1 00:00:01,068 --> 00:00:02,821 In the criminal justice system, 2 00:00:02,821 --> 00:00:06,429 sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous 3 00:00:06,429 --> 00:00:07,585 In New York City, 4 00:00:07,585 --> 00:00:10,943 the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members 5 00:00:10,943 --> 00:00:13,862 of an elite squad known as The Special Victims Unit. 6 00:00:13,862 --> 00:00:15,980 These are their stories. 7 00:00:25,837 --> 00:00:28,287 So you going Britney Spears on me now or what? 8 00:00:28,287 --> 00:00:29,904 Eartha Kitt. 9 00:00:29,904 --> 00:00:31,230 Who? 10 00:00:37,526 --> 00:00:39,341 I gotta run. 11 00:00:40,796 --> 00:00:42,438 Hi. Where's Mom? 12 00:00:42,438 --> 00:00:45,177 Took the twins to Joey Stemple' s birthday party. That your boyfriend? 13 00:00:45,177 --> 00:00:46,538 No. 14 00:00:46,538 --> 00:00:48,305 - Introduce me. - No. 15 00:00:49,298 --> 00:00:51,453 How long has he been out of prison? 16 00:00:51,604 --> 00:00:53,677 - Dad, stop. - What's his name? 17 00:00:53,677 --> 00:00:56,001 - Ryan Witherspoon. - Witherspoon? 18 00:00:56,001 --> 00:00:57,436 He go to your school? 19 00:00:57,802 --> 00:01:01,159 He's going to post next year, okay? 20 00:01:03,626 --> 00:01:06,138 Okay, I guess he's cute. 21 00:01:09,385 --> 00:01:11,276 On the LIE a multi-vehicle accident 22 00:01:11,276 --> 00:01:14,353 just before the mid-town tunnel has traffic clogged up... 23 00:01:16,219 --> 00:01:17,872 Is that a tattoo? 24 00:01:18,677 --> 00:01:19,840 No. 25 00:01:21,099 --> 00:01:22,314 Where'd you get it? 26 00:01:22,314 --> 00:01:23,709 Well, you've got tattoos. 27 00:01:23,709 --> 00:01:26,255 I was 18 and in the service. 28 00:01:26,433 --> 00:01:29,711 It's henna. It washes off. 29 00:01:30,214 --> 00:01:31,788 Why didn't you just tell me that? 30 00:01:31,788 --> 00:01:35,278 I just did. You're such a cop. 31 00:01:35,278 --> 00:01:37,578 Yeah, wait till you have kids. 32 00:01:38,687 --> 00:01:41,212 All the little Witherspoons. 33 00:01:47,988 --> 00:01:49,402 Move. 34 00:01:52,424 --> 00:01:55,811 Stay here, lock the doors, roll up that window. 35 00:02:03,610 --> 00:02:05,628 Stabler, Manhattan SVU, watch yourself. 36 00:02:05,628 --> 00:02:07,919 Hurry up, there's someone under there. 37 00:02:10,883 --> 00:02:12,108 Get it out! 38 00:02:12,799 --> 00:02:15,467 All right, call it in, secure the scene. 39 00:02:24,736 --> 00:02:26,006 Don't look at that. 40 00:02:29,044 --> 00:02:30,616 Don't look at that. 41 00:02:31,935 --> 00:02:35,116 It's all right. It's all right. 42 00:03:13,363 --> 00:03:16,888 Law & Order SVU 2x01 Wrong is Right 43 00:03:19,005 --> 00:03:21,751 ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON NBC: 2000/10/20 44 00:03:24,971 --> 00:03:26,716 Capt. Cragen... 45 00:03:26,716 --> 00:03:28,906 one of your detectives reports 46 00:03:28,906 --> 00:03:33,193 while bar hopping picking up a suspect and having sex with him. 47 00:03:33,193 --> 00:03:36,862 Another confesses to fantasies about killing suspects. 48 00:03:36,862 --> 00:03:40,059 Just what kind of unit are you running, Captain? 49 00:03:40,059 --> 00:03:43,005 I was told that, whatever the results 50 00:03:43,005 --> 00:03:47,647 that, the actual content of these psych evaluations would be kept private. 51 00:03:47,647 --> 00:03:49,633 Doctor-patient privilege is sacrosanct. 52 00:03:49,633 --> 00:03:52,513 Promiscuity and fantasies of murder? 53 00:03:52,513 --> 00:03:56,343 Detectives Jeffries and Stabler will undergo further evaluation 54 00:03:56,343 --> 00:03:59,949 and will submit formal explanations to this committee. 55 00:03:59,949 --> 00:04:04,448 I have assigned prosecutor A.D.A. Cabot to adjudicate SVU cases. 56 00:04:04,448 --> 00:04:08,334 You will apprise A.D.A. Cabot of your case file asap. 57 00:04:08,334 --> 00:04:10,511 If l... / Robbery unit next. 58 00:04:13,829 --> 00:04:15,183 Capt. Cragen? 59 00:04:15,369 --> 00:04:16,529 Miss Cabot. / Alex. 60 00:04:16,529 --> 00:04:18,635 Yeah, right, of course. 61 00:04:21,119 --> 00:04:23,023 Let's not start off on the wrong foot. 62 00:04:23,023 --> 00:04:27,220 My assignment to SVU preceded the behavioral problems under your command. 63 00:04:27,220 --> 00:04:29,007 Behavioral problems? 64 00:04:29,007 --> 00:04:31,905 - I'm trying to be polite. - Tiptoeing around the road kill? 65 00:04:31,905 --> 00:04:34,809 - Where there's smoke. - Who do you sleep with, Miss Cabot? 66 00:04:34,809 --> 00:04:36,145 Are you so new at this 67 00:04:36,145 --> 00:04:39,131 that you haven't run into somebody you'd like to skip due process with? 68 00:04:39,131 --> 00:04:42,449 I'll apprise you asap if asap can be tomorrow. 69 00:04:42,449 --> 00:04:45,636 You understand, I have behavioral issues. 70 00:04:45,636 --> 00:04:46,941 Certainly. 71 00:04:47,419 --> 00:04:49,521 Breakfast, then? 72 00:04:50,909 --> 00:04:53,674 Two unis and a robbery detective from the 17 73 00:04:53,674 --> 00:04:55,168 were kicked over to Public Affairs. 74 00:04:55,168 --> 00:04:57,030 - Reevaluation stinks. - Truly. 75 00:04:57,030 --> 00:05:00,311 Best crime stats in 30 years and they're reevaluating? / It's how it works. 76 00:05:00,311 --> 00:05:02,560 We get rid of the criminals they fear they start fearing us. 77 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:04,507 Public hates tough cops, until they need one. 78 00:05:04,507 --> 00:05:07,202 Jeffries, my office. 79 00:05:11,599 --> 00:05:14,402 You told the psychologist you slept with a suspect? 80 00:05:14,402 --> 00:05:16,229 What? No, that's not what I said. 81 00:05:16,229 --> 00:05:19,216 Well, that's how they interpreted it. 82 00:05:19,485 --> 00:05:21,127 I'm gonna limit your field time. 83 00:05:21,127 --> 00:05:23,187 You're giving me desk duty? 84 00:05:23,187 --> 00:05:25,971 You need time to prepare a formal response for the Morris Commission. 85 00:05:25,971 --> 00:05:28,675 I am not explaining my sex life to the Morris Commission! 86 00:05:28,675 --> 00:05:30,134 That's enough! 87 00:05:30,501 --> 00:05:35,035 I don't like it either, Monique but yelling at me is not gonna solve anything. 88 00:05:38,236 --> 00:05:40,227 Jimmy Buffet in town? 89 00:05:40,844 --> 00:05:42,692 I was taking Maureen home from the beach 90 00:05:42,692 --> 00:05:46,321 see two uniforms fighting this fire up by Black Bank Marsh. 91 00:05:46,321 --> 00:05:48,289 I stop to help turns out to be a body, 92 00:05:48,289 --> 00:05:51,440 gunshot wound to the head flames leaping off the crotch. 93 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,152 My daughter sees the whole thing. 94 00:05:53,152 --> 00:05:54,066 Is she all right? 95 00:05:54,066 --> 00:05:56,411 I don't know, Kathy picked her up. I was on the scene all night. 96 00:05:56,411 --> 00:05:57,814 In Queens? 97 00:05:58,690 --> 00:06:02,696 Dump job. Looks like the victim was shot in his West Side apartment. 98 00:06:02,696 --> 00:06:03,637 Elliot. 99 00:06:03,637 --> 00:06:05,819 - Off to a scene. - Now. 100 00:06:08,068 --> 00:06:09,515 You okay? 101 00:06:11,852 --> 00:06:14,576 What possessed you to tell the shrink in your psych evaluation 102 00:06:14,576 --> 00:06:16,439 that you fantasized about killing suspects? 103 00:06:16,439 --> 00:06:18,613 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 104 00:06:18,756 --> 00:06:20,631 I said perps not suspects. 105 00:06:20,631 --> 00:06:23,510 Well, the Morris Commission doesn't see a distinction. 106 00:06:23,510 --> 00:06:25,365 They're inquiring. 107 00:06:25,890 --> 00:06:28,305 Inquiring into what? My private thoughts? 108 00:06:28,305 --> 00:06:32,392 They're supposed to be house-cleaning the department of rogue cops. 109 00:06:37,816 --> 00:06:39,798 My job at risk? 110 00:06:41,167 --> 00:06:42,551 Yeah. 111 00:06:47,675 --> 00:06:49,794 Amsterdam Apartments 103 Willow Street Brooklyn Heights Monday, September 11 112 00:06:49,794 --> 00:06:51,852 Victim's Andrew Croft, 42. 113 00:06:51,852 --> 00:06:53,530 Dumped vehicle may be a Lexus. 114 00:06:53,530 --> 00:06:56,033 DMV has one registered to this address it's missing. 115 00:06:56,033 --> 00:06:57,461 Was he packing or unpacking? 116 00:06:57,461 --> 00:07:01,277 He was transferred here a month ago by his new company, Radial Velocity. 117 00:07:01,277 --> 00:07:02,926 - Radial Velocity? - Yeah. 118 00:07:02,926 --> 00:07:05,569 Edge-of-the-envelope defense contractor? What's he do for them? 119 00:07:05,569 --> 00:07:06,938 I'm still on his home life. 120 00:07:06,938 --> 00:07:10,151 He's single, lived with his son, Michael approximately 16. 121 00:07:10,151 --> 00:07:12,461 Neighbors say that they argued a lot. 122 00:07:15,864 --> 00:07:18,204 Serious feng shui problem. 123 00:07:18,389 --> 00:07:19,512 Neighbors hear this argument? 124 00:07:19,512 --> 00:07:21,643 Everyone was out. Beach, the park. 125 00:07:21,643 --> 00:07:23,014 This the son? 126 00:07:23,014 --> 00:07:24,379 Probably an old picture. 127 00:07:24,379 --> 00:07:26,530 I found some books labeled MacArthur High 128 00:07:26,530 --> 00:07:29,120 so I called, but there's no Michael Croft registered 129 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,233 but the books are all bar coded. 130 00:07:31,233 --> 00:07:35,219 I'll take Radial Velocity with Jeffries if Cragen will let her out of the office. 131 00:07:35,219 --> 00:07:37,670 - What? - Morris Commission. 132 00:07:38,381 --> 00:07:40,122 Okay, what the hell's going on? 133 00:07:40,122 --> 00:07:41,995 - The psych evaluation? - Yeah? 134 00:07:41,995 --> 00:07:45,075 I said I felt like killing child molesters. 135 00:07:45,075 --> 00:07:46,788 Okay, so how can they have a problem with that? 136 00:07:46,788 --> 00:07:49,121 - The commissions are all cops. - Yeah, well... 137 00:07:49,121 --> 00:07:51,953 when was the last time one of them stood in a room like this? 138 00:07:54,519 --> 00:07:56,376 This belonged to Michael Croft? 139 00:07:56,376 --> 00:07:59,568 This is Michael Goren's book, he's absent today. 140 00:07:59,568 --> 00:08:02,795 You want to speak to his guidance counselor, Miss Scheider. 141 00:08:02,795 --> 00:08:04,317 Okay, thank you. 142 00:08:05,111 --> 00:08:08,231 I need a release from Michael's guardian to give you his file. 143 00:08:08,231 --> 00:08:10,818 Mrs. Scheider, Michael's father was murdered yesterday. 144 00:08:10,818 --> 00:08:12,539 Mr. Croft? / Yes. 145 00:08:12,539 --> 00:08:15,446 Mr. Croft wasn't Michael's father. 146 00:08:15,446 --> 00:08:16,975 - Foster parent? - Guardian. 147 00:08:16,975 --> 00:08:19,386 You can see the problem with getting his signature then. 148 00:08:19,386 --> 00:08:20,457 Right. 149 00:08:21,117 --> 00:08:22,320 This is terrible. 150 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,244 - What happened to Michael's parents? - I don't know. 151 00:08:24,244 --> 00:08:26,518 He was born in Belgium that's all that's there. 152 00:08:26,518 --> 00:08:27,695 You have a current photo of him? 153 00:08:27,695 --> 00:08:29,410 No, Michael's a new student. 154 00:08:29,410 --> 00:08:31,650 We don't take school pictures until homecoming. 155 00:08:31,650 --> 00:08:32,756 He's an AIB student. 156 00:08:32,756 --> 00:08:35,615 He could be a straight A student if he made an effort. 157 00:08:35,615 --> 00:08:36,680 Why, is he lazy? 158 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:37,780 Withdrawn. 159 00:08:37,780 --> 00:08:41,012 I feel like Michael's in some pain that makes him gravitate to troublemakers. 160 00:08:41,012 --> 00:08:42,244 Yeah? Like who? 161 00:08:42,244 --> 00:08:44,487 Primarily, Jason Sloane. 162 00:08:45,060 --> 00:08:47,195 What's with the beach bum look? 163 00:08:47,362 --> 00:08:49,047 It's casual Monday. 164 00:08:49,267 --> 00:08:51,361 - Cops do that? - Michael Goren. 165 00:08:51,361 --> 00:08:53,111 You know where he is? 166 00:08:53,841 --> 00:08:55,237 I don't know. 167 00:08:55,237 --> 00:08:56,776 When was the last time you saw Michael? 168 00:08:56,776 --> 00:08:58,207 Saturday. He stayed at my house. 169 00:08:58,207 --> 00:08:59,485 So you guys are close? 170 00:08:59,485 --> 00:09:02,330 No, but he hates going home to the creep, and I've got an extra bed. 171 00:09:02,330 --> 00:09:03,663 What creep? 172 00:09:03,663 --> 00:09:05,104 Andrew. 173 00:09:06,031 --> 00:09:08,852 Andrew was shot yesterday, he's dead. 174 00:09:08,852 --> 00:09:10,481 Excellent. 175 00:09:11,788 --> 00:09:14,682 Well, he was a bad guy. I've seen him slap Michael around. 176 00:09:14,682 --> 00:09:16,827 So where's Michael now? 177 00:09:16,827 --> 00:09:18,362 Didn't I say I don't know? 178 00:09:18,362 --> 00:09:20,739 You don't know where he is, but you're the only friend he's got? 179 00:09:20,739 --> 00:09:21,927 He has friends. 180 00:09:21,927 --> 00:09:24,773 Some girl calls him from wherever. 181 00:09:25,575 --> 00:09:28,301 - Wherever? - Yeah. Wherever. 182 00:09:28,853 --> 00:09:32,085 I'd love to help you do your job, but I'm a high school student. 183 00:09:33,820 --> 00:09:37,114 Radial Velocity, Inc. 173 Fifth Avenue Monday, September 11 184 00:09:38,179 --> 00:09:39,464 Thanks. 185 00:09:42,141 --> 00:09:44,774 Detectives. I'm Craig Prince. 186 00:09:44,774 --> 00:09:47,080 I was Andrew Croft's supervisor. This is Ralph Noble. 187 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,912 - Security. - It's a sad day for us. 188 00:09:51,074 --> 00:09:52,768 I wish I could say more. Anyway, 189 00:09:52,768 --> 00:09:56,193 this is everything from Croft's office except what's classified. 190 00:09:56,193 --> 00:09:58,390 Was Mr. Croft's job classified? 191 00:09:58,390 --> 00:10:01,058 He was a guidance system analyst, that's all I can say. 192 00:10:01,058 --> 00:10:02,348 He just transferred here. 193 00:10:02,348 --> 00:10:03,658 Can't be more specific. 194 00:10:03,658 --> 00:10:05,959 Who was to be notified in case of an emergency? 195 00:10:05,959 --> 00:10:08,184 Detective, it's classified. 196 00:10:08,184 --> 00:10:09,988 Please, the man had a son. 197 00:10:09,988 --> 00:10:11,933 If something happens, who looks out for him? 198 00:10:11,933 --> 00:10:13,414 That's not our concern. 199 00:10:13,414 --> 00:10:15,940 Do we have to get a court order? 200 00:10:16,622 --> 00:10:18,219 Well, you can try. 201 00:10:18,219 --> 00:10:23,020 What are the odds you have a picture of Senator Joseph McCarthy tattooed on your ass? 202 00:10:24,112 --> 00:10:27,147 Leave the dolly in the garage. 203 00:10:31,540 --> 00:10:34,194 Radial Velocity's redacted 1,200 pages of documents... 204 00:10:34,194 --> 00:10:35,972 down to the occasional adverb. 205 00:10:35,972 --> 00:10:38,191 There's not a complete sentence in anything Craig Prince gave us. 206 00:10:38,191 --> 00:10:39,723 It is national security. 207 00:10:39,723 --> 00:10:40,787 We're looking for a murderer 208 00:10:40,787 --> 00:10:42,822 and the victim's missing kid and Craig Prince is giving us: 209 00:10:42,822 --> 00:10:44,969 "Here's your hat, what's your hurry?" 210 00:10:44,969 --> 00:10:47,189 You'd think they'd want to help us catch Croft's killer 211 00:10:47,189 --> 00:10:50,154 instead of burying everything under the rubric of national security. 212 00:10:50,154 --> 00:10:52,974 It's too convenient, there's something else going on here. 213 00:10:52,974 --> 00:10:56,951 It's Munch. No, I want to see your spook ass now. 214 00:11:01,224 --> 00:11:02,479 What do you want, Munch? 215 00:11:02,479 --> 00:11:05,784 Anything I can get on a couple of missile geeks from Radial Velocity. 216 00:11:05,784 --> 00:11:07,416 - Who? - Craig Prince. 217 00:11:07,416 --> 00:11:08,827 He's no geek, he's a suit. 218 00:11:08,827 --> 00:11:10,562 Well, what's his story? 219 00:11:10,562 --> 00:11:12,375 - We've been looking at Prince. - Why? 220 00:11:12,375 --> 00:11:14,905 Kickbacks. Guy's living way beyond his paycheck. 221 00:11:14,905 --> 00:11:18,146 New co-op on Central Park West, new A8 in the garage. 222 00:11:18,146 --> 00:11:20,959 He disperses classified money. 223 00:11:23,602 --> 00:11:25,239 Ralph Noble? 224 00:11:25,239 --> 00:11:26,973 Head of security. 225 00:11:28,404 --> 00:11:29,304 Yeah? 226 00:11:29,304 --> 00:11:31,616 Vietnam vet, Purple Heart... 227 00:11:31,616 --> 00:11:34,880 - Silver Star, Medal of Honor. - Anything else? 228 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,689 He was hoping for an Oscar, but he's not in show business. 229 00:11:37,689 --> 00:11:39,099 Man's a war hero, Munch. 230 00:11:39,099 --> 00:11:40,973 Andrew Croft? 231 00:11:40,973 --> 00:11:42,497 Guidance systems. 232 00:11:42,497 --> 00:11:45,087 This guy's the king of the missile geeks 233 00:11:45,087 --> 00:11:46,397 but I got nothing. 234 00:11:46,397 --> 00:11:48,288 Croft's a black hole. 235 00:11:48,288 --> 00:11:49,955 Who does that? 236 00:11:49,955 --> 00:11:53,108 DOD, NSA. 237 00:11:53,108 --> 00:11:54,790 Why? 238 00:11:56,084 --> 00:11:58,566 We can fire a missile off a ship in the Gulf of Oman. 239 00:11:58,566 --> 00:12:00,678 20 minutes and 600 miles later, 240 00:12:00,678 --> 00:12:04,509 it's entering the front door of a Hezbollah safe house in Al Basrah, 241 00:12:04,509 --> 00:12:07,330 doesn't even touch the doorframe. 242 00:12:07,714 --> 00:12:09,887 Anybody can build a bomb, Munch, 243 00:12:09,887 --> 00:12:12,158 but nobody delivers them like we do. 244 00:12:12,158 --> 00:12:13,776 Guidance systems, John. 245 00:12:13,776 --> 00:12:15,663 What are we willing to pay for them? 246 00:12:15,663 --> 00:12:16,990 Anything. 247 00:12:16,990 --> 00:12:19,756 Erase your enemies, erase your past. 248 00:12:19,756 --> 00:12:23,430 Like I said, Croft's a black hole. 249 00:12:24,217 --> 00:12:27,064 - Why the interest? - Croft's dead. 250 00:12:27,064 --> 00:12:29,318 Michael, his 16-year-old ward is missing. 251 00:12:29,318 --> 00:12:32,310 Prince and Noble aren't talking. 252 00:12:33,043 --> 00:12:34,670 How'd Croft buy it? 253 00:12:34,670 --> 00:12:37,460 Bullet to the head, Bunsen to the crotch. 254 00:12:37,460 --> 00:12:39,801 Ouch. / Yeah. 255 00:12:54,153 --> 00:12:55,360 What's the matter? What's the matter? 256 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:57,082 The fire. 257 00:12:57,592 --> 00:13:00,291 - Come here. - The fire, Daddy, the fire. 258 00:13:00,291 --> 00:13:03,860 It's okay, it's all right. 259 00:13:09,661 --> 00:13:12,158 Look, the recidivism rate for rapists and child molesters 260 00:13:12,158 --> 00:13:14,548 is far more onerous than that of murderers. 261 00:13:14,548 --> 00:13:15,902 The public knows that. 262 00:13:15,902 --> 00:13:18,342 The public cares about victims' rights. 263 00:13:18,342 --> 00:13:22,793 And live victims give better sound bites than dead ones. 264 00:13:22,793 --> 00:13:24,792 They vote, too. 265 00:13:24,983 --> 00:13:26,378 I don't. 266 00:13:26,378 --> 00:13:30,276 I used to, but, well, look at the choices. 267 00:13:30,276 --> 00:13:32,923 I don't much care for city politics these days. 268 00:13:32,923 --> 00:13:36,324 The mollifying, the scapegoating. 269 00:13:36,324 --> 00:13:38,066 That's why there's a Morris Commission. 270 00:13:38,066 --> 00:13:39,598 That's why you're at SVU. 271 00:13:39,598 --> 00:13:43,324 I gotta tell you something, Alex. 272 00:13:43,324 --> 00:13:46,708 I really don't see why I should trust you. 273 00:13:47,627 --> 00:13:48,862 Captain. 274 00:13:49,944 --> 00:13:54,661 I intend to stand on your shoulders to reach a broader Constituency. 275 00:13:54,661 --> 00:13:58,124 Why would I do anything to shorten my grasp? 276 00:13:59,492 --> 00:14:00,898 Okay. 277 00:14:01,379 --> 00:14:05,015 Maybe this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. 278 00:14:05,015 --> 00:14:07,058 Our open cases. 279 00:14:07,058 --> 00:14:08,187 According to the M.E., 280 00:14:08,187 --> 00:14:12,471 Andrew Croft was killed by a.38 slug, behind the left ear, point-blank. 281 00:14:12,471 --> 00:14:14,274 - Burning was post mortem. - You got a weapon? 282 00:14:14,274 --> 00:14:17,619 It hasn't turned up yet, but Croft owned a.38. 283 00:14:17,619 --> 00:14:18,572 What about the boy? 284 00:14:18,572 --> 00:14:21,060 Still missing, along with Croft's Lexus. 285 00:14:21,060 --> 00:14:22,528 Maybe the kid is dead. 286 00:14:22,528 --> 00:14:24,024 Why do you say that? 287 00:14:24,024 --> 00:14:26,518 My contact at the G says that Croft's supervisor, 288 00:14:26,518 --> 00:14:29,676 Craig Prince is being looked at for kickbacks. / So what? 289 00:14:29,676 --> 00:14:31,269 Well, maybe Croft had evidence, 290 00:14:31,269 --> 00:14:33,870 maybe Croft was involved and they had a lethal disagreement. 291 00:14:33,870 --> 00:14:36,351 Looks like sexual homicide not an assassination. 292 00:14:36,351 --> 00:14:39,562 - Very clever, to throw us off track. - I gotta hand it to you. 293 00:14:39,562 --> 00:14:41,429 When you go with a theory, you really go with a theory. 294 00:14:41,429 --> 00:14:43,931 - You think this stuff doesn't happen? - No, I'm not saying... 295 00:14:43,931 --> 00:14:46,470 Let's just keep our heads in the game here, all right? 296 00:14:46,470 --> 00:14:50,133 Now the connection between Prince and Croft warrants further investigation. 297 00:14:50,133 --> 00:14:52,398 But in the meantime, we've still got a missing kid 298 00:14:52,398 --> 00:14:56,992 and until I know otherwise, I'm going to assume he's still alive. 299 00:14:56,992 --> 00:14:59,266 Now you guys, find the Lexus, find the boy. 300 00:14:59,266 --> 00:15:03,096 Munch, Jeffries, let's find out how good this new ADA really is. 301 00:15:03,096 --> 00:15:06,102 We need a search warrant for Radial Velocity. 302 00:15:07,665 --> 00:15:09,091 You want me to secure a search warrant 303 00:15:09,091 --> 00:15:12,716 for the offices of a defense contractor to search classified national security files 304 00:15:12,716 --> 00:15:14,543 for evidence in a sexually motivated homicide? 305 00:15:14,543 --> 00:15:16,559 Yes, you got a problem with that? 306 00:15:16,559 --> 00:15:18,101 Judge Harriman, please. 307 00:15:18,101 --> 00:15:20,526 This is Alex Cabot in the DA's office. 308 00:15:22,092 --> 00:15:24,120 Uncle Bill? Good. 309 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:25,870 Look, I need a little favor. 310 00:15:27,346 --> 00:15:29,020 You've got to be kidding me. 311 00:15:29,020 --> 00:15:31,038 You said we should try. 312 00:15:31,947 --> 00:15:35,907 You do not just barge in here without proper notice. 313 00:15:35,907 --> 00:15:36,985 Read the fine print. 314 00:15:36,985 --> 00:15:40,422 Now step aside, or I'll have these officers restrain you. 315 00:15:43,248 --> 00:15:46,114 Special Victims Unit Squadroom Tuesday, September 12 316 00:15:46,114 --> 00:15:48,488 Great, thank you. That was the state police. 317 00:15:48,488 --> 00:15:52,522 We've located Croft's Lexus upstate Millbrook, right outside Poughkeepsie. 318 00:15:52,522 --> 00:15:53,959 Croft transferred from Poughkeepsie. 319 00:15:53,959 --> 00:15:55,620 Locals are surveilling it till we get there. 320 00:15:55,620 --> 00:15:57,150 Great. Find something. 321 00:16:02,493 --> 00:16:04,632 Blood. Pop it. 322 00:16:07,048 --> 00:16:08,803 Nobody home. 323 00:16:08,803 --> 00:16:11,421 House belongs to Richard and Darlene Sadler. 324 00:16:11,421 --> 00:16:13,744 They own a hardware store over on Elm street. 325 00:16:13,744 --> 00:16:16,244 Their daughter, Denise, attends the high school. 326 00:16:16,244 --> 00:16:19,563 Well, looks like we found the girlfriend from wherever. 327 00:16:26,401 --> 00:16:29,703 Adams High School Millbrook Township, NY Tuesday, September 12 328 00:16:29,886 --> 00:16:31,650 Slow down! 329 00:16:31,650 --> 00:16:33,611 Denise is in her fourth period class. 330 00:16:33,611 --> 00:16:36,253 We were hoping that she might be able to help us locate Michael Goren. 331 00:16:36,253 --> 00:16:38,434 Leave the spurs home next time. 332 00:16:38,434 --> 00:16:40,745 Great kid Michael. What do you mean locate? 333 00:16:40,745 --> 00:16:42,736 He's been missing since Sunday. 334 00:16:42,736 --> 00:16:44,608 Michael's not missing. 335 00:16:44,813 --> 00:16:47,450 He's in our mentoring program. 336 00:16:50,458 --> 00:16:52,409 Let's go, Jimmy. Nice Job. 337 00:16:52,409 --> 00:16:54,544 Good job. All right, everybody just like Jimmy, 338 00:16:54,544 --> 00:16:56,815 - use the inside of your foot. - Michael. 339 00:17:01,609 --> 00:17:04,366 This is about Andrew, isn't it? 340 00:17:09,006 --> 00:17:11,338 - Do you understand these rights? - Yes. 341 00:17:11,338 --> 00:17:14,861 Do you understand that you don't have to talk to us without your lawyer? 342 00:17:14,861 --> 00:17:16,680 I wanna talk. 343 00:17:19,365 --> 00:17:21,073 Go ahead. 344 00:17:21,911 --> 00:17:23,986 I killed him. 345 00:17:25,625 --> 00:17:28,600 He hit me, I hit him back. 346 00:17:29,230 --> 00:17:31,357 First time I did that, 347 00:17:31,357 --> 00:17:34,975 he went crazy got his gun, said he was gonna kill me. 348 00:17:34,975 --> 00:17:38,825 I tackled him and then I heard this loud pop. 349 00:17:38,825 --> 00:17:42,407 When I looked down, he was laying there... 350 00:17:44,030 --> 00:17:45,848 dead. 351 00:17:50,003 --> 00:17:52,034 Then what? 352 00:17:52,210 --> 00:17:57,313 I wrapped him in the sheets and dragged him to the car. 353 00:17:57,497 --> 00:18:00,932 The next thing I knew I was driving back home. 354 00:18:00,932 --> 00:18:02,919 To Millbrook? 355 00:18:03,250 --> 00:18:04,930 Yes. 356 00:18:10,461 --> 00:18:11,914 Michael, what's going on? 357 00:18:11,914 --> 00:18:13,034 It's nothing. 358 00:18:14,521 --> 00:18:15,859 I'm okay, Denise. It's okay. 359 00:18:15,859 --> 00:18:16,886 This can't be right. 360 00:18:16,886 --> 00:18:17,780 Step back... / Not Michael. 361 00:18:17,780 --> 00:18:19,447 Step back, people. 362 00:18:19,447 --> 00:18:21,624 Give us a little room please. 363 00:18:21,801 --> 00:18:24,781 Michael, we're all behind you on this. 364 00:18:24,781 --> 00:18:27,069 Give us a little room, please. 365 00:18:33,174 --> 00:18:34,569 What are you doing? 366 00:18:34,569 --> 00:18:36,321 They got a confession, made an arrest. 367 00:18:36,321 --> 00:18:38,408 That can all go back to Radial Velocity. 368 00:18:38,408 --> 00:18:39,420 Too tidy. 369 00:18:39,420 --> 00:18:41,379 Can't stand letting go of a theory, can you? 370 00:18:41,379 --> 00:18:43,099 It's not theory, Olivia. 371 00:18:43,099 --> 00:18:45,264 Confession, next case. I don't buy it. 372 00:18:45,264 --> 00:18:47,022 Heat of the moment murder is one thing 373 00:18:47,022 --> 00:18:49,401 but taking time to set fire to the victim's crotch. 374 00:18:49,401 --> 00:18:50,566 What'd you call that, Elliot? 375 00:18:50,566 --> 00:18:52,439 Sexually motivated homicide. 376 00:18:52,439 --> 00:18:54,804 You bet. Perpetrated by a child on a guardian. 377 00:18:54,804 --> 00:18:56,887 Text book except for the little matter of the blank pages, 378 00:18:56,887 --> 00:18:58,231 thanks to Radial Velocity. 379 00:18:58,231 --> 00:19:00,276 I want to know where they stand on this deal. 380 00:19:00,276 --> 00:19:02,136 Me, too. 381 00:19:02,136 --> 00:19:03,075 You have an appointment. 382 00:19:03,075 --> 00:19:05,777 Look, Captain, you know, this time of day, Skodas' office 383 00:19:05,777 --> 00:19:09,460 - it's gotta be an hour drive. - Elliot, this is must do, now. 384 00:19:09,460 --> 00:19:10,555 The good news 385 00:19:10,555 --> 00:19:13,834 is that he's around the corner doing some outreach work at Christ's Church. 386 00:19:13,834 --> 00:19:16,663 He's happy to see you now. Thank you. 387 00:19:18,248 --> 00:19:20,553 I'm not talking to you. 388 00:19:21,344 --> 00:19:22,956 Fine. 389 00:19:23,415 --> 00:19:25,023 I'll just sit here. 390 00:19:25,023 --> 00:19:28,887 You know, I may lose my job because of the last shrink I talked to. 391 00:19:28,887 --> 00:19:29,659 Why? 392 00:19:29,659 --> 00:19:34,157 Because she violated her ethical obligation to keep my confidence. 393 00:19:34,157 --> 00:19:37,653 If we believe a patient might do violence to someone, we're legally bound to... 394 00:19:37,653 --> 00:19:41,170 I have never done violence to anyone. 395 00:19:42,246 --> 00:19:44,799 Why would she think you would? 396 00:19:45,254 --> 00:19:46,986 Ask her. 397 00:19:46,986 --> 00:19:50,145 Det. Stabler, we've talked before. 398 00:19:50,145 --> 00:19:53,413 Come on, give me the benefit of the doubt, will you? 399 00:19:55,247 --> 00:19:58,537 I'm sorry, I haven't slept a lot lately. 400 00:19:58,537 --> 00:19:59,811 Why not? 401 00:19:59,811 --> 00:20:02,640 I'm worried about losing my job. 402 00:20:04,459 --> 00:20:05,852 I'm angry. 403 00:20:05,852 --> 00:20:07,569 At? 404 00:20:10,707 --> 00:20:12,650 Are we really gonna do this dance again? 405 00:20:12,650 --> 00:20:16,305 I mean, what do you want me to say? That I fantasized about killing the perp? 406 00:20:16,305 --> 00:20:18,462 - Did you? - Yeah, you're damn right I did 407 00:20:18,462 --> 00:20:21,915 and this time I fed him my gun and I pulled that trigger. 408 00:20:21,915 --> 00:20:25,028 Until I caught him and then there he is, he's just... 409 00:20:25,028 --> 00:20:30,063 He's a kid, he's a good kid. He tutors Down syndrome children. 410 00:20:30,063 --> 00:20:33,070 He's a straight A student, he's a star athlete... 411 00:20:33,070 --> 00:20:36,292 he's Millbrook township's favorite son. 412 00:20:37,616 --> 00:20:42,340 Now how that jives with cold-blooded murder... 413 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,142 How long have you been on the force? 414 00:20:47,142 --> 00:20:49,491 14 years. 415 00:20:49,646 --> 00:20:54,664 In all those years, how many murders have actually made sense? 416 00:20:54,664 --> 00:20:57,064 None. But... 417 00:20:58,770 --> 00:21:00,630 some I understood. 418 00:21:00,630 --> 00:21:02,077 But this one... 419 00:21:02,077 --> 00:21:05,568 you let get under your skin. Why? 420 00:21:08,815 --> 00:21:11,654 This one, my daughter saw. 421 00:21:15,340 --> 00:21:17,257 Hey, how'd it go? 422 00:21:17,257 --> 00:21:20,481 I talked too much, again. Where's Jeffries? 423 00:21:20,481 --> 00:21:21,814 Her turn on the couch, 424 00:21:21,814 --> 00:21:24,157 and while you were probing your inner child we did some probing of our own. 425 00:21:24,157 --> 00:21:27,038 Sent Croft's prints to NCIC. 426 00:21:27,038 --> 00:21:28,594 You printed the corpse? 427 00:21:28,594 --> 00:21:29,689 So? 428 00:21:29,689 --> 00:21:30,969 - And? - Nothing. 429 00:21:30,969 --> 00:21:33,085 So? / I mean nothing, nada, bupkis. 430 00:21:33,085 --> 00:21:35,280 Zip. No parking tickets, no birth records. 431 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,868 Nothing to prove he even existed before 1991. 432 00:21:37,868 --> 00:21:40,124 The year he went to work for Radial Velocity. 433 00:21:40,124 --> 00:21:41,913 So, we're going through the stuff we got from the search warrant 434 00:21:41,913 --> 00:21:44,555 we find this passport issued 10 years ago from San Diego. 435 00:21:44,555 --> 00:21:46,834 We call the local PD, ask them to run him, 436 00:21:46,834 --> 00:21:49,551 - bang, we get a hit. - But not to Andrew Croft. 437 00:21:49,551 --> 00:21:50,228 Then who? 438 00:21:50,228 --> 00:21:53,476 George Kazinski, a convicted sexual predator. 439 00:21:53,476 --> 00:21:57,287 Andrew Croft, a.k. A George Kazinski. 440 00:21:57,287 --> 00:22:00,128 Little George liked little boys. 441 00:22:06,191 --> 00:22:08,468 Andrew Croft's been one busy guy. 442 00:22:08,468 --> 00:22:11,657 11 arrests, five aliases, four convictions. 443 00:22:11,657 --> 00:22:12,450 How'd you track him? 444 00:22:12,450 --> 00:22:14,888 San Diego PD faxed us his rap sheet. 445 00:22:14,888 --> 00:22:16,159 We followed his priors back from there 446 00:22:16,159 --> 00:22:19,146 department by department, conviction by conviction. 447 00:22:19,146 --> 00:22:22,348 - Only the feds can erase a file. - Radial Velocity is the feds. 448 00:22:22,348 --> 00:22:25,367 That's why they're called a military-industrial complex. 449 00:22:25,367 --> 00:22:28,979 You're accusing the Federal government of sanctioning the sexual abuse of a child. 450 00:22:28,979 --> 00:22:31,688 Please tell me you have a motive. 451 00:22:33,239 --> 00:22:34,464 Where did you find these? 452 00:22:34,464 --> 00:22:36,632 That's classified. 453 00:22:37,260 --> 00:22:40,581 There's only a handful of people that can calibrate the trajectory of a missile 454 00:22:40,581 --> 00:22:43,247 to within a hair's breadth of Saddam's mustache. 455 00:22:43,247 --> 00:22:45,531 Andrew Croft was one of them. 456 00:22:45,531 --> 00:22:50,088 Couldn't let a little thing like pedophilia undermine national security. 457 00:22:50,088 --> 00:22:52,051 If a child is ruined in the process? 458 00:22:52,051 --> 00:22:54,585 - That's not our concern. - Detective... 459 00:22:54,585 --> 00:22:58,812 there are many things that take a back seat to national security. However... 460 00:22:58,812 --> 00:23:01,929 if I had known Croft was a pedophile, I never would have hired him. 461 00:23:01,929 --> 00:23:05,134 Right, and there were no Nazis in NASA. 462 00:23:05,134 --> 00:23:07,255 Mr. Noble will see you out. 463 00:23:08,969 --> 00:23:10,563 You don't talk much, do you? 464 00:23:10,563 --> 00:23:12,445 Not much fight left in the old soldier? 465 00:23:12,445 --> 00:23:14,120 Don't you question my patriotism, mister. 466 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:16,159 That's Mister Detective to you. 467 00:23:16,159 --> 00:23:18,467 Take a little bit of tarnish off that Medal of Honor. 468 00:23:18,467 --> 00:23:21,820 We can find our own way out, thanks. 469 00:23:26,038 --> 00:23:27,838 Why're you provoking him? 470 00:23:27,838 --> 00:23:30,708 Guy's a war hero. Put his life on the line for principle. 471 00:23:30,708 --> 00:23:34,371 He's gotta be gagging stonewalling Croft's pedophilia to protect Radial Velocity. 472 00:23:34,371 --> 00:23:37,846 Assuming he still has principles. War was a long time ago, John. 473 00:23:37,846 --> 00:23:39,227 Principles die harder than people. 474 00:23:39,227 --> 00:23:41,931 I want a shot at what's left of his. 475 00:23:43,669 --> 00:23:45,877 Wonder what he's doing for lunch? 476 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,320 Rikers Island Interview Room Wednesday, September 13 477 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,465 My parents died in a car wreck when I was eight. 478 00:23:51,465 --> 00:23:53,807 The only other family I had was Nana. 479 00:23:53,807 --> 00:23:56,535 She was old and in a hospital. 480 00:23:56,535 --> 00:23:58,592 Andrew offered to take care of me. 481 00:23:58,592 --> 00:24:02,486 You're Belgian and Andrew's American. How did you two hook up? 482 00:24:02,486 --> 00:24:04,840 Andrew used to hang out at soccer practice. 483 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,939 - Whose soccer practice? - Mine. 484 00:24:06,939 --> 00:24:09,300 - And this is when you were 8 years old? - Yeah. 485 00:24:09,300 --> 00:24:12,031 He and Dad worked at NATO in Brussels. 486 00:24:12,031 --> 00:24:14,299 Dad was a janitor. 487 00:24:14,455 --> 00:24:17,437 He was proud to have a rocket scientist as his friend. 488 00:24:17,437 --> 00:24:21,324 Said I was lucky to have such an important man take an interest in me. 489 00:24:21,324 --> 00:24:23,149 How did he take an interest? 490 00:24:23,149 --> 00:24:24,799 Andrew said I was a natural athlete. 491 00:24:24,799 --> 00:24:26,497 Yeah, we saw your trophies. 492 00:24:26,497 --> 00:24:29,627 He got me sailing lessons, tennis lessons... 493 00:24:29,627 --> 00:24:32,131 My dad couldn't afford them. 494 00:24:32,545 --> 00:24:35,774 After your parents died, Andrew brought you to America? 495 00:24:35,774 --> 00:24:39,925 First Bosnia, Israel, then Millbrook. 496 00:24:39,925 --> 00:24:41,432 I finally made some friends. 497 00:24:41,432 --> 00:24:43,663 Yeah, you even had a girlfriend. 498 00:24:43,663 --> 00:24:44,710 Denise. 499 00:24:44,710 --> 00:24:46,952 Bet you weren't too happy about leaving her. 500 00:24:46,952 --> 00:24:49,341 I never felt like that about anybody. 501 00:24:49,341 --> 00:24:52,585 I mean, not just her, her parents... 502 00:24:52,772 --> 00:24:55,832 They felt like a real family. 503 00:24:57,242 --> 00:24:59,498 Michael, did you know that in 1990 504 00:24:59,498 --> 00:25:04,594 Andrew was convicted of sexually assaulting an 11 year-old boy? 505 00:25:04,594 --> 00:25:06,282 No. 506 00:25:07,964 --> 00:25:11,486 When was the first time he assaulted you? 507 00:25:11,486 --> 00:25:14,388 He didn't. What are you talking about? 508 00:25:14,388 --> 00:25:17,620 Well, in my experience, child molesters, they don't stop. 509 00:25:17,620 --> 00:25:19,118 You were a child. 510 00:25:19,118 --> 00:25:20,287 He didn't touch me! 511 00:25:20,287 --> 00:25:22,508 Michael, you were in a bad situation. 512 00:25:22,508 --> 00:25:24,287 You're safe now. You don't have to lie anymore. 513 00:25:24,287 --> 00:25:25,399 I'm not lying! / Michael. 514 00:25:25,399 --> 00:25:26,843 I'm not! 515 00:25:29,848 --> 00:25:32,448 He didn't touch me. 516 00:25:33,376 --> 00:25:35,456 He didn't. 517 00:25:35,701 --> 00:25:37,470 Thanks for the heads up. 518 00:25:37,470 --> 00:25:39,171 I think I've got the EED defense. 519 00:25:39,171 --> 00:25:41,844 Not unless your client changes his tune. 520 00:25:41,844 --> 00:25:43,109 Are we working for the defense now? 521 00:25:43,109 --> 00:25:46,393 Yeah. You don't volunteer to do hard time because you're embarrassed. 522 00:25:46,393 --> 00:25:48,464 This kid is hiding something. 523 00:25:48,464 --> 00:25:49,981 Okay, maybe an accomplice. 524 00:25:49,981 --> 00:25:52,847 Maybe somebody who scares him more than Andrew. 525 00:25:55,964 --> 00:25:59,013 At what point did courage and integrity buckle to income? 526 00:25:59,013 --> 00:26:00,480 Don't ever get in my face about money. 527 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,321 If I cared about money I wouldn't have been in the service. 528 00:26:02,321 --> 00:26:03,674 What do you care about? 529 00:26:03,674 --> 00:26:07,579 Protecting the reputation of a dead pedophile part of national security now? 530 00:26:07,579 --> 00:26:09,680 I'm not protecting Croft's reputation. 531 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,868 What are you protecting? 532 00:26:12,472 --> 00:26:15,611 Croft's missile guidance expertise was critical in the Gulf War. 533 00:26:15,611 --> 00:26:18,078 You erase sodomy convictions for national security? 534 00:26:18,078 --> 00:26:20,603 We didn't erase his convictions. 535 00:26:21,026 --> 00:26:23,608 What? Is there another way to say it? 536 00:26:23,871 --> 00:26:28,228 Croft's felony record red-flagged him every time he crossed a border. 537 00:26:28,228 --> 00:26:30,748 A day's delay was a lifetime in a war moving that fast. 538 00:26:30,748 --> 00:26:33,784 So Radial Velocity erased his past. 539 00:26:34,003 --> 00:26:38,030 We were depleting our arsenal of smart bombs at more than $1 million a minute. 540 00:26:38,030 --> 00:26:41,401 At that price the Pentagon wanted pin-point precision. 541 00:26:41,401 --> 00:26:43,676 A complaint was filed in the State department. 542 00:26:43,676 --> 00:26:47,220 A firewall was built around Croft so lmmigration wouldn't red-flag him. 543 00:26:47,220 --> 00:26:49,531 When the war ended the wall should've come down. 544 00:26:49,531 --> 00:26:51,924 I can't tell you why it didn't, I just don't know! 545 00:26:51,924 --> 00:26:54,004 Meanwhile, a convicted child molester 546 00:26:54,004 --> 00:26:57,510 applies for guardianship of an 8-year-old and... 547 00:26:57,510 --> 00:27:01,647 No red flags. I'm sorry. 548 00:27:08,366 --> 00:27:09,272 My God! 549 00:27:09,272 --> 00:27:12,742 Eleven arrests, four convictions more than we knew about, one in Canada. 550 00:27:12,742 --> 00:27:15,931 This is despicable. Get me Todd Earl at Justice. 551 00:27:15,931 --> 00:27:17,062 Justice? 552 00:27:17,062 --> 00:27:18,419 We need to secure the chain of evidence. 553 00:27:18,419 --> 00:27:20,748 We didn't bring this to you so you could make a federal case. 554 00:27:20,748 --> 00:27:22,235 - What about Michael? - What about him? 555 00:27:22,235 --> 00:27:23,351 He's a child. 556 00:27:23,351 --> 00:27:25,987 A child raised by a pedophile for eight years. 557 00:27:25,987 --> 00:27:27,852 - He was molested. - He denies it. 558 00:27:27,852 --> 00:27:30,167 There's no evidence here to contradict that denial. 559 00:27:30,167 --> 00:27:31,781 Are you saying he wasn't abused? 560 00:27:31,781 --> 00:27:33,128 I'm certain he was. 561 00:27:33,128 --> 00:27:34,409 However, absent Michael's admission 562 00:27:34,409 --> 00:27:36,799 you're asking me to soft-pedal premeditated murder. 563 00:27:36,799 --> 00:27:39,342 - You're protecting your won-loss ratio. - Elliot. 564 00:27:39,342 --> 00:27:40,617 It's okay, Captain. 565 00:27:40,617 --> 00:27:44,484 Stabler's judgment is clouded by the stress of the Morris Commission's review. 566 00:27:44,484 --> 00:27:49,458 And the fact that Michael did what he fantasizes about. Kill a perpetrator. 567 00:27:50,122 --> 00:27:54,884 It's not my fantasy, and I stand with Det. Stabler on this. 568 00:27:55,593 --> 00:27:57,325 The kid had choices. 569 00:27:57,325 --> 00:28:00,139 He could have walked away, told a teacher, told a cop. 570 00:28:00,139 --> 00:28:01,910 Instead he murdered. 571 00:28:01,910 --> 00:28:03,663 We let him skate on this what kind of choice will 572 00:28:03,663 --> 00:28:07,803 he make the next time he faces an untenable situation? 573 00:28:10,983 --> 00:28:14,283 All right, but either he corroborates the abuse 574 00:28:14,283 --> 00:28:18,538 or I ask the grand jury for an indictment on murder two. 575 00:28:21,650 --> 00:28:22,656 No. 576 00:28:22,656 --> 00:28:24,738 Michael, please... / No. 577 00:28:25,136 --> 00:28:26,719 Michael... 578 00:28:27,135 --> 00:28:31,437 Andrew Croft abused at least 11 other children. 579 00:28:31,437 --> 00:28:34,401 He's a sexual predator. 580 00:28:34,681 --> 00:28:36,198 Michael, he can't hurt you now. 581 00:28:36,198 --> 00:28:38,229 You don't understand. 582 00:28:38,647 --> 00:28:41,943 I won't. I can't. 583 00:28:42,115 --> 00:28:43,777 - You're a victim. - No, I'm not! 584 00:28:43,777 --> 00:28:46,693 I'm not! I told you what happened. I will stay in jail! 585 00:28:46,693 --> 00:28:52,286 I will, but, please, leave me alone. 586 00:28:55,750 --> 00:28:59,874 It's murder two. He's returning his own indictment. 587 00:29:00,046 --> 00:29:02,086 Sorry, Captain. 588 00:29:18,864 --> 00:29:20,038 Dad? 589 00:29:20,891 --> 00:29:22,420 What are you doing up? 590 00:29:22,420 --> 00:29:23,985 Couldn't sleep. 591 00:29:23,985 --> 00:29:26,120 What's the matter? You got nightmares? 592 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,724 You have to sleep to have nightmares. 593 00:29:27,724 --> 00:29:30,021 Right, what was I thinking? 594 00:29:30,021 --> 00:29:32,235 - Want something to drink? - No. 595 00:29:34,844 --> 00:29:36,289 Dad... 596 00:29:37,100 --> 00:29:40,710 what that boy Michael did to that man... 597 00:29:41,276 --> 00:29:44,944 That man was supposed to take care of Michael 598 00:29:44,944 --> 00:29:49,207 and instead he molested him. 599 00:29:49,207 --> 00:29:53,599 He abused him physically, he betrayed his trust, and I think Michael... 600 00:29:53,599 --> 00:29:56,229 just had enough. 601 00:29:56,229 --> 00:29:59,997 - So what happens now? - He's probably gonna go to prison. 602 00:30:00,455 --> 00:30:03,237 All he's gotta do is tell the truth. 603 00:30:03,237 --> 00:30:05,283 What is it with you kids? 604 00:30:05,283 --> 00:30:07,828 It's hard to talk to adults. 605 00:30:07,828 --> 00:30:09,421 Why? 606 00:30:09,617 --> 00:30:11,575 You're always judging us. 607 00:30:11,575 --> 00:30:13,286 You expect us to be like you 608 00:30:13,286 --> 00:30:14,976 and you get mad if we're not. 609 00:30:14,976 --> 00:30:17,014 It's just easier to talk to our friends. 610 00:30:17,014 --> 00:30:18,540 What if you don't have any friends? 611 00:30:18,540 --> 00:30:21,518 - Everybody's got friends. - Yeah? Well, who do you talk to? 612 00:30:21,518 --> 00:30:23,149 Dad. 613 00:30:23,690 --> 00:30:25,542 You talk to Ryan Witherspoon? 614 00:30:25,542 --> 00:30:28,422 More than you talk to Mom. 615 00:30:32,788 --> 00:30:35,002 Grand Jury Room Thursday, September 14 616 00:30:35,002 --> 00:30:37,590 Could the wound have been inflicted during a struggle for the gun? 617 00:30:37,590 --> 00:30:39,742 - Not likely. - Why not? 618 00:30:39,742 --> 00:30:43,542 The size of the entry wound the force at which it entered suggests close range. 619 00:30:43,542 --> 00:30:44,761 But there was no stippling. 620 00:30:44,761 --> 00:30:46,310 Stippling is? 621 00:30:46,310 --> 00:30:47,817 When lead leaves the muzzle, 622 00:30:47,817 --> 00:30:50,589 it's followed by the charge that fires it, the gunpowder. 623 00:30:50,589 --> 00:30:54,467 At close range it leaves a residue, point blank it embeds in the skin. 624 00:30:54,467 --> 00:30:55,787 That's stippling. 625 00:30:55,787 --> 00:30:57,141 The size and force of the entry 626 00:30:57,141 --> 00:30:59,724 and the lack of stippling lead you to conclude? 627 00:30:59,724 --> 00:31:03,273 The gun was three to four feet from the victim's head when it was fired. 628 00:31:03,273 --> 00:31:05,195 The victim's reach was only 32 inches. 629 00:31:05,195 --> 00:31:07,673 He couldn't have held the gun three feet from his skull, 630 00:31:07,673 --> 00:31:10,624 much less fired it into the back of his head. 631 00:31:10,624 --> 00:31:12,823 The body was discovered wrapped in a sheet. 632 00:31:12,823 --> 00:31:17,065 It was blood-soaked from a head wound and the genital region was on fire. 633 00:31:17,065 --> 00:31:18,236 Where? 634 00:31:18,236 --> 00:31:21,422 In the dunes about 50 yards off Cross Bay Boulevard 635 00:31:21,422 --> 00:31:25,660 a medical bracelet on the victim indicated he lived at West 83rd in Manhattan. 636 00:31:25,660 --> 00:31:29,992 Blood splattered the headboard, wall, and lamp in the master bedroom. 637 00:31:29,992 --> 00:31:32,394 Did the blood pattern indicate anything to you? 638 00:31:32,394 --> 00:31:35,583 Yes, that the victim had been shot while lying in the bed. 639 00:31:35,583 --> 00:31:37,265 Any signs of a struggle? 640 00:31:37,265 --> 00:31:39,577 No. / Forced entry? 641 00:31:39,577 --> 00:31:40,920 No. 642 00:31:41,514 --> 00:31:43,747 The victim's car was missing? 643 00:31:43,747 --> 00:31:46,894 State police located it in Millbrook, New York. 644 00:31:46,894 --> 00:31:49,908 The murder weapon was found locked in the trunk. 645 00:31:49,908 --> 00:31:52,085 Who had the keys? 646 00:31:53,326 --> 00:31:55,527 Michael Goren. 647 00:31:59,633 --> 00:32:02,630 - How'd it go in there? - The kid's toast. 648 00:32:02,630 --> 00:32:06,708 I've been thinking about something Maureen said last night, something about friends. 649 00:32:06,708 --> 00:32:08,390 What about them? 650 00:32:08,390 --> 00:32:10,696 You up for taking a little ride? 651 00:32:11,394 --> 00:32:13,205 Adams High School Millbrook Township, NY Thursday, September 14 652 00:32:13,205 --> 00:32:15,899 Denise, how long were you seeing Michael? 653 00:32:17,145 --> 00:32:19,117 What should I say? I really want to help him. 654 00:32:19,117 --> 00:32:22,104 You can help him by telling us the truth. 655 00:32:22,281 --> 00:32:24,243 We were dating about three months. 656 00:32:24,243 --> 00:32:26,505 He ever talk about Andrew? 657 00:32:27,834 --> 00:32:29,770 Denise? 658 00:32:30,309 --> 00:32:32,237 Did he? / Please. 659 00:32:33,506 --> 00:32:36,091 They didn't get along. 660 00:32:36,529 --> 00:32:38,511 My dad would let Michael stay in our spare bedroom 661 00:32:38,511 --> 00:32:40,417 when Andrew was out of town. 662 00:32:40,417 --> 00:32:42,954 My parents really liked him. 663 00:32:44,569 --> 00:32:49,210 Sometimes Michael lied about Andrew being gone, so he could stay over. 664 00:32:49,389 --> 00:32:51,335 Did Andrew ever find out? 665 00:32:51,335 --> 00:32:53,989 - I think he knew. - He object? 666 00:32:55,026 --> 00:32:57,432 Not after that thing with Danny. 667 00:32:57,432 --> 00:32:59,200 Who's Danny? 668 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,486 Danny Burrell. Michael's best friend. 669 00:33:01,486 --> 00:33:03,999 - What happened? - I don't know. 670 00:33:04,195 --> 00:33:05,824 But it had to be bad. 671 00:33:05,824 --> 00:33:08,148 I mean, one day they're best friends 672 00:33:08,148 --> 00:33:11,303 and the next day, it's like they hate each other. 673 00:33:12,029 --> 00:33:14,327 Heads up, Mueller! Heads up! 674 00:33:14,327 --> 00:33:15,932 Danny Burrell! 675 00:33:16,180 --> 00:33:17,227 Yeah? 676 00:33:17,227 --> 00:33:19,284 Front and center. 677 00:33:20,825 --> 00:33:23,418 We're not friends anymore. 678 00:33:23,418 --> 00:33:24,831 Why not? 679 00:33:24,831 --> 00:33:26,129 Guy's weird, that's all. 680 00:33:26,129 --> 00:33:27,978 What do you mean? Weird, how? 681 00:33:27,978 --> 00:33:29,336 Just weird. 682 00:33:29,336 --> 00:33:31,580 Did Andrew Croft attack you? 683 00:33:32,878 --> 00:33:35,645 - Did Michael tell you that? - Why don't you tell us about it? 684 00:33:36,087 --> 00:33:37,954 Man, he swore! 685 00:33:40,223 --> 00:33:42,626 I'm sorry I can't talk in front of her. 686 00:33:42,626 --> 00:33:44,062 That's okay. 687 00:33:47,234 --> 00:33:49,413 - Mike and me played ball. - Okay. 688 00:33:49,413 --> 00:33:52,916 We went to his house afterwards to clean up. 689 00:33:52,916 --> 00:33:57,203 He said that Andrew was gone, so I used his shower, and when I got out... 690 00:33:57,203 --> 00:33:59,450 - he was standing there. - Andrew? 691 00:33:59,694 --> 00:34:01,017 Yeah. 692 00:34:01,290 --> 00:34:03,202 He was naked. 693 00:34:03,950 --> 00:34:07,610 He was touching himself. 694 00:34:07,610 --> 00:34:10,348 He wanted to dry me off. 695 00:34:10,348 --> 00:34:12,227 He's just a creep. 696 00:34:12,497 --> 00:34:16,822 Anyway, he said that Michael was too swarthy but I was perfect for him. 697 00:34:16,822 --> 00:34:21,051 He grabbed me, I fought him off, I screamed for Mike... 698 00:34:21,051 --> 00:34:23,938 and I finally got the door open, and Michael was... 699 00:34:23,938 --> 00:34:25,977 He was just standing there. 700 00:34:25,977 --> 00:34:29,017 So, I just grabbed my clothes and I ran. 701 00:34:29,017 --> 00:34:31,291 I forgot my Nikes. 702 00:34:31,649 --> 00:34:33,256 You and Michael talk after that? 703 00:34:33,256 --> 00:34:36,990 No way. I told the guy to leave me alone. 704 00:34:36,990 --> 00:34:38,741 I think it's disgusting what he and Andrew were doing. 705 00:34:38,741 --> 00:34:40,692 You think Michael liked it? 706 00:34:41,609 --> 00:34:42,585 What do you think? 707 00:34:42,585 --> 00:34:45,777 I mean, Michael's 6 foot, guy benches, what, 220 pounds? 708 00:34:45,777 --> 00:34:48,253 He could kick his ass if he didn't like him doing him. 709 00:34:48,253 --> 00:34:51,795 He was eight years old when Andrew started doing him. 710 00:34:51,795 --> 00:34:54,004 Eight-year-olds can't fight back. 711 00:34:54,004 --> 00:34:55,578 Now you tell me where a 16 year-old's gonna turn 712 00:34:55,578 --> 00:34:58,411 when his best friend turns on him? 713 00:35:03,635 --> 00:35:06,266 Grand Jury Room Monday, September 18 714 00:35:06,266 --> 00:35:08,706 You said the gun went off in the midst of a struggle? 715 00:35:08,706 --> 00:35:09,735 Yes. 716 00:35:09,735 --> 00:35:13,513 The police found no signs of a struggle. How do you explain that? 717 00:35:13,758 --> 00:35:15,103 I don't know. 718 00:35:15,103 --> 00:35:17,834 That's because there was no struggle, was there? 719 00:35:17,834 --> 00:35:19,165 We struggled. 720 00:35:19,165 --> 00:35:20,082 Over the gun? 721 00:35:20,082 --> 00:35:21,590 Yes. / And it went off? 722 00:35:21,590 --> 00:35:23,431 Yes. / In both your hands? 723 00:35:23,431 --> 00:35:24,722 Yes. 724 00:35:24,928 --> 00:35:28,325 The Coroner found no trace of gunpowder on the deceased's hands. 725 00:35:28,325 --> 00:35:30,876 I told you what happened. 726 00:35:32,454 --> 00:35:34,729 Who is Danny Burrell? 727 00:35:40,087 --> 00:35:41,873 He's my friend. 728 00:35:41,873 --> 00:35:45,607 Did you witness the deceased sexually assault Danny Burrell? 729 00:35:45,607 --> 00:35:47,252 No! 730 00:35:48,974 --> 00:35:54,033 Danny will testify the deceased sexually assaulted him and that you witnessed it. 731 00:35:54,033 --> 00:35:56,926 Are you saying he's lying? 732 00:35:59,057 --> 00:36:04,281 Did Andrew Croft sexually assault Danny Burrell? 733 00:36:07,690 --> 00:36:09,637 Yes. 734 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,267 And you, too? 735 00:36:21,882 --> 00:36:24,961 Since I was eight. 736 00:36:25,395 --> 00:36:28,010 You shot him to stop him from molesting you? 737 00:36:28,010 --> 00:36:29,478 No! 738 00:36:30,695 --> 00:36:34,963 I hated it, but I was used to it. 739 00:36:34,963 --> 00:36:39,386 I shot him because he was bringing over his friend. 740 00:36:39,826 --> 00:36:42,155 What friend? 741 00:36:44,650 --> 00:36:50,074 In Millbrook, this guy came up sometimes. 742 00:36:50,941 --> 00:36:53,631 Andrew made me do things with him. 743 00:36:53,631 --> 00:36:56,429 When we moved here, I thought it was over. 744 00:36:56,429 --> 00:36:59,460 But then I come home from school and he's there! 745 00:36:59,460 --> 00:37:03,568 I mean we moved right across the street from him! 746 00:37:05,481 --> 00:37:09,763 Andrew was bad enough, but both of them... 747 00:37:09,763 --> 00:37:12,223 I begged him. 748 00:37:19,210 --> 00:37:22,267 Who is this man? 749 00:37:26,474 --> 00:37:27,673 He'll kill me. 750 00:37:27,673 --> 00:37:29,628 He can't hurt you. 751 00:37:29,818 --> 00:37:32,252 You don't know his powers. 752 00:37:32,252 --> 00:37:34,277 Michael, you're in the custody of the City of New York. 753 00:37:34,277 --> 00:37:35,977 He can't get to you. 754 00:37:35,977 --> 00:37:38,575 He can get to anybody. 755 00:37:39,047 --> 00:37:41,714 And he will to protect his secret. 756 00:37:41,714 --> 00:37:45,201 A child molester only has power as long as his secret is kept. 757 00:37:45,201 --> 00:37:47,506 You tell the truth, his power is gone. 758 00:37:47,506 --> 00:37:49,331 What's his name, Michael? 759 00:37:49,331 --> 00:37:52,346 I heard them talk about it. Nobody did anything. 760 00:37:52,346 --> 00:37:56,250 Talk about what? Who, Michael? 761 00:37:59,664 --> 00:38:02,097 Andrew and... 762 00:38:04,159 --> 00:38:07,004 and Craig Prince. 763 00:38:07,192 --> 00:38:12,273 They killed that boy in Belgium and nobody did anything! 764 00:38:12,273 --> 00:38:14,445 When did this happen? What boy? 765 00:38:14,445 --> 00:38:18,073 I was eight. It was in the papers there. 766 00:38:18,073 --> 00:38:20,624 Nobody did anything. 767 00:38:20,624 --> 00:38:25,689 Craig Prince can get away with anything. 768 00:38:28,056 --> 00:38:30,938 You're gonna protect me? 769 00:38:33,009 --> 00:38:36,908 Write-offs in the third quarter adjusted by the... 770 00:38:36,908 --> 00:38:38,240 Craig, good news! 771 00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:40,612 Excuse me, this is a classified briefing. 772 00:38:40,612 --> 00:38:43,222 Yeah, Croft's ward, Michael. 773 00:38:43,222 --> 00:38:46,441 The grand jury voted man two. DA's willing to cut him a deal. 774 00:38:46,441 --> 00:38:47,472 I don't see what that has to do... 775 00:38:47,472 --> 00:38:50,632 Even better news, you're under arrest for sexual abuse, sodomy, 776 00:38:50,632 --> 00:38:52,883 assault and endangering the welfare of a child. 777 00:38:52,883 --> 00:38:55,419 - You're hurting me! - Not our concern. 778 00:38:55,419 --> 00:38:57,754 Craig Prince, you have the right to remain silent. 779 00:38:57,754 --> 00:39:02,192 If you give up that right, anything you do or say can and will be used against you. 780 00:39:02,192 --> 00:39:04,132 Capt. Cragen? 781 00:39:22,927 --> 00:39:29,211 This little boy's mother stuck his hands on a frying pan until his fingers burned off. 782 00:39:31,757 --> 00:39:33,975 This rape victim... 783 00:39:33,975 --> 00:39:37,081 required 12 hours of surgery to have a steel plate into her head 784 00:39:37,081 --> 00:39:41,677 after her attacker pummeled her with a claw hammer. 785 00:39:45,926 --> 00:39:48,547 This one didn't make it. 786 00:39:53,338 --> 00:39:54,863 Is there anybody on this panel 787 00:39:54,863 --> 00:39:59,165 who doesn't share Det. Stabler's anger for the perpetrators? 788 00:39:59,165 --> 00:40:01,331 This man is a good cop. 789 00:40:02,551 --> 00:40:05,458 As his commanding officer, I stand with him 790 00:40:05,458 --> 00:40:08,852 and every good cop who faces these horrors day after day 791 00:40:08,852 --> 00:40:12,714 and has the strength to keep their impulses in check. 792 00:40:12,714 --> 00:40:16,688 Now if you can look at these pictures and not understand that 793 00:40:16,688 --> 00:40:22,395 the problem here isn't Elliot Stabler, is it? 794 00:40:29,004 --> 00:40:31,390 Yeah, that's done. That's done. / Hello? 795 00:40:31,390 --> 00:40:34,270 - All right, yeah, go get the kids dinner... - Yeah. 796 00:40:34,270 --> 00:40:36,040 Kathleen! / Sure. 797 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,966 - Dickie, Elizabeth, dinner's ready! - All right tomorrow. Captain... 798 00:40:39,966 --> 00:40:43,056 thanks for the support. 799 00:40:47,299 --> 00:40:49,268 Well? 800 00:40:52,420 --> 00:40:54,791 The Morris Commission cleared me. 801 00:40:54,791 --> 00:40:58,101 Special Victims Unit Squadroom Wednesday, September 20 802 00:41:06,536 --> 00:41:08,918 - Capt. Cragen? - Not now. 803 00:41:10,094 --> 00:41:13,155 Monique Jeffries. Maybe I can help? 804 00:41:13,334 --> 00:41:16,625 Fin Tutuola, I've been re-assigned. 805 00:41:18,173 --> 00:41:20,521 You're here for my job. 806 00:41:21,645 --> 00:41:23,120 This is awkward. 807 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,171 Well, try my side of the moment.