rape?

- No, but I'd sure
as hell be drinking.

- You Pinsky?

- Yeah. Who wants to know?

- NYPD.

- What can I do for you?

- Pretty far out there, no?

- Yeah, he'll be all right.

- You sure?

[suspenseful music]

Sure looks like
he's in trouble.

[whistle trills]

- Diego!

[whistle trills]
Diego!

Diego!

- Yo, you gonna go in?

- Give it a minute.

- What are you doing?

What are you doing?
Hey, Velasco!

[whistle trilling]

♪

[whistle trills]
- Diego!

♪

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- They're gonna take
him to Montefiore.

- Maybe he's got a chance.

- Velasco, they just did CPR
on him for 30 minutes.

- We just watched a kid drown.

- No, you didn't.

That lazy scumbag did.

- Hey, look, I understand
I had a duty to act.

But I stepped in,
I observed that

the conditions had changed

and there was now
a rip current.

I feared
for my life and safety.

- Captain.

Trauma docs just called it.

- Oh, Fin.

I'm so sorry.

- Me?

Velasco.

Muncy said Diego
was limp in his arms

when he pulled him
out of the water.

- Are you thinking
what I'm thinking?

- That Diego was
sent into the water

to teach him some other lesson
that had nothing to do

with the hangover?
- Yeah.

- After we told Greco about
Diego's allegations?

Yeah, that thought
crossed my mind.

- Means the allegations
are true.

- We can't prove it.

Our only witness is dead.

Even Carisi couldn't
make that stick.

- A predator like Greco just
doesn't pop out of nowhere.

He's had that position
for ten years.

- Find his other victims.

- Diego loved the water,
even as a young boy.

All the swimming he did,
it healed his heart

after losing his father.

In the Bible, it says,

"When you pass
through the waters,

God is with you."

And now they're together
at peace.

- We're so sorry for your loss.

- Mami, why don't you
go lay down?

- Okay.

Thank you.

- I drove Diego
to work this morning.

He told me what Greco
did to him last year,

but he made me promise our
mother would never find out.

- We understand.

She doesn't need
to know about it,

at least not right now.

- You're gonna arrest Greco
for raping my brother.

- That's what we're trying
to do, Martina.

- Greco suggested
he mentored you.

That's called grooming.

With all the other candidates,
he had to make

that same offer to someone.

- Maybe last year?

- I might know someone.

- Please come in.

I heard Diego drowned.

- How'd you two meet?

- From the neighborhood.

He was my first love.

I was his too.

Guess now his last.

- Daniela, we're investigating
something Diego told us,

and we think that happened
while you two were together.

- Is this about Paul Greco?

- Diego mentioned that he
was inappropriate with him?

- What? No.

They were really close.

Diego viewed him
as a father figure.

- Just curious, why--
why would you think that

we were here to talk
about Greco?

- Because Greco raped me.

I never told Diego, but I
suspected he might have known.

That's why I broke up with him.

I needed to be held.

Diego didn't even
want to touch me.

I thought he was
just loyal to Greco.

- Daniela, I hate
to say this, but...

it's likely Diego
didn't want to be touched

because the same thing
happened to him.

[suspenseful music]

- I thought Greco
was just into girls.

I mean, there was always rumors
about him being a dog.

On the beach,
I'd hear them at parties.

Diego pulled some strings
and got me

an interview with Greco
halfway through summer

when I got laid off.

Greco said it was offseason,

so he'd have
to qualify me privately.

He took me into his office
and pinned me down.

I had no business being
a lifeguard anyway.

- Why is that?

- Because I can barely swim.

- Did you tell anyone about
what Greco did to you?

- I reported it to the precinct
here in the Bronx.

- Did you do a rape kit?

- Yeah, but they
never called me back.

♪

- Pool's closed.

- Paul Greco,
you're under arrest

for the rape of Daniela Cruz.

- I have no idea who that is.

- She knows you.

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- Paul Greco, on the charge
of rape in the first degree,

how do you plead?

- Not guilty, Your Honor.

- People on bail?
- We request $75,000.

The defendant is
facing serious charges,

and he has the resources
to flee.

- Chief Greco is a
well-regarded civil servant,

no record, who only wants
to defend his reputation.

We request ROR.

- Sorry, Counselor Carisi,
I'm granting ROR.

Bailiff, next case.

- Docket number 1625A366.
Please approach.

- Braun's being a prick.

He flat-out refused
to even discuss a deal.

- The eighth floor really wants
to plead this out?

- And the mayor's office.

Nobody wants a long-term
city chief on trial.

It shows incompetency
on their part.

It makes them look bad,
dirty laundry.

- Oh, please.

McGrath's been chewing the end
of my phone for days.

- Counselor, Captain,
can I have a moment?

Assemblywoman Diane Garcia.

- How can we help you?

- I just wanted to put
in a word for Paul Greco.

He's a decent man.

- Well, we have evidence
of rape one, Miss Garcia.

We're going to the grand jury.

- I'm just asking
that you think about it

before you ruin a respected
city official's reputation

and put the city in danger
of civil litigation.

- Thank you for the heads up.

- You just made a friend.

- Well, she just oversees
judicial appointments,

bail reform, court procedure,
and district attorney budget.

So yeah,
nothing to worry about.

- How much you want
to bet Greco's

a campaign contributor?

Ah, good news.

Daniela's rape kit came back.

DNA's a match.

- The Bronx actually
came through?

- Well, kicking, screaming.

- Well, the Bronx doesn't do
anything by the book.

- Yeah, especially their SVU.

- Daniela's still not here?

- No, she's not.

The grand jury convenes
in five minutes.

I thought you prepped her.
- I did.

She knows when and where.
Let me give her another call.

- Yeah.

- Daniela,
it's Detective Rollins.

We're at the court,
waiting for you.

Please give me a call back.

- Don't tell me
that we're getting

ghosted by our star witness--

by our only witness.

- I'll send Muncy and Velasco.

[suspenseful music]

- I'm sorry I didn't
tell anyone, but I can't do it.

I can't testify.

- What's going on, Daniela?

- My father's on parole.

Greco must have gotten
to his officer

because he threatened
to have my father violated.

- We can get the DA
to call his PO.

We can get it all
straightened out.

- No, I can't risk my dad
going back to Rikers.

- Daniela, Greco's the one
who sent Diego into the ocean.

I went in after him.
I pulled him out.

He died right in front of me.

You're gonna let Greco
walk around free?

- I hate Greco, too,
for what he did to me.

But Diego's dead.

Nothing's bringing him back.

I have to protect
my father now.

I'm sorry.

- Diego--

♪

- I'm assuming you
asked us here to tell us

you're dropping the charges.

I understand you lost
your only witness.

- Yeah, because your client
used political clout

to have someone threaten her.

- I have no idea
what you're talking about.

- Would you like us to open
a witness tampering case?

- Without the girl's
cooperation?

- We're also investigating
the circumstances

around Diego's death.

- Hold on.
- No.

I am devastated
by Diego's death.

Any drowning is a tragedy.

But a lifeguard, that's a
supervisor's worst nightmare.

Yes, Diego and I
had our issues,

but I never wanted this
to happen.

- And yet it did.

And a 19-year-old is dead
directly because of you.

- I did not give that order.

- There were two qualified
lifeguards on duty.

Why don't you talk to them?

- Trust me, we will.

- I'm not the monster
you think I am.

I've devoted my entire career
to saving lives,

not destroying them.

- You know, men like you
become so good at lying,

they even start to believe
the ones they tell themselves.

♪

You cannot let this bastard
back on the job.

- Yeah. I agree.

But we don't have
a rape case anymore.

There were two lifeguards
on duty

when Diego drowned, right?

- Velasco had to go in.

The way Muncy tells it,

Daniela admitted to not
even knowing how to swim

when Greco tried to hire her.

- If Greco knowingly hired
unqualified lifeguards

in exchange for sex--

- We may have
a manslaughter case.

- The first step,
let's find out

how many drownings
happened at that beach

with lifeguards
Greco qualified.

- They all drowned
at Jonas Bronck Beach.

- All involving lifeguards
qualified by Greco,

no other risk factors,
no drugs, no intoxication.

- Well, what about
these lifeguards?

Are any of them
willing to talk?

- Not without a subpoena.

- They all lawyered up

'cause they're all afraid
of Greco.

- What about Volpe,

the one who takes the timings
for the qualifications?

- You think he might have
helped fake them?

- Greco is facing manslaughter.

Let Volpe know that
if he's complicit, he is too.

- Manslaughter.

Wait, what?

- Ten counts, including Diego.

- You were there.
I went in after Diego.

- It's not about you not
going in the water.

- It's about these lifeguards

and Greco fixing their scores

with help from you.

- Why don't you talk
to us about Pinsky?

You took his initial timings,
right?

- Yeah.

- Greco had you
doctor his score?

[tense music]

- I came in to talk to you guys

because I felt sick
about Diego.

But maybe I need a lawyer.

- That's up to you.

But if you get a lawyer,
we can't help you.

- And you'll sink or swim right
next to your boss in court.

- Look, I only
became a lifeguard

to pay my way through college
and meet chicks, all right?

I'm not an accomplice
to anything.

- So you're saying,
it's all Greco?

- Yeah, he changed the scores.

- And you went along with it?

- I didn't even
notice it at first.

I'd write down the scores.

Then when I put them
in the system,

I saw that they changed by
a few seconds here and there.

So I started taking
pictures on my phone.

Look, it's all right here.

♪

- You didn't report it?

- No.

I like my job.

- Have you heard enough?

- Forget manslaughter.

If Greco knowingly hired
incompetent lifeguards

in exchange for sex and money
and then those lifeguards

failed to save
drowning victims,

that is depraved indifference
to human life.

That's murder two.

- Take him down.

.

- Can you state your
name and title, please?

- Anna Callas.

I'm an investigator
for the New York City

Department of Health.

We analyze drowning
incident reports

for all public beaches.

- Can you identify
these ten people?

- Victims of drownings
at Jonas Bronck Beach

under Chief Greco's tenure,

all cases involving
a lifeguard attempt.

- Lifeguard attempts
that failed?

- That's correct.

The ME report
showed none of them

had alcohol or drugs
in their system.

- Now, the lifeguards that
made the failed attempts,

what did they all
have in common?

- They were all qualified
and hired

by County Administrator
Paul Greco.

- Thank you.

- The drownings
were ruled accidental?

- Yes, but that's standard--

- So there was no conclusion
that lifeguard incompetence

was the cause?

- No, that's beyond
our purview.

- I see.

Thank you.

- I served as chief lifeguard
for the City of New York

for 25 years before I retired.

During that time, I evaluated
thousands of rescue cases,

most of them successful.

- Now, I am going to draw
your attention to some

that unfortunately were not.

Julio Vela, 14 years old,
drowned July 16, 2012.

Lifeguard on duty
was Mariel Kemp.

Now, witnesses
reported that Kemp

was slow to enter the water
and then was unable to reach

the victim in time.

Now, in your expert opinion,
with conditions calm and flat,

as they were that day,
would that ever have happened

with a qualified lifeguard?

- No.
- No.

Alea Shihabi, age 26,
drowned August 8, 2016.

Lifeguard on duty
was Dylan Marks.

He was observed on his phone,
which delayed him

in sounding
the submersion signal.

- In my opinion,
that would not have occurred

with a qualified lifeguard.

- Greg Turner, age 28,
drowned July 5, 2015.

Lifeguard on duty
was Sean Davis--

- Who was observed
heading into the water

and turning right around.

[suspenseful music]

♪

- As head lifeguard
at Jonas Bronck Beach,

I report directly
to Chief Paul Greco.

I supervise all
on-duty lifeguards,

distribute bay assignments,

and I also administer
qualification tests.

- How do you take the timings?

- I use a stopwatch,
then write the results

on an application form
for Chief Greco to evaluate.

- How does he evaluate them?

- He looks them over.

But I came to realize that he
sometimes changed the scores.

- And what did you do
when you realized that?

- I took screenshots
of my initial timings

on my cell phone.

- People's exhibit three.

Can you read
the initial timings

for ocean qualification,
please?

- Frank Pinsky, 7:42.

Mariel Kemp, 7:50.

Marks, 8:20. Davis, 8:35.

- And since none of these four
made the required timing,

how did they all
end up assigned

to Jonas Bronck Beach?

- Greco adjusted their scores,

said he had requalified them.

- Meaning what?

- He had sex
with the candidates,

or they kicked back
10% of their salary.

He called it pay or lay.

- And you know this how?

- He told me when
I confronted him

and recorded the conversation
on my cell.

- People's exhibit four.

- Hell yeah, she requalified,
on her knees. [laughs]

Come on, what do you care?

Come on, you want a crack
at her, too, huh?

- Who is the defendant
referring to?

- Mariel Kemp.

Her score changed
from 7 minutes, 50 seconds

to 6 minutes flat,

enough to qualify to be
a lifeguard at the beach.

- Nothing further.

- Mr. Volpe, you knew about
the scores being changed

and said nothing?

- I did.

And it is
with deep regret I didn't--

- Did that regret start before
or after the DA's Office

offered you a deal to testify?

♪

I thought so.

Nothing further.

- Hey.

- Hey. You headed home?

- Yeah.

How's it going?

- It's a lot of data
for the jury to absorb.

- I think you're
getting to them.

I saw tears.

- Want a job
as a jury consultant?

- Sure, less chance
of getting shot.

- You know, you slept
like a baby last night.

It's the first time in--

in a while that
you didn't wake up at all.

- Mm.

Fin.

When he retires,
maybe he should be a shrink.

You gonna be late then?
- Yeah, very late.

Greco testifies tomorrow.

- Okay. Good night.

You got this, Counselor.

- Being a lifeguard takes
discipline and integrity.

It's a hard job.

But I'm damn proud
of the work we do.

- Do you consider yourself a
man of integrity, Chief Greco?

- I do.

Now, have I had
sexual involvements

with lifeguards underneath me?

Yes, all consensual.

But I have never hired someone

who was unfit for the job.

- You were sure that your
lifeguards could do the job.

But in these ten drownings,

they underperformed,
didn't they?

- Even the most experienced
lifeguard can lose a swimmer.

It's always a tragedy.

- A tragedy?

Let me ask,
do you lose sleep over it?

- Objection. Relevance.

- A little latitude,
please, Your Honor?

- I'll allow,
but move this along.

- I'm understaffed.

My budget is cut,
and every year, it gets worse.

I got drunks on the beach,

people letting their kids
wander around,

people with no business
getting in the water.

And you know what happens?

Then we need to get in,
we need to risk our lives.

- Yeah, but that is
your job, isn't it?

- Oh, look at you,
your suit and tie.

You have no idea what it's like

to have people's lives
in your hands, do you?

♪

Well, people don't think
about it like this.

The ocean is a wilderness.

And men like me
are the breakwater,

the only single barrier

between a fun day at the beach

and some out-of-shape
stupid person becoming

a part of the food chain.

And rarely--rarely do those
life-or-death moments

come down
to a matter of seconds.

Most of the time, it's IQ
points and common sense.

- Is that why you sent
Diego Rodriguez

into the water that day?

Because you thought
he lacked common sense?

- Objection.

- Sustained.

- Diego was a drunk

who showed up hungover,

and I can't have that
on my beach.

- And so you gave the order
to send him out

to swim laps to and from a buoy

a quarter mile out
in a rip current?

- Your Honor!

- You're damn right
I gave that order.

But I didn't know
there'd be a rip

any more than I wanted
that kid dead.

But that beach and the lives
on it are my responsibility.

All mine.

It's my ass on the line.

I'm the boss,

and all my lifeguards know it.

♪

.

- So Pinsky was on the beach
when Diego drowned.

- Yeah, he dipped his toe in.

It's hard to say
what he was scared of more,

the riptide or Greco.

- Find out.

- What's up, Frank?

- My lawyer says
I shouldn't talk to you.

- Well, you're not a suspect.

Let me ask,

why have you been
coming to court?

- Show support for Chief Greco.

He made it clear
we all needed to show up.

I--I didn't know Diego
was gonna go under.

I thought he'd be okay.

He was a strong swimmer.

- And you're not.

- I'm all right, but...

That's not why I didn't go in.

Greco told me not to,
no matter what.

- You listened.

[suspenseful music]

- I should have gone in.

- What does Greco
have on you, Frank?

Whatever it is,
it's not on you.

You know what he did
to other guys.

- He's got pictures

of me and him and a couple
of the other guys doing...

stuff.

And he sent them to me,
and he said that

if I didn't do what he said,
he was gonna show them

to everybody, you know, my--
my family, my--my girlfriend.

He's right,
what he said in there.

He's the boss.

He's got all the power.

- So take it back.

♪

- That coward Pinsky is lying.

- When I put him on the stand,
the jury will have to decide.

- Hold up.
Let's slow this down.

- What am I paying you for?

- To tell you when to shut up
and accept you've lost.

- Where's all that
common sense you were

bragging about having, huh?

- Jury's never
gonna convict.

If they do, I'll just appeal.

- No, no, no. It's over, Greco.

The political clout
you bought, that has limits.

Pinsky's got the photos
you used to blackmail him.

Now, I'm giving you a chance
to serve out your time

without everybody knowing
the truth about you.

- Oh, yeah?

[tense music]

What's that?

- That you are a manipulative,
little big man,

with a fiefdom built on sand,
and it's all coming down.

- What are you offering?

♪

- Thank you, Carisi.

Yeah.

Greco will plead
to ten counts of manslaughter.

- Served consecutively,

he'll be in prison
till he's 70.

- Yeah, good work, both of you.

- We'll tell Martina.

- There's a memorial
for Diego at the beach.

- Yeah.
I'll send my condolences.

Velasco.

You lost someone, and it's easy
to take that personally.

So you feel sorry,
but not for yourself.

You did everything right.

[somber music]

- Thank you.

- Mean it.

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

[wolf howls]