.
- In the criminal justice system,
sexually based offenses
are considered especially heinous.
In New York City, the dedicated detectives
who investigate these vicious felonies
are members of an elite squad
known as the Special Victims Unit.
These are their stories.
- Man, this thing is hard as a rock.
- Well, it has been in the freezer for a year.
- [grunting]
- You're using my best sushi knife
on frozen wedding cake?
- I'll put it in the dishwasher when the party's done.
- James, you're putting my knives in the dishwasher?
- Yeah. Why?
- I told you, it can dull the blades.
- Look, I will not have you mad at me on our anniversary.
Open.
[laughter]
You know...
every year will be better than the last.
- Mm. - I love you.
Mm.
- [chuckles]
I love you too.
And as hot as you look right now...
- Yeah, you like it? - Mm-hmm.
Company's coming. Put on real clothes.
- [slaps]
- [laughs]
[elevator chimes]
- Sergeant. - Captain.
- Oh, your first citywide briefing
for the Intelligence Division, huh?
- Yeah, last time I was at one of these things was with you.
- That's right. - Hey, Sergeant.
- Hey, uh, Detective Corgan,
this is my former captain... - Olivia Benson.
- Have we met?
- No, but I am with the Intelligence Division.
- Fair. - Yeah.
See you inside, Sarge? - Sure.
- Gotcha.
- Wow. I see you got yourself a new partner.
- Mm. - How's it going?
Really.
- Don't take this the wrong way.
I love it.
It's like getting to eavesdrop on the whole world.
- And get paid for it. - Yeah, there's that.
And I wanna thank you for putting in a word for me.
- Are you kidding me?
- And for steering me in the right direction.
I--I miss my family with all these long hours,
but before this, I missed who I was even more.
- It is so good to see this version of you again.
- Thanks to Detective Zaragoza with the Gun Violence
Prevention Task Force for the update,
and to the Corrections Department for their report.
Next order of business,
now speaking for the Intelligence Division,
the newly anointed Sergeant Amanda Rollins.
- Thank you, Deputy Commissioner.
Detective Corgan and I have updated information
on the four-man robbery crew we're been tracking.
- Crime tourists from Albania.
- These guys fly into different cities,
they do a handful of jobs,
and then they are on a plane in less than 48 hours.
- And we have credible intel that the crew may be headed
into Manhattan this weekend.
- Their MO is to chase potential targets--
private residences, high-end offices.
- We expect they have access to inside information,
contacts in construction, cleaning crews.
- They move quickly, leaving very little
in the way of prints or DNA.
As of now, Interpol has yet to put names
or faces on any of these guys.
- [laughs] Thank you. - All right, good night.
Get home safe.
- I hope they're taking a cab. Who drinks that much anymore?
Polished off an entire bottle of our champagne by themselves.
- Well, not quite.
Happy anniversary, you two.
- Oh, thank you.
And thanks to my husband for knowing my taste.
- Aww. - [laughs]
- Are you paying attention, honey?
Our anniversary is in a month.
- Okay, time for us to go home.
[laughter]
- No, not until we help clean up.
- Oh, no, no, no, no, no. We got this.
- Don't be a martyr. It won't take long.
- [sighs] - [chuckles]
- Jeez, man, you've blasting those lats.
- Well, it's a dangerous world out there.
You gotta stay ready, you know? - [laughs]
- You should actually stop by
one of my gyms with me sometime.
- Mm. This?
All the exercise I can take. [laughter]
[doorbell rings] Oh, you know what?
That's probably Mitch coming back
to get our last good bottle of champagne.
[tense music]
- Get back! - Whoa! Hey!
Yo, what do you want? - The safe, where is it?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey! Stop, stop, please!
I said, where is it? - What are you doing?
- Shut the hell up.
- Oh, my God, what's going on? - Start in the basement.
- Move! Move! - Do what he says.
- Go back there.
- Now. - Come on.
- Oh, my God. - Keep moving.
- What did they say? Go back. Just go.
- [speaks Albanian] - I'm coming.
- Just take whatever you want. My wallet's on the dresser.
- Take my necklace.
I have more jewelry in the bedroom safe.
- Yeah, no kidding.
We're looking for the other one.
- We found it. 25-cube safe.
[gun clicks]
- What's the combo?
- James!
- The number. - No, no, no.
[gunshot]
[people screaming]
- Aldrit! [speaking Albanian]
- The combination.
- [groaning]
26-19-32.
[groans] - You want help with the safe?
- You've done enough. Stay here.
* *
- No, please. - Hey, hey!
There's no need for that. Just take what you want!
- I will.
* *
- We don't know anything about that safe.
- [breathing rapidly]
- Take your clothes off.
- Wh--
[breathing rapidly]
- [breathing rapidly]
[screams]
- No, no, please! Don't, don't, don't!
- [groans] Just do what he says!
- [groaning, panting]
- You heard the man.
- [sobbing]
[breathing rapidly]
[whimpers]
* *
[sobbing]
- So one of the two female victims was raped?
Yeah, we just pulled up.
- What are we looking at?
- A home invasion, armed robbery, and a rape.
Are you thinking this is your crew?
- It could be. It's a different MO though.
- Because of the sexual assault.
- Eastern European accents. - Right.
Yeah, I gotta look into it. - Yeah.
- Whose case is this?
- Looks like it's both of ours.
[dramatic music]
* *
.
- Officer, what are we looking at?
- Four perps in some kind of construction masks, armed.
- How'd they get in? - Just rang the bell.
Owners were having a dinner party.
- One of the vics was shot? - Homeowner, James Fletcher.
Direct shot to the kneecap. He's on the way to Mercy.
- What about the rape victim?
- Nora Fletcher, the guy's wife.
Went with him in the ambo. - All right.
Was she able to tell you which one of them assaulted her?
- Actually, she wouldn't tell us anything.
- Well, how do you know she was raped?
- Friends of the homeowners, uh, Valerie and Graham Martin,
were right there in the same room when it happened.
- You're telling me that she was sexually assaulted
in front of her friends? - And her own husband.
- We'll take it from here, officer.
- Divide and conquer?
- The last guests had left.
Uh, we were cleaning up.
Doorbell rang. James answered.
- And the robbery crew pushed in.
- Four of them, in masks, armed.
- With? - Shotguns, handguns.
They took, uh, the four of us into the kitchen and,
um, zip-tied us.
- They say anything?
- One guy. Older.
Seemed like the leader.
And they knew exactly what they were looking for.
- Meaning what?
- A safe in the basement, evidently.
I'm James' best friend. I didn't even know he had one.
- Why'd they shoot him?
- He wouldn't give up the combo.
Younger guy, seemed like the muscle.
He shot him in the knee.
The leader was pissed. - How so?
- He yelled at the guy in some foreign language.
- Our Albanians.
- They brought all of us in here.
- And this is where he tied you up?
- Yeah.
At first, it seemed like he just wanted
the combo to James' safe.
- And what about your friend?
The one that was raped.
- Nora doesn't know I told the cops about that.
She asked me not to say anything.
- Do you have any idea why she didn't wanna report it?
- I... - But you reported it anyway.
- Someone needed to. - Yeah.
- About the rapist, is there anything else
you could tell us?
- He was some kind of psycho, just unhinged.
It seemed like he got off on the power,
making us watch.
James especially.
- [exhales]
Keep canvassing-- traffic cams, Ring cams.
The neighbors who called it in, I need a full statement.
Thank you, Fin.
Uh, were you able to talk to the homeowners?
- The doctors say that James is still in surgery.
- And where's Nora now? - She's in the cafeteria.
And I wasn't gonna talk to her without you, of course.
But what is the play here?
Because her friend says she doesn't wanna cooperate.
- Well, we can't force her to get a rape kit.
- I know that, but...
this is a change in pattern, Liv, all right?
These guys don't normally rape.
- So this is about ID'ing your unsubs?
- Point blank, yes.
They could be on the next flight out.
If this guy did leave DNA, it could be our only chance
at getting this crew. - I understand that.
But my main concern, Sergeant,
is getting the man who raped Nora.
[apprehensive music]
* *
- Mrs. Fletcher.
Hi, I'm Captain Benson from SVU.
This is Sergeant Rollins from Intelligence.
Do you mind if we sit?
- I don't want the police involved.
- I know.
I certainly understand that, but your neighbor
across the street called it in.
- You don't get it.
The men who broke into my home know where we live.
We're gonna have to move, leave the city.
- Not if we catch these guys.
- And if you don't?
- We will, because one of them made a big mistake.
- A mistake that could lead to us taking them all down.
- And what was that?
- Assaulting you.
- Valerie told you.
I made her swear not to say anything.
- Listen, your friend is worried about you.
And you need medical attention, Mrs. Fletcher.
- No, I don't care what happens to me, okay?
I just want my marriage to survive this.
A few hours ago, I was mad at him
for putting knives in the dishwasher.
[sobs]
He made James watch.
My tough guy just became a puddle.
[sobbing]
- Help us find the men who did this to you.
Please.
- [exhales]
If I help-- ifI help--
James can never know that I told you how he reacted.
- He will never hear it from us.
- We just wanna get these guys--
- Before they get on a plane and leave the country.
* *
.
- Okay, Captain. Thanks.
Benson and Rollins got our vic to agree to a rape kit.
- With any luck, we'll be able to pull the guy's DNA,
link him to something overseas.
- I'm guessing in your line of work,
you don't get too many rape cases.
- Nah, I've never seen anything like this.
- Yeah, even for us, this one's pretty cold.
- What the hell you think that's about?
- Think? The guys we're dealing with,
not too much thinking is involved.
Welcome to the cesspool of human depravity.
[door clicks]
- Sorry to keep you waiting. Come on in.
- CSU says you got something for us?
- Found it outside the Fletcher house.
Trail cam.
- One of those things hunters use?
- What are the chances the Fletchers
put it there themselves?
- As well as it was hidden, I highly doubt it.
- So somebody's been recording the comings
and goings of the Fletchers.
- You been able to pull any footage off it yet?
- Still working on it.
- All right, so the homeowner was shot in the knee--
he's still in recovery-- but the rape victim
agreed to a kit. - A rape?
Are we sure that we're looking at your crew, Rollins?
- Well, the rape is off-pattern,
but the MO is the same.
- So tell me that we've got something.
- Not a lot.
A few stills from the neighbor's security cam.
- Those bags look heavy.
- The safe was cleaned out.
We found it in the basement, open and empty.
- Any idea what was in it?
- We asked the wife. She has no idea.
- We haven't been able to talk to the husband.
- Was anything else taken? - They left a lot.
Paintings still on the walls, rings on fingers,
watches on wrists.
Wife has a new diamond necklace,
and the guy has five Rolexes in the bedroom safe alone.
- Rolexes, two safes-- what does this guy
do for a living? - He owns a chain of gyms.
He's worth about 50 mil.
- This crew knew exactly what they were going after.
- So CSU find anything? - Not a print, hair, or fiber.
They're still combing through.
- Yeah, but one thing, we found a trail cam out front.
- A trail cam?
- Yeah, these robbery crews use trail cams to
develop a pattern of life for their targets.
- TARU's tracing the serial numbers and pulling images.
- So what about the car? Did we run the plates?
- We can't trace the number.
Likely ghost plates, but TARU's working on that too.
- Okay, so clearly, whatever they wanted was in that safe.
- Well, the wife and the friends might have no idea,
but somebody must.
- Well, these people are rich, right?
They have a staff?
- Sure, a housekeeper, a gardener,
a couple of handymen--
- Nora has to have all those contacts.
Let's start there.
[suspenseful music]
- I just could not sit in that cafeteria any longer.
My house still a crime scene?
- We'll let you know as soon as we're done.
- Not that I ever wanna go back there.
[sniffles]
So did you find anything from my rape kit?
- There was DNA.
Um, unfortunately, there's no matches
in our database.
- We're also running it international.
It may take time.
- So what? We just wait?
- No, we're--we're working the other evidence.
Um, we found a trail cam that was hidden in your planters
in the front of your house. - A trail cam?
- Yeah, the crew was using it to stake out your place.
- [breathes shakily]
How--how long were they watching us?
- Well, we don't know that,
but Nora, what we'd like to ask you for--
is there somebody who can ID anybody
who's had access to your home?
- Uh-- [phone buzzes]
Oh, excuse me.
Oh, it's the hospital.
Uh, this is Nora Fletcher.
* *
Uh, um--I'll--
I'll be right there. Uh, I have to go.
- What--what is going on? - James has a blood clot.
They have to put some kind of filter in his chest.
- He's gonna go back into surgery?
- I don't know. I'm sorry. I have to go.
- Okay.
- Good news?
- Well, James is out of surgery,
but he's still unconscious and unable to talk.
- Okay, what do you got from the list
of employees Nora gave us?
- We showed the housekeeper
an image from the trail cam. - And?
- Well, she didn't recognize the shorter guy.
Neither did Nora, but they both ID'd the taller guy.
- And who is he?
- He's James Fletcher's business manager.
- Business manager? - Dennis Maynard.
- He was helping James open up a couple
new locations of his gym.
- Well, obviously James trusts him with his money,
so find out if he knows what was in that safe
and who else he brought to the apartment that day.
- Got a hit on the DNA from Interpol.
- Great.
- Aldrit Neziri from Tirana, Albania, 25.
Picked up for sex assault in Antwerp a year ago.
Made bail, managed to skip out of town before trial.
- Okay, did the rape happen during a robbery?
- Totally unconnected. He drugged a stripper.
That's why he never crossed our radar.
- Do we know how he's connected to the crew?
- We're working on it.
One of Aldrit's girlfriends posted bail
for him in Antwerp-- Anya De Vries, Dutch national.
She has an apartment in Queens.
- Let's pay her a visit.
[knocking]
- Police! Open up!
Police! - We have a body down!
- Police! - Stand down!
- Aldrit Neziri? - NYPD!
- Clear!
- Clear.
- Bathroom's clear. - Hallway clear.
- Looks like he's staying here.
- At least he was.
Now he's bleeding out and on the run.
- Why the hell would he rip up his own passport?
- My guess? He didn't.
- Whoever broke in here, shot his girlfriend,
and tried to kill him did. - Okay.
So his crew tried to clean up the mess
he made by raping Nora. - They botched the job.
A lot of blood here. He's not gonna get far.
- Okay, we need a citywide hospital canvass,
drugstores, and clinics.
- And if he does survive,
he's gonna make one hell of a witness.
His own team tried to kill him.
- That'll make him easy to flip.
* *
.
- So we finally ID'd a suspect,
but he's in the wind?
- But he's wounded. - And leaking.
So don't worry, we'll catch him.
- The blood trail stops a block from his apartment.
We're checking traffic cams, canvassing.
- What about ballistics? You get those yet?
- We found a gun that was registered in Georgia
to none other than the homeowner.
- James Fletcher? - They took it from the safe.
- But we still don't know what else was in there?
- No, but we ran James Fletcher's financials...
- Uh-huh.
- And it turns out that he cashed out
half of his portfolio last month.
- Okay, the business manager, Dennis Maynard.
Did we talk to him? - Not yet.
- Maynard's office says he's out of town.
He's not answering his cell phone.
- That's inconveniently convenient.
- We have a home address?
- Yeah, he has a townhouse in Chelsea.
- You and Curry pay him a visit.
And in the meantime, let's find out
if Nora knew why her husband had an AR-15 in that safe.
- Did we get the DNA back from her rape kit?
- That's how we ID'd him.
- Well, I'd like to get as much leverage on this guy as I can.
- So let's show her a six-pack.
- I mean, it's hard to tell. He--he was wearing a mask.
- So focus on the eyes.
- Yeah, okay.
[suspenseful music]
* *
That's him.
Dead eyes.
- Okay.
How is your husband doing?
- He's still in recovery.
So you guys managed to ID the man who raped me.
What about the rest?
- We're still working on all of it.
- So, Nora, we recovered a gun
that was registered to your husband.
- What? There was a gun in the safe?
- Yeah, an AR-15.
What do you think he's doing
with a high-powered weapon like that?
- [scoffs] He was worried about my safety.
- Why? Did something happen?
- Six months ago, some random guy
sucker punched me on the street.
I was fine, but James just got really overprotective.
He's worried this country is gonna
descend into a civil war.
He even applied for a citizenship in the EU.
- So we also found out that he cashed out several million
in stocks. - What?
- You didn't know? - No.
Did you talk to Dennis, James' business manager?
- We will.
So what can you tell us about him?
- He handles our finances.
What did James do with that money?
- We don't know yet,
but from what you're telling us,
it sounds like he was preparing for the end of the world.
- And somehow this crew found out about it.
- [sighs]
- I apologize about that out-of-town misunderstanding.
- Misunderstanding? - I have a new office girl.
- Okay, well, we're here now. - [sighs]
What happened to James and Nora, terrible.
I've helped him grow his business
for the past ten years.
- So James must be one of your longest clients.
- [chuckles] He's like a brother to me.
We go golfing at least once a week.
Have you caught these guys yet? - Not yet.
We're hoping you could shed some light on their motive.
- Why me? - You pay his bills, right?
- You ever seen this guy before?
- No.
He's one of the guys who robbed James?
- And raped Nora.
- All right, let's be blunt, Mr. Maynard.
We know that James cashed out half his portfolio.
- I advised against it.
I had him heavily invested in tech.
The market's never looked better.
- What was in the safe?
- From what we could tell, it was heavy.
- He bought gold. - How much?
- 10 million.
- Did anyone else know about this?
- Other than me, uh, his wife, maybe.
Why don't you ask him?
- Oh, we will, once he's conscious.
- Okay.
Well, then, uh, I've told you all I can.
- One more thing.
Who's this gentleman?
- That would be an appraiser for the insurance company.
- Insurance?
- James asked me to take out a policy on the gold.
We had to have it appraised.
- Do you have a copy?
- [chuckles] I'd have to look for it.
And without James' permission--
- Okay, well, we can get a subpoena.
- No need for that.
It's around here somewhere.
* *
Here it is.
- And when did James ask you to do this?
- I am starting to feel uncomfortable.
I'm not in the habit of discussing
my clients' personal business.
- Good thing it's dated.
- A week before the robbery.
We're gonna need a copy of this.
- Take that one. It's a duplicate.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a 3:00.
I think I have been forthcoming enough.
You can see yourselves out.
- We'll be in touch.
So James took out an insurance policy on his gold
a week before the robbery?
- You think he set this all up to collect on the policy?
[phone buzzes] - You can ask him yourself.
He just woke up.
- I just got out of surgery, I've barely talked to my wife,
and you're asking me about some insurance policy?
- We need to know if you signed it.
- Is this your signature?
- No, it's not.
Dennis must have signed it.
- Is that unusual?
- He has power of attorney.
He signs a lot of things for me.
What is unusual is I had no idea
that insurance policy even existed.
- Okay, so why didn't you call the cops
after your house was robbed?
- And your wife got raped?
- You think I wanted to see her get raped right in front of me?
- Okay. - Huh?
- All right, let's just calm down.
- You wanna know why I didn't call the cops?
It's because I froze, okay?
A man has two jobs,
to protect and provide for his woman,
and I'm a failure at the most important one.
- I mean, somehow these guys knew that you had $10 million
in gold in your basement. How'd they find out?
- I don't know.
- Didn't let it slip to a friend or somebody at work?
- I didn't even tell Nora.
- So James and his business manager
are the only two who knew about the gold?
- Yeah, but I don't think James is good for it.
- Okay, so what about his insurance appraiser?
He had to have known about it.
- Well, according to his office,
the guy's been missing for two days.
- My guess is three Albanians gave him a swimming lesson
in the East River. - Hold on.
How does a middle-aged financial manager
get in touch with a crew of international crime tourists?
- We went through Maynard's client list.
He's got a lot of contacts in the Diamond District.
- Diamond District?
Okay, it's not hard to do the math.
- I mean, his townhouse alone, his trophy wife--
this guy's life isn't cheap.
- And it's about to get a whole lot more expensive.
Bring him in.
* *
.
- So what's the short guy's name again?
- The appraiser? Kyle Schwartz.
Just pulled him out of the East River,
full of shotgun pellets. - Yeah, that sounds familiar.
Okay, here he is.
You wanna do the honors? - Hell, no.
I'm in Intelligence. We keep it clean.
- Okay, I can't say for sure until we do ballistics,
but from the look of it, this is the same
shotgun gauge used by the Albanians.
- He's gotta have more holes than a colander,
and we still haven't found the guys.
We need to widen the search.
- Well, you can handle that.
Just picked up Maynard.
- All right.
- I never meant for anyone to get hurt.
I was told these guys weren't violent.
- Who told you that? Another criminal?
- Who was your contact?
- We give that up, and what kind
of consideration do we get?
- Mr. Carter, you already have my patience.
So my consideration for murder one,
you're not gonna get. - Murder one? What?
Someone's dead?
- These guys killed one of their accomplice's girlfriends.
And from the looks of it, they tried to kill him too.
- Yeah, and maybe your appraiser.
- What?
- Yeah, Kyle Schwartz from Blackstone Fidelity.
When's the last time you heard from him?
We just saw his body in the morgue.
- My client's gonna need protection.
- We can do that.
So, Dennis, how did this all start?
[tense music]
* *
- I had already brokered James' gold deal.
- So you knew he was sitting on $10 million worth.
You had power of attorney, so you took out
an insurance policy without him knowing.
- And let me guess, you were gonna get paid twice.
- Yeah, the robbery crew was gonna
cut you in on the gold,
and then you were gonna cash out the policy.
- I thought these guys were pros.
They were going to go in, get the gold, and get out.
No one was supposed to get hurt.
- Yeah, well, a woman got raped because of you,
and your client damn near died. - We're here to cooperate.
- Well, then you better start talking.
Are these guys still in town?
- It's not easy to unload $10 million worth of gold.
Not like they're gonna take it on a plane.
- Well, this is what you're gonna do.
You're gonna get in touch with them,
and you're gonna tell them you have a buyer.
* *
- If these guys do fall for this fake buyer setup...
- Then we arrest them and your case is closed.
- And your rapist is still out there.
- With no leads.
But either way, you and I need to let James and Nora
know that their business manager
was the one who set them up.
- Maynard had those guys rob our house?
Why?
- He was heavily leveraged.
He was deeply in debt.
- [scoffs]
What about the man who raped me?
- Maynard said that wasn't part of the plan.
- And you believe him?
- Whether we do or we don't isn't the issue.
But the-- the fact of the matter is,
is he did embezzle the $10 million.
- [sighs]
- Oh, my God.
- I--I just feel like this is all my fault.
I was just trying to have a plan
to protect you in the future in case the world collapsed,
and I put you in danger.
- [sobs]
- I told you just to do whatever he wanted.
[somber music]
* *
- Are we ever gonna be okay again?
- I think the most important thing
is that you're both here, together.
[phone buzzes]
- It's Corgan.
- Excuse us for a sec.
- A 911 call just came in.
A doctor at a downtown clinic was just held up
at gunpoint by a man with wounds from buckshot.
- Is that the guy?
- Yeah, that's him.
We were just closing up. He burst in.
- And what did he ask you to do?
- He had a wound in his side, one in his leg.
He tried to Krazy Glue them shut,
but it wasn't helping.
He held a gun on me, demanded medical attention.
- He had an accent?
- Sounded Eastern European.
I did what I could.
Took some pellets out, gave him gauze, painkillers.
- And then what happened next? - He just left.
- Did you see him get into a car?
- No, his condition, he won't get far.
- All right.
Thank you so much, Doctor. All right, team, listen up.
Uh, I need this entire area searched.
We know he's on foot, and we have a description.
Go.
- We're gonna need air support.
- Officers saw a guy matching the description
bleeding on Greenwich. - We're heading there now.
- Let's go. - All right.
He's armed. Everybody vest up.
- There's no sign of him yet.
- Maybe we should have jumped in the car.
- In this crowd?
I think we're better off on foot.
- Liv. - NYPD!
[tense music]
- What? - Yo, watch it!
- Move!
[crowd clamoring]
Stop!
- He's going downstairs. - We got him.
He's headed upstairs.
- [grunts]
- What--what are you doing? [glass shatters]
- Rollins.
NYPD. Everyone back!
- We got a gun behind the bar. It needs to be secured.
NYPD. Watch it. - Police!
- Where the hell is he? - We split up.
You take the upstairs.
I'm gonna go this way.
- Watch it. Watch it.
- [panting]
Get out of my way! - [screams]
- [panting]
- He's heading towards the roof.
Liv, I'm on his heels.
- Hey! Don't move!
- It's over. - You're hurting me.
- Aldrit Neziri?
- I don't know who that is. - Oh, you don't?
Guess what?
We do.
* *
- Come on.
* *
.
- Valerie, what's going on?
- It's Nora.
I called the hotel, and the concierge sent me here.
- Nora's in that bar? - Yeah.
And from the way she's acting, she's been there for hours.
- She won't talk to you?
- She refuses to even look at me.
She thinks I betrayed her trust.
- Right.
By telling us that she was raped.
Okay, listen to me, Valerie.
You did-- you did the right thing.
- I'm not so sure now.
I've never seen her like this before.
- She's never been sexually assaulted before.
It has a way of changing people.
It's changed you too.
- Yeah, it's been tough to forget what we saw,
but Graham and I are getting through it.
- Listen, it's not about forgetting it.
It's about dealing with it.
- That's why I called you. - Of course. Of course.
I'll, uh--I'll talk to her.
[doorbell jingles]
This place feels a little lowbrow
for your style, isn't it?
- Well, this is how I'm feeling, so...
and I don't need company.
- Well, I'm not gonna let you beat yourself up alone,
so you might as well tell me what's going on.
That story that you told us about
getting punched in the face by a passerby--
you said that James got overprotective after that?
- Yeah, he did.
- How did it affect you?
[pensive music]
- Well, in hindsight,
I think I was just more worried about James' reaction.
- But you were the one that was victimized.
- I mean, in hindsight, I think I just
was more worried about how James felt.
- Because James would feel worse.
Is it possible that that's what you're doing now?
Mm-hmm.
- How do I get out of this?
- What happened to you was horrific,
but it wasn't just you.
Your--your friends saw, your husband saw.
But your first instinct
was not to report your rape, right?
To spare them all the pain?
- I don't know. I thought I was being strong.
- That's not strength, Nora.
That's avoidance.
You know, you, uh-- you don't have to do it now,
here, in front of me, but at some point today,
I want you to talk to your husband
about how this affected you.
And then after that, I want you to tell him
that you're not as far away from justice as you feel.
- What do you mean?
- We caught the guy.
- [sobbing]
- That's right.
You pick up the other three Albanians?
- Alex Neziri, Zef Sokoli and Sandro Nikolla
were arrested at the sting Dennis set up.
They're in Rikers awaiting arraignment.
- They say anything? - They lawyered up.
But we recovered the gold and the masks
from the rental they had up in the South Bronx.
- That's good enough for a grand jury indictment.
Hey, by the way, Interpol's been calling.
They want us to ship these guys back overseas.
- Well, we're fighting it.
- New York crime, New York case.
- Don't worry, they're gonna do their time in New York,
and then we'll consent to extradition.
- What about Aldrit?
He's guilty for the shooting and the rape.
- Oh, he's still in the hospital.
- Is there any chance this guy would
testify against his buddies?
I mean, these guys are gonna plead not guilty.
They're gonna milk this as long as they can.
- Well, they did kill his girlfriend,
so, yeah, maybe.
- Nothing like arraigning a guy in a hospital bed,
just to up the pressure.
- There's the hardball ADA I married.
- On the charges of robbery in the first degree,
assault one, and rape one, how do you plead?
- Not guilty. - People on bail?
- Given that he's a foreign national
with no ties to the community-- - I'll grant remand.
Unless you have any objections. - No, Your Honor.
- Okay.
Mr. Neziri, you will be sent to Rikers
pending trial after your release from this hospital.
Do you understand?
- Just answer the judge.
- Yes.
- Then we are adjourned.
Come on.
- My client may be willing to cooperate.
- I'm listening.
Once the crew found out Aldrit took a deal,
they all folded.
- What kind of time are we looking at?
- 15 years each for the armed robbery.
- What did they give Aldrit?
- 20 years for the robbery and assault.
- And what about the rape?
- Another five, to be served consecutively.
- Then he'll be extradited to Antwerp
to face the sex assault charges there.
- Assuming his partners don't finish
the job they started and execute him in Rikers.
- Either way, nice work, Counselor.
- Can we go home now? - [chuckles]
I'll meet you there.
- I'm out. - Yeah.
- So the man who raped me will go to prison?
- Absolutely.
He's gonna testify against the others first,
but he's gonna do serious time.
- And what he did to you, he's done to others before.
Multiple countries want this guy,
and he'll be in a prison somewhere in Europe for life.
- Uh, and what about James' business manager?
- So Maynard, it's, uh, a bit of a different story.
He took a plea deal,
but from what we understand, he has lost
every single client he ever had.
- And his marriage.
- Speaking of which, how are you and James doing?
- Uh... [scoffs]
Trying to get him to take a second look
at how he sees the world.
We talked about moving out of the city.
- Oh? And how do you feel about that?
- I made it clear that I'm never going back
to that house again.
And I'm not gonna live in fear
that the world's gonna fall apart.
- You know, hope can never be underestimated.
- Yeah, well, I hope he and I can get past this
together, as a couple.
- You know, Nora, if I can, uh, offer you this--
one thing that you might wanna focus on now
is taking care of yourself.
Because my experience is,
we cannot truly support another person
until we deal with our own individual trauma.
[soft music]
* *
- Well, that was an adventure.
- Oh, is that what we're calling it?
- I'm not gonna say I'm happy that a crew
of crime tourists came into our lives,
but it was nice to work with you again.
- Well, it never hurts to have a little juice
with the Intelligence Division.
- Hey, if I ever get any intel on an SVU case,
you'll be my first call.
[dramatic music]
* *
[wolf howls]