1 00:00:01,112 --> 00:00:03,152 In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:03,224 --> 00:00:04,785 sexually based offenses 3 00:00:04,857 --> 00:00:06,417 are considered especially heinous. 4 00:00:06,489 --> 00:00:08,660 In New York City, the dedicated detectives 5 00:00:08,728 --> 00:00:10,355 who investigate these vicious felonies 6 00:00:10,425 --> 00:00:12,149 are members of an elite squad 7 00:00:12,216 --> 00:00:13,972 known as the Special Victims Unit. 8 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:15,928 These are their stories. 9 00:00:17,241 --> 00:00:21,267 It's an above-ground Jacuzzi. I don't know why you're digging that deep. 10 00:00:21,338 --> 00:00:22,898 It's called a foundation, Mr. Sawyer. 11 00:00:22,969 --> 00:00:25,336 Just make sure you don't hit a gas main or something. 12 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:26,710 We know what we're doing. 13 00:00:26,776 --> 00:00:28,784 Then you know you have to take out all those weeds. 14 00:00:28,858 --> 00:00:30,679 The roots will break right through the concrete. 15 00:00:30,746 --> 00:00:32,468 Last owner left this place a mess. 16 00:00:32,537 --> 00:00:35,571 Don't worry. We'll clear the whole yard. No extra charge. 17 00:00:36,505 --> 00:00:37,848 Aren't those hydrangea bushes? 18 00:00:37,914 --> 00:00:39,985 Why'd you think I said we'd clear the yard for nothing? 19 00:00:40,057 --> 00:00:42,196 We're gonna make more off those bushes than off this job. 20 00:00:42,266 --> 00:00:43,542 I know a guy in Hackensack... 21 00:00:43,609 --> 00:00:44,853 What? 22 00:00:47,258 --> 00:00:50,967 We closed on the house a month ago. Had it inspected, inside and out... 23 00:00:51,033 --> 00:00:52,560 For termites, not dead bodies. 24 00:00:52,633 --> 00:00:54,870 We're suing that realtor. You're all witnesses... 25 00:00:54,938 --> 00:00:57,655 Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer, we're gonna need you to leave the crime scene. 26 00:00:57,722 --> 00:00:59,827 It's our new home. We'll try not to take too long. 27 00:00:59,898 --> 00:01:01,905 It's all right. Just let them... 28 00:01:02,233 --> 00:01:03,280 Hi. 29 00:01:03,930 --> 00:01:05,752 Detectives. What've we got? 30 00:01:05,817 --> 00:01:09,134 Judging from the eye orbits, nasal opening, and cheek bone projection... 31 00:01:09,209 --> 00:01:10,704 I'd say a Caucasian. 32 00:01:10,777 --> 00:01:12,981 Surface of the auricular region puts her under 30. 33 00:01:13,050 --> 00:01:14,871 Her? Did you find any clothes? 34 00:01:14,937 --> 00:01:17,687 A few scraps. Most of the fabric decomposed. 35 00:01:17,754 --> 00:01:19,509 But look at the hips. 36 00:01:19,578 --> 00:01:23,636 Wide sciatic notch, long pubic bone. Definitely female. 37 00:01:23,706 --> 00:01:24,818 Cause of death? 38 00:01:24,889 --> 00:01:26,678 No obvious knife marks or bullet holes. 39 00:01:26,746 --> 00:01:28,983 Hopefully I'll know more after I put her back together. 40 00:01:29,050 --> 00:01:32,148 Now, how are we getting sexual homicide from a bunch of bones? 41 00:01:32,218 --> 00:01:33,811 Check the evidence tray. 42 00:01:36,794 --> 00:01:38,320 It's a crucifix. 43 00:01:38,395 --> 00:01:41,526 I think he means the studded collar and leash. 44 00:01:42,298 --> 00:01:44,817 Looks like our bone lady was somebody's pet. 45 00:02:33,467 --> 00:02:36,052 The previous owners put in the hydrangeas. 46 00:02:36,122 --> 00:02:38,970 And they were? The Stantons. Brad and Abbey. 47 00:02:39,035 --> 00:02:42,351 Fought constantly from the day they moved in, to the day Abbey moved out. 48 00:02:42,426 --> 00:02:45,143 And when was that? About four years ago. 49 00:02:45,210 --> 00:02:48,472 Anything violent? Loud, yes. Violent, I never saw. 50 00:02:50,234 --> 00:02:53,431 Did Abbey ever come back? Yeah, but not for a good year or so. 51 00:02:53,498 --> 00:02:57,589 She'd pound on his door, wailing. He'd come out, slip her a few bucks. 52 00:02:57,658 --> 00:03:01,205 This became like a weekly ritual. Usually about 3:00 in the morning. 53 00:03:01,274 --> 00:03:03,859 How long did that go on? About a month or two. 54 00:03:03,930 --> 00:03:06,036 One night he doesn't answer his door. 55 00:03:06,107 --> 00:03:08,790 She starts screaming she's gonna report him to the medical board... 56 00:03:08,858 --> 00:03:10,266 for having sex with his patients. 57 00:03:10,330 --> 00:03:11,890 So he's a doctor? A surgeon. 58 00:03:11,963 --> 00:03:16,370 Anyhow, the door bursts open, Abbey gets the crap beat out of her. 59 00:03:17,019 --> 00:03:18,808 You said you never saw any violence. 60 00:03:18,874 --> 00:03:23,480 No. I never saw Brad hit her. This was Pam, the new wife, throwing the punches. 61 00:03:23,611 --> 00:03:25,585 Guess he likes his women feisty. 62 00:03:25,755 --> 00:03:27,894 When was the next time you saw Abbey? 63 00:03:29,979 --> 00:03:31,157 Never. 64 00:03:32,251 --> 00:03:34,105 Captain, check it out. 65 00:03:34,907 --> 00:03:37,177 How sick is this? A crucifix. 66 00:03:37,244 --> 00:03:39,513 Get this, dog collar and leash. 67 00:03:39,835 --> 00:03:42,038 Looks like an S&M session gone south. 68 00:03:42,107 --> 00:03:43,700 The lab get any prints off them? 69 00:03:43,771 --> 00:03:45,080 Not yet. 70 00:03:45,147 --> 00:03:46,871 Any idea how long she was buried? 71 00:03:46,940 --> 00:03:48,728 ME's best guesstimate is three years. 72 00:03:48,795 --> 00:03:50,650 What about... We're all over missing persons. 73 00:03:50,715 --> 00:03:52,504 Okay, so who had access to this yard? 74 00:03:52,571 --> 00:03:54,775 The previous owners, the Stantons. 75 00:03:54,843 --> 00:03:56,403 The story reads like a bad soap opera. 76 00:03:56,475 --> 00:03:57,882 Doctor marries wife number two... 77 00:03:57,947 --> 00:03:59,639 wife number one mysteriously disappears. 78 00:03:59,707 --> 00:04:02,741 After wife number two uses wife number one as a punching bag. 79 00:04:02,812 --> 00:04:04,754 Well, go have a talk with the happy couple. 80 00:04:04,828 --> 00:04:08,756 You two check and see if anybody else remembers the first Mrs. Dr. Stanton. 81 00:04:09,243 --> 00:04:11,218 Million-dollar view of the murder scene. 82 00:04:11,292 --> 00:04:13,047 Any of your apartments overlook the yard? 83 00:04:13,116 --> 00:04:16,182 We have six buildings on this block. We're talking 36 units. 84 00:04:16,252 --> 00:04:19,732 Any of your tenants come up missing between late '97, early '99? 85 00:04:19,804 --> 00:04:23,698 Yeah. They go missing when they forget to pay their rent for three months. 86 00:04:23,964 --> 00:04:25,622 Meanwhile, that's lost income. 87 00:04:25,691 --> 00:04:27,830 We're gonna need a list from the aforementioned years. 88 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:31,063 And rental applications. Oh, yeah, applications. 89 00:04:32,252 --> 00:04:34,740 We have a very stringent screening process... 90 00:04:34,812 --> 00:04:37,943 what with all the high-class people desperate to move in here. 91 00:04:38,012 --> 00:04:40,281 Can we take a look at your files? 92 00:04:40,348 --> 00:04:42,104 Knock yourselves out. 93 00:04:48,028 --> 00:04:50,963 Brad was married to that blood-sucking leech for five years. 94 00:04:51,036 --> 00:04:52,945 Why did you attack her? 95 00:04:53,788 --> 00:04:56,788 Abbey accused Brad of sleeping with his patients. 96 00:04:56,860 --> 00:04:58,650 She's a bottom-feeding, mainlining junkie. 97 00:04:58,716 --> 00:05:01,050 A constant source of embarrassment for my husband. 98 00:05:01,117 --> 00:05:03,604 And how embarrassed were you? I was angry. 99 00:05:04,060 --> 00:05:06,515 She was my friend once. We went to nursing school together. 100 00:05:06,589 --> 00:05:10,101 When did they divorce? In '97. Brad was extremely generous. 101 00:05:10,173 --> 00:05:11,995 You mean above and beyond the settlement? 102 00:05:12,060 --> 00:05:13,620 Until I put my foot down. 103 00:05:13,692 --> 00:05:16,081 It was about three years ago, he finally cut her off. 104 00:05:16,156 --> 00:05:18,012 Have you heard from her since? 105 00:05:18,204 --> 00:05:19,699 No, thank God. 106 00:05:20,189 --> 00:05:22,938 Why? What kind of trouble is Abbey in now? 107 00:05:23,004 --> 00:05:24,728 A woman's remains were found buried... 108 00:05:24,796 --> 00:05:27,513 under the hydrangea behind your former brownstone. 109 00:05:28,701 --> 00:05:30,108 Oh, my God. 110 00:05:30,173 --> 00:05:32,726 They've been there about three years. 111 00:05:37,213 --> 00:05:40,693 Where's your husband now? The hospital. Extremely busy. 112 00:05:41,373 --> 00:05:45,978 Look, Brad couldn't kill anybody, not even that horrible bitch. 113 00:05:48,861 --> 00:05:50,323 I have to go to work. 114 00:05:52,382 --> 00:05:55,993 I didn't kill Abbey. She was busy killing herself with her habit. 115 00:05:56,061 --> 00:05:59,226 But you married her anyway? I loved her. 116 00:05:59,901 --> 00:06:02,203 Back then, she was only on Xanax for anxiety... 117 00:06:02,269 --> 00:06:04,658 and then she started stealing Demerol and Dilaudid... 118 00:06:04,733 --> 00:06:06,261 and the hospital finally had to fire her. 119 00:06:06,333 --> 00:06:08,024 That must have been humiliating for you... 120 00:06:08,093 --> 00:06:09,883 especially the yelling and the extortion. 121 00:06:09,950 --> 00:06:12,730 I had to sit there and watch, powerless, while she hit rock bottom. 122 00:06:12,797 --> 00:06:15,284 Bottom being three feet under your former hydrangeas. 123 00:06:15,357 --> 00:06:16,601 It's not Abbey. 124 00:06:17,693 --> 00:06:20,027 Look, I got a case in half an hour. I got to scrub. 125 00:06:20,092 --> 00:06:22,646 Without saying hello to your wife? Leave her out of this. 126 00:06:22,717 --> 00:06:24,277 I told you he was busy. 127 00:06:24,349 --> 00:06:27,032 I can handle this. I'll see you inside. Okay. 128 00:06:27,101 --> 00:06:29,075 Stop wasting our time. 129 00:06:33,469 --> 00:06:35,379 That's what you're looking for. 130 00:06:35,645 --> 00:06:38,874 Please, whatever you do, don't tell Pam. 131 00:06:44,221 --> 00:06:46,643 She's not gonna be able to tell you much. 132 00:06:49,949 --> 00:06:52,666 This is Abbey? AIDS-related dementia. 133 00:06:52,989 --> 00:06:55,859 Dr. Stanton pays the bills, keeps the roses fresh. 134 00:06:55,933 --> 00:06:57,394 When was the last time he was here? 135 00:06:57,469 --> 00:06:58,679 When he brought her in. 136 00:06:58,749 --> 00:07:00,603 She hasn't had a visitor since. 137 00:07:00,669 --> 00:07:03,255 It's sad. She doesn't have much time left. 138 00:07:03,549 --> 00:07:04,858 Thank you. 139 00:07:05,533 --> 00:07:08,763 Now what? Back to the bones. 140 00:07:10,461 --> 00:07:13,244 Figure out how she died yet? Strangulation. 141 00:07:13,694 --> 00:07:15,483 Pressure fractures to the hyoid. 142 00:07:15,549 --> 00:07:19,127 Fits the S&M theory. Auto-erotic asphyxiation, but he mistimes it. 143 00:07:19,198 --> 00:07:20,660 Don't know how he could have. 144 00:07:20,734 --> 00:07:23,636 There's a peri-mortem break in one of the metacarpals of her right hand. 145 00:07:23,708 --> 00:07:26,075 So she put up a struggle. Now we're back to the sexual sadist. 146 00:07:26,142 --> 00:07:28,247 What else have we got? Well, she was petite. 147 00:07:28,318 --> 00:07:29,300 I measured her femur. 148 00:07:29,374 --> 00:07:32,537 Estimate she was 5'4. And I think she was Eastern European. 149 00:07:32,830 --> 00:07:35,350 You got that from the bones? From her teeth. 150 00:07:36,126 --> 00:07:37,555 I found traces of arsenic. 151 00:07:37,630 --> 00:07:40,412 Using arsenic to kill a nerve is an old Russian dental practice... 152 00:07:40,478 --> 00:07:41,972 that spread to most of the Eastern Bloc. 153 00:07:42,046 --> 00:07:45,243 Great. So her dental records are somewhere in the former Soviet Union. 154 00:07:45,310 --> 00:07:48,506 Maybe this will help. Henry is our forensic anthropologist. 155 00:07:48,574 --> 00:07:49,948 Show them what you came up with. 156 00:07:50,014 --> 00:07:53,014 I entered the dimensions of the skull, put in tissue depth markers. 157 00:07:53,086 --> 00:07:54,679 That's determined by age, right? 158 00:07:54,751 --> 00:07:55,995 We figure she's around 30... 159 00:07:56,062 --> 00:07:58,712 so she'd have more facial tissue than, say, a 50-year-old. 160 00:07:58,782 --> 00:07:59,829 Then what? 161 00:07:59,903 --> 00:08:04,409 I fashioned the nose, ears, and mouth accordingly, and layer by layer got this. 162 00:08:06,238 --> 00:08:09,816 How close do you think it is? It's a reasonable approximation. 163 00:08:11,423 --> 00:08:12,851 Print her out. 164 00:08:13,343 --> 00:08:15,677 So she's from behind the fallen Iron Curtain. 165 00:08:15,742 --> 00:08:19,289 That narrows it down to a couple hundred thousand of your poor huddled masses. 166 00:08:19,358 --> 00:08:21,301 What's all that? Meticulously kept records... 167 00:08:21,374 --> 00:08:23,742 from the tenement complex behind our burial ground. 168 00:08:23,807 --> 00:08:26,873 The manager's been somewhat remiss in keeping track of her tenants. 169 00:08:26,943 --> 00:08:29,211 I guess we can rule out Ming Noh Ling. 170 00:08:29,279 --> 00:08:31,319 Any names in there that sound Eastern Bloc? 171 00:08:31,391 --> 00:08:34,238 Sixteen and counting. Track them down. 172 00:08:35,903 --> 00:08:38,586 No, I don't speak Romanian. You speak English? 173 00:08:38,655 --> 00:08:40,248 Yes, I understand. Latvia. 174 00:08:40,319 --> 00:08:42,490 Is there anyone else there who knows what happened to her? 175 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:45,112 You're saying that she went back to Latvia two years ago, right? 176 00:08:45,183 --> 00:08:47,704 I'm calling from the police department, not Immigration. 177 00:08:47,775 --> 00:08:51,037 Sir, we have nothing to do with deportation. Okay, yes, thank you. 178 00:08:51,103 --> 00:08:52,248 Hello? 179 00:08:53,567 --> 00:08:54,614 Find anything? 180 00:08:54,687 --> 00:08:56,378 Yeah. Eastern Europeans don't trust cops. 181 00:08:56,448 --> 00:08:58,008 I have two that are unaccounted for. 182 00:08:58,079 --> 00:08:59,966 I have three. How are you guys doing? 183 00:09:00,032 --> 00:09:02,998 Yearning to be free of this. Five people I can't place. 184 00:09:03,072 --> 00:09:04,118 One. 185 00:09:04,192 --> 00:09:07,192 Okay. Let's just get them over to missing persons, okay? 186 00:09:08,127 --> 00:09:09,208 No match. 187 00:09:09,279 --> 00:09:11,417 How many more of these? Three boxes. 188 00:09:11,487 --> 00:09:14,040 You know how many women go missing in this city every year? 189 00:09:14,110 --> 00:09:15,191 Hey. 190 00:09:15,264 --> 00:09:18,110 You find something? I don't know. You tell me. 191 00:09:18,303 --> 00:09:20,059 Pretty damn close. 192 00:09:20,352 --> 00:09:24,279 "Ava Parulis." That's P-A-R. 193 00:09:24,735 --> 00:09:26,644 Reported missing: April of '98. 194 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,342 Here we go. 195 00:09:29,952 --> 00:09:34,262 Ava Parulis rented an apartment behind the crime scene in February '98. 196 00:09:34,656 --> 00:09:37,722 Gone by that April. Skipped out on the last month's rent. 197 00:09:37,792 --> 00:09:39,286 How far did you guys get with her? 198 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:40,821 From what it says here, not too far. 199 00:09:40,895 --> 00:09:43,797 The detective who worked the case retired to Arizona last year. 200 00:09:43,871 --> 00:09:45,497 And who reported her missing? 201 00:09:45,568 --> 00:09:50,303 Let me see. Guy in Queens, George Burton. The address is in Rego Park. 202 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:57,375 Hi. What's your name? I'm not supposed to talk to strangers. 203 00:09:57,440 --> 00:09:59,579 You're right. What if I tell you we're police officers? 204 00:09:59,647 --> 00:10:01,306 Do you have badges? 205 00:10:01,377 --> 00:10:04,791 Right answer again. My name is Elliot. This is my friend, Olivia. 206 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,509 Can I help you? They're policemen, Daddy. 207 00:10:10,624 --> 00:10:12,730 Go inside, Julia, it's getting cold. 208 00:10:13,952 --> 00:10:14,999 Bye. 209 00:10:15,073 --> 00:10:18,750 Sorry to bother you. I'm Det. Stabler, this is my partner, Det. Benson. 210 00:10:18,816 --> 00:10:20,190 Something's wrong? 211 00:10:20,254 --> 00:10:22,011 You reported your sister-in-law... 212 00:10:22,079 --> 00:10:23,902 Ava Parulis, missing. 213 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,807 You found Ava? We may have. 214 00:10:30,432 --> 00:10:33,748 I gave this picture to the police. What happened to Ava? 215 00:10:34,399 --> 00:10:37,433 The police are here? Is everything all right? 216 00:10:46,049 --> 00:10:50,782 My twin sister, Ava, and I came here five years ago from Romania. 217 00:10:54,623 --> 00:10:59,131 She was always bossing me around. She was older by six minutes. 218 00:11:00,127 --> 00:11:03,063 Do you have any idea who could have killed your sister? 219 00:11:05,761 --> 00:11:06,807 No. 220 00:11:07,329 --> 00:11:09,369 I have twins. They're inseparable. 221 00:11:10,113 --> 00:11:11,935 You two must have been close. 222 00:11:12,863 --> 00:11:16,061 Ava was wild. The two of them couldn't have been more different. 223 00:11:16,128 --> 00:11:18,169 Ava played by her own rules. 224 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:21,211 She went from one rich man to the next. 225 00:11:22,529 --> 00:11:25,211 Until she finally met the wrong one. 226 00:11:25,696 --> 00:11:26,874 Irina. 227 00:11:27,425 --> 00:11:28,734 I'm sorry. 228 00:11:31,841 --> 00:11:33,183 Please forgive my wife. 229 00:11:33,249 --> 00:11:36,414 Mr. Burton, we know how difficult this must be for you. 230 00:11:37,889 --> 00:11:42,526 Irina and Ava lived through hell. Orphanages, abuse. 231 00:11:42,945 --> 00:11:46,175 When they came to this country, all they had was each other. 232 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:48,895 What happened? They had a falling-out. 233 00:11:48,962 --> 00:11:50,237 Over what? 234 00:11:50,305 --> 00:11:53,339 Ava said she could never settle for a life like this and... 235 00:11:53,409 --> 00:11:56,540 Irina told her to stop dreaming and grow up. 236 00:11:56,768 --> 00:11:58,144 I never saw Ava again. 237 00:11:58,209 --> 00:12:00,892 And this was about three years ago? 238 00:12:01,216 --> 00:12:02,395 Little longer. 239 00:12:02,625 --> 00:12:05,723 It was Julia's first birthday party. Ava was supposed to be there. 240 00:12:05,794 --> 00:12:09,591 She just didn't show. This was the last straw for Irina. 241 00:12:09,665 --> 00:12:11,967 Now, what made you think that Ava was missing? 242 00:12:12,033 --> 00:12:15,743 I went looking for her. Try to patch things up between the two of them. 243 00:12:15,969 --> 00:12:18,424 But the apartment was empty and Ava was gone. 244 00:12:20,034 --> 00:12:22,881 Irina said she must have run off with one of her men. 245 00:12:24,449 --> 00:12:27,798 I had a bad feeling, that's why I called the police. 246 00:12:28,609 --> 00:12:31,293 Do you know the names of any of these boyfriends? 247 00:12:32,001 --> 00:12:34,271 Only one. Matt... 248 00:12:35,105 --> 00:12:37,788 Matt Sloane, I think. 249 00:12:41,825 --> 00:12:44,281 Ava was sexy and adventurous. 250 00:12:44,353 --> 00:12:47,320 You mean, kinky? Let's just say she was wild. 251 00:12:47,394 --> 00:12:51,037 Did you ever tame her? You know, S&M, bondage, discipline? 252 00:12:54,018 --> 00:12:55,392 I'm not into that. 253 00:12:55,490 --> 00:12:57,115 How long were you two together? 254 00:12:57,185 --> 00:12:58,615 About four months. 255 00:12:58,754 --> 00:13:01,307 These your girlfriends? I love beautiful women. 256 00:13:01,378 --> 00:13:02,786 Did you love Ava? 257 00:13:02,850 --> 00:13:06,297 It was a business arrangement. She was smart, charming, multi-lingual. 258 00:13:06,371 --> 00:13:09,153 She helped me develop business contacts in Eastern Europe. 259 00:13:09,217 --> 00:13:10,712 And the sex was great. 260 00:13:10,785 --> 00:13:11,995 Yeah, what'd she get out of it? 261 00:13:12,066 --> 00:13:13,855 Her passion was expensive jewelry. 262 00:13:13,921 --> 00:13:16,027 She'd throw a tantrum if I got her anything else. 263 00:13:16,098 --> 00:13:18,815 Like the thousand-dollar bottle of perfume she threw in my face. 264 00:13:18,882 --> 00:13:21,784 That must've made you angry. Angry enough to end it. 265 00:13:21,891 --> 00:13:24,411 I terminated our agreement. Did you see her after that? 266 00:13:24,482 --> 00:13:27,068 Unfortunately, yes, at a reception at the UN. 267 00:13:27,202 --> 00:13:28,184 Who was she with? 268 00:13:28,259 --> 00:13:29,720 I don't know who brought her there... 269 00:13:29,794 --> 00:13:32,729 but she left with the Romanian Deputy Chief of Mission. 270 00:13:33,155 --> 00:13:34,530 A diplomat? 271 00:13:34,594 --> 00:13:36,601 And an importer, and who knows how many others. 272 00:13:36,674 --> 00:13:39,359 She was definitely a player. She'd get her hooks into these guys... 273 00:13:39,426 --> 00:13:41,249 for as long as she could get what she wanted. 274 00:13:41,314 --> 00:13:43,802 When the well ran dry, she'd move on and drink from the next one. 275 00:13:43,874 --> 00:13:45,979 What about the sister? They were on the outs. 276 00:13:46,050 --> 00:13:49,727 Ava walked on the wild side while Irina settled down with the husband, the kid. 277 00:13:49,794 --> 00:13:53,144 We checked Sloane's record. Got picked up during a undercover vice sting. 278 00:13:53,220 --> 00:13:54,877 One count of soliciting prostitution. 279 00:13:54,947 --> 00:13:58,329 And he was very specific about what he wanted, a doggie collar, the whole works. 280 00:13:58,403 --> 00:14:00,956 Unfortunately, his passport showed he was out of the country... 281 00:14:01,026 --> 00:14:02,456 when Ava was reported missing. 282 00:14:02,531 --> 00:14:04,385 Find out how Ava got into the country... 283 00:14:04,451 --> 00:14:07,647 and check whether her former landlady has anything more to tell us. 284 00:14:07,716 --> 00:14:10,715 What do you want us to do about our friend from the Romanian Mission? 285 00:14:10,786 --> 00:14:14,300 Well, he has immunity from arrest, but not from talking to us. 286 00:14:14,370 --> 00:14:16,280 Play nice, maybe he will. 287 00:14:20,611 --> 00:14:23,546 Ava had that odd combination of greed and innocence. 288 00:14:23,619 --> 00:14:26,008 Very common in girls from the countryside. 289 00:14:26,212 --> 00:14:28,251 You were romantically involved? 290 00:14:28,322 --> 00:14:29,501 No. 291 00:14:29,570 --> 00:14:31,545 I attend many official functions. 292 00:14:31,620 --> 00:14:35,230 I needed at my side a woman who spoke my language, knew our customs. 293 00:14:35,394 --> 00:14:38,014 And Ava was okay with that? Very much so. 294 00:14:38,243 --> 00:14:40,314 She got to meet many important men. 295 00:14:40,418 --> 00:14:43,451 Any of them want her dead? I can't imagine so. 296 00:14:44,867 --> 00:14:46,393 Look at this orchid. 297 00:14:47,010 --> 00:14:51,385 This orchid took years of cultivation. A hybrid I developed. 298 00:14:51,490 --> 00:14:52,701 It's beautiful. 299 00:14:52,770 --> 00:14:55,521 Do you know the orchid is also a parasite? 300 00:14:56,483 --> 00:15:00,126 It devours the host plant while it blooms magnificently. 301 00:15:00,291 --> 00:15:02,779 Is that how you thought of Ava, as a parasite? 302 00:15:03,555 --> 00:15:07,133 No, our relationship was more symbiotic. 303 00:15:07,844 --> 00:15:09,370 We benefited mutually. 304 00:15:10,275 --> 00:15:12,795 Can you tell us how Ava got into this country? 305 00:15:13,795 --> 00:15:15,999 Our emigration agency deals with... 306 00:15:16,067 --> 00:15:18,271 thousands upon thousands of applications... 307 00:15:18,339 --> 00:15:21,787 and there is no way I can tell you about circumstances of each one. 308 00:15:22,051 --> 00:15:24,768 Besides Ava and I had never discussed it. 309 00:15:28,579 --> 00:15:29,757 I remember her. 310 00:15:29,827 --> 00:15:33,176 She walked around like she was the Czarina of 13th street. 311 00:15:33,251 --> 00:15:34,495 This was hers. 312 00:15:34,980 --> 00:15:36,321 Mr. Sanchez? 313 00:15:39,459 --> 00:15:40,922 Ava have any regular visitors? 314 00:15:40,995 --> 00:15:43,580 Only one I remember. Older guy. 315 00:15:43,939 --> 00:15:45,826 Always dressed to kill. 316 00:15:45,892 --> 00:15:48,063 Rich uncle? Sugar daddy. 317 00:15:48,132 --> 00:15:50,270 I see he kept her in the lap of luxury. 318 00:15:50,341 --> 00:15:53,307 Mercedes owners, they think they run the world. 319 00:15:53,380 --> 00:15:55,997 He parked his by the fire hydrant every time. 320 00:15:56,068 --> 00:15:58,523 What'd he look like? Somebody important. 321 00:15:58,595 --> 00:16:00,123 Specifics don't concern me. 322 00:16:00,196 --> 00:16:02,496 How about a name? Too specific. 323 00:16:03,716 --> 00:16:05,374 What'd you do with her stuff? 324 00:16:05,444 --> 00:16:09,240 The place comes completely furnished. She showed up with one suitcase. 325 00:16:09,316 --> 00:16:11,040 Is there anything else you can tell us? 326 00:16:11,108 --> 00:16:13,409 She was two months behind in the rent. 327 00:16:13,476 --> 00:16:17,666 Seeing as how she was murdered, shouldn't the city reimburse me for that? 328 00:16:17,732 --> 00:16:19,455 Call your councilman. 329 00:16:20,452 --> 00:16:24,479 Ava had a room with a view. Yeah, of her own grave. 330 00:16:28,484 --> 00:16:30,459 Guy at the Mission was another one of Ava's boys. 331 00:16:30,533 --> 00:16:33,118 Claims he had no idea how or why Ava came into this country. 332 00:16:33,188 --> 00:16:36,800 Our immigration was a little more helpful. Ava came here in '96 on a fiancé visa. 333 00:16:36,868 --> 00:16:40,763 Name of the fiancé: Paul Amis. Address in Minneola on Long Island. 334 00:16:40,837 --> 00:16:43,739 Arrangements made through an agency by the name of Euromatch. 335 00:16:43,812 --> 00:16:44,924 Mail-order brides. 336 00:16:44,997 --> 00:16:48,313 I should've tried that instead of the traditional courtship and wedding ritual... 337 00:16:48,388 --> 00:16:50,298 then I'd be paying less of my paycheck to alimony. 338 00:16:50,373 --> 00:16:53,438 We'll take the groom, you take the matchmaker. Maybe you'll get lucky. 339 00:16:53,509 --> 00:16:54,555 Okay. 340 00:16:56,004 --> 00:16:58,078 I shelled out $50,000 to bring Ava here. 341 00:16:58,148 --> 00:17:01,050 You know what the average wage is in her country? $50 a month. 342 00:17:01,125 --> 00:17:04,737 And all she had to do was cook and clean and be available for sex. 343 00:17:04,805 --> 00:17:06,463 It's called being a wife. 344 00:17:07,397 --> 00:17:09,219 When'd you last see Ava? 345 00:17:09,285 --> 00:17:11,968 The day I returned her, after the 90-day trial period. 346 00:17:12,037 --> 00:17:14,590 Didn't work out, huh? Must have made you angry. 347 00:17:14,661 --> 00:17:16,003 I got my money back. 348 00:17:16,069 --> 00:17:18,436 Did you get a divorce? Annulment. 349 00:17:19,268 --> 00:17:21,308 This is my wife, May Ling. 350 00:17:22,213 --> 00:17:25,409 Sweetheart, this is Det. Benson and Det. Stabler. 351 00:17:25,701 --> 00:17:29,214 May I bring you something to drink? No, doll. They're not staying. 352 00:17:29,285 --> 00:17:31,326 Leave us alone for another minute. 353 00:17:34,470 --> 00:17:37,535 You didn't tell us why you returned Ava. 354 00:17:37,926 --> 00:17:41,854 Because I didn't pay all that money for her to run around with some dentist. 355 00:17:42,438 --> 00:17:45,089 She was exotic. Pretty, smart, the whole package. 356 00:17:45,477 --> 00:17:47,387 I was ready to take the big step with Ava. 357 00:17:47,462 --> 00:17:50,277 And the fact that she was already married had no bearing on that? 358 00:17:50,342 --> 00:17:52,284 Her husband was beating her up every night. 359 00:17:52,358 --> 00:17:54,747 He once hit her so hard, I had to put in five caps. 360 00:17:54,822 --> 00:17:56,316 The marriage was over. 361 00:17:57,829 --> 00:17:59,073 Where'd you two meet? 362 00:17:59,142 --> 00:18:01,508 Party. She was there with her husband. 363 00:18:01,574 --> 00:18:04,291 Someone told her I was known as the "Dentist to the Stars"... 364 00:18:04,358 --> 00:18:05,699 and she was all over me. 365 00:18:05,766 --> 00:18:07,653 Who called off the wedding plans? I did. 366 00:18:07,718 --> 00:18:09,474 Why? Because she lied. 367 00:18:09,862 --> 00:18:13,375 She said she was a student, she had cousins who brought her over. 368 00:18:13,670 --> 00:18:15,809 And you found out otherwise? 369 00:18:15,878 --> 00:18:18,595 I hired a private detective to do a background check. 370 00:18:18,662 --> 00:18:20,189 Sounds like true love. 371 00:18:20,262 --> 00:18:24,036 I have a very lucrative practice. I have to take precautions. 372 00:18:24,582 --> 00:18:26,273 I found out she was a mail-order bride... 373 00:18:26,342 --> 00:18:28,764 like those Russian Natashas, gold diggers. 374 00:18:30,342 --> 00:18:32,764 Okay. We're gonna need Ava's dental records. 375 00:18:33,575 --> 00:18:35,461 I'll get them together for you. 376 00:18:39,141 --> 00:18:41,148 We match girls with traditional values... 377 00:18:41,221 --> 00:18:43,295 with men who want wives instead of partners. 378 00:18:43,365 --> 00:18:45,634 You mean, "Stay at home, make my dinner, do the laundry... 379 00:18:45,702 --> 00:18:47,840 "be available when I need you for sex," type of woman? 380 00:18:47,910 --> 00:18:49,154 You make it sound so tawdry. 381 00:18:49,221 --> 00:18:52,386 The divorce rate among our couples is half that of the population. 382 00:18:52,453 --> 00:18:55,136 If a guy wants to get married, he needs a fiancé visa... 383 00:18:55,206 --> 00:18:58,108 he has to prove he knew his wife-to-be before she comes over. 384 00:18:58,181 --> 00:19:02,819 Correct. We send our clients to Estonia, Romania, Latvia, or Russia... 385 00:19:02,886 --> 00:19:05,636 for two weeks where he meets maybe eight girls a day. 386 00:19:05,702 --> 00:19:08,866 Once he makes his choice, we photograph them together for the INS... 387 00:19:08,934 --> 00:19:10,592 and take care of the paperwork. 388 00:19:10,662 --> 00:19:12,418 And if by some fluke it doesn't work out? 389 00:19:12,486 --> 00:19:16,228 Satisfaction guaranteed for 90 days, or your money back. Interested? 390 00:19:16,293 --> 00:19:17,308 Too easy. 391 00:19:17,382 --> 00:19:20,033 Without abject suffering, I wouldn't know what to do with myself. 392 00:19:20,102 --> 00:19:23,811 Green card status on a fiancé visa is conditional for two years. 393 00:19:23,878 --> 00:19:26,266 If the marriage doesn't last that long, then what happens? 394 00:19:26,342 --> 00:19:27,903 The girl is usually deported. 395 00:19:27,975 --> 00:19:30,308 Unless she left because her husband abused her. 396 00:19:30,374 --> 00:19:32,677 Then the INS will grant an exception. 397 00:19:32,742 --> 00:19:34,947 How often does that happen? Almost never. 398 00:19:35,014 --> 00:19:37,055 We do thorough background checks on the men. 399 00:19:37,126 --> 00:19:40,956 You're lucky Ava didn't sue you. Her hand-picked hubby was a wife-beater. 400 00:19:41,030 --> 00:19:43,266 If we had known that, we would have intervened. 401 00:19:43,335 --> 00:19:46,946 Sent her to stay with her sister, Irina. You know about Irina? 402 00:19:47,014 --> 00:19:48,868 She and Ava came over together. 403 00:19:48,934 --> 00:19:52,032 Fortunately Irina's marriage is a match made in heaven. 404 00:19:53,415 --> 00:19:55,422 Why didn't you tell us that Ava was married? 405 00:19:55,494 --> 00:19:57,600 I was afraid. Of what? 406 00:19:57,670 --> 00:20:00,605 Her husband, he hit me once when I went to see her. 407 00:20:00,679 --> 00:20:01,856 Why? 408 00:20:01,926 --> 00:20:04,926 Because I told her she should leave him, and she wouldn't. 409 00:20:04,998 --> 00:20:08,315 He beat her up. Degraded my sister. 410 00:20:08,967 --> 00:20:10,625 Could he have killed her? 411 00:20:11,014 --> 00:20:12,443 I know he came close. 412 00:20:15,718 --> 00:20:19,264 Civil sexual harassment suit filed by a former employee. 413 00:20:20,999 --> 00:20:21,981 Wow. 414 00:20:22,056 --> 00:20:25,797 Restraining orders, filed by your first and second wives. 415 00:20:25,864 --> 00:20:27,587 Hey, I didn't kill Ava. 416 00:20:28,008 --> 00:20:31,618 You forced her to have sex with you. That's called rape. 417 00:20:32,008 --> 00:20:35,074 You pulled out fistfuls of her hair, knocked her teeth out. 418 00:20:35,144 --> 00:20:36,638 That's assault. 419 00:20:37,287 --> 00:20:38,235 Prove it. 420 00:20:38,311 --> 00:20:40,995 You think that we'd call you all the way down here if we couldn't? 421 00:20:41,063 --> 00:20:42,657 Maybe she was blackmailing him. 422 00:20:42,727 --> 00:20:44,255 Threatening to call the cops. 423 00:20:44,328 --> 00:20:46,018 Is that why you shut her up? Is that it? 424 00:20:54,311 --> 00:20:55,805 This is like a game of Clue. 425 00:20:55,879 --> 00:20:59,424 Ava went through a diplomat, an importer, a dentist, and now this loser. 426 00:20:59,496 --> 00:21:01,765 This loser give you anything? Not yet. Why? 427 00:21:01,832 --> 00:21:04,199 Taylor called. Wants you down at the lab. 428 00:21:04,327 --> 00:21:06,848 I'll keep this guy on ice until you get back. 429 00:21:09,031 --> 00:21:11,650 No way these belong to Ava Parulis. 430 00:21:12,649 --> 00:21:14,055 You got us down here for that? 431 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,486 The dentist must have made a mistake. We'll go back. 432 00:21:16,551 --> 00:21:17,958 Don't bother. 433 00:21:18,024 --> 00:21:20,358 The dental work doesn't match, but everything else does. 434 00:21:20,424 --> 00:21:22,758 Shape of the teeth, jaw is identical. 435 00:21:24,327 --> 00:21:27,393 Son of a bitch. Irina is Ava. 436 00:21:33,065 --> 00:21:34,952 I need proof she killed Irina. 437 00:21:35,016 --> 00:21:37,734 We've got Irina's dental records. They match the skull. 438 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,524 That doesn't mean Ava murdered her sister. 439 00:21:39,591 --> 00:21:41,730 Well, she did assume her identity. 440 00:21:41,801 --> 00:21:44,135 Ava's apartment overlooked Irina's grave. 441 00:21:44,199 --> 00:21:46,142 Circumstantial. Give me a motive. 442 00:21:46,215 --> 00:21:47,809 Ava's marriage is annulled. 443 00:21:47,879 --> 00:21:50,531 She doesn't want a one-way trip back to hard times in Romania. 444 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,704 I need physical evidence linking them. 445 00:21:52,776 --> 00:21:55,875 Come on, Counselor, we've done a lot more with a lot less. 446 00:21:57,097 --> 00:21:59,617 All right. Search the house. 447 00:22:01,609 --> 00:22:04,162 The cars are gone. Go around back. 448 00:22:09,256 --> 00:22:10,401 Police. 449 00:22:14,952 --> 00:22:16,326 Mrs. Burton? 450 00:22:22,344 --> 00:22:24,254 Go fill in our friends. Right. 451 00:22:37,418 --> 00:22:39,489 All clear. Nobody downstairs. 452 00:22:39,593 --> 00:22:41,415 Nothing messed up in the kid's room. 453 00:22:41,481 --> 00:22:44,131 Ava left in a hurry. She must've decided not to pack. 454 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,535 Looks like a train ran through here. 455 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,212 It looks like she took all the available money they had on hand here. 456 00:22:51,113 --> 00:22:52,542 Get the note. 457 00:22:53,641 --> 00:22:57,951 "I'm sorry. I do love you, George. I never meant to hurt you or Julia or Irina." 458 00:22:58,664 --> 00:23:01,479 We should talk to the husband. You mean the brother-in-law. 459 00:23:01,544 --> 00:23:03,454 If she cleaned out their emergency money... 460 00:23:03,528 --> 00:23:05,154 she may have wiped out their bank accounts. 461 00:23:05,225 --> 00:23:07,429 We'll finish up here and check it out. 462 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,193 My wife can't be dead. What are you talking about? You're crazy. 463 00:23:12,264 --> 00:23:13,825 The dental records prove it. 464 00:23:13,898 --> 00:23:16,931 You're saying Irina is buried in that grave? We're sorry. 465 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,067 My wife is a loving woman. She's a good mother. 466 00:23:20,136 --> 00:23:22,657 All Ava ever cared about was herself and her money. 467 00:23:22,728 --> 00:23:25,893 We've been to the house. Ava's gone. She packed up and left. 468 00:23:26,504 --> 00:23:29,439 I don't believe that. She left this note. 469 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:33,637 I don't care. It's not true. 470 00:23:35,112 --> 00:23:36,487 Mr. Burton. 471 00:23:38,185 --> 00:23:41,413 Irina's crucifix. Where'd you get that? 472 00:23:44,841 --> 00:23:46,051 From the grave. 473 00:23:59,049 --> 00:24:02,846 When we were first married, she used to go to Mass every morning... 474 00:24:02,922 --> 00:24:05,475 and then she just stopped three years ago. 475 00:24:06,762 --> 00:24:08,736 Said she'd lost her faith. 476 00:24:10,153 --> 00:24:13,252 You said you never saw Ava after she and Irina had a falling-out. 477 00:24:13,322 --> 00:24:15,145 Do you know if Irina saw her? 478 00:24:16,745 --> 00:24:20,292 Ava called, said she needed money. 479 00:24:21,354 --> 00:24:23,939 We'd just had the baby and business was slow... 480 00:24:24,138 --> 00:24:25,895 so Irina went over there... 481 00:24:26,474 --> 00:24:28,710 to explain why we couldn't help and... 482 00:24:29,354 --> 00:24:31,939 she didn't come back until 2:00 in the morning. 483 00:24:39,402 --> 00:24:40,929 She killed her. 484 00:24:43,050 --> 00:24:44,577 Did she say anything? 485 00:24:45,515 --> 00:24:47,139 She wouldn't talk. 486 00:24:48,747 --> 00:24:50,372 Said she was sick. 487 00:24:50,890 --> 00:24:53,159 Spent the next two weeks in bed. 488 00:24:56,075 --> 00:24:57,601 Why would she do this? 489 00:24:58,282 --> 00:25:00,454 That's what we're trying to find out. 490 00:25:01,290 --> 00:25:02,784 Where's your daughter? 491 00:25:03,947 --> 00:25:05,321 Oh, my God! 492 00:25:06,379 --> 00:25:08,998 "Up, up, up. Faster and faster the little engine climbed..." 493 00:25:09,067 --> 00:25:10,213 Daddy! 494 00:25:11,467 --> 00:25:13,190 Is there a problem, Mr. Burton? 495 00:25:13,260 --> 00:25:15,233 No, everything's fine. 496 00:25:15,402 --> 00:25:16,776 You just missed your wife. 497 00:25:16,844 --> 00:25:18,785 When was that? About 20 minutes. 498 00:25:18,859 --> 00:25:21,445 She seemed upset. Talked to Julia and then left. 499 00:25:22,347 --> 00:25:24,037 Hi, Julia. You remember us? 500 00:25:24,298 --> 00:25:26,982 Do you know why your mommy came to see you today? 501 00:25:27,499 --> 00:25:31,274 To give me this. It has her picture inside it. 502 00:25:31,466 --> 00:25:34,402 Wow, that's pretty. Did she say where she was going? 503 00:25:35,179 --> 00:25:38,889 No. But she told me that we couldn't go see the puppet man today. 504 00:25:39,115 --> 00:25:41,603 Who's the puppet man? Walt. He's nice. 505 00:25:41,675 --> 00:25:43,464 Why do you call him the puppet man? 506 00:25:43,531 --> 00:25:47,208 Because when Mommy goes to see her friend, Walt shows me the puppet. 507 00:25:48,299 --> 00:25:50,568 I have no idea who she's talking about. 508 00:25:50,827 --> 00:25:54,918 Okay, Julia, do you remember the name of your mommy's friend? 509 00:25:56,011 --> 00:25:58,215 Valentina. She's nice, too. 510 00:25:59,979 --> 00:26:01,606 We pulled the Burtons' bank statements. 511 00:26:01,675 --> 00:26:03,584 Yeah? What'd you find? A lot of zeros. 512 00:26:03,659 --> 00:26:05,350 Ava cleaned out their accounts this morning. 513 00:26:05,420 --> 00:26:08,070 On top of the $300 she withdraws on the last Friday of every month. 514 00:26:08,139 --> 00:26:09,284 Her husband know about this? 515 00:26:09,355 --> 00:26:11,078 All the cancelled checks have her signature. 516 00:26:11,147 --> 00:26:12,641 She must be paying the household bills. 517 00:26:12,716 --> 00:26:14,177 Any idea where the money's going? 518 00:26:14,252 --> 00:26:16,739 We pulled their LUDs. Also on the last Friday of every month... 519 00:26:16,811 --> 00:26:20,259 one phone call to Euromatch, Valentina Bilescu's mail-order bride agency. 520 00:26:20,332 --> 00:26:22,023 Olivia just called. 521 00:26:22,092 --> 00:26:24,328 The Burtons' kid said she and her mother were regulars. 522 00:26:24,395 --> 00:26:28,007 Mom met with Valentina while some guy entertained the girl with a puppet. 523 00:26:28,076 --> 00:26:29,931 Why is Ava going to a matchmaker? 524 00:26:29,995 --> 00:26:33,225 I don't know. I think it's time we paid Miss Bilescu a visit. 525 00:26:34,412 --> 00:26:36,298 Can I help you gentlemen? Where's Valentina? 526 00:26:36,364 --> 00:26:38,503 Not here. Not an answer. Where is she? 527 00:26:38,572 --> 00:26:41,255 I haven't done anything illegal. Really? Where's your puppet? 528 00:26:41,323 --> 00:26:42,567 What are you guys talking about? 529 00:26:42,636 --> 00:26:44,295 The one you entertain Julia Burton with... 530 00:26:44,363 --> 00:26:45,989 while her mother's paying off your boss. 531 00:26:46,060 --> 00:26:48,777 I take the money, give it to Valentina. I don't know what it's for. 532 00:26:48,844 --> 00:26:50,501 Hear that? Says he doesn't know what it's for. 533 00:26:50,571 --> 00:26:52,938 He doesn't know that his boss smuggles women into the country? 534 00:26:53,003 --> 00:26:54,312 I wouldn't know anything about that. 535 00:26:54,379 --> 00:26:56,932 You take the money, that makes you an accessory. 536 00:26:57,003 --> 00:26:58,912 One more time, where is she? 537 00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:03,849 At her other office. Some warehouse down in Chelsea. 538 00:27:06,668 --> 00:27:09,351 Not a sweatshop. The kind you had in mind. 539 00:27:09,707 --> 00:27:12,009 Police! 540 00:27:15,115 --> 00:27:17,482 Where's Valentina? I don't know about anything. 541 00:27:17,548 --> 00:27:19,653 English. Do you speak English? 542 00:27:19,723 --> 00:27:21,993 These women aren't being held against their will, are they? 543 00:27:22,059 --> 00:27:24,993 Because if they are, you're going for kidnapping, as well as pimping. 544 00:27:25,067 --> 00:27:26,977 Valentina is in there. 545 00:27:28,140 --> 00:27:29,251 What is this? 546 00:27:29,324 --> 00:27:31,234 It's called a raid. Put your hands behind your back. 547 00:27:31,308 --> 00:27:33,861 Let go of me. Where's your warrant? Signed on a judge's desk. 548 00:27:33,931 --> 00:27:36,865 Valentina Bilescu, you're under arrest for unlawful imprisonment... 549 00:27:36,940 --> 00:27:38,664 kidnapping, and promoting prostitution. 550 00:27:38,732 --> 00:27:41,415 Where's Ava? I don't have to tell you anything. 551 00:27:44,684 --> 00:27:47,750 What's the cash for? No. Please, no. 552 00:27:47,820 --> 00:27:50,504 Ava Parulis, you're under arrest for the murder of Irina Burton. 553 00:27:50,572 --> 00:27:54,052 I didn't kill her! It's not... It's not Irina! 554 00:27:54,124 --> 00:27:57,059 Who is this? She's my little sister. 555 00:27:57,132 --> 00:27:58,823 I was buying her freedom. 556 00:28:00,428 --> 00:28:01,638 Take her. 557 00:28:08,620 --> 00:28:10,627 I didn't kill Irina. So why'd you run? 558 00:28:10,701 --> 00:28:13,832 Didn't murder her, you just happened to take her identity and her family. 559 00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:16,322 When the bones were identified, you got scared. 560 00:28:16,397 --> 00:28:18,666 You helped yourself to George and Irina's bank account. 561 00:28:18,732 --> 00:28:21,450 Figure that'll keep you going for a while? No. None of it's true. 562 00:28:21,516 --> 00:28:24,387 Then how did Irina end up underneath the hydrangea... 563 00:28:24,461 --> 00:28:26,249 in the back of your apartment? 564 00:28:26,316 --> 00:28:27,975 I buried her there! 565 00:28:29,549 --> 00:28:32,331 Right. You buried her but you didn't murder her? 566 00:28:32,461 --> 00:28:36,073 When I came home that night to my apartment, Irina was dead. 567 00:28:36,141 --> 00:28:39,654 She was lying on the floor. The neighbor had his garden dug up. 568 00:28:39,725 --> 00:28:42,791 I put Irina in a garbage bag and dragged her downstairs. 569 00:28:42,861 --> 00:28:46,122 I covered her with dirt. I buried her. 570 00:28:46,189 --> 00:28:47,847 What about the collar and the leash? 571 00:28:47,917 --> 00:28:51,233 They were mine. I buried my past with Irina. 572 00:28:51,309 --> 00:28:54,058 Well, why didn't you just call the police? 573 00:28:54,924 --> 00:28:58,023 Whoever killed Irina was really after me. 574 00:28:58,509 --> 00:29:01,958 Valentina had our sister. I had to get her out. 575 00:29:02,252 --> 00:29:03,977 Did Valentina threaten you? 576 00:29:07,309 --> 00:29:09,698 If you cooperate, we can help you. 577 00:29:11,661 --> 00:29:14,760 In my country, the police help no one. 578 00:29:18,924 --> 00:29:21,827 Ava kills one sister while paying to rescue the other? 579 00:29:21,902 --> 00:29:23,559 It doesn't make any sense. 580 00:29:24,846 --> 00:29:27,016 There's no way someone her size dragged a body down... 581 00:29:27,086 --> 00:29:28,874 three flights of stairs and then buried it. 582 00:29:28,942 --> 00:29:31,046 If she didn't kill her sister, what is she hiding? 583 00:29:31,118 --> 00:29:33,452 Maybe she's protecting whoever did. 584 00:29:33,581 --> 00:29:35,206 Valentina Bilescu? 585 00:29:35,950 --> 00:29:37,674 Let's ask the other sister. 586 00:29:39,310 --> 00:29:43,368 You didn't know it was Ava? I haven't seen my sisters for years. 587 00:29:44,397 --> 00:29:46,786 Since Valentina bring me to this hellhole. 588 00:29:47,662 --> 00:29:49,255 What happened to Irina? 589 00:29:49,326 --> 00:29:52,392 Ava's been impersonating Irina since she murdered her three years ago. 590 00:29:52,463 --> 00:29:55,659 Ava would never harm Irina or anyone else. 591 00:29:55,726 --> 00:29:59,042 I want to see her. You can't. She's going to jail. 592 00:30:01,199 --> 00:30:03,206 Valentina did this. Why? 593 00:30:05,358 --> 00:30:07,659 She promised me marriage. A new life. 594 00:30:09,230 --> 00:30:13,125 I went to her parties in Bucharest to meet American men... 595 00:30:13,198 --> 00:30:15,499 and one of them, he proposed to me. 596 00:30:15,983 --> 00:30:18,601 So Valentina, she bring me back here. 597 00:30:18,862 --> 00:30:20,805 Did you get married? Yes. 598 00:30:21,263 --> 00:30:23,238 But the pig changed his mind. 599 00:30:24,431 --> 00:30:26,405 I thought I would get deported. 600 00:30:26,477 --> 00:30:29,348 Who let you stay here? Valentina. 601 00:30:31,599 --> 00:30:33,606 She said she would protect me. 602 00:30:33,999 --> 00:30:37,577 And she take me to that place. She turned me into a whore. 603 00:30:38,223 --> 00:30:39,881 Why didn't you say no? 604 00:30:40,367 --> 00:30:42,669 No one says no to Valentina. 605 00:30:43,119 --> 00:30:46,217 How long did she keep you there? Three-and-a-half years. 606 00:30:46,542 --> 00:30:49,128 Until the debt was paid off. What debt? 607 00:30:49,839 --> 00:30:54,116 My ex-husband. Valentina give him back his money. 608 00:30:55,342 --> 00:30:57,797 She say it was my fault he wasn't satisfied. 609 00:30:57,870 --> 00:31:01,765 That I have to pay her back for all the money she lost. 610 00:31:02,638 --> 00:31:04,263 Why didn't you run away? 611 00:31:05,038 --> 00:31:08,899 Because Valentina say she will kill my sisters... 612 00:31:10,383 --> 00:31:12,106 if I went back to Romania. 613 00:31:15,054 --> 00:31:16,264 When can I go? 614 00:31:16,335 --> 00:31:18,342 The only place you're going is Rikers Island. 615 00:31:18,414 --> 00:31:20,008 I'll make bail. 616 00:31:20,653 --> 00:31:23,851 Don't count on it. Judges don't usually send accused killers home. 617 00:31:23,919 --> 00:31:25,347 Who did I kill? 618 00:31:25,423 --> 00:31:28,238 You're being charged as an accessory to the murder of Irina Burton. 619 00:31:28,303 --> 00:31:31,532 I am not a killer. I bring American men the brides they want. 620 00:31:31,599 --> 00:31:33,388 You mean, the women you kidnap. 621 00:31:33,455 --> 00:31:35,691 I brought these girls here to marry, have a better life. 622 00:31:35,758 --> 00:31:38,508 I sheltered them after their husbands rejected them. 623 00:31:38,575 --> 00:31:41,772 You forced them into prostitution. You can't prove anything. 624 00:31:41,839 --> 00:31:44,872 When Ava Parulis threatened to blow the whistle, you decided to kill her. 625 00:31:44,943 --> 00:31:48,358 Except you got her sister by mistake. Who helped you? 626 00:31:51,471 --> 00:31:53,642 Get me my lawyer. Now. 627 00:31:55,855 --> 00:31:57,198 Valentina gave me nothing. 628 00:31:57,263 --> 00:31:59,368 And Ava's acting more like a victim than a perp. 629 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,610 She hooked up with Valentina, got in over her head. 630 00:32:01,679 --> 00:32:02,988 They're both afraid of someone. 631 00:32:03,055 --> 00:32:04,516 If Valentina's not gonna tell us who... 632 00:32:04,592 --> 00:32:06,566 maybe there's something in her office that will. 633 00:32:06,638 --> 00:32:08,265 Oksana's statements about the death threats... 634 00:32:08,335 --> 00:32:10,702 should be more than enough probable cause for a search warrant. 635 00:32:10,767 --> 00:32:11,782 I'll call it in. 636 00:32:11,856 --> 00:32:14,311 I'll have John and Fin execute it. Bring George Burton in. 637 00:32:14,383 --> 00:32:17,133 He may be able to help us get something out of Ava. 638 00:32:19,375 --> 00:32:21,447 What do you guys want now? This is a search warrant. 639 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,341 Where does Valentina keep her financial records? 640 00:32:23,407 --> 00:32:24,584 At the accountant's. 641 00:32:24,656 --> 00:32:26,631 Not those records. The real books for her whorehouse. 642 00:32:26,703 --> 00:32:28,110 I don't know what you're talking about. 643 00:32:28,175 --> 00:32:29,801 You don't know much for a valued employee? 644 00:32:29,871 --> 00:32:31,781 Maybe he knows what accessory to a murder is. 645 00:32:31,855 --> 00:32:33,644 Murder? I'm just a clerk. 646 00:32:33,711 --> 00:32:35,816 Who is Valentina's partner? I don't know. 647 00:32:35,887 --> 00:32:39,302 Did any of Valentina's friends hang around here more than others? 648 00:32:39,504 --> 00:32:42,537 Some old guy, same accent, always in a suit. 649 00:32:42,799 --> 00:32:44,261 Comes in a couple times a week. 650 00:32:44,335 --> 00:32:46,954 He and Valentina always lock themselves in her office. 651 00:32:47,024 --> 00:32:49,544 Maybe that's where they keep the real books. 652 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:51,629 Follow me. 653 00:32:53,583 --> 00:32:58,319 What have we got? Valentina's silent partner. A Razvan Toscu. 654 00:32:58,383 --> 00:33:00,718 Romanian Deputy Chief of Mission and orchid lover. 655 00:33:00,785 --> 00:33:02,759 Which means he could run you down, leave skid marks... 656 00:33:02,832 --> 00:33:04,741 and we still couldn't issue a speeding ticket. 657 00:33:04,817 --> 00:33:07,184 With his diplomatic juice he may have been able to get visas... 658 00:33:07,248 --> 00:33:09,289 keep product in the pipeline, girls... 659 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,750 We'll deal with him later. What about George Burton? 660 00:33:11,823 --> 00:33:13,482 Says he's willing to play. 661 00:33:16,593 --> 00:33:19,178 There's another sister? We have her upstairs. 662 00:33:19,248 --> 00:33:20,809 Where did you find her? 663 00:33:20,881 --> 00:33:22,735 She was being held against her will... 664 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,208 and forced into prostitution. 665 00:33:24,273 --> 00:33:26,215 We found Ava there trying to buy her freedom. 666 00:33:26,289 --> 00:33:28,263 With the money that she stole from you. 667 00:33:28,336 --> 00:33:30,125 Why didn't she tell me? 668 00:33:30,192 --> 00:33:33,292 Maybe she thought you'd be in danger if you knew. 669 00:33:35,345 --> 00:33:37,766 You sure you're ready for this? 670 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,052 No. 671 00:33:44,496 --> 00:33:47,017 When are you going to let me out of here? 672 00:33:48,881 --> 00:33:50,441 No, it's me, Ava. 673 00:33:55,633 --> 00:33:57,738 I didn't expect you to come. 674 00:33:57,808 --> 00:34:00,013 You shared my bed for three years. 675 00:34:00,976 --> 00:34:02,503 You raised my daughter. 676 00:34:05,265 --> 00:34:07,915 And it was a lie? 677 00:34:08,721 --> 00:34:10,063 Irina was dead. 678 00:34:11,024 --> 00:34:13,097 She would have wanted this. 679 00:34:16,018 --> 00:34:18,123 They know about the Toscu guy. 680 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,602 If he finds out, he's gonna kill you, like he killed Irina. 681 00:34:23,409 --> 00:34:24,653 Why did he kill Irina? 682 00:34:24,720 --> 00:34:28,714 Because I threatened to tell the police about him if he didn't let Oksana go. 683 00:34:29,393 --> 00:34:31,336 How do you know he killed Irina? 684 00:34:31,409 --> 00:34:35,206 I saw him, outside my apartment building. 685 00:34:35,729 --> 00:34:38,762 He left something next to the trash in a plastic bag. 686 00:34:38,834 --> 00:34:41,997 I looked inside and it was Irina. 687 00:34:44,115 --> 00:34:48,588 I put on her wedding rings, and buried her under the neighbor's garden. 688 00:34:52,402 --> 00:34:55,717 He raped her. He made her wear the collar. 689 00:34:57,585 --> 00:35:00,171 He did to her what he used to do to me. 690 00:35:00,721 --> 00:35:04,137 How could you let that happen? I wasn't there! 691 00:35:05,585 --> 00:35:07,472 I couldn't stop him. 692 00:35:09,584 --> 00:35:12,335 Irina never told him it wasn't me. 693 00:35:16,146 --> 00:35:17,706 Why didn't you tell me? 694 00:35:18,193 --> 00:35:22,383 As long as they thought I was dead, we were safe. 695 00:35:24,817 --> 00:35:26,279 All the men... 696 00:35:28,722 --> 00:35:31,886 the jewelry, the money I took from you... 697 00:35:34,417 --> 00:35:38,411 all I wanted it for was to get Oksana out. 698 00:35:42,577 --> 00:35:44,007 I'm so sorry. 699 00:35:47,314 --> 00:35:48,688 You're sorry. 700 00:35:53,618 --> 00:35:57,741 Sorry won't bring Irina back. George, please. 701 00:36:00,946 --> 00:36:02,954 How could you live with yourself? 702 00:36:15,474 --> 00:36:17,000 So, we believe her? 703 00:36:17,075 --> 00:36:19,791 She might be lying to us, but she wasn't lying to him. 704 00:36:19,859 --> 00:36:22,412 Which makes her the only one to put Toscu at the scene. 705 00:36:22,483 --> 00:36:24,305 We could have videotape of him in the act... 706 00:36:24,370 --> 00:36:27,217 we still couldn't touch him because of his diplomatic immunity. 707 00:36:27,283 --> 00:36:29,901 Alex, there's got to be something you can do. 708 00:36:30,578 --> 00:36:32,301 Let me check with a friend. 709 00:36:34,418 --> 00:36:36,141 I need the State Department's help. 710 00:36:36,210 --> 00:36:39,374 It's almost impossible to convince a foreign nation, even a friendly one... 711 00:36:39,442 --> 00:36:41,166 to waive diplomatic immunity. 712 00:36:41,235 --> 00:36:43,275 Precedent was set by the former Soviet Union. 713 00:36:43,347 --> 00:36:46,576 The Republic of Georgia waived immunity on that drunk driving case down in D.C. 714 00:36:46,642 --> 00:36:48,300 All those former Soviet Republics... 715 00:36:48,371 --> 00:36:50,442 were looking for most-favored-nation status. 716 00:36:50,515 --> 00:36:53,450 I'm looking to put away a murderer, and I don't care where he's from. 717 00:36:53,523 --> 00:36:56,391 We can always appeal to their decency and see what happens. 718 00:36:56,467 --> 00:37:00,078 What are you suggesting? A long shot. But it's worth a try. 719 00:37:01,587 --> 00:37:03,410 My government respectfully requests you... 720 00:37:03,474 --> 00:37:05,710 to waive Mr. Toscu's diplomatic immunity. 721 00:37:05,779 --> 00:37:08,016 That's an extraordinary request. 722 00:37:08,083 --> 00:37:10,254 Warranted by extraordinary circumstances. 723 00:37:10,323 --> 00:37:11,949 Mr. Toscu has used his position... 724 00:37:12,019 --> 00:37:13,961 to keep women in this country against their will... 725 00:37:14,035 --> 00:37:17,068 for the purposes of prostitution. Now he's a murderer. 726 00:37:17,267 --> 00:37:20,976 We didn't invite you here to be insulted by baseless allegations. 727 00:37:21,043 --> 00:37:24,392 Mr. Toscu is a distinguished member of our diplomatic corps. 728 00:37:24,531 --> 00:37:28,328 Here's what your distinguished diplomat did to a woman from your own country. 729 00:37:28,403 --> 00:37:29,865 Let me see that. 730 00:37:34,164 --> 00:37:35,472 Tragic. 731 00:37:37,107 --> 00:37:38,700 And you think I'm responsible? 732 00:37:38,771 --> 00:37:41,227 Miss Cabot assures me that she has an eyewitness... 733 00:37:41,299 --> 00:37:45,325 who places Mr. Toscu at the murder scene carrying the victim's body. 734 00:37:45,395 --> 00:37:48,778 Her sister. Ava Parulis? 735 00:37:49,203 --> 00:37:52,716 She has quite a reputation. I'm surprised you'd believe her. 736 00:37:53,139 --> 00:37:55,277 Before we even consider something as severe... 737 00:37:55,348 --> 00:37:57,966 and irrevocable as waiving our diplomat's immunity... 738 00:37:58,036 --> 00:37:59,825 we must be convinced of guilt. 739 00:37:59,891 --> 00:38:02,096 The evidence is right in front of you. 740 00:38:02,324 --> 00:38:04,659 You have nothing but the word of criminals... 741 00:38:04,724 --> 00:38:08,618 and the eyewitness account of a woman who buried her sister in a shallow grave. 742 00:38:08,692 --> 00:38:12,718 We assert our sovereign rights to protect our country's diplomat. 743 00:38:12,788 --> 00:38:16,084 And we have the right to protect our country from your diplomats. 744 00:38:16,148 --> 00:38:18,799 Alex. Mr. Davia, you're leaving us no alternative. 745 00:38:18,868 --> 00:38:22,610 My government has authorized me to declare Mr. Toscu persona non grata. 746 00:38:22,676 --> 00:38:25,098 He has 48 hours to leave the United States. 747 00:38:29,204 --> 00:38:32,401 That's it? He walks? I didn't know Greenwalt was gonna do that. 748 00:38:32,468 --> 00:38:34,509 Why didn't he just threaten him with expulsion? 749 00:38:34,580 --> 00:38:37,678 Jack said, had the Romanians known our government was even considering this... 750 00:38:37,749 --> 00:38:39,952 they would have put Toscu on the first plane to Bucharest. 751 00:38:40,020 --> 00:38:41,362 So the bastard murders a woman... 752 00:38:41,428 --> 00:38:43,730 and his only consequence is being sent home? 753 00:38:43,797 --> 00:38:45,684 At least it bought us some time. 754 00:38:45,748 --> 00:38:47,242 What do you need from us, Alex? 755 00:38:47,316 --> 00:38:49,651 Something more than Ava Parulis' word. 756 00:38:49,812 --> 00:38:51,470 But there's nothing left. 757 00:38:51,828 --> 00:38:55,124 We want Toscu, we need proof he's guilty. Physical evidence. 758 00:38:56,117 --> 00:38:57,840 Go back to the bones. 759 00:38:58,261 --> 00:39:00,530 This report on soil samples is a real page turner. 760 00:39:00,597 --> 00:39:03,017 Very descriptive. Written from the point of view of a slug. 761 00:39:03,093 --> 00:39:04,784 The good earth swallowed our evidence. 762 00:39:04,853 --> 00:39:06,194 Maybe not all of it. 763 00:39:06,261 --> 00:39:07,950 You found something? 764 00:39:08,404 --> 00:39:11,917 Irina's clothes were pretty decomposed but they did find a couple of samples... 765 00:39:11,987 --> 00:39:15,501 from her panties and the lab sent them to a forensic geologist. 766 00:39:15,572 --> 00:39:17,033 Where's the report? 767 00:39:18,804 --> 00:39:20,397 Due back next week. 768 00:39:20,532 --> 00:39:22,921 You know how many microorganisms there are in soil? 769 00:39:22,996 --> 00:39:26,029 If we test everything, you'll still be getting results 10 years from now. 770 00:39:26,100 --> 00:39:29,712 Yeah. These samples. Found on what was left of the victim's clothing. 771 00:39:32,468 --> 00:39:33,581 What are those? 772 00:39:33,652 --> 00:39:36,882 Horticulturalists use them to collect and store microscopic pollen. 773 00:39:36,948 --> 00:39:40,363 The samples your lab sent us weren't consistent with the plant life in the area. 774 00:39:40,437 --> 00:39:42,640 Okay. What did your tests show? I haven't tested them yet. 775 00:39:42,709 --> 00:39:44,716 When are you gonna test them? Tomorrow morning. 776 00:39:44,788 --> 00:39:46,066 How about now? 777 00:39:58,292 --> 00:40:00,561 Good morning, Detectives. Come to see me off? 778 00:40:00,629 --> 00:40:02,417 You're not getting away with this. 779 00:40:02,483 --> 00:40:04,688 I'll send you a card from my next post. 780 00:40:05,525 --> 00:40:07,499 I hope it's a warmer climate. 781 00:40:08,053 --> 00:40:09,197 What is this? 782 00:40:09,269 --> 00:40:11,243 You're under arrest for the murder of Irina Burton. 783 00:40:11,317 --> 00:40:13,259 You cannot arrest me I have diplomatic immunity. 784 00:40:13,333 --> 00:40:14,959 Had diplomatic immunity until this morning. 785 00:40:15,028 --> 00:40:17,298 Your government doesn't appreciate your sideline business... 786 00:40:17,365 --> 00:40:19,470 as a murderer and a pimp. They cut you loose. 787 00:40:19,541 --> 00:40:21,712 You have no evidence. Sure we do. 788 00:40:22,069 --> 00:40:25,844 Two little grains of pollen belonging to the Gigas Firmin Lambeau. 789 00:40:26,388 --> 00:40:28,276 My orchids? Found on Irina's clothing. 790 00:40:28,341 --> 00:40:30,545 You should have washed your hands before you murdered her. 791 00:40:30,614 --> 00:40:31,562 You have the right to remain silent. 792 00:40:31,606 --> 00:40:34,671 Anything you say can and will be used against you... 793 00:40:40,246 --> 00:40:41,674 Detectives. 794 00:40:44,565 --> 00:40:47,632 Thank you. Thank us when Toscu's convicted. 795 00:40:48,053 --> 00:40:49,232 We're very sorry for your loss. 796 00:40:49,302 --> 00:40:51,985 We hope everything works out for you and Julia. 797 00:40:52,052 --> 00:40:55,314 We'll be all right. We have to. 798 00:40:59,381 --> 00:41:03,538 Ava could have gone on forever being Burton's wife, Julia's mother. 799 00:41:03,670 --> 00:41:05,612 If it hadn't been for the bones. 800 00:41:14,870 --> 00:41:16,943 Irina can rest in peace now.