1 00:00:04,221 --> 00:00:04,439 . 2 00:00:04,482 --> 00:00:06,180 - In the criminal justice system, 3 00:00:06,223 --> 00:00:07,485 sexually based offenses 4 00:00:07,529 --> 00:00:09,792 are considered especially heinous. 5 00:00:09,835 --> 00:00:12,360 In New York City, the dedicated detectives 6 00:00:12,403 --> 00:00:14,144 who investigate these vicious felonies 7 00:00:14,188 --> 00:00:15,624 are members of an elite squad 8 00:00:15,667 --> 00:00:17,843 known as the Special Victims Unit. 9 00:00:17,887 --> 00:00:21,021 These are their stories. 10 00:00:21,064 --> 00:00:23,197 - I'm sorry. That's incorrect. 11 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:25,851 Winnie? - Perendinate. 12 00:00:25,895 --> 00:00:29,812 P-E-R-E-N-D-E-N-A-T-E. 13 00:00:29,855 --> 00:00:32,509 - I'm sorry, Winnie. That is incorrect. 14 00:00:32,554 --> 00:00:37,602 Pence, the word is perendinate. 15 00:00:37,646 --> 00:00:38,951 [soft music] 16 00:00:38,995 --> 00:00:40,910 - P--p--perendinate. 17 00:00:40,953 --> 00:00:43,695 [laughter] 18 00:00:47,134 --> 00:00:49,005 P--p--perendinate. 19 00:00:49,049 --> 00:00:51,094 Can I have a definition, please? 20 00:00:51,138 --> 00:00:53,531 - To put off until the day after tomorrow 21 00:00:53,575 --> 00:00:58,710 that which can be done today. 22 00:00:58,754 --> 00:01:03,889 - P-E-R-E... 23 00:01:03,933 --> 00:01:08,894 N-D... 24 00:01:08,938 --> 00:01:12,550 I-N-A... 25 00:01:12,594 --> 00:01:15,597 T-E. 26 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:17,251 P--perendinate. 27 00:01:17,294 --> 00:01:20,254 - Very good, and congratulations. 28 00:01:20,297 --> 00:01:24,823 You are the new spelling bee champion. 29 00:01:24,867 --> 00:01:27,826 [applause] 30 00:01:27,870 --> 00:01:31,134 [rousing music] 31 00:01:31,178 --> 00:01:37,009 ♪ 32 00:01:37,053 --> 00:01:38,228 - Excuse me. 33 00:01:38,271 --> 00:01:39,751 Why'd you let me win? 34 00:01:39,795 --> 00:01:41,231 - I don't know what you're talking about. 35 00:01:41,275 --> 00:01:43,799 - You knew how to spell that word. 36 00:01:43,842 --> 00:01:46,541 - I've never heard you speak in front of everybody before. 37 00:01:46,584 --> 00:01:48,108 - There's a reason for that. 38 00:01:48,151 --> 00:01:50,675 You hear them laugh. 39 00:01:50,719 --> 00:01:52,024 - I wanted to help. 40 00:01:52,068 --> 00:01:54,375 I've read your story, 41 00:01:54,418 --> 00:01:57,116 the one on the wall, "The King of the Moon." 42 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,120 - You read my story? 43 00:02:00,163 --> 00:02:02,470 - About the boy who lived on the moon 44 00:02:02,513 --> 00:02:04,733 so he didn't have to talk to anyone. 45 00:02:04,776 --> 00:02:07,083 - Trust me, it's better that way. 46 00:02:07,127 --> 00:02:08,954 - Is it? 47 00:02:08,997 --> 00:02:14,395 ♪ 48 00:02:14,438 --> 00:02:18,138 [cheers and applause] 49 00:02:25,884 --> 00:02:28,800 - Winnie, 50 00:02:28,844 --> 00:02:31,020 we have too many books. 51 00:02:31,063 --> 00:02:33,805 - Because of all your little gifts. 52 00:02:33,849 --> 00:02:37,113 - I suppose we could thin the herd, 53 00:02:37,156 --> 00:02:39,289 including this. 54 00:02:39,333 --> 00:02:44,164 - Pence, don't you dare. [chuckles] 55 00:02:44,207 --> 00:02:47,384 - Read at your own risk. - [laughs] 56 00:02:47,428 --> 00:02:49,038 - What about the desks? 57 00:02:49,081 --> 00:02:50,300 - What about them? 58 00:02:50,344 --> 00:02:52,476 - Do we really need two? 59 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:54,652 - You're the introvert. You tell me. 60 00:02:54,696 --> 00:02:58,395 - I prefer not to be too far from you. 61 00:02:58,439 --> 00:03:04,793 - Well, that is an easily-surmountable problem. 62 00:03:10,538 --> 00:03:12,061 Oh, dear, look at the time. 63 00:03:12,103 --> 00:03:13,715 - I'd rather not. 64 00:03:13,758 --> 00:03:16,021 - Honey, you're gonna be late for your ceremony. 65 00:03:16,065 --> 00:03:17,327 - Ceremony? 66 00:03:17,371 --> 00:03:19,068 - You are being awarded 67 00:03:19,111 --> 00:03:23,115 the Lewis Thomas Prize by Rockefeller University. 68 00:03:23,159 --> 00:03:26,466 - Yes, almost forgot. 69 00:03:26,510 --> 00:03:29,078 - Forgot? [scoffs] 70 00:03:29,121 --> 00:03:30,514 You are a brilliant man, 71 00:03:30,558 --> 00:03:35,519 but you have no sense of other people. 72 00:03:35,563 --> 00:03:38,043 I'll let you work while I get dressed. 73 00:03:38,087 --> 00:03:40,045 - Thank you. 74 00:03:40,089 --> 00:03:43,048 [foreboding music] 75 00:03:43,091 --> 00:03:46,226 ♪ 76 00:03:46,269 --> 00:03:48,924 [machine whirs] 77 00:03:48,966 --> 00:03:51,883 [somber music] 78 00:03:51,927 --> 00:03:58,890 ♪ 79 00:04:16,517 --> 00:04:17,779 Where's Winnie? 80 00:04:17,822 --> 00:04:19,259 - Playing tennis with your neighbor. 81 00:04:19,302 --> 00:04:21,261 - Naomi. - Ooh, that's very good. 82 00:04:21,303 --> 00:04:23,828 You remember her name. Now, what's mine? 83 00:04:23,872 --> 00:04:26,222 - Trash gets picked up tomorrow. 84 00:04:26,266 --> 00:04:29,269 - Oh, that's a terribly long name. 85 00:04:29,312 --> 00:04:30,792 That's it. Good boy. 86 00:04:30,835 --> 00:04:33,360 - Mm. 87 00:04:33,403 --> 00:04:34,839 - One more. 88 00:04:34,883 --> 00:04:37,451 - Ah. - Drinky-drink-drink. 89 00:04:37,494 --> 00:04:42,760 - Madam, anyone who ever loved you was wrong. 90 00:04:42,804 --> 00:04:44,588 [door clicks] 91 00:04:48,897 --> 00:04:50,464 Hello? 92 00:04:50,507 --> 00:04:53,467 [tense music] 93 00:04:53,510 --> 00:04:56,207 ♪ 94 00:04:56,252 --> 00:05:00,125 Hello? 95 00:05:00,169 --> 00:05:02,476 Winnie? 96 00:05:02,519 --> 00:05:04,260 - It's nothing. Listen, go back to sleep. 97 00:05:04,304 --> 00:05:06,958 - I heard something. 98 00:05:07,002 --> 00:05:09,918 Are you cheating on me? 99 00:05:09,961 --> 00:05:11,223 Is that it? 100 00:05:11,267 --> 00:05:13,443 - Oh, sweetheart, no. 101 00:05:13,487 --> 00:05:15,358 With whom? 102 00:05:15,402 --> 00:05:18,013 Look at me. Look, look, look. 103 00:05:18,056 --> 00:05:19,841 Look. 104 00:05:19,884 --> 00:05:25,586 You are and always shall be my king of the moon. 105 00:05:25,629 --> 00:05:28,806 [soft music] 106 00:05:28,850 --> 00:05:32,593 ♪ 107 00:05:32,636 --> 00:05:36,074 Go--go--go back to sleep, my love. 108 00:05:36,118 --> 00:05:43,038 ♪ 109 00:05:44,082 --> 00:05:49,087 - P-E-R-E-N-D... 110 00:05:49,131 --> 00:05:51,307 [ominous music] 111 00:05:51,351 --> 00:05:53,048 Her eyes. 112 00:05:53,091 --> 00:05:57,095 - Hey, sir, I asked you a question. 113 00:05:57,139 --> 00:05:59,968 What do you remember? 114 00:06:00,011 --> 00:06:02,710 - I did it. 115 00:06:02,753 --> 00:06:04,842 I made love to her... 116 00:06:04,886 --> 00:06:07,323 ♪ 117 00:06:07,367 --> 00:06:10,500 And then I... 118 00:06:10,544 --> 00:06:12,937 I killed her. I did it all. 119 00:06:12,981 --> 00:06:17,072 ♪ 120 00:06:18,639 --> 00:06:21,555 [dramatic music] 121 00:06:21,598 --> 00:06:28,736 ♪ 122 00:07:06,861 --> 00:07:08,906 - I grew up just like you. 123 00:07:08,950 --> 00:07:10,865 Saw a lot of people get murdered. 124 00:07:10,908 --> 00:07:12,649 And the second my nuts dropped, 125 00:07:12,693 --> 00:07:16,305 my boss puts a gun in my hand and has me blow this guy away. 126 00:07:17,654 --> 00:07:19,351 - What do you think? 127 00:07:19,395 --> 00:07:21,571 - He's trying to flip Oscar Papa's only living recruiter. 128 00:07:21,615 --> 00:07:24,487 We were desperate, so lying's fair game. 129 00:07:24,531 --> 00:07:26,097 - So a bit of theater? 130 00:07:26,141 --> 00:07:29,013 Well, that's what I thought at first, 131 00:07:29,057 --> 00:07:31,668 but this double homicide 132 00:07:31,712 --> 00:07:34,409 that he mentions later in this recording, Fin, 133 00:07:34,454 --> 00:07:35,759 is a real case. 134 00:07:35,803 --> 00:07:37,195 - Unsolved? 135 00:07:37,239 --> 00:07:40,938 - Two people, execution style, 2003, 136 00:07:40,982 --> 00:07:42,940 right outside Fort Worth. 137 00:07:42,984 --> 00:07:44,594 - All this says to me is Velasco 138 00:07:44,638 --> 00:07:46,248 did research on his lie. 139 00:07:46,291 --> 00:07:48,380 - That amount of homework for some mid-level banger? 140 00:07:48,424 --> 00:07:50,034 - You have another explanation? 141 00:07:50,078 --> 00:07:53,951 - Fin, what exactly do we know about Velasco? 142 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,521 - He drives a motorcycle. 143 00:07:58,565 --> 00:07:59,609 He grew up in Juarez. 144 00:07:59,653 --> 00:08:02,525 He alluded to some misspent youth. 145 00:08:02,569 --> 00:08:04,962 - Exactly how misspent? 146 00:08:05,006 --> 00:08:07,051 - We could ask Muncy. They're tight. 147 00:08:07,095 --> 00:08:08,836 - Yeah, I already had her listen to it, 148 00:08:08,879 --> 00:08:12,013 and I'm keeping her away from this for that exact reason. 149 00:08:12,056 --> 00:08:13,928 - Muncy is loyal to Velasco. 150 00:08:13,971 --> 00:08:17,061 - I don't want secrets in my squad. 151 00:08:21,631 --> 00:08:23,067 - That who I think it is? 152 00:08:23,111 --> 00:08:24,939 - Yeah, it's Tonie Churlish. - From the Bronx? 153 00:08:24,982 --> 00:08:27,071 - Yeah, she volunteered to help us 154 00:08:27,115 --> 00:08:28,420 drill down on the Velasco story. 155 00:08:28,464 --> 00:08:30,597 - You talked to McGrath about this? 156 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:32,424 - [sighs] No, I haven't. 157 00:08:32,467 --> 00:08:35,905 - OK, I think it's time I remind you, 158 00:08:35,950 --> 00:08:37,559 you're the captain. 159 00:08:37,604 --> 00:08:39,301 And the greatest gift I can give you 160 00:08:39,344 --> 00:08:42,304 as your number two is plausible deniability. 161 00:08:42,347 --> 00:08:43,653 - So what do you suggest? 162 00:08:43,697 --> 00:08:45,915 - You let me and the White Shield take the lead 163 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:47,396 and untangle this mess. 164 00:08:47,439 --> 00:08:48,745 - And how the hell are you going to do that? 165 00:08:48,789 --> 00:08:50,573 - You leave that to me. 166 00:08:50,617 --> 00:08:54,055 - And if McGrath asks? - We never talked about it. 167 00:08:54,098 --> 00:08:56,927 [soft dramatic music] 168 00:08:56,971 --> 00:08:58,668 - Carisi's waiting for me. 169 00:08:58,712 --> 00:09:02,846 ♪ 170 00:09:02,890 --> 00:09:05,196 - Look who it is, Captain America. 171 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,548 - Velasco, go take a seat in interrogation. 172 00:09:08,591 --> 00:09:10,680 You, too, Churlish. 173 00:09:10,724 --> 00:09:11,899 - Who are we interrogating? 174 00:09:11,942 --> 00:09:14,031 - You. 175 00:09:14,075 --> 00:09:20,647 ♪ 176 00:09:20,690 --> 00:09:22,300 - Is everything OK? - Well, trust me, 177 00:09:22,344 --> 00:09:24,520 if I answer that honestly, you'd regret asking. 178 00:09:24,564 --> 00:09:26,566 So who's this? 179 00:09:26,609 --> 00:09:28,480 - This big-time neurologist, Pence Humphreys. 180 00:09:28,524 --> 00:09:31,309 - Oh, the guy who writes about rare brain disorders? 181 00:09:31,353 --> 00:09:32,615 - Yeah, yeah, so you know him? 182 00:09:32,659 --> 00:09:34,486 - I read one of his books a while back 183 00:09:34,530 --> 00:09:36,880 about this conductor who could only 184 00:09:36,924 --> 00:09:39,491 communicate through his piano after he had a car crash. 185 00:09:39,535 --> 00:09:42,320 I mean, it's quirky, but he's brilliant. 186 00:09:42,364 --> 00:09:45,106 - Yeah, well, his latest book is about dementia. 187 00:09:45,149 --> 00:09:46,629 It's a subject that he-- 188 00:09:46,673 --> 00:09:48,500 he knows something about. 189 00:09:48,544 --> 00:09:51,286 - The prefrontal cortex manages 190 00:09:51,329 --> 00:09:54,419 all of our higher-level executive functions. 191 00:09:54,463 --> 00:10:00,338 I'm afraid that... mine is slowly dying. 192 00:10:00,382 --> 00:10:02,776 This has resulted in some rather dramatic changes 193 00:10:02,819 --> 00:10:05,300 in my personality over the last few years. 194 00:10:05,343 --> 00:10:10,218 I've become socially disruptive, impulsive. 195 00:10:10,261 --> 00:10:12,960 In a few months' time, I may no longer be able to speak, 196 00:10:13,003 --> 00:10:15,397 which is why I need to record this today. 197 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:19,096 I raped and smothered... 198 00:10:19,140 --> 00:10:22,012 ♪ 199 00:10:22,056 --> 00:10:24,014 My dear wife. 200 00:10:24,058 --> 00:10:25,668 - The guy confessed to it? 201 00:10:25,712 --> 00:10:28,671 - Yeah, two days ago. 202 00:10:28,715 --> 00:10:30,978 There's something about this that's bugging me. 203 00:10:31,021 --> 00:10:32,327 - You don't think that he did it? 204 00:10:32,370 --> 00:10:33,850 - Something smells off. 205 00:10:33,894 --> 00:10:36,548 - OK, is this you speaking as an ADA or an ex-cop? 206 00:10:36,592 --> 00:10:38,550 - Maybe it's me speaking as a hopeless romantic. 207 00:10:38,594 --> 00:10:41,162 Now, there's no signs of forced entry. 208 00:10:41,205 --> 00:10:42,642 No valuables were taken. 209 00:10:42,685 --> 00:10:45,383 Signs of sexual assault, but there's no DNA. 210 00:10:45,427 --> 00:10:47,211 - And Homicide's ready to sign off? 211 00:10:47,255 --> 00:10:48,778 - Yeah, his lawyer is probably going to go with 212 00:10:48,822 --> 00:10:50,127 some kind of dementia defense. 213 00:10:50,171 --> 00:10:53,478 - So where is the hopeless romanticism in this? 214 00:10:57,613 --> 00:11:00,398 - Him and his wife were married for 40 years. 215 00:11:00,442 --> 00:11:03,010 It was this fairy-tale love affair. 216 00:11:03,053 --> 00:11:04,838 He wrote about it in one of his books, 217 00:11:04,881 --> 00:11:07,667 "The Neurobiology of Love." 218 00:11:07,710 --> 00:11:09,233 - So now you're pulling on the one 219 00:11:09,277 --> 00:11:11,235 good heartstring I have left? 220 00:11:11,279 --> 00:11:12,889 - Liv, I know you're busy, 221 00:11:12,933 --> 00:11:16,458 but I could use another set of eyes on this. 222 00:11:19,243 --> 00:11:22,246 - Yeah, OK. 223 00:11:22,290 --> 00:11:24,509 I'll talk to him. 224 00:11:24,553 --> 00:11:26,555 - I grew up just like you. 225 00:11:26,598 --> 00:11:29,123 Saw a lot of people get murdered. 226 00:11:29,166 --> 00:11:30,428 And the second my nuts dropped, 227 00:11:30,472 --> 00:11:33,388 my boss puts a gun in my hand, 228 00:11:33,431 --> 00:11:35,216 and he made me blow this guy away. 229 00:11:35,259 --> 00:11:36,217 - And then what? 230 00:11:36,260 --> 00:11:38,741 - I did it. 231 00:11:38,785 --> 00:11:40,003 You recorded me? 232 00:11:40,047 --> 00:11:41,483 - Relax, cowboy. 233 00:11:41,526 --> 00:11:43,267 - No, we should place this mallrat under arrest. 234 00:11:43,311 --> 00:11:44,660 - For what? 235 00:11:44,704 --> 00:11:47,141 - It's a felony to record a third party in New York 236 00:11:47,184 --> 00:11:48,751 without permission. 237 00:11:48,795 --> 00:11:51,754 - Well, lucky for both of you, you're not in the courtroom. 238 00:11:51,798 --> 00:11:53,277 - Then what the hell is this about? 239 00:11:53,321 --> 00:11:56,672 - Just trying to establish credibility. 240 00:11:56,716 --> 00:11:59,283 - So Benson heard everything I said in this recording? 241 00:11:59,327 --> 00:12:00,850 - And she wants to know the truth. 242 00:12:00,894 --> 00:12:02,373 - The truth? 243 00:12:02,417 --> 00:12:05,202 I was messing with the guy. I made the whole thing up. 244 00:12:05,246 --> 00:12:08,945 - You sure about that? - Yeah. 245 00:12:08,989 --> 00:12:12,340 Are we done here? 246 00:12:12,383 --> 00:12:16,257 - Recognize this? 247 00:12:16,300 --> 00:12:17,606 - It's a dime bag. 248 00:12:17,649 --> 00:12:20,827 - BX9 branding on the side. 249 00:12:23,307 --> 00:12:24,700 - Where did you get this? 250 00:12:24,744 --> 00:12:26,006 - I had a prison guard snag it off 251 00:12:26,049 --> 00:12:29,009 that banger you gave it to. 252 00:12:29,052 --> 00:12:32,664 - Sit down. 253 00:12:32,708 --> 00:12:36,494 Evidently, it tested positive for heroin residue. 254 00:12:36,538 --> 00:12:37,974 Do you know anything about that? 255 00:12:38,018 --> 00:12:39,976 - Residue from the dope I emptied before I filled 256 00:12:40,020 --> 00:12:41,108 the bag with powdered sugar. 257 00:12:41,151 --> 00:12:43,675 - Yeah? 258 00:12:43,719 --> 00:12:46,896 What kind of sugar can stop withdrawals? 259 00:12:46,940 --> 00:12:49,333 - [scoffs] 260 00:12:49,377 --> 00:12:51,379 You've never heard of a placebo effect? 261 00:12:51,422 --> 00:12:52,989 - [chuckles] 262 00:12:53,033 --> 00:12:55,426 - Placebo this. 263 00:12:55,470 --> 00:12:57,951 - 20 minutes outside of Fort Worth, 2003, 264 00:12:57,994 --> 00:13:00,518 me and my friend blow this guy away. 265 00:13:00,562 --> 00:13:02,999 We're about to leave, 266 00:13:03,043 --> 00:13:07,090 and the guy's son comes out of the other room. 267 00:13:07,134 --> 00:13:09,179 Pow-pow. 268 00:13:09,223 --> 00:13:10,964 We didn't have a choice. 269 00:13:11,007 --> 00:13:14,837 - You expect me to believe that, you, a cop, 270 00:13:14,881 --> 00:13:16,491 did a gang hit? 271 00:13:16,534 --> 00:13:20,016 - Trust me, this was no gang hit. 272 00:13:20,060 --> 00:13:26,022 ♪ 273 00:13:26,066 --> 00:13:28,285 [sniffling] 274 00:13:28,329 --> 00:13:31,375 [sighs] 275 00:13:34,248 --> 00:13:36,424 - So much for credibility. 276 00:13:36,467 --> 00:13:42,256 ♪ 277 00:13:48,958 --> 00:13:49,132 . 278 00:13:49,176 --> 00:13:50,438 - Happy? 279 00:13:50,481 --> 00:13:53,093 - If it comes back clean, I will be. 280 00:13:56,226 --> 00:14:01,101 If you have any doubts, now would be the time to say so. 281 00:14:01,144 --> 00:14:04,365 - Mr. Humphreys, this is Captain Olivia Benson. 282 00:14:04,408 --> 00:14:05,888 - Nice to meet you. 283 00:14:05,932 --> 00:14:07,411 - You look familiar. 284 00:14:07,455 --> 00:14:09,979 - Well, I've actually read some of your work. 285 00:14:10,023 --> 00:14:13,983 - You wanted a half hour to exculpate my client, 286 00:14:14,027 --> 00:14:15,506 so you have it. 287 00:14:15,550 --> 00:14:17,813 - He's prepared to recant his confession if we do? 288 00:14:17,857 --> 00:14:19,336 - Well, he has dementia. 289 00:14:19,380 --> 00:14:22,731 So recant or not, he's not likely to do time. 290 00:14:22,774 --> 00:14:24,733 - What's with the chipmunk? 291 00:14:24,776 --> 00:14:26,953 - That belonged to a friend. 292 00:14:26,996 --> 00:14:29,956 - Belonged? My condolences. 293 00:14:29,999 --> 00:14:32,349 What would you like to know? 294 00:14:32,393 --> 00:14:35,613 - Well, how about we start with what happened? 295 00:14:35,657 --> 00:14:38,921 - Isn't it obvious? I smothered my wife. 296 00:14:38,965 --> 00:14:42,359 This was our plan. 297 00:14:42,403 --> 00:14:45,145 - Your plan? - Self-checkout. 298 00:14:45,188 --> 00:14:47,103 We loved each other. We wanted to be together. 299 00:14:47,147 --> 00:14:51,934 We wanted to leave together 300 00:14:51,978 --> 00:14:54,719 with dignity at a time of our choosing. 301 00:14:54,763 --> 00:14:57,592 My crime is worse than murder. 302 00:14:57,635 --> 00:14:59,594 - What Mr. Humphreys means 303 00:14:59,637 --> 00:15:02,162 is that he killed her and then didn't follow through 304 00:15:02,205 --> 00:15:04,468 with taking his own life. - Back pedaled. 305 00:15:04,512 --> 00:15:07,776 Abnegated. Reneged. 306 00:15:07,819 --> 00:15:11,693 - And how were you planning on killing yourself? 307 00:15:11,736 --> 00:15:15,349 - An expeditious taste of shotgun-flavored mouthwash, 308 00:15:15,392 --> 00:15:17,525 I'm afraid. 309 00:15:17,568 --> 00:15:20,354 - Do you own a shotgun? 310 00:15:20,397 --> 00:15:24,314 - If he does, homicide detectives didn't find it. 311 00:15:24,358 --> 00:15:27,143 - What's with the chipmunk? 312 00:15:31,017 --> 00:15:35,064 - It belonged to a friend. 313 00:15:35,108 --> 00:15:37,197 Well, he is the textbook definition 314 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:38,894 of an unreliable witness. 315 00:15:38,938 --> 00:15:41,375 - Well, he seems to believe this murder-suicide story. 316 00:15:41,418 --> 00:15:42,854 - Did you? 317 00:15:42,898 --> 00:15:44,117 - For a minute, yeah. 318 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:46,206 I mean, the guy is sharp until he's not. 319 00:15:46,249 --> 00:15:48,599 - Underneath his illness, he is a man of science. 320 00:15:48,643 --> 00:15:50,427 So if we're going to try to convince him 321 00:15:50,471 --> 00:15:52,560 of his own innocence, then it wouldn't hurt 322 00:15:52,603 --> 00:15:54,475 to confront him with some evidence. 323 00:15:54,518 --> 00:15:56,303 - We'd better find something before the arraignment. 324 00:15:56,346 --> 00:15:58,000 - I can't imagine these homicide cops 325 00:15:58,044 --> 00:16:00,437 spending that much time gathering clues. 326 00:16:00,481 --> 00:16:02,178 - Not when they have a confession already. 327 00:16:02,222 --> 00:16:06,095 - Can you get a search warrant for his apartment? 328 00:16:06,139 --> 00:16:07,967 - I've never had to convince a perp 329 00:16:08,010 --> 00:16:09,359 of his own innocence before. 330 00:16:09,403 --> 00:16:12,275 - Well, first time for everything. 331 00:16:12,319 --> 00:16:13,885 - Well, you already got a piece of my hair. 332 00:16:13,929 --> 00:16:15,148 What's next, a polygraph? 333 00:16:15,191 --> 00:16:16,497 - If it comes to that. 334 00:16:16,540 --> 00:16:17,977 - What the hell is going on in there? 335 00:16:18,020 --> 00:16:19,282 - I'll tell you on the drive up. 336 00:16:19,326 --> 00:16:20,631 - Please state your name and badge number. 337 00:16:20,675 --> 00:16:22,198 - No, I'm not going to answer her. 338 00:16:22,242 --> 00:16:23,634 She's just a White Shield. 339 00:16:23,678 --> 00:16:25,419 - Who just spent a year in the Bronx 340 00:16:25,462 --> 00:16:27,290 seeing what happens when guys like you 341 00:16:27,334 --> 00:16:29,989 distort the values of this job. 342 00:16:30,032 --> 00:16:32,121 You know, it's cops like you 343 00:16:32,165 --> 00:16:33,818 that are the reason why people are protesting 344 00:16:33,862 --> 00:16:35,298 outside of city hall. 345 00:16:35,342 --> 00:16:36,821 But since I have been on the job, 346 00:16:36,865 --> 00:16:40,216 I have yet to see Black folks marching against firemen. 347 00:16:40,260 --> 00:16:43,959 - Lying to one banger does not warrant a drug test, 348 00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:46,048 let alone a protest. 349 00:16:46,092 --> 00:16:48,833 - Explain how you know about a double murder in Fort Worth, 350 00:16:48,877 --> 00:16:50,270 and we're done. 351 00:16:50,313 --> 00:16:54,230 - That's if your drug test comes back clean. 352 00:16:54,274 --> 00:16:58,495 - How do you know so much about a dead father and son 353 00:16:58,539 --> 00:17:02,325 in Fort Worth? 354 00:17:02,369 --> 00:17:04,806 Velasco. 355 00:17:04,848 --> 00:17:07,896 - Because. 356 00:17:07,939 --> 00:17:09,984 I was there. 357 00:17:10,029 --> 00:17:14,990 ♪ 358 00:17:15,034 --> 00:17:17,426 - They slept in separate bedrooms. 359 00:17:17,471 --> 00:17:19,299 I can't say that I blame her. 360 00:17:19,342 --> 00:17:21,170 I found this on Humphreys' night table. 361 00:17:21,214 --> 00:17:23,215 - What is that? - It's an apnea machine. 362 00:17:23,259 --> 00:17:25,957 He must have been quite an intense snorer. 363 00:17:26,001 --> 00:17:27,829 What are you doing? - I'm looking for a shotgun. 364 00:17:27,872 --> 00:17:29,700 Keep this between us? 365 00:17:29,744 --> 00:17:31,833 - Snitches get stitches. - That's right. 366 00:17:31,876 --> 00:17:32,964 - What is that? 367 00:17:33,008 --> 00:17:34,879 - It's not a shotgun. 368 00:17:34,923 --> 00:17:36,142 - I thought they didn't have kids. 369 00:17:36,185 --> 00:17:37,186 - They don't. 370 00:17:37,230 --> 00:17:41,538 Pence Humphreys, signed 1973. 371 00:17:41,582 --> 00:17:43,323 - Oh, that's the only thing in the locked drawer? 372 00:17:43,366 --> 00:17:46,413 - Yeah, her desk. My guess? 373 00:17:46,456 --> 00:17:48,154 She was keeping it safe for him. 374 00:17:48,197 --> 00:17:49,807 I mean, look at this place. 375 00:17:49,851 --> 00:17:51,679 It's like a--it's like a shrine to their love story. 376 00:17:51,722 --> 00:17:55,030 - I can barely find somebody who's emotionally available. 377 00:17:55,074 --> 00:17:58,164 - Suicide never looked so romantic. 378 00:17:58,207 --> 00:18:00,427 - Except he didn't do it. 379 00:18:00,470 --> 00:18:02,733 CPAP has a digital log. 380 00:18:02,777 --> 00:18:07,129 Homicide said that the murder was at 11:00 PM. 381 00:18:07,173 --> 00:18:09,479 This says he woke up around 10:00 382 00:18:09,523 --> 00:18:12,700 and was up for one minute, 23 seconds. 383 00:18:12,743 --> 00:18:14,745 - That's not even enough time to smother the vic, 384 00:18:14,789 --> 00:18:16,356 let alone rape her. 385 00:18:16,399 --> 00:18:19,098 - [chuckles] How's that for facts? 386 00:18:19,141 --> 00:18:20,969 I just need you to look at these times. 387 00:18:21,012 --> 00:18:22,449 Do you understand these numbers? 388 00:18:22,492 --> 00:18:24,103 - That doesn't prove anything. 389 00:18:24,146 --> 00:18:25,887 - It proves that he didn't murder his wife. 390 00:18:25,930 --> 00:18:28,672 - [stammering] You need to be clear with me. 391 00:18:28,716 --> 00:18:32,111 I need to under-- Winnie is dead? 392 00:18:32,154 --> 00:18:34,156 And I--I didn't do it? 393 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,027 - No, you didn't, Mr. Humphreys. 394 00:18:36,071 --> 00:18:38,291 I'm--I'm sorry. 395 00:18:38,334 --> 00:18:40,858 - Is it possible he kept the machine on 396 00:18:40,902 --> 00:18:42,382 while he committed the act? 397 00:18:42,425 --> 00:18:44,384 - How long do you think the hose of a CPAP machine is? 398 00:18:44,427 --> 00:18:46,037 - It should-- it should have been me. 399 00:18:46,081 --> 00:18:48,214 We--we--we had a pact. 400 00:18:48,257 --> 00:18:49,737 We made a commitment. - No. 401 00:18:49,780 --> 00:18:51,173 - Do you understand? 402 00:18:51,217 --> 00:18:53,219 The last face she saw wasn't mine? 403 00:18:53,262 --> 00:18:54,829 She must have been terrif-- 404 00:18:54,872 --> 00:18:57,223 I need--I need to know 405 00:18:57,266 --> 00:18:59,007 who did--who did this! 406 00:18:59,050 --> 00:19:01,227 She did not see my face! 407 00:19:01,270 --> 00:19:03,316 She--she must have been terr--who did this? 408 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:05,056 - We're doing everything-- - Who--who did this? 409 00:19:05,100 --> 00:19:06,188 - We're doing everything we can. 410 00:19:06,232 --> 00:19:07,233 - Who would want to hurt her? 411 00:19:07,276 --> 00:19:09,670 I--I--I don't understand. 412 00:19:09,713 --> 00:19:11,585 - Guys, guys, give-- give us a moment. 413 00:19:11,628 --> 00:19:13,108 Thanks. - Take all the time you need. 414 00:19:13,152 --> 00:19:14,414 - I don't--I don't-- 415 00:19:14,457 --> 00:19:15,328 I don't understand where--where-- 416 00:19:15,371 --> 00:19:16,459 - Hey, I understand. 417 00:19:16,503 --> 00:19:18,505 - I don't understand! 418 00:19:18,548 --> 00:19:20,985 - Poor guy. - [sighs] 419 00:19:21,029 --> 00:19:23,379 We took his only comfort away. 420 00:19:23,423 --> 00:19:25,773 He wishes he was brave enough to do it himself. 421 00:19:25,816 --> 00:19:27,296 - [screams] 422 00:19:27,340 --> 00:19:28,515 - Jeez. - Oh, my God. 423 00:19:28,558 --> 00:19:29,429 - Ah! 424 00:19:29,472 --> 00:19:32,171 - Jesus, call a bus. 425 00:19:32,214 --> 00:19:33,259 - Get away from me. Leave me alone. 426 00:19:33,302 --> 00:19:34,390 - Hey, go get some help right now! 427 00:19:34,434 --> 00:19:36,740 - Mr. Humphreys, what did you do? 428 00:19:36,784 --> 00:19:39,047 Go--go get me some help. 429 00:19:39,090 --> 00:19:41,005 Oh, my God. - Please let me go. 430 00:19:41,049 --> 00:19:42,703 - Here, come here. Shh. 431 00:19:42,746 --> 00:19:44,444 - I don't want to be here anymore. 432 00:19:44,487 --> 00:19:45,923 I don't want to live without her. 433 00:19:45,967 --> 00:19:47,838 - I know. I know you don't. 434 00:19:47,882 --> 00:19:49,884 - Please let me go. 435 00:19:49,927 --> 00:19:52,495 Please. - It's OK. 436 00:19:52,539 --> 00:19:53,888 It's OK. 437 00:19:53,931 --> 00:19:56,804 ♪ 438 00:19:59,546 --> 00:19:59,937 . 439 00:19:59,981 --> 00:20:01,939 - Doctor, how's he doing? 440 00:20:01,983 --> 00:20:03,680 - Cuts on his wrist were superficial. 441 00:20:03,724 --> 00:20:05,595 Emotionally is another story. 442 00:20:05,639 --> 00:20:07,641 We have him on anti-anxiety meds, 443 00:20:07,684 --> 00:20:08,946 waiting for a psych eval. 444 00:20:08,990 --> 00:20:10,296 - He shouldn't be alone right now. 445 00:20:10,339 --> 00:20:12,559 - Don't worry. He's not. He's with his caregiver. 446 00:20:12,602 --> 00:20:13,734 - Virginia Wise. 447 00:20:13,777 --> 00:20:15,170 Homicide cops mentioned her name. 448 00:20:15,214 --> 00:20:16,693 - Is he lucid enough to speak with us? 449 00:20:16,737 --> 00:20:19,130 - An hour after sundown? 450 00:20:19,174 --> 00:20:22,525 Usually when patients like him are at their worst. 451 00:20:22,569 --> 00:20:24,701 - Right, thank you. 452 00:20:24,745 --> 00:20:26,616 - No, rest. - [grumbles] 453 00:20:26,660 --> 00:20:28,879 Mm. 454 00:20:28,923 --> 00:20:30,185 - My heart breaks. 455 00:20:30,229 --> 00:20:32,143 He keeps trying to call Winnie. 456 00:20:32,187 --> 00:20:34,668 So I already told the homicide detectives everything I know. 457 00:20:34,711 --> 00:20:37,061 Pence confessed to them. [softly] I thought he did it. 458 00:20:37,105 --> 00:20:39,934 - No, actually, he just thinks that he did it. 459 00:20:39,977 --> 00:20:42,241 - So the killer's still out there then? 460 00:20:42,284 --> 00:20:43,851 That's a frightening thought. 461 00:20:43,894 --> 00:20:45,026 - Which is why we need to talk to you. 462 00:20:45,069 --> 00:20:46,375 - Can we do it later? 463 00:20:46,419 --> 00:20:48,464 My husband's waiting for me in the car. 464 00:20:48,508 --> 00:20:50,074 I've had little time for a personal life. 465 00:20:50,118 --> 00:20:51,728 - Of course. We understand. 466 00:20:51,772 --> 00:20:53,774 - No, don't go. 467 00:20:53,817 --> 00:20:57,952 I do--I don't want to be alone. 468 00:20:57,995 --> 00:21:02,261 - I know it seems cruel now, but in five minutes, 469 00:21:02,304 --> 00:21:04,611 he won't remember I was even here. 470 00:21:04,654 --> 00:21:07,570 [monitor beeping] 471 00:21:07,614 --> 00:21:11,139 - Mr. Humphreys, how you doing? 472 00:21:12,967 --> 00:21:16,840 I'm Captain Benson. 473 00:21:16,884 --> 00:21:19,016 - I never forget a gorgeous face. 474 00:21:19,060 --> 00:21:20,540 - [chuckles] Oh. 475 00:21:20,583 --> 00:21:22,455 - Or an hourglass figure. 476 00:21:22,498 --> 00:21:25,762 - Well, uh, the cafeteria downstairs may have just added 477 00:21:25,806 --> 00:21:27,416 a few extra minutes to it. 478 00:21:27,460 --> 00:21:29,331 - I'm sorry. 479 00:21:29,375 --> 00:21:30,593 - For what? 480 00:21:30,637 --> 00:21:32,116 - I am a terrible flirt. 481 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,729 Please don't tell Winnie. 482 00:21:35,772 --> 00:21:37,861 - Your secret's safe with me. 483 00:21:37,905 --> 00:21:39,776 - Who's this? 484 00:21:39,820 --> 00:21:41,343 - Just a lawyer. 485 00:21:41,387 --> 00:21:43,389 - You know why God created them? 486 00:21:43,432 --> 00:21:45,347 So that toilet plungers would have 487 00:21:45,391 --> 00:21:47,871 something to look down on. - [chuckles] 488 00:21:47,915 --> 00:21:50,265 That's--that's good. I haven't heard that one. 489 00:21:50,309 --> 00:21:53,224 - Well, we--we just wanted to make sure 490 00:21:53,268 --> 00:21:55,792 that you were all right, you know? 491 00:21:55,836 --> 00:21:58,012 We were worried about you. 492 00:21:58,055 --> 00:22:00,144 - Winnie--Winnie is worried, too. 493 00:22:00,188 --> 00:22:02,756 I know she's expecting my call. 494 00:22:02,799 --> 00:22:04,279 I would invite you to dinner, 495 00:22:04,323 --> 00:22:06,107 but I don't want to surprise her. 496 00:22:06,150 --> 00:22:10,329 - We actually just ate downstairs in the cafeteria. 497 00:22:10,372 --> 00:22:12,200 - Why don't we, uh-- we'll leave you in peace. 498 00:22:12,243 --> 00:22:14,594 - Yeah. All right, we'll see you later. 499 00:22:14,637 --> 00:22:19,599 - An ass like the devil and a face like Jayne Mansfield. 500 00:22:19,642 --> 00:22:22,558 You're a lucky son of a bitch, whoever you are. 501 00:22:28,695 --> 00:22:32,699 - So in the last two hours, the guy recants his confession, 502 00:22:32,742 --> 00:22:34,178 he tries to kill himself, 503 00:22:34,222 --> 00:22:36,355 and forgets that his wife is even dead. 504 00:22:36,398 --> 00:22:38,095 The jury is going to need instant replay. 505 00:22:38,139 --> 00:22:39,445 - Yeah, well, it's their cross to bear. 506 00:22:39,488 --> 00:22:41,490 But if he didn't kill her, who did? 507 00:22:41,534 --> 00:22:43,884 - Well, there's no sign of forced entry. 508 00:22:43,927 --> 00:22:45,581 Did Homicide mention who has the key 509 00:22:45,625 --> 00:22:46,756 to the Humphreys' apartment? 510 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:48,149 - Well, far as the caregiver tells it, 511 00:22:48,192 --> 00:22:49,498 Humphreys liked to wander. 512 00:22:49,542 --> 00:22:51,152 Her and Winnie had the only keys. 513 00:22:51,195 --> 00:22:53,110 - Well, the caregiver is married. 514 00:22:53,154 --> 00:22:54,677 Any chance that the husband did it? 515 00:22:54,721 --> 00:22:56,026 - They were at a family gathering 516 00:22:56,070 --> 00:22:57,463 the night of the murder. Homicide checked her out. 517 00:22:57,506 --> 00:22:59,508 - Well, at least they checked something. 518 00:22:59,552 --> 00:23:02,946 Maybe she lost the key, or it got stolen. 519 00:23:02,990 --> 00:23:04,861 - Is it possible that Winnie opened 520 00:23:04,905 --> 00:23:06,428 the door to her own killer? 521 00:23:06,472 --> 00:23:08,430 - I'd like to think that Homicide 522 00:23:08,474 --> 00:23:10,519 checked the lobby cams in the Humphreys' building. 523 00:23:10,563 --> 00:23:12,434 - Like you said, Liv, they had a confession. 524 00:23:12,478 --> 00:23:16,743 I mean, how hard did they really look? 525 00:23:16,786 --> 00:23:21,095 - I'll call TARU, get the footage. 526 00:23:21,138 --> 00:23:22,662 - So you were there? - I already told you that! 527 00:23:22,705 --> 00:23:25,229 - Velasco, what were you doing at a murder scene in 2003? 528 00:23:25,273 --> 00:23:26,666 - Do I got to get my union lawyer? 529 00:23:26,709 --> 00:23:27,884 Because I feel like I might need a lawyer. 530 00:23:27,928 --> 00:23:29,277 - No need for that. 531 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:30,626 All we want is the truth, all right? 532 00:23:30,670 --> 00:23:31,932 Not half, not a trickle of it. 533 00:23:31,975 --> 00:23:34,151 - I was just a kid, and I didn't have 534 00:23:34,195 --> 00:23:37,111 the benefit of growing up middle class in Ann Arbor. 535 00:23:37,154 --> 00:23:38,373 - How do you know where I'm from? 536 00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:39,592 - And my parents were not intellectuals. 537 00:23:39,635 --> 00:23:40,941 - Wait, you looked into my background? 538 00:23:40,984 --> 00:23:42,029 - Duarte and I were talking about 539 00:23:42,072 --> 00:23:43,596 how you got a stick up your ass. 540 00:23:43,639 --> 00:23:45,380 - Don't talk about Duarte! - OK, both you guys, shut up! 541 00:23:45,424 --> 00:23:46,903 All right? It's getting late. 542 00:23:46,947 --> 00:23:48,949 Velasco, I'm not going to ask you again. 543 00:23:48,992 --> 00:23:52,518 How'd you wind up at a murder scene? 544 00:23:52,561 --> 00:23:56,043 - My first job was delivering bread in Juarez, OK? 545 00:23:56,086 --> 00:23:59,438 And one day, I met a guy on my route that 546 00:23:59,481 --> 00:24:02,353 offered me and my boy Chilly a job. 547 00:24:02,397 --> 00:24:03,920 He said that if we go through the training, 548 00:24:03,964 --> 00:24:06,183 we'd be security guards. 549 00:24:06,227 --> 00:24:09,143 It was $180 a week. I was 15 years old. 550 00:24:09,186 --> 00:24:10,449 - You weren't even old enough to drive. 551 00:24:10,492 --> 00:24:12,929 - Like I said, we grew up different. 552 00:24:12,973 --> 00:24:16,367 - Let him finish, Churlish. 553 00:24:16,411 --> 00:24:20,023 - So they sent us to a camp. 554 00:24:20,067 --> 00:24:22,025 Turned out to be a school for sicarios. 555 00:24:22,069 --> 00:24:23,592 - For hitmen. 556 00:24:23,636 --> 00:24:25,333 - The guy that recruited me said that the only way 557 00:24:25,376 --> 00:24:27,248 to leave was in a body bag. 558 00:24:27,291 --> 00:24:30,120 So me and my boy Chilly, we was there for three months 559 00:24:30,164 --> 00:24:31,774 training how to use weapons. 560 00:24:31,818 --> 00:24:35,865 And then as a final test, they made us go to Fort Worth. 561 00:24:35,909 --> 00:24:38,128 So I go, gun in hand. 562 00:24:38,172 --> 00:24:39,478 And I was ready to do the hit. 563 00:24:39,521 --> 00:24:42,785 And as soon as his son comes out, 564 00:24:42,829 --> 00:24:46,310 I, uh... 565 00:24:46,354 --> 00:24:48,095 I lost my nerve. I couldn't do it. 566 00:24:48,138 --> 00:24:49,313 - Chilly could. 567 00:24:49,357 --> 00:24:54,144 - He covered for me with the cartel. 568 00:24:54,188 --> 00:24:55,668 I didn't really belong. 569 00:24:55,711 --> 00:24:56,973 - So you ran? 570 00:24:57,017 --> 00:24:59,585 - Yeah, even here in New York, 571 00:24:59,628 --> 00:25:01,456 I'm still checking my surroundings. 572 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:03,197 - Is this the first time you told that story 573 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,329 to someone other than that banger? 574 00:25:05,373 --> 00:25:07,288 - Yeah, it feels good to get it off my chest. 575 00:25:07,331 --> 00:25:10,813 - Still, you're loyal to a killer. 576 00:25:10,857 --> 00:25:15,644 ♪ 577 00:25:15,688 --> 00:25:18,168 - Corey and Yvonne Barksdale, apartment 8C, 578 00:25:18,212 --> 00:25:19,822 coming home from visiting her parents. 579 00:25:19,866 --> 00:25:21,694 - Kay, keep going. 580 00:25:21,737 --> 00:25:24,000 - Larry Trimble, 11F, with his dogs. 581 00:25:24,044 --> 00:25:25,175 - Yeah, we can see that. 582 00:25:25,219 --> 00:25:27,090 - Want the dogs' names, too? - OK. 583 00:25:27,134 --> 00:25:28,962 Thank you. 584 00:25:29,005 --> 00:25:33,662 - Last entry into the building, food delivery guy. 585 00:25:33,706 --> 00:25:35,534 - To which apartment? 586 00:25:40,408 --> 00:25:42,323 You mean you didn't interview him? 587 00:25:42,366 --> 00:25:44,238 - We had a confession. 588 00:25:47,937 --> 00:25:50,679 [video whirs, clicks] 589 00:25:54,248 --> 00:25:56,555 - 30 minutes to deliver takeout? 590 00:25:56,598 --> 00:25:58,731 - Did you check with DoorJet 591 00:25:58,774 --> 00:26:01,168 to see if they had a delivery scheduled 592 00:26:01,211 --> 00:26:04,606 to that building that night? 593 00:26:04,650 --> 00:26:11,570 ♪ 594 00:26:16,052 --> 00:26:16,270 . 595 00:26:16,313 --> 00:26:18,968 - Mr. Humphreys, will you just take another look? 596 00:26:19,012 --> 00:26:22,058 - Don't you think it's time that you called me Pence? 597 00:26:22,102 --> 00:26:24,757 - Pence. 598 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,673 - You have warm eyes. 599 00:26:27,716 --> 00:26:29,457 Eyes are the window to the soul. 600 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:30,632 You know what? 601 00:26:30,676 --> 00:26:32,503 Clichés are clichés for a reason. 602 00:26:32,547 --> 00:26:35,811 It's because our brains gravitate to what is familiar. 603 00:26:35,855 --> 00:26:39,554 - We want patterns, things that fit together. 604 00:26:39,598 --> 00:26:45,255 - And I'm trapped in a wilderness of ambiguities. 605 00:26:45,299 --> 00:26:48,911 I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemies, 606 00:26:48,955 --> 00:26:53,133 not even the man on the security video, 607 00:26:53,176 --> 00:26:55,309 whoever he is. 608 00:26:55,352 --> 00:26:57,267 - You expect my client to remember 609 00:26:57,311 --> 00:26:59,966 if his wife ordered food the night she was killed? 610 00:27:00,009 --> 00:27:01,315 - Well, nobody else in that building did. 611 00:27:01,358 --> 00:27:03,447 You know how we know that? Because we checked. 612 00:27:03,491 --> 00:27:05,667 - Then why didn't police find any evidence 613 00:27:05,711 --> 00:27:07,277 of takeout in the apartment? 614 00:27:07,321 --> 00:27:09,932 - I do know that man. 615 00:27:09,976 --> 00:27:13,283 I do. I do. It's... 616 00:27:13,327 --> 00:27:16,199 - He delivered food to your apartment? 617 00:27:16,243 --> 00:27:19,463 - No, he--he--he came to the apartment about a month ago 618 00:27:19,507 --> 00:27:21,074 to pick up Virginia. 619 00:27:21,117 --> 00:27:23,729 I remember it was snowing, and his-- 620 00:27:23,772 --> 00:27:28,342 his--his galoshes tracked puddles into the library. 621 00:27:28,385 --> 00:27:32,955 Winnie bellowed like a bull-roarer. 622 00:27:32,999 --> 00:27:35,697 That's Virginia's nephew. That's Kevin. 623 00:27:35,741 --> 00:27:39,396 [tense music] 624 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,443 You have warm eyes. 625 00:27:42,486 --> 00:27:46,142 His are--they're cold. 626 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,624 - What's your boy Chilly's real name? 627 00:27:49,668 --> 00:27:52,235 - Why, so you can call Dallas PD and have them pick him up? 628 00:27:52,279 --> 00:27:55,630 - Maybe. 629 00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:57,501 - I'd rather not say. 630 00:27:57,545 --> 00:27:59,373 - So you're gonna keep protecting a murderer? 631 00:27:59,416 --> 00:28:01,680 - Chilly is the only reason I'm alive. 632 00:28:01,723 --> 00:28:04,813 - Look, man, you're not half a hitman from Juarez anymore. 633 00:28:04,857 --> 00:28:06,510 You're a NYPD officer. 634 00:28:06,554 --> 00:28:09,426 - And why do you think I became a cop in the first place? 635 00:28:09,470 --> 00:28:11,820 - Penance. I get it. 636 00:28:11,864 --> 00:28:14,475 - I didn't kill anyone, Sarge. 637 00:28:18,522 --> 00:28:20,655 - We all make mistakes, OK? 638 00:28:20,699 --> 00:28:24,833 And even in the NYPD, there's room for redemption. 639 00:28:24,877 --> 00:28:27,183 - But you don't think Benson sees it like that? 640 00:28:27,227 --> 00:28:28,707 - You're not asking for my advice, 641 00:28:28,750 --> 00:28:31,492 but I'ma give it to you anyway. 642 00:28:31,535 --> 00:28:34,016 Show your loyalty to her, 643 00:28:34,060 --> 00:28:37,324 not me, not the NYPD, 644 00:28:37,367 --> 00:28:39,195 and definitely not someone guilty 645 00:28:39,239 --> 00:28:42,372 of an unsolved double murder in Fort Worth. 646 00:28:42,416 --> 00:28:49,597 ♪ 647 00:28:50,554 --> 00:28:52,818 - So that's the nephew. What do we know about him? 648 00:28:52,861 --> 00:28:54,950 - Kevin Wise, 20 years old. He's unemployed. 649 00:28:54,994 --> 00:28:56,865 - And he has an alibi for the night of? 650 00:28:56,909 --> 00:28:59,781 - Yeah, he says he was home alone on SugarFap. 651 00:28:59,825 --> 00:29:01,217 He even thought ahead. 652 00:29:01,261 --> 00:29:02,784 He left his computer open to some cam girl 653 00:29:02,828 --> 00:29:05,874 who vouched for him, but then the unis found a checkbook 654 00:29:05,918 --> 00:29:07,833 from the Humphreys' joint account in a garbage bag 655 00:29:07,876 --> 00:29:09,748 under his bed. - OK, so enough to arrest. 656 00:29:09,791 --> 00:29:12,576 Do we have enough to convict? 657 00:29:12,620 --> 00:29:15,666 - His DNA is not on the rape kit. 658 00:29:15,710 --> 00:29:17,494 - So what do you need? 659 00:29:17,538 --> 00:29:20,019 - Pence Humphreys to ID him. 660 00:29:21,890 --> 00:29:23,544 - I--I--I don't know. 661 00:29:23,587 --> 00:29:25,589 - Hold on. Let's just slow down, Pence. 662 00:29:25,633 --> 00:29:27,853 - I don't know. - Can we take another look? 663 00:29:27,896 --> 00:29:29,158 - It's been five minutes, counselor. 664 00:29:29,202 --> 00:29:31,465 - He'll take as long as he takes. 665 00:29:31,508 --> 00:29:33,467 - Hey, Pence, look at me. 666 00:29:33,510 --> 00:29:36,687 Look at me. 667 00:29:36,731 --> 00:29:39,386 Just take a breath. [sighs] 668 00:29:39,429 --> 00:29:41,954 - [inhales] 669 00:29:41,997 --> 00:29:44,347 - Now, look back. 670 00:29:44,391 --> 00:29:46,088 Look back. 671 00:29:46,132 --> 00:29:49,439 Do you see the man who tracked puddles 672 00:29:49,483 --> 00:29:51,920 into your apartment a month ago, 673 00:29:51,964 --> 00:29:54,618 the man who made Winnie bellow? 674 00:29:54,662 --> 00:29:59,972 ♪ 675 00:30:00,015 --> 00:30:03,497 - Yeah, it's number one. 676 00:30:03,540 --> 00:30:05,107 Number one. I'm positive. 677 00:30:05,151 --> 00:30:08,589 That's--that's Virginia's nephew, Kevin. 678 00:30:08,632 --> 00:30:10,112 He was in our apartment. 679 00:30:10,156 --> 00:30:13,942 Winnie gave him a towel to wipe off his galoshes. 680 00:30:13,986 --> 00:30:16,031 It's--it's number one. 681 00:30:16,075 --> 00:30:17,859 - OK, I need a minute with my client, 682 00:30:17,903 --> 00:30:20,296 and we will be making a motion to dismiss all charges. 683 00:30:20,340 --> 00:30:22,864 - That's not happening. - Good luck, counselor. 684 00:30:22,908 --> 00:30:25,649 - What does that mean? It wasn't him? 685 00:30:25,693 --> 00:30:28,827 - No, it wasn't, 686 00:30:28,870 --> 00:30:31,220 but you know that. 687 00:30:34,049 --> 00:30:37,400 - I do? - Let me drive you home, Pence. 688 00:30:37,444 --> 00:30:39,228 - You know what? I--I need a second. 689 00:30:39,272 --> 00:30:42,623 Go ahead. I'll be right there. 690 00:30:42,666 --> 00:30:45,452 - Can we still make this case? - I have to call the 8th floor. 691 00:30:45,495 --> 00:30:46,975 We still have a few cards we can play. 692 00:30:47,019 --> 00:30:48,977 Let's start with Kevin's Aunt Virginia. 693 00:30:49,021 --> 00:30:50,892 - You don't think she'll protect him? 694 00:30:50,936 --> 00:30:53,025 - Not if I charge her with obstruction. 695 00:30:53,068 --> 00:31:00,206 ♪ 696 00:31:07,996 --> 00:31:11,913 - Why did you lie? 697 00:31:11,957 --> 00:31:15,525 - This disease is like the teeth of God 698 00:31:15,569 --> 00:31:19,355 biting into a liqueur chocolate and sucking all the memories 699 00:31:19,399 --> 00:31:22,141 out of your head like a maraschino cherry, 700 00:31:22,184 --> 00:31:25,100 and there is no cure. 701 00:31:27,668 --> 00:31:32,151 I'm afraid all days will suffer the agony of breaking, 702 00:31:32,194 --> 00:31:36,938 so I would rather go down like this, 703 00:31:36,982 --> 00:31:39,332 in prison. 704 00:31:39,375 --> 00:31:42,335 The moment those cell doors close, 705 00:31:42,378 --> 00:31:47,383 I won't remember where I am or why. 706 00:31:47,427 --> 00:31:50,386 That stupid kid in there... [scoffs] 707 00:31:50,430 --> 00:31:53,389 He's going to remember everything. 708 00:31:53,433 --> 00:31:56,523 Some memories are worse than prison. 709 00:32:00,570 --> 00:32:05,271 - Is that fair to Winnie? 710 00:32:05,314 --> 00:32:09,710 Is that what she would want? 711 00:32:09,753 --> 00:32:13,888 - Winnie is still with me. 712 00:32:13,932 --> 00:32:18,675 We have been more in love in the last few years than ever. 713 00:32:20,329 --> 00:32:23,419 Before, I--I was-- I was logical. 714 00:32:23,463 --> 00:32:25,726 I was objective, "King of the Moon." 715 00:32:25,769 --> 00:32:28,729 But since the diagnosis, everything changed. 716 00:32:30,687 --> 00:32:34,474 In different sliver of moon, 717 00:32:34,517 --> 00:32:36,955 it's full... 718 00:32:39,131 --> 00:32:42,047 And maybe-- maybe even a little forgiving. 719 00:32:42,090 --> 00:32:45,659 ♪ 720 00:32:45,702 --> 00:32:49,880 And Winnie knows that. 721 00:32:49,924 --> 00:32:53,493 No one knows that more than Winnie. 722 00:32:53,536 --> 00:32:56,626 ♪ 723 00:32:59,803 --> 00:32:59,978 . 724 00:33:00,021 --> 00:33:02,458 - We already explained those items. 725 00:33:02,502 --> 00:33:03,372 - Yeah, that they were given to your client by his aunt? 726 00:33:03,416 --> 00:33:04,678 - Mm-hmm. - Yeah, that's right. 727 00:33:04,721 --> 00:33:06,027 - No, not according to her statement to the DA. 728 00:33:06,071 --> 00:33:07,463 She wants nothing to do with you. 729 00:33:07,507 --> 00:33:09,204 - Oh, and there's more. 730 00:33:09,248 --> 00:33:12,338 She IDed these rings and these bracelets 731 00:33:12,381 --> 00:33:14,818 as belonging to Mrs. Humphreys. 732 00:33:14,862 --> 00:33:16,472 We found them in your girlfriend's apartment. 733 00:33:16,516 --> 00:33:20,215 - It's over. 734 00:33:20,259 --> 00:33:22,478 - I didn't mean to kill her. - Kevin, stop talking. 735 00:33:22,522 --> 00:33:24,002 - Counselor, if this goes to trial, 736 00:33:24,045 --> 00:33:26,091 the jury's going to hear about the 40-year love story 737 00:33:26,134 --> 00:33:28,615 of a woman who was smothered without mercy, 738 00:33:28,658 --> 00:33:31,226 and he'll get no mercy. 739 00:33:31,270 --> 00:33:34,142 [tense music] 740 00:33:34,186 --> 00:33:36,449 - How did you get the key, Kevin? 741 00:33:36,492 --> 00:33:40,670 ♪ 742 00:33:40,714 --> 00:33:43,543 - I stole it from my aunt's purse. 743 00:33:43,586 --> 00:33:45,153 She told me these stories about how 744 00:33:45,197 --> 00:33:48,330 this guy was mad rich, threw $40,000 in a trash chute 745 00:33:48,374 --> 00:33:49,679 by accident. 746 00:33:49,723 --> 00:33:50,767 - And you figured that nobody was 747 00:33:50,811 --> 00:33:51,725 going to notice what you took? 748 00:33:51,768 --> 00:33:53,509 - I needed money. 749 00:33:53,553 --> 00:33:55,076 DoorJet don't pay as much as people think. 750 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:56,599 - Tell me what happened. Don't lie to me. 751 00:33:56,643 --> 00:34:01,126 - I waited for somebody to leave, got into the lobby. 752 00:34:01,169 --> 00:34:03,302 I went up to the Humphreys' apartment. 753 00:34:03,345 --> 00:34:06,914 I was trying to be quiet, but she must have woke up. 754 00:34:06,957 --> 00:34:09,047 She came out of the bedroom screaming. 755 00:34:09,090 --> 00:34:14,313 I told her to be quiet, but she wouldn't. 756 00:34:14,356 --> 00:34:17,011 So I--I pushed her down. 757 00:34:17,054 --> 00:34:20,275 I put a pillow over her face. 758 00:34:20,319 --> 00:34:24,149 She's old. 759 00:34:24,192 --> 00:34:28,717 She just died. 760 00:34:28,762 --> 00:34:31,721 - The homicide detectives said that they-- 761 00:34:31,764 --> 00:34:35,638 they found her nightgown pulled up. 762 00:34:35,681 --> 00:34:37,987 - I didn't rape her. I swear to God. 763 00:34:38,032 --> 00:34:41,079 - But you thought about it. 764 00:34:41,121 --> 00:34:44,299 Kevin, 765 00:34:44,342 --> 00:34:49,956 we all build walls within ourselves around... 766 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,091 around the ugly things that we've done. 767 00:34:53,134 --> 00:34:57,138 And sometimes those walls can be more confining than-- 768 00:34:57,182 --> 00:35:00,750 than prison. 769 00:35:00,794 --> 00:35:03,840 I need you to be honest with us now, kay? 770 00:35:03,884 --> 00:35:05,886 - I have been. 771 00:35:05,929 --> 00:35:09,237 - Kevin, somebody put that blanket over her 772 00:35:09,281 --> 00:35:11,979 to preserve her dignity, 773 00:35:12,022 --> 00:35:15,591 or maybe they were preserving their own dignity. 774 00:35:15,635 --> 00:35:17,506 - From what? 775 00:35:17,550 --> 00:35:20,248 - From what you did. 776 00:35:20,292 --> 00:35:22,207 It's OK. 777 00:35:22,250 --> 00:35:27,516 - OK, yeah, I did it with her. 778 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,779 But... 779 00:35:29,823 --> 00:35:34,697 it was before she was dead. 780 00:35:34,741 --> 00:35:36,830 And I used a condom. 781 00:35:36,873 --> 00:35:44,011 ♪ 782 00:35:45,926 --> 00:35:48,407 - Close your case? - The kid confessed. 783 00:35:48,450 --> 00:35:51,061 Carisi is going for rape and murder one. 784 00:35:51,105 --> 00:35:52,802 - What about the husband? - Pence? 785 00:35:52,846 --> 00:35:55,414 He is in an empty apartment, 786 00:35:55,457 --> 00:35:59,809 alone for the rest of his life. 787 00:35:59,853 --> 00:36:01,028 Where's Velasco? 788 00:36:01,071 --> 00:36:03,596 - Sent him home to take a shower. 789 00:36:03,639 --> 00:36:06,642 - He tell you the truth? - Yeah, he told me the truth. 790 00:36:06,686 --> 00:36:08,209 He's ready to tell you. 791 00:36:08,253 --> 00:36:10,646 And I think everyone deserves a second chance. 792 00:36:10,690 --> 00:36:13,127 - I'll consider it. 793 00:36:13,171 --> 00:36:17,175 - I was impressed with Churlish. 794 00:36:17,218 --> 00:36:20,700 - Really, Fin? Another stray? 795 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,227 Have her come see me tomorrow. 796 00:36:32,364 --> 00:36:34,061 - So Sarge catch you up? 797 00:36:34,104 --> 00:36:35,497 - He did. 798 00:36:35,541 --> 00:36:39,719 You should know that your drug test came back. 799 00:36:39,762 --> 00:36:42,330 - And? - It was positive. 800 00:36:42,374 --> 00:36:44,332 - Positive for what? 801 00:36:44,376 --> 00:36:47,596 - Powdered sugar. 802 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,816 - You know, Captain, if my loyalty was ever questioned, 803 00:36:49,859 --> 00:36:51,209 I think that-- 804 00:36:51,252 --> 00:36:54,255 - I feel bad for you, Velasco. 805 00:36:54,299 --> 00:36:57,476 - Bad? 806 00:36:57,519 --> 00:36:59,478 Bad how? 807 00:36:59,521 --> 00:37:05,266 - Because you're 180 pounds of water in the shape of a man, 808 00:37:05,310 --> 00:37:07,877 and you take on the shape of anything 809 00:37:07,921 --> 00:37:11,620 that you're poured into. 810 00:37:11,664 --> 00:37:14,188 Duarte asked you to flip a banger, 811 00:37:14,232 --> 00:37:16,886 and you end up playing just as dirty as the guy 812 00:37:16,930 --> 00:37:18,932 that we're hunting. 813 00:37:18,975 --> 00:37:20,890 I mean, up until now, Velasco, 814 00:37:20,934 --> 00:37:24,285 you've been living a performance, 815 00:37:24,329 --> 00:37:27,897 not a life. 816 00:37:27,941 --> 00:37:30,465 That changes now. 817 00:37:30,509 --> 00:37:32,511 Understood? 818 00:37:32,554 --> 00:37:34,643 - What do you want me to do? 819 00:37:34,687 --> 00:37:38,647 - You owe a debt to the two people that were killed, 820 00:37:38,691 --> 00:37:40,954 even though they were drug dealers. 821 00:37:40,997 --> 00:37:42,477 It doesn't have to happen today, 822 00:37:42,521 --> 00:37:46,089 and it doesn't have to happen tomorrow. 823 00:37:46,133 --> 00:37:49,354 But you will find that friend, 824 00:37:49,397 --> 00:37:54,141 and you will bring him to justice. 825 00:37:54,184 --> 00:37:58,101 - Captain, wait. People change, you know? 826 00:37:58,145 --> 00:38:03,803 - Velasco, being a cop isn't some sort of penance. 827 00:38:03,846 --> 00:38:06,327 Putting your friend away for murder is. 828 00:38:06,371 --> 00:38:08,286 - So that's what it takes for me and you to be all right? 829 00:38:08,329 --> 00:38:12,986 - That's what it takes for me and you to be all right. 830 00:38:13,029 --> 00:38:20,167 ♪ 831 00:38:27,957 --> 00:38:30,308 - "King of the Moon. 832 00:38:30,351 --> 00:38:32,614 "Once upon a time, there was a boy 833 00:38:32,658 --> 00:38:36,749 "named Jack who lived on Earth. 834 00:38:36,792 --> 00:38:39,404 "Jack loved looking up at the night sky 835 00:38:39,447 --> 00:38:42,755 "and dreaming about all the wonderful things 836 00:38:42,798 --> 00:38:45,061 "that might be out there. 837 00:38:45,105 --> 00:38:48,195 "One night, while gazing up at the moon, 838 00:38:48,238 --> 00:38:51,416 Jack had a magical dream." 839 00:38:51,459 --> 00:38:54,244 [soft music] 840 00:38:54,288 --> 00:38:57,900 "In his dream, he was transported to the moon..." 841 00:38:57,944 --> 00:39:01,382 ♪ 842 00:39:01,426 --> 00:39:04,733 "Where he found himself all alone. 843 00:39:04,777 --> 00:39:08,694 "At first, Jack was a little scared to be all by himself 844 00:39:08,737 --> 00:39:10,043 "on the moon. 845 00:39:10,086 --> 00:39:12,654 "But as he explored, he began to see 846 00:39:12,698 --> 00:39:15,570 "the benefits of being alone. 847 00:39:15,614 --> 00:39:17,485 "There was no one to laugh at him 848 00:39:17,529 --> 00:39:20,096 "or to make fun of his stutter. 849 00:39:20,140 --> 00:39:23,970 "So Jack decided to make the moon his home. 850 00:39:24,013 --> 00:39:26,451 "He built a fort made out of moon rocks, 851 00:39:26,494 --> 00:39:30,933 "and he spent his days exploring and having adventures. 852 00:39:31,847 --> 00:39:35,285 "As the days went by, Jack began to love 853 00:39:35,329 --> 00:39:40,856 "living on the moon, more love than he had found on Earth. 854 00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:43,206 "And he was able to be himself 855 00:39:43,250 --> 00:39:46,384 "without anyone seeing all his flaws. 856 00:39:46,427 --> 00:39:49,517 "But no matter how much fun he had, 857 00:39:49,561 --> 00:39:52,825 "Jack always knew that he would have to return to Earth 858 00:39:52,868 --> 00:39:55,741 "someday, and he would need to find someone 859 00:39:55,784 --> 00:39:59,048 "who loved him the way he loved the moon 860 00:39:59,092 --> 00:40:01,877 "despite its many craters. 861 00:40:01,921 --> 00:40:05,707 "Eventually, Jack's time on the moon came to an end, 862 00:40:05,751 --> 00:40:08,536 "and he had to say goodbye to his fort 863 00:40:08,580 --> 00:40:11,713 and to all the adventures that he had there." 864 00:40:11,757 --> 00:40:13,672 - Perendinate. 865 00:40:13,715 --> 00:40:15,848 P-E-R-E-N... 866 00:40:15,891 --> 00:40:19,329 D-E... 867 00:40:19,373 --> 00:40:21,201 N-A-T-E. 868 00:40:21,244 --> 00:40:23,290 - "But even though he was back on Earth, 869 00:40:23,333 --> 00:40:25,945 "Jack never forgot his time as king of the moon. 870 00:40:25,988 --> 00:40:30,950 "And he knew that one day, he would return again 871 00:40:30,993 --> 00:40:34,301 "and reign as its king once more. 872 00:40:34,344 --> 00:40:37,086 "But this time, this time, 873 00:40:37,130 --> 00:40:41,482 with his queen by his side." 874 00:40:41,526 --> 00:40:48,446 ♪ 875 00:40:56,584 --> 00:40:59,587 [softly] Goodnight. 876 00:40:59,631 --> 00:41:01,937 - Goodnight, Winifred. 877 00:41:01,981 --> 00:41:09,118 ♪ 878 00:41:50,769 --> 00:41:53,685 [wolf howls]