1 00:00:01,635 --> 00:00:03,537 (male announcer) In the criminal justice system, 2 00:00:03,571 --> 00:00:06,374 sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. 3 00:00:06,407 --> 00:00:08,576 In New York City, the dedicated detectives 4 00:00:08,609 --> 00:00:10,478 who investigate these vicious felonies 5 00:00:10,511 --> 00:00:12,113 are members of an elite squad 6 00:00:12,146 --> 00:00:13,747 known as the Special Victims Unit. 7 00:00:13,781 --> 00:00:14,815 These are their stories. 8 00:00:17,285 --> 00:00:19,053 Why didn't Annie's parents call Mommy to come get you? 9 00:00:19,087 --> 00:00:20,421 They did. 10 00:00:20,454 --> 00:00:22,423 The phone just kept on ringing and ringing. 11 00:00:22,456 --> 00:00:23,724 She must be asleep. 12 00:00:23,757 --> 00:00:27,128 When are you moving back in with us? 13 00:00:29,663 --> 00:00:32,333 Soon...I hope, Tommy. 14 00:00:32,366 --> 00:00:35,603 Even though we're not together right now, 15 00:00:35,636 --> 00:00:37,838 Mommy and I love you very, very much. 16 00:00:37,871 --> 00:00:39,173 You know that, don't you? 17 00:00:39,207 --> 00:00:41,275 Mm-hmm. 18 00:00:41,309 --> 00:00:43,777 Can you stay over tonight? 19 00:00:48,116 --> 00:00:50,484 I'll make you a deal. 20 00:00:50,518 --> 00:00:53,421 You go straight to bed, and I'll tuck you in, 21 00:00:53,454 --> 00:00:55,089 and read you your favorite story. 22 00:00:55,123 --> 00:00:56,324 What do you say? 23 00:00:56,357 --> 00:00:57,658 Okay. Okay. 24 00:00:57,691 --> 00:00:59,527 Ugh! Ah! 25 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:00,594 [gasp] 26 00:01:00,628 --> 00:01:03,231 [gasp] 27 00:01:03,264 --> 00:01:05,133 Mommy! 28 00:01:07,435 --> 00:01:08,536 Wake up! Mommy! 29 00:01:08,569 --> 00:01:12,206 Mommy! Mommy! 30 00:01:22,550 --> 00:01:25,553 [alarm] 31 00:01:28,656 --> 00:01:31,759 The father, Sidney Truex, is still unconscious at Mercy. 32 00:01:31,792 --> 00:01:33,227 Sidney Truex, the mob attorney? 33 00:01:33,261 --> 00:01:34,362 That's right. 34 00:01:34,395 --> 00:01:35,563 What happened? 35 00:01:35,596 --> 00:01:37,465 Blunt force trauma to the head. 36 00:01:37,498 --> 00:01:39,200 Security company said they found him on the floor 37 00:01:39,233 --> 00:01:40,834 when they responded to the panic button. 38 00:01:40,868 --> 00:01:42,603 House alarm didn't go off? 39 00:01:42,636 --> 00:01:44,305 Wasn't activated. 40 00:01:44,338 --> 00:01:47,275 Either Mr. Truex turned it off, or his wife forgot to set it. 41 00:01:47,308 --> 00:01:48,576 Dispatch said she was raped? 42 00:01:48,609 --> 00:01:52,480 Raped, sodomized, and bludgeoned. 43 00:01:52,513 --> 00:01:55,516 She slowly bled to death. 44 00:01:55,549 --> 00:01:56,584 Any DNA? 45 00:01:56,617 --> 00:02:00,288 Not with the way he assaulted her. 46 00:02:00,321 --> 00:02:02,823 He used this candlestick to penetrate her. 47 00:02:02,856 --> 00:02:05,559 Guy's got anger issues. Forensics? 48 00:02:05,593 --> 00:02:06,794 Partial bloody print. 49 00:02:06,827 --> 00:02:09,730 CSU says it's from a tennis shoe. 50 00:02:09,763 --> 00:02:11,365 Does anyone else live here? 51 00:02:11,399 --> 00:02:12,700 A daughter, Charlotte. 16. 52 00:02:12,733 --> 00:02:15,603 But she's not home. 53 00:02:15,636 --> 00:02:17,538 At 1:00 in the morning. 54 00:02:17,571 --> 00:02:19,407 The son, Tommy, says she was spending the weekend 55 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:20,541 at a friend's house. 56 00:02:20,574 --> 00:02:21,742 Okay, Tommy see the attacker? 57 00:02:21,775 --> 00:02:23,511 He's pretty traumatized. 58 00:02:23,544 --> 00:02:25,479 Patrol held off interviewing him till you got here. 59 00:02:25,513 --> 00:02:27,781 Where is he now? 60 00:02:30,751 --> 00:02:32,786 [knocking lightly] 61 00:02:32,820 --> 00:02:35,923 Hi, Tommy. 62 00:02:35,956 --> 00:02:39,493 My name is Olivia. I'm a police officer. 63 00:02:42,930 --> 00:02:45,266 I'm here to help you. 64 00:02:47,401 --> 00:02:49,169 Can you tell me what happened tonight? 65 00:02:54,007 --> 00:02:56,777 Tommy. 66 00:02:56,810 --> 00:02:59,513 I know you're scared, 67 00:02:59,547 --> 00:03:01,782 but I need you to be a really big boy 68 00:03:01,815 --> 00:03:04,252 and tell me what you saw tonight, okay? 69 00:03:06,454 --> 00:03:09,490 Monster hurt my daddy. 70 00:04:02,743 --> 00:04:04,545 What, no top hat? 71 00:04:04,578 --> 00:04:05,579 Councilman Baker's daughter got married tonight. 72 00:04:05,613 --> 00:04:07,981 Chief of Detectives paged me out of the after-party 73 00:04:08,015 --> 00:04:10,050 for answers on the Truex homicide. 74 00:04:10,083 --> 00:04:11,519 You can tell him it was personal. 75 00:04:11,552 --> 00:04:13,787 I don't think Maura Truex was a random target. 76 00:04:13,821 --> 00:04:15,022 (Cragen) Dissatisfied client of her husband 77 00:04:15,055 --> 00:04:16,390 sending a message? 78 00:04:16,424 --> 00:04:17,891 Or the perp was after Sidney 79 00:04:17,925 --> 00:04:19,493 and didn't know that he and the wife were separated. 80 00:04:19,527 --> 00:04:21,028 And we're sure somebody didn't have a grudge 81 00:04:21,061 --> 00:04:23,030 against Mrs. Truex? 82 00:04:23,063 --> 00:04:24,865 (Benson) Maura was a sales rep for Tauscher-Leto Pharmaceuticals. 83 00:04:24,898 --> 00:04:26,734 It's not exactly a high-risk line of work. 84 00:04:26,767 --> 00:04:27,801 Hard to run a background on the family 85 00:04:27,835 --> 00:04:29,437 this early on a Saturday. 86 00:04:29,470 --> 00:04:31,472 Daughter should be able to fill in the blanks. 87 00:04:31,505 --> 00:04:32,806 Nope. Charlotte's still MIA. 88 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:34,375 Family phone book was in the kitchen. 89 00:04:34,408 --> 00:04:35,576 We're calling around looking for the friend 90 00:04:35,609 --> 00:04:36,944 she's staying with. 91 00:04:36,977 --> 00:04:38,512 I'll call the CO at the one-five. 92 00:04:38,546 --> 00:04:40,914 Have him post an officer outside Truex's hospital room. 93 00:04:40,948 --> 00:04:42,783 Got something from the address book. 94 00:04:42,816 --> 00:04:45,085 Family friend says Charlotte usually spends her weekend 95 00:04:45,118 --> 00:04:47,087 with her best friend Jennifer Brown. 96 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:48,589 I don't wanna call with this kinda news. 97 00:04:48,622 --> 00:04:51,291 Why don't we break it to Charlotte in person, huh? 98 00:04:54,628 --> 00:04:56,564 (Benson) Hi, we'd like to speak with Charlotte Truex. 99 00:04:56,597 --> 00:04:58,866 Sorry, Charlotte left before I woke up. 100 00:04:58,899 --> 00:05:01,001 Must've been pretty early, Jennifer. 101 00:05:01,034 --> 00:05:02,370 Where'd she go? 102 00:05:02,403 --> 00:05:04,572 Home, I guess. 103 00:05:04,605 --> 00:05:06,474 Jen, who is it? 104 00:05:06,507 --> 00:05:07,541 Police. 105 00:05:07,575 --> 00:05:09,343 We're looking for Charlotte Truex. 106 00:05:09,377 --> 00:05:11,445 We understand she was spending the weekend here. 107 00:05:11,479 --> 00:05:12,713 Did you lie to these detectives, Jennifer? 108 00:05:12,746 --> 00:05:14,114 Mom! She hasn't been here. 109 00:05:14,147 --> 00:05:15,683 That girl is no longer allowed in my home. 110 00:05:15,716 --> 00:05:17,385 And why is that? 111 00:05:17,418 --> 00:05:18,819 Charlotte used to be a nice girl 112 00:05:18,852 --> 00:05:20,921 until she started lying and skipping school. 113 00:05:20,954 --> 00:05:22,490 I'm sure she's on drugs. 114 00:05:22,523 --> 00:05:24,425 (Jennifer) Mom, that's so unfair! 115 00:05:24,458 --> 00:05:26,059 Stop making excuses for her. Charlotte's not your friend. 116 00:05:26,093 --> 00:05:27,828 She's just using you to cover for her. 117 00:05:27,861 --> 00:05:29,997 Thank you for your help. 118 00:05:30,030 --> 00:05:32,400 You're welcome. 119 00:05:32,433 --> 00:05:34,001 Wait! 120 00:05:34,034 --> 00:05:35,603 Charlotte's not a bad person. 121 00:05:35,636 --> 00:05:37,037 It's her mom. 122 00:05:37,070 --> 00:05:39,707 What about her mom? 123 00:05:39,740 --> 00:05:41,008 Charlotte's been going with this guy Ryan Bedford. 124 00:05:41,041 --> 00:05:42,643 Her mom hates him, won't let her be with him, 125 00:05:42,676 --> 00:05:44,745 and that's why Charlotte has to lie. 126 00:05:44,778 --> 00:05:46,714 Where does this Ryan Bedford live? 127 00:05:46,747 --> 00:05:49,249 The Packard on First Avenue. 128 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:54,455 Can we come in? 129 00:05:54,488 --> 00:05:55,789 Sure, man. Is everything okay? 130 00:05:55,823 --> 00:05:57,558 We're looking for Charlotte. 131 00:05:57,591 --> 00:05:58,592 Why? What's wrong? 132 00:05:58,626 --> 00:05:59,860 She here? 133 00:05:59,893 --> 00:06:01,895 Am I under arrest? 134 00:06:01,929 --> 00:06:02,996 Should you be? 135 00:06:03,030 --> 00:06:05,032 No. 136 00:06:05,065 --> 00:06:06,834 Look, I know her parents don't like me, 137 00:06:06,867 --> 00:06:08,769 but she's 16 and I'm 19-- that's not a crime. 138 00:06:08,802 --> 00:06:09,903 Where are your parents? 139 00:06:09,937 --> 00:06:12,105 St. Barts. 140 00:06:12,139 --> 00:06:14,542 So you and Charlotte have the whole place to yourselves? 141 00:06:14,575 --> 00:06:16,009 Tell Mrs. Tru Char's fine, 142 00:06:16,043 --> 00:06:17,445 and I'm gonna talk her into going home. 143 00:06:17,478 --> 00:06:19,613 Actually, we'll talk to her ourselves. 144 00:06:21,949 --> 00:06:24,084 Char, wake up. The police are here. 145 00:06:27,688 --> 00:06:29,857 Oh, great! 146 00:06:29,890 --> 00:06:31,425 Let me guess. 147 00:06:31,459 --> 00:06:34,027 My parents sent you here to freak me out. 148 00:06:34,061 --> 00:06:35,863 Charlotte, there's been an accident. 149 00:06:35,896 --> 00:06:37,097 Yeah, right. 150 00:06:37,130 --> 00:06:38,766 This is just one of her stupid tricks. 151 00:06:38,799 --> 00:06:40,468 She's really getting desperate. 152 00:06:40,501 --> 00:06:43,170 Charlotte, please get dressed and come with us. 153 00:06:43,203 --> 00:06:45,038 No, I'm not going anywhere. 154 00:06:45,072 --> 00:06:47,140 Your parents were assaulted last night. 155 00:06:47,174 --> 00:06:49,176 That's why we're here. Get dressed. 156 00:06:49,209 --> 00:06:50,844 Are you kidding me? 157 00:06:50,878 --> 00:06:53,046 Your father's in the hospital. Your mother's dead. 158 00:06:56,950 --> 00:06:58,919 Um, look. I'll go with you. 159 00:06:58,952 --> 00:07:00,220 You shouldn't be alone. 160 00:07:00,253 --> 00:07:04,157 No, stay. I gotta be with my brother. 161 00:07:06,794 --> 00:07:08,696 (Charlotte) Tommy? 162 00:07:08,729 --> 00:07:10,197 Tommy, it's okay. I'm here. No! Get away! 163 00:07:10,230 --> 00:07:11,231 Get away from me! 164 00:07:11,264 --> 00:07:13,467 What's wrong with Tommy? 165 00:07:13,501 --> 00:07:15,168 He saw your father being attacked. 166 00:07:15,202 --> 00:07:16,737 He's traumatized. 167 00:07:16,770 --> 00:07:19,507 Will he be all right? 168 00:07:19,540 --> 00:07:20,774 It will take time. 169 00:07:22,142 --> 00:07:24,478 Charlotte, 170 00:07:24,512 --> 00:07:27,548 um, are there any relatives that you and Tommy could stay with? 171 00:07:27,581 --> 00:07:28,616 My Aunt Amy lives in Riverdale. 172 00:07:28,649 --> 00:07:30,183 Tommy really likes her. 173 00:07:30,217 --> 00:07:33,887 I'll set that up as soon as I go check on him. 174 00:07:33,921 --> 00:07:35,222 How's my dad? 175 00:07:35,255 --> 00:07:36,557 He's still in surgery. 176 00:07:36,590 --> 00:07:37,625 We won't know anything for a few hours. 177 00:07:37,658 --> 00:07:40,861 We're trying to figure out what happened last night. 178 00:07:40,894 --> 00:07:42,663 Anybody been threatening your family? 179 00:07:42,696 --> 00:07:44,164 Are you kidding me? 180 00:07:44,197 --> 00:07:47,568 Half the city hates my dad because of the cases he tries. 181 00:07:47,601 --> 00:07:49,703 He even had to hire a private investigator, 182 00:07:49,737 --> 00:07:50,804 because of all the stuff that kept happening. 183 00:07:50,838 --> 00:07:53,040 What kinda stuff? 184 00:07:53,073 --> 00:07:56,710 Um, curses spray painted on our car, 185 00:07:56,744 --> 00:07:58,812 garbage spread out in our garden. 186 00:07:58,846 --> 00:08:00,914 (Investigator) Bag of crap set on fire on the stoop. 187 00:08:00,948 --> 00:08:03,851 Swastikas on the front doorstep. 188 00:08:03,884 --> 00:08:07,254 And a few days later, cat disappears. 189 00:08:07,287 --> 00:08:10,958 Lizzie shows up in pieces. 190 00:08:10,991 --> 00:08:13,060 You name it, they did it. 191 00:08:13,093 --> 00:08:14,427 Sidney moved out to protect the family. 192 00:08:14,461 --> 00:08:16,830 (Benson) You have any suspects for the harassment? 193 00:08:16,864 --> 00:08:18,098 One good one. 194 00:08:18,131 --> 00:08:21,835 Luccio Ricci. Real sick bastard. 195 00:08:21,869 --> 00:08:23,203 (Stabler) He one of Truex's clients? 196 00:08:23,236 --> 00:08:24,805 No, his father was. 197 00:08:24,838 --> 00:08:26,306 Sidney lost a big racketeering case. 198 00:08:26,339 --> 00:08:28,141 Feds came in, took everything the Riccis owned. 199 00:08:28,175 --> 00:08:32,312 Luccio blamed Sidney, claimed he'd get revenge. 200 00:08:32,345 --> 00:08:34,715 Here. Take a look at this--Hate mail. 201 00:08:40,187 --> 00:08:42,189 "I'll burn your house down where you sleep. 202 00:08:42,222 --> 00:08:44,224 "I'll make you watch while I screw your wife 203 00:08:44,257 --> 00:08:45,258 "and little daughter. 204 00:08:45,292 --> 00:08:46,259 I'll snatch your son." 205 00:08:46,293 --> 00:08:47,961 You can prove that this was Ricci? 206 00:08:47,995 --> 00:08:49,329 The letters are all unsigned. 207 00:08:49,362 --> 00:08:51,031 But I come took 'em to a handwriting analyst. 208 00:08:51,064 --> 00:08:52,866 They match a sample I took from Ricci's trash. 209 00:08:52,900 --> 00:08:54,635 That's enough to make an arrest. You take it to the police? 210 00:08:54,668 --> 00:08:57,304 I wanted to. Sidney wouldn't let me. 211 00:08:57,337 --> 00:08:58,972 Felt bad the old man got convicted. 212 00:08:59,006 --> 00:09:00,808 Didn't wanna jam up the son. 213 00:09:00,841 --> 00:09:02,242 Where does he spend his time? 214 00:09:02,275 --> 00:09:04,845 San Marco Hall. Little Italy. 215 00:09:04,878 --> 00:09:07,648 (Stabler) That's Ricci, hard at work. 216 00:09:07,681 --> 00:09:09,950 I'm out. 217 00:09:09,983 --> 00:09:11,318 How can I help you? 218 00:09:11,351 --> 00:09:12,820 We need to talk, Luccio. 219 00:09:12,853 --> 00:09:14,287 About what? 220 00:09:14,321 --> 00:09:16,824 Sidney Truex. 221 00:09:16,857 --> 00:09:19,192 That scumbag lawyer? 222 00:09:19,226 --> 00:09:21,629 Charged us a fortune for losing my dad's case. 223 00:09:21,662 --> 00:09:24,865 You still managed to send him some nice thank-yous. 224 00:09:24,898 --> 00:09:26,600 I never hurt a hair on that lawyer's head. 225 00:09:26,634 --> 00:09:27,901 You just threatened him and his family. 226 00:09:27,935 --> 00:09:29,302 I was just playing. 227 00:09:29,336 --> 00:09:30,938 You did 18 months for playing. 228 00:09:30,971 --> 00:09:32,139 Jury calls it aggravated assault. 229 00:09:32,172 --> 00:09:33,306 I was framed. 230 00:09:33,340 --> 00:09:35,208 Must run in the family. [cell phone ringing] 231 00:09:35,242 --> 00:09:37,044 So what's the problem, Luccio? 232 00:09:37,077 --> 00:09:39,279 You just going crazy thinking 233 00:09:39,312 --> 00:09:41,314 of this stupid, incompetent lawyer 234 00:09:41,348 --> 00:09:43,651 and his family in that fancy house of theirs 235 00:09:43,684 --> 00:09:45,753 free to go wherever they want, do whatever they want? 236 00:09:45,786 --> 00:09:47,354 I never did nothing to Truex or his family. 237 00:09:47,387 --> 00:09:48,722 Ask him. 238 00:09:48,756 --> 00:09:50,323 We will. 239 00:09:50,357 --> 00:09:52,693 Sidney just woke up. 240 00:09:57,230 --> 00:09:59,132 (Benson) Tommy wasn't hurt. 241 00:09:59,166 --> 00:10:02,235 Oh, thank God. 242 00:10:02,269 --> 00:10:04,672 We heard about the vandalism at your house. 243 00:10:04,705 --> 00:10:07,240 The threats, hate mail. 244 00:10:07,274 --> 00:10:12,145 You're talking about, um, Luccio Ricci. 245 00:10:12,179 --> 00:10:13,246 He's been threatening us ever since... 246 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:18,652 I lost his father's case. 247 00:10:18,686 --> 00:10:22,355 When I moved out, he, um... 248 00:10:22,389 --> 00:10:24,291 he stopped harassing my family. 249 00:10:28,762 --> 00:10:31,064 Why? You think he killed my wife? 250 00:10:31,098 --> 00:10:34,768 Do you? 251 00:10:34,802 --> 00:10:37,304 I don't remember. 252 00:10:37,337 --> 00:10:40,207 Docs say I may have some temporary memory loss. 253 00:10:42,309 --> 00:10:44,678 Why don't you try to take us through what you do remember 254 00:10:44,712 --> 00:10:46,714 when you and Tommy came home last night? 255 00:10:46,747 --> 00:10:48,115 Let's see. 256 00:10:48,148 --> 00:10:51,018 I, um... 257 00:10:51,051 --> 00:10:55,923 I remember walking Tommy upstairs to his bedroom. 258 00:10:55,956 --> 00:11:00,460 And I felt this horrible pain 259 00:11:00,493 --> 00:11:02,963 in my head. 260 00:11:02,996 --> 00:11:05,766 I fell down, 261 00:11:05,799 --> 00:11:08,936 and I, um, must've blacked out 262 00:11:08,969 --> 00:11:11,839 for a second or something. 263 00:11:11,872 --> 00:11:15,275 [sigh] 264 00:11:15,308 --> 00:11:17,778 When I opened my eyes... 265 00:11:21,514 --> 00:11:24,384 I saw... 266 00:11:29,957 --> 00:11:32,092 What is it? What'd you see? 267 00:11:35,462 --> 00:11:37,831 I saw... 268 00:11:37,865 --> 00:11:41,835 my daughter running down the hallway. 269 00:11:41,869 --> 00:11:45,873 It was Charlotte. 270 00:11:48,175 --> 00:11:51,111 She killed her mother. 271 00:11:59,887 --> 00:12:01,521 I wasn't home Friday night. 272 00:12:01,554 --> 00:12:05,192 (Stabler) Your father said he saw you there. 273 00:12:05,225 --> 00:12:08,428 Well, my father says a lot of things that aren't true. 274 00:12:08,461 --> 00:12:10,998 He's a lawyer. Lies for a living. 275 00:12:11,031 --> 00:12:13,433 Sounds like you two don't get along. 276 00:12:13,466 --> 00:12:14,534 No, we get along fine... 277 00:12:14,567 --> 00:12:16,870 'cause he's never home. 278 00:12:16,904 --> 00:12:18,371 He works all the time. 279 00:12:18,405 --> 00:12:20,240 I find out what he's doing by watching the news. 280 00:12:20,273 --> 00:12:23,110 What about your mom? 281 00:12:23,143 --> 00:12:26,179 Her idea of parenting was to lock me up, 282 00:12:26,213 --> 00:12:28,248 so she wouldn't have to deal with me. 283 00:12:28,281 --> 00:12:29,482 That didn't work well. 284 00:12:29,516 --> 00:12:33,253 I got around her stupid rules. 285 00:12:33,286 --> 00:12:33,954 By using your friends to cover for you, 286 00:12:33,987 --> 00:12:35,255 so you could go out with Ryan? 287 00:12:35,288 --> 00:12:37,357 I had to. She hated him for no reason. 288 00:12:37,390 --> 00:12:38,892 She wouldn't let us be together. 289 00:12:38,926 --> 00:12:39,559 (Benson) You were with him Friday night. 290 00:12:39,592 --> 00:12:41,394 What'd you guys do? 291 00:12:41,428 --> 00:12:44,264 We stopped by a friend's house for a while, 292 00:12:44,297 --> 00:12:45,933 I got pretty wasted, then we left. 293 00:12:45,966 --> 00:12:48,535 Then where'd you go? 294 00:12:48,568 --> 00:12:50,537 We crashed until you guys woke us up. 295 00:12:50,570 --> 00:12:51,905 Okay, that party-- we're gonna need 296 00:12:51,939 --> 00:12:53,006 the names of everyone who was there. 297 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,475 I'm not dragging my friends into this. 298 00:12:55,508 --> 00:12:56,543 Well, do you want us to question 299 00:12:56,576 --> 00:12:59,379 every kid in your school? 300 00:12:59,412 --> 00:13:00,213 No. 301 00:13:02,082 --> 00:13:03,383 Then make a list. 302 00:13:09,456 --> 00:13:11,124 (girl) I don't know why Charlotte would say that. 303 00:13:11,158 --> 00:13:12,926 I didn't go to a party Friday night. 304 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:14,461 I was babysitting until late. 305 00:13:14,494 --> 00:13:16,429 I stayed in. Watched a ball game with my bud. 306 00:13:16,463 --> 00:13:18,198 We were kickin' it at my place all night. 307 00:13:18,231 --> 00:13:20,100 I have a huge term paper due next week. 308 00:13:20,133 --> 00:13:21,334 I was home all night writing. 309 00:13:21,368 --> 00:13:23,303 I went to a movie with Jane Williams. 310 00:13:23,336 --> 00:13:24,571 Didn't get home till after midnight. 311 00:13:24,604 --> 00:13:26,306 Really? 312 00:13:26,339 --> 00:13:28,909 Jane said she was babysitting that night. 313 00:13:28,942 --> 00:13:30,510 What I meant was 314 00:13:30,543 --> 00:13:32,913 I was watching a movie with her while she was babysitting. 315 00:13:32,946 --> 00:13:34,014 So what was the name of the family? 316 00:13:34,047 --> 00:13:35,382 I wanna check out your story. 317 00:13:35,415 --> 00:13:38,385 All right, um... 318 00:13:38,418 --> 00:13:40,921 w-we had a party. 319 00:13:40,954 --> 00:13:43,290 I knew we'd get caught. 320 00:13:43,323 --> 00:13:44,591 Nice going, Suze. 321 00:13:44,624 --> 00:13:46,393 Yeah, thanks for ratting us out. 322 00:13:46,426 --> 00:13:48,295 Charlotte said she was drunk Friday night. 323 00:13:48,328 --> 00:13:50,330 We may have imbibed a little. Who cares? 324 00:13:50,363 --> 00:13:52,365 We just wanna know what Charlotte did that night. 325 00:13:52,399 --> 00:13:53,400 Baby blues. 326 00:13:53,433 --> 00:13:55,435 You know, Valium? 327 00:13:55,468 --> 00:13:57,070 You moron. 328 00:13:57,104 --> 00:13:59,106 They meant where she was, not what she took. 329 00:13:59,139 --> 00:14:00,273 So Charlotte was on drugs. 330 00:14:00,307 --> 00:14:01,541 I guess. 331 00:14:01,574 --> 00:14:04,211 You guess? 332 00:14:04,244 --> 00:14:06,880 Okay, where'd she get the drugs? 333 00:14:06,914 --> 00:14:08,481 The Valium was my mom's. 334 00:14:08,515 --> 00:14:10,517 (Stabler) So how'd Charlotte get ahold of it? 335 00:14:10,550 --> 00:14:11,651 It was a pharm party. 336 00:14:11,684 --> 00:14:14,654 As in pharmaceuticals. 337 00:14:14,687 --> 00:14:16,023 Yeah, we all bring pills from home, 338 00:14:16,056 --> 00:14:17,257 dump them into this big bowl, 339 00:14:17,290 --> 00:14:18,525 people take what they want. 340 00:14:18,558 --> 00:14:20,127 Like Halloween candy. What'd you take? 341 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,262 Adderall. It keeps you up. 342 00:14:22,295 --> 00:14:24,297 I really am working on a huge term paper. 343 00:14:24,331 --> 00:14:25,565 And you? 344 00:14:25,598 --> 00:14:28,135 Propranolol and Vicodin, to take the edge off. 345 00:14:28,168 --> 00:14:29,669 Susan? Codeine and Percocet. 346 00:14:29,702 --> 00:14:31,071 What'd Ryan take? 347 00:14:31,104 --> 00:14:33,206 He was skittling. Charlotte too. 348 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,375 What's skittling? 349 00:14:35,408 --> 00:14:37,210 Over-the-counter cold tablets, look like candy. 350 00:14:37,244 --> 00:14:38,578 You take a bunch, and you're flying. 351 00:14:38,611 --> 00:14:40,580 Ryan also took some heavy artillery. 352 00:14:40,613 --> 00:14:42,049 Oxycodone. 353 00:14:42,082 --> 00:14:43,283 There were only a few in the bowl that night. 354 00:14:43,316 --> 00:14:45,585 Ryan said our supply was for lightweights. 355 00:14:45,618 --> 00:14:46,619 So he split. 356 00:14:46,653 --> 00:14:48,421 Well, what'd Charlotte do? 357 00:14:48,455 --> 00:14:50,257 She left a little later. Said she had to go home. 358 00:14:50,290 --> 00:14:52,192 You sure she said she was going home? 359 00:14:52,225 --> 00:14:53,326 Well, who knows what she meant? 360 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,128 She was so messed up she could hardly walk. 361 00:14:55,162 --> 00:14:57,364 You know, you guys are lucky you didn't kill yourselves 362 00:14:57,397 --> 00:14:58,465 taking all that crap? 363 00:14:58,498 --> 00:15:00,167 It's medicine from a doctor. 364 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:04,004 It's not like we're doing crack or heroin. 365 00:15:04,037 --> 00:15:04,637 These kids just don't get it. 366 00:15:04,671 --> 00:15:06,439 It's no wonder. 367 00:15:06,473 --> 00:15:08,175 All they see on the TV and the Internet 368 00:15:08,208 --> 00:15:10,443 is pop a pill and you'll feel better instantly. 369 00:15:10,477 --> 00:15:12,545 Yeah, but Charlotte was on Valium and cold medicine. 370 00:15:12,579 --> 00:15:14,214 It's not gonna make her exactly violent. 371 00:15:14,247 --> 00:15:15,582 Maybe she took something else. 372 00:15:15,615 --> 00:15:16,950 I wonder if she went home 373 00:15:16,984 --> 00:15:18,685 to raid the medicine cabinet for the party. 374 00:15:18,718 --> 00:15:21,354 Mom was a drug rep. Plenty of access. 375 00:15:21,388 --> 00:15:22,956 CSU didn't turn up anything stronger than aspirin 376 00:15:22,990 --> 00:15:25,358 and over-the-counter stuff. 377 00:15:25,392 --> 00:15:27,327 Right, but CSU would've only checked the crime scene. 378 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:29,362 Maybe the mom has a sample case in the home. 379 00:15:29,396 --> 00:15:31,231 They searched all the bedrooms and the main floor. 380 00:15:31,264 --> 00:15:34,201 It doesn't look like they went down to the basement. 381 00:15:36,303 --> 00:15:38,071 Looks like a bomb went off down here. 382 00:15:38,105 --> 00:15:39,739 (Lu) A pill bomb. 383 00:15:39,772 --> 00:15:42,009 The kids at the party said the candy dish ran out. 384 00:15:42,042 --> 00:15:44,077 Charlotte came home to get refills. 385 00:15:46,346 --> 00:15:51,051 Uppers, downers, antipsychotics. 386 00:15:51,084 --> 00:15:52,485 (Benson) Charlotte could've taken a lot more pills 387 00:15:52,519 --> 00:15:54,621 than her friends knew about. 388 00:15:54,654 --> 00:15:56,056 Well, it's too late to run a tox screen 389 00:15:56,089 --> 00:15:57,424 to see which ones she took. 390 00:15:57,457 --> 00:15:58,725 Would any combination of those make you violent? 391 00:15:58,758 --> 00:16:00,560 No question. 392 00:16:00,593 --> 00:16:03,363 And the more pills she popped, the more violent she'd get. 393 00:16:03,396 --> 00:16:05,498 We might be able to find out what she was on. 394 00:16:05,532 --> 00:16:07,234 How? 395 00:16:07,267 --> 00:16:09,169 There's urine in the toilet back here. 396 00:16:10,537 --> 00:16:14,707 Maybe Charlotte stopped to pee before she murdered her mom. 397 00:16:14,741 --> 00:16:17,544 There's no DNA in the urine, but I ran a tox screen. 398 00:16:17,577 --> 00:16:19,379 The sample came back positive 399 00:16:19,412 --> 00:16:23,283 for benzos, opiates, and dextromethorphan-- 400 00:16:23,316 --> 00:16:24,751 cold pills. 401 00:16:24,784 --> 00:16:26,353 Matches what Charlotte had at the pharm party. 402 00:16:26,386 --> 00:16:28,221 She didn't take anything else? 403 00:16:28,255 --> 00:16:29,289 Whatever meds she found in the basement 404 00:16:29,322 --> 00:16:31,724 wouldn't have metabolized in her urine that quickly. 405 00:16:31,758 --> 00:16:33,326 But I can tell you she was drunk. 406 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:34,727 How drunk? 407 00:16:34,761 --> 00:16:37,697 Blood alcohol was .25. She was wasted. 408 00:16:37,730 --> 00:16:39,232 Wasted enough to attack her mother? 409 00:16:39,266 --> 00:16:44,071 Yeah, and not remember a thing about it. 410 00:16:44,104 --> 00:16:45,472 We know you went back to your house after the party. 411 00:16:45,505 --> 00:16:46,473 We have proof. 412 00:16:46,506 --> 00:16:48,308 No, you're wrong. I would never have gone home. 413 00:16:48,341 --> 00:16:49,109 Why not? 414 00:16:49,142 --> 00:16:50,577 Because I was high! 415 00:16:50,610 --> 00:16:52,345 If my mom caught me that way, she would've killed me. 416 00:16:52,379 --> 00:16:54,447 That's why I went to Ryan's. 417 00:16:54,481 --> 00:16:56,216 But you made a pit stop first to raid your mom's office 418 00:16:56,249 --> 00:16:58,185 so you and Ryan could continue partying 419 00:16:58,218 --> 00:16:59,586 after the candy bowl was dry. 420 00:16:59,619 --> 00:17:02,555 Then your mom catches you, and you beat her to death. 421 00:17:02,589 --> 00:17:04,091 I did not kill my mother! 422 00:17:04,124 --> 00:17:05,558 You sure? 423 00:17:05,592 --> 00:17:07,427 Yeah, I think I'd remember that. 424 00:17:07,460 --> 00:17:10,630 Do you remember what you were wearing that night? 425 00:17:10,663 --> 00:17:12,499 I don't know. 426 00:17:12,532 --> 00:17:14,834 Jeans, an old T-shirt, my green sweater. 427 00:17:14,867 --> 00:17:17,570 (Benson) And where are those clothes now? 428 00:17:17,604 --> 00:17:20,507 (Charlotte) Ryan's. I leave a lot of stuff there. 429 00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:24,077 (Benson) What kinda shoes were you wearing? 430 00:17:24,111 --> 00:17:26,379 (Charlotte) Um, boots, maybe my old sneakers. 431 00:17:28,348 --> 00:17:30,783 Char's tennis shoe. 432 00:17:30,817 --> 00:17:31,851 I'm tired. I wanna go home. 433 00:17:31,884 --> 00:17:33,320 (Benson) Not yet. 434 00:17:33,353 --> 00:17:34,754 When?! (Stabler) About 20 years? 435 00:17:34,787 --> 00:17:37,090 Do you recognize this? 436 00:17:37,124 --> 00:17:39,126 It's my sneaker. 437 00:17:41,194 --> 00:17:43,496 That's your mother's blood. 438 00:17:46,333 --> 00:17:47,700 I was there? 439 00:17:50,303 --> 00:17:52,405 That's why Tommy was afraid of you. 440 00:17:59,179 --> 00:18:01,281 I did it. 441 00:18:01,314 --> 00:18:03,816 I killed my mom. 442 00:18:05,685 --> 00:18:06,719 Ah! 443 00:18:08,455 --> 00:18:11,391 [crying] 444 00:18:11,424 --> 00:18:13,460 (Charlotte) I wanna die. 445 00:18:13,493 --> 00:18:15,528 Get a bus! 446 00:18:15,562 --> 00:18:18,165 SVU to Central. We need a bus at the one-six. 447 00:18:18,198 --> 00:18:20,367 Attempted suicide. She's bleeding out. 448 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,870 It's okay. I wanna die! 449 00:18:26,539 --> 00:18:28,141 Shh, shh. 450 00:18:32,745 --> 00:18:35,448 Mr. Truex? 451 00:18:35,482 --> 00:18:38,251 What'd you do to my daughter? Mmm? 452 00:18:38,285 --> 00:18:39,552 She gonna be okay? She's sleeping. 453 00:18:39,586 --> 00:18:40,820 The doctor says she's gonna be fine. 454 00:18:40,853 --> 00:18:43,223 Oh, fine. Sure, sure. 455 00:18:43,256 --> 00:18:44,857 She's lucky you didn't kill her. 456 00:18:44,891 --> 00:18:48,228 We didn't slit her wrist. 457 00:18:48,261 --> 00:18:50,497 No, but you interrogated her without a lawyer present! 458 00:18:50,530 --> 00:18:52,632 You told her she did it! 459 00:18:52,665 --> 00:18:55,668 You made her suicidal with your accusations and innuendo! 460 00:18:55,702 --> 00:18:58,305 No, the drugs that she was on made her depressed 461 00:18:58,338 --> 00:18:59,572 and her own guilt made her suicidal. 462 00:18:59,606 --> 00:19:01,908 She's innocent, Detective. 463 00:19:01,941 --> 00:19:03,376 Well, you know that's not true 464 00:19:03,410 --> 00:19:04,777 since you're the one who saw her at the house. 465 00:19:04,811 --> 00:19:06,913 I had a head injury. I don't know who I saw. 466 00:19:06,946 --> 00:19:09,682 And stay away from Charlotte. 467 00:19:09,716 --> 00:19:10,917 As soon as she's discharged, I'm taking her home. 468 00:19:10,950 --> 00:19:12,752 She's going to Rikers. 469 00:19:12,785 --> 00:19:14,821 Over my dead body! 470 00:19:17,624 --> 00:19:19,792 (Novak) You can't represent your own daughter, Sidney. 471 00:19:19,826 --> 00:19:21,861 There's not way I'm letting Charlotte go to jail. 472 00:19:21,894 --> 00:19:24,631 I think you're letting your feelings get in the way of your judgment. 473 00:19:24,664 --> 00:19:25,632 She's my daughter. I love her. 474 00:19:25,665 --> 00:19:27,334 And I know what's best for her. 475 00:19:27,367 --> 00:19:29,502 Then don't gamble with her life. I'm not. 476 00:19:29,536 --> 00:19:31,604 And I won't lose. 477 00:19:31,638 --> 00:19:34,274 You see, my daughter's a drug addict. 478 00:19:34,307 --> 00:19:36,309 She's depressed. 479 00:19:36,343 --> 00:19:37,810 She needs help, not prison. 480 00:19:37,844 --> 00:19:40,413 So Charlotte's the victim? I see. 481 00:19:40,447 --> 00:19:41,848 That's how the jury will see her. 482 00:19:41,881 --> 00:19:42,782 And then I'm gonna show the jury 483 00:19:42,815 --> 00:19:44,684 pictures of the crime scene. 484 00:19:44,717 --> 00:19:46,319 With blood everywhere. 485 00:19:46,353 --> 00:19:47,354 And how do you think they're gonna vote 486 00:19:47,387 --> 00:19:49,789 after they hear Charlotte sodomized her own mother 487 00:19:49,822 --> 00:19:51,858 with a candlestick? 488 00:19:51,891 --> 00:19:56,363 They'll see a young girl with serious emotional problems. 489 00:19:56,396 --> 00:19:58,631 That's why I'm pleading on not guilty 490 00:19:58,665 --> 00:20:01,000 by reason of mental disease or defect. 491 00:20:01,033 --> 00:20:03,736 Let our psychiatrist interview her. 492 00:20:03,770 --> 00:20:06,839 And if he agrees with you, I'll consider a deal. 493 00:20:10,677 --> 00:20:13,480 (Huang) Tell me about your relationship with your mother. 494 00:20:13,513 --> 00:20:16,583 We didn't have one. She never had time for me. 495 00:20:16,616 --> 00:20:18,985 Did you get along? 496 00:20:19,018 --> 00:20:20,587 No, we were always fighting. 497 00:20:20,620 --> 00:20:21,754 About what? 498 00:20:21,788 --> 00:20:23,723 Everything. 499 00:20:23,756 --> 00:20:25,658 Curfew, clothes, smoking, parties, boys. 500 00:20:25,692 --> 00:20:27,760 Everything. 501 00:20:27,794 --> 00:20:29,629 How bad were these fights? 502 00:20:29,662 --> 00:20:30,997 Not so bad when I was younger 503 00:20:31,030 --> 00:20:33,300 'cause I was scared of her then. 504 00:20:33,333 --> 00:20:35,268 When I got older, I started fighting back. 505 00:20:35,302 --> 00:20:37,670 Did these fights ever get violent? 506 00:20:40,006 --> 00:20:42,742 One time she threw a pile of dirty clothes at me. 507 00:20:42,775 --> 00:20:45,778 Said I couldn't go out until I did my laundry. 508 00:20:45,812 --> 00:20:47,914 What happened? 509 00:20:47,947 --> 00:20:50,049 She blocked me. 510 00:20:50,082 --> 00:20:52,619 I pushed her out of my way, and she fell down the stairs. 511 00:20:52,652 --> 00:20:53,953 Was she hurt? 512 00:20:55,855 --> 00:20:58,024 She said that she threw her back out. 513 00:20:58,057 --> 00:21:00,660 She popped a few Vicodin, and she was fine. 514 00:21:02,629 --> 00:21:03,863 Would you say that was the only time 515 00:21:03,896 --> 00:21:04,831 that ever got physical? 516 00:21:06,633 --> 00:21:08,435 Last month, 517 00:21:08,468 --> 00:21:10,570 she slapped me for taking money out of her wallet. 518 00:21:12,439 --> 00:21:16,075 I hit her back, and that stopped her. 519 00:21:16,108 --> 00:21:21,047 She never laid a hand on me again. 520 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:22,982 Charlotte and her mother had a combative relationship 521 00:21:23,015 --> 00:21:25,652 that turned physically violent well before the murder. 522 00:21:25,685 --> 00:21:27,086 Charlotte's frustration and anger 523 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,389 combined with the drugs were a lethal combination. 524 00:21:29,422 --> 00:21:31,090 (Novak) So is she culpable for the killing? 525 00:21:31,123 --> 00:21:33,760 Yes. Well, the drugs may have lowered her inhibition, 526 00:21:33,793 --> 00:21:35,462 but the latent rage was already present. 527 00:21:35,495 --> 00:21:36,896 So Sidney doesn't have a case. 528 00:21:36,929 --> 00:21:39,732 Well, his best shot is to argue that she's a drug addict 529 00:21:39,766 --> 00:21:42,335 who wasn't responsible for her actions. 530 00:21:42,369 --> 00:21:43,703 She could look pretty sympathetic to a jury. 531 00:21:43,736 --> 00:21:44,804 She's young and attractive. 532 00:21:44,837 --> 00:21:46,373 Her parents ignored her, 533 00:21:46,406 --> 00:21:48,675 and her boyfriend got her hooked on drugs. 534 00:21:48,708 --> 00:21:50,810 But she learned how to use violence to solve her problems. 535 00:21:50,843 --> 00:21:53,413 She hit her mother; she got what she wanted. 536 00:21:53,446 --> 00:21:56,383 Murder is the logical extension of that learned behavior. 537 00:21:56,416 --> 00:21:57,617 [phone ringing] With a documented history of violence 538 00:21:57,650 --> 00:21:58,985 between Charlotte and her mother-- 539 00:21:59,018 --> 00:22:01,588 I can't accept an insanity plea. 540 00:22:01,621 --> 00:22:02,855 Novak. Sex crimes. 541 00:22:04,791 --> 00:22:07,427 This changes everything. 542 00:22:07,460 --> 00:22:08,395 That was Warner. 543 00:22:08,428 --> 00:22:09,896 She did some more tests on the urine CSU found 544 00:22:09,929 --> 00:22:11,398 in the brownstone. 545 00:22:11,431 --> 00:22:14,133 Hormone levels indicate it's from a man. 546 00:22:14,166 --> 00:22:17,537 Someone else was with Charlotte the night of the murder. 547 00:22:17,570 --> 00:22:19,472 It must've been her boyfriend Ryan. 548 00:22:19,506 --> 00:22:22,108 Tommy said he saw a monster hit his dad. 549 00:22:22,141 --> 00:22:23,943 Let see if he can pick him out. 550 00:22:24,944 --> 00:22:27,614 No. 551 00:22:27,647 --> 00:22:30,517 No. 552 00:22:30,550 --> 00:22:32,018 No. 553 00:22:34,721 --> 00:22:35,922 That's him. 554 00:22:35,955 --> 00:22:40,593 That's the monster who hurt my daddy. 555 00:22:40,627 --> 00:22:42,595 Hey, Ryan! 556 00:22:42,629 --> 00:22:45,898 We need to talk to you. 557 00:22:45,932 --> 00:22:47,834 (Stabler) Ryan, stop! 558 00:22:47,867 --> 00:22:50,036 [tires screeching] 559 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,915 Go around back! Cut him off! 560 00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:09,155 Let me go! Come here! 561 00:23:09,188 --> 00:23:10,757 Let go of me! 562 00:23:15,695 --> 00:23:18,765 Move, move, move! 563 00:23:18,798 --> 00:23:21,601 [grunting] 564 00:23:27,574 --> 00:23:28,741 Ryan Bedford-- 565 00:23:33,580 --> 00:23:36,483 Hey... Ryan. 566 00:23:36,516 --> 00:23:37,650 Ryan! 567 00:23:37,684 --> 00:23:39,519 Hey...hey! 568 00:23:39,552 --> 00:23:40,953 Hey! 569 00:23:41,788 --> 00:23:43,523 SVU portable to Central. 570 00:23:43,556 --> 00:23:46,025 I need a bus at 84th and First. 571 00:23:46,058 --> 00:23:48,895 19-year-old male suspect down, stopped breathing. 572 00:23:50,029 --> 00:23:52,031 Breathe, dammit! 573 00:23:54,601 --> 00:23:56,703 Elliot. 574 00:23:58,605 --> 00:24:00,973 He's dead. 575 00:24:06,613 --> 00:24:08,981 He's dead. 576 00:24:15,121 --> 00:24:17,023 [faint sirens] 577 00:24:25,031 --> 00:24:26,265 What happened? 578 00:24:26,298 --> 00:24:28,167 Tried to cuff Ryan, he stopped breathing. 579 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:29,201 Just like that? Yeah, just like that. 580 00:24:29,235 --> 00:24:30,202 Do you know how he died? 581 00:24:30,236 --> 00:24:33,105 Not yet. 582 00:24:33,139 --> 00:24:35,975 Did Elliot use a choke hold on Ryan? 583 00:24:36,008 --> 00:24:38,745 No. I did not see him do that. 584 00:24:38,778 --> 00:24:40,680 When I got here, 585 00:24:40,713 --> 00:24:42,181 Ryan was on the ground on his stomach, 586 00:24:42,214 --> 00:24:43,983 and Elliot had his knee on his back. 587 00:24:44,016 --> 00:24:45,585 Why was he on the ground? 588 00:24:45,618 --> 00:24:46,586 I punched him in the face, 589 00:24:46,619 --> 00:24:48,521 he fell... 590 00:24:48,555 --> 00:24:52,792 I held him down to cuff him... 591 00:24:52,825 --> 00:24:54,527 flipped him over, he wasn't breathing. 592 00:24:54,561 --> 00:24:56,729 Did you see Elliot hit Ryan's head? 593 00:24:56,763 --> 00:25:00,066 No, but I saw Ryan throw punches at Elliot. 594 00:25:00,099 --> 00:25:03,536 I was blocking the blows until I had to punch him down. 595 00:25:03,570 --> 00:25:04,937 Here comes the rat squad. 596 00:25:04,971 --> 00:25:07,940 Keep your temper in check and answer his questions. 597 00:25:07,974 --> 00:25:09,542 Detective Stabler. 598 00:25:09,576 --> 00:25:10,877 Wanna come with me? 599 00:25:18,885 --> 00:25:21,588 Do you understand you must answer all questions asked? Yes. 600 00:25:21,621 --> 00:25:23,590 Failure to do so will result in your immediate suspension. 601 00:25:23,623 --> 00:25:25,124 I know the drill. 602 00:25:25,157 --> 00:25:26,793 You know you can have your union delegate or attorney present. 603 00:25:26,826 --> 00:25:29,896 I don't need 'em. I didn't do anything wrong. 604 00:25:29,929 --> 00:25:32,131 Then why is a 19-year-old boy dead? 605 00:25:32,164 --> 00:25:34,266 I don't know. 606 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:36,969 Witnesses say they saw you beat Ryan Bedford. 607 00:25:37,003 --> 00:25:40,740 He attacked me. I restrained him. 608 00:25:40,773 --> 00:25:42,775 I didn't use unnecessary force. 609 00:25:42,809 --> 00:25:44,243 Well, you did something to him because he's laying on a slab 610 00:25:44,276 --> 00:25:46,145 after your little two-step. 611 00:25:46,178 --> 00:25:47,847 Ryan threw five or six haymakers at me. 612 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,916 I punched him once to stop the attack. 613 00:25:49,949 --> 00:25:51,283 I got on top of him to cuff him. 614 00:25:51,317 --> 00:25:53,085 That's it. 615 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,755 Then the eyewitnesses are all lying? 616 00:25:58,190 --> 00:26:00,159 [sighs] 617 00:26:00,192 --> 00:26:04,664 Eyewitnesses, you know, are unreliable. 618 00:26:04,697 --> 00:26:06,933 Ten people saw you beat Ryan. 619 00:26:06,966 --> 00:26:08,200 I think you chased him. 620 00:26:08,234 --> 00:26:10,369 I think your adrenaline was pumping. 621 00:26:10,402 --> 00:26:11,604 He started throwing punches at you, 622 00:26:11,638 --> 00:26:13,973 and you lost control. 623 00:26:14,006 --> 00:26:16,075 You're wrong. 624 00:26:18,878 --> 00:26:20,747 You really should control your temper, Detective. 625 00:26:20,780 --> 00:26:22,048 [clears throat] 626 00:26:22,081 --> 00:26:24,383 What I did, I did in self-defense. 627 00:26:24,416 --> 00:26:26,085 I chased a perp. He attacked me. 628 00:26:26,118 --> 00:26:27,386 I knocked him down. I cuffed him. 629 00:26:27,419 --> 00:26:29,388 Save it, Detective. 630 00:26:29,421 --> 00:26:31,691 I can't risk having a cop with your anger issues 631 00:26:31,724 --> 00:26:33,693 out on the street. 632 00:26:33,726 --> 00:26:34,894 As of right now, 633 00:26:34,927 --> 00:26:37,129 you're on suspension. 634 00:26:41,868 --> 00:26:43,803 I'm not a killer. 635 00:26:43,836 --> 00:26:47,974 We'll let the medical examiner be the judge of that. 636 00:26:50,209 --> 00:26:53,145 The spleen is normal in color. 637 00:26:53,179 --> 00:26:56,148 It has no deformities or disease... 638 00:26:56,182 --> 00:27:00,252 but has a three-centimeter laceration 639 00:27:00,286 --> 00:27:05,091 on the upper portion, located directly below the rib 640 00:27:05,124 --> 00:27:07,927 and weighs 160 grams. 641 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:08,895 (Benson) Melinda. 642 00:27:11,263 --> 00:27:12,899 I can't talk to you about this. 643 00:27:12,932 --> 00:27:15,101 Do you know what happened? 644 00:27:21,107 --> 00:27:23,710 This is Ryan's spleen. 645 00:27:23,743 --> 00:27:25,745 He bled to death internally because it was ruptured. 646 00:27:25,778 --> 00:27:28,681 How? 647 00:27:28,715 --> 00:27:31,918 Only way to rupture a spleen is by blunt force trauma. 648 00:27:31,951 --> 00:27:33,085 Elliot did not beat him. 649 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,788 I'm sorry. The facts say otherwise. 650 00:27:35,822 --> 00:27:37,189 Melinda, you know Elliot! 651 00:27:37,223 --> 00:27:38,257 You know that he's innocent! 652 00:27:38,290 --> 00:27:41,193 I know what this dead body tells me. 653 00:27:41,227 --> 00:27:43,029 I looked at Ryan's brain, heart, and lungs. 654 00:27:43,062 --> 00:27:44,330 Everything was normal. 655 00:27:44,363 --> 00:27:46,365 I wanna exonerate Elliot as badly as you do, 656 00:27:46,398 --> 00:27:48,968 but the only explanation for Ryan's death 657 00:27:49,001 --> 00:27:50,136 is the ruptured spleen. 658 00:27:50,169 --> 00:27:53,072 So how are you gonna rule? 659 00:27:55,507 --> 00:27:58,044 The cause of death is internal bleeding. 660 00:27:58,077 --> 00:28:02,381 The manner of death is homicide. 661 00:28:02,414 --> 00:28:06,118 Elliot Stabler could never murder anyone. 662 00:28:06,152 --> 00:28:08,454 And if you can't prove that, then I will. 663 00:28:11,423 --> 00:28:12,391 [sighs] 664 00:28:15,161 --> 00:28:18,297 (Benson) Your son put Ryan here the night of the murder. 665 00:28:18,330 --> 00:28:21,167 Forensics confirmed that she wasn't alone. 666 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,435 Now, only Charlotte can tell us what really happened. 667 00:28:23,469 --> 00:28:25,104 She doesn't remember. 668 00:28:25,137 --> 00:28:26,939 That's why I wanna give her a sodium amytal interview. 669 00:28:30,509 --> 00:28:32,478 Let me get this straight. 670 00:28:32,511 --> 00:28:34,747 My daughter's a recovering drug addict. 671 00:28:34,781 --> 00:28:37,884 You want me to let you pump her full of barbiturates... 672 00:28:37,917 --> 00:28:40,086 just so you can save your partner's ass? 673 00:28:40,119 --> 00:28:41,854 It's your daughter's ass too. 674 00:28:41,888 --> 00:28:43,489 She's still charged with murder. 675 00:28:43,522 --> 00:28:47,093 Now, if Ryan is the killer, this will exonerate her. 676 00:28:47,126 --> 00:28:51,263 Why are you suddenly so concerned about my daughter? 677 00:28:51,297 --> 00:28:52,765 'Cause I don't want anyone going to jail 678 00:28:52,799 --> 00:28:54,400 for a crime they didn't commit. 679 00:28:54,433 --> 00:28:56,502 You mean you don't want your partner going to prison. 680 00:28:56,535 --> 00:28:58,204 IAB sees Ryan 681 00:28:58,237 --> 00:29:00,773 as a defenseless kid who was brutally murdered 682 00:29:00,807 --> 00:29:02,909 by an out-of-control cop. 683 00:29:02,942 --> 00:29:04,476 And when the Grand Jury gets the case, 684 00:29:04,510 --> 00:29:07,246 they're gonna see him as an innocent victim. 685 00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:09,882 Unless my daughter points the finger at Ryan 686 00:29:09,916 --> 00:29:12,785 and swings the jury's sympathies over to Detective Stabler. 687 00:29:12,819 --> 00:29:14,854 Hmm. 688 00:29:14,887 --> 00:29:16,255 You should've been a lawyer. 689 00:29:16,288 --> 00:29:20,827 I have no hard evidence of Ryan's guilt. 690 00:29:20,860 --> 00:29:22,294 The only chance that my partner has 691 00:29:22,328 --> 00:29:24,363 is if I prove that Ryan killed your wife. 692 00:29:26,598 --> 00:29:27,900 (Huang) Tell me about Friday night. 693 00:29:29,902 --> 00:29:33,005 I went to the party with Ryan. 694 00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:34,440 What's happening there? 695 00:29:38,010 --> 00:29:40,446 I tell him I'm pissed at my mother. 696 00:29:42,481 --> 00:29:44,984 She says I have to break up with him tonight. 697 00:29:45,017 --> 00:29:46,986 (Huang) What's Ryan on? 698 00:29:47,019 --> 00:29:48,420 (Charlotte) He's X-ing 699 00:29:48,454 --> 00:29:51,523 He wants more drugs, but they're aren't any, 700 00:29:51,557 --> 00:29:53,325 so he leaves. 701 00:29:53,359 --> 00:29:55,828 What do you do? 702 00:29:55,862 --> 00:29:58,998 I go after him. He has my keys. 703 00:29:59,031 --> 00:30:01,133 But he gets into the cab. 704 00:30:03,569 --> 00:30:06,238 I don't have any money, so I walk. 705 00:30:06,272 --> 00:30:09,175 Where do you walk? 706 00:30:09,208 --> 00:30:10,476 Home. 707 00:30:10,509 --> 00:30:14,847 When I get there, the door is open. 708 00:30:14,881 --> 00:30:18,417 I go inside. 709 00:30:18,450 --> 00:30:20,319 Ryan's coming up from the basement 710 00:30:20,352 --> 00:30:22,955 with the pill boxes. 711 00:30:22,989 --> 00:30:25,557 And he runs upstairs. 712 00:30:25,591 --> 00:30:28,194 What do you do? 713 00:30:29,228 --> 00:30:32,031 I follow him. 714 00:30:32,064 --> 00:30:34,266 He's screaming at my mother, 715 00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:37,236 "Give me the good stuff, or I'll kill you." 716 00:30:37,269 --> 00:30:40,940 My mom sees me, says she's calling the police. 717 00:30:40,973 --> 00:30:45,077 Ryan drags her into her bedroom. 718 00:30:45,111 --> 00:30:48,447 I go into my room. I'm so tired. 719 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,649 I lie down. 720 00:30:50,682 --> 00:30:52,484 Then I hear my mom. 721 00:30:52,518 --> 00:30:53,485 Doing what? 722 00:30:53,519 --> 00:30:55,154 Screaming. 723 00:30:55,187 --> 00:30:59,291 I run into her bedroom. 724 00:30:59,325 --> 00:31:01,994 Ryan's on top of her. He's hitting her. 725 00:31:02,028 --> 00:31:05,031 There's so much blood. 726 00:31:05,064 --> 00:31:08,667 Then the screaming stops. 727 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:11,603 What's happening now? 728 00:31:11,637 --> 00:31:13,505 Ryan has something shiny. 729 00:31:16,342 --> 00:31:21,013 He does horrible things to her. 730 00:31:21,047 --> 00:31:22,614 The door slams. 731 00:31:25,684 --> 00:31:30,622 My father and Tommy are coming upstairs. 732 00:31:30,656 --> 00:31:34,326 Then I hear a crash, and my father's on the ground. 733 00:31:37,296 --> 00:31:40,632 Tommy looks so scared. 734 00:31:40,666 --> 00:31:42,468 I just want to help him, 735 00:31:42,501 --> 00:31:46,438 but he runs away. 736 00:31:46,472 --> 00:31:49,308 I hear the alarm. 737 00:31:49,341 --> 00:31:51,543 And then? 738 00:31:51,577 --> 00:31:54,546 I leave. 739 00:31:54,580 --> 00:31:56,915 Go back to Ryan's. 740 00:32:01,587 --> 00:32:07,159 So I-- I really did see her. 741 00:32:07,193 --> 00:32:10,596 And she saw Ryan kill your wife. 742 00:32:13,565 --> 00:32:15,367 (Huang) She'll probably sleep for a while. 743 00:32:15,401 --> 00:32:17,970 I'll monitor her and make sure there's no adverse reaction. 744 00:32:18,004 --> 00:32:19,338 If Ryan killed Maura, 745 00:32:19,371 --> 00:32:22,274 why did Charlotte confess? 746 00:32:22,308 --> 00:32:24,010 (Huang) She was high that night. 747 00:32:24,043 --> 00:32:26,145 She has no conscious memory of the murder. 748 00:32:26,178 --> 00:32:28,247 She felt guilty, and she confessed. 749 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,183 Charlotte really is innocent. 750 00:32:33,652 --> 00:32:36,522 I was gonna do everything in my power 751 00:32:36,555 --> 00:32:39,558 to get her off... 752 00:32:39,591 --> 00:32:41,293 but deep down... 753 00:32:44,663 --> 00:32:48,334 I thought she'd murdered her mother. 754 00:32:50,536 --> 00:32:52,771 (Novak) Amytal interviews aren't admissible in court, 755 00:32:52,804 --> 00:32:54,606 but it's enough to convince me. 756 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,642 So I'll drop the murder charges against Charlotte. 757 00:32:56,675 --> 00:32:59,111 And what about Elliot? 758 00:32:59,145 --> 00:33:00,246 Will it help him? 759 00:33:02,214 --> 00:33:03,649 IAB's not gonna ruin his career 760 00:33:03,682 --> 00:33:06,352 because some murderer died in his custody. 761 00:33:06,385 --> 00:33:08,420 Casey, turn on Channel Ten. 762 00:33:08,454 --> 00:33:09,155 Thanks. 763 00:33:11,657 --> 00:33:13,225 [reporter on TV] And Ryan Bedford's family 764 00:33:13,259 --> 00:33:14,660 is filing a wrongful death suit 765 00:33:14,693 --> 00:33:16,228 against Detective Elliot Stabler-- 766 00:33:16,262 --> 00:33:18,130 Looks like a cell phone video. 767 00:33:18,164 --> 00:33:20,132 They're also demanding that he be prosecuted 768 00:33:20,166 --> 00:33:21,667 for the murder. 769 00:33:21,700 --> 00:33:23,269 This exclusive video was given to Channel Ten... 770 00:33:23,302 --> 00:33:24,670 (Novak) This changes everything. 771 00:33:24,703 --> 00:33:26,805 [phone rings] IAB's gonna have to go after Elliot now. 772 00:33:26,838 --> 00:33:27,806 Benson. 773 00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:29,308 Turn it down? 774 00:33:29,341 --> 00:33:30,442 For the rape and murder... 775 00:33:30,476 --> 00:33:31,710 Yeah, I'm watchin' it right now. 776 00:33:31,743 --> 00:33:33,312 ...this video was taken. 777 00:33:33,345 --> 00:33:35,447 The police department promises a full investigation. 778 00:33:35,481 --> 00:33:36,548 I'll be there. 779 00:33:36,582 --> 00:33:38,784 ...Detective Stabler used unnecessary force 780 00:33:38,817 --> 00:33:40,352 against Bedford. 781 00:33:42,854 --> 00:33:44,590 (Tucker) How long have you worked with Detective Stabler? 782 00:33:44,623 --> 00:33:46,425 Eight years. 783 00:33:46,458 --> 00:33:47,693 During your relationship, you've seen Detective Stabler 784 00:33:47,726 --> 00:33:50,429 in dangerous and stressful situations. 785 00:33:50,462 --> 00:33:52,298 Yes. 786 00:33:52,331 --> 00:33:55,601 How would you characterize his behavior? 787 00:33:55,634 --> 00:33:57,836 Always professional. 788 00:33:57,869 --> 00:33:59,805 So you support his actions, 789 00:33:59,838 --> 00:34:01,440 and you defend his decisions? 790 00:34:01,473 --> 00:34:03,375 Yes. 791 00:34:03,409 --> 00:34:04,676 Even when he shot an unarmed suspect 792 00:34:04,710 --> 00:34:06,245 during a chase? 793 00:34:06,278 --> 00:34:08,447 (Benson) The suspect waved an unloaded weapon. 794 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,249 That was suicide by cop. 795 00:34:10,282 --> 00:34:11,583 Well, how about when he tricked Dr. Huang 796 00:34:11,617 --> 00:34:13,119 into administering Haldol to a suspect? 797 00:34:13,152 --> 00:34:14,353 It was the only way 798 00:34:14,386 --> 00:34:16,822 to find a kidnapped child. 799 00:34:16,855 --> 00:34:18,457 Detective Stabler 800 00:34:18,490 --> 00:34:20,326 once held a man underwater and nearly drowned him, 801 00:34:20,359 --> 00:34:21,427 didn't he? 802 00:34:21,460 --> 00:34:25,197 He was trying to save a little girl from a pedophile. 803 00:34:25,231 --> 00:34:27,399 And so that justifies attempted murder? 804 00:34:27,433 --> 00:34:30,269 We work Special Victims: 805 00:34:30,302 --> 00:34:32,671 molested kids, rape victims, 806 00:34:32,704 --> 00:34:34,406 the elderly. 807 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,143 We do what we have to do to nail the perp. 808 00:34:37,176 --> 00:34:38,377 (Tucker) Like impersonating a pedophile, 809 00:34:38,410 --> 00:34:39,645 kidnapping a girl, 810 00:34:39,678 --> 00:34:41,647 then almost killing the suspect? 811 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:43,115 He's saved countless girls 812 00:34:43,149 --> 00:34:45,551 by getting a violent predator off the streets. 813 00:34:45,584 --> 00:34:46,785 Well, who was he saving 814 00:34:46,818 --> 00:34:48,320 when he almost beat his ex-partner to death 815 00:34:48,354 --> 00:34:49,655 in a bathroom? 816 00:34:49,688 --> 00:34:52,458 He saved that cop's son from committing suicide. 817 00:34:52,491 --> 00:34:56,295 And Elliot went into counseling after that. 818 00:34:56,328 --> 00:34:57,696 Detective Stabler has a long history 819 00:34:57,729 --> 00:35:00,532 of violent behavior. 820 00:35:00,566 --> 00:35:02,768 Are you sure you want to keep defending his actions? 821 00:35:02,801 --> 00:35:07,273 My partner is not a killer. 822 00:35:15,814 --> 00:35:18,684 IAB's interviewing Munch and Fin now. 823 00:35:18,717 --> 00:35:20,152 I go in this afternoon. 824 00:35:20,186 --> 00:35:21,720 What are you gonna tell 'em? 825 00:35:21,753 --> 00:35:23,189 (Stabler) You won't have to say anything. 826 00:35:26,758 --> 00:35:28,494 Look, the press has already convicted me. 827 00:35:28,527 --> 00:35:29,828 IAB has suspended me. 828 00:35:29,861 --> 00:35:31,530 Grand Jury will indict. 829 00:35:31,563 --> 00:35:32,798 That's the worst-case scenario. 830 00:35:32,831 --> 00:35:34,300 Well... 831 00:35:36,602 --> 00:35:37,803 it's reality. 832 00:35:37,836 --> 00:35:39,505 Elliot, we can fight this. 833 00:35:39,538 --> 00:35:41,173 I'm not givin' up on you. 834 00:35:43,375 --> 00:35:45,143 It's over. 835 00:35:56,988 --> 00:35:59,225 [knock at door] 836 00:36:09,401 --> 00:36:12,371 I just heard. 837 00:36:12,404 --> 00:36:13,872 I'm so sorry, Elliot. 838 00:36:13,905 --> 00:36:17,609 Well, Melinda, you were doing your job. 839 00:36:17,643 --> 00:36:20,879 And, um... 840 00:36:20,912 --> 00:36:22,548 I wouldn't ask for anything different. 841 00:36:29,921 --> 00:36:31,423 [shouting] 842 00:36:33,825 --> 00:36:35,727 Don't torture yourself. 843 00:36:35,761 --> 00:36:36,795 I have to testify 844 00:36:36,828 --> 00:36:38,264 for the Grand Jury tomorrow morning. 845 00:36:38,297 --> 00:36:39,398 I keep watching that tape, 846 00:36:39,431 --> 00:36:40,932 looking for where it all went wrong. 847 00:36:44,336 --> 00:36:47,639 I never meant to hurt Ryan. 848 00:36:47,673 --> 00:36:49,408 I mean, hell, I tried to save him. 849 00:36:49,441 --> 00:36:50,776 What do you mean? 850 00:36:50,809 --> 00:36:52,478 [sighs] 851 00:36:52,511 --> 00:36:54,946 I gave him CPR when he stopped breathing. 852 00:36:54,980 --> 00:36:56,248 No one told me that. 853 00:36:56,282 --> 00:36:58,284 That wasn't in the EMS report. 854 00:36:58,317 --> 00:36:59,551 Well, I stopped by the time they got there. 855 00:36:59,585 --> 00:37:01,420 Well, that changes everything. 856 00:37:01,453 --> 00:37:03,555 The chest compressions could have ruptured his spleen. 857 00:37:03,589 --> 00:37:04,823 Well, look, I had to do something. 858 00:37:04,856 --> 00:37:06,658 He stopped breathing. 859 00:37:06,692 --> 00:37:08,660 Which means he was dead before you ruptured his spleen. 860 00:37:11,897 --> 00:37:12,964 Okay, so what killed him? 861 00:37:12,998 --> 00:37:14,333 I don't know. 862 00:37:16,067 --> 00:37:17,803 I didn't miss anything on autopsy. 863 00:37:17,836 --> 00:37:20,506 I'm sure of it. 864 00:37:20,539 --> 00:37:22,641 You have a copy of the case file? 865 00:37:22,674 --> 00:37:24,410 Yeah, yeah. 866 00:37:28,046 --> 00:37:29,348 (Warner) Any Juvie records? 867 00:37:29,381 --> 00:37:30,482 (Stabler) Yeah, right here. 868 00:37:47,032 --> 00:37:49,768 What drugs was Ryan on the night of the murder? 869 00:37:52,371 --> 00:37:55,707 "Cold tablets, Oxycodone, and Ecstasy." 870 00:37:55,741 --> 00:37:58,910 He wasn't on those when he died. 871 00:37:58,944 --> 00:38:00,812 What else was in the candy bowl? 872 00:38:00,846 --> 00:38:02,681 "Valium, Ritalin, 873 00:38:02,714 --> 00:38:03,682 "Propranolol... 874 00:38:03,715 --> 00:38:04,683 Vicodin." 875 00:38:04,716 --> 00:38:07,686 Wait a minute. 876 00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,721 Propranolol's a beta blocker 877 00:38:09,755 --> 00:38:13,392 taken by people with heart problems. 878 00:38:13,425 --> 00:38:15,894 I need to see Ryan's medical records. 879 00:38:18,430 --> 00:38:19,798 (Fritz) What did you find 880 00:38:19,831 --> 00:38:21,900 in Ryan Bedford's medical records? 881 00:38:21,933 --> 00:38:25,003 Ryan had been diagnosed with a cardiac condition 882 00:38:25,036 --> 00:38:27,939 called Long Q-T syndrome. 883 00:38:27,973 --> 00:38:29,641 Would you tell the Grand Jury 884 00:38:29,675 --> 00:38:31,443 what that is? 885 00:38:31,477 --> 00:38:33,011 An abnormal disturbance in the heartbeat, 886 00:38:33,044 --> 00:38:34,380 which could lead 887 00:38:34,413 --> 00:38:37,082 to cardiac arrest if left untreated. 888 00:38:37,115 --> 00:38:38,384 Why wasn't this in your report, Doctor? 889 00:38:38,417 --> 00:38:39,451 Because you can't 890 00:38:39,485 --> 00:38:41,420 see an arrhythmia on autopsy. 891 00:38:41,453 --> 00:38:42,621 That's why I missed it. 892 00:38:42,654 --> 00:38:45,424 Dr. Warner, does this change your opinion 893 00:38:45,457 --> 00:38:46,925 of how Ryan Bedford died? 894 00:38:46,958 --> 00:38:48,494 Absolutely. 895 00:38:48,527 --> 00:38:51,096 Ryan had a prescription for Propranolol, 896 00:38:51,129 --> 00:38:53,031 but he wasn't taking his meds, 897 00:38:53,064 --> 00:38:54,766 which put him at risk for sudden death. 898 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,935 The combination of his heart condition 899 00:38:56,968 --> 00:38:58,670 and the stress of running from Elliot 900 00:38:58,704 --> 00:39:01,407 caused an arrhythmia that killed him. 901 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:02,808 How'd you figure it out? 902 00:39:02,841 --> 00:39:04,109 Ryan brought Propranolol 903 00:39:04,142 --> 00:39:05,877 to the pharm party. 904 00:39:05,911 --> 00:39:09,381 That's not your typical recreational pharmaceutical. 905 00:39:09,415 --> 00:39:11,783 So what's the deal? (Fritz) I put it to a vote. 906 00:39:11,817 --> 00:39:13,585 No true bill. 907 00:39:13,619 --> 00:39:14,420 You're cleared, Detective. 908 00:39:22,060 --> 00:39:23,495 Thank you. 909 00:39:23,529 --> 00:39:24,930 Welcome back. 910 00:39:32,638 --> 00:39:34,873 Elliot, what is it? 911 00:39:36,808 --> 00:39:38,877 We need to talk. 912 00:39:45,050 --> 00:39:46,885 I saw the news. 913 00:39:46,918 --> 00:39:48,920 I knew you didn't kill that boy. 914 00:39:50,922 --> 00:39:54,626 It's been a rough couple days. 915 00:39:54,660 --> 00:39:57,429 And I've had time to think about what's important to me. 916 00:40:01,700 --> 00:40:03,702 I love my job... 917 00:40:03,735 --> 00:40:05,070 and I love my family. 918 00:40:08,139 --> 00:40:10,942 And I nearly lost both of 'em. 919 00:40:16,782 --> 00:40:18,717 I wanna come home. 920 00:41:04,229 --> 00:41:06,965 [wolf howling]