.
- 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.
- Come on, you guys wanna be lifeguards or what?
Almost there. Finish strong.
That's what I'm talking about. Let's go!
Come on, Worsley, don't gas out now, man!
You're so close! Every second counts!
- That's what I'm talking about.
Here. Cover yourself up. - Oh, thanks.
- Nice swimsuit. - Thanks.
- What's your name? - Martina Rodriguez.
- Martina, nice to meet you.
Now wait--
don't tell me you're this guy's little sister.
- I met you last year when I came to pick
Diego up from the beach.
- Oh. Yeah, right.
Damn, son.
Been hitting the gym since last year, huh?
- Started doing jujitsu.
- Well, I haven't seen your sister's times,
but she looks like a real fish in that pool.
- All right, people, listen up.
Chief's gonna handle the CPR portion of the exam.
- Hey, Rodney, have you seen that prop dummy?
- It wasn't in the storage closet?
- No.
- Those Water Rescue guys from Queens
must have packed it in the van by accident.
- All right, I'm gonna need a volunteer.
Uh, what's your name again? - Martina.
- Martina, right.
Hey, can you-- you lay down right here?
- Thanks.
- Here you go.
- Like this? - Perfect.
- Okay. - Just lay back. Good.
All right, guys, today,
we're gonna be graded on our ABCs:
Airway, Breathing, Circulation,
which means I'm gonna be looking
for the proper head tilt, rescue breaths,
and the timing of your compressions.
Got it?
- Hey, Rodney, can you ask Rodriguez's sister
to come in for a second, please?
- Yeah, sure.
- Thank you.
- You wanted to see me?
- Yeah, Martina.
Come on in.
Close the door.
- So what's up?
- Well, technically, you did great with your CPR,
but it's your times.
You're on the bubble.
- What? I didn't qualify? - Relax.
I'm gonna give you a chance to do it again next week.
But listen, it--it's not about how often you practice but how.
And if you don't mind my asking, who's training you?
- My brother.
- That's the problem.
Kid's too easy on you.
Come here.
Let me show you something.
Give me this.
All right.
Put your arms up, all the way up.
There we go. Imagine you're in the water.
Speaking of the water, you're too flat in the water.
You got to move your hips, all right?
There we go. There we go.
That's the one move. That works.
And move, and move. There you go.
You feel the difference? - Mm.
- Yeah. Feel the water.
All right. That's it.
[suspenseful music]
♪
- Martina, hey.
What were you doing in there?
- Greco just wanted to go over my scores.
- Hey, yo, Chief. - Hey. What'd I do?
- Diego! Diego!
- Yo, yo, chill! D, get off. D, get off.
- Get away from me! - That's enough!
- I mean it! - That's enough, bro.
- If I ever see you here again, I'll kill you, bro.
- Stop! Stop! - I swear to God.
Let's go.
- What is wrong with you?
♪
Dude, what's your problem?
- What were you doing in his office?
- I told you.
Said he'd help me pass, but not after what you pulled.
- Diego, what'd I say about drinking under my roof, huh?
- Whatever, Ma. I'm out of here then.
- Qué? - [speaking Spanish]
- Mira!
You better not walk out that door.
- [speaking Spanish] - You better not leave.
No. You better not leave.
- You got plans for tonight?
- Yeah, gonna put the girls down,
eat my feelings on the couch,
wait for Carisi to come over.
- You two don't live together yet?
- He has a drawer.
- It's a waste of gas, if you ask me.
And by the way, I got something for you.
- Hmm?
A bullet?
- Same caliber as the one you got shot with.
You have to own your trauma, or your trauma will own you.
- Hey, guys.
Just got a call from the 1-1,
asking for somebody to go down there.
You guys take it?
Thanks.
- Why don't you go home?
- No.
I got this.
But, um, I'm driving.
- Diego Rodriguez, 19, picked him up in a bar in Midtown,
drunk, picking fights, talking about some guy
who had a run-in with his sister.
- What kind of run-in?
- How the hell would I know?
Sergeant had me call you guys.
- Heard that before. - Hmm.
Hey, there. I'm Detective Rollins.
This is Sergeant Tutuola.
- So what's going on, man?
What happened with your sister?
- You know, when my-- my pops was dying,
he said to look out for her.
And I was just trying to protect her.
- Protect her from what?
- From Paul Greco.
He's the head of the lifeguards.
[suspenseful music]
- So what, he raped your sister?
- No.
He raped me.
♪
[dramatic music]
♪
- Am I under arrest?
- Your arrest was voided.
- Good, because I want to go home.
I didn't have dinner last night.
- You're free to leave, but I got you a sandwich,
something to drink.
Have this first.
- We wanted to talk to you.
Diego, do you remember telling us last night
that your boss sexually assaulted you?
- No, no, no, no, no.
I was just wasted last night, man.
Greco's going after my sister, Martina, okay?
- Martina's a lifeguard too?
- She wants to be.
Greco has the power to make it happen or not.
- Okay, yeah.
Can you tell us more about that?
- At the pool yesterday,
we both took the qualifying test.
Later, I saw her coming out of Greco's office upset,
and I snapped.
- And what did she say happened in that office?
- Nothing. She's innocent.
Martina doesn't see Greco for what he really is.
- And you do. - Of course.
- Where's my brother? - What do you think Greco is?
Do you know that girl?
- Diego! - Martina!
- Are you okay? - What are you doing here?
- Hey, hey. - I told her not to come.
She don't listen, apparently. - You know what?
- Are you okay? - Martina, what are you doing?
I told you not to come.
- I'm gonna go talk to her. Everything's okay.
Come with me. Come with me this way.
- Look, man. - She don't listen. I'm sorry.
- Your sister's got your back.
- Can you just tell her that I'm all right, that I'm okay,
everything's good?
- Look, man.
I know how hard it is to talk about this, but what happened?
- Nothing happened.
You don't understand that, or what?
- Even if something did,
doesn't make you any less of a man.
[solemn music]
- I heard lifeguards make bank.
I needed money for college, so I test.
- With Greco?
- Yeah, with Greco, last year.
He called me into his office after, said I didn't qualify,
that I picked up some bad habits on the school team.
I could pass if I let him retrain me.
- It was craziness yesterday.
I came out of Greco's office,
eyes leaking because I didn't qualify, and...
Diego saw the tears.
He flew into a roid rage.
Why?
Did Greco press charges?
- No.
- Then why is my brother here?
- One day, Greco says the only reason
he hooked me up with the job was 'cause of my...
This was before I started learning how to fight.
- It's okay, man.
- He forced me down on his desk, face down.
And he--
He did it to me.
After that, I cleaned up.
From that point forward, I got all the posts
and all the OT I wanted.
And he never tried nothing again.
- You ever tell anyone?
♪
And when your sister wanted to be a lifeguard,
you never warned her?
- Nah, man.
I didn't even realize it.
I just thought he was into guys.
- So talk to me about this Chief Greco.
- He works for the lifeguard division
of Parks and Recreation, Bronx County, administrator.
- He oversees all the public pools in the Bronx,
some of the beaches.
He's been there for ten years.
- Okay, any priors?
- Not in the system.
- The job pays double the average salary
for teens and 20-somethings, plenty of OT.
- You get paid a lot to sit on a beach.
- Sign me up.
- We called around the Parks Department.
They all say Greco's friendly, smart, single,
got a bit of a rep as a player but nothing
like what Diego's saying.
- All right, so what do we know about Diego
and the sister Martina?
- Good kids from the projects, straight A's.
Diego had a massive stress reaction
when he told me what happened.
He's got no reason to lie to me.
- Well, that's not good.
But no outcry at the time and no rape kit.
- You want us to keep digging?
- It's a bit of a risk, right,
having Greco find out that we're onto him?
- Yeah.
So we'll go straight to him, see if he blinks.
- Diego said that I sexually assaulted him?
- He did.
We're here to get your side of the story.
- [exhales]
- So, did you?
- Of course not. No.
Diego was upset yesterday
because I was talking with his sister.
- It's retaliation?
- Why didn't you report the physical assault?
- Because I like the kid.
He was so sweet last year. Then this year, he comes in.
He's all jacked up.
He wants to start a fight.
I don't know.
It's none of my business.
But honestly, I wouldn't be surprised
if the kid's on some kind of steroids or something.
- Those muscles are armor.
- Armor for what?
- You tell me.
[tense music]
- So what exactly happened between you and Martina
in your office?
- She didn't qualify.
I told her. She cried.
I felt bad.
These are-- these are hardworking kids
from a really poor family.
She got so close, so I offered to train her.
You can ask my
second-in-command, Ronnie Volpe.
He's at Jonas Bronck Beach today--
with Diego.
- So you're telling me Diego went to work?
- I care about the kid, and I'm short-staffed.
Diego was a little late today.
So now I understand why.
I'm sorry. None of this makes any sense.
If I assaulted the kid, why-- why would he come to work?
- So you never had any sexual contact with Diego?
- No.
♪
- I had to pull Diego off Greco.
Look, I don't know what happened
between last year and now,
but the kid's like a totally different person.
- You sure nothing happened to his little sister?
- Oh, I'm sure. - All right.
So when he showed up for work this morning,
what was that like? Were you surprised at all?
- After he tried to kick the chief's ass, yeah.
But to be honest, I was more taken aback
by how he looked when he clocked in.
I could smell the booze.
- Where is he now?
- Out swimming laps between the buoys.
Pinsky's rules.
Any time one of these kids shows up
after a late night of partying.
Quick way to sober up.
- Thank you.
Say what you want about Fin and Benson.
At least they don't make us swim laps.
- What do you think this little trip to the beach is?
- What, you think kid's lying?
- I mean, you hear Volpe.
The kid came to work like nothing happened.
- Maybe Diego figures if he acts normal,
everything might actually be normal.
- Would you go out partying in--in the same day
you accused somebody of rape?
- No, but I'd sure as hell be drinking.
- You Pinsky?
- Yeah. Who wants to know?
- NYPD.
- What can I do for you?
- Pretty far out there, no?
- Yeah, he'll be all right.
- You sure?
[suspenseful music]
Sure looks like he's in trouble.
[whistle trills]
- Diego!
[whistle trills] Diego!
- Yo, you gonna go in?
- Give it a minute.
- What are you doing?
What are you doing? Hey, Velasco!
[whistle trilling]
♪
[whistle trills] - Diego!
♪
.
- They're gonna take him to Montefiore.
- Maybe he's got a chance.
- Velasco, they just did CPR on him for 30 minutes.
- We just watched a kid drown.
- No, you didn't.
That lazy scumbag did.
- Hey, look, I understand I had a duty to act.
But I stepped in, I observed that
the conditions had changed
and there was now a rip current.
I feared for my life and safety.
- Captain.
Trauma docs just called it.
- Oh, Fin.
I'm so sorry.
- Me?
Velasco.
Muncy said Diego was limp in his arms
when he pulled him out of the water.
- Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
- That Diego was sent into the water
to teach him some other lesson that had nothing to do
with the hangover? - Yeah.
- After we told Greco about Diego's allegations?
Yeah, that thought crossed my mind.
- Means the allegations are true.
- We can't prove it.
Our only witness is dead.
Even Carisi couldn't make that stick.
- A predator like Greco just doesn't pop out of nowhere.
He's had that position for ten years.
- Find his other victims.
- Diego loved the water, even as a young boy.
All the swimming he did, it healed his heart
after losing his father.
In the Bible, it says,
"When you pass through the waters,
God is with you."
And now they're together at peace.
- We're so sorry for your loss.
- Mami, why don't you go lay down?
- Okay.
Thank you.
- I drove Diego to work this morning.
He told me what Greco did to him last year,
but he made me promise our mother would never find out.
- We understand.
She doesn't need to know about it,
at least not right now.
- You're gonna arrest Greco for raping my brother.
- That's what we're trying to do, Martina.
- Greco suggested he mentored you.
That's called grooming.
With all the other candidates, he had to make
that same offer to someone.
- Maybe last year?
- I might know someone.
- Please come in.
I heard Diego drowned.
- How'd you two meet?
- From the neighborhood.
He was my first love.
I was his too.
Guess now his last.
- Daniela, we're investigating something Diego told us,
and we think that happened while you two were together.
- Is this about Paul Greco?
- Diego mentioned that he was inappropriate with him?
- What? No.
They were really close.
Diego viewed him as a father figure.
- Just curious, why-- why would you think that
we were here to talk about Greco?
- Because Greco raped me.
I never told Diego, but I suspected he might have known.
That's why I broke up with him.
I needed to be held.
Diego didn't even want to touch me.
I thought he was just loyal to Greco.
- Daniela, I hate to say this, but...
it's likely Diego didn't want to be touched
because the same thing happened to him.
[suspenseful music]
- I thought Greco was just into girls.
I mean, there was always rumors about him being a dog.
On the beach, I'd hear them at parties.
Diego pulled some strings and got me
an interview with Greco halfway through summer
when I got laid off.
Greco said it was offseason,
so he'd have to qualify me privately.
He took me into his office and pinned me down.
I had no business being a lifeguard anyway.
- Why is that?
- Because I can barely swim.
- Did you tell anyone about what Greco did to you?
- I reported it to the precinct here in the Bronx.
- Did you do a rape kit?
- Yeah, but they never called me back.
♪
- Pool's closed.
- Paul Greco, you're under arrest
for the rape of Daniela Cruz.
- I have no idea who that is.
- She knows you.
.
- Paul Greco, on the charge of rape in the first degree,
how do you plead?
- Not guilty, Your Honor.
- People on bail? - We request $75,000.
The defendant is facing serious charges,
and he has the resources to flee.
- Chief Greco is a well-regarded civil servant,
no record, who only wants to defend his reputation.
We request ROR.
- Sorry, Counselor Carisi, I'm granting ROR.
Bailiff, next case.
- Docket number 1625A366. Please approach.
- Braun's being a prick.
He flat-out refused to even discuss a deal.
- The eighth floor really wants to plead this out?
- And the mayor's office.
Nobody wants a long-term city chief on trial.
It shows incompetency on their part.
It makes them look bad, dirty laundry.
- Oh, please.
McGrath's been chewing the end of my phone for days.
- Counselor, Captain, can I have a moment?
Assemblywoman Diane Garcia.
- How can we help you?
- I just wanted to put in a word for Paul Greco.
He's a decent man.
- Well, we have evidence of rape one, Miss Garcia.
We're going to the grand jury.
- I'm just asking that you think about it
before you ruin a respected city official's reputation
and put the city in danger of civil litigation.
- Thank you for the heads up.
- You just made a friend.
- Well, she just oversees judicial appointments,
bail reform, court procedure, and district attorney budget.
So yeah, nothing to worry about.
- How much you want to bet Greco's
a campaign contributor?
Ah, good news.
Daniela's rape kit came back.
DNA's a match.
- The Bronx actually came through?
- Well, kicking, screaming.
- Well, the Bronx doesn't do anything by the book.
- Yeah, especially their SVU.
- Daniela's still not here?
- No, she's not.
The grand jury convenes in five minutes.
I thought you prepped her. - I did.
She knows when and where. Let me give her another call.
- Yeah.
- Daniela, it's Detective Rollins.
We're at the court, waiting for you.
Please give me a call back.
- Don't tell me that we're getting
ghosted by our star witness--
by our only witness.
- I'll send Muncy and Velasco.
[suspenseful music]
- I'm sorry I didn't tell anyone, but I can't do it.
I can't testify.
- What's going on, Daniela?
- My father's on parole.
Greco must have gotten to his officer
because he threatened to have my father violated.
- We can get the DA to call his PO.
We can get it all straightened out.
- No, I can't risk my dad going back to Rikers.
- Daniela, Greco's the one who sent Diego into the ocean.
I went in after him. I pulled him out.
He died right in front of me.
You're gonna let Greco walk around free?
- I hate Greco, too, for what he did to me.
But Diego's dead.
Nothing's bringing him back.
I have to protect my father now.
I'm sorry.
- Diego--
♪
- I'm assuming you asked us here to tell us
you're dropping the charges.
I understand you lost your only witness.
- Yeah, because your client used political clout
to have someone threaten her.
- I have no idea what you're talking about.
- Would you like us to open a witness tampering case?
- Without the girl's cooperation?
- We're also investigating the circumstances
around Diego's death.
- Hold on. - No.
I am devastated by Diego's death.
Any drowning is a tragedy.
But a lifeguard, that's a supervisor's worst nightmare.
Yes, Diego and I had our issues,
but I never wanted this to happen.
- And yet it did.
And a 19-year-old is dead directly because of you.
- I did not give that order.
- There were two qualified lifeguards on duty.
Why don't you talk to them?
- Trust me, we will.
- I'm not the monster you think I am.
I've devoted my entire career to saving lives,
not destroying them.
- You know, men like you become so good at lying,
they even start to believe the ones they tell themselves.
♪
You cannot let this bastard back on the job.
- Yeah. I agree.
But we don't have a rape case anymore.
There were two lifeguards on duty
when Diego drowned, right?
- Velasco had to go in.
The way Muncy tells it,
Daniela admitted to not even knowing how to swim
when Greco tried to hire her.
- If Greco knowingly hired unqualified lifeguards
in exchange for sex--
- We may have a manslaughter case.
- The first step, let's find out
how many drownings happened at that beach
with lifeguards Greco qualified.
- They all drowned at Jonas Bronck Beach.
- All involving lifeguards qualified by Greco,
no other risk factors, no drugs, no intoxication.
- Well, what about these lifeguards?
Are any of them willing to talk?
- Not without a subpoena.
- They all lawyered up
'cause they're all afraid of Greco.
- What about Volpe,
the one who takes the timings for the qualifications?
- You think he might have helped fake them?
- Greco is facing manslaughter.
Let Volpe know that if he's complicit, he is too.
- Manslaughter.
Wait, what?
- Ten counts, including Diego.
- You were there. I went in after Diego.
- It's not about you not going in the water.
- It's about these lifeguards
and Greco fixing their scores
with help from you.
- Why don't you talk to us about Pinsky?
You took his initial timings, right?
- Yeah.
- Greco had you doctor his score?
[tense music]
- I came in to talk to you guys
because I felt sick about Diego.
But maybe I need a lawyer.
- That's up to you.
But if you get a lawyer, we can't help you.
- And you'll sink or swim right next to your boss in court.
- Look, I only became a lifeguard
to pay my way through college and meet chicks, all right?
I'm not an accomplice to anything.
- So you're saying, it's all Greco?
- Yeah, he changed the scores.
- And you went along with it?
- I didn't even notice it at first.
I'd write down the scores.
Then when I put them in the system,
I saw that they changed by a few seconds here and there.
So I started taking pictures on my phone.
Look, it's all right here.
♪
- You didn't report it?
- No.
I like my job.
- Have you heard enough?
- Forget manslaughter.
If Greco knowingly hired incompetent lifeguards
in exchange for sex and money and then those lifeguards
failed to save drowning victims,
that is depraved indifference to human life.
That's murder two.
- Take him down.
.
- Can you state your name and title, please?
- Anna Callas.
I'm an investigator for the New York City
Department of Health.
We analyze drowning incident reports
for all public beaches.
- Can you identify these ten people?
- Victims of drownings at Jonas Bronck Beach
under Chief Greco's tenure,
all cases involving a lifeguard attempt.
- Lifeguard attempts that failed?
- That's correct.
The ME report showed none of them
had alcohol or drugs in their system.
- Now, the lifeguards that made the failed attempts,
what did they all have in common?
- They were all qualified and hired
by County Administrator Paul Greco.
- Thank you.
- The drownings were ruled accidental?
- Yes, but that's standard--
- So there was no conclusion that lifeguard incompetence
was the cause?
- No, that's beyond our purview.
- I see.
Thank you.
- I served as chief lifeguard for the City of New York
for 25 years before I retired.
During that time, I evaluated thousands of rescue cases,
most of them successful.
- Now, I am going to draw your attention to some
that unfortunately were not.
Julio Vela, 14 years old, drowned July 16, 2012.
Lifeguard on duty was Mariel Kemp.
Now, witnesses reported that Kemp
was slow to enter the water and then was unable to reach
the victim in time.
Now, in your expert opinion, with conditions calm and flat,
as they were that day, would that ever have happened
with a qualified lifeguard?
- No. - No.
Alea Shihabi, age 26, drowned August 8, 2016.
Lifeguard on duty was Dylan Marks.
He was observed on his phone, which delayed him
in sounding the submersion signal.
- In my opinion, that would not have occurred
with a qualified lifeguard.
- Greg Turner, age 28, drowned July 5, 2015.
Lifeguard on duty was Sean Davis--
- Who was observed heading into the water
and turning right around.
[suspenseful music]
♪
- As head lifeguard at Jonas Bronck Beach,
I report directly to Chief Paul Greco.
I supervise all on-duty lifeguards,
distribute bay assignments,
and I also administer qualification tests.
- How do you take the timings?
- I use a stopwatch, then write the results
on an application form for Chief Greco to evaluate.
- How does he evaluate them?
- He looks them over.
But I came to realize that he sometimes changed the scores.
- And what did you do when you realized that?
- I took screenshots of my initial timings
on my cell phone.
- People's exhibit three.
Can you read the initial timings
for ocean qualification, please?
- Frank Pinsky, 7:42.
Mariel Kemp, 7:50.
Marks, 8:20. Davis, 8:35.
- And since none of these four made the required timing,
how did they all end up assigned
to Jonas Bronck Beach?
- Greco adjusted their scores,
said he had requalified them.
- Meaning what?
- He had sex with the candidates,
or they kicked back 10% of their salary.
He called it pay or lay.
- And you know this how?
- He told me when I confronted him
and recorded the conversation on my cell.
- People's exhibit four.
- Hell yeah, she requalified, on her knees. [laughs]
Come on, what do you care?
Come on, you want a crack at her, too, huh?
- Who is the defendant referring to?
- Mariel Kemp.
Her score changed from 7 minutes, 50 seconds
to 6 minutes flat,
enough to qualify to be a lifeguard at the beach.
- Nothing further.
- Mr. Volpe, you knew about the scores being changed
and said nothing?
- I did.
And it is with deep regret I didn't--
- Did that regret start before or after the DA's Office
offered you a deal to testify?
♪
I thought so.
Nothing further.
- Hey.
- Hey. You headed home?
- Yeah.
How's it going?
- It's a lot of data for the jury to absorb.
- I think you're getting to them.
I saw tears.
- Want a job as a jury consultant?
- Sure, less chance of getting shot.
- You know, you slept like a baby last night.
It's the first time in--
in a while that you didn't wake up at all.
- Mm.
Fin.
When he retires, maybe he should be a shrink.
You gonna be late then? - Yeah, very late.
Greco testifies tomorrow.
- Okay. Good night.
You got this, Counselor.
- Being a lifeguard takes discipline and integrity.
It's a hard job.
But I'm damn proud of the work we do.
- Do you consider yourself a man of integrity, Chief Greco?
- I do.
Now, have I had sexual involvements
with lifeguards underneath me?
Yes, all consensual.
But I have never hired someone
who was unfit for the job.
- You were sure that your lifeguards could do the job.
But in these ten drownings,
they underperformed, didn't they?
- Even the most experienced lifeguard can lose a swimmer.
It's always a tragedy.
- A tragedy?
Let me ask, do you lose sleep over it?
- Objection. Relevance.
- A little latitude, please, Your Honor?
- I'll allow, but move this along.
- I'm understaffed.
My budget is cut, and every year, it gets worse.
I got drunks on the beach,
people letting their kids wander around,
people with no business getting in the water.
And you know what happens?
Then we need to get in, we need to risk our lives.
- Yeah, but that is your job, isn't it?
- Oh, look at you, your suit and tie.
You have no idea what it's like
to have people's lives in your hands, do you?
♪
Well, people don't think about it like this.
The ocean is a wilderness.
And men like me are the breakwater,
the only single barrier
between a fun day at the beach
and some out-of-shape stupid person becoming
a part of the food chain.
And rarely--rarely do those life-or-death moments
come down to a matter of seconds.
Most of the time, it's IQ points and common sense.
- Is that why you sent Diego Rodriguez
into the water that day?
Because you thought he lacked common sense?
- Objection.
- Sustained.
- Diego was a drunk
who showed up hungover,
and I can't have that on my beach.
- And so you gave the order to send him out
to swim laps to and from a buoy
a quarter mile out in a rip current?
- Your Honor!
- You're damn right I gave that order.
But I didn't know there'd be a rip
any more than I wanted that kid dead.
But that beach and the lives on it are my responsibility.
All mine.
It's my ass on the line.
I'm the boss,
and all my lifeguards know it.
♪
.
- So Pinsky was on the beach when Diego drowned.
- Yeah, he dipped his toe in.
It's hard to say what he was scared of more,
the riptide or Greco.
- Find out.
- What's up, Frank?
- My lawyer says I shouldn't talk to you.
- Well, you're not a suspect.
Let me ask,
why have you been coming to court?
- Show support for Chief Greco.
He made it clear we all needed to show up.
I--I didn't know Diego was gonna go under.
I thought he'd be okay.
He was a strong swimmer.
- And you're not.
- I'm all right, but...
That's not why I didn't go in.
Greco told me not to, no matter what.
- You listened.
[suspenseful music]
- I should have gone in.
- What does Greco have on you, Frank?
Whatever it is, it's not on you.
You know what he did to other guys.
- He's got pictures
of me and him and a couple of the other guys doing...
stuff.
And he sent them to me, and he said that
if I didn't do what he said, he was gonna show them
to everybody, you know, my-- my family, my--my girlfriend.
He's right, what he said in there.
He's the boss.
He's got all the power.
- So take it back.
♪
- That coward Pinsky is lying.
- When I put him on the stand, the jury will have to decide.
- Hold up. Let's slow this down.
- What am I paying you for?
- To tell you when to shut up and accept you've lost.
- Where's all that common sense you were
bragging about having, huh?
- Jury's never gonna convict.
If they do, I'll just appeal.
- No, no, no. It's over, Greco.
The political clout you bought, that has limits.
Pinsky's got the photos you used to blackmail him.
Now, I'm giving you a chance to serve out your time
without everybody knowing the truth about you.
- Oh, yeah?
[tense music]
What's that?
- That you are a manipulative, little big man,
with a fiefdom built on sand, and it's all coming down.
- What are you offering?
♪
- Thank you, Carisi.
Yeah.
Greco will plead to ten counts of manslaughter.
- Served consecutively,
he'll be in prison till he's 70.
- Yeah, good work, both of you.
- We'll tell Martina.
- There's a memorial for Diego at the beach.
- Yeah. I'll send my condolences.
Velasco.
You lost someone, and it's easy to take that personally.
So you feel sorry, but not for yourself.
You did everything right.
[somber music]
- Thank you.
- Mean it.
♪
[dramatic music]
♪
[wolf howls]