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. It's an above-ground Jacuzzi. I don't
know why you're digging that deep.Copy !req
10. It's called a foundation,
Mr. Sawyer.Copy !req
11. Just make sure you don't
hit a gas main or something.Copy !req
12. We know what we're doing.Copy !req
13. Then you know you have to
take out all those weeds.Copy !req
14. The roots will break
right through the concrete.Copy !req
15. Last owner left
this place a mess.Copy !req
16. Don't worry. We'll clear the
whole yard. No extra charge.Copy !req
17. Aren't those
hydrangea bushes?Copy !req
18. Why'd you think I said we'd
clear the yard for nothing?Copy !req
19. We're gonna make more off
those bushes than off this job.Copy !req
20. I know a guy
in Hackensack...Copy !req
21. What?Copy !req
22. We closed on the house a month ago.
Had it inspected, inside and out...Copy !req
23. For termites,
not dead bodies.Copy !req
24. We're suing that realtor.
You're all witnesses...Copy !req
25. Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer, we're gonna
need you to leave the crime scene.Copy !req
26. It's our new home. We'll
try not to take too long.Copy !req
27. It's all right.
Just let them...Copy !req
28. Hi.Copy !req
29. Detectives.
What've we got?Copy !req
30. Judging from the eye orbits, nasal
opening, and cheek bone projection...Copy !req
31. I'd say a Caucasian.Copy !req
32. Surface of the auricular
region puts her under 30.Copy !req
33. Her?
Did you find any clothes?Copy !req
34. A few scraps.
Most of the fabric decomposed.Copy !req
35. But look at the hips.Copy !req
36. Wide sciatic notch, long
pubic bone. Definitely female.Copy !req
37. Cause of death?Copy !req
38. No obvious knife marks
or bullet holes.Copy !req
39. Hopefully I'll know more
after I put her back together.Copy !req
40. Now, how are we getting sexual
homicide from a bunch of bones?Copy !req
41. Check the evidence tray.Copy !req
42. It's a crucifix.Copy !req
43. I think he means
the studded collar and leash.Copy !req
44. Looks like our bone lady
was somebody's pet.Copy !req
45. The previous owners
put in the hydrangeas.Copy !req
46. And they were?
The Stantons. Brad and Abbey.Copy !req
47. Fought constantly from the day they
moved in, to the day Abbey moved out.Copy !req
48. And when was that?
About four years ago.Copy !req
49. Anything violent? Loud,
yes. Violent, I never saw.Copy !req
50. Did Abbey ever come back? Yeah,
but not for a good year or so.Copy !req
51. She'd pound on his door, wailing.
He'd come out, slip her a few bucks.Copy !req
52. This became like a weekly ritual.
Usually about 3:00 in the morning.Copy !req
53. How long did that go on?
About a month or two.Copy !req
54. One night
he doesn't answer his door.Copy !req
55. She starts screaming she's gonna
report him to the medical board...Copy !req
56. for having sex
with his patients.Copy !req
57. So he's a doctor?
A surgeon.Copy !req
58. Anyhow, the door bursts open,
Abbey gets the crap beat out of her.Copy !req
59. You said you never saw
any violence.Copy !req
60. No. I never saw Brad hit her. This was
Pam, the new wife, throwing the punches.Copy !req
61. Guess he likes
his women feisty.Copy !req
62. When was the next time
you saw Abbey?Copy !req
63. Never.Copy !req
64. Captain, check it out.Copy !req
65. How sick is this? A crucifix.Copy !req
66. Get this,
dog collar and leash.Copy !req
67. Looks like
an S&M session gone south.Copy !req
68. The lab get
any prints off them?Copy !req
69. Not yet.Copy !req
70. Any idea
how long she was buried?Copy !req
71. ME's best guesstimate
is three years.Copy !req
72. What about... We're all
over missing persons.Copy !req
73. Okay, so who had access
to this yard?Copy !req
74. The previous owners,
the Stantons.Copy !req
75. The story reads like
a bad soap opera.Copy !req
76. Doctor marries
wife number two...Copy !req
77. wife number one
mysteriously disappears.Copy !req
78. After wife number two uses wife
number one as a punching bag.Copy !req
79. Well, go have a talk
with the happy couple.Copy !req
80. You two check and see if anybody else
remembers the first Mrs. Dr. Stanton.Copy !req
81. Million-dollar view
of the murder scene.Copy !req
82. Any of your apartments
overlook the yard?Copy !req
83. We have six buildings on this
block. We're talking 36 units.Copy !req
84. Any of your tenants come up
missing between late '97, early '99?Copy !req
85. Yeah. They go missing when they forget
to pay their rent for three months.Copy !req
86. Meanwhile, that's lost income.Copy !req
87. We're gonna need a list
from the aforementioned years.Copy !req
88. And rental applications.
Oh, yeah, applications.Copy !req
89. We have a very stringent
screening process...Copy !req
90. what with all the high-class
people desperate to move in here.Copy !req
91. Can we take a look
at your files?Copy !req
92. Knock yourselves out.Copy !req
93. Brad was married to that
blood-sucking leech for five years.Copy !req
94. Why did you attack her?Copy !req
95. Abbey accused Brad
of sleeping with his patients.Copy !req
96. She's a bottom-feeding,
mainlining junkie.Copy !req
97. A constant source of
embarrassment for my husband.Copy !req
98. And how embarrassed were you?
I was angry.Copy !req
99. She was my friend once. We
went to nursing school together.Copy !req
100. When did they divorce? In '97.
Brad was extremely generous.Copy !req
101. You mean above and beyond
the settlement?Copy !req
102. Until I put my foot down.Copy !req
103. It was about three years ago,
he finally cut her off.Copy !req
104. Have you heard from her since?Copy !req
105. No, thank God.Copy !req
106. Why? What kind of trouble
is Abbey in now?Copy !req
107. A woman's remains
were found buried...Copy !req
108. under the hydrangea
behind your former brownstone.Copy !req
109. Oh, my God.Copy !req
110. They've been there
about three years.Copy !req
111. Where's your husband now?
The hospital. Extremely busy.Copy !req
112. Look, Brad couldn't kill anybody,
not even that horrible bitch.Copy !req
113. I have to go to work.Copy !req
114. I didn't kill Abbey. She was busy
killing herself with her habit.Copy !req
115. But you married her anyway?
I loved her.Copy !req
116. Back then, she was only
on Xanax for anxiety...Copy !req
117. and then she started stealing
Demerol and Dilaudid...Copy !req
118. and the hospital
finally had to fire her.Copy !req
119. That must have been
humiliating for you...Copy !req
120. especially the yelling
and the extortion.Copy !req
121. I had to sit there and watch,
powerless, while she hit rock bottom.Copy !req
122. Bottom being three feet
under your former hydrangeas.Copy !req
123. It's not Abbey.Copy !req
124. Look, I got a case in half
an hour. I got to scrub.Copy !req
125. Without saying hello to your
wife? Leave her out of this.Copy !req
126. I told you he was busy.Copy !req
127. I can handle this. I'll
see you inside. Okay.Copy !req
128. Stop wasting our time.Copy !req
129. That's what
you're looking for.Copy !req
130. Please, whatever you do,
don't tell Pam.Copy !req
131. She's not gonna
be able to tell you much.Copy !req
132. This is Abbey?
AIDS-related dementia.Copy !req
133. Dr. Stanton pays the bills,
keeps the roses fresh.Copy !req
134. When was the last time
he was here?Copy !req
135. When he brought her in.Copy !req
136. She hasn't had
a visitor since.Copy !req
137. It's sad. She doesn't have
much time left.Copy !req
138. Thank you.Copy !req
139. Now what?
Back to the bones.Copy !req
140. Figure out how she died yet?
Strangulation.Copy !req
141. Pressure fractures
to the hyoid.Copy !req
142. Fits the S&M theory. Auto-erotic
asphyxiation, but he mistimes it.Copy !req
143. Don't know how
he could have.Copy !req
144. There's a peri-mortem break in one
of the metacarpals of her right hand.Copy !req
145. So she put up a struggle. Now
we're back to the sexual sadist.Copy !req
146. What else have we got?
Well, she was petite.Copy !req
147. I measured her femur.Copy !req
148. Estimate she was 5'4. And I
think she was Eastern European.Copy !req
149. You got that from the bones?
From her teeth.Copy !req
150. I found traces of arsenic.Copy !req
151. Using arsenic to kill a nerve is
an old Russian dental practice...Copy !req
152. that spread to
most of the Eastern Bloc.Copy !req
153. Great. So her dental records are
somewhere in the former Soviet Union.Copy !req
154. Maybe this will help. Henry
is our forensic anthropologist.Copy !req
155. Show them
what you came up with.Copy !req
156. I entered the dimensions of the
skull, put in tissue depth markers.Copy !req
157. That's determined by age,
right?Copy !req
158. We figure she's around 30...Copy !req
159. so she'd have more facial
tissue than, say, a 50-year-old.Copy !req
160. Then what?Copy !req
161. I fashioned the nose, ears, and mouth
accordingly, and layer by layer got this.Copy !req
162. How close do you think it is?
It's a reasonable approximation.Copy !req
163. Print her out.Copy !req
164. So she's from behind
the fallen Iron Curtain.Copy !req
165. That narrows it down to a couple hundred
thousand of your poor huddled masses.Copy !req
166. What's all that?
Meticulously kept records...Copy !req
167. from the tenement complex
behind our burial ground.Copy !req
168. The manager's been somewhat remiss
in keeping track of her tenants.Copy !req
169. I guess we can rule out
Ming Noh Ling.Copy !req
170. Any names in there
that sound Eastern Bloc?Copy !req
171. Sixteen and counting.
Track them down.Copy !req
172. No, I don't speak Romanian.
You speak English?Copy !req
173. Yes, I understand. Latvia.Copy !req
174. Is there anyone else there
who knows what happened to her?Copy !req
175. You're saying that she went back
to Latvia two years ago, right?Copy !req
176. I'm calling from the police
department, not Immigration.Copy !req
177. Sir, we have nothing to do with
deportation. Okay, yes, thank you.Copy !req
178. Hello?Copy !req
179. Find anything?Copy !req
180. Yeah. Eastern Europeans
don't trust cops.Copy !req
181. I have two
that are unaccounted for.Copy !req
182. I have three.
How are you guys doing?Copy !req
183. Yearning to be free of this.
Five people I can't place.Copy !req
184. One.Copy !req
185. Okay. Let's just get them over
to missing persons, okay?Copy !req
186. No match.Copy !req
187. How many more of these?
Three boxes.Copy !req
188. You know how many women go
missing in this city every year?Copy !req
189. Hey.Copy !req
190. You find something?
I don't know. You tell me.Copy !req
191. Pretty damn close.Copy !req
192. "Ava Parulis. " That's P-A-R.Copy !req
193. Reported missing:
April of '98.Copy !req
194. Here we go.Copy !req
195. Ava Parulis rented an apartment
behind the crime scene in February '98.Copy !req
196. Gone by that April. Skipped
out on the last month's rent.Copy !req
197. How far did you guys
get with her?Copy !req
198. From what it says here,
not too far.Copy !req
199. The detective who worked the
case retired to Arizona last year.Copy !req
200. And who reported her missing?Copy !req
201. Let me see. Guy in Queens, George
Burton. The address is in Rego Park.Copy !req
202. Hi. What's your name? I'm not
supposed to talk to strangers.Copy !req
203. You're right. What if I tell
you we're police officers?Copy !req
204. Do you have badges?Copy !req
205. Right answer again. My name is
Elliot. This is my friend, Olivia.Copy !req
206. Can I help you?
They're policemen, Daddy.Copy !req
207. Go inside, Julia,
it's getting cold.Copy !req
208. Bye.Copy !req
209. Sorry to bother you. I'm Det. Stabler,
this is my partner, Det. Benson.Copy !req
210. Something's wrong?Copy !req
211. You reported
your sister-in-law...Copy !req
212. Ava Parulis, missing.Copy !req
213. You found Ava?
We may have.Copy !req
214. I gave this picture to the
police. What happened to Ava?Copy !req
215. The police are here?
Is everything all right?Copy !req
216. My twin sister, Ava, and I came
here five years ago from Romania.Copy !req
217. She was always bossing me around.
She was older by six minutes.Copy !req
218. Do you have any idea who
could have killed your sister?Copy !req
219. No.Copy !req
220. I have twins.
They're inseparable.Copy !req
221. You two
must have been close.Copy !req
222. Ava was wild. The two of them
couldn't have been more different.Copy !req
223. Ava played
by her own rules.Copy !req
224. She went from one rich man
to the next.Copy !req
225. Until she finally met
the wrong one.Copy !req
226. Irina.Copy !req
227. I'm sorry.Copy !req
228. Please forgive my wife.Copy !req
229. Mr. Burton, we know how
difficult this must be for you.Copy !req
230. Irina and Ava lived through
hell. Orphanages, abuse.Copy !req
231. When they came to this country,
all they had was each other.Copy !req
232. What happened?
They had a falling-out.Copy !req
233. Over what?Copy !req
234. Ava said she could never settle
for a life like this and...Copy !req
235. Irina told her
to stop dreaming and grow up.Copy !req
236. I never saw Ava again.Copy !req
237. And this was about
three years ago?Copy !req
238. Little longer.Copy !req
239. It was Julia's first birthday
party. Ava was supposed to be there.Copy !req
240. She just didn't show. This
was the last straw for Irina.Copy !req
241. Now, what made you think
that Ava was missing?Copy !req
242. I went looking for her. Try to patch
things up between the two of them.Copy !req
243. But the apartment was empty
and Ava was gone.Copy !req
244. Irina said she must have
run off with one of her men.Copy !req
245. I had a bad feeling, that's
why I called the police.Copy !req
246. Do you know the names
of any of these boyfriends?Copy !req
247. Only one. Matt...Copy !req
248. Matt Sloane, I think.Copy !req
249. Ava was sexy and adventurous.Copy !req
250. You mean, kinky?
Let's just say she was wild.Copy !req
251. Did you ever tame her? You
know, S&M, bondage, discipline?Copy !req
252. I'm not into that.Copy !req
253. How long
were you two together?Copy !req
254. About four months.Copy !req
255. These your girlfriends?
I love beautiful women.Copy !req
256. Did you love Ava?Copy !req
257. It was a business arrangement. She
was smart, charming, multi-lingual.Copy !req
258. She helped me develop business
contacts in Eastern Europe.Copy !req
259. And the sex was great.Copy !req
260. Yeah,
what'd she get out of it?Copy !req
261. Her passion was
expensive jewelry.Copy !req
262. She'd throw a tantrum
if I got her anything else.Copy !req
263. Like the thousand-dollar bottle
of perfume she threw in my face.Copy !req
264. That must've made you angry.
Angry enough to end it.Copy !req
265. I terminated our agreement.
Did you see her after that?Copy !req
266. Unfortunately, yes,
at a reception at the UN.Copy !req
267. Who was she with?Copy !req
268. I don't know
who brought her there...Copy !req
269. but she left with the Romanian
Deputy Chief of Mission.Copy !req
270. A diplomat?Copy !req
271. And an importer, and who
knows how many others.Copy !req
272. She was definitely a player. She'd
get her hooks into these guys...Copy !req
273. for as long as
she could get what she wanted.Copy !req
274. When the well ran dry, she'd move
on and drink from the next one.Copy !req
275. What about the sister?
They were on the outs.Copy !req
276. Ava walked on the wild side while Irina
settled down with the husband, the kid.Copy !req
277. We checked Sloane's record. Got picked
up during a undercover vice sting.Copy !req
278. One count of
soliciting prostitution.Copy !req
279. And he was very specific about what he
wanted, a doggie collar, the whole works.Copy !req
280. Unfortunately, his passport
showed he was out of the country...Copy !req
281. when Ava
was reported missing.Copy !req
282. Find out how
Ava got into the country...Copy !req
283. and check whether her former
landlady has anything more to tell us.Copy !req
284. What do you want us to do about our
friend from the Romanian Mission?Copy !req
285. Well, he has immunity from
arrest, but not from talking to us.Copy !req
286. Play nice, maybe he will.Copy !req
287. Ava had that odd combination
of greed and innocence.Copy !req
288. Very common in girls
from the countryside.Copy !req
289. You were
romantically involved?Copy !req
290. No.Copy !req
291. I attend
many official functions.Copy !req
292. I needed at my side a woman who
spoke my language, knew our customs.Copy !req
293. And Ava was okay with that?
Very much so.Copy !req
294. She got to meet
many important men.Copy !req
295. Any of them want her dead?
I can't imagine so.Copy !req
296. Look at this orchid.Copy !req
297. This orchid took years of
cultivation. A hybrid I developed.Copy !req
298. It's beautiful.Copy !req
299. Do you know the orchid
is also a parasite?Copy !req
300. It devours the host plant
while it blooms magnificently.Copy !req
301. Is that how you thought
of Ava, as a parasite?Copy !req
302. No, our relationship
was more symbiotic.Copy !req
303. We benefited mutually.Copy !req
304. Can you tell us how Ava
got into this country?Copy !req
305. Our emigration agency
deals with...Copy !req
306. thousands upon thousands
of applications...Copy !req
307. and there is no way I can tell you
about circumstances of each one.Copy !req
308. Besides Ava and I
had never discussed it.Copy !req
309. I remember her.Copy !req
310. She walked around like she
was the Czarina of 13th street.Copy !req
311. This was hers.Copy !req
312. Mr. Sanchez?Copy !req
313. Ava have
any regular visitors?Copy !req
314. Only one I remember.
Older guy.Copy !req
315. Always dressed to kill.Copy !req
316. Rich uncle?
Sugar daddy.Copy !req
317. I see he kept her
in the lap of luxury.Copy !req
318. Mercedes owners,
they think they run the world.Copy !req
319. He parked his by
the fire hydrant every time.Copy !req
320. What'd he look like?
Somebody important.Copy !req
321. Specifics
don't concern me.Copy !req
322. How about a name?
Too specific.Copy !req
323. What'd you do with her stuff?Copy !req
324. The place comes completely furnished.
She showed up with one suitcase.Copy !req
325. Is there anything else
you can tell us?Copy !req
326. She was two months
behind in the rent.Copy !req
327. Seeing as how she was murdered,
shouldn't the city reimburse me for that?Copy !req
328. Call your councilman.Copy !req
329. Ava had a room with a view.
Yeah, of her own grave.Copy !req
330. Guy at the Mission
was another one of Ava's boys.Copy !req
331. Claims he had no idea how or
why Ava came into this country.Copy !req
332. Our immigration was a little more helpful.
Ava came here in '96 on a fiancé visa.Copy !req
333. Name of the fiancé: Paul Amis.
Address in Minneola on Long Island.Copy !req
334. Arrangements made through an
agency by the name of Euromatch.Copy !req
335. Mail-order brides.Copy !req
336. I should've tried that instead of the
traditional courtship and wedding ritual...Copy !req
337. then I'd be paying less
of my paycheck to alimony.Copy !req
338. We'll take the groom, you take the
matchmaker. Maybe you'll get lucky.Copy !req
339. Okay.Copy !req
340. I shelled out $50,000
to bring Ava here.Copy !req
341. You know what the average wage
is in her country? $50 a month.Copy !req
342. And all she had to do was cook
and clean and be available for sex.Copy !req
343. It's called being a wife.Copy !req
344. When'd you last see Ava?Copy !req
345. The day I returned her,
after the 90-day trial period.Copy !req
346. Didn't work out, huh?
Must have made you angry.Copy !req
347. I got my money back.Copy !req
348. Did you get a divorce?
Annulment.Copy !req
349. This is my wife, May Ling.Copy !req
350. Sweetheart, this is Det.
Benson and Det. Stabler.Copy !req
351. May I bring you something to drink?
No, doll. They're not staying.Copy !req
352. Leave us alone
for another minute.Copy !req
353. You didn't tell us
why you returned Ava.Copy !req
354. Because I didn't pay all that money
for her to run around with some dentist.Copy !req
355. She was exotic. Pretty,
smart, the whole package.Copy !req
356. I was ready to take
the big step with Ava.Copy !req
357. And the fact that she was already
married had no bearing on that?Copy !req
358. Her husband was
beating her up every night.Copy !req
359. He once hit her so hard,
I had to put in five caps.Copy !req
360. The marriage was over.Copy !req
361. Where'd you two meet?Copy !req
362. Party. She was there
with her husband.Copy !req
363. Someone told her I was known
as the "Dentist to the Stars"...Copy !req
364. and she was all over me.Copy !req
365. Who called off the wedding plans? I did.Copy !req
366. Why?
Because she lied.Copy !req
367. She said she was a student, she
had cousins who brought her over.Copy !req
368. And you found out otherwise?Copy !req
369. I hired a private detective
to do a background check.Copy !req
370. Sounds like true love.Copy !req
371. I have a very lucrative practice.
I have to take precautions.Copy !req
372. I found out
she was a mail-order bride...Copy !req
373. like those Russian Natashas,
gold diggers.Copy !req
374. Okay. We're gonna need
Ava's dental records.Copy !req
375. I'll get them together
for you.Copy !req
376. We match girls
with traditional values...Copy !req
377. with men who want wives
instead of partners.Copy !req
378. You mean, "Stay at home, make
my dinner, do the laundry...Copy !req
379. "be available when I need
you for sex," type of woman?Copy !req
380. You make it sound
so tawdry.Copy !req
381. The divorce rate among our couples
is half that of the population.Copy !req
382. If a guy wants to get married,
he needs a fiancé visa...Copy !req
383. he has to prove he knew his
wife-to-be before she comes over.Copy !req
384. Correct. We send our clients to
Estonia, Romania, Latvia, or Russia...Copy !req
385. for two weeks where he meets
maybe eight girls a day.Copy !req
386. Once he makes his choice, we
photograph them together for the INS...Copy !req
387. and take care
of the paperwork.Copy !req
388. And if by some fluke
it doesn't work out?Copy !req
389. Satisfaction guaranteed for 90
days, or your money back. Interested?Copy !req
390. Too easy.Copy !req
391. Without abject suffering, I
wouldn't know what to do with myself.Copy !req
392. Green card status on a fiancé
visa is conditional for two years.Copy !req
393. If the marriage doesn't last
that long, then what happens?Copy !req
394. The girl is usually deported.Copy !req
395. Unless she left because
her husband abused her.Copy !req
396. Then the INS
will grant an exception.Copy !req
397. How often does that happen?
Almost never.Copy !req
398. We do thorough
background checks on the men.Copy !req
399. You're lucky Ava didn't sue you. Her
hand-picked hubby was a wife-beater.Copy !req
400. If we had known that,
we would have intervened.Copy !req
401. Sent her to stay with her sister,
Irina. You know about Irina?Copy !req
402. She and Ava
came over together.Copy !req
403. Fortunately Irina's marriage
is a match made in heaven.Copy !req
404. Why didn't you tell us
that Ava was married?Copy !req
405. I was afraid.
Of what?Copy !req
406. Her husband, he hit me once
when I went to see her.Copy !req
407. Why?Copy !req
408. Because I told her she should
leave him, and she wouldn't.Copy !req
409. He beat her up.
Degraded my sister.Copy !req
410. Could he have killed her?Copy !req
411. I know he came close.Copy !req
412. Civil sexual harassment suit
filed by a former employee.Copy !req
413. Wow.Copy !req
414. Restraining orders, filed by
your first and second wives.Copy !req
415. Hey, I didn't kill Ava.Copy !req
416. You forced her to have sex
with you. That's called rape.Copy !req
417. You pulled out fistfuls of her
hair, knocked her teeth out.Copy !req
418. That's assault.Copy !req
419. Prove it.Copy !req
420. You think that we'd call you all
the way down here if we couldn't?Copy !req
421. Maybe she was
blackmailing him.Copy !req
422. Threatening to call the cops.Copy !req
423. Is that why you shut her up?
Is that it?Copy !req
424. This is like a game of Clue.Copy !req
425. Ava went through a diplomat, an
importer, a dentist, and now this loser.Copy !req
426. This loser give you anything?
Not yet. Why?Copy !req
427. Taylor called.
Wants you down at the lab.Copy !req
428. I'll keep this guy on ice
until you get back.Copy !req
429. No way these belong
to Ava Parulis.Copy !req
430. You got us down here
for that?Copy !req
431. The dentist must have made
a mistake. We'll go back.Copy !req
432. Don't bother.Copy !req
433. The dental work doesn't match,
but everything else does.Copy !req
434. Shape of the teeth,
jaw is identical.Copy !req
435. Son of a bitch.
Irina is Ava.Copy !req
436. I need proof
she killed Irina.Copy !req
437. We've got Irina's dental
records. They match the skull.Copy !req
438. That doesn't mean
Ava murdered her sister.Copy !req
439. Well, she did assume
her identity.Copy !req
440. Ava's apartment
overlooked Irina's grave.Copy !req
441. Circumstantial.
Give me a motive.Copy !req
442. Ava's marriage is annulled.Copy !req
443. She doesn't want a one-way trip
back to hard times in Romania.Copy !req
444. I need physical evidence
linking them.Copy !req
445. Come on, Counselor, we've done
a lot more with a lot less.Copy !req
446. All right.
Search the house.Copy !req
447. The cars are gone.
Go around back.Copy !req
448. Police.Copy !req
449. Mrs. Burton?Copy !req
450. Go fill in our friends.
Right.Copy !req
451. All clear.
Nobody downstairs.Copy !req
452. Nothing messed up
in the kid's room.Copy !req
453. Ava left in a hurry. She
must've decided not to pack.Copy !req
454. Looks like a train
ran through here.Copy !req
455. It looks like she took all the
available money they had on hand here.Copy !req
456. Get the note.Copy !req
457. "I'm sorry. I do love you, George. I never
meant to hurt you or Julia or Irina. "Copy !req
458. We should talk to the husband.
You mean the brother-in-law.Copy !req
459. If she cleaned out
their emergency money...Copy !req
460. she may have wiped out
their bank accounts.Copy !req
461. We'll finish up here
and check it out.Copy !req
462. My wife can't be dead. What are
you talking about? You're crazy.Copy !req
463. The dental records prove it.Copy !req
464. You're saying Irina is buried
in that grave? We're sorry.Copy !req
465. My wife is a loving woman.
She's a good mother.Copy !req
466. All Ava ever cared about
was herself and her money.Copy !req
467. We've been to the house. Ava's
gone. She packed up and left.Copy !req
468. I don't believe that.
She left this note.Copy !req
469. I don't care. It's not true.Copy !req
470. Mr. Burton.Copy !req
471. Irina's crucifix.
Where'd you get that?Copy !req
472. From the grave.Copy !req
473. When we were first married, she
used to go to Mass every morning...Copy !req
474. and then she just stopped
three years ago.Copy !req
475. Said she'd lost her faith.Copy !req
476. You said you never saw Ava after
she and Irina had a falling-out.Copy !req
477. Do you know
if Irina saw her?Copy !req
478. Ava called,
said she needed money.Copy !req
479. We'd just had the baby
and business was slow...Copy !req
480. so Irina went over there...Copy !req
481. to explain why
we couldn't help and...Copy !req
482. she didn't come back
until 2:00 in the morning.Copy !req
483. She killed her.Copy !req
484. Did she say anything?Copy !req
485. She wouldn't talk.Copy !req
486. Said she was sick.Copy !req
487. Spent the next two weeks
in bed.Copy !req
488. Why would she do this?Copy !req
489. That's what
we're trying to find out.Copy !req
490. Where's your daughter?Copy !req
491. Oh, my God!Copy !req
492. "Up, up, up. Faster and faster
the little engine climbed... "Copy !req
493. Daddy!Copy !req
494. Is there a problem,
Mr. Burton?Copy !req
495. No, everything's fine.Copy !req
496. You just missed your wife.Copy !req
497. When was that?
About 20 minutes.Copy !req
498. She seemed upset.
Talked to Julia and then left.Copy !req
499. Hi, Julia. You remember us?Copy !req
500. Do you know why your mommy
came to see you today?Copy !req
501. To give me this.
It has her picture inside it.Copy !req
502. Wow, that's pretty. Did
she say where she was going?Copy !req
503. No. But she told me that we
couldn't go see the puppet man today.Copy !req
504. Who's the puppet man?
Walt. He's nice.Copy !req
505. Why do you call him
the puppet man?Copy !req
506. Because when Mommy goes to see her
friend, Walt shows me the puppet.Copy !req
507. I have no idea
who she's talking about.Copy !req
508. Okay, Julia, do you remember
the name of your mommy's friend?Copy !req
509. Valentina.
She's nice, too.Copy !req
510. We pulled the Burtons'
bank statements.Copy !req
511. Yeah? What'd you find?
A lot of zeros.Copy !req
512. Ava cleaned out their accounts
this morning.Copy !req
513. On top of the $300 she withdraws
on the last Friday of every month.Copy !req
514. Her husband
know about this?Copy !req
515. All the cancelled checks
have her signature.Copy !req
516. She must be paying
the household bills.Copy !req
517. Any idea where
the money's going?Copy !req
518. We pulled their LUDs. Also on
the last Friday of every month...Copy !req
519. one phone call to Euromatch, Valentina
Bilescu's mail-order bride agency.Copy !req
520. Olivia just called.Copy !req
521. The Burtons' kid said she
and her mother were regulars.Copy !req
522. Mom met with Valentina while some guy
entertained the girl with a puppet.Copy !req
523. Why is Ava going to
a matchmaker?Copy !req
524. I don't know. I think it's time
we paid Miss Bilescu a visit.Copy !req
525. Can I help you gentlemen?
Where's Valentina?Copy !req
526. Not here.
Not an answer. Where is she?Copy !req
527. I haven't done anything illegal.
Really? Where's your puppet?Copy !req
528. What are you guys
talking about?Copy !req
529. The one you entertain
Julia Burton with...Copy !req
530. while her mother's
paying off your boss.Copy !req
531. I take the money, give it to
Valentina. I don't know what it's for.Copy !req
532. Hear that? Says he
doesn't know what it's for.Copy !req
533. He doesn't know that his boss
smuggles women into the country?Copy !req
534. I wouldn't know
anything about that.Copy !req
535. You take the money,
that makes you an accessory.Copy !req
536. One more time, where is she?Copy !req
537. At her other office. Some
warehouse down in Chelsea.Copy !req
538. Not a sweatshop.
The kind you had in mind.Copy !req
539. Police!Copy !req
540. Where's Valentina?
I don't know about anything.Copy !req
541. English.
Do you speak English?Copy !req
542. These women aren't being held
against their will, are they?Copy !req
543. Because if they are, you're going
for kidnapping, as well as pimping.Copy !req
544. Valentina is in there.Copy !req
545. What is this?Copy !req
546. It's called a raid. Put
your hands behind your back.Copy !req
547. Let go of me. Where's your
warrant? Signed on a judge's desk.Copy !req
548. Valentina Bilescu, you're under
arrest for unlawful imprisonment...Copy !req
549. kidnapping,
and promoting prostitution.Copy !req
550. Where's Ava? I don't
have to tell you anything.Copy !req
551. What's the cash for?
No. Please, no.Copy !req
552. Ava Parulis, you're under arrest
for the murder of Irina Burton.Copy !req
553. I didn't kill her!
It's not... It's not Irina!Copy !req
554. Who is this?
She's my little sister.Copy !req
555. I was buying her freedom.Copy !req
556. Take her.Copy !req
557. I didn't kill Irina.
So why'd you run?Copy !req
558. Didn't murder her, you just happened
to take her identity and her family.Copy !req
559. When the bones were
identified, you got scared.Copy !req
560. You helped yourself to George
and Irina's bank account.Copy !req
561. Figure that'll keep you going for
a while? No. None of it's true.Copy !req
562. Then how did Irina end up
underneath the hydrangea...Copy !req
563. in the back
of your apartment?Copy !req
564. I buried her there!Copy !req
565. Right. You buried her
but you didn't murder her?Copy !req
566. When I came home that night to
my apartment, Irina was dead.Copy !req
567. She was lying on the floor. The
neighbor had his garden dug up.Copy !req
568. I put Irina in a garbage bag
and dragged her downstairs.Copy !req
569. I covered her with dirt.
I buried her.Copy !req
570. What about the collar
and the leash?Copy !req
571. They were mine.
I buried my past with Irina.Copy !req
572. Well, why didn't you
just call the police?Copy !req
573. Whoever killed Irina
was really after me.Copy !req
574. Valentina had our sister.
I had to get her out.Copy !req
575. Did Valentina
threaten you?Copy !req
576. If you cooperate,
we can help you.Copy !req
577. In my country,
the police help no one.Copy !req
578. Ava kills one sister while
paying to rescue the other?Copy !req
579. It doesn't make any sense.Copy !req
580. There's no way someone her
size dragged a body down...Copy !req
581. three flights of stairs
and then buried it.Copy !req
582. If she didn't kill her
sister, what is she hiding?Copy !req
583. Maybe she's protecting
whoever did.Copy !req
584. Valentina Bilescu?Copy !req
585. Let's ask
the other sister.Copy !req
586. You didn't know it was Ava? I
haven't seen my sisters for years.Copy !req
587. Since Valentina bring me
to this hellhole.Copy !req
588. What happened to Irina?Copy !req
589. Ava's been impersonating Irina since
she murdered her three years ago.Copy !req
590. Ava would never harm Irina
or anyone else.Copy !req
591. I want to see her. You
can't. She's going to jail.Copy !req
592. Valentina did this.
Why?Copy !req
593. She promised me marriage.
A new life.Copy !req
594. I went to her parties in
Bucharest to meet American men...Copy !req
595. and one of them,
he proposed to me.Copy !req
596. So Valentina,
she bring me back here.Copy !req
597. Did you get married?
Yes.Copy !req
598. But the pig changed his mind.Copy !req
599. I thought
I would get deported.Copy !req
600. Who let you stay here?
Valentina.Copy !req
601. She said she would protect me.Copy !req
602. And she take me to that place.
She turned me into a whore.Copy !req
603. Why didn't you say no?Copy !req
604. No one says no
to Valentina.Copy !req
605. How long did she keep you
there? Three-and-a-half years.Copy !req
606. Until the debt was paid off.
What debt?Copy !req
607. My ex-husband. Valentina
give him back his money.Copy !req
608. She say it was my fault
he wasn't satisfied.Copy !req
609. That I have to pay her back
for all the money she lost.Copy !req
610. Why didn't you run away?Copy !req
611. Because Valentina say
she will kill my sisters...Copy !req
612. if I went back to Romania.Copy !req
613. When can I go?Copy !req
614. The only place you're going
is Rikers Island.Copy !req
615. I'll make bail.Copy !req
616. Don't count on it. Judges don't
usually send accused killers home.Copy !req
617. Who did I kill?Copy !req
618. You're being charged as an accessory
to the murder of Irina Burton.Copy !req
619. I am not a killer. I bring
American men the brides they want.Copy !req
620. You mean,
the women you kidnap.Copy !req
621. I brought these girls here
to marry, have a better life.Copy !req
622. I sheltered them after
their husbands rejected them.Copy !req
623. You forced them into prostitution.
You can't prove anything.Copy !req
624. When Ava Parulis threatened to blow
the whistle, you decided to kill her.Copy !req
625. Except you got her sister
by mistake. Who helped you?Copy !req
626. Get me my lawyer. Now.Copy !req
627. Valentina gave me nothing.Copy !req
628. And Ava's acting more like
a victim than a perp.Copy !req
629. She hooked up with Valentina,
got in over her head.Copy !req
630. They're both afraid
of someone.Copy !req
631. If Valentina's not gonna
tell us who...Copy !req
632. maybe there's something
in her office that will.Copy !req
633. Oksana's statements
about the death threats...Copy !req
634. should be more than enough
probable cause for a search warrant.Copy !req
635. I'll call it in.Copy !req
636. I'll have John and Fin execute
it. Bring George Burton in.Copy !req
637. He may be able to help us
get something out of Ava.Copy !req
638. What do you guys want now?
This is a search warrant.Copy !req
639. Where does Valentina
keep her financial records?Copy !req
640. At the accountant's.Copy !req
641. Not those records. The real
books for her whorehouse.Copy !req
642. I don't know
what you're talking about.Copy !req
643. You don't know much
for a valued employee?Copy !req
644. Maybe he knows
what accessory to a murder is.Copy !req
645. Murder? I'm just a clerk.Copy !req
646. Who is Valentina's partner?
I don't know.Copy !req
647. Did any of Valentina's friends
hang around here more than others?Copy !req
648. Some old guy, same accent,
always in a suit.Copy !req
649. Comes in
a couple times a week.Copy !req
650. He and Valentina always lock
themselves in her office.Copy !req
651. Maybe that's where they keep
the real books.Copy !req
652. Follow me.Copy !req
653. What have we got? Valentina's
silent partner. A Razvan Toscu.Copy !req
654. Romanian Deputy Chief
of Mission and orchid lover.Copy !req
655. Which means he could run
you down, leave skid marks...Copy !req
656. and we still couldn't issue
a speeding ticket.Copy !req
657. With his diplomatic juice he may
have been able to get visas...Copy !req
658. keep product in
the pipeline, girls...Copy !req
659. We'll deal with him later.
What about George Burton?Copy !req
660. Says he's willing to play.Copy !req
661. There's another sister?
We have her upstairs.Copy !req
662. Where did you find her?Copy !req
663. She was being
held against her will...Copy !req
664. and forced into prostitution.Copy !req
665. We found Ava there
trying to buy her freedom.Copy !req
666. With the money
that she stole from you.Copy !req
667. Why didn't she tell me?Copy !req
668. Maybe she thought you'd be
in danger if you knew.Copy !req
669. You sure
you're ready for this?Copy !req
670. No.Copy !req
671. When are you going
to let me out of here?Copy !req
672. No, it's me, Ava.Copy !req
673. I didn't expect you to come.Copy !req
674. You shared my bed
for three years.Copy !req
675. You raised my daughter.Copy !req
676. And it was a lie?Copy !req
677. Irina was dead.Copy !req
678. She would have wanted this.Copy !req
679. They know about
the Toscu guy.Copy !req
680. If he finds out, he's gonna
kill you, like he killed Irina.Copy !req
681. Why did he kill Irina?Copy !req
682. Because I threatened to tell the police
about him if he didn't let Oksana go.Copy !req
683. How do you know
he killed Irina?Copy !req
684. I saw him,
outside my apartment building.Copy !req
685. He left something next to
the trash in a plastic bag.Copy !req
686. I looked inside
and it was Irina.Copy !req
687. I put on her wedding rings, and
buried her under the neighbor's garden.Copy !req
688. He raped her.
He made her wear the collar.Copy !req
689. He did to her
what he used to do to me.Copy !req
690. How could you let that happen?
I wasn't there!Copy !req
691. I couldn't stop him.Copy !req
692. Irina never told him
it wasn't me.Copy !req
693. Why didn't you tell me?Copy !req
694. As long as they thought
I was dead, we were safe.Copy !req
695. All the men...Copy !req
696. the jewelry,
the money I took from you...Copy !req
697. all I wanted it for
was to get Oksana out.Copy !req
698. I'm so sorry.Copy !req
699. You're sorry.Copy !req
700. Sorry won't bring Irina back.
George, please.Copy !req
701. How could you
live with yourself?Copy !req
702. So, we believe her?Copy !req
703. She might be lying to us,
but she wasn't lying to him.Copy !req
704. Which makes her the only one
to put Toscu at the scene.Copy !req
705. We could have videotape
of him in the act...Copy !req
706. we still couldn't touch him
because of his diplomatic immunity.Copy !req
707. Alex, there's got to be
something you can do.Copy !req
708. Let me check with a friend.Copy !req
709. I need
the State Department's help.Copy !req
710. It's almost impossible to convince a
foreign nation, even a friendly one...Copy !req
711. to waive
diplomatic immunity.Copy !req
712. Precedent was set
by the former Soviet Union.Copy !req
713. The Republic of Georgia waived immunity
on that drunk driving case down in D.C.Copy !req
714. All those former
Soviet Republics...Copy !req
715. were looking for
most-favored-nation status.Copy !req
716. I'm looking to put away a murderer,
and I don't care where he's from.Copy !req
717. We can always appeal to their
decency and see what happens.Copy !req
718. What are you suggesting? A
long shot. But it's worth a try.Copy !req
719. My government respectfully
requests you...Copy !req
720. to waive Mr. Toscu's
diplomatic immunity.Copy !req
721. That's an
extraordinary request.Copy !req
722. Warranted by
extraordinary circumstances.Copy !req
723. Mr. Toscu has used
his position...Copy !req
724. to keep women in this
country against their will...Copy !req
725. for the purposes of
prostitution. Now he's a murderer.Copy !req
726. We didn't invite you here to be
insulted by baseless allegations.Copy !req
727. Mr. Toscu is a distinguished
member of our diplomatic corps.Copy !req
728. Here's what your distinguished diplomat
did to a woman from your own country.Copy !req
729. Let me see that.Copy !req
730. Tragic.Copy !req
731. And you think
I'm responsible?Copy !req
732. Miss Cabot assures me
that she has an eyewitness...Copy !req
733. who places Mr. Toscu at the murder
scene carrying the victim's body.Copy !req
734. Her sister.
Ava Parulis?Copy !req
735. She has quite a reputation.
I'm surprised you'd believe her.Copy !req
736. Before we even consider
something as severe...Copy !req
737. and irrevocable as waiving
our diplomat's immunity...Copy !req
738. we must be convinced of guilt.Copy !req
739. The evidence
is right in front of you.Copy !req
740. You have nothing
but the word of criminals...Copy !req
741. and the eyewitness account of a woman
who buried her sister in a shallow grave.Copy !req
742. We assert our sovereign rights
to protect our country's diplomat.Copy !req
743. And we have the right to protect
our country from your diplomats.Copy !req
744. Alex. Mr. Davia, you're
leaving us no alternative.Copy !req
745. My government has authorized me to
declare Mr. Toscu persona non grata.Copy !req
746. He has 48 hours
to leave the United States.Copy !req
747. That's it? He walks? I didn't
know Greenwalt was gonna do that.Copy !req
748. Why didn't he just
threaten him with expulsion?Copy !req
749. Jack said, had the Romanians known our
government was even considering this...Copy !req
750. they would have put Toscu on
the first plane to Bucharest.Copy !req
751. So the bastard murders
a woman...Copy !req
752. and his only consequence
is being sent home?Copy !req
753. At least
it bought us some time.Copy !req
754. What do you need
from us, Alex?Copy !req
755. Something more than
Ava Parulis' word.Copy !req
756. But there's nothing left.Copy !req
757. We want Toscu, we need proof
he's guilty. Physical evidence.Copy !req
758. Go back to the bones.Copy !req
759. This report on soil samples
is a real page turner.Copy !req
760. Very descriptive. Written from
the point of view of a slug.Copy !req
761. The good earth
swallowed our evidence.Copy !req
762. Maybe not all of it.Copy !req
763. You found something?Copy !req
764. Irina's clothes were pretty decomposed
but they did find a couple of samples...Copy !req
765. from her panties and the lab
sent them to a forensic geologist.Copy !req
766. Where's the report?Copy !req
767. Due back next week.Copy !req
768. You know how many
microorganisms there are in soil?Copy !req
769. If we test everything, you'll still
be getting results 10 years from now.Copy !req
770. Yeah. These samples. Found on what
was left of the victim's clothing.Copy !req
771. What are those?Copy !req
772. Horticulturalists use them to
collect and store microscopic pollen.Copy !req
773. The samples your lab sent us weren't
consistent with the plant life in the area.Copy !req
774. Okay. What did your tests
show? I haven't tested them yet.Copy !req
775. When are you gonna test them?
Tomorrow morning.Copy !req
776. How about now?Copy !req
777. Good morning, Detectives.
Come to see me off?Copy !req
778. You're not getting away
with this.Copy !req
779. I'll send you a card
from my next post.Copy !req
780. I hope
it's a warmer climate.Copy !req
781. What is this?Copy !req
782. You're under arrest for
the murder of Irina Burton.Copy !req
783. You cannot arrest me
I have diplomatic immunity.Copy !req
784. Had diplomatic immunity
until this morning.Copy !req
785. Your government doesn't appreciate
your sideline business...Copy !req
786. as a murderer and a pimp.
They cut you loose.Copy !req
787. You have no evidence.
Sure we do.Copy !req
788. Two little grains of pollen
belonging to the Gigas Firmin Lambeau.Copy !req
789. My orchids?
Found on Irina's clothing.Copy !req
790. You should have washed your
hands before you murdered her.Copy !req
791. You have the right
to remain silent.Copy !req
792. Anything you say can and
will be used against you...Copy !req
793. Detectives.Copy !req
794. Thank you. Thank us
when Toscu's convicted.Copy !req
795. We're very sorry
for your loss.Copy !req
796. We hope everything works out
for you and Julia.Copy !req
797. We'll be all right.
We have to.Copy !req
798. Ava could have gone on forever
being Burton's wife, Julia's mother.Copy !req
799. If it hadn't been
for the bones.Copy !req
800. Irina can
rest in peace now.Copy !req