1. In the criminal
justice system...Copy !req
2. sexually based offensesCopy !req
3. are considered
especially heinous.Copy !req
4. In New York City,
the dedicated detectivesCopy !req
5. who investigate
these vicious felonies...Copy !req
6. are members of an elite squadCopy !req
7. known as
the Special Victims Unit.Copy !req
8. These are their stories.Copy !req
9. So you going Britney Spears
on me now or what?Copy !req
10. Eartha Kitt.Copy !req
11. Who?Copy !req
12. I gotta run.Copy !req
13. Hi. Where's Mom?Copy !req
14. Took the twins to Joey Stemple's
birthday party. That your boyfriend?Copy !req
15. No.Copy !req
16. Introduce me.Copy !req
17. No.Copy !req
18. How long has he been
out of prison?Copy !req
19. Dad, stop.Copy !req
20. What's his name?Copy !req
21. Ryan Witherspoon.Copy !req
22. Witherspoon?Copy !req
23. He go to your school?Copy !req
24. He's going to post
next year, okay?Copy !req
25. Okay, I guess he's cute.Copy !req
26. On the LIE
a multi-vehicle accidentCopy !req
27. just before
the mid-town tunnel...Copy !req
28. has traffic clogged up...Copy !req
29. Is that a tattoo?Copy !req
30. No.Copy !req
31. Where'd you get it?Copy !req
32. Well, you've got tattoos.Copy !req
33. I was 18 and in the service.Copy !req
34. It's henna. It washes off.Copy !req
35. Why didn't you
just tell me that?Copy !req
36. I just did.
You're such a cop.Copy !req
37. Yeah, wait till you have kids.Copy !req
38. All the little Witherspoons.Copy !req
39. Move.Copy !req
40. Stay here, lock the doors,
roll up that window.Copy !req
41. Stabler, Manhattan SVU,
watch yourself.Copy !req
42. Hurry up, there's someone
under there.Copy !req
43. Get it out!Copy !req
44. All right, call it in,
secure the scene.Copy !req
45. Don't look at that.Copy !req
46. It's all right.
It's all right.Copy !req
47. Capt. Cragen...Copy !req
48. one of your detectives
reports while bar hopping...Copy !req
49. picking up a suspect
and having sex with him.Copy !req
50. Another confesses to fantasies
about killing suspects.Copy !req
51. Just what kind of unit
are you running, Captain?Copy !req
52. I was told that,
whatever the results...Copy !req
53. that, the actual content of these
psych evaluations would be kept private.Copy !req
54. Doctor-patient privilege
is sacrosanct.Copy !req
55. Promiscuity
and fantasies of murder?Copy !req
56. Detectives Jeffries and Stabler
will undergo further evaluation...Copy !req
57. and will submit formal
explanations to this committee.Copy !req
58. I have assigned prosecutor A.D.A.
Cabot to adjudicate SVU cases.Copy !req
59. You will apprise A.D.A. Cabot
of your case file asap.Copy !req
60. If I...
Robbery unit next.Copy !req
61. Capt. Cragen?Copy !req
62. Miss Cabot.Copy !req
63. Alex.Copy !req
64. Yeah, right, of course.Copy !req
65. Let's not start off
on the wrong foot.Copy !req
66. My assignment to SVU preceded the
behavioral problems under your command.Copy !req
67. Behavioral problems?Copy !req
68. I'm trying to be polite.Copy !req
69. Tiptoeing around
the road kill?Copy !req
70. Where there's smoke.Copy !req
71. Who do you sleep with,
Miss Cabot?Copy !req
72. Are you so new at this...Copy !req
73. that you haven't run into somebody
you'd like to skip due process with?Copy !req
74. I'll apprise you asap
if asap can be tomorrow.Copy !req
75. You understand,
I have behavioral issues.Copy !req
76. Certainly.Copy !req
77. Breakfast, then?Copy !req
78. Two unis and a robbery
detective from the 17Copy !req
79. were kicked over
to Public Affairs.Copy !req
80. Reevaluation stinks.Copy !req
81. Truly. Best crime stats in 30
years and they're reevaluating?Copy !req
82. It's how it works. We get rid
of the criminals they fear...Copy !req
83. they start fearing us.Copy !req
84. Public hates tough cops,
until they need one.Copy !req
85. Jeffries, my office.Copy !req
86. You told the psychologist
you slept with a suspect?Copy !req
87. What? No, that's not
what I said.Copy !req
88. Well, that's how
they interpreted it.Copy !req
89. I'm gonna limit
your field time.Copy !req
90. You're giving me desk duty?Copy !req
91. You need time to prepare a formal
response for the Morris Commission.Copy !req
92. I am not explaining my sex
life to the Morris Commission!Copy !req
93. That's enough! I don't
like it either, Monique...Copy !req
94. but yelling at me is
not gonna solve anything.Copy !req
95. Jimmy Buffet in town?Copy !req
96. I was taking Maureen home
from the beach...Copy !req
97. see two uniforms fighting this
fire up by Black Bank Marsh.Copy !req
98. I stop to help...Copy !req
99. turns out to be a body,
gunshot wound to the head...Copy !req
100. flames leaping off the crotch.
My daughter sees the whole thing.Copy !req
101. Is she all right?Copy !req
102. I don't know, Kathy picked her
up. I was on the scene all night.Copy !req
103. In Queens?Copy !req
104. Dump job. Looks like the victim
was shot in his West Side apartment.Copy !req
105. Elliot.Copy !req
106. Off to a scene.Copy !req
107. Now.Copy !req
108. You okay?Copy !req
109. What possessed you to tell the
shrink in your psych evaluation...Copy !req
110. that you fantasized
about killing suspects?Copy !req
111. Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.Copy !req
112. I said perps not suspects.Copy !req
113. Well, the Morris Commission doesn't
see a distinction. They're inquiring.Copy !req
114. Inquiring into what?
My private thoughts?Copy !req
115. They're supposed to be house-cleaning
the department of rogue cops.Copy !req
116. My job at risk?Copy !req
117. Yeah.Copy !req
118. Victim's Andrew Croft, 42.Copy !req
119. Dumped vehicle may be a Lexus. DMV
has one registered to this address...Copy !req
120. it's missing.Copy !req
121. Was he packing or unpacking?Copy !req
122. He was transferred here
a month ago...Copy !req
123. by his new company,
Radial Velocity.Copy !req
124. Radial Velocity?Copy !req
125. Yeah.Copy !req
126. Edge-of-the-envelope defense
contractor? What's he do for them?Copy !req
127. I'm still on his home life. He's
single, lived with his son, Michael...Copy !req
128. approximately 16. Neighbors
say that they argued a lot.Copy !req
129. Serious feng shui problem.
Neighbors hear this argument?Copy !req
130. Everyone was out.
Beach, the park.Copy !req
131. This the son?Copy !req
132. Probably an old picture. I found
some books labeled MacArthur High...Copy !req
133. so I called, but there's
no Michael Croft registered...Copy !req
134. but the books are
all bar coded.Copy !req
135. I'll take Radial Velocity with Jeffries
if Cragen will let her out of the office.Copy !req
136. What?Copy !req
137. Morris Commission.Copy !req
138. Okay, what the hell's
going on?Copy !req
139. The psych evaluation?Copy !req
140. Yeah?Copy !req
141. I said I felt like
killing child molesters.Copy !req
142. Okay, so how can they
have a problem with that?Copy !req
143. The commissions are all cops.Copy !req
144. Yeah, well...Copy !req
145. when was the last time one of
them stood in a room like this?Copy !req
146. This belonged
to Michael Croft?Copy !req
147. This is Michael Goren's book,
he's absent today.Copy !req
148. You want to speak to his
guidance counselor, Miss Scheider.Copy !req
149. Okay, thank you.Copy !req
150. I need a release
from Michael's guardianCopy !req
151. to give you his file.Copy !req
152. Mrs. Scheider, Michael's
father was murdered yesterday.Copy !req
153. Mr. Croft?
Yes.Copy !req
154. Mr. Croft wasn't
Michael's father.Copy !req
155. Foster parent?
Guardian.Copy !req
156. You can see the problem with
getting his signature then.Copy !req
157. Right. This is terrible.Copy !req
158. What happened
to Michael's parents?Copy !req
159. I don't know.
He was born in Belgium...Copy !req
160. that's all that's there.Copy !req
161. You have a current photo
of him?Copy !req
162. No, Michael's a new student. We don't
take school pictures until homecoming.Copy !req
163. He's an AIB student.Copy !req
164. He could be a straight A
student if he made an effort.Copy !req
165. Why, is he lazy?Copy !req
166. Withdrawn.Copy !req
167. I feel like Michael's in some pain that
makes him gravitate to troublemakers.Copy !req
168. Yeah? Like who?Copy !req
169. Primarily, Jason Sloane.Copy !req
170. What's with
the beach bum look?Copy !req
171. It's casual Monday.Copy !req
172. Cops do that?Copy !req
173. Michael Goren.
You know where he is?Copy !req
174. I don't know.Copy !req
175. When was the last time
you saw Michael?Copy !req
176. Saturday. He stayed
at my house.Copy !req
177. So you guys are close?Copy !req
178. No, but he hates going home to the
creep, and I've got an extra bed.Copy !req
179. What creep?Copy !req
180. Andrew.Copy !req
181. Andrew was shot yesterday,
he's dead.Copy !req
182. Excellent.Copy !req
183. Well, he was a bad guy. I've
seen him slap Michael around.Copy !req
184. So where's Michael now?Copy !req
185. Didn't I say I don't know?Copy !req
186. You don't know where he is, but
you're the only friend he's got?Copy !req
187. He has friends. Some girl
calls him from wherever.Copy !req
188. Wherever?Copy !req
189. Yeah. Wherever.Copy !req
190. I'd love to help you do your job,
but I'm a high school student.Copy !req
191. Thanks.Copy !req
192. Detectives. I'm Craig Prince.Copy !req
193. I was Andrew Croft's
supervisor. This is Ralph Noble.Copy !req
194. Security.Copy !req
195. It's a sad day for us.Copy !req
196. I wish I could say more. Anyway, this
is everything from Croft's office...Copy !req
197. except what's classified.Copy !req
198. Was Mr. Croft's job
classified?Copy !req
199. He was a guidance system
analyst, that's all I can say.Copy !req
200. He just transferred here.Copy !req
201. Can't be more specific.Copy !req
202. Who was to be notified
in case of an emergency?Copy !req
203. Detective, it's classified.Copy !req
204. Please, the man
had a son.Copy !req
205. If something happens,
who looks out for him?Copy !req
206. That's not our concern.Copy !req
207. Do we have to get
a court order?Copy !req
208. Well, you can try.Copy !req
209. What are the odds
you have a picture...Copy !req
210. of Senator Joseph McCarthy
tattooed on your ass?Copy !req
211. Leave the dolly in the garage.Copy !req
212. Radial Velocity's redacted
1,200 pages of documents...Copy !req
213. down to
the occasional adverb.Copy !req
214. There's not a complete sentence
in anything Craig Prince gave us.Copy !req
215. It is national security.Copy !req
216. We're looking
for a murderer...Copy !req
217. and the victim's missing kid
and Craig Prince is giving us:Copy !req
218. "Here's your hat,
what's your hurry?"Copy !req
219. You'd think they'd want to
help us catch Croft's killer...Copy !req
220. instead of burying everything under
the rubric of national security.Copy !req
221. It's too convenient, there's
something else going on here.Copy !req
222. It's Munch. No, I want to see
your spook ass now.Copy !req
223. What do you want, Munch?Copy !req
224. Anything I can get...Copy !req
225. on a couple of missile geeks
from Radial Velocity.Copy !req
226. Who?Copy !req
227. Craig Prince.Copy !req
228. He's no geek,
he's a suit.Copy !req
229. Well, what's his story?Copy !req
230. We've been looking
at Prince.Copy !req
231. Why?Copy !req
232. Kickbacks. Guy's living
way beyond his paycheck.Copy !req
233. New co-op on Central Park
West, new A8 in the garage.Copy !req
234. He disperses classified money.Copy !req
235. Ralph Noble?Copy !req
236. Head of security.Copy !req
237. Yeah?Copy !req
238. Vietnam vet, Purple Heart...Copy !req
239. Silver Star,
Medal of Honor.Copy !req
240. Anything else?Copy !req
241. He was hoping for an Oscar,
but he's not in show business.Copy !req
242. Man's a war hero, Munch.Copy !req
243. Andrew Croft?Copy !req
244. Guidance systems. This guy's
the king of the missile geeks...Copy !req
245. but I got nothing.
Croft's a black hole.Copy !req
246. Who does that?Copy !req
247. DOD, NSA.Copy !req
248. Why?Copy !req
249. We can fire a missile off
a ship in the Gulf of Oman.Copy !req
250. 20 minutes
and 600 miles later,Copy !req
251. it's entering the front door
of a Hezbollah safe house...Copy !req
252. in Al Basrah, doesn't even
touch the doorframe.Copy !req
253. Anybody can build a bomb, Munch,
but nobody delivers them like we do.Copy !req
254. Guidance systems, John.Copy !req
255. What are we willing
to pay for them?Copy !req
256. Anything. Erase your enemies,
erase your past.Copy !req
257. Like I said,
Croft's a black hole.Copy !req
258. Why the interest?Copy !req
259. Croft's dead.Copy !req
260. Michael, his 16-year-old ward is
missing. Prince and Noble aren't talking.Copy !req
261. How'd Croft buy it?Copy !req
262. Bullet to the head,
Bunsen to the crotch.Copy !req
263. Ouch.Copy !req
264. Yeah.Copy !req
265. What's the matter?Copy !req
266. The fire.Copy !req
267. Come here.Copy !req
268. The fire, Daddy, the fire.Copy !req
269. It's okay, it's all right.Copy !req
270. Look, the recidivism rate for rapists
and child molesters is far more onerous...Copy !req
271. than that of murderers.
The public knows that.Copy !req
272. The public cares
about victims' rights.Copy !req
273. And live victims give better
sound bites than dead ones.Copy !req
274. They vote, too.Copy !req
275. I don't.Copy !req
276. I used to, but, well,
look at the choices.Copy !req
277. I don't much care for
city politics these days.Copy !req
278. The mollifying,
the scapegoating.Copy !req
279. That's why there's a Morris
Commission. That's why you're at SVU.Copy !req
280. I gotta tell you
something, Alex.Copy !req
281. I really don't see
why I should trust you.Copy !req
282. Captain.Copy !req
283. I intend to stand on your shoulders
to reach a broader Constituency.Copy !req
284. Why would I do anything
to shorten my grasp?Copy !req
285. Okay.Copy !req
286. Maybe this could be the beginning
of a beautiful friendship.Copy !req
287. Our open cases.Copy !req
288. According to the M.E.,
Andrew Croft was killed...Copy !req
289. by a. 38 slug, behind
the left ear, point-blank.Copy !req
290. Burning was post mortem.Copy !req
291. You got a weapon?Copy !req
292. It hasn't turned up yet,
but Croft owned a. 38.Copy !req
293. What about the boy?Copy !req
294. Still missing,
along with Croft's Lexus.Copy !req
295. Maybe the kid is dead.Copy !req
296. Why do you say that?Copy !req
297. My contact at the G says that
Croft's supervisor, Craig Prince...Copy !req
298. is being looked at
for kickbacks.Copy !req
299. So what?Copy !req
300. Well, maybe Croft had evidence,
maybe Croft was involved...Copy !req
301. and they had
a lethal disagreement.Copy !req
302. Looks like sexual homicide...Copy !req
303. not an assassination.Copy !req
304. Very clever,
to throw us off track.Copy !req
305. I gotta hand it to you. When you go with
a theory, you really go with a theory.Copy !req
306. You think this stuff
doesn't happen?Copy !req
307. No, I'm not saying...Copy !req
308. Let's just keep our heads...Copy !req
309. in the game here, all right?Copy !req
310. Now the connection between Prince and
Croft warrants further investigation.Copy !req
311. But in the meantime, we've
still got a missing kid...Copy !req
312. and until I know otherwise, I'm
going to assume he's still alive.Copy !req
313. Now you guys, find the Lexus,
find the boy.Copy !req
314. Munch, Jeffries, let's find out
how good this new ADA really is.Copy !req
315. We need a search warrant
for Radial Velocity.Copy !req
316. You want me to secure
a search warrantCopy !req
317. for the offices
of a defense contractor...Copy !req
318. to search classified national
security files for evidence...Copy !req
319. in a sexually
motivated homicide?Copy !req
320. Yes, you got a problem
with that?Copy !req
321. Judge Harriman, please. This is
Alex Cabot in the DA's office.Copy !req
322. Uncle Bill? Good.Copy !req
323. Look, I need a little favor.Copy !req
324. You've got to be
kidding me.Copy !req
325. You said we should try.Copy !req
326. You do not just barge in here
without proper notice.Copy !req
327. Read the fine print. Now step aside, or
I'll have these officers restrain you.Copy !req
328. Great, thank you. That was the state
police. We've located Croft's Lexus...Copy !req
329. upstate Millbrook,
right outside Poughkeepsie.Copy !req
330. Croft transferred
from Poughkeepsie.Copy !req
331. Locals are surveilling it
till we get there.Copy !req
332. Great. Find something.Copy !req
333. Blood. Pop it.Copy !req
334. Nobody home. House belongs
to Richard and Darlene Sadler.Copy !req
335. They own a hardware store
over on Elm street.Copy !req
336. Their daughter, Denise,
attends the high school.Copy !req
337. Well, looks like we found
the girlfriend from wherever.Copy !req
338. Slow down!Copy !req
339. Denise is in
her fourth period class.Copy !req
340. We were hoping that she might be
able to help us locate Michael Goren.Copy !req
341. Leave the spurs home
next time.Copy !req
342. Great kid Michael.
What do you mean locate?Copy !req
343. He's been missing
since Sunday.Copy !req
344. Michael's not missing.
He's in our mentoring program.Copy !req
345. Let's go, Jimmy. Nice Job. Good
job. All right, everybody...Copy !req
346. just like Jimmy,
use the inside of your foot.Copy !req
347. Michael.Copy !req
348. This is about Andrew,
isn't it?Copy !req
349. Do you understand
these rights?Copy !req
350. Yes.Copy !req
351. Do you understand that you don't have
to talk to us without your lawyer?Copy !req
352. I wanna talk.Copy !req
353. Go ahead.Copy !req
354. I killed him.Copy !req
355. He hit me, I hit him back.Copy !req
356. First time I did that,
he went crazy...Copy !req
357. got his gun,
said he was gonna kill me.Copy !req
358. I tackled him and then
I heard this loud pop.Copy !req
359. When I looked down,
he was laying there...Copy !req
360. dead.Copy !req
361. Then what?Copy !req
362. I wrapped him in the sheets
and dragged him to the car.Copy !req
363. The next thing I knew
I was driving back home.Copy !req
364. To Millbrook?Copy !req
365. Yes.Copy !req
366. Michael, what's going on?Copy !req
367. It's nothing.Copy !req
368. I'm okay, Denise.
It's okay.Copy !req
369. This can't be right.Copy !req
370. Step back...
Not Michael.Copy !req
371. Step back, people,
give us a little room please.Copy !req
372. Michael, we're all
behind you on this.Copy !req
373. Give us a little room,
please.Copy !req
374. What are you doing? They got
a confession, made an arrest.Copy !req
375. That can all go back
to Radial Velocity.Copy !req
376. Too tidy.Copy !req
377. Can't stand letting go
of a theory, can you?Copy !req
378. It's not theory, Olivia.Copy !req
379. Confession, next case.
I don't buy it.Copy !req
380. Heat of the moment murder
is one thing...Copy !req
381. but taking time to set fire
to the victim's crotch.Copy !req
382. What'd you call that, Elliot?Copy !req
383. Sexually motivated homicide.Copy !req
384. You bet. Perpetrated by a child
on a guardian. Text book...Copy !req
385. except for the little matter of the
blank pages, thanks to Radial Velocity.Copy !req
386. I want to know
where they stand on this deal.Copy !req
387. Me, too.Copy !req
388. You have an appointment.Copy !req
389. Look, Captain, you know, this
time of day, Skodas' office...Copy !req
390. it's gotta be
an hour drive.Copy !req
391. Elliot,
this is must do, now.Copy !req
392. The good news is that
he's around the corner...Copy !req
393. doing some outreach work
at Christ's Church.Copy !req
394. He's happy to see you now.
Thank you.Copy !req
395. I'm not talking to you.Copy !req
396. Fine.Copy !req
397. I'll just sit here.Copy !req
398. You know, I may lose my job because
of the last shrink I talked to.Copy !req
399. Why?Copy !req
400. Because she violated
her ethical obligation...Copy !req
401. to keep my confidence.Copy !req
402. If we believe a patient might do violence
to someone, we're legally bound to...Copy !req
403. I have never done violence
to anyone.Copy !req
404. Why would she think you would?Copy !req
405. Ask her.Copy !req
406. Det. Stabler,
we've talked before.Copy !req
407. Come on, give me the benefit
of the doubt, will you?Copy !req
408. I'm sorry,
I haven't slept a lot lately.Copy !req
409. Why not?Copy !req
410. I'm worried
about losing my job.Copy !req
411. I'm angry.Copy !req
412. At?Copy !req
413. Are we really gonna
do this dance again?Copy !req
414. I mean, what do you want me to say?
That I fantasized about killing the perp?Copy !req
415. Did you?Copy !req
416. Yeah, you're damn right
I did...Copy !req
417. and this time I fed him my gun
and I pulled that trigger.Copy !req
418. Until I caught him and then
there he is, he's just...Copy !req
419. He's a kid, he's a good kid. He
tutors Down syndrome children.Copy !req
420. He's a straight A student,
he's a star athlete...Copy !req
421. he's Millbrook township's
favorite son.Copy !req
422. Now how that jives
with cold-blooded murder...Copy !req
423. How long have you been
on the force?Copy !req
424. 14 years.Copy !req
425. In all those years, how many
murders have actually made sense?Copy !req
426. None. But...Copy !req
427. some I understood.Copy !req
428. But this one...Copy !req
429. you let get
under your skin. Why?Copy !req
430. This one, my daughter saw.Copy !req
431. Hey, how'd it go?Copy !req
432. I talked too much, again.
Where's Jeffries?Copy !req
433. Her turn on the couch, and while
you were probing your inner child...Copy !req
434. we did some probing of our own.
Sent Croft's prints to NCIC.Copy !req
435. You printed the corpse?Copy !req
436. So?Copy !req
437. And?
Nothing.Copy !req
438. So?
I mean nothing, nada, bupkis.Copy !req
439. Zip. No parking tickets,
no birth records.Copy !req
440. Nothing to prove he
even existed before 1991.Copy !req
441. The year he went to work
for Radial Velocity.Copy !req
442. So, we're going through the stuff
we got from the search warrant...Copy !req
443. we find this passport issued
10 years ago from San Diego.Copy !req
444. We call the local PD, ask them
to run him, bang, we get a hit.Copy !req
445. But not to Andrew Croft.Copy !req
446. Then who?Copy !req
447. George Kazinski,
a convicted sexual predator.Copy !req
448. Andrew Croft,
a. k. a George Kazinski.Copy !req
449. Little George
liked little boys.Copy !req
450. Andrew Croft's been
one busy guy.Copy !req
451. 11 arrests...Copy !req
452. five aliases,
four convictions.Copy !req
453. How'd you track him?Copy !req
454. San Diego PD faxed us his rap sheet. We
followed his priors back from there...Copy !req
455. department by department,
conviction by conviction.Copy !req
456. Only the feds
can erase a file.Copy !req
457. Radial Velocity is the feds.Copy !req
458. That's why they're called
a military-industrial complex.Copy !req
459. You're accusing the Federal government of
sanctioning the sexual abuse of a child.Copy !req
460. Please tell me
you have a motive.Copy !req
461. Where did you find these?Copy !req
462. That's classified.Copy !req
463. There's only a handful of people that can
calibrate the trajectory of a missile...Copy !req
464. to within a hair's breadth
of Saddam's mustache.Copy !req
465. Andrew Croft was one of them.Copy !req
466. Couldn't let a little thing like
pedophilia undermine national security.Copy !req
467. If a child is ruined
in the process?Copy !req
468. That's not our concern.Copy !req
469. Detective...Copy !req
470. there are many things that take a back
seat to national security. However...Copy !req
471. if I had known Croft was a pedophile,
I never would have hired him.Copy !req
472. Right, and there were
no Nazis in NASA.Copy !req
473. Mr. Noble will see you out.Copy !req
474. You don't talk much,
do you?Copy !req
475. Not much fight left
in the old soldier?Copy !req
476. Don't you question
my patriotism, mister.Copy !req
477. That's Mister Detective
to you.Copy !req
478. Take a little bit of tarnish
off that Medal of Honor.Copy !req
479. We can find
our own way out, thanks.Copy !req
480. Why're you provoking him?Copy !req
481. Guy's a war hero. Put his life
on the line for principle.Copy !req
482. He's gotta be gagging
stonewalling Croft's pedophiliaCopy !req
483. to protect Radial Velocity.Copy !req
484. Assuming he still has principles.
War was a long time ago, John.Copy !req
485. Principles die harder than people.
I want a shot at what's left of his.Copy !req
486. Wonder what he's doing
for lunch?Copy !req
487. My parents died in a car wreck
when I was eight.Copy !req
488. The only other family
I had was Nana.Copy !req
489. She was old and in a hospital.Copy !req
490. Andrew offered
to take care of me.Copy !req
491. You're Belgian and Andrew's
American. How did you two hook up?Copy !req
492. Andrew used to hang out
at soccer practice.Copy !req
493. Whose soccer practice?Copy !req
494. Mine.Copy !req
495. And this is when you
were 8 years old?Copy !req
496. Yeah.Copy !req
497. He and Dad worked at NATO in
Brussels. Dad was a janitor.Copy !req
498. He was proud to have a rocket
scientist as his friend.Copy !req
499. Said I was lucky to have such an
important man take an interest in me.Copy !req
500. How did he
take an interest?Copy !req
501. Andrew said
I was a natural athlete.Copy !req
502. Yeah, we saw your trophies.Copy !req
503. He got me sailing lessons,
tennis lessons...Copy !req
504. My dad couldn't afford them.Copy !req
505. After your parents died,
Andrew brought you to America?Copy !req
506. First Bosnia, Israel,
then Millbrook.Copy !req
507. I finally made some friends.Copy !req
508. Yeah, you even
had a girlfriend.Copy !req
509. Denise.Copy !req
510. Bet you weren't too happy
about leaving her.Copy !req
511. I never felt like that
about anybody.Copy !req
512. I mean, not just her,
her parents...Copy !req
513. They felt like a real family.Copy !req
514. Michael, did you know
that in 1990...Copy !req
515. Andrew was convicted of sexually
assaulting an 11 year-old boy?Copy !req
516. No.Copy !req
517. When was the first time
he assaulted you?Copy !req
518. He didn't.
What are you talking about?Copy !req
519. Well, in my experience, child
molesters, they don't stop.Copy !req
520. You were a child.Copy !req
521. He didn't touch me!Copy !req
522. Michael, you were
in a bad situation.Copy !req
523. You're safe now.
You don't have to lie anymore.Copy !req
524. I'm not lying! I'm not!Copy !req
525. He didn't touch me.Copy !req
526. He didn't.Copy !req
527. Thanks for the heads up.Copy !req
528. I think I've got
the EED defense.Copy !req
529. Not unless your client
changes his tune.Copy !req
530. Are we working
for the defense now?Copy !req
531. Yeah. You don't volunteer to do
hard time because you're embarrassed.Copy !req
532. This kid is hiding something.Copy !req
533. Okay, maybe an accomplice.Copy !req
534. Maybe somebody who scares him
more than Andrew.Copy !req
535. At what point did courage and
integrity buckle to income?Copy !req
536. Don't ever get in my face
about money.Copy !req
537. If I cared about money I
wouldn't have been in the service.Copy !req
538. What do you care about?Copy !req
539. Protecting the reputation
of a dead pedophile...Copy !req
540. part of
national security now?Copy !req
541. I'm not protecting
Croft's reputation.Copy !req
542. What are you protecting?Copy !req
543. Croft's missile guidance expertise
was critical in the Gulf War.Copy !req
544. You erase sodomy convictions
for national security?Copy !req
545. We didn't erase
his convictions.Copy !req
546. What? Is there another way
to say it?Copy !req
547. Croft's felony record red-flagged
him every time he crossed a border.Copy !req
548. A day's delay was a lifetime
in a war moving that fast.Copy !req
549. So Radial Velocity
erased his past.Copy !req
550. We were depleting
our arsenal of smart bombs...Copy !req
551. at more than $1 million
a minute.Copy !req
552. At that price the Pentagon
wanted pin-point precision.Copy !req
553. A complaint was filed
in the State department.Copy !req
554. A firewall was built around Croft
so Immigration wouldn't red-flag him.Copy !req
555. When the war ended
the wall should've come down.Copy !req
556. I can't tell you why it
didn't, I just don't know!Copy !req
557. Meanwhile, a convicted
child molester...Copy !req
558. applies for guardianship
of an 8-year-old and...Copy !req
559. No red flags. I'm sorry.Copy !req
560. My God!Copy !req
561. Eleven arrests,
four convictions...Copy !req
562. more than we knew about,
one in Canada.Copy !req
563. This is despicable.
Get me Todd Earl at Justice.Copy !req
564. Justice?Copy !req
565. We need to secure
the chain of evidence.Copy !req
566. We didn't bring this to you so
you could make a federal case.Copy !req
567. What about Michael?
What about him?Copy !req
568. He's a child. A child raised
by a pedophile for eight years.Copy !req
569. He was molested.
He denies it.Copy !req
570. There's no evidence here
to contradict that denial.Copy !req
571. Are you saying
he wasn't abused?Copy !req
572. I'm certain he was.Copy !req
573. However,
absent Michael's admission...Copy !req
574. you're asking me to soft-pedal
premeditated murder.Copy !req
575. You're protecting
your won-loss ratio.Copy !req
576. Elliot.Copy !req
577. It's okay, Captain.Copy !req
578. Stabler's judgment is clouded by the
stress of the Morris Commission's review.Copy !req
579. And the fact that Michael did what he
fantasizes about. Kill a perpetrator.Copy !req
580. It's not my fantasy, and I
stand with Det. Stabler on this.Copy !req
581. The kid had choices.Copy !req
582. He could have walked away,
told a teacher, told a cop.Copy !req
583. Instead he murdered.Copy !req
584. We let him skate on this...Copy !req
585. what kind of choice will he make the
next time he faces an untenable situation?Copy !req
586. All right, but either
he corroborates the abuse...Copy !req
587. or I ask the grand jury for
an indictment on murder two.Copy !req
588. No.Copy !req
589. Michael, please...Copy !req
590. No.Copy !req
591. Michael...Copy !req
592. Andrew Croft abused at least
11 other children.Copy !req
593. He's a sexual predator.Copy !req
594. Michael, he can't
hurt you now.Copy !req
595. You don't understand.Copy !req
596. I won't. I can't.Copy !req
597. You're a victim.
No, I'm not!Copy !req
598. I'm not! I told you what
happened. I will stay in jail!Copy !req
599. I will, but, please,
leave me alone.Copy !req
600. It's murder two. He's
returning his own indictment.Copy !req
601. Sorry, Captain.Copy !req
602. Dad?Copy !req
603. What are you doing up?Copy !req
604. Couldn't sleep.Copy !req
605. What's the matter?
You got nightmares?Copy !req
606. You have to sleep
to have nightmares.Copy !req
607. Right, what was I thinking?Copy !req
608. Want something
to drink?Copy !req
609. No.Copy !req
610. Dad...Copy !req
611. what that boy Michael
did to that man...Copy !req
612. That man was supposed
to take care of Michael...Copy !req
613. and instead he molested him.Copy !req
614. He abused him physically, he betrayed
his trust, and I think Michael...Copy !req
615. just had enough.Copy !req
616. So what happens now?Copy !req
617. He's probably gonna
go to prison.Copy !req
618. All he's gotta do
is tell the truth.Copy !req
619. What is it with you kids?Copy !req
620. It's hard to talk
to adults.Copy !req
621. Why?Copy !req
622. You're always judging us. You
expect us to be like you...Copy !req
623. and you get mad
if we're not.Copy !req
624. It's just easier
to talk to our friends.Copy !req
625. What if you
don't have any friends?Copy !req
626. Everybody's got friends.Copy !req
627. Yeah? Well,
who do you talk to?Copy !req
628. Dad.Copy !req
629. You talk
to Ryan Witherspoon?Copy !req
630. More than you talk to Mom.Copy !req
631. Could the wound
have been inflictedCopy !req
632. during a struggle for the gun?Copy !req
633. Not likely.Copy !req
634. Why not?Copy !req
635. The size
of the entry wound...Copy !req
636. the force at which it entered
suggests close range.Copy !req
637. But there was no stippling.Copy !req
638. Stippling is?Copy !req
639. When lead leaves the muzzle, it's followed
by the charge that fires it, the gunpowder.Copy !req
640. At close range it leaves a residue,
point blank it embeds in the skin.Copy !req
641. That's stippling.Copy !req
642. The size and force of the
entry and the lack of stipplingCopy !req
643. lead you to conclude?Copy !req
644. The gun was three to four feet from
the victim's head when it was fired.Copy !req
645. The victim's reach was only 32 inches.
He couldn't have held the gun...Copy !req
646. three feet from his skull, much less
fired it into the back of his head.Copy !req
647. The body was discovered
wrapped in a sheet.Copy !req
648. It was blood-soaked from a head wound
and the genital region was on fire.Copy !req
649. Where?Copy !req
650. In the dunes about 50 yards
off Cross Bay Boulevard...Copy !req
651. a medical bracelet on the victim indicated
he lived at West 83rd in Manhattan.Copy !req
652. Blood splattered the headboard,
wall, and lamp in the master bedroom.Copy !req
653. Did the blood pattern
indicate anything to you?Copy !req
654. Yes, that the victim had been
shot while lying in the bed.Copy !req
655. Any signs of a struggle?Copy !req
656. No.Copy !req
657. Forced entry?Copy !req
658. No.Copy !req
659. The victim's car
was missing?Copy !req
660. State police located it
in Millbrook, New York.Copy !req
661. The murder weapon
was found locked in the trunk.Copy !req
662. Who had the keys?Copy !req
663. Michael Goren.Copy !req
664. How'd it go in there?Copy !req
665. The kid's toast.Copy !req
666. I've been thinking about
something Maureen said last night,Copy !req
667. something about friends.Copy !req
668. What about them?Copy !req
669. You up
for taking a little ride?Copy !req
670. Denise, how long
were you seeing Michael?Copy !req
671. What should I say?
I really want to help him.Copy !req
672. You can help him
by telling us the truth.Copy !req
673. We were dating
about three months.Copy !req
674. He ever talk
about Andrew?Copy !req
675. Denise?Copy !req
676. Did he?
Please.Copy !req
677. They didn't get along.Copy !req
678. My dad would let Michael stay in our
spare bedroom when Andrew was out of town.Copy !req
679. My parents really liked him.Copy !req
680. Sometimes Michael lied about Andrew
being gone, so he could stay over.Copy !req
681. Did Andrew ever find out?Copy !req
682. I think he knew.Copy !req
683. He object?Copy !req
684. Not after that thing
with Danny.Copy !req
685. Who's Danny?Copy !req
686. Danny Burrell.
Michael's best friend.Copy !req
687. What happened?Copy !req
688. I don't know.Copy !req
689. But it had to be bad.Copy !req
690. I mean, one day
they're best friendsCopy !req
691. and the next day, it's like
they hate each other.Copy !req
692. Heads up, Mueller!
Heads up! Danny Burrell!Copy !req
693. Yeah?Copy !req
694. Front and center.Copy !req
695. We're not friends anymore.Copy !req
696. Why not?Copy !req
697. Guy's weird, that's all.Copy !req
698. What do you mean?
Weird, how?Copy !req
699. Just weird.Copy !req
700. Did Andrew Croft
attack you?Copy !req
701. Did Michael
tell you that?Copy !req
702. Why don't you tell us
about it?Copy !req
703. Man, he swore!Copy !req
704. I'm sorry
I can't talk in front of her.Copy !req
705. That's okay.Copy !req
706. Mike and me played ball.Copy !req
707. Okay.Copy !req
708. We went to his house
afterwards to clean up.Copy !req
709. He said that Andrew was gone, so I
used his shower, and when I got out...Copy !req
710. he was standing there.Copy !req
711. Andrew?Copy !req
712. Yeah. He was naked.Copy !req
713. He was touching himself.Copy !req
714. He wanted to dry me off.Copy !req
715. He's just a creep.Copy !req
716. Anyway, he said that Michael was too
swarthy but I was perfect for him.Copy !req
717. He grabbed me, I fought him
off, I screamed for Mike...Copy !req
718. and I finally got the door
open, and Michael was...Copy !req
719. He was just standing there.Copy !req
720. So, I just grabbed my clothes
and I ran. I forgot my Nikes.Copy !req
721. You and Michael talk
after that?Copy !req
722. No way. I told the guy
to leave me alone.Copy !req
723. I think it's disgusting
what he and Andrew were doing.Copy !req
724. You think
Michael liked it?Copy !req
725. What do you think? I mean, Michael's
6 foot, guy benches, what, 220 pounds?Copy !req
726. He could kick his ass if he
didn't like him doing him.Copy !req
727. He was eight years old
when Andrew started doing him.Copy !req
728. Eight-year-olds
can't fight back.Copy !req
729. Now you tell me where a
16 year-old's gonna turn...Copy !req
730. when his best friend
turns on him?Copy !req
731. You said the gun went off
in the midst of a struggle?Copy !req
732. Yes.Copy !req
733. The police found no signs of a
struggle. How do you explain that?Copy !req
734. I don't know.Copy !req
735. That's because there was
no struggle, was there?Copy !req
736. We struggled.Copy !req
737. Over the gun?Copy !req
738. Yes.
And it went off?Copy !req
739. Yes.Copy !req
740. In both your hands?Copy !req
741. Yes.Copy !req
742. The Coroner found no trace of
gunpowder on the deceased's hands.Copy !req
743. I told you
what happened.Copy !req
744. Who is Danny Burrell?Copy !req
745. He's my friend.Copy !req
746. Did you witness the deceased
sexually assault Danny Burrell?Copy !req
747. No!Copy !req
748. Danny will testify the
deceased sexually assaulted himCopy !req
749. and that you witnessed it.Copy !req
750. Are you saying
he's lying?Copy !req
751. Did Andrew Croft sexually
assault Danny Burrell?Copy !req
752. Yes.Copy !req
753. And you, too?Copy !req
754. Since I was eight.Copy !req
755. You shot him to stop him
from molesting you?Copy !req
756. No!Copy !req
757. I hated it,
but I was used to it.Copy !req
758. I shot him because he was
bringing over his friend.Copy !req
759. What friend?Copy !req
760. In Millbrook, this guy
came up sometimes.Copy !req
761. Andrew made me
do things with him.Copy !req
762. When we moved here,
I thought it was over.Copy !req
763. But then I come home
from school and he's there!Copy !req
764. I mean we moved right
across the street from him!Copy !req
765. Andrew was bad enough,
but both of them...Copy !req
766. I begged him.Copy !req
767. Who is this man?Copy !req
768. He'll kill me.Copy !req
769. He can't hurt you.Copy !req
770. You don't know his powers.Copy !req
771. Michael, you're in the custody of the
City of New York. He can't get to you.Copy !req
772. He can get to anybody.Copy !req
773. And he will
to protect his secret.Copy !req
774. A child molester only has power
as long as his secret is kept.Copy !req
775. You tell the truth, his power is
gone. What's his name, Michael?Copy !req
776. I heard them talk about it.
Nobody did anything.Copy !req
777. Talk about what?
Who, Michael?Copy !req
778. Andrew and...Copy !req
779. and Craig Prince.Copy !req
780. They killed that boy in
Belgium and nobody did anything!Copy !req
781. When did this happen?
What boy?Copy !req
782. I was eight.
It was in the papers there.Copy !req
783. Nobody did anything.Copy !req
784. Craig Prince can get away
with anything.Copy !req
785. You're gonna protect me?Copy !req
786. Write-offs in the third
quarter adjusted by the...Copy !req
787. Craig, good news!Copy !req
788. Excuse me,
this is a classified briefing.Copy !req
789. Yeah, Croft's ward, Michael.Copy !req
790. The grand jury voted man two.
DA's willing to cut him a deal.Copy !req
791. I don't see
what that has to do...Copy !req
792. Even better news,
you're under arrest...Copy !req
793. for sexual abuse, sodomy, assault and
endangering the welfare of a child.Copy !req
794. You're hurting me!Copy !req
795. Not our concern.Copy !req
796. Craig Prince, you have
the right to remain silent.Copy !req
797. If you give up that right, anything you
do or say can and will be used against you.Copy !req
798. Capt. Cragen?Copy !req
799. This little boy's mother stuck his hands on
a frying pan until his fingers burned off.Copy !req
800. This rape victim...Copy !req
801. required 12 hours of surgery to
have a steel plate into her head...Copy !req
802. after her attacker pummeled
her with a claw hammer.Copy !req
803. This one didn't make it.Copy !req
804. Is there anybody on this panel who
doesn't share Det. Stabler's anger...Copy !req
805. for the perpetrators?Copy !req
806. This man is a good cop.Copy !req
807. As his commanding officer,
I stand with him...Copy !req
808. and every good cop who faces
these horrors day after day...Copy !req
809. and has the strength to
keep their impulses in check.Copy !req
810. Now if you can look at these
pictures and not understand that...Copy !req
811. the problem here
isn't Elliot Stabler, is it?Copy !req
812. Yeah, that's done.Copy !req
813. Hello?Copy !req
814. All right, yeah, go get
the kids dinner... Yeah.Copy !req
815. Kathleen!
Sure.Copy !req
816. Dickie, Elizabeth, dinner's ready!
All right tomorrow. Captain...Copy !req
817. thanks for the support.Copy !req
818. Well?Copy !req
819. The Morris Commission
cleared me.Copy !req
820. Capt. Cragen?Copy !req
821. Not now.Copy !req
822. Monique Jeffries.
Maybe I can help?Copy !req
823. Fin Tutuola,
I've been re-assigned.Copy !req
824. You're here for my job.Copy !req
825. This is awkward.Copy !req
826. Well, try my side
of the moment.Copy !req