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. That was a sweet-looking pass. Too
bad he couldn't break it for a TD.Copy !req
10. Hurry up, boys, or you'll be late for
school. Imagine if we still had Keyshawn.Copy !req
11. Has anyone seen Emily? I know,
but we'd really be smoking...Copy !req
12. with both guys out there.
Excuse me.Copy !req
13. Hold on a sec. What?Copy !req
14. Where's Emily?
How should I know?Copy !req
15. Well, didn't anyone
bother to wake her?Copy !req
16. Not my responsibility.Copy !req
17. Hurry up, Michael,
we leave in 10 minutes.Copy !req
18. Emily?Copy !req
19. Emily, come on, get up.Copy !req
20. It's time to go.Copy !req
21. Come on, sweetie. Emily?Copy !req
22. Oh, my god.Copy !req
23. Justin, come upstairs.Copy !req
24. Emmy!Copy !req
25. Emily!Copy !req
26. Em!Copy !req
27. Oh, my God!Copy !req
28. Seven-year-old female admitted
with subdural hematoma.Copy !req
29. Pappiledema indicates pressure
building for hours, maybe days.Copy !req
30. Cause?
Blunt trauma.Copy !req
31. I ran a skeletal
and neural workup...Copy !req
32. discovered a fractured left femur,
healed approximately six weeks...Copy !req
33. hairline fractures to the ribs,
bruising to the arms and pelvic region.Copy !req
34. Vaginal trauma indicated sexual
abuse, so we did a rape kit.Copy !req
35. Where is she now?
Neurosurgery.Copy !req
36. Her chances?
Too soon to tell.Copy !req
37. Who brought her in?
Her mother. Jamie McKenna.Copy !req
38. And the father?
Out of town on business.Copy !req
39. Oh, great. Eight-car pile-up
on the Triborough.Copy !req
40. Overflow, five minutes out.
If you need me...Copy !req
41. We'll beep you.Copy !req
42. So, have a nice weekend?Copy !req
43. I don't remember
having a weekend.Copy !req
44. She was crying when I picked
her up from her father's...Copy !req
45. but she's always upset
after her week with him.Copy !req
46. She was fine when I put her to bed. Wait.
I thought her father was out of town.Copy !req
47. No. My husband is out of town. Her
father is part of a time in my life...Copy !req
48. I'd just as soon forget.Copy !req
49. If we didn't share custody,
I'd never want to see him again.Copy !req
50. Can we go now?Copy !req
51. Justin, please.Copy !req
52. I got a quiz in trig. We're gonna
need to talk to you, too, son.Copy !req
53. How long will that be?Copy !req
54. As long as it takes.Copy !req
55. Oh, God!
Where is she?Copy !req
56. You stay away from her!
I want to see her.Copy !req
57. Just take it easy there, pal.
Who are you?Copy !req
58. Detective Stabler,
who are you?Copy !req
59. Emily's father.
What's your name? You got one?Copy !req
60. Denny Corea.
How could you let this happen?Copy !req
61. I left her alone with you. What
do you say we go for a little walk?Copy !req
62. I won't let him
get away with this.Copy !req
63. I won't.Copy !req
64. Do you think
he did this to Emily?Copy !req
65. He's always
had a problem with his anger.Copy !req
66. But ever since I married
Randall, it's gotten worse.Copy !req
67. I know Denny hates me, but why
take it out on an innocent child?Copy !req
68. All afternoon she watched
The Lion King.Copy !req
69. I cooked her a quick dinner and
then her mother picked her up.Copy !req
70. Okay, what time was that?
About 6:00.Copy !req
71. It's Jamie's week to have her.Copy !req
72. You know, I should have never
let her go back to that house.Copy !req
73. Yeah, why not?Copy !req
74. Because he touches her.Copy !req
75. Okay. Who's that?Copy !req
76. The animal Jamie married,
Randall McKenna.Copy !req
77. Your daughter tell you that?Copy !req
78. She didn't have to.Copy !req
79. I saw the bruises.Copy !req
80. When I asked her
what happened...Copy !req
81. she just started to cry.Copy !req
82. You report him?Copy !req
83. Of course I reported him.Copy !req
84. But Jamie told the case
worker that it was me.Copy !req
85. Okay. Why would she do that?Copy !req
86. Because she wants Emily
all to herself.Copy !req
87. Even if it means hurting her?Copy !req
88. Jamie wants what she wants,
no matter who it hurts.Copy !req
89. It's your basic "he said, she said"
with a twist. Mother blames the father.Copy !req
90. Father blames the stepfather.
What do the doctors say?Copy !req
91. Abuse is long-term, but the head injury
occurred in a 10 to 24-hour window...Copy !req
92. prior to admittance. Looks
like she was molested, too.Copy !req
93. Rape kit turned up a hair and
a nylon bristle embedded...Copy !req
94. in abrasions to her backside.
From what?Copy !req
95. Lab's working on it.
If the girl was good...Copy !req
96. when her mom put her to bed, it
had to be someone in the house.Copy !req
97. Not necessarily.
The bleeding was internal.Copy !req
98. It could have been hours
before the symptoms showed.Copy !req
99. What do we know
about the father?Copy !req
100. Denny Corea,
age 32, Cuban immigrant...Copy !req
101. did time in '93 for robbery and
assault. He's now working as a cook...Copy !req
102. at the Greenbriar School.
The same school Emily attends.Copy !req
103. And the husband?Copy !req
104. Randall McKenna, 40-ish...Copy !req
105. investment banker with a Wall Street
firm. Has one son with Jamie and one son...Copy !req
106. from a previous marriage.
Both boys were home...Copy !req
107. but the younger one is
learning disabled, non-verbal...Copy !req
108. and the older one, Justin,
who's 15, couldn't add much.Copy !req
109. What about Randall?Copy !req
110. Still in D.C. on business.Copy !req
111. Which brings us back to Desi.Copy !req
112. So how's a society chick hook up
with a fry cook in the first place?Copy !req
113. In rehab. Jamie was kicking an
amphetamine habit and Denny...Copy !req
114. was teaching a dance class
at the time.Copy !req
115. Jamie got pregnant
and her mother...Copy !req
116. demanded the clinic fire Denny, or
else she'd have their license revoked.Copy !req
117. Well, she's got the juice.Copy !req
118. Jamie McKenna's mother
is Lois Huntington...Copy !req
119. chair of the Avery
Huntington Foundation.Copy !req
120. Widow of the late ambassador.Copy !req
121. Benson, Stabler,
pay a courtesy call.Copy !req
122. Get some background
on the custody issue.Copy !req
123. You two visit ACS, see if any
of the prior charges fit the M.O.Copy !req
124. That Huntington money buys a lot of
friends, so let's get this moving...Copy !req
125. before those friends put my
number on their speed dialers.Copy !req
126. You're saying Denny Corea
raped Jamie?Copy !req
127. I'm saying she was vulnerable and he
took advantage of that vulnerability.Copy !req
128. But you supported the agreement
that awarded him custody.Copy !req
129. Jamie was in no condition
to care for a sick infant.Copy !req
130. I tried to convince her
to abort.Copy !req
131. The drug abuse, did that
start at an early age?Copy !req
132. You make her sound
like a common junkie.Copy !req
133. They were prescription drugs.
Diet pills.Copy !req
134. So she had a weight problem?
A discipline problem.Copy !req
135. She was an only child,
and her father indulged her.Copy !req
136. When he died, she indulged
herself. Were they close?Copy !req
137. She was Daddy's little girl.Copy !req
138. And she took full advantage.Copy !req
139. She finally became so incorrigible
I sent her to boarding school.Copy !req
140. And how old was she
at the time?Copy !req
141. Eleven. I wish I could say
that it helped.Copy !req
142. At least the pregnancy
brought her to her senses.Copy !req
143. She straightened up and
she made a life for herself...Copy !req
144. and she wanted to share
that life with Emily.Copy !req
145. Did her husband support her
decision to sue for custody?Copy !req
146. Completely.
And he paid the price.Copy !req
147. The day after she filed, Denny
broke three bones in his face...Copy !req
148. and threatened to kill him.Copy !req
149. What did Randall do?Copy !req
150. Against my advice,
he offered Denny a deal.Copy !req
151. He wouldn't file charges if Denny
would agree to give up the child.Copy !req
152. Denny agree?Copy !req
153. He has until Friday
to sign the papers.Copy !req
154. I actually hope
the vile creature refuses...Copy !req
155. and he gets the full measure
of what he deserves.Copy !req
156. Our first contact with Emily
was in April of 1994...Copy !req
157. when the hospital
called us in.Copy !req
158. The baby was very sick, and since Jamie
was struggling with her own addiction...Copy !req
159. custody was granted
to the father.Copy !req
160. Even though he had a record?Copy !req
161. A prison record doesn't
terminate parental rights.Copy !req
162. How did Jamie's mother
react to the arrangement?Copy !req
163. Mrs. Huntington was
the driving force behind it.Copy !req
164. In fact, she used her connections
to push through the paperwork.Copy !req
165. And when did Jamie start
challenging that arrangement?Copy !req
166. About a year ago.Copy !req
167. That's when
the abuse charges surfaced.Copy !req
168. We investigated, but we couldn't find
sufficient evidence to pursue a case.Copy !req
169. Broken bones
ain't sufficient enough?Copy !req
170. Normal childhood mishaps.Copy !req
171. And how would you characterize
this latest "mishap"?Copy !req
172. We followed procedure.Copy !req
173. And that lets you
sleep at night?Copy !req
174. I haven't had a good night's
sleep in 10 years.Copy !req
175. Denny works three shifts
in the kitchen.Copy !req
176. And still finds time to join
Emily's class for story time.Copy !req
177. He tells such wonderful stories
about his childhood in Cuba.Copy !req
178. Yet you filed an abuse report
with ACS.Copy !req
179. I'm required by law
to report any injury...Copy !req
180. even those that could be
attributed to simple stress...Copy !req
181. or prepubescent clumsiness.Copy !req
182. Which of the above
caused a broken leg?Copy !req
183. Emily said she fell when she
was learning to ride a bicycle...Copy !req
184. that her father bought her
for her birthday.Copy !req
185. You don't think
she was abused?Copy !req
186. I don't think
her father was responsible.Copy !req
187. Why not?Copy !req
188. I have known Denny
for six years.Copy !req
189. And, in all that time, I've never
even heard him raise his voice to her.Copy !req
190. Is there any other adult who had
regular or prolonged contact with her?Copy !req
191. Henry Abidin.Copy !req
192. He's the minister for protocol
for the Brunei Mission.Copy !req
193. He's a friend of the school. And he's
taken a special interest in Emily.Copy !req
194. How special?Copy !req
195. Well, he reads to her, he takes her
to dance class and to the theater.Copy !req
196. But he loves the child
and she loves him.Copy !req
197. No offense, Miss Dunlap.Copy !req
198. But kids don't always come
straight with their teachers.Copy !req
199. Is there anyone else, a friend,
classmate, who she was close to?Copy !req
200. Well, there is a little girl
named Jennifer.Copy !req
201. They're always together,
they're like sisters.Copy !req
202. Hi, Jennifer.Copy !req
203. Hi.Copy !req
204. I'm Detective Munch.Copy !req
205. That's a funny name. Munch.Copy !req
206. You think that's funny?Copy !req
207. I guess if I ever have kids I
have to call them "munchkins. "Copy !req
208. Could we talk about
your friend Emily?Copy !req
209. It's not nice to talk
behind people's backs.Copy !req
210. That's true.Copy !req
211. But I think it would
be okay just this one time.Copy !req
212. You know, Emily's hurt
and we're trying to help her.Copy !req
213. You want to help her, too,
don't you?Copy !req
214. Yeah.
Good.Copy !req
215. She ever talk to you
about her friend Henry?Copy !req
216. He's nice. He takes her to shows
and buys her toy animals and stuff.Copy !req
217. He makes everybody laugh
with his funny songs.Copy !req
218. How about her daddy?Copy !req
219. She said he was mad.
How come?Copy !req
220. Well, her mommy was trying
to take her away.Copy !req
221. She say anything else
about her daddy?Copy !req
222. She said they were
going on a trip.Copy !req
223. Where?Copy !req
224. It's a secret.Copy !req
225. It's okay, we're her friends.Copy !req
226. They said they were going
to Cuba. That's an island.Copy !req
227. Sure is, honey.Copy !req
228. I have a Barbie with hair
that grows. You wanna see it?Copy !req
229. Maybe later.Copy !req
230. Fin and I have to
help Emily now.Copy !req
231. But thank you
for talking to me.Copy !req
232. You're welcome.Copy !req
233. Can I go now?
Sure.Copy !req
234. I'll check the airlines.
Good.Copy !req
235. Can you move?
If you get me a forklift.Copy !req
236. Denny Corea's
looking like a real hothead.Copy !req
237. Put Randall McKenna in the hospital
day after Jamie filed for custody.Copy !req
238. He's got until Friday
to choose between jail time...Copy !req
239. and signing away his kid.
What's the matter with you?Copy !req
240. Injured in the line of duty.
Yeah, now I'm a pain in my own ass.Copy !req
241. But, enough about me.Copy !req
242. One of Emily's friends told us
about a trip Denny was planning.Copy !req
243. A buddy in customs checked the
manifest for flights to Cuba...Copy !req
244. and guess what he found?Copy !req
245. Two tickets in Denny and Emily's name
departing for Cuba via Quebec this Friday.Copy !req
246. One-way.Copy !req
247. Well maybe it's time we brought
Mr. Corea in for a little chat.Copy !req
248. I just wanted to
get her away from him.Copy !req
249. Children's Services wouldn't believe
me. I didn't know what else to do.Copy !req
250. Well, smacking Randall around
didn't exactly bolster your case.Copy !req
251. I wanted to talk to him.
He is a father.Copy !req
252. I thought I could shame him
into leaving my daughter alone.Copy !req
253. By rearranging his face?Copy !req
254. He pushed me, okay?
It happened so fast.Copy !req
255. Is that what happened
with the store clerk?Copy !req
256. I don't understand.Copy !req
257. A few years back.
The convenience store?Copy !req
258. You did time for beating him
to a bloody pulp.Copy !req
259. He tried to shoot me.Copy !req
260. Because you were robbing his store.
I was hungry. I just defected.Copy !req
261. The government says, "Welcome to
America, goodbye and good luck. "Copy !req
262. Denny, that is a very sad story.
But if you're such a victim...Copy !req
263. why is it that everyone else
winds up getting hurt?Copy !req
264. You are twisting everything.
Like you did with Emily?Copy !req
265. You twisted her little leg
until it broke?Copy !req
266. I would never
hurt my daughter.Copy !req
267. I'm sure you never meant to. Like
you never meant to hurt Randall...Copy !req
268. or the store clerk.
Or Jamie.Copy !req
269. Please!
Denny, now come on.Copy !req
270. It's time to come clean here,
all right?Copy !req
271. For Emily's sake.Copy !req
272. It's just time to do the right
thing. We wanna help you...Copy !req
273. but you gotta
tell us the truth.Copy !req
274. Guys. Got a minute?Copy !req
275. What the hell, Captain?
He was about to pop.Copy !req
276. I just talked to the lab.
Denny's not our man.Copy !req
277. What?Copy !req
278. Blood type doesn't match the
hair sample from the rape kit.Copy !req
279. With Denny out of the picture we
need to reassess our profile...Copy !req
280. so I've asked Dr. Skoda here
to lend us a hand.Copy !req
281. This one's tough.Copy !req
282. The molestation occurred in
such a complex social matrix...Copy !req
283. English, please.Copy !req
284. Child abusers are generally
adept at manipulating emotions...Copy !req
285. and shading perceptions.Copy !req
286. But in this case,
the abuser had to contend...Copy !req
287. with two separate
social and familial groups...Copy !req
288. one of which presumably
offered a safe haven.Copy !req
289. That requires some
finely tuned social radar.Copy !req
290. Well, if he's so finely tuned,
why go after a kid?Copy !req
291. It's not about intimacy.
It's about displaced rage.Copy !req
292. Rage over what?Copy !req
293. Sexual inadequacies,
abuse in his childhood.Copy !req
294. So someone
with low self-esteem.Copy !req
295. Yeah.Copy !req
296. But that's where
the profile gets tricky.Copy !req
297. The same insecurities that drive him
to aberrant behavior in one area...Copy !req
298. can also drive him
to excel in another.Copy !req
299. So, he could be, whatever,
head of a Fortune 500 company.Copy !req
300. I guess Randall McKenna
moves to the top of the list.Copy !req
301. You said he was out of town.Copy !req
302. Yeah. Well, I called his
office to schedule an interview.Copy !req
303. Found out his plane didn't
leave until 7:00 Monday morning.Copy !req
304. Didn't Denny say something about a friend
who took Emily to go see The Lion King?Copy !req
305. Yeah. Henry Abidin. Minister of
protocol for the Brunei Mission.Copy !req
306. Well, we may run into
a diplomatic brick wall...Copy !req
307. but see if he's
willing to talk.Copy !req
308. I assume your meeting
is on the books?Copy !req
309. Yeah. Done. Out.Copy !req
310. Listen, I don't mean to be rude, but I
have a meeting at 30 Rock in 40 minutes.Copy !req
311. Yeah, well, take five, we'll
be out of your hair in no time.Copy !req
312. I'm sorry.Copy !req
313. Look, it's been a hard couple
of weeks. How can I help you?Copy !req
314. Just a little history. You
and Jamie have been married...Copy !req
315. for what, three years?
Yeah.Copy !req
316. How'd you two hook up?
Her mother was a client.Copy !req
317. She introduced us at a party.
Were you still married...Copy !req
318. to your first wife at
the time? Separated.Copy !req
319. So Jamie's pregnancy
only hastened the inevitable.Copy !req
320. Michael's four.
We did the math.Copy !req
321. Is there a point to this conversation?
Where were you Sunday night?Copy !req
322. I was here, then at home. Why?Copy !req
323. Spend any quality time
with your stepdaughter?Copy !req
324. What are you driving at?Copy !req
325. Denny Corea says
you've been molesting her.Copy !req
326. And you believed him?
Look what he did to me.Copy !req
327. He also said that you tried to
blackmail him into giving up custody.Copy !req
328. I offered him an opportunity
to avoid prison.Copy !req
329. And to close off any further
investigation. Oh, this is nuts.Copy !req
330. You had access.Copy !req
331. She slept in the next bedroom.Copy !req
332. I thought Denny
was your primary suspect.Copy !req
333. Blood analysis excluded him.Copy !req
334. And now you're scrambling
to cover your ass.Copy !req
335. Of course, you could help expose
our better halves by offering...Copy !req
336. up a sample of your own.Copy !req
337. You've already insulted me.Copy !req
338. I'll be damned if I will
allow you to invade my privacy.Copy !req
339. We'll get a court order
to compel you.Copy !req
340. Well, then, I guess from now on
you'll be talking to my lawyer.Copy !req
341. Now, if you'll excuse me.Copy !req
342. I'm already late
for my meeting.Copy !req
343. Right this way, gentlemen. The
minister will be right with you.Copy !req
344. I got one of those hanging
from a rope in my shower.Copy !req
345. Only mine's got
a spring-fresh scent.Copy !req
346. Sorry to keep you waiting,
gentlemen. Henry Abidin.Copy !req
347. Odafin Tutuola.Copy !req
348. Oh, Tutuola.
"The gentle one. "Copy !req
349. You know Yoruban?Copy !req
350. In my business, one tends
to know a little about a lot.Copy !req
351. John Munch.
Romanian, "the handsome one. "Copy !req
352. I assume your visit
concerns poor Emily.Copy !req
353. Yes, it does.
Her grandmother told me.Copy !req
354. You know Lois Huntington? No, we
met while Avery was still alive.Copy !req
355. In fact, it was she
who first suggested...Copy !req
356. The Greenbriar School might
be a potential beneficiary...Copy !req
357. of the royal family's
charitable interests.Copy !req
358. Were you aware that her
granddaughter was a student there?Copy !req
359. Yes.Copy !req
360. But the fact that Emily proved
to be such a delight...Copy !req
361. was an unexpected bonus.Copy !req
362. You took her to
a show on Sunday.Copy !req
363. The matinee of The Lion King.Copy !req
364. Where did you go after that?Copy !req
365. I brought her home to her father.
I don't suppose you have anyone...Copy !req
366. to corroborate your whereabouts
between the show and home.Copy !req
367. As a matter of fact,
her grandmother joined us...Copy !req
368. at the theatre
and my driver drove us.Copy !req
369. Grandma's a regular
on these field trips?Copy !req
370. She is.Copy !req
371. Emily's father's
in sync with that?Copy !req
372. Considering the animosity
between him and Lois...Copy !req
373. we felt it best he not know.Copy !req
374. Any other secrets
you wanna tell us?Copy !req
375. Gentlemen, I know it's
your job to be suspicious.Copy !req
376. But that little girl won my
heart with her joyful spirit.Copy !req
377. And I'll do whatever I can to see
to it the person responsible...Copy !req
378. for dimming that spirit goes
to jail for a very long time.Copy !req
379. What, more questions?
Yep.Copy !req
380. What time did your dad leave for
the airport on Monday morning?Copy !req
381. I don't know,
I was asleep.Copy !req
382. Okay, can you tell us what time
he came home the night before?Copy !req
383. I don't know, I was asleep.Copy !req
384. Hear any noises during the
night? Just him and Jamie arguing.Copy !req
385. Yeah? Over what?
What else? Emily.Copy !req
386. Why?Copy !req
387. I don't know. I put my headset
on so I didn't have to listen.Copy !req
388. They argue a lot?Copy !req
389. All the time. It's why
he never comes home anymore.Copy !req
390. Hey, Justin!Copy !req
391. We done?Copy !req
392. For now. Yeah.Copy !req
393. So, what have we got?Copy !req
394. Henry Abidin waived...Copy !req
395. his diplomatic status and agreed to
submit a blood sample for analysis.Copy !req
396. And Randall McKenna?
Heard from his lawyer.Copy !req
397. He's fighting. Odd choice
for a loving stepfather.Copy !req
398. Family's like a jigsaw puzzle.
Nobody gives you the whole picture.Copy !req
399. Well, let's look at the pieces we've got.
One suspect eliminated, one cooperating...Copy !req
400. and one hiding
behind his lawyer.Copy !req
401. Picture's getting clearer.Copy !req
402. What's the status
on the court order?Copy !req
403. Cabot's meeting with Judge
Petrovsky in the morning.Copy !req
404. And the little girl?
Still in a coma.Copy !req
405. Well, let's all say a prayer this
doesn't turn into a murder case.Copy !req
406. Sad as it sounds, she's probably
safer in that hospital bed...Copy !req
407. than she's ever been
in her own.Copy !req
408. Hospital X-ray tech,
report to 5 East.Copy !req
409. Investigating officers
believe...Copy !req
410. the head trauma
is an extension...Copy !req
411. of an ongoing
pattern of abuse.Copy !req
412. Blood analysis has excluded her father
and Mr. Abidin from the suspect pool...Copy !req
413. leaving only Mr. McKenna
with access and opportunity.Copy !req
414. There is not a shred of solid evidence
linking my client to the crime.Copy !req
415. Mr. McKenna refuses to
submit a sample for analysis.Copy !req
416. They haven't established
exclusive opportunity.Copy !req
417. We can provide a detailed
timeline of Emily's whereabouts...Copy !req
418. during the 24 hours prior to
her admission into the hospital.Copy !req
419. Mr. McKenna has
a clear window of access.Copy !req
420. Can your client account for his
whereabouts during this window?Copy !req
421. He was home, your Honor,
with his family.Copy !req
422. Not to be redundant, but
that's precisely our point.Copy !req
423. A point well-taken.Copy !req
424. I hereby order your client
to present himself...Copy !req
425. to the medical examiner by 10:00
a. m. tomorrow, Mr. Woodrow...Copy !req
426. or he will find himself
in contempt.Copy !req
427. Hey, Alex. We heard
that Randall McKenna...Copy !req
428. didn't bother to show up
to his own hearing.Copy !req
429. Why should he?Copy !req
430. His lawyer's already on his
way to appeal the ruling.Copy !req
431. Did he have grounds?Copy !req
432. No, but Woodrow's got to blow
some smoke to earn his retainer.Copy !req
433. End of the day,
I'm sure we'll prevail.Copy !req
434. Olivia, I want you
to put a tag on Mr. McKenna.Copy !req
435. If he is one minute
late to the M. E...Copy !req
436. I want him
arrested for contempt.Copy !req
437. Yeah. Thanks, John.Copy !req
438. There's no need for that tag.Copy !req
439. Randall McKenna is in critical
condition at Mercy General.Copy !req
440. What happened?Copy !req
441. According to Munch...Copy !req
442. cerebral hemorrhage
due to blunt force trauma.Copy !req
443. Somebody beat
the hell out of him.Copy !req
444. I haven't seen Denny
since yesterday.Copy !req
445. He's usually working...Copy !req
446. or looking after
that sweet little girl of his.Copy !req
447. Did he seem upset or agitated
when you saw him?Copy !req
448. Huh?Copy !req
449. Did he seem upset?Copy !req
450. You don't have to shout.Copy !req
451. He was worried
about his daughter.Copy !req
452. He said her mother
married a bad man.Copy !req
453. Is Denny in trouble?Copy !req
454. That's what we're trying
to find out, Mrs. Fergus.Copy !req
455. Yeah?Copy !req
456. That was Benson.
They picked up Denny...Copy !req
457. trying to sneak into the
hospital to see his daughter.Copy !req
458. Hope he said his goodbyes.Copy !req
459. A bloody T-shirt and a witness
who puts you at the scene.Copy !req
460. Not to mention a set of knuckles
looks like you've been shadow boxing...Copy !req
461. with a concrete wall.Copy !req
462. We can wait for Randall
to regain consciousness...Copy !req
463. but we thought you might want us to
hear your side of the story first.Copy !req
464. I didn't mean to hurt him.Copy !req
465. Okay. Go on.Copy !req
466. Friday's the deadline...Copy !req
467. he set for
signing the custody papers.Copy !req
468. I couldn't hand
my daughter over...Copy !req
469. to the man
who was molesting her.Copy !req
470. Jamie said I broke the deal...Copy !req
471. and Randall
was pressing charges.Copy !req
472. For the assault.
Yes.Copy !req
473. I went to his office
to see if we can talk.Copy !req
474. But the guard
stopped me at the lobby.Copy !req
475. So I waited for him
by the car.Copy !req
476. For how long?Copy !req
477. He didn't come out
till almost midnight.Copy !req
478. When he saw me...Copy !req
479. he started yelling...Copy !req
480. saying that if I
didn't leave him alone...Copy !req
481. he was gonna
charge me with harassment.Copy !req
482. What did you do?Copy !req
483. I begged him not to do this.Copy !req
484. I mean, with my record,
you know, I could be deported.Copy !req
485. So, he listen?Copy !req
486. He laughed.Copy !req
487. He said that Jamie's mother...Copy !req
488. knew people
at the State Department.Copy !req
489. That I was already
as good as gone.Copy !req
490. And then what?Copy !req
491. Next thing I know...Copy !req
492. I was on top of him...Copy !req
493. hitting him again and again...Copy !req
494. until I realized that...Copy !req
495. he wasn't moving anymore.Copy !req
496. I found a pay phone,
I called 911.Copy !req
497. I went home.Copy !req
498. And I changed my clothes.Copy !req
499. I wanted to see my daughter
just one more time, you know?Copy !req
500. Before I turned myself in.Copy !req
501. So.Copy !req
502. What happens now?Copy !req
503. It's hard to say.Copy !req
504. You did a real number
on him, Denny.Copy !req
505. No worse than
what he did to my baby.Copy !req
506. He should have
let the system work for him.Copy !req
507. His experience with the system
hasn't exactly been encouraging.Copy !req
508. Hardly an excuse.Copy !req
509. I'm just saying,
"What if it was your kid?"Copy !req
510. Okay. Thanks.
That was the lab.Copy !req
511. We got a make
on the nylon bristle.Copy !req
512. Traced it to a plant in Akron
that manufactures hairbrushes.Copy !req
513. So that hair sample in the
rape kit came from a brush?Copy !req
514. And it doesn't
belong to Randall.Copy !req
515. DNA doesn't match.Copy !req
516. Denny stomped the wrong guy.Copy !req
517. He was
in the right neighborhood.Copy !req
518. Preliminary analysis tagged
someone in Randall's bloodline.Copy !req
519. I don't understand.Copy !req
520. I know. I'm sorry, Jamie...Copy !req
521. but these detectives have a job
to do. But we're the victims here.Copy !req
522. My husband, my daughter.
Haven't we suffered enough?Copy !req
523. Yes, and I know it's hard. But why don't
we just go downstairs for a minute. Okay?Copy !req
524. Hey, what the hell
are you doing? That's mine.Copy !req
525. None of this
would be happening...Copy !req
526. if that bitch hadn't sucked
my dad into her crappy life.Copy !req
527. That go for Emily, too?
All she does is cry.Copy !req
528. I bet that gets on your
nerves? Damn straight.Copy !req
529. That why you let her have it?
Have what?Copy !req
530. Come on, Justin, we know you
hurt her. I didn't touch her.Copy !req
531. Well, then, who did?
I don't know. Maybe she did.Copy !req
532. Who is she?
The bitch.Copy !req
533. With your hairbrush?Copy !req
534. All I know is, everything
was fine until she showed up.Copy !req
535. Now it all sucks. Why can't they
both just go away and leave us alone?Copy !req
536. Sometimes I'd
come home to find her...Copy !req
537. in her room crying, and Justin
just standing there watching.Copy !req
538. I knew he resented the
attention Randall gave her...Copy !req
539. but I never dreamed
he was hurting her.Copy !req
540. He said that you and Randall
argued about her.Copy !req
541. If we argued at all, it was about
Justin's attitude toward Emily.Copy !req
542. Was Justin alone with her
the night she was injured?Copy !req
543. After I put Emily to bed,
I took Michael...Copy !req
544. to the drug store to refill
his asthma medication.Copy !req
545. The line was so long, it
took us an hour to get home.Copy !req
546. And where was your husband?Copy !req
547. At the office. He
didn't come home until late.Copy !req
548. I looked in on her
before I went to bed.Copy !req
549. She looked so peaceful.Copy !req
550. I thought she was sleeping.Copy !req
551. How could I be so blind?Copy !req
552. The lab scored a direct DNA hit
with the hair from Justin's brush.Copy !req
553. Could explain why his father
didn't want to give a sample.Copy !req
554. Why?
Do you think he knew?Copy !req
555. Might have suspected.Copy !req
556. Where are we with the boy?Copy !req
557. He's one angry kid, but he
isn't ready to give it up.Copy !req
558. What do you say we toss him
in a cell for a while...Copy !req
559. see if that
doesn't take the edge off?Copy !req
560. Are you sure there's
nothing else I can do?Copy !req
561. I can write out my statement, if
you'd like. No, that's all right.Copy !req
562. We've got it all on tape...Copy !req
563. and we can take care of the
paperwork in the morning.Copy !req
564. Okay. Thank you.Copy !req
565. Good night.
Good night.Copy !req
566. She seems
almost disappointed.Copy !req
567. Her husband may never walk,
her daughter's in a coma...Copy !req
568. her stepson
is going to jail...Copy !req
569. and her ex-boyfriend's
facing deportation.Copy !req
570. She's not disappointed, Munch.
She's numb.Copy !req
571. You don't look convinced.Copy !req
572. It's the small things.Copy !req
573. For example, if Emily had been
showing abuse symptoms for months...Copy !req
574. how come we haven't turned up
a single hospital record?Copy !req
575. Then there's this.Copy !req
576. It's an interesting idea
for a key chain.Copy !req
577. Found it in Emily's room.
Who's Erica Smith?Copy !req
578. Nobody at Emily's school
or dance class has any idea.Copy !req
579. Think there's
something to it?Copy !req
580. One way to find out.Copy !req
581. There it is, Erica Smith,
admitted on May 20th...Copy !req
582. complaining of
vaginal bleeding.Copy !req
583. A day before the school
filed its abuse report.Copy !req
584. The attending prescribed
an antibacterial ointment...Copy !req
585. and the girl was sent home.
Didn't anyone here suspect abuse?Copy !req
586. The ACS was notified, but we never heard
from the mother or the agency again.Copy !req
587. You got a home address?
Yeah. Right there.Copy !req
588. If that's her address, she's living
in the middle of the East River.Copy !req
589. You thinking what I'm
thinking? We've been had.Copy !req
590. We checked the X-rays and blood
type from the medical records...Copy !req
591. against Emily's,
and they're one and the same.Copy !req
592. We also found matches at four
separate clinics and hospitals.Copy !req
593. In each case, she used a
different alias and paid in cash...Copy !req
594. so there'd be no paper trail.Copy !req
595. She could have
been covering for her husband.Copy !req
596. Or Justin.Copy !req
597. We've been assuming the attacker
is male because of the sexual abuse.Copy !req
598. But suppose
it was Jamie all along.Copy !req
599. It's possible these injuries
aren't even sexual.Copy !req
600. It's an interesting tactic.Copy !req
601. Abuse the kid,
pin it on the ex...Copy !req
602. Dad goes to jail,
Mom wins custody by default.Copy !req
603. And if her daughter
dies in the process?Copy !req
604. Bonus.
Excuse me?Copy !req
605. The kid is nothing more
than a means to an end.Copy !req
606. Which is?Copy !req
607. Attention. Sympathy. Love.Copy !req
608. People who've
suffered abuse in childhood...Copy !req
609. tend to repeat the pattern
with their own children.Copy !req
610. This is an extreme case
because of the rage.Copy !req
611. But, in the end,
she's just wrapping herself...Copy !req
612. in the warm
cloak of victimhood.Copy !req
613. Yeah, but if she's looking for
sympathy, why use the aliases?Copy !req
614. To control the outcome.Copy !req
615. Rape kit analysis would have
excluded Denny from the get-go.Copy !req
616. Leaving her
without a scapegoat.Copy !req
617. Till Justin showed up.Copy !req
618. Justin, we know this is
a pain in the ass for you.Copy !req
619. Just meet us halfway,
maybe we can help you out.Copy !req
620. Whatever.Copy !req
621. You said that you didn't
hurt your stepsister.Copy !req
622. I didn't.
But your stepmother said...Copy !req
623. that you were the only one that
was alone with her that night.Copy !req
624. Yeah, for about two minutes.Copy !req
625. But Jamie said
she was gone for an hour.Copy !req
626. Maybe she was.Copy !req
627. All right, that's enough.
Enough. Sit down.Copy !req
628. Very clearly,
we are trying...Copy !req
629. to get you out of here.
You understand that?Copy !req
630. Now, you keep talking in circles,
you're gonna be spending...Copy !req
631. your varsity years
behind bars.Copy !req
632. Look, I don't know
how long she was gone.Copy !req
633. All I know is, once she was
out the door, I took off.Copy !req
634. Where did you go?Copy !req
635. I was bored as hell, so I
went for a run in the park.Copy !req
636. Okay. Where?
Down the ice rink...Copy !req
637. over the baseball diamonds,
and back.Copy !req
638. Anybody see you?Copy !req
639. I'm sure they did,
but I didn't take names.Copy !req
640. How long were you gone?Copy !req
641. I don't know. An hour.Copy !req
642. Was your stepmother there
when you got home?Copy !req
643. Chewed me out
for leaving that brat alone.Copy !req
644. I mean, the kid was asleep.
What difference did it make?Copy !req
645. If he's telling the truth...Copy !req
646. Jamie could have hurt
the girl before he got home.Copy !req
647. Without proof, it's just more finger-pointing.
We need corroborating testimony.Copy !req
648. Too bad our only other witnesses
are either mute or in a coma.Copy !req
649. What about the druggist?Copy !req
650. Jamie said that she went
to fill a prescription.Copy !req
651. She didn't give a name, but if the
kid's got a chronic condition...Copy !req
652. maybe she has an account
in the neighborhood.Copy !req
653. Well, that's a start.Copy !req
654. But we need someone
closer to home.Copy !req
655. Well, the neighbors
were not helpful.Copy !req
656. What about that nosey doorman that jacked
us when we served the search warrant?Copy !req
657. He said that he didn't see
anything out of the ordinary.Copy !req
658. Maybe you didn't
ask the right questions.Copy !req
659. First the little girl,
then her husband.Copy !req
660. My heart goes out to her.Copy !req
661. Do you remember seeing Jamie
heading out with her four-year-old...Copy !req
662. on Sunday night?
Come to think of it...Copy !req
663. kid was breathing heavy.
He's got asthma, you know.Copy !req
664. I offered to flag a cab,
but she said they were...Copy !req
665. just going down the block.Copy !req
666. How about the older boy?Copy !req
667. Justin?
Yeah.Copy !req
668. That one's got an attitude. Came
storming out right after Jamie...Copy !req
669. toward the park. Told him it
ain't safe for a kid after dark...Copy !req
670. but would he listen?
You got a time?Copy !req
671. Around 9:00. I was just
about to take my break.Copy !req
672. And do you remember
what time Jamie got back?Copy !req
673. Didn't see her.
But she could've walked in...Copy !req
674. while I was taking a powder.Copy !req
675. Excuse me. Where's Fin?Copy !req
676. We split up to cover more
ground. You find the drugstore?Copy !req
677. Pharmacist checked Jamie's receipt. It
was time-coded 9:09 p. m., after closing.Copy !req
678. But she called and made such
a stink that he waited for her.Copy !req
679. He said she was in and out in
five minutes. How far a walk?Copy !req
680. Five minutes.
Ten minutes with a kid in tow.Copy !req
681. That puts her back here 9:20,
9:30.Copy !req
682. What you learn from the doorman?
Couldn't place Jamie, but remembers...Copy !req
683. Justin getting back
after 10:00.Copy !req
684. Plenty of time
to do serious damage.Copy !req
685. You're circling
the building...Copy !req
686. but unless you place her in the
apartment at the time of the assault...Copy !req
687. you don't have a case.Copy !req
688. What about the hospital fraud?Copy !req
689. Well, it's not fraud
if she paid the bills.Copy !req
690. Consciousness of guilt?Copy !req
691. Even if you can prove Jamie
was the one who took Emily...Copy !req
692. to those facilities, you can't
bootstrap aggravated child abuse...Copy !req
693. to her conduct without
a more definitive causal link.Copy !req
694. You remember how Skoda said
Jamie has this need for attention?Copy !req
695. Well, I gave her my pager number in
case she needed somebody to talk to...Copy !req
696. and guess
who's been paging me?Copy !req
697. She's feeling needy.Copy !req
698. If Skoda's right,
it's more than need.Copy !req
699. I think she's jonesing
for a sympathy fix.Copy !req
700. And what do you propose?Copy !req
701. Feed the junkie.Copy !req
702. Thanks for coming down.Copy !req
703. I just want to help
in whatever way I can.Copy !req
704. As you know, we're holding Justin
until he can be arraigned...Copy !req
705. and then we'll release him
into your custody...Copy !req
706. assuming you want to take him.Copy !req
707. I don't know. He scares me.Copy !req
708. I'm sure he just hurt Emily
to get back at me.Copy !req
709. Must be hard to be an outcast
in your own house.Copy !req
710. You don't know the half of it.Copy !req
711. Actually, I do.Copy !req
712. This is my file.Copy !req
713. I thought it was sealed.Copy !req
714. I have a friend
in Children's Services.Copy !req
715. She remembered you.
How?Copy !req
716. She remembered how nervous her
superiors were about investigating...Copy !req
717. an ambassador for sexually
abusing his 11-year-old daughter.Copy !req
718. It must have been
a very painful time for you.Copy !req
719. Yes, it was.Copy !req
720. How did your mother take it?Copy !req
721. She was jealous, because Daddy
couldn't stand to touch her.Copy !req
722. So she sent me away to boarding
school. I begged her not to...Copy !req
723. but what Mother wants,
Mother gets.Copy !req
724. She abandoned you, Jamie.Copy !req
725. I survived.Copy !req
726. But still. Must be hard facing that
kind of rejection from your own daughter.Copy !req
727. What do you mean?Copy !req
728. Emily came out of her coma
a few hours ago.Copy !req
729. She told us everything.Copy !req
730. She wants to see you.Copy !req
731. But first you and I have a couple
of details we need to straighten out.Copy !req
732. What details?Copy !req
733. Let's start with the
hairbrush. It's Justin's.Copy !req
734. Yes, but we
got a partial print...Copy !req
735. and with Emily's testimony...
Emily's a liar.Copy !req
736. Now why would she lie? Her
father poisoned her against me.Copy !req
737. It's been very painful,
very hurtful.Copy !req
738. I know, Jamie.Copy !req
739. Been carrying the pain
long enough.Copy !req
740. Just tell me
your side of the story...Copy !req
741. and you can start to heal.Copy !req
742. We were driving home and
she wouldn't stop crying...Copy !req
743. so I pulled over
to try and talk to her.Copy !req
744. But when she told me she and her
daddy were leaving me forever...Copy !req
745. I pulled her out of the car and
she hit her head on the curb.Copy !req
746. How?
She fell.Copy !req
747. Come on, Jamie.Copy !req
748. I didn't shove her hard.Copy !req
749. I just wanted her
to stop whining...Copy !req
750. so I could talk to her.Copy !req
751. Did that stop her?Copy !req
752. It was the first time
she was quiet all day.Copy !req
753. And she was sleepy.Copy !req
754. So when I got home, I put her to bed
and Michael and I went to the drugstore.Copy !req
755. But when we came back...Copy !req
756. she was crying again.Copy !req
757. I told her...Copy !req
758. how important it was
for her to be a good girl...Copy !req
759. so that her new daddy could love
her, too, but she wouldn't stop.Copy !req
760. It was like she was
doing it to spite me.Copy !req
761. Is that why
you used the hairbrush?Copy !req
762. I had to teach her discipline. My
mother used a hairbrush to teach me...Copy !req
763. but Emily just kept screaming louder
and louder, what was I supposed to do?Copy !req
764. The only thing you could do.Copy !req
765. I threw her against the wall.Copy !req
766. Then what?Copy !req
767. She finally stopped.Copy !req
768. And then I
tucked her into bed...Copy !req
769. kissed her on her cheek, and
then I told her I loved her.Copy !req
770. I just wanted her
to stop crying.Copy !req
771. Was that too much to ask?Copy !req
772. It's good work, John.Copy !req
773. Took a chance with that bluff
about Emily coming out of her coma.Copy !req
774. I'm not sure what we would have
done if Jamie had pressed to see her.Copy !req
775. She didn't care
about the kids.Copy !req
776. How did you know?Copy !req
777. We searched her house...Copy !req
778. I looked
at that four-year-old...Copy !req
779. flashed on a little girl that used
to live across the street from us...Copy !req
780. in our old neighborhood
on the Lower East Side.Copy !req
781. She had that same look
in her eyes.Copy !req
782. What look?Copy !req
783. Sad, lost.Copy !req
784. She used to stand on her porch every
afternoon when I came home from school.Copy !req
785. Like she was waiting for me.Copy !req
786. Sometimes, she'd have
a black eye or a bloody lip.Copy !req
787. Never said anything to me.Copy !req
788. Just looked at me like she was
trying to tell me something.Copy !req
789. But I was too full of my own
teenage crap to pay any attention.Copy !req
790. One day, I came home...Copy !req
791. she wasn't there.Copy !req
792. Found out her mother threw her
through a plate glass window.Copy !req
793. Went to the funeral.Copy !req
794. Saw her dad.Copy !req
795. It's the first time
I saw a grown man cry.Copy !req
796. What happened to her mother?Copy !req
797. They sent her to a sanitarium.Copy !req
798. She told my mother...Copy !req
799. she didn't understand
what all the fuss was about.Copy !req
800. She was the one
that had to get a new window.Copy !req
801. Months later, I'd come home...Copy !req
802. and I'd look up at the porch.Copy !req
803. I swear, I saw that little girl standing
there, looking at me with that look.Copy !req
804. I almost let her down again.Copy !req
805. "But on you will go
though the weather be foulCopy !req
806. "On you will go
though your enemies prowlCopy !req
807. "On you will go
though the Hakken-Kraks howlCopy !req
808. "Onward up many a frightening
creek though your arms may get soreCopy !req
809. "And your sneakers may leakCopy !req
810. "On and on you will hike
and I know you'll hike farCopy !req
811. "And face up to your problems
whatever they are"Copy !req