NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system
sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous.
In New York City, the dedicated detectives
who investigate these vicious felonies
are members of an elite squad
known as the Special Victims Unit.
These are their stories.
(tires squealing)
MAN: He robbed me.
Guy came in and robbed me.
Take it easy, take it easy.
Did you see where he went?
Cops chased him into the alley.
(gunshots)
Get back inside! Get down!
WOMAN: Police! Drop it or you're dead, now!
Bailey! Taylor!
Where are you guys?
WOMAN: Over here!
We got him.
2-2 Henry, slow everyone down.
We got one under.
Anyone hit?
Just this mutt.
Winged him in the arm.
Bus is on the way.
Here's his piece.
Hey, guys,
you better check this out.
What?
Oh, man!
She's dead.
BENSON: Police.
Coming through. Thank you.
Hey.
Kind of strange, Cragen calling us in
on an officer-involved shooting.
Maybe not.
Look who's over there.
Swell.
Stabler, Benson, thanks for coming.
Yeah, it's the middle of the night.
I hope you're not jerking us around.
I'm not.
Got a black female teenager sleeping on the streets.
We think she's a runaway...
and somebody worked her over.
Burn marks-- both arms.
Braids, ribbon in her hair,
covered by a pretty decent blanket.
Yeah...
and a big hole in her head.
Not your average homeless kid.
Maybe not, but she's an abuse victim.
We think the perp shot her.
(clears throat): No, you think
the cops accidentally shot her,
and you're trying to pull us into your mess
by calling it an SVU case.
This girl was tortured, and we have no idea who she is.
You want her parents
to see her face on the morning news?
That's your problem, not ours.
Come on.
SVU knows how to protect victims and deal with families.
You mean you want us to keep this under wraps.
We want this to look clean from the beginning,
so I'm asking
for a favor.
All the times that you people at IAB jammed us up,
and now you want to play nice?
You got a set of balls on you,
asking us for anything.
STABLER: If we find out
that a cop shot that girl,
you expect us to keep it quiet?
I expect you to do your job.
However this turns out, it turns out.
You don't want to do it for me...
fine-- do it for her.
Found seven slugs.
All of them too badly damaged for any microscopic work.
Shell casings?
Had better luck there.
Matched them to each weapon.
Well, they were all carrying nines,
so the casings would have gone about ten feet to the right
and a little to the rear.
So we know approximately
where each person fired from.
Number one is Officer Bailey, two is the perp,
and Officer Taylor is number three.
The bullet passed through this steel drum
before hitting the victim,
making a trajectory through two fixed points.
Ballistic alignment laser will tell us for sure who shot her.
They all fired on the run, so it could've been
any one of them,
and there's our bullet path.
Hal, go be Taylor.
Benson, you take Bailey.
Stabler, you're the perp.
We'll see where the laser lands.
El, it's on you.
Perp fired the shot that killed the girl.
Only problem is, your Jane Doe was already dead
when the perp shot her.
That son of a bitch lucked out.
The cops at the scene said she was still warm.
So did my assistants,
but by the time they got her back here,
her lower extremities were already stiff.
She was going into rigor.
Well, she had to be dead four or five hours
before the shooting, then.
That's about right.
Do you know what killed her?
Hopefully we'll find out when I open her up,
but she was filthy, like she hadn't bathed in weeks.
I have her personal effects to put into evidence.
STABLER: Anything good?
Just some cheap clothes
from one of your better discount stores,
and this necklace.
That's an infinity symbol on a chain.
What's up with these burns?
That's what they look like,
but they're actually cockroach bites.
Well, if she was homeless,
she could've gotten them
from living on the street or after she died.
WARNER: Except the bites wouldn't swell
if she was dead...
and the roaches wouldn't bite
unless she was immobile.
You're thinking she was restrained?
Or so sick she couldn't move.
Sounds like this girl was held captive
in a very unpleasant place.
And then dumped at the scene.
Lab checked the ground where the girl was found.
No evidence of any bodily fluids.
So if she was already dead,
the new blanket is a care-giving gesture.
It's the same reason as the hair ribbons.
Whoever left her there loved her.
MUNCH: We got an ID...
and you're not going to believe it.
Who is she?
Samantha Tassler.
The girl who disappeared from Philly?
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, to be exact...
less than eight months ago.
STABLER: Didn't we spend, like,
two weeks last year searching for her?
Maybe three.
Are they sure it's her?
Cops there say our photo matches theirs.
The parents are coming in tonight.
MAN: Her friend's older brother
was supposed to drive her home.
We called when it got late
and Samantha hadn't come back yet.
That's when we found out she never got there.
We have some of Samantha's personal effects
when she was found.
It would help us if you could take a look at them.
Are you up for that?
(clears throat)
I-I've never seen this.
I don't recognize this necklace, either.
Sharon, did you buy this for Samantha?
Are you sure that she didn't have this one
when she was home?
Positive.
You found her on the street?
I'm surprised she still had this necklace.
It's solid platinum.
It's probably worth close to a grand.
Girl's wearing dime store clothes
and living on the street.
Doesn't make sense she wouldn't have sold this for food money.
You got any idea where this came from?
Well, you're not going to find it
in the case at Tiffany's or any other mainstream retailer.
Here, have a look.
I don't notice anything unusual about it.
But the X-ray fluorescence test did.
It's coated in rhodium to make it shine
instead of the regular polishing and finishing.
It hasn't been popular in this country in decades.
So, it's definitely handmade,
and there are three tiny initials engraved in the back.
I just put it in our database.
What are you checking?
Every jeweler in the tri-state
who makes his own jewelry with the three initials R-S-C.
Any hits?
Yeah, here we go.
Ross St. Clair.
Got a little shop down in the village.
No. I don't remember her.
Uh... I don't get a lot of teenagers in my store.
My jewelry's too expensive.
What about this?
How much would something like this run you?
Uh... 800 bucks.
It's custom-made.
Something happen to her?
Actually, she's dead.
Geez. Mm-hmm.
And she was wearing my infinity?
That's why we're here.
Who'd you make it for?
Garrett Lang. (alarm code beeping)
Who's he?
Regular customer.
He sent his assistant over with a drawing.
Come on.
You know, I usually
make my own stuff, but, uh...
this guy, he orders a hundred of them.
Gave me 80 grand up front.
Where can we find this Lang?
He left me a stack of business cards
to hand out to my better-paying customers.
LANG: It's the symbol of eternal life.
I give the necklace to all my patients.
$800 apiece-- that's an expensive gift.
What exactly do you treat them for?
You're what, early forties,
right, Detective?
Late thirties. Why?
Do you ever feel
that your stamina's declining...
that you don't have the energy you used to,
or that you've lost your edge?
No, but let's say that I was.
Well, then I'd put you on a course
of Human Growth Hormone and testosterone therapy.
I guarantee you'd be a new man in the squad room,
not to mention the bedroom.
But you didn't come here to hear me pontificate.
How can I help you?
You ever seen her?
I don't think so.
Well, are you sure
that she's not one of your patients?
Human Growth Hormone is used to treat children
of short stature, Detectives,
but that's not what I do here,
and I don't treat children.
Well, what about Dr. Foy?
(laughs): There is no Dr. Foy.
It stands for "fountain of youth."
Why would you think
that I would know your victim?
Well, because when she was found,
your infinity symbol
was hanging around her neck.
My God.
What happened?
BENSON: That's what we're trying to find out.
My patients who wear the necklace tell me
that people often ask them where they can get one.
STABLER: Any chance
we can get a list of those patients?
Detectives, you know that it would be
unethical as well as illegal
for me to give you that information.
MUNCH: Lang's Summa Cum Laude
from Stanford,
MD and Ph.D. from Yale.
Residency in OB/GYN with a fellowship
in infertility and reproductive endocrinology.
That's big credentials
to be running some feel-good clinic.
He was one of the top researchers in his field
until he left academia to open up shop.
Guy's had lots of magazine articles written about him.
Claims hormones can reverse the aging process.
Man is a chick magnet
for the society set.
Sounds like the lunatic fringe of medicine.
It makes you feel good, what's wrong with that?
Now, that's the same excuse people use to get high.
The doc's nothing more than a dealer with a license.
What he's doing is perfectly legal.
Don't tell me you're thinking about taking this stuff.
I've considered it.
And why shouldn't I add some lean muscle
to what you so lovingly call "my bony ass"?
CRAGEN: You can hit a gym
when we close this case.
Otherwise, everybody focus.
I mean, what's Lang looking for
in a 14-year-old girl?
Well, if he's a pedophile,
maybe his own fountain of youth.
Well, there's nothing other than that infinity necklace
to tie him to Samantha.
And there's no way to prove that she didn't get it
from one of his patients,
and we can't find out who they are.
What about the autopsy?
It's backlogged. Internal exam's not done yet.
Well, then, wait at the M.E.'s office until it is.
WARNER: I found traces
of facial tissue and dried saliva
on her right cheek, which we're testing for DNA.
So it sounds like
somebody was with her before she died.
Can we rule this a homicide yet?
I need more information, but I can tell you
that Samantha died of a blood clot to her left lung.
Caused by?
Severe dehydration.
I'd say she was deprived of fluids
for between five and ten days.
Turned her blood to sludge.
Well, supports the theory that somebody locked her away.
It's probably where she got those cockroach bites.
That makes sense.
What I found
when I examined her reproductive organs doesn't.
BENSON: How so?
When a woman goes through her menstrual cycle,
one, maybe two eggs are released,
leaving the follicles where the eggs came from empty.
And something was wrong with Samantha's ovaries?
She had 12 visibly involuted follicles.
That means 12 eggs all released at the same time.
I've never seen that in a 14-year-old.
But I thought women were most fertile
in their teenage years.
Usuallythis
only happens
when the ovaries are hyperstimulated by hormones,
like for in vitro fertilization.
So, assuming that she even wanted to,
why does a 14-year-old girl need help getting pregnant?
I don't know,
but whatever the reason, it worked.
Samantha was carrying an eight-week-old fetus.
You can't prove Samantha Tassler even knew Garrett Lang.
She was wearing his necklace.
A trinket she could've gotten anywhere does not help me.
The guy's an infertility specialist.
He's a big wheel in hormone research.
Now, can you think of a better candidate
to help Samantha get pregnant?
I wouldn't want to argue that in court.
Alex, we know that it's circumstantial,
but this guy had to have something to do
with Samantha's death.
I cannot get an arrest warrant based on supposition.
You have to find me a direct link.
So give us something that we can work with:
subpoenas for his financials, phone records,
and a patient list.
No judge is going to give us a look at a doctor's patient list,
but the rest is doable.
I can also get you a look at his IRS records.
This guy doesn't have one phone listed in his own name.
All under the corporation, Infinity Partners.
This is going to take a week to trace
who made all these calls to and from his clinic.
That voodoo medicine he practices pays big bucks.
Between his personal and corporate accounts,
he's got almost five mil, cash.
His real estate holdings are worth at least five times that.
He owns his building and three brownstones, and get this:
he's applying for a tax-exempt status on one of them.
Let me see that.
What's he claiming?
Charitable organization.
Ah. "Foundation for Knowledge Expansion."
Application says it's a nonprofit,
educational enrichment program
for young women at risk.
Where?
Chelsea.
I wonder if he's "enriching" these girls
like he did Samantha.
BENSON: There's three more girls.
They don't look like your typical street kids at risk.
That makes four going in, so far.
And there's another one.
STABLER: Just like all the others.
I've seen that girl before.
Her face look familiar to you?
Yeah, that girl from the posters,
on the Upper East Side.
You shorten her hair, and you change it back
to dark brown, that's Jessica Morse.
Disappeared about the same time as Samantha,
presumed kidnapped.
What the hell did we step into?
Can I help you?
Police Department.
I-I didn't call the police.
Where's Jessica Morse?
I don't know who you're talking about.
She just walked in here. Step aside.
Excuse me, please!
You can't do this! You have no right to do this!
We have every right.
This is the girl that's been missing since last year.
BENSTON: Elliot.
What is this? This is my school.
I am a licensed teacher. These are my students.
How did they get here?
I find them on the streets.
We run a foundation.
For knowledge expansion?
We know all about that.
Who are you?
I'm Paula Haggerty.
We give them a safe place to live.
We give them food. We give them education.
And these kids are going back to their parents.
Mrs. Haggerty, you're under arrest.
Is this really necessary?
Oh, that's a nice tattoo you have here on your left wrist:
an infinity symbol.
For infinite potential.
I would like to call a lawyer.
You can do that at our precinct.
HAGGERTY: Wh...?
Can I talk to you a minute?
Why?
Because you look a lot like a girl who disappeared last year.
I'm not who you think I am.
Jessica, your family wants you back.
My name is Marjorie... andthisis my family.
My client should be lauded for what she's done,
not arrested.
Your client kept five 14-year-olds
whose parents reported them as kidnapped or runaways.
I was just trying to help them.
They left home
because their parents mistreated them.
And you know this how?
Mrs. Haggerty has a Masters in Child Psychology.
Well, then she understands
that just because a teenager disagrees with her parents,
it doesn't mean the parents did something wrong.
BENSON: Who pays your salary,
Mrs. Haggerty?
QUENTIN: The foundation's board of directors.
The funds come from charitable contributions.
Well, Dr. Garrett Lang
owns the building, so he on the board, too?
No. He started the foundation
and provided the initial endowment,
but he has no other dealings with the foundation
or the employees or clients.
Was she one of your clients, Mrs. Haggerty?
I never saw this girl before.
I'd like to know what charges, if any,
are forthcoming.
Let's start with kidnapping.
STABLER: Can I get you something to eat or drink?
I'm not hungry.
When can I go?
Well, your parents are coming here to get you.
Jessica, they've missed you very much.
They can't wait to see you.
I told you, my name is not Jessica.
It's Marjorie Maddox.
Jessica...
we both know this is a picture of you.
When I talked to your mom,
she said you'd missed your birthday.
Your family can't wait for you to come home.
They want to celebrate it with you.
You cannot believe how sad they were.
They thought you were never going to come home.
(whispering): Okay, all right, Jessica.
(sobbing)
Look, it's going to be okay.
No, it's not.
Mrs. Haggerty's going to be so worried about me.
I have to go back to her.
You're 14 years old.
You belong with your parents.
I belong
with Mrs. Haggerty.
Can't you see that?
I know everybody thinks that I was kidnapped,
but I ran away.
You did? Why?
Because...
my parents.... oh, they didn't understand me.
And Mrs. Haggerty does?
Yes.
She saved my life.
She did? How'd she do that?
She took me in off the street.
She feeds us,
teaches us...
What does she teach you?
Stuff we should learn in school,
and that... and that all the girls
should respect themselves and each other.
This is Samantha Tassler.
Is she one of the girls?
The other four girls
are from Denver, Chicago, Omaha, and Detroit.
All high-profile cases because they all come
from wealthy or upper-middle-class families.
How do they react to being found?
Oh, the same as Jessica.
They all denied their real names.
They said they'd run away
and that they weren't kidnapped,
and they all want to know
when they can go back to Mrs. Haggerty.
Is this Stockholm Syndrome?
HUANG: More than that.
These girls haven't just formed a bond
with this Mrs. Haggerty.
Their total devotion to her
feels like they've been brainwashed.
So this is some kind of cult.
Explains why they were all wearing the infinity symbol.
Right, and why they're all sticking to the same story.
Well, unless one of them starts talking,
the best we can get Haggerty on is Custodial Interference
for not returning the kids to their parents.
That's just a misdemeanor.
We can't even hold her. What about Lang?
Right now, he's untouchable.
If this is a cult, then maybe Samantha was being punished
for misbehaving or wanting to leave.
Cults often reeducate their members
by locking them up without food or water.
Which is how the M.E. said that she died.
That's depraved indifference murder.
Including Samantha, we've only found five girls.
Or maybe they're holding more somewhere else.
Like at the foundation's brownstone.
What the hell?
This place was completely furnished
when we found the girls.
I'll check upstairs.
They took every damn thing.
Okay, we need every piece of dirt off the floor
in every room.
Any reasonable surface gets dusted for prints.
Second floor is empty.
This place has been sanitized.
Like no one was ever here.
Neighbors say three trucks pulled up,
emptied the place out in two hours.
Somebody had to tip them off.
The call couldn't have come from any of the girls.
We made sure none of them got near a phone.
Or it had to be Haggerty or her lawyer.
That's obstruction of justice.
You think she'd risk her law license?
Well, we'll ask her as soon as we're done processing the girls.
Already done. ACS picked up the four from out of town,
took them to the shelter.
We're waiting for their parents to arrive.
What about Jessica?
Folks just got here.
BENSON: She looks real happy to see them.
This is a cult we're dealing with.
If we're going to see Haggerty's lawyer,
I want Huang along for the ride.
You can't come barging in-- I'm with clients.
I'll handle this, Joan.
Detectives Benson and Stabler.
And you are?
FBI. George Huang.
Can we help you?
Who cleaned out your foundation's brownstone?
How would we know? BENSON: Oh, come on.
Somebody gave the order, and that was either you or your attorney.
Are you accusing me of a crime?
Well, I'd like you to explain why Dr. Lang
and Mrs. Haggerty both have the same lawyer.
I called Ms. Quentin after you arrested Paula.
You've made a terrible mistake.
Do you know how much she's helped runaways?
You mean, after she kidnaps them?
You're wrong, Detective.
And what about Samantha Tassler
undergoing in vitro fertilization,
which you happen to perform?
Are we wrong about that, too?
Any OB/GYN who's a fertility specialist could've done that.
STABLER: Yeah, but she and the other girls
weren't wearing
any other fertility specialist's infinity necklace.
And you got Mrs. Haggerty here
who's got that symbol tattooed on her wrist.
Any questions from the FBI, Agent Huang?
You enjoy this, don't you, Dr. Lang?
I enjoy helping those girls
thrive and realize their full potential.
Because of you people,
we may have to close down the foundation.
Joan? QUENTIN: Unless you're going
to arrest me or either of my clients,
we're through, or my next call
is to the Internal Affairs Bureau for harassment.
HUANG: He's a narcissistic bastard,
and he's calling all the shots.
You saw the way his lawyer deferred to him.
Look, I can understand
a 14-year-old being taken in by Lang
but not a smart, educated woman like Quentin.
Jim Jones got hundreds of his disciples
to drink poison Kool-aid
because he had a charismatic personality.
Lang uses his to get people like Quentin and Haggerty
to love and obey him.
Well, these teenage girls couldn't be more vulnerable.
They're not that attractive,
probably got bad grades in school,
and they're social outcasts.
And so this cult is a place for them to fit in.
And inundate them with approval and affection.
It's called "love bombing."
You're perfect the way you are.
All right, which is what
every teenage girl wants to hear,
and Haggerty as a substitute mother
is the perfect person to tell them that.
There's no way these girls got to her by accident.
No. They were targeted. We got to find out how.
MR. TASSLER: First you said Samantha was homeless.
Now you think she was murdered?
BENSON: We're not sure, exactly,
Mr. Tassler.
That's what we're investigating.
It's possible that Samantha was starved to death...
and left in the alley.
(gasping): Oh, my God!
And we can still take her home for the funeral, can't we?
Yes, you can.
But we need to know, uh,
at the time of Samantha's disappearance,
were there any changes in her routine?
Uh, different people she was hanging out with?
Friends?
She only had a few friends.
Two or three girls.
(sniffles)
They were a bad influence.
How so?
MRS. TASSLER: They drank and smoked
and got Samantha to do it, too.
(sighs)
Her grades started to drop, but we couldn't get her to care.
We even enrolled her in one of those remedial tutoring centers,
you know?
The kind with private instruction.
"Help kids realize their full potential."
What did you just say?
Help kids realize their full potential.
It was in the brochure.
What's the name of that center?
STABLER: You know this girl?
Mm, nope. Never saw her before.
Now why are you here?
She attended this center
right before she disappeared last year.
Just like this girl
vanished right outside of Philly.
I don't like your insinuation, Detective.
I don't like liars, Ms. Kinderski.
Oh, well, now, if you're going to be rude,
this conversation is ended.
Oh, what are you doing?
Nice tattoo.
An infinity symbol.
Yes. We believe in the infinite potential
of our students to succeed.
Is that a crime?
It is if Garrett Lang paid for it.
Garrett Lang?
Yeah. I bet if we pull
your certificate of incorporation,
his name's on it.
Dr. Lang is a forward-thinking, generous man
who wants to help young people further their knowledge.
He's just an investor.
Sure he is.
And you're just a teacher, right?
FIN: Kinderski lawyered up.
Quentin's not letting her talk.
Yeah, but we found the connection.
All six girls, Samantha and Jessica included,
attended a Knowledge Builders' center in their city.
Lang's at the top of the pyramid.
Quentin keeps him out of trouble,
Haggerty keeps the girls in line,
and Kinderski recruits them from the learning centers.
I wouldn't be surprised if the initial test they give
includes personality questions
to identify the most susceptible girls.
We checked Kinderski's credit card statements.
She was in Philadelphia,
Detroit, Omaha, Chicago, and Denver
three days before each of the girls disappeared.
Which leaves us with another coincidence
but no smoking gun.
Well, the other girls have all gone home.
It means we're going to have to get Jessica to talk.
Pretty tough coming home, isn't it?
I guess.
Mrs. Haggerty...
she was good to you, wasn't she, at the foundation?
Yeah.
Oh, I really miss her.
I bet you do.
Do you want to talk about it?
Well... you think she did something bad.
Hey, maybe I'm wrong.
If that's the case, I'd like to know about it.
Mrs. Haggerty is
the most wonderful person I ever met.
She and the other girls accepted me for who I am
and not who they thought I should be.
That's nice.
And how about Dr. Lang? Am I wrong about him?
He's a great man.
He's going to save the world.
Yeah, how's he going to do that?
Well, the ozone layer is disappearing...
Yeah.
...and the ultraviolet rays will make everybody sterile,
so the only way our species will survive
is by cloning living cells.
Jessica, are you pregnant?
Yes.
(sighs)
He chose me... to be one of the mothers of the future.
So he told you that you were carrying...
a cloned baby?
To help a couple whose baby died.
I'm going to bring their child back to life.
Did Dr. Lang have sex with you?
No... (stammers)
He'd never do such a horrible thing.
He took the baby's cells and put them in my eggs,
and then put the eggs back in me.
Where'd he do this?
(doors clattering)
It's Lang's little shop of horrors.
I'm no expert, but this equipment
looks like it cost millions.
Check this out.
Dr. Frankenstein's doing his experiments.
Get a bus.
Elliot, put this on.
Okay.
My patient gets an infection because you've contaminated
my sterile field, she could die.
Okay, is she cut open?
No, of course not.
Then wake her up, safely.
You don't understand, do you?
I'm going to make medical history.
Not by using teenage girls as guinea pigs, you're not.
Wake her up. You're under arrest.
So how many more girls do you have stashed away?
Dr. Lang has assured me... There are no more.
You endangered my patient's life
when you entered my operating room.
We stopped you from experimenting on her.
All of those girls consented.
You have no idea how you've harmed our cause.
Oh, we've been through your records, Doctor.
Your cause is preying on the grief of parents
who have lost a child
by promising them a cloned baby in return for a donation.
We've got one here for... half a million dollars.
Now, I call that fraud.
I call it hope.
You can't prove Dr. Lang intended to defraud anyone.
I believe that it is possible
to clone a human being.
Well, that's now illegal in this country.
Well, it won't be once we start dying off.
So we as a species
are on our way out,
and cloning is our only chance of survival, is that it?
Not just survival, Detective.
I'm talking about immortality.
Oh, and you use this idiotic crap to coerce girls
into being human incubators.
Stabler-- that's Irish-Catholic, right?
Hey, pal, this ain't about me. It's about you.
You believe a virgin gave birth.
You think that was
a very popular theory in Jesus'...
What I believe has gotten nothing to do with your case!
Doesn't it? Heretics were burned at the stake
for saying that the world was round.
Darwin was vilified for even suggesting
that humans evolved from the primordial ooze.
Yet science and reason proved him right.
So you're saying that you're the new Darwin?
Or maybe even the Messiah?
I wouldn't take it that far.
What exactly is my client charged with?
Fraud and aggravated sexual abuse.
LANG: You don't really think that either of those
will stand up in court, do you?
He's right. We can't charge him.
Alex, he deceived those desperate parents
and inseminated minors.
It's not fraud because there's no intent.
It's not rape because there's no penetration.
And if we arrest him for aggravated sex abuse,
he'll argue that the contact was for a valid medical reason.
My ass.
What Lang is doing in the name of science
is no different from what Mengele did for the Nazis.
Except these girls consented to the procedures.
They're not old enough to consent.
They are when it comes to reproductive rights.
They don't need permission to get pregnant,
no matter how they do it.
So that's it? We can't touch him?
Not unless we can prove he is in some way
connected to Samantha Tassler's death.
I'm ruling this a homicide.
The DNA results are back.
The saliva on Samantha's cheek
belongs to Paula Haggerty.
Salvia and facial tissue--
it's like a mother wiping her child's face,
the brushing of the hair,
the wrapping in the blanket.
Now, what about Samantha's fetus?
I mean, you're not going to tell us that that's the clone
of some family's dead child, are you?
Until someone proves otherwise,
that's science fiction.
The cloned fetus would only have DNA from that child.
Samantha's had DNA from herself and a father.
So this whole cloning thing is a scam.
Samantha's eggs were fertilized by someone's sperm.
And I wonder whose that could be?
We'll need DNA from Lang to prove it's his child.
Well, Cabot got us a blood order for Haggerty.
It shouldn't be a problem getting one for Lang.
So if Samantha's baby was Lang's
and she found out,
that'd sure Lang a motive to kill her.
And if Lang fathered Samantha's baby,
who do you think fathered Jessica's?
My parents want me to give the baby up for adoption.
STABLER: They took you to test your baby's DNA.
Do you know why?
To make sure that it's okay.
Mm-hmm.
And to find out who the father is.
Um... Dr. Lang says my baby doesn't have a father.
Has he ever lied to you?
Why are you asking me this?
Because the DNA from your baby... tells us
that it does have a father.
That's impossible.
Dr. Lang told me that it was a cloned child.
We tested Dr. Lang.
He's the father of your baby.
Yeah. That's the truth, and I'm sorry about it.
I believe in him.
I love him.
He fertilized your egg with his own sperm.
He did the same thing to Samantha.
No, I-I was helping a couple
whose baby died. He lied to them, too.
Jessica, they gave him a lot of money...
(crying): No, please don't.
He betrayed them.
He betrayed you.
He betrayed Samantha, and then he killed her.
(crying)
No!
It's my fault she's dead.
What do you mean, it's your fault?
Samantha said... that Dr. Lang was a fake,
and that she was going to report him to the police.
And I told Mrs. Haggerty.
What did Mrs. Haggerty say to you when you told her that?
(sobbing): That Samantha had to be
reasoned with.
And then one day, right in front all of us...
she took Samantha away.
CABOT: Jessica, could you please describe the room
where Mrs. Haggerty took Samantha Tassler?
JESSICA: It w-was empty.
Um, no chair, no bed, no toilet.
Just four walls, a floor, and a bucket.
When was the next time you saw Samantha?
Never.
I didn't even know she was dead until-until a week ago
when the police took us away.
Thank you, Jessica.
Nothing further.
Was there a lock on the door to the room?
I don't know.
So for all we know, Samantha could have been
free to leave at any time.
Objection!
JUDGE: Sustained.
Did you believe
that Dr. Lang could clone a baby?
Yes.
Did you believe that the human race
would become extinct unless he cloned children?
Yes.
And you believed that Samantha should be punished, didn't you?
Yes, but not like that.
So you're just as responsible for her death
as anyone? Objection.
Withdrawn.
Jessica, did you ever, at any time,
see Dr. Lang around Samantha or at the Foundation home?
No, we always went to see him alone.
Did Dr. Lang
ever ask you to do anything that you didn't want to do?
No, but...
You loved him very much,
didn't you, Jessica?
Yes.
Nothing further.
(sobbing)
I was on one of the first teams to successfully clone a cat.
I'm close to cloning a human being.
CABOT: Dolly the sheep only lived for six years,
and experts say that cloned human babies
could be sick or deformed.
So, isn't it irresponsible
to even try?
Medical visionaries throughout history have been ridiculed.
Not only do you not know how this is going to turn out,
you don't even know how to do it, do you?
So why
did you promise cloned babies
to parents who had lost their children?
Oh, I have every intention of delivering on that promise.
But you testified,
on direct examination, that you used your sperm
to fertilize the eggs you had taken
from Samantha Tassler and the other girls.
So you were going to give yourchildren
to those parents.
Until I'm able to clone their babies, yes.
But you were going to continue taking their money.
The money
was crucial for me to continue.
I have no other way to fund my research.
Research that is now
against the law.
What were you going to tell
those mothers and those fathers?
I would have told those parents
to be patient.
And they would have had other children to love.
Children who belonged to girls
like Samantha, whose eggs you took.
Those girls,
Samantha included, consented to the procedures.
Really?
Uh, did Samantha also consent to being locked in a room
without food or water?
Objection. Withdrawn.
Dr. Lang,
isn't it true you were afraid the money would dry up,
when the parents who paid you to clone their children
found out that you had lied to them?
Y-You, you're treating me like a criminal,
when I'm trying to give life, not destroy it.
You destroyed Samantha Tassler's.
You knew if she exposed what you were really doing, your research
would be all washed up.
Objection!
Withdrawn.
No further questions.
Redirect, your Honor.
Dr. Lang, did you ever set foot
in the Foundation for Knowledge Expansion?
Only in the beginning,
when we were setting it up
and never when the girls were there.
Who took care of the girls?
Paula Haggerty.
Did you ever tell Mrs. Haggerty
how to handle the girls?
She was more than qualified
to take care of them on her own.
When did you last see Samantha Tassler?
When I confirmed her pregnancy.
A week before she died.
So... Mrs. Haggerty is the only one
who could have known what happened to her.
Mrs. Haggerty sets her own rules
with the Foundation House.
I can't speak to what took place there.
Thank you, Doctor.
No further questions.
The defense rests, Your Honor.
I don't need another lawyer.
Miss Quentin is on her way.
I have asked Mr. Langan to represent you
until she gets here.
I'd rather wait.
Why?
So your attorney can tell you
to keep your mouth shut?
Don't you understand? They are sacrificing you.
I don't have to answer that, do I?
No, but I'd advise you to consider what Miss Cabot
is saying.
Huh! What's the difference?
I'm guilty.
You'd spend the rest of your life in prison,
so Garrett Lang is free to continue his work?
Yes, if that's what it takes.
Why would you martyr yourself for him?
He gave me back
something I had lost.
You mean your daughter.
Who told you about Carrie?
We found the missing persons' report
from 1975,
when she ran away.
You never
saw her again, did you?
That's why I wanted to work with teenage girls.
I wanted to help them find a place
that they could always call home.
And Dr. Lang gave that to you.
Yes.
He told me that I could love and help teenage girls
and that they would bring back to life
these dead children, of these poor parents.
But those girls have parents, too.
Those parents should have
treated them better.
Better than you treated your own daughter?
Carrie was very little when my husband left us,
and I didn't handle it...
well.
We fought constantly.
And then, one day I woke up and she was gone.
In her note, she said that she had to leave...
b-because she had...
she had to find a moth... a mother.
Paula?
We brought you a visitor.
It's Jessica.
(gasps)
You're not mad at me?
They told me all about your little girl.
I love my parents, but I still love you, too.
(sobbing)
STABLER: All Lang has done
is manipulated your pain.
He's used you to help him
experiment on girls who love you.
They trust you.
You're the only one who can stop him.
HAGGERTY: Marcie Kinderski
at Knowledge Builders identified each girl
at her individual
learning center.
That's where the indoctrination began.
Who brought the girls to you?
They were told to leave
and come to New York on their own.
Dr. Lang said it was
to avoid kidnapping charges.
But Marcie
gave them money for the trip
and false IDs if they were coming by plane.
Once the girls arrived, what was your role?
I was... I...
I was their mother,
and, uh, teacher...
and nurse.
I gave them...
hormone injections, um, to prepare them
for the procedures.
When Samantha Tassler wanted to leave,
what did you do?
Reasoned with her.
I put her in a room in the basement,
as is the doctrine.
Did you give her any food or water?
I was ordered not to.
By whom?
By Dr. Lang.
He said she had to be reprogrammed.
Who did the reprogramming?
He did.
He came over
at night, after they had gone to sleep.
What happened on the sixth night of Samantha's reprogramming?
I went to check
on her.
Sh-She...
she could... she could barely move.
And just as I was about to give her some water,
Dr. Lang w...
...walked in and took it away from me.
S-Samantha died in my arms.
What happened next?
She was so dirty.
I tried to
wipe her face with tissue, I fixed her hair,
and I put a blanket around her.
And then, we carried her out to my car.
Dr. Lang said that I should leave her...
as if... as if she were homeless,
but I tried to make her as comfortable as possible.
Paula, why are you doing this?
Why would you betray me like this?
Dr. Lang, you are out of order.
This entire trial is out of order.
Don't you understand? I'm trying to save you.
I'm trying to save the human race.
JUDGE: Sit down, Dr. Lang,
or I will have you removed.
The cat's out of the bag, folks.
Remove the defendant!
Science and the future wait for no one.
If not from me, someone will clone a human being.
You wait and see!