Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Murdered at a Bad Address (2019)

Mariska Hargitay: Captain Olivia Benson

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• Dominick Carisi Jr. : Teenage girl assaulted in the projects? Any witnesses?

  Olivia Benson : Fin's still canvassing, but there's nothing on the rape kit, no semen or hairs.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : So we're looking at a pro. You're letting Kat take the lead?

  Olivia Benson : We're giving her a shot. She was first on scene, she rode with her, and she took the disclosure, and I'm right here if she needs me.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Kat doesn't miss a trick. Somebody must've stolen her lunch money once.

  Olivia Benson : Or tried to.

• Olivia Benson : That's him. That's my brother.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : I'm sorry.

  Olivia Benson : It was an OD?

  Dr. Melinda Warner : Heroin laced with fentanyl. Found the body in a motel room, no signs of foul play.

  Olivia Benson : He was using. He... he told me that he was sober.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : He was telling you the truth. If I had to guess, he'd been clean for quite a while.

  Olivia Benson : So it was not a suicide?

  Dr. Melinda Warner : Dosage wasn't large enough. He just got his hands on the wrong stuff.

  Olivia Benson : Okay. Well, thank you.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : You two were close.

  Olivia Benson : Not really, but, um... he was my only family.

• Amanda Rollins : You leaving us again?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : I got a pre-trial motion. Feel free to stay as long as you want.

  Olivia Benson : All right, so coordinate with, uh, Fin and Kat and make sure that you talk to all eight guys.

  Amanda Rollins : Copy that.

  Olivia Benson : I'll meet you back at the squad room. I have a lunch... with my brother Simon.

  Amanda Rollins : Wow, it's been a while. What does he want?

  Olivia Benson : He says that he wants to get to know Noah.

  Amanda Rollins : You believe him?

  Olivia Benson : I do.

• Amanda Rollins : Liv, are you okay?

  Olivia Benson : No.

  [closing her office door] 

  Olivia Benson : I haven't told anyone, but my brother Simon... he died.

  Amanda Rollins : What?

  Olivia Benson : He overdosed.

  Amanda Rollins : I'm sorry.

  Olivia Benson : When he didn't show for lunch, I left him a message and I told him not to call me. What if my message... is the last thing that he heard?

  Amanda Rollins : You don't know that. The life he led... more likely, it was... just his time.

• Olivia Benson : You have a closed rape and double murder from 16 years ago? And they had the DNA and never tested it?

  Amanda Rollins : It was tested by mistake, swept up while they were going through the backlog.

  Olivia Benson : And the touch DNA on Lupe's headphones matched the DNA found under the fingernails of which victim?

  Amanda Rollins : Both. Nydia Hernandez, strangled with an electric cord and her daughter Jacinta. She was sexually assaulted and then strangled.

  Katriona Tamin : Two teenagers confessed. Ricardo Torres, 15 at the time. He turned state's on Carlos Hernandez, 18, the son and brother of the vics.

  Olivia Benson : And which of their DNA matches Lupe's?

  Amanda Rollins : That's the thing. Neither.

  Olivia Benson : What does that mean? That we're looking at a third accomplice?

  Odafin Tutuola : Someone who was never caught.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, so we're gonna need to talk with Ricardo and Carlos. Where are they now?

  Katriona Tamin : Hernandez is still serving 25 to life in Green Haven.

  Odafin Tutuola : 25 to life and he never gave up the third guy? He's not talking.

  Olivia Benson : So take Carisi with you. If he sees a D.A., maybe he'll think that he can cut a deal. And what about Ricardo?

  Katriona Tamin : Finished his 15 a year ago. Last known, Wave View Houses in Far Rock. Parole officer's on vacay.

  Olivia Benson : That's leverage. So, Rollins, Kat, lean on him, hard.

• Simon Marsden : Who's Noah?

  Olivia Benson : Uh, Noah is my son.

  Simon Marsden : I have a nephew and you didn't tell me? Well, that's on me. I haven't exactly been in touch.

  Olivia Benson : Simon, what are you doing here?

  Simon Marsden : I moved back to Jersey a few years ago, working at the Carpet King.

  Olivia Benson : How is your family, your... your children?

  Simon Marsden : I don't know. Tracy took the kids, so I haven't seen her or them since I last saw you.

  Olivia Benson : I'm sorry.

  Simon Marsden : I thought about asking you to help me track 'em down... but I always end up making more trouble for you. Look, Olivia, I just... I just want to make it up to you. Maybe I can... I can take you and Noah out to lunch?

  Olivia Benson : Simon, I don't think that's such a good...

  Simon Marsden : Just don't... don't say no. All right, look, I-I've been clean five years. Look at this. All right? You're my only family. I wanna get to know my nephew. Come on. Wednesday, lunch. My day off. You pick the place, the time. I can be anywhere.

• Olivia Benson : It's gonna be pretty hard to pin a double murder on him when there's somebody still sitting in prison for it.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Lupe made a voice ID?

  Olivia Benson : She did.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : All right, arrest Stanton, keep him in holding. I'm gonna go up and see Carlos Hernandez. See if he can ID this scumbag.

• Counselor Freddo : My client will agree to forcible touching on the girl from Jacob Lawrence Houses.

  Olivia Benson : He raped her.

  Tim Stanton : Says who?

  Counselor Freddo : She didn't see her attacker and DNA on headphones? Probative of nothing.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, we have a voice ID.

  Counselor Freddo : Mm-hmm. No eyewitnesses, only an ear witness. I'll convince the jury that little Lupe is deaf and blind.

  Olivia Benson : Little Lupe is tougher than you think.

  Counselor Freddo : Juries love me and they don't like cops. And that goes double for cops who turn into prosecutors. They're gonna hate you.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, maybe not, after they find out your client's DNA was at three different rape scenes.

  Olivia Benson : And we have three projects-strong girls, just like Lupe, who will follow her to the stand.

• Olivia Benson : So, Lupe said she didn't see him, but she did hear his voice. So if she can't do a lineup, see if she can do a voice ID.

  Amanda Rollins : Yeah, copy that. Um... listen, I was out of line... what I said about your brother.

  Olivia Benson : No, you weren't. Noah doesn't need any more confusion about his life. That door's... that door stays closed.

• Olivia Benson : [leaving a voicemail after getting stood up for lunch]  Simon, it's me and Noah, and we are here waiting for you. Listen, uh, I knew that... that this was a bad idea, so... uh, don't... don't bother calling me back, okay? As a matter of fact, Simon, don't... don't ever call me.

• Viviana Perez : I don't understand. Stanton's pleading guilty?

  Olivia Benson : To two murders.

  Viviana Perez : But not for Lupe's rape?

  Amanda Rollins : Well, either way, he's going far away for a very long time.

  Katriona Tamin : And Lupe, she won't have to testify.

• Amanda Rollins : Carisi sent us cannolis from his favorite bakery in Staten Island.

  Katriona Tamin : [taking one]  Mm, I'll make an exception.

  Olivia Benson : So, aside from the baked goods, did we get anything out there?

  Amanda Rollins : Pretty much what we suspected. Detective Monte wasn't interested in any other suspects, and Carisi thinks both confessions were coerced.

  Olivia Benson : So we're not looking for the third guy in, we're looking for the only guy.

  Odafin Tutuola : The one that got away with it.

  Amanda Rollins : You know, I thought he was just trying to justify what he did, but Monte... Monte did say that there'd been other rapes in the projects around the same time.

  Olivia Benson : So we could be looking at a serial who's been out there for 16 years. Okay, let's go back to unsolved project rapes, check M.O.s. Kat, you got the records on maintenance workers at Lupe's projects, right?

  Katriona Tamin : Yep.

  Olivia Benson : So, cross-check them and see if anybody who worked there also worked at Wave View 16 years ago.

• Olivia Benson : So, are you ready to teach me some of those dance moves?

  Noah Porter Benson : Yeah. Can we get ice cream? We're right by the cart.

  Olivia Benson : Before dinner?

  Noah Porter Benson : I won't have dessert after.

  Simon Marsden : Olivia!

  Olivia Benson : [surprised to see him]  Simon.

  Simon Marsden : Hello. I'm Simon.

  Noah Porter Benson : Hi. I'm Noah.

  Olivia Benson : Yeah, go ahead. Go pick a flavor, run along.

• Katriona Tamin : You were saying that he...

  Lupe Perez : He said if I didn't... you know... he would go upstairs to my little sister Gizelle.

  Olivia Benson : The rapist knew Lupe; they knew her family.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : It's why he didn't let her get a look at him.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : We're going after your client for all six rapes, including the Far Rockaway rape and the double murder.

  Counselor Freddo : You're chasing a 16-year-old murder case with two confessions, huh? And a district attorney who's playing poker with tarot cards.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : You wanna cut a deal? Your client allocutes to the Hernandez murders and maybe I can swing criminally negligent homicide and rape two on the other six.

  Tim Stanton : I ain't 'fessing to no crack ho murders, and I ain't copping to no pedo rapes. No short-eye pleas like those 'mos Torres and Hernandez did.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : What do you know about that?

  Tim Stanton : I got no idea how Carlos has lasted 16 years in Green Haven. Everyone knows he's a fag.

  Counselor Freddo : All right, that's okay, Tim. Look, we're done here. I'll be taking my client back to processing.

  Olivia Benson : [opening the door for a patrol officer]  Get him out of here.

  Counselor Freddo : [to Carisi]  You insist to murders and child rapes, we'll go to the mat in my ring.

  Olivia Benson : [Stanton and Freddo leave]  Don't let him get to you.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, he... he didn't. There's something Stanton said. Now, Carlos told me that he had an alibi for the night of the murders, but he wouldn't talk about it. Now I know why.

• Olivia Benson : D.A. Keane won't let this go?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : No, it was worse. He had no idea what I was asking him to do.

  Olivia Benson : What does that mean?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : For years, Keane's deputies have covered up the fact that he's suffering from dementia.

  Olivia Benson : Well, how bad is it? I mean, good days, bad days?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, he thought Carlos Hernandez played first base for the '86 Mets, so...

  Olivia Benson : Okay, well, what about his deputies? Can't they step up? 'Cause we have three more rape kit hits from Stanton's DNA. Plus an eyewitness.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Keane can't even undo his tie, never mind a 16-year-old double homicide. One of my former law professors, he works in the Queens D.A.'s office, he said he could try to get Carlos a retrial.

• Olivia Benson : So, we found twelve housing project rapes, but these two most closely fit the pattern.

  Amanda Rollins : Maria Negron, 13. Uh, Angela Lopez, 12. Both lived at the Jersey Street projects. One happened in 2010, the other in 2011.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : No DNA on either?

  Amanda Rollins : No, they were both assaulted from behind, strangled with a cord, and neither one of them saw his face.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : That's his M.O. Any suspects?

  Amanda Rollins : So, there was 18 maintenance workers, um, that worked at all three of these projects that fit the timeline. And seven are black, two are deceased, one is disabled.

  Olivia Benson : So we're gonna need DNA warrants on these eight guys.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Eight? Why not make it nine? Make it a ball team. Come on, no judge is gonna sign off on this. You gotta narrow it down for me.

  Olivia Benson : All right, so we can ask them to volunteer for exclusion. If they're innocent, then they shouldn't have a problem with that.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Okay, anybody balks, I'll get you a warrant.

• Katriona Tamin : We got a match on Tim Stanton. The lab confirms that his DNA matches the touch DNA on Lupe's headphones and the DNA found under the nails of Jacinta and Nydia.

  Odafin Tutuola : I was ready to arrest that guy right there.

  Olivia Benson : Hold on, let's... let's wait. Touch DNA on headphones... I'd like to see Lupe make a positive ID. Where did you leave it with Stanton?

  Amanda Rollins : He pretended like he wanted to help.

  Olivia Benson : So tell him that we've collared a sex offender that we know is good for this and we just need help with the lineup.

  Katriona Tamin : You think he'll go for that?

  Olivia Benson : I think that he let Hernandez and Torres take the fall before. He's just gonna think that we've screwed up again. See if Lupe is up for a lineup.

• Viviana Perez : Lupe would have to testify?

  Olivia Benson : I'm sorry, she would.

  Viviana Perez : She's been through enough already. And the lawyers? They'll trick her.

  Lupe Perez : No one can catch me in a lie if I just tell the truth.

  Katriona Tamin : And she'd be prepped. We'd be with her every step of the way.

  Viviana Perez : Lupe, you don't need to do this.

  Lupe Perez : Mama, if he goes free, next time, he might just go after Gizelle.