1 00:00:04,091 --> 00:00:04,265 . 2 00:00:04,308 --> 00:00:06,267 - In the criminal justice system, 3 00:00:06,310 --> 00:00:07,703 sexually based offenses 4 00:00:07,746 --> 00:00:09,792 are considered especially heinous. 5 00:00:09,835 --> 00:00:12,055 In New York City, the dedicated detectives 6 00:00:12,099 --> 00:00:13,665 who investigate these vicious felonies 7 00:00:13,709 --> 00:00:15,319 are members of an elite squad 8 00:00:15,363 --> 00:00:17,234 known as the Special Victims Unit. 9 00:00:17,278 --> 00:00:20,020 These are their stories. 10 00:00:21,151 --> 00:00:23,414 - His spotted hand jerked forward, 11 00:00:23,458 --> 00:00:26,374 landing heavy on the top of my head. 12 00:00:26,417 --> 00:00:31,509 Retreat or resistance was now futile. 13 00:00:31,553 --> 00:00:34,034 I reminded myself to breathe-- 14 00:00:34,077 --> 00:00:37,211 in, out, in, out. 15 00:00:37,254 --> 00:00:39,039 The fumes from a passing truck 16 00:00:39,082 --> 00:00:41,345 crept through the open window of his Toyota, 17 00:00:41,389 --> 00:00:43,043 snuck into my nostrils 18 00:00:43,086 --> 00:00:45,654 and slithered down my esophagus like a worm, 19 00:00:45,697 --> 00:00:50,833 taunting the rubber walls into syncopated contractions. 20 00:00:50,876 --> 00:00:52,835 Push, push, 21 00:00:52,878 --> 00:00:55,446 pull, push. 22 00:00:55,490 --> 00:00:58,101 Now, the calluses on William's fingers 23 00:00:58,145 --> 00:01:01,061 scratched my thighs in 20 spots at once. 24 00:01:01,104 --> 00:01:05,282 Now, the stale cigar breath engulfed my tongue. 25 00:01:05,326 --> 00:01:07,545 Now, his yellow incisors 26 00:01:07,589 --> 00:01:11,201 nipped at my earlobes and neck. 27 00:01:11,245 --> 00:01:13,551 The kraken has trapped the barracuda 28 00:01:13,595 --> 00:01:17,077 and is toying with it before the feast. 29 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:18,600 The dust lifted and rose, 30 00:01:18,643 --> 00:01:21,646 forming a halo above the deserted parking lot. 31 00:01:23,257 --> 00:01:27,130 And for one short, illusory moment... 32 00:01:28,523 --> 00:01:31,874 I was Bobbi again... 33 00:01:31,917 --> 00:01:35,095 12 years old 34 00:01:35,138 --> 00:01:38,141 and alone. 35 00:01:44,365 --> 00:01:51,459 ♪ 36 00:01:55,419 --> 00:01:57,682 - I already read it like three times.... 37 00:01:57,726 --> 00:01:59,902 - Thank you. - I don't know how you did it, 38 00:01:59,945 --> 00:02:02,470 but it just keeps getting better. 39 00:02:02,513 --> 00:02:04,472 - Well, um, y'all keep reading now. 40 00:02:04,515 --> 00:02:07,779 And fourth time's the charm. 41 00:02:07,823 --> 00:02:10,826 - You had such a hard life, Bobbi. 42 00:02:10,869 --> 00:02:14,308 - Well, it's, um... the only one I know. 43 00:02:14,351 --> 00:02:15,787 - To read it is one thing. 44 00:02:15,831 --> 00:02:19,182 To hear you read it is-- can I say it--experiential. 45 00:02:19,226 --> 00:02:20,618 - How ever did you find her, Walter? 46 00:02:20,662 --> 00:02:22,794 - Believe it or not, she found me. 47 00:02:22,838 --> 00:02:24,796 - Well, color me green. 48 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,408 - Bobbi, do you think your work will ever go mainstream? 49 00:02:27,451 --> 00:02:28,844 - I'm happy being a small fry. 50 00:02:28,887 --> 00:02:30,759 - Real literary advancement always comes from 51 00:02:30,802 --> 00:02:32,674 the small houses like Pitch Dark Press. 52 00:02:32,717 --> 00:02:34,458 We're underground and proud of it. 53 00:02:34,502 --> 00:02:36,808 - Have you started your next book? 54 00:02:36,852 --> 00:02:38,419 - Bobbi's always working on something. 55 00:02:38,462 --> 00:02:40,421 Don't ask. She won't even tell me about it. 56 00:02:40,464 --> 00:02:42,597 - I'm gonna get a refill. - Mm-hmm. 57 00:02:44,555 --> 00:02:47,819 Extraordinary. - Yes, definitely. 58 00:02:57,699 --> 00:03:03,487 ♪ 59 00:03:03,531 --> 00:03:04,836 - It's a nasty one, Sonny. 60 00:03:07,274 --> 00:03:08,579 - A book reading in the store, 61 00:03:08,623 --> 00:03:10,712 followed by a signing and cocktails. 62 00:03:10,755 --> 00:03:13,193 The author, Bobbi O'Rourke, comes out here 63 00:03:13,236 --> 00:03:15,586 with a glass of Chablis to grab a smoke. 64 00:03:15,630 --> 00:03:17,414 Wham! A brick to the head. 65 00:03:17,458 --> 00:03:19,895 Rinse, dry, repeat. 66 00:03:21,549 --> 00:03:22,593 - Liv! 67 00:03:24,552 --> 00:03:26,293 Was she raped? - Apparently not. 68 00:03:26,336 --> 00:03:28,338 - Well, due respect, Lieu, but what are we doing here? 69 00:03:28,382 --> 00:03:31,689 - She's not a she-- physically, anyway. 70 00:03:31,733 --> 00:03:34,649 We may be looking at a hate crime. 71 00:03:37,608 --> 00:03:40,698 ♪ 72 00:03:45,486 --> 00:03:52,580 ♪ 73 00:04:28,790 --> 00:04:30,270 - We pulled prints from the brick, 74 00:04:30,313 --> 00:04:31,793 but they're not in any database. 75 00:04:31,836 --> 00:04:33,751 Now, Bobbi's got a learner's permit from North Carolina. 76 00:04:33,795 --> 00:04:35,318 He's 16 years old. 77 00:04:35,362 --> 00:04:36,667 - Did you try reaching out his family? 78 00:04:36,711 --> 00:04:38,321 - Yeah, we tried, but the address wasn't real. 79 00:04:38,365 --> 00:04:40,323 - All right, so if his book is true, 80 00:04:40,367 --> 00:04:41,933 he ran away at 13 years old 81 00:04:41,977 --> 00:04:43,935 and he supported himself turning tricks at truck stops 82 00:04:43,979 --> 00:04:45,546 as he hitched rides to New York. 83 00:04:45,589 --> 00:04:46,895 - As if being transgender wasn't tough enough. 84 00:04:46,938 --> 00:04:48,418 - But Bobbi's not transgender. 85 00:04:48,462 --> 00:04:50,072 Robbie just figured out that 86 00:04:50,115 --> 00:04:52,422 he made more money pretending to be a teenage girl. 87 00:04:52,466 --> 00:04:54,859 - That's how he paid his rent, 88 00:04:54,903 --> 00:04:56,687 until the book, I guess. 89 00:04:56,731 --> 00:04:58,950 - Liv, I got something. 90 00:04:58,994 --> 00:05:03,346 The bookstore videoed the after-party. 91 00:05:03,390 --> 00:05:07,437 Seems Bobbi was a darling of the elites on both coasts. 92 00:05:07,481 --> 00:05:10,048 Here we go. 93 00:05:10,092 --> 00:05:13,574 That's his third, if you're counting. 94 00:05:13,617 --> 00:05:15,837 Now, keep your eye on this guy. 95 00:05:19,101 --> 00:05:21,321 - Bobbi's going out back. 96 00:05:23,105 --> 00:05:25,325 - And so is he. 97 00:05:27,370 --> 00:05:29,677 This could be our guy. 98 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:31,418 - Okay, check in with the bookstore 99 00:05:31,461 --> 00:05:34,682 and see if anyone can get a name. 100 00:05:34,725 --> 00:05:36,336 - It's a tragedy. 101 00:05:36,379 --> 00:05:38,773 Bobbi would've been one of the greats. 102 00:05:38,816 --> 00:05:41,819 Hunter S. Thompson. William S. Burroughs. 103 00:05:41,863 --> 00:05:44,692 The world as it is, not as it should be. 104 00:05:45,780 --> 00:05:47,912 I... I'm sorry. 105 00:05:47,956 --> 00:05:51,046 - Let me ask you this. How do these readings work? 106 00:05:51,089 --> 00:05:52,395 Do people buy tickets? 107 00:05:52,439 --> 00:05:53,875 - There was a short guest list. 108 00:05:53,918 --> 00:05:55,529 The rest were first come, first serve. 109 00:05:55,572 --> 00:05:57,139 - We're gonna need to see that list. 110 00:05:57,182 --> 00:05:58,923 - You have to go to Bobbi's publisher for that. 111 00:05:58,967 --> 00:06:00,447 Pitch Dark Press. 112 00:06:00,490 --> 00:06:01,796 - Pitch Dark Press. Okay. 113 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:03,885 Thank you. 114 00:06:07,410 --> 00:06:08,672 - It was the first time 115 00:06:08,716 --> 00:06:10,152 that anyone had ever seen him before. 116 00:06:10,195 --> 00:06:12,154 - Well, sure. 117 00:06:12,197 --> 00:06:15,418 But his readers were fascinated by his story. 118 00:06:15,462 --> 00:06:17,855 They were chomping at the bit to lay their eyes on him. 119 00:06:17,899 --> 00:06:20,597 - Fascinated by a child prostitute, huh? 120 00:06:20,641 --> 00:06:23,992 - By a being capable of living two lives. 121 00:06:25,167 --> 00:06:27,517 He wouldn't even let me put his picture on the book jacket. 122 00:06:31,173 --> 00:06:34,742 Thomas Pynchon. J.D. Salinger. 123 00:06:34,785 --> 00:06:38,136 You know, separate the art from the artist. 124 00:06:42,227 --> 00:06:44,969 This showed up unsolicited. 125 00:06:45,013 --> 00:06:46,623 I read the first page, 126 00:06:46,667 --> 00:06:48,886 and I didn't stop until I reached page 287. 127 00:06:48,930 --> 00:06:50,584 It was perfect. 128 00:06:50,627 --> 00:06:52,542 The only thing the author left out was his name, 129 00:06:52,586 --> 00:06:53,891 address, phone number. 130 00:06:53,935 --> 00:06:55,545 - No, no, no. 131 00:06:55,589 --> 00:06:56,894 It was intentional. 132 00:06:56,938 --> 00:06:58,853 I got a call a few days later, 133 00:06:58,896 --> 00:07:01,464 and this timid, tentative voice 134 00:07:01,508 --> 00:07:03,684 changed my life forever. 135 00:07:03,727 --> 00:07:06,426 The things that he lived through-- 136 00:07:06,469 --> 00:07:09,080 even though that book got him off the street, 137 00:07:09,124 --> 00:07:12,040 I still drove up 12th Avenue on the way home 138 00:07:12,083 --> 00:07:15,130 to make sure he wasn't tricking on some corner. 139 00:07:16,610 --> 00:07:17,915 That's the animal that killed him? 140 00:07:17,959 --> 00:07:19,439 - Could be. You know him? 141 00:07:19,482 --> 00:07:21,049 - Never saw him before. 142 00:07:21,092 --> 00:07:22,964 - All right, we're gonna need a guest list for this reading. 143 00:07:23,007 --> 00:07:25,488 - Sure. 144 00:07:25,532 --> 00:07:26,968 - And Bobbi's address. 145 00:07:27,011 --> 00:07:28,926 - That I can't help you with. 146 00:07:30,798 --> 00:07:32,452 - We didn't. 147 00:07:32,495 --> 00:07:34,889 They're direct deposited into his account at Metro. 148 00:07:34,932 --> 00:07:36,717 - The kid's a ghost. 149 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:38,545 Till last night, nobody ever saw him but his publisher. 150 00:07:38,588 --> 00:07:39,894 - Yeah, the home address he gave the bank 151 00:07:39,937 --> 00:07:41,765 was the 92nd Street Y. 152 00:07:41,809 --> 00:07:43,245 - And none of them recognize Bobbi or the guy in the video. 153 00:07:43,288 --> 00:07:45,769 - Guys, so let's-- let's get back to basics here. 154 00:07:45,813 --> 00:07:48,163 Why would somebody want Bobbi dead? 155 00:07:48,206 --> 00:07:49,773 - It could be money. 156 00:07:49,817 --> 00:07:51,514 He has over half a mil in his bank account. 157 00:07:51,558 --> 00:07:52,950 - That's a lot of books. 158 00:07:52,994 --> 00:07:54,474 - He sold his rights to Hollywood. 159 00:07:55,953 --> 00:07:57,259 Another writer gets mad about his success. 160 00:07:57,302 --> 00:07:59,217 - Well, Norman Mailer 161 00:07:59,261 --> 00:08:00,915 would've killed Gore Vidal on principle. 162 00:08:00,958 --> 00:08:02,656 - All due respect to you, Professor, 163 00:08:02,699 --> 00:08:04,222 but I'll go with sex. I mean, 164 00:08:04,266 --> 00:08:06,747 the kid's fame and fortune all came from it. 165 00:08:06,790 --> 00:08:08,618 - Hey, so, I may have something. 166 00:08:08,662 --> 00:08:11,795 Somebody posted Bobbi's reading at the bookstore online. 167 00:08:11,839 --> 00:08:13,144 It kinda broke my heart. 168 00:08:13,188 --> 00:08:14,624 Look. 169 00:08:14,668 --> 00:08:16,800 - My tongue. 170 00:08:16,844 --> 00:08:18,585 Now, his yellow incisors... 171 00:08:18,628 --> 00:08:21,675 - This is-- this is our guy, right? 172 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:26,941 And look. 173 00:08:29,596 --> 00:08:32,163 Look what's there on the floor beside his chair. 174 00:08:32,207 --> 00:08:34,862 - He bought the book, "Absalom, Absalom!" 175 00:08:34,905 --> 00:08:36,820 - He bought it with a credit card. 176 00:08:36,864 --> 00:08:39,606 His name is William Glover, and he lives in Forest Hills. 177 00:08:45,916 --> 00:08:47,701 - William Glover. 178 00:08:47,744 --> 00:08:50,617 - Just a second. 179 00:08:50,660 --> 00:08:52,532 Do we have to do this here? 180 00:08:52,575 --> 00:08:54,534 - I figured we go back to the station, sort this all out. 181 00:08:54,577 --> 00:08:56,536 - Time to wash up for dinner. 182 00:08:56,579 --> 00:08:58,581 - Hi, Mom. 183 00:09:00,061 --> 00:09:02,672 Got a whole leg of lamb 184 00:09:02,716 --> 00:09:04,065 if your friends wanna stay. 185 00:09:04,108 --> 00:09:06,197 - Maybe you should just eat without me. 186 00:09:09,026 --> 00:09:11,072 - Come on. - I love you. 187 00:09:14,815 --> 00:09:16,599 What happens now? 188 00:09:16,643 --> 00:09:18,688 - Well, you deny that you killed Bobbi O'Rourke, 189 00:09:18,732 --> 00:09:21,343 and I get angry, maybe a little loud. 190 00:09:21,386 --> 00:09:23,606 I threaten you, but then Lieutenant Benson 191 00:09:23,650 --> 00:09:25,913 convinces you that a confession is just 192 00:09:25,956 --> 00:09:27,610 in the best interest for everybody. 193 00:09:27,654 --> 00:09:29,220 - I killed him. 194 00:09:29,264 --> 00:09:32,223 - Why did you do it, William? 195 00:09:32,267 --> 00:09:34,182 - I prefer Will. 196 00:09:34,225 --> 00:09:36,576 - Kay, why don't you tell us what happened? 197 00:09:36,619 --> 00:09:38,926 - I took a brick and hit him and hit him-- 198 00:09:38,969 --> 00:09:40,928 - I know that. 199 00:09:40,971 --> 00:09:44,279 What we're interested in is why. 200 00:09:44,322 --> 00:09:46,629 - You think I'm gay. 201 00:09:50,285 --> 00:09:51,982 - I don't really care. 202 00:09:52,026 --> 00:09:54,724 - I'm not, you know. I have a wife. 203 00:09:54,768 --> 00:09:57,988 I have two beautiful children. - Okay. 204 00:09:58,032 --> 00:10:00,077 - I saw her picture on a leaflet on the subway. 205 00:10:01,775 --> 00:10:03,080 - I don't know anyone named Bobbi O'Rourke. 206 00:10:03,124 --> 00:10:05,909 - The girl from the leaflet. 207 00:10:05,953 --> 00:10:08,608 - She told me her name was Tammy. 208 00:10:10,305 --> 00:10:12,046 - The first time I met her three weeks ago. 209 00:10:12,089 --> 00:10:13,700 I'd pick her up near the parking lot 210 00:10:13,743 --> 00:10:15,136 a block from my office on 12th. 211 00:10:15,179 --> 00:10:16,659 - So, Will, 212 00:10:16,703 --> 00:10:20,228 why don't you tell us what happened, okay? 213 00:10:20,271 --> 00:10:24,058 - She had a little trouble unzipping my pants. 214 00:10:24,101 --> 00:10:26,103 Her hair was so soft, 215 00:10:26,147 --> 00:10:27,844 silky, like a butterfly's wings, 216 00:10:27,888 --> 00:10:31,021 her mouth, warm and wet. 217 00:10:31,065 --> 00:10:32,675 She only wanted $50. 218 00:10:32,719 --> 00:10:34,242 She said 25 went to her boss. 219 00:10:34,285 --> 00:10:37,114 - And you didn't know that he had written a book? 220 00:10:37,158 --> 00:10:39,769 - Not until I saw the leaflet on the C train. 221 00:10:39,813 --> 00:10:41,641 She lied to me. 222 00:10:43,164 --> 00:10:45,949 - I am not gay, Lieutenant! 223 00:10:49,257 --> 00:10:53,000 ♪ 224 00:11:01,182 --> 00:11:01,399 . 225 00:11:01,443 --> 00:11:03,097 - Just pick one. 226 00:11:04,707 --> 00:11:08,580 - I don't know. You're hungry, maybe? 227 00:11:10,147 --> 00:11:11,453 - He's with Stone as we speak. 228 00:11:11,496 --> 00:11:13,324 I assume they'll work out a deal, 229 00:11:13,368 --> 00:11:16,501 Man One, drop the Hate Crime. 230 00:11:16,545 --> 00:11:19,374 - Lieutenant, Bobbi made a lot of money off that book. 231 00:11:19,417 --> 00:11:22,203 Why the hell would he go back out on the street? 232 00:11:22,246 --> 00:11:23,726 - Look, he's been doing it a long time. 233 00:11:23,770 --> 00:11:27,425 It's all he knows. He doesn't know how to stop. 234 00:11:27,469 --> 00:11:29,514 - Or somebody was forcing him to keep hooking. 235 00:11:29,558 --> 00:11:32,082 Hey, Lieutenant, that publisher-- 236 00:11:32,126 --> 00:11:33,518 he said that he drove up 12th Avenue 237 00:11:33,562 --> 00:11:34,781 looking for Bobbi, wanted to make sure 238 00:11:34,824 --> 00:11:36,608 he wasn't going back to his old ways. 239 00:11:36,652 --> 00:11:40,308 Never saw him, but somehow Glover finds him there, 240 00:11:40,351 --> 00:11:43,790 several times in the past three weeks? 241 00:11:43,833 --> 00:11:45,748 - You're saying that the publisher's lying? 242 00:11:45,792 --> 00:11:47,663 - Bobbi was a kid. 243 00:11:47,707 --> 00:11:50,318 He could've been pimping him out. 244 00:11:54,801 --> 00:11:56,324 - Detective Carisi, 245 00:11:56,367 --> 00:11:57,673 did you find the guy that killed Bobbi? 246 00:11:57,717 --> 00:11:59,240 We did. 247 00:11:59,283 --> 00:12:01,851 - Oh, that's great. Um, you want me to testify? 248 00:12:01,895 --> 00:12:04,158 - Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves here. 249 00:12:04,201 --> 00:12:05,507 I just-- I wanna clarify one thing. 250 00:12:05,550 --> 00:12:07,727 Now, you told me that 251 00:12:07,770 --> 00:12:10,425 you drove up and down 12th Avenue looking for Bobbi. 252 00:12:10,468 --> 00:12:11,818 - I cared about the kid, you know? 253 00:12:11,861 --> 00:12:13,689 I wanted to keep him safe. 254 00:12:13,733 --> 00:12:15,299 - I'm sure you did. 255 00:12:15,343 --> 00:12:17,867 The thing is that the guy who actually killed him 256 00:12:17,911 --> 00:12:21,479 found Bobbi hooking several times in the past few weeks. 257 00:12:21,523 --> 00:12:23,612 Do you know where he found him? 258 00:12:25,745 --> 00:12:28,443 12th Avenue. 259 00:12:28,486 --> 00:12:30,532 - Okay, so I lied. 260 00:12:30,575 --> 00:12:32,273 I never actually met Bobbi. 261 00:12:32,316 --> 00:12:33,753 - Who was that at the reading, then? 262 00:12:33,796 --> 00:12:35,363 - Taffy, Teddy, Tammy-- 263 00:12:35,406 --> 00:12:36,799 whatever the hell he was calling himself that week. 264 00:12:36,843 --> 00:12:38,279 - So this whole thing was a scam? 265 00:12:38,322 --> 00:12:40,324 - No, no, no, no. Bobbi O'Rourke is real. 266 00:12:40,368 --> 00:12:43,240 The whole secrecy thing was his idea. 267 00:12:43,284 --> 00:12:45,895 And it worked great until we sold the rights to Hollywood. 268 00:12:45,939 --> 00:12:49,420 And then these damn producers insisted he show his face, 269 00:12:49,464 --> 00:12:50,813 only I didn't have a face to show. 270 00:12:50,857 --> 00:12:52,554 - So you created one. 271 00:12:52,597 --> 00:12:54,599 - I found Tammy on the street, you know? 272 00:12:54,643 --> 00:12:56,819 I bought a forged license. 273 00:12:56,863 --> 00:12:59,866 All he had to do was just read a couple of pages. 274 00:12:59,909 --> 00:13:02,216 I paid him $500. It kept him in oxy. 275 00:13:02,259 --> 00:13:04,479 I didn't think that anybody would get hurt. 276 00:13:04,522 --> 00:13:07,482 - I guess you were wrong about that. 277 00:13:10,398 --> 00:13:13,488 - I'll get back to you on that one. 278 00:13:13,531 --> 00:13:14,837 If it weren't for this publisher's scam, 279 00:13:14,881 --> 00:13:16,317 this kid would still be alive. 280 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:17,927 - Okay, well, you try convincing Stone 281 00:13:17,971 --> 00:13:19,711 that there was causation. 282 00:13:19,755 --> 00:13:21,670 - All right, fine. We charge him with fraud, then. 283 00:13:21,713 --> 00:13:24,673 - Because he lured people into a free book reading? 284 00:13:24,716 --> 00:13:26,849 Look, Carisi, I don't like it any more than you do, 285 00:13:26,893 --> 00:13:29,286 but until we change the laws in Albany, 286 00:13:29,330 --> 00:13:30,635 there's nothing that we can do. 287 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:32,376 - You know, this book is filled with sex 288 00:13:32,420 --> 00:13:34,465 between Bobbi and scores of adult men, 289 00:13:34,509 --> 00:13:36,554 who all could be charged with statutory rape. 290 00:13:36,598 --> 00:13:38,861 - Fin, I'm pretty sure Bobbi didn't use any real names. 291 00:13:38,905 --> 00:13:40,384 - Well, what if we could find him? 292 00:13:40,428 --> 00:13:42,169 Come on. 293 00:13:42,212 --> 00:13:43,910 There's zero chance that this kid's gonna show his face now. 294 00:13:43,953 --> 00:13:46,869 - Bobbi made a couple of online banking transactions, 295 00:13:46,913 --> 00:13:49,916 so I had TARU track the IP address. 296 00:13:53,658 --> 00:13:54,964 - This is not what I expected. 297 00:13:55,008 --> 00:13:57,837 - He's probably renting a room. 298 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,536 NYPD. 299 00:14:03,407 --> 00:14:05,540 - Not really. 300 00:14:05,583 --> 00:14:07,585 I tried to get them to come to a community meeting 301 00:14:07,629 --> 00:14:08,935 about six months ago. 302 00:14:08,978 --> 00:14:11,546 I rang the bell. Music inside stopped. 303 00:14:13,504 --> 00:14:15,550 - Lights go on at night, off in the morning. 304 00:14:15,593 --> 00:14:17,204 I see delivery guys every now and then 305 00:14:17,247 --> 00:14:18,727 leave stuff at the door, 306 00:14:18,770 --> 00:14:20,294 but never actually saw anyone take anything in. 307 00:14:20,337 --> 00:14:22,339 I know most everyone else on the block. 308 00:14:22,383 --> 00:14:25,734 I figured it's New York. People are allowed to be weird. 309 00:14:25,777 --> 00:14:26,735 - They certainly are. 310 00:14:26,778 --> 00:14:27,823 Thank you. 311 00:14:29,999 --> 00:14:32,610 - This is Sergeant Tutuola, SVU. 312 00:14:32,654 --> 00:14:35,570 We're gonna need a team and a warrant. 313 00:14:41,663 --> 00:14:47,712 ♪ 314 00:14:47,756 --> 00:14:49,932 Bobbi O'Rourke, police! 315 00:14:51,368 --> 00:14:53,022 - No, Montero. He's the victim. 316 00:14:53,066 --> 00:14:54,632 We think whoever lives here might be holding him prisoner. 317 00:14:54,676 --> 00:14:56,765 - Fred and Rose Edelman. 318 00:14:56,808 --> 00:14:59,246 - Okay, you guys check in here. 319 00:14:59,289 --> 00:15:01,291 Eddie, down here. 320 00:15:05,905 --> 00:15:09,430 - Bobbi O'Rourke! NYPD. 321 00:15:13,086 --> 00:15:20,354 ♪ 322 00:15:49,687 --> 00:15:51,080 Hey, Fin! 323 00:15:51,124 --> 00:15:53,953 - Carisi. You okay? 324 00:15:53,996 --> 00:15:56,999 - Yeah, we got your dried blood in the corner here. 325 00:15:58,609 --> 00:16:00,002 - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. - Hey! 326 00:16:00,046 --> 00:16:01,525 - Put your hands on your head! 327 00:16:01,569 --> 00:16:03,049 - Put your hands above your head. 328 00:16:03,092 --> 00:16:04,833 Hands on your head. - Whoever the hell you are, 329 00:16:04,876 --> 00:16:06,878 this is my house. I don't appreciate this. 330 00:16:09,446 --> 00:16:11,666 - Bobbi O'Rourke. 331 00:16:13,842 --> 00:16:15,844 You mean the bartender from Molly Malone's? 332 00:16:15,887 --> 00:16:17,977 He died maybe 50 years ago. 333 00:16:20,501 --> 00:16:21,806 I went to the damn funeral. 334 00:16:23,721 --> 00:16:25,027 - Hey, hey, you! 335 00:16:25,071 --> 00:16:26,768 Stop right there. 336 00:16:26,811 --> 00:16:28,509 Put your hand on your head. 337 00:16:28,552 --> 00:16:31,686 - What the hell did you do this time? 338 00:16:31,729 --> 00:16:33,601 - Come here. - He did it. 339 00:16:33,644 --> 00:16:35,820 Arrest his sorry ass. 340 00:16:35,864 --> 00:16:37,735 - We know he's here. 341 00:16:37,779 --> 00:16:39,128 - Bobbi O'Rourke. 342 00:16:39,172 --> 00:16:42,088 - Bobbi died in '75. 343 00:16:42,131 --> 00:16:44,003 - '72! 344 00:16:44,046 --> 00:16:46,962 Ignore my brother, Officer. He's a putz. 345 00:16:47,006 --> 00:16:49,486 - Both of you guys are coming down to the station. 346 00:16:49,530 --> 00:16:51,488 - I'm not getting in a car with him, 347 00:16:51,532 --> 00:16:53,055 not in this lifetime. 348 00:16:53,099 --> 00:16:54,709 - Hold on. This is your brother? 349 00:16:54,752 --> 00:16:57,668 - You ask. You ask him who he voted for! 350 00:16:57,712 --> 00:16:59,018 - Not interested. 351 00:16:59,061 --> 00:17:02,586 - He voted for Gerald Ford! 352 00:17:02,630 --> 00:17:04,849 I'm not gonna ride with him. 353 00:17:04,893 --> 00:17:07,939 You ride with him! I'm not going to. 354 00:17:11,987 --> 00:17:12,161 . 355 00:17:12,205 --> 00:17:14,381 - Ah, feh! 356 00:17:15,904 --> 00:17:17,253 - Because I'm a cop. 357 00:17:17,297 --> 00:17:19,734 - No, no. 358 00:17:19,777 --> 00:17:21,083 Nobody wants to scare you, Mr. Edelman. 359 00:17:21,127 --> 00:17:22,737 - Yeah, well, because you can't. 360 00:17:22,780 --> 00:17:25,696 I mean, you are bupkis next to Nixon's Nazis. 361 00:17:25,740 --> 00:17:27,698 - Okay, how about you just answer the question, 362 00:17:27,742 --> 00:17:30,136 and then you can go home-- no harm, no foul. 363 00:17:30,179 --> 00:17:32,094 So, what question? 364 00:17:33,182 --> 00:17:36,229 - We just wanna know what happened to Bobbi O'Rourke. 365 00:17:36,272 --> 00:17:38,144 - Diabetes. 366 00:17:38,187 --> 00:17:39,884 - Not Bobbi the bartender-- - I know, I know. 367 00:17:39,928 --> 00:17:41,669 Bobbi the writer, hm? - Yes. 368 00:17:41,712 --> 00:17:43,149 - I don't even know him. 369 00:17:43,192 --> 00:17:45,020 Up until an hour ago, I never heard of him. 370 00:17:45,064 --> 00:17:47,762 - Okay, 'cause we traced his IP address to your building. 371 00:17:47,805 --> 00:17:49,416 - Yeah. 372 00:17:51,287 --> 00:17:52,984 - These computers-- 373 00:17:53,028 --> 00:17:55,770 they tell you where they are? 374 00:17:55,813 --> 00:17:58,468 - Yeah, I don't get it either, but it's cool. 375 00:17:58,512 --> 00:18:00,688 - And this Bobbi boy... 376 00:18:00,731 --> 00:18:02,298 - He dressed as a girl. 377 00:18:02,342 --> 00:18:04,344 - Ah, a fegulah. 378 00:18:04,387 --> 00:18:05,780 - Uh, yeah, but I don't think 379 00:18:05,823 --> 00:18:07,260 it's okay to say that word anymore. 380 00:18:08,435 --> 00:18:10,437 - Because it hurts people. 381 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,003 - It's just a word. 382 00:18:12,047 --> 00:18:14,049 - Yeah, but words can hurt more than a gun. 383 00:18:15,485 --> 00:18:17,139 - People they bother. 384 00:18:17,183 --> 00:18:19,794 - Well, then, everyone should say it 385 00:18:19,837 --> 00:18:21,448 and nobody would get hurt. 386 00:18:21,491 --> 00:18:25,278 - Okay, speaking of hurt, what about Bobbi? 387 00:18:25,321 --> 00:18:26,931 - Your girls already asked me. 388 00:18:26,975 --> 00:18:29,412 I don't know anything about this Mr. O'Rourke. 389 00:18:29,456 --> 00:18:31,197 - What about your brother Joe? 390 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:32,807 - He's a son of a bitch. 391 00:18:32,850 --> 00:18:34,374 - Is it possible Joe could've 392 00:18:34,417 --> 00:18:37,159 snuck Bobbi into the house? 393 00:18:37,203 --> 00:18:39,379 - He's a shmuck, not a fegulah. 394 00:18:39,422 --> 00:18:40,902 - Sure, Ben. Why not? 395 00:18:40,945 --> 00:18:43,426 I wouldn't put anything past that bum. 396 00:18:43,470 --> 00:18:45,428 - You think Ben would hurt Bobbi? 397 00:18:47,865 --> 00:18:49,998 What do you think he did to Cherise? 398 00:18:52,827 --> 00:18:56,091 - The shvartzah. - Whoa, whoa, whoa. 399 00:18:56,135 --> 00:18:58,311 That's-- that's unacceptable, okay? 400 00:19:03,490 --> 00:19:05,361 - Excuse me. 401 00:19:09,104 --> 00:19:12,063 - Now, your parents are listed as the owners of this house. 402 00:19:12,107 --> 00:19:13,369 - Mm. 403 00:19:13,413 --> 00:19:16,242 Dad died in 1969, 404 00:19:16,285 --> 00:19:18,113 Mama in '73. 405 00:19:18,157 --> 00:19:19,767 - I'm sorry to hear that. 406 00:19:19,810 --> 00:19:22,857 - They were good parents. Rest in peace. 407 00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:25,338 Joe hasn't left the house since. 408 00:19:27,122 --> 00:19:30,212 - I'm supposed to let him keep it all to himself? 409 00:19:31,605 --> 00:19:34,129 - Yeah, she came every Tuesdays and Fridays, 410 00:19:34,173 --> 00:19:36,044 Cherise. 411 00:19:36,087 --> 00:19:38,177 - She also made soup, you know. Terrible soup. 412 00:19:38,220 --> 00:19:41,136 I never had the heart, but my shmuck brother-- 413 00:19:41,180 --> 00:19:43,225 he's always convinced she's stealing. 414 00:19:43,269 --> 00:19:45,140 - My meshuggana brother-- 415 00:19:45,184 --> 00:19:47,142 he puts quarters all around the house. 416 00:19:47,186 --> 00:19:48,448 All of a sudden, one is missing. 417 00:19:48,491 --> 00:19:50,189 "Ah! She's a thief!" 418 00:19:50,232 --> 00:19:51,538 And he fires her. 419 00:19:51,581 --> 00:19:54,280 Yeah. It was 1975. 420 00:19:54,323 --> 00:19:57,457 - If anything happened to that boy, 421 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:59,981 it was Joe, had to be. 422 00:20:04,507 --> 00:20:11,558 ♪ 423 00:20:26,399 --> 00:20:29,184 Man down! 424 00:20:29,228 --> 00:20:31,142 Montero! 425 00:20:32,448 --> 00:20:34,363 Montero! 426 00:20:36,060 --> 00:20:38,019 - Bailey! Rodriguez! 427 00:20:39,063 --> 00:20:40,456 You okay? 428 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:42,502 - Come on. Get this thing the hell off me. 429 00:20:42,545 --> 00:20:44,591 - Help me! Hurry. 430 00:20:50,553 --> 00:20:52,294 I can call an EMT. - No, I'm fine. 431 00:20:52,338 --> 00:20:54,514 Look, this was a booby trap, all right? 432 00:20:54,557 --> 00:20:56,385 There's something back there. Come on. 433 00:20:56,429 --> 00:20:58,518 - Keep your eyes open, Detective. 434 00:21:09,050 --> 00:21:11,095 - That's the kid's book, isn't it? 435 00:21:18,277 --> 00:21:20,453 - This looks like the next one. 436 00:21:23,369 --> 00:21:26,241 - Okay, so we know that Bobbi was there. 437 00:21:26,285 --> 00:21:28,330 When was the last time the document was opened? 438 00:21:28,374 --> 00:21:30,332 - Two days ago. Blood tests come back yet? 439 00:21:30,376 --> 00:21:32,900 - No, not yet. So keep searching, right? 440 00:21:32,943 --> 00:21:35,163 Bobbi may be hiding in there. - Yeah, if he's lucky. 441 00:21:35,206 --> 00:21:36,469 - Keep looking. 442 00:21:36,512 --> 00:21:38,340 - All right. - Okay. Copy. 443 00:21:38,384 --> 00:21:40,560 - Hey, thanks. You take the fourth floor. 444 00:21:40,603 --> 00:21:42,388 I'll take the basement. 445 00:21:45,260 --> 00:21:48,481 A corned beef sandwich from the Carnegie Deli. 446 00:21:48,524 --> 00:21:51,005 - That place closed two years ago. 447 00:21:51,048 --> 00:21:54,269 - And nobody told me about the shivah. 448 00:21:55,488 --> 00:21:57,664 - Get up. You're coming with me. 449 00:21:57,707 --> 00:22:00,231 - Not quite. 450 00:22:00,275 --> 00:22:02,190 Let's go. 451 00:22:02,233 --> 00:22:05,280 - Oh, tatellah. 452 00:22:05,324 --> 00:22:07,195 - Yeah. 453 00:22:07,238 --> 00:22:09,458 - Bobbi O'Rourke was in your house two days ago. 454 00:22:09,502 --> 00:22:11,982 - And as far as we know, no one's seen him since. 455 00:22:12,026 --> 00:22:14,028 - Yeah, including me. - Liar. 456 00:22:14,071 --> 00:22:15,464 I'm a liar? 457 00:22:15,508 --> 00:22:17,423 Yeah, well, tell them about Izzie Berkowitz. 458 00:22:17,466 --> 00:22:20,295 - He cheated him at gin rummy. 459 00:22:20,339 --> 00:22:21,949 A whole summer at Kutsher's. 460 00:22:21,992 --> 00:22:23,385 30 bucks he takes from this kid. 461 00:22:23,429 --> 00:22:25,300 - In 1958, and he's still talking about it. 462 00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:26,606 - Yeah, but this is about character, 463 00:22:26,649 --> 00:22:28,172 and you don't have one. 464 00:22:28,216 --> 00:22:30,044 - I won't sit here and listen to him! 465 00:22:30,087 --> 00:22:31,959 - Yes, you will. 466 00:22:32,002 --> 00:22:34,091 You're gonna sit here until you and your brother 467 00:22:34,135 --> 00:22:36,485 tell us what happened to Bobbi O'Rourke. 468 00:22:36,529 --> 00:22:38,618 Do you understand that? 469 00:23:00,335 --> 00:23:05,471 ♪ 470 00:23:05,514 --> 00:23:07,560 Jeez. 471 00:23:31,627 --> 00:23:33,455 - Lab results are back. 472 00:23:33,499 --> 00:23:36,153 DNA on the manuscript matches the laptop 473 00:23:36,197 --> 00:23:37,720 and the blood on the floor. 474 00:23:37,764 --> 00:23:40,027 - Well, there we go. 475 00:23:40,070 --> 00:23:41,681 We're gonna search your house 476 00:23:41,724 --> 00:23:44,292 from top to bottom, and we're gonna find him. 477 00:23:44,335 --> 00:23:46,381 Who? - That's it. 478 00:23:46,425 --> 00:23:47,643 You both are under arrest. 479 00:23:47,687 --> 00:23:49,384 Put them in the cage. - Wait. 480 00:23:49,428 --> 00:23:51,473 It was me. 481 00:23:55,434 --> 00:23:57,131 - There is no Bobbi. 482 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,787 - Okay, give them a lawyer if they want one--I'm done. 483 00:24:00,830 --> 00:24:03,093 - Wait! 484 00:24:03,137 --> 00:24:05,444 The book-- 485 00:24:05,487 --> 00:24:07,707 I wrote it. 486 00:24:07,750 --> 00:24:08,751 You wrote a book? 487 00:24:08,795 --> 00:24:11,493 - I had to do something. 488 00:24:11,537 --> 00:24:13,843 Who do you think pays for the groceries? 489 00:24:13,887 --> 00:24:16,150 The real estate taxes? - Ahh, he's a meshuga. 490 00:24:16,193 --> 00:24:17,499 - Not you. - He's a meshuga. 491 00:24:17,543 --> 00:24:19,196 It's Mama's money that pays for-- 492 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,416 - Mama's money is gonna run out in six months. 493 00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:23,549 You don't think about the future. 494 00:24:23,592 --> 00:24:25,768 I think about it. I think about everything. 495 00:24:25,812 --> 00:24:28,641 - Wait a minute. 496 00:24:28,684 --> 00:24:30,207 If you haven't left the house 497 00:24:30,251 --> 00:24:32,862 since 1973, 498 00:24:32,906 --> 00:24:35,430 how was it that you got a computer to write on? 499 00:24:35,474 --> 00:24:36,779 You got a computer? 500 00:24:36,823 --> 00:24:39,826 - No, I drew hieroglyphics on the crapper wall. 501 00:24:39,869 --> 00:24:41,175 - Ben. 502 00:24:41,218 --> 00:24:42,611 Focus. 503 00:24:44,308 --> 00:24:46,267 - I gave Carlos, 504 00:24:46,310 --> 00:24:48,182 the kid who delivers from the Deli, 505 00:24:48,225 --> 00:24:52,447 100 bucks to buy it and set the whole fercockt thing up. 506 00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:54,231 - Ben, 507 00:24:54,275 --> 00:24:56,669 so tell me about the blood on the floor. 508 00:24:56,712 --> 00:24:59,585 - I cut myself when I tried to carry 509 00:24:59,628 --> 00:25:02,501 Mama's sewing machine into the basement. 510 00:25:02,544 --> 00:25:04,546 Like you would help. 511 00:25:04,590 --> 00:25:06,722 I stepped on a piece of broken glass. 512 00:25:06,766 --> 00:25:09,682 You could test my blood if you want. 513 00:25:09,725 --> 00:25:13,816 Why do you think Bobbi never showed his face? 514 00:25:16,253 --> 00:25:18,778 The bartender from Molly Malone's-- 515 00:25:18,821 --> 00:25:20,431 that, you remember. 516 00:25:20,475 --> 00:25:23,609 That's where I got my hero's name. 517 00:25:24,958 --> 00:25:27,482 The truth is, 518 00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:29,789 we didn't kill Bobbi O'Rourke. 519 00:25:29,832 --> 00:25:32,487 You people did. 520 00:26:08,523 --> 00:26:08,697 . 521 00:26:08,741 --> 00:26:11,526 - The M.E.'s office finally got Rose Edelman thawed. 522 00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:14,094 She had malignant tumors in both lungs. 523 00:26:14,137 --> 00:26:15,530 - That's a painful way to die. 524 00:26:15,574 --> 00:26:16,705 - Only cancer isn't what killed her. 525 00:26:16,749 --> 00:26:17,924 It was asphyxiation. 526 00:26:19,621 --> 00:26:21,014 - There was no bruising on the neck. 527 00:26:21,057 --> 00:26:23,016 The M.E. thinks that they must have used a pillow, 528 00:26:23,059 --> 00:26:24,452 put it over her nose and her mouth. 529 00:26:24,495 --> 00:26:25,888 I mean, she could barely breathe. 530 00:26:25,932 --> 00:26:28,630 It wouldn't have taken much effort. 531 00:26:31,111 --> 00:26:34,201 - Enough to get the general flavor, yeah. 532 00:26:38,858 --> 00:26:40,686 - "At once, 533 00:26:40,729 --> 00:26:43,123 "I felt pitiful and small, 534 00:26:43,166 --> 00:26:46,735 "struck with wonder and sickened that this man, 535 00:26:46,779 --> 00:26:48,519 "20 years my senior, 536 00:26:48,563 --> 00:26:51,871 "could find enough pleasure in my 12-year-old body 537 00:26:51,914 --> 00:26:55,831 "to turn over $50 of his hard-earned pay. 538 00:26:55,875 --> 00:26:59,139 "What was he feeling? What was he thinking? 539 00:26:59,182 --> 00:27:01,532 "Did he love me or hate me? 540 00:27:01,576 --> 00:27:03,796 Did I love or hate him?" 541 00:27:07,147 --> 00:27:09,932 Amanda, I can't tell you how many times in my career 542 00:27:09,976 --> 00:27:12,631 I've heard the exact same thing 543 00:27:12,674 --> 00:27:15,242 from survivors of childhood sexual abuse. 544 00:27:15,285 --> 00:27:17,592 - Only that's coming from a 73-year-old hoarder-- 545 00:27:17,636 --> 00:27:21,640 - Who's completely rejected and alienated society. 546 00:27:24,686 --> 00:27:27,646 - If he was, 547 00:27:27,689 --> 00:27:30,518 I think he deserves closure. 548 00:27:30,561 --> 00:27:31,824 - I'm coming with you. 549 00:27:33,216 --> 00:27:36,655 Come on, there were two kids in that house. 550 00:27:36,698 --> 00:27:39,266 That damn desk is driving me crazy, Liv. 551 00:27:44,532 --> 00:27:46,055 - Once, out at Atlantic Beach, 552 00:27:46,099 --> 00:27:48,231 Joe and I-- 553 00:27:48,275 --> 00:27:51,974 I was probably 10. He would've been 12-- 554 00:27:52,018 --> 00:27:55,151 We were riding the waves 555 00:27:55,195 --> 00:27:57,980 it seemed like for hours. 556 00:27:58,024 --> 00:28:00,983 Mama was on the beach, reading her book. 557 00:28:01,027 --> 00:28:02,768 She loved books. 558 00:28:02,811 --> 00:28:05,292 - Well, maybe that's where you got your talent. 559 00:28:07,990 --> 00:28:11,254 We'd swim out to where the waves broke 560 00:28:11,298 --> 00:28:13,822 and then ride them in 561 00:28:13,866 --> 00:28:16,825 to see who could come closest to shore, 562 00:28:16,869 --> 00:28:20,263 over and over again until 563 00:28:20,307 --> 00:28:23,614 there were no waves anymore. 564 00:28:23,658 --> 00:28:27,531 We tried to swim in, but the undertow-- 565 00:28:27,575 --> 00:28:29,533 No matter how hard we tried, 566 00:28:29,577 --> 00:28:31,710 we just ended up getting further 567 00:28:31,753 --> 00:28:33,320 and further from the shore. 568 00:28:33,363 --> 00:28:36,627 We thought we were gonna die, Joe and I. 569 00:28:36,671 --> 00:28:40,066 He put his arms around me. 570 00:28:40,109 --> 00:28:43,330 And then suddenly, the lifeguard saw us, 571 00:28:43,373 --> 00:28:45,985 blew his whistle, stood up out of his chair, 572 00:28:46,028 --> 00:28:47,856 and swam out toward us. 573 00:28:47,900 --> 00:28:51,773 And the next thing I knew, I was face down on the beach, 574 00:28:51,817 --> 00:28:55,298 regurgitating salt water with every cough. 575 00:28:55,342 --> 00:28:58,040 - Well, you certainly owe that lifeguard. 576 00:28:58,084 --> 00:29:01,217 - No, no. I owe Mama. 577 00:29:01,261 --> 00:29:03,742 She beat the lifeguard out to us 578 00:29:03,785 --> 00:29:06,048 and kept us afloat until he got there. 579 00:29:08,007 --> 00:29:11,314 - She sounds like an amazing woman. 580 00:29:15,275 --> 00:29:18,365 - The eggs always think they're smarter than the chicken. 581 00:29:20,933 --> 00:29:23,979 I'm not about to confess to something I didn't do, 582 00:29:24,023 --> 00:29:25,676 Lieutenant. 583 00:29:29,724 --> 00:29:31,987 - What about something that your brother did? 584 00:29:32,031 --> 00:29:34,990 - Well, I really don't know. You have to ask him. 585 00:29:38,951 --> 00:29:41,127 - In a manner of speaking. 586 00:29:41,170 --> 00:29:43,085 It's either yes or no. 587 00:29:43,129 --> 00:29:45,174 - No, but, um, 588 00:29:45,218 --> 00:29:48,395 but there is someone... special. 589 00:29:49,875 --> 00:29:51,398 - Yeah, well, until he marries you, 590 00:29:51,441 --> 00:29:53,704 I don't want to hear from it. 591 00:29:53,748 --> 00:29:56,272 Joe, I'll--I'll keep you up to date 592 00:29:56,316 --> 00:29:58,100 - Mm. 593 00:30:00,842 --> 00:30:02,104 You never wanted a wife? 594 00:30:02,148 --> 00:30:04,150 No. 595 00:30:04,193 --> 00:30:06,065 I'm too busy. 596 00:30:06,108 --> 00:30:09,633 "Too busy," okay. 597 00:30:09,677 --> 00:30:12,375 'Cause you're pretty handsome. 598 00:30:12,419 --> 00:30:15,378 You would've been quite a catch for some lucky girl. 599 00:30:17,685 --> 00:30:21,384 - So, what, are you shacking up like those, uh, flower people? 600 00:30:21,428 --> 00:30:23,212 Yeah, I'm shack-- 601 00:30:23,256 --> 00:30:25,345 Flower pe--I think it's "flower children," 602 00:30:25,388 --> 00:30:27,956 and they've been-- they've been gone a long time. 603 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,698 - Huh. 604 00:30:30,741 --> 00:30:32,831 Has he confessed yet? 605 00:30:32,874 --> 00:30:34,136 - Mm. 606 00:30:34,180 --> 00:30:36,008 Who else? 607 00:30:36,051 --> 00:30:38,140 He's weak, that kid. 608 00:30:41,927 --> 00:30:43,189 - He needs you to protect him? 609 00:30:43,232 --> 00:30:45,147 - You're damn straight. 610 00:30:45,191 --> 00:30:48,237 And sometimes... 611 00:30:52,807 --> 00:30:55,854 - Sometimes it's really hard being the bigger brother. 612 00:31:01,207 --> 00:31:03,818 - Well, actually, Ben, I... 613 00:31:05,298 --> 00:31:08,997 I didn't come here to talk about your mother. 614 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,220 - I wanna talk about your book. 615 00:31:14,263 --> 00:31:16,352 It was, uh, 616 00:31:16,396 --> 00:31:18,267 it was powerful. 617 00:31:18,311 --> 00:31:20,922 - I did. 618 00:31:20,966 --> 00:31:24,708 And it was, um, 619 00:31:24,752 --> 00:31:27,189 so real. 620 00:31:27,233 --> 00:31:30,845 And actually, I... 621 00:31:30,889 --> 00:31:34,240 I don't understand how you could've written it 622 00:31:34,283 --> 00:31:36,720 without... 623 00:31:36,764 --> 00:31:38,897 - Oh, I, uh, 624 00:31:38,940 --> 00:31:42,248 I don't wanna talk about that. 625 00:31:42,291 --> 00:31:45,512 - I know how hard it must have been. 626 00:31:45,555 --> 00:31:48,254 You know bubkes. 627 00:31:50,778 --> 00:31:52,388 - No, Ben. 628 00:31:52,432 --> 00:31:54,913 I know that anyone 629 00:31:54,956 --> 00:31:58,917 who could've written a book like "Blue Barracuda" 630 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,442 certainly must have lived through something. 631 00:32:03,965 --> 00:32:05,967 You wrote that book 632 00:32:06,011 --> 00:32:08,535 so you could tell the world 633 00:32:08,578 --> 00:32:11,103 how devastating, how horrifying it was. 634 00:32:11,146 --> 00:32:13,757 - I wrote that book because we needed the money. 635 00:32:13,801 --> 00:32:15,934 - You were ashamed. 636 00:32:15,977 --> 00:32:19,024 That's why you didn't use your real name on the book. 637 00:32:19,067 --> 00:32:22,288 I could only imagine what you must have felt-- 638 00:32:22,331 --> 00:32:25,987 hate, rage, disgust. 639 00:32:26,901 --> 00:32:29,425 But shame-- 640 00:32:29,469 --> 00:32:31,993 shame isn't on you, Ben. 641 00:32:32,037 --> 00:32:35,562 This wasn't your fault. 642 00:32:35,605 --> 00:32:39,044 Who did this to you? Who hurt you? 643 00:32:40,088 --> 00:32:43,135 - After school, we used to go to this play center. 644 00:32:44,527 --> 00:32:47,313 There was a counselor there, Vincent. 645 00:32:47,356 --> 00:32:50,098 He was about 20. 646 00:32:50,142 --> 00:32:52,883 Taught me how to pick up grounders. 647 00:32:54,537 --> 00:32:56,235 - No, I wouldn't let him. 648 00:32:56,278 --> 00:32:59,151 What kind of a brother would I be? 649 00:33:01,936 --> 00:33:05,070 - I was only 12 years old, damn it. 650 00:33:05,113 --> 00:33:07,159 What kind of a person... 651 00:33:11,859 --> 00:33:15,471 - There was a guy called Vincent. 652 00:33:15,515 --> 00:33:19,171 The guy was always around. 653 00:33:19,214 --> 00:33:22,043 And, um, 654 00:33:22,087 --> 00:33:24,306 the first time 655 00:33:24,350 --> 00:33:28,006 was in the locker room when nobody else was there. 656 00:33:29,398 --> 00:33:32,836 He said, uh, 657 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,492 "This is what big boys do." 658 00:33:39,278 --> 00:33:41,889 - Don't tell him. Don't tell my brother. 659 00:33:44,065 --> 00:33:46,154 - Did you ever tell anyone, Ben? 660 00:33:49,331 --> 00:33:51,507 - Your brother. - Oh! 661 00:33:51,551 --> 00:33:53,466 He would've laughed at me. 662 00:33:53,509 --> 00:33:55,250 - I mean, I was the older brother. 663 00:33:55,294 --> 00:33:58,340 I was supposed to protect him. How could I tell him about... 664 00:34:06,174 --> 00:34:08,872 - Ah, he'd get mad at me if I didn't get an A on a test. 665 00:34:08,916 --> 00:34:11,440 He would always say, "It's your fault." 666 00:34:16,967 --> 00:34:18,969 - Of course not. 667 00:34:22,234 --> 00:34:26,238 - She would've thought I was dirty. 668 00:34:26,281 --> 00:34:29,371 She wouldn't have loved me anymore. 669 00:34:39,642 --> 00:34:39,860 . 670 00:34:39,903 --> 00:34:42,384 - They were both abused as kids, Peter. 671 00:34:42,428 --> 00:34:43,951 - And conveniently, they didn't say anything 672 00:34:43,994 --> 00:34:45,474 until they were charged with murdering their mother. 673 00:34:45,518 --> 00:34:47,128 - I believe them. 674 00:34:47,172 --> 00:34:48,695 - And I'll do my best to get it excluded at trial. 675 00:34:48,738 --> 00:34:50,305 - Look, you won't have to. Neither of them will admit it. 676 00:34:50,349 --> 00:34:51,915 They won't even admit it to each other. 677 00:34:51,959 --> 00:34:53,830 - So that's that, then. - Look, the M.E.'s report 678 00:34:53,874 --> 00:34:57,921 said that Rose's cancer cost her intolerable pain. 679 00:34:57,965 --> 00:35:00,402 - You and I both know that that doesn't matter. 680 00:35:00,446 --> 00:35:01,751 - Cut them a deal. 681 00:35:01,795 --> 00:35:03,492 - I worked one out with their attorney. 682 00:35:03,536 --> 00:35:07,496 One year jail time. Ten years probation. 683 00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:09,455 - Well, that's generous. 684 00:35:09,498 --> 00:35:10,978 - They turned it down. 685 00:35:13,328 --> 00:35:15,635 - Look, they are sympathetic defendants. 686 00:35:15,678 --> 00:35:18,551 - Until the jury hears that they kept Mom's body on ice 687 00:35:18,594 --> 00:35:20,335 in the basement. 688 00:35:27,212 --> 00:35:30,954 - When push comes to shove, this is a trial about love, 689 00:35:30,998 --> 00:35:33,957 the love of two boys for their mother. 690 00:35:34,001 --> 00:35:35,829 You know, it always struck me as odd. 691 00:35:35,872 --> 00:35:37,700 The law says that 692 00:35:37,744 --> 00:35:40,529 a mother has to take care of her kids when they're young. 693 00:35:40,573 --> 00:35:42,879 You would think there would be a law that says 694 00:35:42,923 --> 00:35:46,187 they have to take care of her when she gets old... 695 00:35:46,231 --> 00:35:48,320 or sick. 696 00:35:48,363 --> 00:35:50,887 Rose Edelman got sick, very sick. 697 00:35:50,931 --> 00:35:53,716 Her doctor said that she had six months to live. 698 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,892 And then she died. 699 00:35:55,936 --> 00:35:58,504 Now, Mr. Stone will stand here and tell you 700 00:35:58,547 --> 00:36:00,723 that her two sons murdered her-- 701 00:36:00,767 --> 00:36:02,899 her two loving sons, 702 00:36:02,943 --> 00:36:06,338 the boys who cooked for her, bathed her, 703 00:36:06,381 --> 00:36:08,601 made sure that she took her medicine. 704 00:36:08,644 --> 00:36:11,778 The boys who loved her so much that when she passed, 705 00:36:11,821 --> 00:36:13,432 they couldn't bear to see her buried 706 00:36:13,475 --> 00:36:15,738 in 6 feet of dirt out in Queens, 707 00:36:15,782 --> 00:36:17,740 an entrée for hungry worms-- 708 00:36:17,784 --> 00:36:19,481 or worse yet, 709 00:36:19,525 --> 00:36:22,049 shoved into a flaming hot oven, 710 00:36:22,092 --> 00:36:25,008 with what's left of her kept in a jar on a mantel 711 00:36:25,052 --> 00:36:27,054 in a living room. 712 00:36:27,097 --> 00:36:30,013 Joe and Ben loved their mother Rose so much, 713 00:36:30,057 --> 00:36:32,407 they kept her as she was 714 00:36:32,451 --> 00:36:36,063 and where she wanted to be: in her home. 715 00:36:38,108 --> 00:36:41,329 If you ask me, that's love. 716 00:36:49,424 --> 00:36:51,383 - Call your first witness, Mr. Stone. 717 00:36:52,993 --> 00:36:55,038 - No. 718 00:36:55,082 --> 00:36:56,431 No, that's enough. 719 00:36:56,475 --> 00:36:58,303 - Mr. Edelman-- - No, Judge. 720 00:36:58,346 --> 00:36:59,913 - Mr. Edelman, sit down. 721 00:36:59,956 --> 00:37:02,742 - No. No, Judge. 722 00:37:05,005 --> 00:37:08,008 I did it. 723 00:37:08,051 --> 00:37:10,837 I killed my mother. 724 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,927 I did it. 725 00:37:13,970 --> 00:37:16,669 Ben had nothing to do with this. 726 00:37:16,712 --> 00:37:18,497 I did it, 727 00:37:18,540 --> 00:37:20,716 and I'm sorry. 728 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:22,979 I'm so sorry, Mama. 729 00:37:23,023 --> 00:37:25,678 So ve-- Ohh-- 730 00:37:29,769 --> 00:37:32,075 - I need an ambulance. Part 29, Supreme Court. 731 00:37:32,119 --> 00:37:33,468 Here. 732 00:37:33,512 --> 00:37:35,992 Hey, hold him--hold him up. 733 00:37:41,650 --> 00:37:44,610 - You stupid son of a bitch! 734 00:37:44,653 --> 00:37:47,961 Always the martyr. Look what you did. 735 00:37:48,004 --> 00:37:49,745 You shmuck! 736 00:37:49,789 --> 00:37:51,094 - Massive coronary. 737 00:37:51,138 --> 00:37:52,618 - So stupid. 738 00:37:52,661 --> 00:37:54,359 So stupid. 739 00:37:54,402 --> 00:37:58,537 You're so stupid, always hogging the stage. 740 00:37:58,580 --> 00:38:00,365 Stupid... 741 00:38:00,408 --> 00:38:02,889 Stupid... 742 00:38:02,932 --> 00:38:05,892 - Okay, Ben, your brother's still protecting you, huh? 743 00:38:05,935 --> 00:38:08,851 - But what do I have left to protect? 744 00:38:08,895 --> 00:38:11,506 Nothing. 745 00:38:14,901 --> 00:38:15,945 What? 746 00:38:15,989 --> 00:38:17,382 - Doctor. - Out. 747 00:38:17,425 --> 00:38:18,948 - Okay, come on. 748 00:38:18,992 --> 00:38:20,428 Give them some room to do their job. 749 00:38:20,472 --> 00:38:21,951 What's happening? 750 00:38:21,995 --> 00:38:23,953 Let me know. I wanna know what's happening. 751 00:38:23,997 --> 00:38:25,607 - Let them do their job. 752 00:38:25,651 --> 00:38:26,956 Let's give them some room. 753 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,959 - Let's give them some room, okay? 754 00:38:48,195 --> 00:38:50,893 - I'm sorry. 755 00:38:50,937 --> 00:38:53,113 - Can I... - Sure. 756 00:38:55,855 --> 00:38:57,770 - I'll go officially drop the charges against Ben. 757 00:38:57,813 --> 00:38:59,119 - Okay. 758 00:39:02,035 --> 00:39:03,776 - Thank you. 759 00:39:03,819 --> 00:39:06,648 - Well, his name was Vincent 760 00:39:06,692 --> 00:39:09,956 from the Center. 761 00:39:09,999 --> 00:39:12,959 I know I should have told you... 762 00:39:14,569 --> 00:39:16,789 But I just didn't have the strength. 763 00:39:19,226 --> 00:39:22,577 But I--I remember it as if it was today, 764 00:39:22,621 --> 00:39:25,101 the way his spotted hand 765 00:39:25,145 --> 00:39:27,060 sorta jerked forward 766 00:39:27,103 --> 00:39:31,456 and landed so heavily on top of my head. 767 00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,809 Retreat or... 768 00:39:36,852 --> 00:39:39,942 resistance was futile. 769 00:39:41,553 --> 00:39:44,207 I just reminded myself 770 00:39:44,251 --> 00:39:47,123 to breathe. 771 00:39:47,167 --> 00:39:50,910 In, out, 772 00:39:50,953 --> 00:39:54,957 in, out. 773 00:39:58,004 --> 00:40:05,098 ♪ 774 00:40:43,658 --> 00:40:43,876 .