1 00:00:01,334 --> 00:00:03,063 In the criminal justice system, 2 00:00:03,136 --> 00:00:06,833 sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. 3 00:00:06,906 --> 00:00:08,032 In New York City, 4 00:00:08,108 --> 00:00:11,077 the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies 5 00:00:11,144 --> 00:00:14,602 are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. 6 00:00:14,681 --> 00:00:16,911 These are their stories. 7 00:00:19,185 --> 00:00:20,174 What'd she say? 8 00:00:20,253 --> 00:00:21,777 Moms won't budge. 9 00:00:21,855 --> 00:00:23,618 Your arraignment's tomorrow, 10 00:00:23,690 --> 00:00:26,750 so if you can post bond you'll only be in the Tombs for the night. 11 00:00:26,826 --> 00:00:28,316 What do you think they'll ask for? 12 00:00:28,395 --> 00:00:29,919 Probably more than you got. 13 00:00:30,063 --> 00:00:31,621 What if I can't make bail? 14 00:00:31,698 --> 00:00:33,563 Then you go to Rikers till your trial. 15 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,299 Look, just let me talk to Mrs. Parks. I'll try to make her understand. 16 00:00:37,370 --> 00:00:38,860 It's not gonna help. She's on fire. 17 00:00:38,938 --> 00:00:40,769 She wants you to pay for what you did to her daughter. 18 00:00:40,874 --> 00:00:44,503 I love Sara. Look, she's pregnant, and I want to marry her. 19 00:00:44,577 --> 00:00:47,546 She was 15 when you took her to bed. You're 21. 20 00:00:47,614 --> 00:00:50,981 In case you haven't heard, there's laws against that. 21 00:00:51,051 --> 00:00:52,780 So there's nothing I can do. 22 00:00:52,852 --> 00:00:56,583 Serve your time. If you're lucky, you'll be out in 18 months. 23 00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:02,290 Gentlemen, your stay here is short, 24 00:01:02,362 --> 00:01:05,331 but will feel like a lifetime if you make trouble. 25 00:01:05,397 --> 00:01:09,858 I will not listen to pleas of innocence, police brutality, entrapment 26 00:01:09,936 --> 00:01:13,133 or evidence tampering. Save it for Legal Aid. 27 00:01:13,206 --> 00:01:15,197 You'll be fingerprinted, photographed, 28 00:01:15,275 --> 00:01:17,334 cavity searched and assigned a cell. 29 00:01:17,544 --> 00:01:19,876 Chow is at 7:00, noon and 6:00. 30 00:01:19,946 --> 00:01:22,278 Lights out at 9:30. Have a nice day. 31 00:01:32,025 --> 00:01:33,424 Spread them. 32 00:01:42,602 --> 00:01:44,035 What's that God-awful smell? 33 00:01:44,104 --> 00:01:47,562 Jailhouse perfume, bitch. Get used to it. 34 00:01:55,081 --> 00:01:56,844 He's in my bed. 35 00:01:56,916 --> 00:01:59,544 There's a free bunk right over there. 36 00:01:59,619 --> 00:02:01,382 You have a problem? 37 00:02:03,857 --> 00:02:07,020 On your feet, mark. 38 00:02:07,093 --> 00:02:08,116 I said move it! 39 00:02:08,193 --> 00:02:09,183 Brute. 40 00:02:14,367 --> 00:02:17,268 Is that blood? Guard! 41 00:02:18,471 --> 00:02:20,905 Guard, help! Guard! 42 00:02:22,942 --> 00:02:25,911 Hey! Hey, you got a problem in there, baby? 43 00:02:25,979 --> 00:02:27,816 It only hurts the first time, baby. 44 00:03:20,486 --> 00:03:22,249 Where's the crime scene? Block H. 45 00:03:22,321 --> 00:03:23,481 The M.E. is with the body, 46 00:03:23,555 --> 00:03:26,251 and one of your detectives is interrogating the cell mates. 47 00:03:26,325 --> 00:03:27,587 How many prisoners did you move? 48 00:03:27,693 --> 00:03:29,923 Ten. We only cleared the flanking cells. 49 00:03:29,995 --> 00:03:32,327 Okay, I need their names and their sheets. Yes, ma'am. 50 00:03:50,149 --> 00:03:51,548 It's starting to get to me. 51 00:03:52,151 --> 00:03:53,345 The dead bodies? 52 00:03:53,418 --> 00:03:55,215 The animals rattling their cages. 53 00:03:55,788 --> 00:03:57,653 Where's your partner? He's at a VICAP seminar, 54 00:03:57,723 --> 00:04:00,021 making nice with the Feds. 55 00:04:00,092 --> 00:04:01,525 What's his story? 56 00:04:01,593 --> 00:04:03,527 Sodomized with a foreign object. 57 00:04:03,695 --> 00:04:06,391 Bled out internally. Probably perforated his colon. 58 00:04:06,465 --> 00:04:09,161 Oh! Victim's name is Carlos Torres. 59 00:04:09,668 --> 00:04:12,364 Tomb intake record shows he's only been here eight hours. 60 00:04:12,437 --> 00:04:14,496 One visit to the infirmary. 61 00:04:14,573 --> 00:04:16,006 Liver temp is 96, 62 00:04:16,074 --> 00:04:20,339 so that means he's only been dead four, maybe five hours, tops. 63 00:04:20,579 --> 00:04:24,015 Just you and Torres in the cell, and you didn't speak to him? 64 00:04:24,082 --> 00:04:25,743 I said, "Hi. " 65 00:04:25,818 --> 00:04:27,615 I won't repeat what he said to me. 66 00:04:27,686 --> 00:04:28,744 Did he hurt your feelings? 67 00:04:30,889 --> 00:04:33,255 He's Dominican. They're animals. 68 00:04:33,625 --> 00:04:35,820 You got a temper yourself, Ortega. 69 00:04:35,894 --> 00:04:38,158 Three domestic disturbance calls in the last two weeks, 70 00:04:38,230 --> 00:04:41,563 and the last one, you knifed your lover. 71 00:04:41,633 --> 00:04:43,965 He hit me first. 72 00:04:49,541 --> 00:04:50,667 How's he look? 73 00:04:50,742 --> 00:04:53,836 Ortega claims Torres wanted nothing to do with him 'cause he was gay. 74 00:04:53,912 --> 00:04:56,312 Given the jailhouse routine, not many people had access. 75 00:04:56,381 --> 00:04:58,008 There are ways around the system if you got 76 00:04:58,083 --> 00:04:59,744 a fever to rack up Dominican bodies. 77 00:04:59,852 --> 00:05:01,717 You thinking this is Mexicans against Dominicans? 78 00:05:01,854 --> 00:05:05,255 It's easier to get got on the inside. Nowhere to run. 79 00:05:05,324 --> 00:05:07,758 Mexicans transport the drugs, Dominicans distribute. 80 00:05:07,826 --> 00:05:09,225 Everybody just wants a bigger piece. 81 00:05:09,294 --> 00:05:12,320 Which is why we computerized our tracking system to keep them apart. 82 00:05:12,397 --> 00:05:13,557 But it doesn't always work. 83 00:05:13,632 --> 00:05:14,929 No system is foolproof. 84 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,896 Any Mexicans waiting for court transfer? 85 00:05:17,970 --> 00:05:19,904 Three, but they're all in different cellblocks. 86 00:05:19,972 --> 00:05:21,530 Any chance they had access to our victim? 87 00:05:21,607 --> 00:05:24,235 I don't see how, since inmate movements are restricted. 88 00:05:24,309 --> 00:05:26,174 Torres didn't move from his cell at all. 89 00:05:26,245 --> 00:05:27,712 He went to the infirmary. 90 00:05:27,779 --> 00:05:31,442 Right, after the processing. Then he was assigned a cell and locked down. 91 00:05:31,516 --> 00:05:34,417 Hold on. I spoke too soon. 92 00:05:34,486 --> 00:05:38,445 Hector Ramirez went to the infirmary complaining about a bad tooth. 93 00:05:38,523 --> 00:05:41,822 Was he escorted to the nurse while Torres was there? 94 00:05:43,128 --> 00:05:44,925 Their visits overlapped. I'm sorry. 95 00:05:44,997 --> 00:05:46,362 Okay, what's Ramirez in for? 96 00:05:46,431 --> 00:05:47,898 Murder. What else? 97 00:05:48,133 --> 00:05:52,126 I'll have a guard bring him to a holding cell. 98 00:05:52,204 --> 00:05:53,228 What's up, bacon? 99 00:05:53,305 --> 00:05:54,795 Carlos Torres. 100 00:05:55,407 --> 00:05:57,170 Yeah, I heard he bought it. 101 00:05:57,309 --> 00:05:59,106 Should be stiff by now, right? 102 00:05:59,578 --> 00:06:00,943 You think it's funny? 103 00:06:01,013 --> 00:06:02,503 Yeah, puerca. Laugh a minute. 104 00:06:02,748 --> 00:06:04,215 Well, how's this for a punch line? 105 00:06:04,283 --> 00:06:06,444 You don't cooperate with us and I will make it my business 106 00:06:06,518 --> 00:06:09,248 to have the guards house you in cellblock B. 107 00:06:09,321 --> 00:06:10,948 One cage is as good as the next. 108 00:06:11,023 --> 00:06:12,752 B- block is Dominican deep. 109 00:06:12,958 --> 00:06:14,949 I don't think they'd like what you did to their brother. 110 00:06:15,027 --> 00:06:16,016 Wasn't me. 111 00:06:16,094 --> 00:06:19,530 Hector, I think you forced your way into the infirmary. 112 00:06:19,598 --> 00:06:22,726 I don't think there's anything wrong with your tooth. 113 00:06:22,801 --> 00:06:25,702 These your teeth or mine? I was hurting. 114 00:06:25,771 --> 00:06:29,400 We talk to the nurse, what's she gonna say? 115 00:06:29,474 --> 00:06:30,941 You give me too much credit, man. 116 00:06:31,009 --> 00:06:33,204 I didn't know the mark was even gonna be in the infirmary. 117 00:06:33,278 --> 00:06:36,111 Opportunity knocked. Torres is Dominican, you're Mexican. 118 00:06:36,181 --> 00:06:37,512 This is an easy close. 119 00:06:37,749 --> 00:06:39,080 Yeah, if you make it up. 120 00:06:39,151 --> 00:06:41,312 We didn't have to. We checked your prison records. 121 00:06:41,386 --> 00:06:43,718 Seems you get off forcing your fellow inmates to bend over. 122 00:06:43,789 --> 00:06:44,983 What'd you rape him with, Hector? 123 00:06:45,123 --> 00:06:46,317 Something real handy in the infirmary, 124 00:06:46,391 --> 00:06:48,291 like a mop or a broom? 125 00:06:50,495 --> 00:06:53,658 I only went up there to get next to the nurse. 126 00:06:53,732 --> 00:06:55,962 Got a long bid this time. 127 00:06:56,034 --> 00:06:58,468 I won't be seeing ladies for a while. 128 00:06:58,537 --> 00:07:02,234 What makes you think that the nurse would even talk to you? 129 00:07:02,874 --> 00:07:04,171 If she had been by herself, 130 00:07:04,242 --> 00:07:07,211 I would have made her do more than just talk. 131 00:07:09,614 --> 00:07:11,172 I knew he was lying right away. 132 00:07:11,249 --> 00:07:13,979 He had no abscesses, no redness or swelling. 133 00:07:14,052 --> 00:07:16,486 Was Hector Ramirez ever left alone with the victim? 134 00:07:16,555 --> 00:07:19,683 No. He spent the entire time harassing me. 135 00:07:19,758 --> 00:07:22,420 What was wrong with Torres? 136 00:07:22,494 --> 00:07:24,519 I had no idea he had a serious injury. 137 00:07:24,596 --> 00:07:26,689 And when he came in for vomiting, I checked his vitals. 138 00:07:26,765 --> 00:07:28,892 He had a slight fever. I thought he had a flu, 139 00:07:28,967 --> 00:07:30,798 so I gave him some Pepto. He said he felt better. 140 00:07:30,869 --> 00:07:32,097 Who escorted him? 141 00:07:32,170 --> 00:07:33,728 An intake guard, Nathan Duarte. 142 00:07:33,805 --> 00:07:36,205 And he seemed pretty steamed, too. Not that I blame him. 143 00:07:36,274 --> 00:07:37,639 What was he mad about? 144 00:07:37,709 --> 00:07:40,610 Uh, Torres was calling him some ugly names. Uh... 145 00:07:40,679 --> 00:07:43,671 Homo, faggot, pillow. You get the gist. 146 00:07:43,882 --> 00:07:45,315 Guards got to be thick-skinned. 147 00:07:45,450 --> 00:07:46,917 Except for Nathan. 148 00:07:46,985 --> 00:07:50,113 Another guard just outed him not too long ago. 149 00:07:50,188 --> 00:07:52,088 How long was Torres here? 150 00:07:52,157 --> 00:07:54,523 Nathan took him to the shower right after I gave him the medicine, 151 00:07:54,593 --> 00:07:56,493 and I could hear Torres screaming down the hallway. 152 00:07:56,561 --> 00:07:59,792 He did not want Nathan to touch him. 153 00:07:59,865 --> 00:08:01,696 I'm already late to post, so what gives? 154 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,031 I heard you had beef with Carlos Torres. He was hard to deal with. 155 00:08:05,604 --> 00:08:07,595 No more than any other hump coming through. 156 00:08:07,672 --> 00:08:10,732 I heard it got a little personal between you two. 157 00:08:10,842 --> 00:08:12,400 Not at all, Detective. 158 00:08:12,477 --> 00:08:15,344 I've been called a lot worse by some of my lesser evolved co-workers. 159 00:08:15,414 --> 00:08:17,382 Still must have bugged you. 160 00:08:17,449 --> 00:08:19,474 This isn't exactly a nurturing environment. 161 00:08:19,551 --> 00:08:21,849 I learned a long time ago not to take it personally. 162 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,321 You escorted Torres to the showers straight from the infirmary? 163 00:08:26,224 --> 00:08:29,921 Yeah. He puked all over himself after he left the nurse. 164 00:08:29,995 --> 00:08:34,398 Was anyone else in the shower when you got there? 165 00:08:34,466 --> 00:08:36,434 No. Why? 166 00:08:36,501 --> 00:08:39,095 Anybody come in while you were there? 167 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:43,631 I don't believe this. 168 00:08:43,708 --> 00:08:44,902 I'm a suspect because I'm gay. 169 00:08:44,976 --> 00:08:47,604 No, it's because you were the last person who had access to the victim. 170 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:49,044 And since I'm the sodomy expert, 171 00:08:49,181 --> 00:08:50,580 I did this to teach the homophobe a lesson. 172 00:08:50,649 --> 00:08:52,446 Is that your theory? 173 00:08:54,219 --> 00:08:55,914 I didn't touch the little creep. 174 00:08:55,987 --> 00:08:59,684 He took a shower, he got dressed, I took him to his assigned cell. That's it. 175 00:08:59,758 --> 00:09:00,884 What time did you sign out? 176 00:09:00,959 --> 00:09:02,017 A little after midnight, 177 00:09:02,094 --> 00:09:03,083 and I went straight home. 178 00:09:03,161 --> 00:09:06,255 Can anyone vouch that you didn't come back here? 179 00:09:08,900 --> 00:09:11,926 His name is Chris Hartford. He's a Legal Aid attorney. 180 00:09:13,472 --> 00:09:14,632 Who is it? 181 00:09:14,706 --> 00:09:15,866 It's the police. 182 00:09:17,342 --> 00:09:19,173 Let's see that again. 183 00:09:23,515 --> 00:09:25,779 Which precinct? Manhattan SVU. 184 00:09:25,851 --> 00:09:27,409 Sex crimes. What's this about? 185 00:09:27,486 --> 00:09:28,976 We're looking for Chris Hartford. 186 00:09:29,054 --> 00:09:30,817 Why are you looking for my husband, Detective? 187 00:09:30,889 --> 00:09:34,484 Is he here? Chris? Police. 188 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:35,651 How can I help you? 189 00:09:35,727 --> 00:09:37,558 Why don't we take this out of the hallway? Come inside. 190 00:09:37,629 --> 00:09:40,792 It'd probably be best if we could speak with you privately, Mr. Hartford. 191 00:09:40,866 --> 00:09:41,958 What about? 192 00:09:42,033 --> 00:09:43,864 Nathan Duarte. 193 00:09:44,202 --> 00:09:45,897 Chris? 194 00:09:45,971 --> 00:09:48,098 I'll just be a minute. It's client privilege. 195 00:09:48,173 --> 00:09:50,164 It's all right. 196 00:09:54,346 --> 00:09:55,438 What kind of trouble is he in? 197 00:09:55,514 --> 00:09:58,745 We just need to verify his whereabouts last night. 198 00:10:00,051 --> 00:10:03,384 Uh, you have to understand, this doesn't happen all the time. 199 00:10:03,455 --> 00:10:06,322 We get together when my wife's out of town. It's not what you think. 200 00:10:06,391 --> 00:10:10,851 Okay, we're not looking for an explanation, just a time frame. 201 00:10:10,929 --> 00:10:13,830 I was with him from about 1:00 a. m. To 6:00. 202 00:10:16,134 --> 00:10:19,228 Okay. You can go back to your family. Thank you. 203 00:10:24,142 --> 00:10:25,268 You almost done with the autopsy? 204 00:10:25,410 --> 00:10:27,310 Not yet. But I can give you cause of death. 205 00:10:28,113 --> 00:10:30,843 I recovered wooden splinters from his rectum. 206 00:10:30,916 --> 00:10:32,816 The foreign object was introduced with such force 207 00:10:32,884 --> 00:10:34,852 that it put a hole in his colon. 208 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,047 How much time would it have taken to bleed out? 209 00:10:37,122 --> 00:10:38,350 Hours. 210 00:10:38,423 --> 00:10:41,119 Blood clot at the site held for a while, until it blew. 211 00:10:41,193 --> 00:10:43,684 So you're saying the attack didn't happen at the Tombs. 212 00:10:43,762 --> 00:10:45,093 Doesn't seem likely. 213 00:10:45,163 --> 00:10:48,030 The nurse and the guard said he was sick at the intake desk. 214 00:10:48,099 --> 00:10:49,623 I found evidence of peritonitis. 215 00:10:49,701 --> 00:10:53,967 An infection like that will cause nausea, vomiting and a temperature spike. 216 00:10:54,039 --> 00:10:56,940 Liver temp was 96, TOD was four hours earlier, 217 00:10:57,008 --> 00:10:59,306 so he had a 101 degree fever. 218 00:10:59,377 --> 00:11:01,504 So he arrived at the Tombs before midnight 219 00:11:01,646 --> 00:11:03,773 and was dead by 4:00 a. m., 5:00 at the latest. 220 00:11:03,848 --> 00:11:07,443 He was bleeding internally before he got transferred. 221 00:11:07,519 --> 00:11:10,613 A cop must've sodomized him inside the precinct. 222 00:11:16,922 --> 00:11:18,856 Are we sure our perp is a cop? 223 00:11:18,924 --> 00:11:21,722 I mean, maybe his injuries occurred prior to his arrest. 224 00:11:21,793 --> 00:11:25,559 Well, the 61 says that Carlos Torres was arrested at 8:00 p. m. 225 00:11:25,631 --> 00:11:27,656 He didn't arrive at the Tombs until around midnight. 226 00:11:27,733 --> 00:11:28,893 He was sick when he got there. 227 00:11:28,967 --> 00:11:30,434 He went to the nurse, the showers, 228 00:11:30,502 --> 00:11:31,935 then to bed and never woke up. 229 00:11:32,004 --> 00:11:33,562 Where was he processed? 29. 230 00:11:33,639 --> 00:11:36,233 Who were the arresting officers? 231 00:11:36,308 --> 00:11:38,435 Les Cooper and Randall Grant. 232 00:11:38,510 --> 00:11:39,670 I'll have their jackets pulled. 233 00:11:39,745 --> 00:11:42,213 John Royce is the commanding officer. See him first. 234 00:11:42,281 --> 00:11:45,114 I'll tell him you're on your way. Great. 235 00:11:48,387 --> 00:11:50,446 Log book for the day shows the collar was routine. 236 00:11:50,522 --> 00:11:53,582 Torres was cuffed at 8:00 and transported around 11:30. 237 00:11:53,659 --> 00:11:55,490 Three and a half hours your average booking time? 238 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:56,754 It depends on the arrest. 239 00:11:56,828 --> 00:11:58,955 This was pretty straightforward, though, even though he resisted 240 00:11:59,031 --> 00:12:00,123 and assaulted one of my men. 241 00:12:00,198 --> 00:12:01,893 Who was that? Luke Edmunds. 242 00:12:01,967 --> 00:12:04,060 He was put out on medical right after the brawl. 243 00:12:04,136 --> 00:12:05,364 He'll be out the rest of the week. 244 00:12:05,437 --> 00:12:06,699 Was it serious? 245 00:12:06,872 --> 00:12:08,203 Took a blow to the head. 246 00:12:08,273 --> 00:12:10,537 What can you tell us about the arresting officers? 247 00:12:10,609 --> 00:12:12,736 They're pretty straight-up cops. 248 00:12:12,811 --> 00:12:16,804 Grant's a rookie, so the jury's still out. Cooper gets the job done. 249 00:12:16,882 --> 00:12:18,406 Not always the way you like it. 250 00:12:18,550 --> 00:12:20,108 Coop's a little free with his hands. 251 00:12:20,185 --> 00:12:22,244 This precinct's right in the center of drug turf. 252 00:12:22,321 --> 00:12:25,085 Sometimes you got to flex on the players to get their attention. 253 00:12:25,157 --> 00:12:26,454 Not in my precinct. 254 00:12:26,525 --> 00:12:29,619 Where are Cooper and Grant now? 255 00:12:29,695 --> 00:12:31,720 Sector car Charlie. 256 00:12:31,797 --> 00:12:35,790 I'd like to avoid taking them out of rotation while I'm shorthanded. 257 00:12:36,068 --> 00:12:37,865 Officer Grant, how you doing? 258 00:12:37,936 --> 00:12:39,631 Detective Benson, Tutuola. 259 00:12:39,771 --> 00:12:41,466 Can we talk to you guys for a minute? 260 00:12:41,540 --> 00:12:42,768 Sure, what can we do for you? 261 00:12:42,841 --> 00:12:44,934 What can you tell us about Carlos Torres? 262 00:12:46,178 --> 00:12:48,772 Shocking when a drug dealing gangbanger shows up dead, huh? 263 00:12:48,847 --> 00:12:51,077 You had run-ins with him before? Sure. 264 00:12:51,149 --> 00:12:53,549 We arrested him three, four times in the last month. 265 00:12:53,618 --> 00:12:54,642 Guy was made of Teflon. 266 00:12:54,786 --> 00:12:56,151 Must be pretty frustrating. 267 00:12:56,555 --> 00:12:59,319 One time a judge threw out the crack we pinched him with 268 00:12:59,391 --> 00:13:01,291 because we found it in his mouth. 269 00:13:01,393 --> 00:13:02,417 Said it was an illegal search. 270 00:13:02,494 --> 00:13:04,587 So you tell me, would you be frustrated? 271 00:13:04,663 --> 00:13:06,358 Yeah, but not enough to take him out. 272 00:13:06,431 --> 00:13:08,797 And just so we're clear, the arrest went by the book. 273 00:13:08,867 --> 00:13:10,528 What happened that night? 274 00:13:10,602 --> 00:13:12,729 There was a street brawl outside the Club Rendezvous. 275 00:13:12,804 --> 00:13:14,271 It's a trouble spot. 276 00:13:14,339 --> 00:13:17,740 Four sector cars showed up to disperse the crowd. 277 00:13:17,809 --> 00:13:19,140 Torres got caught in the mix. 278 00:13:19,211 --> 00:13:21,509 But once he took a swing at Officer Edmunds that was it. 279 00:13:21,580 --> 00:13:22,774 Threw him in the back of the blue and white, 280 00:13:22,848 --> 00:13:24,816 put the bracelets on him, headed to the house. 281 00:13:24,883 --> 00:13:26,077 You guys make any stops? 282 00:13:26,151 --> 00:13:28,779 Well, we didn't have time to tune him up, if that's what you're thinking. 283 00:13:28,854 --> 00:13:31,118 No, our call came in at 7:00, booking started at 8:00. 284 00:13:31,189 --> 00:13:32,554 Took that long to control the scene. 285 00:13:33,725 --> 00:13:36,091 It's a real problem, that place. 286 00:13:40,098 --> 00:13:42,328 Dominicans and Mexicans ever mix it up in here? 287 00:13:42,401 --> 00:13:43,698 Not inside. 288 00:13:43,769 --> 00:13:46,067 All players are welcome here. The club's a safe haven. 289 00:13:46,138 --> 00:13:47,503 As far as I heard, there's no such thing 290 00:13:47,572 --> 00:13:48,971 between Mexicans and Dominicans. 291 00:13:49,141 --> 00:13:50,438 That's where you're wrong, Detective. 292 00:13:50,509 --> 00:13:53,376 Even a gangster needs a safe place to take his woman. 293 00:13:53,445 --> 00:13:55,106 You know him? Carlos Torres. 294 00:13:55,180 --> 00:13:56,977 Yeah, he was here that night with his girl. 295 00:13:57,049 --> 00:13:58,243 Inside the club? 296 00:13:58,316 --> 00:14:00,307 Yeah, they was celebrating 'cause she was pregnant. 297 00:14:00,385 --> 00:14:03,115 I remember, 'cause she asked for milk, but I don't serve it. 298 00:14:03,188 --> 00:14:04,849 Okay. You see him go outside? 299 00:14:04,923 --> 00:14:09,189 Not until the uniforms came up in here and got him. 300 00:14:09,261 --> 00:14:10,694 When was that? 301 00:14:10,762 --> 00:14:13,390 Right before the street fight started. 302 00:14:16,435 --> 00:14:18,733 Cooper and Grant had reason to hurt him. 303 00:14:18,804 --> 00:14:20,601 They'd arrested him four times, 304 00:14:20,672 --> 00:14:21,832 and he kept skating on the charges. 305 00:14:21,907 --> 00:14:23,135 So why not just whip his ass 306 00:14:23,208 --> 00:14:25,540 instead of tapping it? 'Cause I think that the tune-up went too far. 307 00:14:25,610 --> 00:14:27,100 I think Cooper and Grant took a nasty turn, 308 00:14:27,179 --> 00:14:28,669 now they have to cover for each other. 309 00:14:28,847 --> 00:14:31,111 What does the evidence support? 310 00:14:31,183 --> 00:14:34,812 Well, Cooper and Grant didn't have time to do the deed pre-arrest. 311 00:14:34,886 --> 00:14:38,879 Edmunds came in to back them up. After Torres slugged him, 312 00:14:38,957 --> 00:14:41,187 Cooper and Grant cuffed him and put him in the sector car. 313 00:14:41,259 --> 00:14:43,750 Corroborated? By the other cops on the scene. 314 00:14:43,829 --> 00:14:46,263 Central was notified that Torres was in custody. 315 00:14:46,331 --> 00:14:49,596 Ten-minute ride back to the house, and the log book confirms it. 316 00:14:49,701 --> 00:14:52,169 That's why it had to happen inside the precinct. 317 00:14:52,237 --> 00:14:54,102 And how did they pull it off without witnesses? 318 00:14:54,172 --> 00:14:55,639 We've all done our time in uniform. 319 00:14:55,707 --> 00:14:58,141 Cop gets hurt by a perp, you get a free shot. 320 00:14:59,211 --> 00:15:02,578 Duty log has Officer Luke Edmunds reported 321 00:15:02,647 --> 00:15:05,241 to the hospital 8:00 p. m., blow to the head. 322 00:15:05,317 --> 00:15:07,376 So the question is, did Edmunds go home 323 00:15:07,452 --> 00:15:10,649 or back to the precinct to teach Torres a lesson? 324 00:15:11,423 --> 00:15:12,947 I'll sit him down. 325 00:15:13,024 --> 00:15:16,357 Fin, I want you with CSU to comb the 29. 326 00:15:16,428 --> 00:15:18,328 Anything you find, walk through the lab. 327 00:15:18,396 --> 00:15:20,830 That's a pretty big precinct. You want to narrow it down? 328 00:15:20,899 --> 00:15:23,459 Well, to do that kind of damage takes privacy. 329 00:15:23,535 --> 00:15:24,695 Let's start with the sector car, 330 00:15:24,769 --> 00:15:27,670 interrogation rooms and bathrooms. 331 00:15:31,276 --> 00:15:33,471 You know, Carlos Torres is dead. 332 00:15:33,545 --> 00:15:36,070 If you're trying to pinch me for it, don't I need my PBA rep? 333 00:15:36,214 --> 00:15:38,444 Actually, I just need your account of what happened that night. 334 00:15:38,517 --> 00:15:40,212 It's in the 61, Detective. 335 00:15:40,285 --> 00:15:41,513 Is it? Don't play games with me. 336 00:15:41,586 --> 00:15:42,951 I do this for a living, the same as you. 337 00:15:43,021 --> 00:15:45,512 Then why are you giving me a hard time? 338 00:15:47,459 --> 00:15:49,484 Look, I'm still in pain. I didn't mean to snap. 339 00:15:49,561 --> 00:15:51,495 I know you got a job to do, you got to clear your case, 340 00:15:51,563 --> 00:15:52,996 even though the hump had it coming. 341 00:15:53,064 --> 00:15:55,828 And Torres deserved it because his charges always got dropped 342 00:15:55,901 --> 00:15:57,198 or because he hit you? 343 00:15:57,269 --> 00:15:59,669 This kind of high-stakes game, your number comes up eventually. 344 00:15:59,738 --> 00:16:02,400 Doesn't matter if it's us or the streets. Game over. 345 00:16:02,474 --> 00:16:04,203 All right. So what do you think happened? 346 00:16:04,276 --> 00:16:07,473 Some cellmate in the Tombs cornholed him. 347 00:16:07,546 --> 00:16:10,447 Well, how do you know that's how he died? We haven't released that information. 348 00:16:10,515 --> 00:16:11,948 Cops talk. 349 00:16:12,017 --> 00:16:14,542 Well, then they didn't tell you the whole story. 350 00:16:14,619 --> 00:16:17,213 You see, the evidence shows that he was attacked here, not in the Tombs. 351 00:16:17,289 --> 00:16:18,381 So how do you explain that? 352 00:16:18,456 --> 00:16:20,617 I can't. I got hurt and went to the hospital. 353 00:16:21,826 --> 00:16:26,229 But the hospital released you at 8:45. Where'd you go after that? 354 00:16:26,298 --> 00:16:27,959 Home. Home. Really? 355 00:16:28,033 --> 00:16:29,728 'Cause the desk sergeant said that you came back here 356 00:16:29,801 --> 00:16:30,859 to get something out of your locker. 357 00:16:30,936 --> 00:16:32,801 Yeah, then I went home. 358 00:16:38,977 --> 00:16:40,069 So, 359 00:16:41,279 --> 00:16:42,576 can I go? 360 00:16:43,381 --> 00:16:46,316 I think you're gonna need that PBA rep now. 361 00:16:50,989 --> 00:16:53,253 The trail of blood leads out of the stall. 362 00:16:53,325 --> 00:16:55,953 They sodomized Torres with whatever was handy. 363 00:16:56,027 --> 00:16:57,358 Over here. 364 00:17:10,809 --> 00:17:12,800 Looks like we just found our murder weapon. 365 00:17:12,877 --> 00:17:16,073 Till we type it, blood could've come from anybody. 366 00:17:17,081 --> 00:17:18,743 Came here straight from One P. P. 367 00:17:18,917 --> 00:17:20,578 I'm surprised you can still sit. 368 00:17:20,652 --> 00:17:23,450 Officer Edmunds gave his confession, wants to make a deal. 369 00:17:23,521 --> 00:17:26,354 Public won't go for it. They'll want that cop's head on a stake. 370 00:17:27,058 --> 00:17:29,049 That's why the brass wants it kept quick and quiet. 371 00:17:29,127 --> 00:17:30,788 But what about his accomplices? 372 00:17:32,063 --> 00:17:35,260 Torres and Edmunds weren't alone in that bathroom. He had help. 373 00:17:35,333 --> 00:17:37,563 That's not the way he tells it, Detective. 374 00:17:37,636 --> 00:17:39,763 He understands he cooperates, he gets leniency. 375 00:17:39,838 --> 00:17:40,827 He doesn't deserve it. 376 00:17:40,905 --> 00:17:42,873 We make deals with perps all the time. 377 00:17:42,941 --> 00:17:44,738 Cops should be held to a higher standard. 378 00:17:44,843 --> 00:17:48,870 The Chief called the play. The D. A.'s been notified. It's done. 379 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:56,685 Murder two, Counselor. 380 00:17:56,755 --> 00:17:58,814 We've got your client cold for depraved indifference. 381 00:17:58,890 --> 00:18:02,018 That's 25-to-life. And cops don't do too well in prison. 382 00:18:02,093 --> 00:18:05,460 Depraved indifference for a dead gangbanger? It's laughable. 383 00:18:05,530 --> 00:18:07,828 The victim isn't laughing. In fact, he's dead. 384 00:18:07,899 --> 00:18:10,094 Oh, don't be naive. 385 00:18:10,168 --> 00:18:13,331 His miserable life would be fodder for the jury. 386 00:18:13,405 --> 00:18:16,499 But no one wants that, right? 387 00:18:16,574 --> 00:18:19,873 So let's be reasonable. Man two, eight-to-10. 388 00:18:19,944 --> 00:18:22,742 Murder two, 12-to-25. One-time offer. 389 00:18:24,549 --> 00:18:26,244 I don't call that reasonable. 390 00:18:26,318 --> 00:18:30,049 Your client sodomized someone so violently that he bled to death. 391 00:18:30,121 --> 00:18:34,285 There is no way I'm going to offer anything less than double digits. 392 00:18:34,926 --> 00:18:36,052 Okay. 393 00:18:44,869 --> 00:18:48,066 Man two, 10-to-20. 394 00:18:48,139 --> 00:18:49,265 Fine. 395 00:18:53,011 --> 00:18:54,535 I don't like it. 396 00:18:54,612 --> 00:18:56,546 Do I look like I'm having fun? 397 00:18:56,614 --> 00:18:59,583 Your boss and my boss just want to make this go away. 398 00:18:59,651 --> 00:19:01,312 'Cause they want it business as usual. 399 00:19:01,386 --> 00:19:04,048 But there is no way that Edmunds acted alone. 400 00:19:04,122 --> 00:19:05,714 No proof he didn't. 401 00:19:05,790 --> 00:19:08,816 Our victim was a gangster and a homophobe. 402 00:19:08,893 --> 00:19:12,454 What Edmunds did to him is tantamount to his worst nightmare. 403 00:19:12,530 --> 00:19:14,760 He would've kicked like a mule to make it stop. 404 00:19:14,833 --> 00:19:16,198 You're thinking Torres was held down. 405 00:19:16,267 --> 00:19:17,564 He had to be. 406 00:19:17,635 --> 00:19:20,502 And whoever helped Edmunds do it is gonna walk. 407 00:19:20,572 --> 00:19:24,872 Not if you find me evidence. Then the deal is void. 408 00:19:24,943 --> 00:19:26,376 Let me know. 409 00:19:29,381 --> 00:19:33,317 I got my orders. Officially, the case is closed. 410 00:19:33,385 --> 00:19:36,650 Unofficially? Work fast and stay under the radar. 411 00:19:42,994 --> 00:19:44,723 Good timing. I just finished. 412 00:19:44,796 --> 00:19:47,560 Please tell me you have evidence supporting more than one perp. 413 00:19:47,632 --> 00:19:49,224 There had to be at least two. 414 00:19:49,300 --> 00:19:52,827 Victim's got deep tissue bruising on both his hands and knees consistent 415 00:19:52,904 --> 00:19:55,532 with the mosaic tile in the precinct bathroom. 416 00:19:55,607 --> 00:19:57,131 So he was on all fours. 417 00:19:57,242 --> 00:19:59,642 Figures he had to be so Edmunds could have access. 418 00:19:59,778 --> 00:20:01,370 He's also got a long cylindrical bruise 419 00:20:01,513 --> 00:20:03,140 across the back of his shoulders, 420 00:20:03,214 --> 00:20:04,613 indicating he was held down by force. 421 00:20:04,682 --> 00:20:06,047 Nightstick to the neck? 422 00:20:06,117 --> 00:20:08,449 That would get the job done. 423 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,080 But Edmunds still could've worked alone. 424 00:20:11,189 --> 00:20:12,178 Torres was cuffed. 425 00:20:12,257 --> 00:20:15,226 Hey, he wasn't shackled. So why didn't he fight back? 426 00:20:15,293 --> 00:20:18,456 The bruise is deep. So someone else had to apply pressure 427 00:20:18,596 --> 00:20:20,257 by using all their weight. 428 00:20:20,331 --> 00:20:23,926 We dump his phones. We'll find out who he's covering for. 429 00:20:25,537 --> 00:20:27,164 Look at this. Here's another one. 430 00:20:27,238 --> 00:20:31,299 That makes 55 calls between Edmunds and Cooper in the last three days. 431 00:20:31,376 --> 00:20:32,866 They're trying to get their stories straight. 432 00:20:32,944 --> 00:20:35,378 Phone calls don't put Cooper in that bathroom with Edmunds. 433 00:20:35,447 --> 00:20:37,210 Forensics is not gonna help us, either. 434 00:20:37,282 --> 00:20:38,943 Any trace evidence found on Torres 435 00:20:39,017 --> 00:20:41,212 can be explained by physical contact during the arrest. 436 00:20:41,286 --> 00:20:44,380 Well, if Cooper and Edmunds were together, other cops had to see them. 437 00:20:44,456 --> 00:20:47,789 And if One P. P. finds out we're still digging, they'll shut us down. 438 00:20:47,859 --> 00:20:49,986 So stay out of the 29. 439 00:20:51,663 --> 00:20:53,324 Focus on Edmunds. Dig in his life. 440 00:20:53,465 --> 00:20:55,160 You'll find a connecting thread to Cooper. 441 00:20:55,233 --> 00:20:59,465 Lots of calls went to a residence, uh, registered to Stephanie Grayson. 442 00:20:59,637 --> 00:21:00,899 Girlfriend? 443 00:21:00,972 --> 00:21:04,908 As much as he's paying in cell phone bills, she better be. 444 00:21:04,976 --> 00:21:06,603 Well, let's find out how close they are. 445 00:21:06,678 --> 00:21:10,614 There's no marital privilege, so the pillow talk is admissible. 446 00:21:14,486 --> 00:21:17,319 I know Luke's been arrested, but no one will tell me what for. 447 00:21:17,388 --> 00:21:19,549 How long have you known Officer Edmunds? 448 00:21:19,624 --> 00:21:23,390 I met him at the hospital when his brother OD'd. I'm a nurse. 449 00:21:23,461 --> 00:21:24,689 He took it really hard. 450 00:21:24,762 --> 00:21:27,424 Parents were dead, he practically raised the kid himself. 451 00:21:27,499 --> 00:21:29,057 How often did you see him? 452 00:21:29,133 --> 00:21:30,794 Whenever he wasn't working or on his breaks. 453 00:21:30,869 --> 00:21:32,268 Did you meet any of his buddies? 454 00:21:32,403 --> 00:21:33,836 A few. Why? 455 00:21:33,905 --> 00:21:36,499 Well, he might be taking the heat for some of them. 456 00:21:36,574 --> 00:21:38,235 Is that possible? 457 00:21:41,446 --> 00:21:43,141 You know, maybe we should take this down to the precinct 458 00:21:43,214 --> 00:21:46,047 and get a more formal statement from you. 459 00:21:46,818 --> 00:21:49,013 This is about that drug dealer, isn't it? 460 00:21:49,087 --> 00:21:50,554 Edmund's came up against quite a few, 461 00:21:50,622 --> 00:21:55,252 so you're going to have to be more specific with me if you want to help him. 462 00:21:55,326 --> 00:21:58,784 All I know is his name was Vasquez. Luke was hot for the guy. 463 00:21:58,863 --> 00:22:00,228 Said he was moving too much weight 464 00:22:00,298 --> 00:22:01,765 and was slipping through the system. 465 00:22:01,966 --> 00:22:04,230 And he hated drug dealers. 466 00:22:04,302 --> 00:22:05,667 With a passion. 467 00:22:05,737 --> 00:22:08,297 He said Vasquez was too slick to get pinched, 468 00:22:08,373 --> 00:22:11,069 so he tailed him to catch him in the act. 469 00:22:11,142 --> 00:22:12,166 So what happened? 470 00:22:12,243 --> 00:22:16,703 Luke busted him with a gram, and then Vasquez pulled out a knife. 471 00:22:16,781 --> 00:22:19,944 The only thing Luke could do was shoot him. 472 00:22:20,018 --> 00:22:23,818 He was really messed up about it for a while. 473 00:22:23,888 --> 00:22:25,583 Till I gave him a different perspective. 474 00:22:25,657 --> 00:22:27,682 What was your take on it? 475 00:22:28,927 --> 00:22:33,159 He's a bad guy, a drug dealer, for God's sake. 476 00:22:33,231 --> 00:22:36,064 Luke was saving someone else's kid brother. 477 00:22:38,269 --> 00:22:40,169 Okay, got it. Thanks. 478 00:22:40,238 --> 00:22:42,433 Turns out the girlfriend wasn't making it up. 479 00:22:42,807 --> 00:22:45,537 A drug dealer named Javier Vasquez expired two months ago. 480 00:22:45,677 --> 00:22:47,804 Only he wasn't shot, his throat was slashed. 481 00:22:47,879 --> 00:22:49,278 It hardly plays like self-defense. 482 00:22:49,414 --> 00:22:50,847 Where was the body found? 483 00:22:50,915 --> 00:22:52,940 Dead in the center of the 29 territory. 484 00:22:53,017 --> 00:22:56,111 Homicide detective mentioned a cylindrical bruise across his throat 485 00:22:56,187 --> 00:22:57,245 but not across his back. 486 00:22:57,322 --> 00:22:58,584 Sounds like a chokehold to me. 487 00:22:58,656 --> 00:23:00,988 Yeah, but two dead drug dealers still doesn't put anyone else 488 00:23:01,059 --> 00:23:04,222 in that bathroom with Edmunds. I know, but pattern will. 489 00:23:04,295 --> 00:23:05,489 Look, let's see if we can connect 490 00:23:05,563 --> 00:23:07,360 any other dealers to Edmunds and Cooper. 491 00:23:07,432 --> 00:23:08,797 A jury'll buy they work together. 492 00:23:08,866 --> 00:23:09,855 Okay, I'll check with Warner 493 00:23:09,934 --> 00:23:11,629 and have her pull any matching morgue files. 494 00:23:11,703 --> 00:23:15,070 Okay, you know what? I'll meet you back at the squad. 495 00:23:21,679 --> 00:23:23,374 What can I do for you today, Detective? 496 00:23:23,448 --> 00:23:26,144 I'd like to have another look at that duty roster. 497 00:23:26,217 --> 00:23:29,618 What for? Investigation's closed. Edmunds is in custody. 498 00:23:29,687 --> 00:23:31,917 Actually, I'm working on another case. 499 00:23:31,990 --> 00:23:33,082 What's that? 500 00:23:33,157 --> 00:23:34,647 I'm not at liberty to discuss it. 501 00:23:35,193 --> 00:23:37,491 I'd just like to see the log book from two months ago. 502 00:23:37,562 --> 00:23:40,497 Get authorization, come back. I'll be here all day. 503 00:23:40,565 --> 00:23:42,999 Get it straight, Sergeant. I don't work for you. 504 00:23:43,067 --> 00:23:44,364 I got a lead on an open homicide, 505 00:23:44,435 --> 00:23:45,663 and I'd like to check my facts 506 00:23:45,737 --> 00:23:47,637 before I pass it along. 507 00:23:52,577 --> 00:23:55,239 What are you looking for? 508 00:23:55,313 --> 00:23:57,543 When a drug dealer named Vasquez was killed two months ago, 509 00:23:57,615 --> 00:23:59,674 which sector car responded? 510 00:23:59,751 --> 00:24:01,548 Two months ago? 511 00:24:01,619 --> 00:24:03,280 Yeah, the 27th. 512 00:24:07,692 --> 00:24:10,559 Edmunds and Cooper were partnered that day. 513 00:24:12,530 --> 00:24:14,122 How often did they ride together? 514 00:24:14,198 --> 00:24:19,135 All the time, until Cooper made field training officer last month. 515 00:24:19,203 --> 00:24:20,568 Thank you. 516 00:24:24,442 --> 00:24:27,104 Officer Cooper! 517 00:24:27,178 --> 00:24:28,611 Sweet ride. 518 00:24:30,415 --> 00:24:31,575 What do you want, Detective? 519 00:24:31,716 --> 00:24:32,910 Is that a 'vette in your garage? 520 00:24:32,984 --> 00:24:34,815 You must be working a hell of a lot of overtime. 521 00:24:34,886 --> 00:24:37,946 Give it a rest, huh? IAB wants to dig, fine. 522 00:24:38,022 --> 00:24:40,820 I wanted to talk to you about Luke Edmunds. 523 00:24:43,661 --> 00:24:45,390 There's nothing to say. 524 00:24:45,463 --> 00:24:47,590 He's guilty. I heard he pled out. 525 00:24:47,665 --> 00:24:50,293 I just want to make sure it sticks. 526 00:24:50,368 --> 00:24:51,892 Is there any reason why it shouldn't? 527 00:24:51,969 --> 00:24:54,904 A 20-year prison sentence is a pretty tough sell to a cop. 528 00:24:54,972 --> 00:24:56,735 He could change his mind, make trouble. 529 00:24:56,808 --> 00:24:59,538 So I dug in his background. I talked to his girlfriend. 530 00:24:59,610 --> 00:25:01,737 Yeah? She told a very interesting story 531 00:25:01,813 --> 00:25:04,441 about a drug dealer named Vasquez. 532 00:25:04,515 --> 00:25:05,573 What about him? 533 00:25:05,650 --> 00:25:07,743 Claims that Edmunds shot him in self-defense. 534 00:25:07,852 --> 00:25:10,753 You were partnered with him then, right? So? 535 00:25:10,822 --> 00:25:12,312 His throat was slashed. 536 00:25:12,457 --> 00:25:13,947 How do you explain that? 537 00:25:14,992 --> 00:25:17,017 Some street punk wanted revenge. 538 00:25:17,095 --> 00:25:20,121 We get to the scene, and Vasquez is carved up like a turkey. 539 00:25:20,198 --> 00:25:23,361 So this is just your ex-partner playing like a hero to get laid? 540 00:25:23,434 --> 00:25:25,868 I met the woman. She's a badge bunny. 541 00:25:25,937 --> 00:25:29,668 Stories like this get her juiced up, you know what I'm saying? 542 00:25:30,475 --> 00:25:34,639 I find out that you're a murdering bastard, I'm gonna nail your ass. 543 00:25:34,712 --> 00:25:36,703 You know what I'm saying? 544 00:25:42,253 --> 00:25:43,880 You went to the 29. 545 00:25:43,955 --> 00:25:45,354 I can see the rumor mill's working overtime. 546 00:25:45,423 --> 00:25:46,890 Who says cops don't communicate? 547 00:25:47,058 --> 00:25:48,889 What the hell are you trying to prove? 548 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,258 Look, I was trying to cover your ass. 549 00:25:51,329 --> 00:25:53,820 I didn't want you to get a rip from the bosses for insubordination. 550 00:25:53,898 --> 00:25:55,991 You'll be lucky if they settle for just a rip. 551 00:25:56,134 --> 00:25:58,227 I would've backed your play. 552 00:25:58,302 --> 00:26:00,827 That's why I went alone. 553 00:26:00,905 --> 00:26:04,136 Well, there's a detective from Fraud waiting. You want to bring me up to speed? 554 00:26:04,208 --> 00:26:06,267 Well, I requested a look at our cops' financials, 555 00:26:06,344 --> 00:26:08,972 because from what I've seen, Cooper is living way above his means. 556 00:26:09,046 --> 00:26:10,308 You think Edmunds has something to do with it. 557 00:26:10,381 --> 00:26:13,350 Well, if he is, protecting a bankroll is a hell of a good reason to confess 558 00:26:13,417 --> 00:26:15,442 and stop any more digging. 559 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:19,248 Edmunds is clean. Lives frugally, little savings, no assets. 560 00:26:19,323 --> 00:26:20,483 You sure? 561 00:26:20,625 --> 00:26:21,819 Positive. 562 00:26:21,893 --> 00:26:23,827 Now, your guy Cooper's a different story. 563 00:26:23,895 --> 00:26:26,090 Reasonable mortgage, well within his paycheck limit. 564 00:26:26,164 --> 00:26:29,395 Wife's a homemaker, kid's in public school, nothing to red flag. 565 00:26:29,467 --> 00:26:30,559 But you're not buying it? 566 00:26:30,701 --> 00:26:31,827 Nope. 567 00:26:31,903 --> 00:26:34,167 All of his assets are in his wife's name, 568 00:26:34,238 --> 00:26:37,639 car, condo in Boca, some other scattered real estate. 569 00:26:37,708 --> 00:26:39,369 How'd this slip past IAB? 570 00:26:39,510 --> 00:26:41,171 Checked his tax return. 571 00:26:41,245 --> 00:26:43,713 Trick is, claim Atlantic City winnings, 572 00:26:43,848 --> 00:26:46,316 he pays the taxes on it, no one's the wiser. 573 00:26:46,384 --> 00:26:48,215 Well, can we prove that the money's not from gambling? 574 00:26:48,286 --> 00:26:49,810 We can check with the casinos. 575 00:26:49,887 --> 00:26:53,323 Anything over $2,500 is reportable to the IRS. 576 00:26:53,391 --> 00:26:55,086 How long will that take? More time than we've got. 577 00:26:55,159 --> 00:26:57,423 Edmunds' allocution is scheduled for day after tomorrow. 578 00:26:57,495 --> 00:27:00,521 Cooper's on the take, Edmunds isn't. So why's he holding out? 579 00:27:00,598 --> 00:27:03,032 Maybe Edmunds didn't know what his ex-partner's been up to. 580 00:27:03,100 --> 00:27:08,163 It's a statistical improbability that Mrs. Cooper won so much so often. 581 00:27:08,239 --> 00:27:10,764 You know where the money's actually coming from? 582 00:27:10,842 --> 00:27:13,936 My guess, payment for some dead bodies. 583 00:27:15,713 --> 00:27:19,410 What could not wait until tomorrow morning? 584 00:27:19,483 --> 00:27:20,973 I need a wiretap. 585 00:27:21,118 --> 00:27:22,642 On who? 586 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,747 Luke Edmunds' former partner, Les Cooper. 587 00:27:26,824 --> 00:27:28,758 Is he involved in this? 588 00:27:30,294 --> 00:27:34,060 We think that he got paid to kill Carlos Torres and another drug dealer. 589 00:27:34,131 --> 00:27:36,622 He's got way too much cash for a cop. 590 00:27:36,701 --> 00:27:37,998 What about Edmunds? 591 00:27:38,069 --> 00:27:39,969 Drug dealers killed his brother. 592 00:27:40,071 --> 00:27:43,939 See, Edmunds is doing it for revenge, Cooper's doing it for business. 593 00:27:44,008 --> 00:27:46,238 Problem is, we don't know who Cooper's working for. 594 00:27:46,310 --> 00:27:48,369 That's why I need a wiretap. 595 00:27:48,446 --> 00:27:50,471 If I am going to wake up a judge, 596 00:27:50,548 --> 00:27:52,846 I need something more compelling than a theory. 597 00:27:52,917 --> 00:27:54,851 Cooper's finances aren't enough? 598 00:27:54,919 --> 00:27:59,856 Not without solid evidence of where that money came from. 599 00:27:59,924 --> 00:28:01,414 Why are you still working on this? 600 00:28:01,492 --> 00:28:04,256 You're the one who told me to come to you if I had anything new. 601 00:28:04,328 --> 00:28:06,319 Well, that was before IAB got involved. 602 00:28:06,397 --> 00:28:07,796 It doesn't matter how you get your evidence, 603 00:28:07,865 --> 00:28:09,230 as long as you get it legally. 604 00:28:09,333 --> 00:28:11,426 You are on a crusade to get Cooper. 605 00:28:11,502 --> 00:28:14,335 You're damned right I am. He's a murderer. 606 00:28:14,405 --> 00:28:18,603 How many bodies do you think he racked up to pay for that new Mercedes? 607 00:28:19,977 --> 00:28:21,877 That's a good question. 608 00:28:23,648 --> 00:28:25,445 Turns out you've got five open homicides 609 00:28:25,516 --> 00:28:27,643 with corresponding signatures to your victim. 610 00:28:27,718 --> 00:28:30,516 One knife wound, one beaten and kicked to death, 611 00:28:30,588 --> 00:28:32,385 three were gunshots to the chest. 612 00:28:32,456 --> 00:28:34,924 Common denominator's the deep bruising at the throat. 613 00:28:34,992 --> 00:28:37,517 And they shared the same profession, slinging drugs. 614 00:28:37,595 --> 00:28:39,426 Were the bodies found in the 29 precinct? 615 00:28:39,497 --> 00:28:40,862 Where else? 616 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:48,331 Edmunds did it for revenge, but Cooper was getting paid. 617 00:28:48,406 --> 00:28:51,136 You get any inquiries from anybody other than us? 618 00:28:51,208 --> 00:28:54,200 Chief of Detectives called, notifying me that Homicide detectives 619 00:28:54,278 --> 00:28:57,179 from Manhattan North would be in to collect the files. 620 00:28:57,248 --> 00:29:02,015 I guess the rumors of your visit to the precinct made it to the bosses. 621 00:29:02,086 --> 00:29:03,348 Well, let's see what they have to say 622 00:29:03,421 --> 00:29:06,515 about a cop killing off drug dealers for profit. 623 00:29:13,206 --> 00:29:15,674 You've got to vacate Edmunds' deal, Alex. 624 00:29:15,742 --> 00:29:17,676 He's guilty of multiple homicide, 625 00:29:17,744 --> 00:29:20,975 but his ex-partner has been committing felony murder for pay. 626 00:29:21,047 --> 00:29:22,071 Where's your evidence? 627 00:29:22,148 --> 00:29:25,447 Cooper and Edmunds went to Club Rendezvous to roust Carlos Torres. 628 00:29:25,518 --> 00:29:28,248 But when they got there, they didn't expect a street brawl outside. 629 00:29:28,321 --> 00:29:30,186 When the sector cars arrived, they couldn't kill him, 630 00:29:30,256 --> 00:29:31,245 so they had to take him in. 631 00:29:31,324 --> 00:29:32,450 So they get him to the precinct, 632 00:29:32,525 --> 00:29:33,617 they take him to the bathroom, 633 00:29:33,693 --> 00:29:34,887 and they pull his pants down. 634 00:29:34,961 --> 00:29:36,019 Well, if this was about business, 635 00:29:36,096 --> 00:29:37,461 why sodomize him with a plunger? 636 00:29:37,530 --> 00:29:40,158 Well, we're thinking that the cops were trying to plant evidence. 637 00:29:40,233 --> 00:29:42,224 Torres was headed toward the Tombs. 638 00:29:42,302 --> 00:29:44,167 The guards find drugs during the strip search, 639 00:29:44,237 --> 00:29:45,932 that's an added possession charge. 640 00:29:46,006 --> 00:29:48,440 That is another 10 years at least. 641 00:29:48,508 --> 00:29:49,941 But the plan backfired. 642 00:29:50,010 --> 00:29:53,036 Edmunds took some licks in the scuffle with Torres, he went crazy, 643 00:29:53,113 --> 00:29:55,946 and the plunger was just a "screw you. " 644 00:29:56,016 --> 00:29:57,711 But you still didn't answer my question. 645 00:29:57,851 --> 00:29:59,580 Where is your evidence? 646 00:29:59,653 --> 00:30:01,211 Five dead drug dealers. 647 00:30:01,287 --> 00:30:04,882 All unsolved homicides, all with the same deep bruising pattern, 648 00:30:04,958 --> 00:30:07,222 and all on Edmunds and Cooper's turf. 649 00:30:07,293 --> 00:30:10,558 Same as Carlos Torres. 650 00:30:10,630 --> 00:30:13,656 Let's see if Edmunds is up for a renegotiation. 651 00:30:18,271 --> 00:30:20,296 Your present deal is off the table. 652 00:30:20,373 --> 00:30:22,864 You're digging a political grave, Counselor. 653 00:30:22,942 --> 00:30:24,307 I'm willing to make you an offer. 654 00:30:24,377 --> 00:30:26,402 But if I leave here before you give me an answer, 655 00:30:26,479 --> 00:30:28,913 you're not going to see me again. 656 00:30:29,849 --> 00:30:31,510 What's this about? 657 00:30:34,287 --> 00:30:36,016 You recognize them? 658 00:30:37,557 --> 00:30:40,048 Killing off drug dealers wasn't gonna fill that hole in you, 659 00:30:40,126 --> 00:30:43,823 and it sure as hell wasn't gonna get your kid brother back. 660 00:30:46,766 --> 00:30:49,599 Well, I didn't expect it to. 661 00:30:49,669 --> 00:30:53,332 I just thought if I found the one who strung Bobby out, it'd be enough. 662 00:30:53,406 --> 00:30:56,341 Gave a 13 year-old boy his first hit of coke. 663 00:30:56,409 --> 00:30:59,173 He thought it was funny, supplying a cop's brother day after day. 664 00:30:59,245 --> 00:31:02,237 Okay, so you killed him, you got what you wanted. Why not stop there? 665 00:31:02,315 --> 00:31:04,408 They use blood money to hire the best lawyers 666 00:31:04,484 --> 00:31:07,214 to shaft us with our own rules. 667 00:31:07,287 --> 00:31:08,720 How is that justice? 668 00:31:08,788 --> 00:31:12,451 Taking out the competition for profit isn't justice, either. 669 00:31:12,559 --> 00:31:14,686 What the hell are you talking about? What profit? 670 00:31:14,761 --> 00:31:18,356 Somebody paid your partner to kill those drug dealers. 671 00:31:18,431 --> 00:31:21,958 See, you were on a mission. Cooper had a side business. 672 00:31:22,035 --> 00:31:23,263 I don't believe you. He wouldn't do that. 673 00:31:23,336 --> 00:31:24,769 He hates them as much as I do. 674 00:31:25,071 --> 00:31:26,936 Six counts. Murder for hire. 675 00:31:27,006 --> 00:31:28,906 Wait, I didn't do that. 676 00:31:29,075 --> 00:31:31,043 I was cleaning up the streets, not making money. 677 00:31:31,111 --> 00:31:32,976 By committing murder. 678 00:31:33,046 --> 00:31:34,980 It wasn't murder. It was a reckoning. 679 00:31:35,181 --> 00:31:36,944 And we didn't kill them all. 680 00:31:37,016 --> 00:31:39,382 I just wanted to put them out of business. 681 00:31:39,452 --> 00:31:42,979 Well, then I suggest you tell us exactly what went down. 682 00:31:47,727 --> 00:31:49,661 I can't. 683 00:31:49,729 --> 00:31:53,028 Your ex-partner's a dirty cop. You're not. 684 00:31:57,937 --> 00:32:00,929 We need corroborating evidence to put Cooper behind bars. 685 00:32:01,007 --> 00:32:04,238 You'll take the needle off the table? 686 00:32:04,310 --> 00:32:05,402 Yes. 687 00:32:17,323 --> 00:32:18,984 What do you want? 688 00:32:20,059 --> 00:32:22,027 Let's start with a live victim, 689 00:32:22,162 --> 00:32:24,153 someone to support your statement. 690 00:32:29,402 --> 00:32:34,032 A drug dealer named Willie Angel's doing 25 in Sing Sing. 691 00:32:34,107 --> 00:32:37,008 Cooper shot him, but the bastard wouldn't die, 692 00:32:37,076 --> 00:32:39,601 so we had to plant a drop gun. 693 00:32:39,679 --> 00:32:43,547 We testified Angel opened fire on us. 694 00:32:43,616 --> 00:32:45,516 Jury didn't even blink. 695 00:32:47,220 --> 00:32:50,485 If Willie Angel corroborates Edmunds' statement, call me right away. 696 00:32:50,557 --> 00:32:51,683 What's the urgency? 697 00:32:51,758 --> 00:32:54,283 How about an innocent man in prison on trumped-up charges? 698 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,021 There's nothing innocent about a drug dealer. 699 00:32:56,095 --> 00:32:58,029 He's probably got dozens of bodies to his credit. 700 00:32:58,097 --> 00:32:59,758 Leave him where he is. I can't do that. 701 00:32:59,833 --> 00:33:00,925 If his statement pans out, 702 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,865 I have to file for an immediate writ for his release. 703 00:33:02,936 --> 00:33:05,700 I don't know one convict who wouldn't say the cops framed him. 704 00:33:05,772 --> 00:33:07,171 Edmunds just admitted it. 705 00:33:07,307 --> 00:33:08,774 We're supposed to uphold the law. 706 00:33:08,842 --> 00:33:10,309 Your heart's bleeding all over my shoes. 707 00:33:10,410 --> 00:33:11,877 You condone his behavior? 708 00:33:11,945 --> 00:33:12,934 I understand it. 709 00:33:13,012 --> 00:33:14,502 It gets old watching humps walk away 710 00:33:14,581 --> 00:33:16,481 from prison bids on technicalities. 711 00:33:16,583 --> 00:33:17,914 Dealers know how to play the loopholes. 712 00:33:17,984 --> 00:33:19,417 Yeah, but you wouldn't do what they did. 713 00:33:19,652 --> 00:33:21,244 You wouldn't take the law into your own hands. 714 00:33:21,321 --> 00:33:23,050 It's not like I haven't thought about it, Counselor. 715 00:33:23,122 --> 00:33:24,714 Same as every other cop on the job. 716 00:33:24,791 --> 00:33:27,954 There's a difference between thinking about it and doing it. 717 00:33:31,497 --> 00:33:33,431 What do you cops want with me? 718 00:33:33,499 --> 00:33:36,525 We want to hear your version of how you ended up here. 719 00:33:36,603 --> 00:33:38,764 Police did this to me. 720 00:33:38,838 --> 00:33:41,773 Cops like you with that same look in their eye. 721 00:33:41,841 --> 00:33:43,809 Look, nobody believed me before, so what's changed? 722 00:33:43,877 --> 00:33:45,811 We need to hear the details. 723 00:33:45,879 --> 00:33:47,574 Maybe I need a lawyer here. 724 00:33:47,647 --> 00:33:49,512 I don't do well with you people one on one. 725 00:33:49,582 --> 00:33:52,050 Look, Willie, we're not looking to jam you up. 726 00:33:52,118 --> 00:33:53,881 Speak for yourself. 727 00:33:55,054 --> 00:33:56,043 I do something to you? 728 00:33:56,122 --> 00:33:59,023 You ain't nothing but a drug dealer, so to me everything you say is suspect. 729 00:33:59,092 --> 00:34:00,354 I ain't in the game no more. 730 00:34:00,426 --> 00:34:01,791 Since when? 731 00:34:03,196 --> 00:34:06,165 Since I lost the use of my legs from a cop's bullet. 732 00:34:06,232 --> 00:34:10,965 Since they jacked me for my freedom. Or maybe that's not enough for you. 733 00:34:11,037 --> 00:34:13,231 Willie, 734 00:34:13,305 --> 00:34:16,275 can you identify the cops who did this to you? 735 00:34:16,342 --> 00:34:19,243 Yeah. They wanted me to step from my business. 736 00:34:19,312 --> 00:34:22,747 And when I refused, next thing I know I got a bullet lodged in my spine, 737 00:34:22,814 --> 00:34:26,307 and I'm on trial for attempted murder. 738 00:34:26,385 --> 00:34:28,149 So what happens now? 739 00:34:28,220 --> 00:34:32,385 We have a corroborating witness who supports your story. 740 00:34:32,458 --> 00:34:34,084 And that means I'm gonna get out of here? 741 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:35,990 Looks like it's your lucky day. 742 00:34:36,296 --> 00:34:38,093 You don't know the half of it. 743 00:34:38,164 --> 00:34:41,655 I'm gonna file a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the city. 744 00:34:41,734 --> 00:34:45,101 And the gravy's your required testimony on my behalf. 745 00:34:48,341 --> 00:34:51,208 You're gonna let that lowlife piece of garbage back on the street? 746 00:34:51,276 --> 00:34:54,246 Yeah, in a wheelchair. 747 00:34:54,314 --> 00:34:55,804 Willie Angel is scum. 748 00:34:55,882 --> 00:34:58,749 He still doesn't deserve what you and Cooper did to him. 749 00:34:58,818 --> 00:35:01,844 Way I see it, one less dealer to worry about. 750 00:35:04,757 --> 00:35:07,419 Whose idea was it to shoot Willie in the first place? 751 00:35:07,493 --> 00:35:09,757 Cooper's. But I went along with it. 752 00:35:09,829 --> 00:35:12,923 And I suppose it was Cooper's idea to kill all those dealers. 753 00:35:12,999 --> 00:35:15,092 You do the dirty work, only you don't get paid. 754 00:35:15,168 --> 00:35:16,829 He paid me. How? 755 00:35:19,372 --> 00:35:21,840 A couple of years ago, we're answering a domestic. 756 00:35:21,908 --> 00:35:24,706 Husband and wife are going at it. 757 00:35:24,777 --> 00:35:27,803 I walk in, never saw the gun. 758 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,041 Coop jumps in between me and the other guy, 759 00:35:30,116 --> 00:35:33,813 takes the. 38 right out of his hand. 760 00:35:33,886 --> 00:35:37,185 So you're paying him back by killing people for him? 761 00:35:38,758 --> 00:35:41,124 Well, Cooper did it 762 00:35:41,194 --> 00:35:43,856 for a couple of nice cars and a condo. 763 00:35:54,140 --> 00:35:56,404 Testify against him. 764 00:35:56,509 --> 00:35:57,498 No way. 765 00:35:57,577 --> 00:36:00,011 He betrayed you. 766 00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:01,842 You wouldn't testify against your partner. 767 00:36:01,981 --> 00:36:03,778 Don't throw that blue wall crap at me. 768 00:36:03,850 --> 00:36:07,513 If he did what Cooper did, you bet your ass I would. 769 00:36:07,587 --> 00:36:10,215 It's not so easy. Partner's like blood. 770 00:36:12,291 --> 00:36:16,591 You think that he feels the same way about you? 771 00:36:16,662 --> 00:36:19,256 He used you. 772 00:36:19,332 --> 00:36:21,892 He used your dead brother. 773 00:36:25,004 --> 00:36:27,438 He doesn't give a damn about you. 774 00:36:30,710 --> 00:36:33,907 When are you going to have the balls to face that? 775 00:36:42,655 --> 00:36:47,388 You deliberately disobeyed a direct order to stay out of the 29. That's a rip. 776 00:36:47,460 --> 00:36:49,189 Ten days of docked pay. 777 00:36:49,262 --> 00:36:50,991 That's the only thing you can do. I understand. 778 00:36:51,064 --> 00:36:53,157 I don't think you do. 779 00:36:53,232 --> 00:36:55,632 Right now, the D. A. is fielding writs from every hump 780 00:36:55,701 --> 00:36:57,100 ever busted by those two cops. 781 00:36:57,170 --> 00:36:59,263 Guilty or not, they get a pass. 782 00:36:59,472 --> 00:37:02,498 Edmunds and Cooper are dirty cops. 783 00:37:02,575 --> 00:37:04,008 Did you expect me to ignore that? 784 00:37:04,077 --> 00:37:08,104 And because you kept me out of the loop, we got blindsided. 785 00:37:08,181 --> 00:37:10,649 We're looking at press scrutiny, 786 00:37:10,716 --> 00:37:14,652 millions in civil suits, not to mention criminals walking free. 787 00:37:19,525 --> 00:37:21,390 I did the right thing. 788 00:37:25,364 --> 00:37:26,922 Pick up Cooper. 789 00:37:28,101 --> 00:37:30,797 Let's get that bastard off the streets. 790 00:37:34,507 --> 00:37:35,599 Lester Cooper. 791 00:37:35,675 --> 00:37:38,610 You know, I'm starting to think you're stalking me. 792 00:37:38,678 --> 00:37:40,407 You're under arrest for first-degree murder. 793 00:37:40,546 --> 00:37:42,275 Turn around. 794 00:37:46,052 --> 00:37:47,451 Wait a minute. What the hell is going on here? 795 00:37:47,553 --> 00:37:48,850 Step back, rookie. 796 00:37:48,988 --> 00:37:50,319 You got nothing on me. 797 00:37:50,389 --> 00:37:52,857 Just six counts of murder. 798 00:37:52,925 --> 00:37:54,790 Hey, I didn't do anything wrong. 799 00:37:54,927 --> 00:37:57,157 I believe you. Get a lawyer, anyway. 800 00:38:00,266 --> 00:38:01,858 What are you offering? 801 00:38:01,934 --> 00:38:05,768 Life, no parole, in exchange for the man you were working for. 802 00:38:07,573 --> 00:38:09,871 I can't do it. 803 00:38:09,942 --> 00:38:12,433 I name names, I might as well kill myself, save them the trouble. 804 00:38:12,512 --> 00:38:15,140 Ex-cops don't get housed with general pop. 805 00:38:15,214 --> 00:38:16,806 That's very comforting. Thank you. 806 00:38:16,883 --> 00:38:21,217 Your cooperation is the only thing that stands between you and the needle. 807 00:38:21,287 --> 00:38:22,720 So I'll take my chance with a jury. 808 00:38:22,788 --> 00:38:25,086 We've got corroborating witnesses 809 00:38:25,158 --> 00:38:26,455 and the bodies you dropped for profit. 810 00:38:26,592 --> 00:38:27,923 The jury's going to burn you. 811 00:38:27,994 --> 00:38:31,020 You better have other testimony besides my client's ex-partner. 812 00:38:31,097 --> 00:38:34,362 One of their victims corroborates his statement, Counselor. 813 00:38:34,433 --> 00:38:37,527 Edmunds gets life, you get life, no parole. 814 00:38:37,603 --> 00:38:39,798 As far as I'm concerned, you're getting off easy. 815 00:38:39,872 --> 00:38:43,103 Edmunds. Gullible fool. 816 00:38:43,176 --> 00:38:44,734 Yeah, well, at least he had his reasons, unlike you, 817 00:38:44,810 --> 00:38:47,108 who just exploited his grief to get rich. 818 00:38:47,180 --> 00:38:48,977 Oh, he thought he was on a mission. 819 00:38:49,048 --> 00:38:52,313 Like we were gonna rid the streets of drug dealers? 820 00:38:53,753 --> 00:38:56,153 Only an idiot would believe that. 821 00:38:58,357 --> 00:39:00,120 What's it gonna be? 822 00:39:25,017 --> 00:39:27,451 It's a real smart move, Hector. 823 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:33,015 Get rid of the competition, avoid a war by getting a cop to do your dirty work. 824 00:39:33,092 --> 00:39:37,756 This business is cutthroat. You got to know that going in. 825 00:39:37,830 --> 00:39:40,663 This is one execution I think I'll attend. 826 00:39:43,336 --> 00:39:47,102 Look at you, all yeasted up like some kind of hero. 827 00:39:47,173 --> 00:39:50,506 Death row is just geography for me, mommy. 828 00:39:50,576 --> 00:39:54,034 You're gonna be crying like a baby when you take that last walk. 829 00:39:54,113 --> 00:39:56,604 You're gonna have to wait 10, 15 years. 830 00:39:56,682 --> 00:39:59,981 A lot can happen between now and then. 831 00:40:00,052 --> 00:40:02,350 Witnesses get amnesia. 832 00:40:02,421 --> 00:40:05,117 People up and die. You never know. 833 00:40:09,061 --> 00:40:10,255 Benson. 834 00:40:39,925 --> 00:40:41,859 Suicide. 835 00:40:41,927 --> 00:40:43,690 He leave a note? 836 00:40:43,829 --> 00:40:45,592 Guards didn't find one. 837 00:40:45,665 --> 00:40:49,795 Hasn't been dead long. An hour, maybe two. 838 00:40:49,869 --> 00:40:52,861 He just couldn't take it. 839 00:40:52,938 --> 00:40:54,428 His sentence? 840 00:40:56,342 --> 00:40:58,071 Facing what he did.