are members of an elite squad known as the special victims unit. these are their stories. ( labored breathing ) hurry, mama! hurry! go, mijo. run, tell them. go! whoa! what's the rush? my brother, he's been shot! where is he? they're coming. give him to me. no, he's my baby! i'll take him inside. i've got a gunshot wound here. hurry! doctor: prep trauma one. page surgery and tell o.r. to stand by. doctor, please save my baby-- save him! there's no exit wound. let's go. forget trauma. oh my god, don't let him die... he's in good hands. please! let's take a look at you. mommy! mommy! officer jones is going to take you for a snack while i help your mom. no! no! no! no! no! i'm staying with her. post two, notify nypd for a gsw victim.

please... ma'am, your son has been shot. we have to call the police. now, what is your name? lupe rodriguez. and your son who's wounded? jorge. please, go and check on him. please. mommy... please... he's going to be okay, baby. he's going to be okay. kid's lucky. still critical, but the docs say he should make it through surgery. where's the mother? in the waiting room with her older son. real shaken up.

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she had the kid in her arms. came from over there. i carried him in. bleeding all over the place. you search the building? yes. didn't even wait to see if her son was dead or alive. you're from special victims? yeah, we hdle the child abandonment cases. now, jorge... how's he doing? just out of surgery. and the mother was acting strange?

doctor: jorge was shot once in the lower abdomen. any idea how old he is? five, maybe six. what are his chances? we got the slug. didn't hit any major arteries or organs. hel recover from this. but he's got bigger problems. bigger problems than getting shot? chest film showed multiple healed rib fractures so ordered a skeletal survey. found even more healed fractures. his left ulna,umerus, one on each side of his face. doctor said the kid had the crap kicked out of him for years. and nobody in that er recognized him? or the name. no jorge rodriguez or anyone matching those injuries having been treated there. mother gave a phony home address and social security number. i mean, lupe's probably not even her real name. so they're new in the area or the mother hit a different hospital every time the boy was injured. makes it harder to pick up on the abuse. could be she's protecting a boyfriend who thought the kid was an inconvenience. how about the victim or his brother were playg with a gun?

no stippling or powder burns, bullet was sti inside of him. he had to be shot from some kind of distance. great. so we've got false i.d. on the victim and the mother no perp, no weapon. do we at least have a crime scene? benson: checked communications and the local precinct. no reports of any shootings around the time the boy was brought in. well, that woman couldn't have run very far carrying 50 extra pounds. cab or car service would've dropped them right off at the emergency room doors. cragen: fin, john, check with transit, just in case. after that, call every e.r. in the five boroughs see if anyone remembers a child with o john doe's old injuries. chances are this family lives somewhere near that hospital. and the kids had to go to school somewhere. stabler: do you recognize this child? that's miguel ramos, one of our first graders. what happened to him? benson: he was shot. oh, good lord. how is he? stabler: critical but the doctors expect him to recover.

luis is miguel's brother? yeah, one of our fifth graders. both good students: quiet, never cause any trouble. we're looking for their mother but she gave a phony name and address at the hospital. that must be a habit of hers. the letter i sent to their home last week came back today-- "no such address." phone number's out of service, too. that's why i was looking for luis this morning. her name is maria. maria ramos. "522 cherry street." that's in the middle of the east river park. now, she would have had to show proof of her current address to register the boys, right? yeah, i have a copy of her lease. i mean, she enrolled the boys last month. everything seemed in order. it's a standard form. she could have bought it at any stationery store and forged it. okay, is there a father? well, not in any of the paperwork. must be out of the picture. what about an emergency contact number, a place where she works? mmm, no, just a home number. but i know she has a job. luis takes miguel to a youth center on essex street

okay. thank you. man: miguel and luis are regulars. we try to keep these latchkey kids off the street and out of trouble. how did it happen? that's what we're trying to find out. are there any friends that we can talk to? yeah. hey, kevin! can you take over for a minute? what's up, mr. penza? these detectives need some information. thiss kevin mcdonald. he's one of our counselors. how can i help you? tell us about the ramos brothers. two great kids. luis is one step away from his red belt. he's got a mean flying side kick. you ever see their mother pick them up from school? yeah, she was here yesterday. comes by, ke, once a week. the rest of the time luis is more like miguel's father. he makes sure nobody messes with him. anybody know where they live? i walked miguel home one night when luis s out sick. benson: nobody named ramos on here. i lived in a building for four years they never put my name on the buzzer. i'll ring the super. liv... what's that look like?

it goeall the way down the building. shooter either got him going into the building... ...or coming out. there's no blood on the stoop or the sidewalk. i don't see any blood on the walls. doesn't look like there's any in the street, either. but there's some over here. trajectory of the slugs show the weapon was fired at a low angle. someone crouching down across the seet? nah, more likely a drive-by. we found more slugs than shells so some of the shells might've ejected into this car. or rolled into the sewer. that's not all. angles of the slug marks on the building get more and more blunt from the stoop to the ley. so the car had to stop. benson so the shooter fired at somebody coming out of the building and then escaped into that alley. might explain these. skid marks. yeah, and they're fresh ones. stopped car, peeled out, he left that behind. sideswiped him. a silver car, black paint.

peter, get a shot of this. peter: got it! we'll get the chemistry set out match the paint to the manufacturer. how long before you get us a make and model on that car? for you two, give me a day. benson: any luck on the canvass? hear no evil, see no evil. zero witnesses. but we found the kid's apartment. they live with grandma. last night, when i came home, the boys weren't he so i thought maybe maria took luis and miguel for the night. ( kettle whistling ) well, they live here, but maria doesn't? ( whistling continues ) last month, she shows up at my door and asks me to take care of the boys. ( sniffling ) it was the second me that i see them in two years... where is maria staying? i don't know where. with some friends. but she said that it was temporary until she find a place of her own. why would anyone want to harm them? last year...

she was arrested with drugs. i gave her the bail money because she told me that her boyfriend could never find out. when she came here with my grandsons i asked her if she was back with the drugs and shswore to me that it was all behind her. but i knew she was in trouble. maria's boyfriend-- do you know where he lives? in the bronx. - they live together. - we'll need that address. you said that you tried to reach maria buyou couldn't. this is her telephone number whe she works. so restaurant. in case the boys got sick... two other detectives were here yesterday asking about maria. don't you people communicate with each other? that would be much too efficient for a bureaucracy like ours. these detectives say where they were from? no, but they were undercover. looked more like drug dealers than cops. what did you tell them?

she scheduled to work here today? she didn't show up. not like her at all. hard worker, good attitude... until today. but if she don't call me, i got to let her go. she seem uneasy about anything lately? yeah, two days ago. she was working the grill. some customer comes in, calls her by name. and she makes like she don't even know the guy. then she said she was sick and she had to go home. okay. if you see her... yeah, don't worry. i have her paycheck. she'll call me. ( phone ringing ) hello? ( knocking ) yes? police. i'm detective stabler. this is my partner, detective benson. you are? fredo garcia. how can i help you? we're here about your family. did something happen to them? benson: when were they last here? about a month ago. i was away on business. came back, they were gone. can you tell me what this is about? miguel was hurt. did she do it? why would you say that?

i came home one night, she was hitting miguel. i warned herf she did it again, i'd call the cops. i guess that's why she left. but you didn't report them missing? i looked for them myself. didn't have any luck. she wanted to leave me. i figured what am i going to do to stop her? how long were you two together? two years. and she gave you no indication where she might've gone? didn't even leave a note. if youind them, will you tell them i'd like her and the boys to come back? we sure will. he's so concerned that maria beat miguel but doesn't ask what happened to him. wonder what fredo does for a living. somebody's dealing out of here. could explain maria's drug problem. last year, maria was busted with a dozen dime bags of heroin and a thousand dollars cash. possession with inte to sell first offense, da knocked it down. she did a year on probation.

slinging burgers to support her kids. we figure out their movements the day of the shooting? the kids went to school and the youth cent as usual. maria picked them up. we don't know where she was before that. now we're thinking they all went to maria's mother's place even though it was just miguel who got shot. from there, they ran the three blocks to the hospital. well, what about the ex-boyfriend? munch is running a rap sheet on him now. now, fredo's story is maria left because he threatened to call the cops on her for beating up her boys. maybe miguel can tell us what happened. he's asking for his mother. benson: what's going on? doctor told me not to say anything. what happened? miguel is dead. they just told us that he was awake. complications from surgery? pillow over his face.

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i was checking his vitals. he was stable, awake, alert. i walked out to get a peds blood pressure cuff. i was only gone five minutes. all right, now, when you were in there did miguel say anything about the shooting? he asked for his mother and his brother, that's all. okay, think really hard. you remember seeing any strangers on the floor? uh, just some visitors and a maintenance man... oh, my god. what? the maintenance guy. he passed the nurses' station as i was going back to miguel.

someoni haven't seen before. think. can you describe to us what he looks like? uh, hispanic. average height, uh, dark hair. okay, we'll need you to describe him to a sketch artist. i'll tell my boss. good. let's go. a pair of patrols found a maintenance worker's uniform in the men's room on the first floor. the nurse saw him just before she found miguel. does the mother's ex-boyfriend look good for this? we'll have the nurse work with a sketch artist. all right, look, i want everybody who works in this hospital inrviewed, quick. miguel's mother and brother could be next. you look like you could use some caffeine. 12 hours sack time would be a lot better. sketch of your guy. anything back from the lab yet dozens of prints taken from the hospital room. no word yet if it matches anyone in our system. results are in on the sideswiped car from the scene of the drive-by. your shooter drove a ack '98 lexus.

why don't you guys catch an hour or two up ithe crib? we'll cover for you. thanks. mmm. thank you. that's going to have to wait. what's the problem? that was maria ramos's bo. she's going to pick up her check. ( no audio ) manager just gave me the heads-up. wake up call. she's at the counter. neither did we. at? olivia said she didn't see her coming in. who's that? not maria. on the way out. leather jacket, orange pan. we got her. you want us to take her? no, not yet.

looks like she's heading for the bus stop. you think she's just bringing that check to maria? i think that'd be too easy. ( speaking spanish ) hey, luis.

woman: leave him alone! let go of me! i didn't do anything! you're not in trouble. we're cops; we're here to help you. what's going on here? let's start with your real name. annie colon. annie colon. why are u picking up maria ramos's paycheck? she asked me to. where is she? i don't know. she slept on my couch for the last week. then, last night, she said she hado leave. told me to give her check to luis. stabler: you lying to us? i'm telling the truth, i swear. luis, where's your mother? that's a tough guy. he doesn't want to work with us. i tell you what, if you want to play it that way... what are you doing?! benson: taking him in. for what? he's ten years old! he's truant. luis: stop! let go! luis, we want to help you. but you have to help us, too. why was your mom scared to pick up her own paycheck?

did you see miguel? yeah, we saw him. now, look, we know you and your mom are in trouble and we want to protect you but we've got to talk to her first. luis, tells where you and your mom are staying. no. i'm not telling you. that kid's hanging tough. can we hold him? for cutting class? as a material witness. we know he saw something. we put him in the system they put him in juvenile detention which just terrifies him further. he didn't do anything; let's try harder. poor kid doesn't even know about his brother. luis have anything on him? a few bucks, a slip of paper with the word "liberty" written on it, a school subway pass. and transit says most trips originated from the lawrenc street station.

they could be stayingnear there. then that's where we look for maria. start with every place that has "liberty" in the name. i haven't seen anyone like that around here. anyone move into the building in the last few days? no, no new tenants in six months. okay, thanks. we've been to liberty apartments, liberty hotel... there's a liberty avenue exit off the van wyck in queens. you know, this is going to take us at least a month. maria must be going out of her mind wondering why luis hasn't come home. what's next on the list? liberty knick knacks. if liberty's not the name of the place where she's staying well, maybe it's where she's got a new job. i'm not seeing anybody. right there. benson: maria. go down that aisle. can help you? maria ramos?

calm down, maria.we're the police. we need you to come with us. why? why? you left miguel in the hospital. well, i had to. what's wrong? my baby-- is he okay? let's talk privately. no, no, no, tell me-- what's going on? tell me, how is my baby? miguel's dead. what are you talking about? what are you talking about? he's fine; he's in a good hospital! we're sorry, maria. no, no, no, you're wrong! you're so wrong! he's fine! the doctor told me he was going to be okay. why don't we talk somewhere else? ( sobbing ): no, please, no! it's okay. it's all right; come on. no, you're not sorry! you never helped me!

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liberty mutual insurance. does luis know about miguel? we haven't said anything yet. where is he? i have to tell him. he's here, he's safe. let me see him. maria, luis is going to a shelter until we can place him in a foster home. you can't take him away from me, he's my son. so was miguel but where were you when he needed you? i loved him. that's a hl of a way to show it-- leaving him in that hospital like that. i thought he would be safe there. from the person who shot him or whoever used him as a punching bag? healed fractures in both arms and ribs. he had a broken nose, his jaw was cracked twice. was it you? i never laid a hand on my kids! her word against his. whose word? fredo. you talked to fredo? he knows i'm here? he knows luis is here? how'd fredo treat your kids? he loved them.

maria, someone beat up your boy. now, if it's not you, it must be fredo. you've got to stop covering for him. we can protect you and luis. you ju don't get it. i can't... fredo has her spooked. how many times have we seen this, counselor? woman trapped in a violent relationship and doesn't want to press charges. yeah, but she left him. that takes couge. yeah, and no doubt pissed off the bastard. now he wants revenge, so hshoots her kid. but he doesn't count on miguel surviving so he sends somebody to the hospital to shut him up. that seems pretty extreme for a family squabble. unless that's not all this is. john, any luck? no rap sheet under the name fredo gara. check with narcotics task force. if this guy's a player, they've got to know about him. i just got off the phone with them. i asked about fredo.

then he starts questioning me like he doesn't think i'm a cop. the only thing he didn't ask me was whether i wear boxers or briefs. sounds like they know something they don't want to share. i'll cl my office and see if anybody knows anything. thanks. any other back doors we can open? fin bolted a coupleinutes ago, didn't say where. that usually means a covert meeting with one of his operatives in the drug netherworld. what did maria say? nothing. we're going to have to talk to luis. let me take a run at him. i speak ten-year-old. all right. ( slurping ) you didn't finish. was the burger okay? i'm full. sorry, i didn't mean to treat you like a baby. just the way i was brought up. my mom, you know, she'd kind of hover over me. just the opposite of you and your mother. ( slurping ) what do you mean? when i was your age, i wasn't allowed to ride my bike around the corner. you, you pick up your little brother at school every day, ride the subway alone-- you're a pretty independent guy.

i have a lot of respect for you, luis. i live by myself. i only have myself to worry about. you take care of your mother, your brother. i didn't do that too well. what makes you say that? miguel... got shot. that's not your fault. yes, it is. my stomach hurts. you don't have to be scared, luis. i don't want to talk about it. talking can be good; make you feel better. it'll get you into trouble. you don't have to keep everything to yourself. he'll hurt my mom if say anything. luis, look at me. your mom turns to you for help, doesn't she? w-we takcare of each other. i'm a detective. i want to take care of you, too.

but i promised her i wouldn't. your mom's confused, luis. she needs your help. i can't protect her unless you tell me what fredo did. i... i saw one of fredo's men-- in the car where the shots came from. what dyou want with me, anyhow? fredo garcia mean anything to you? you trying to get me killed? i'm out of here! don't move! if the guy's in the trade, why i don't know anything about him? he's new since you stopped being a narc. keeps a low profile-- my own personal mantra. here's my mantra: i scratched your back, now i got a major itch-- unless you want to be keeping a low profilein some cell in rikers. you got to watch my back-- talk! two years, fredo's got the dope market cornered. how? by killing off the local competition.

till fredo capped him. how'd heake over the building? he hears we had this talk, i'm a dead man. listen, the evidence i have on you is good r two years. he forced out some of the tenants and paid off the rest. moved in with some woman and her kids. itas a nice little front for him. i wouldn't want to be that bitch right now, though. why not? word is he's got a hit out on her. for ratting him out to you cops. fis guy says fredo charmed his way into maria's life, into her apartment. he used thwhole damn building for his drug business. while the rest of his rats crawl around the city. we're ready. benson: let's do it. it may be the only way to nail fredo. ( over speaker ): how's miguel? es ahora solamente tuyo. miguel ya no esta con nosotros. no! it's not your fault, mijito.

i told them! no, no, no, no! tell them you lied! tell them, luis! he takes it back. he's a child-- you tricked him! you made him tell you lies! mommy... please, please, listen to me-- no, mommy! tell them! tell them itas fredo. don't be afraid. ahora ya no tengo miedo. yo me encargo. fredo's not just some jealous lover maria's trying to escape from. he happens to be one of e city's biggest drug lords. as long as she and luis are breathing, they're in danger. we can keep them in protective custody. safest bet is to get them out of town. i need them here to prep the se, go before the grand jury. now we're talking about a hotel. we got no budget for witness protection. any chance the da's office can pony up the bucks? you know how it works: you pay before indictment, we pay after. come on, one p-p's down our throats on money ever since the attacks-- help us out here. i'll see what i can do.

what about miguel's funeral? crime victims' support will pay. and we do the arrangements. so find a church as far away from her neighborhood as you possibly can. immediate family and us only. maria: i was in love with fredo. he was wonderful... until i came home from work one night. he was at my kitchen table with his friends, cutting heroin. where were the boys? watching them. i toldredo to stop and he hits me with his gun and tells me to never embarrass him in front of his friends. later, he apologized and said he wouldn't do it agn. it usually gets worse. he started to beat miguel and luis, too. then he would beg us to forgive him, bring us presents,

until the next time. maria, did you... did you ever try to leave, before now? i had no place to go, no money... he would only give me enough to buy food and spent the rest on himself and other women. but, maria, you were arrested for drugs. were you using? i never used. never. fredo degraded me. he made me carry his drugs inside of me so the pole wouldn't find them. forced my boys to run drugs. told me he would kill them if we didn't do as we were told. but you stayed. something must have made you realize that you had to get away from him. one day, fredo took luis's baseball bat and beat a man unconscious while luis and i watched. i knew we could be next. your boss at the restaurant said that somebody recognized you. that's how fredo found you, isn't it?

he runs fredo's operation in boklyn. ( knocking ) stabler: everybody decent? yeah, come in. you look so handsome. we ready? yeah. we'll start in just a moment. gracias, padre. what are they doing here? said it couldn't wait. munch: detectives milton and-- tatum, yeah-- from the bronx. what's the problem? she didn't tell you? benson: tell uwhat? oh, my god. she and her son miguel witnessed fredo garcia off one of his competitors. a dealer named joey stapleton. she came to us but disappeared before we got her statement. fredo's men followed you and that's how he found me.

yes, we did see it. we saw how fredo killed that man. and i did call the police. but i ran when they said i had to testify in court. i couldn't face fredo... ( gunshot ) - stabler: down, down! - fin: maria's hit. the shots came from the back. stay with them! ten-13, we got shots fired at the church on broadway and one-seven-seven. we got a civilian down. we need an ambulance now. ( sirens approaching ) ( tires screeching ) police! freeze! show us your hands! show me your hands. show me your hands! ( siren approaching ) black lexus with silver paint scrapings. i've been looking for one of these. benson: look at this. stabler: it was good enough to fool the manager

stabler: where'd you get that? shove it. i'm sorry? shove it. you know something? you keep running your mouth like that you're going to wish you'd shot me. ( gagging ) what's your answer now? no answer. come on. how bad? she got it in the arm. okay, let's get her out of here. emt: this way. over here. you can't keep us safe. you can't help us. we will never be safe!

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do you recognize anyone? number three. where do you recognize him from? he's the one i saw passing the nurses' station, wearing the maintenance man's uniform. he killed miguel ramos. you didn't see him kill anyone. we're not in court. thank you. thanks. maria's turn. number three. his name is eddie fuentes. fin: where do you recognize him from? he works for fredo. i saw him driving the car when miguel was shot. driving?

you can't lead her like that. fin: okay, maria, if fuentes was driving... who shot miguel? fredo, from the back seat of the car. my client wishes to exercise his right to remain silent. he'd better say something if he has any hope of staying alive. staying alive? benson: miguel was a murder witness. killing him in that hospital means a needle in your arm, eddie. you can't prove i did that. moron. we got a witness places you ten feet from miguel's room just before they found him with a pillow over his face. your '98 black lexus left skid marks and paint scrapings at the scene of the crime. stabler: now, we match the slug in miguel to the one you put in his mother-- a that'sttempted murder of another witness and six cops. and if you think a jury is going to care that nobody tually saw you smother miguel i can assure you-- they won't. i don't talk for nothing. murder one, life without parole. what kind of deal is that? the kind that keeps you breathing!

we take the death penalty off the tabl ( whispering ) you got to protect me. we'll keep you out of the general pop. fredo... it was all his idea. i told him he was crazy. that doing the kid in the hospital was too risky. why'd he want miguel dead? miguel and maria. they saw him whack joey stapleton. fredo gave me $60,000 to hit them. how did you find maria and her boys? first time, we followed her to the diner where she met those two cops. we lost her when she split. so we followed the cops. they led us right to the church. followed us? that's crap. fuentes lies and the deal's off. he's looking adeath row. even he's not that stupid.

no, he's our catch. he already rolled on fredo for your case. now who told you that we had maria? narcotics task force said you were asking questions. someone in your own squad told us about the funeral. cragen: and your going there almost cost us maria and luis, not to mention four of my detectives and your own sorry asses. come on, let us talk to the girl. you want in, you follow my orders. benson: did you go to maria's hotel first? before the church. which means fredo could know we have maria and luis there. we got to move them. you want to talk to maria? we work together to protect her and you two just drew the graveyard shift. maria: where is this w hotel? stabler: rockland county. you cat take us there. i don't drive and we'll be trapped in that hotel and luis needs to be in school. maria, you're going to have to trust us. the only way that we can keep you safe from fredo's people is to get you out of the city. you have eddie fuentes. let luis and me go. i'll be back to testify.

before you ditched them and took off. i did what i had to do to protect my family. you almost got urself killed. please get in. i never should have gone to those cops... or talked to you. we could have disappeared... and miguel would still be alive. i killed my own son because i didn't know what to do. let us help you. you can't help me. he could be one of fredo's people or him, or them, or anybody. you can't stop them. if you just work with us, we can protect you. that's what the other cops said, and look what happened. i'm not testifying against fredo. listen to me. as long as you're out there, you're a threat to fredo. he can't afford to leave you alive. he'll never leave you alone.

you still refuse to testify, you go to jail and you'll lose luis to a foster home. then take him! put him in some place where they can never find him! we can't live like this anymore. ( crying ) cabot: she has to testify. stabler: well, you can't blame her. fredo killed miguel because maria talked to the bronx detectives. if maria doesn't nail him, he wins. you cut her loose? i'm just saying we're part of her problem. she thinks that we are punishing her by making her a moving target, and she's right. she's in more danger having us around. is there any way to do this without maria and luis? they saw fredo shoot miguel. maria watched him murder joey stapleton. cragen: we have eddie fuentes. he's a coconspirator. without corroboration, i can't even indict. you know, if we were the feds, we could give her a whole new identity, a new life. no honor among thieves. fuentes squealed like a pig. gave up fredo's operation, including the layout of fredo's crib,

maria's not lking till we get fredo out of the picture. fin: we better do it quick. ey go to the grandmother's house to get luis's asthma medicine, luis fakes sick. maria and luis go into the bathroom, close the door behind them, and maria bolts out the fire escape. tatum and his partner lost her. couple of square-badge security guards wouldn't have fallen for that. yeah. we better pick up fredo before he finds out. decision time, counselor. ( sighs ) i'll wake up a judge. the warrant will be for the drugs only. what you want, man? trying to get a taste, player. 4:00 in the morning, man, we're closed. open up. who you take off for that? do you really care? are you going to turn down this business?

i ain't never seen you before, man, come on. inside, follow me. you trying to take me off, man? you in big trouble, yo! shut up. it's the police. we're all clear. officer: police! don't move! ( gunshot, man screams ) police! we've got the building surrounded! open the door slowly and throw the gun out! maria: get out! i'm taking care of this! that's maria. maria, this is detective stabler. are you all right? go away! do it. ( man screams ) stabler: maria, put down the gun!

...matar perro, mentiroso! maria! maria, he's never going to hurt you again. now give us the gun. shoot her! i didn't do anything! you killed my son, you bastard! don't listen to him, listen to us. killing him won't bring miguel back. maria, you have another son. think about luis. maria: he will be safe. stabler: but he won't have a mother. just put down the gun and this'll all be over. come on, maria, make luis proud. come on, maria. how bad? it's killing me! it's good. it's just the knee. i'll call ems. fin: where's luis? he's at my mother's house. he was going for the gun. the one that he keeps in the bedroom! the bitch is a liar! munch: shut up. maria, calm down, calm down. look at me, look at me. where did you get the gun? on the street. i bought it. ( crying )

alex, this is a big mistake. maria bought a gun with our money. to protect herself and her son. to assassinate her ex-boyfriend. ( door ons ) what's going on? alex wants to indict maria. for what? attempted murder. are you kidding me? edo terrorized maria and her sons for two years. that doesn't give her the right to become a vigilante. this isn't about revenge, alex, it's self-defense. no, olivia. fredo's gun was two rooms away. unless maria had reason to believe her life was in immediate danger she had no justification for shooting him. how about extreme emotional distress? doesn't apply here. maria knew exactly what she was doing. she dropped luis off at her mother's. she ditched the bronx detectives. she bought the gun and she went to kill fredo. we put her in that position because we couldn't protect her. no one can guarantee maria's safefe 100%. look, she is scared for her life and her boys. maria committed a crime.

alex, cut her a break! i have to enforce the law. maria is your only eyewitness to fredo executing joey stapleton. convict her, and her credibility is st along with your murder case against fredo. the law is not always about justice. your words, remember? maria didn't kill anybody. but fredo... fredo's got two bodies to his name that we know about. we don't lop his head off now, he will kill again. and if anything happens to maria or luis... it's on you. get on the bus, mijo. okay. you take care of yourself, luis. luis: bye. would you tell my mother? that you've left town, yes, but not where you've gone. you'll have to call us. i will. thank you. stabler: good luck.

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face down! hands on the back of your head! hey, dorsey, over here! i got him! yeah, i got something over here, too. we got i.d.s? no wallet on the guy. woman was stripped naked no sign of her clothes. they were sexually positioned after death. this rock our weapon? we don't know where that fits in. we're looking for a knife. blitz attack or they put up a fight? defensive wounds on the guy. the woman-- we can't say. hands are missing. so's the head. we're searching the area, ma'am. officer dorsey. like i was telling your partner our collar might look good for it. tossed a bag in the water. big enough to hold the missing parts. my partner's got him in our car. he talking? we cald in for an interpreter. i speak a little spanish and french. i can mirandize in three others. what is he?

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one will be provided for you free of charge. it's also on this card. benson: do you understand your rights, scotty? i'm deaf, not dumb. i don't need a lawyer. i didn't do anything. well, good. what were you doing on the docks? i couldn't sleep. so i went for a walk. you always run from police when you go on your walks? ali saw was the light they blinded me with. i was scared, so i ran. so fast that you dropped your bag in the river. it was weighing me down. well, body parts can get heavy. stabler: so, uh... what happened here? hmm? i had nothing to do with this. i don't know what you're trying to pull. i am not involved with this.

( sighs ) munch: we recovered the duffel bag downstream. with the head and hands? stolen goods. two high-end laptops and some jewelry. from? a burgled houseboat. right about where they first spotted scotty. plenty of prints. we're running them now. the boat, by any chance, missing its owners? both alive and pissed. they didn't take out extended warranties on the computers. ( sighs ) how's it going? ( clears throat ) it's not adding up. there's no way he came out of that bloodbath without a drop on him. what's on his rap sheet? larceny, marijuana possession. no assaults. what do you want to do? hand him off to burglary. but let's check around the deaf community see if he's missing any enemies. or a girlfriend. cragen: where are we with missing persons? i'm having trouble filling in the blanks. like height, hair color, eye color... that was probably the point.

why hers, not his? perp's connection was to her. maybe he has a sexual fetishism. kemper had a whole closet full of ads. but no hands. cannibalism? naw, you'd go for the fleshier parts. all right, all right. enough theories. i want facts. the more we know out the victims the clearer motive becomes. man: male was in his mid-50s. female in her early 40s. aside from her obvious head and hand wounds both suffered deep, jagged stab wounds to the midsection. what kind of knife we talking? major duty hunting with a sharp eight-inch serrated blade. he's got a nasty head laceration. we got a bloody rock. no. i found imbedded tree bark. might have been hit with a hefty branch. results in from the rape kit? spermicide, but his pants were open had lipstick on him. so she was doing the male victim. perp happened upon them. killed him, took his place. killed her when he was done. he's got a wedding ring. this a married couple? mmm, trust me married couples don't have sex in parks. maybe he picked up a pro.

who make it to 40 without any evidence of cervical dysplasia. mistress? they didn't party together. john doe here had a blood alcohol level of .17. she didn't have a trace. opposites attract. any hit on his prints? no. but pacemaker companies are required to keep records on all patients. man: as much as i'd like to help out celadyne industries puts great stock in our custor's right to privacy. munch: you know, you spend so much less on r&d than your competitors. fda had a little problem with that, didn't they? that was a voluntary recall. celadyne's "l" wires had a tendency to fracture mid-pulse piercing recipients through the heart. that's just wrong. we've since made significant design improvements to our dual chamber pulse generators. but we can only do so much. we can't make people take their meds or refrain from risky behaviors. munch: our guy got himself stabbed. that's hardly a product malfunction.

without a special inquiry. ( typing ) edward boggs. benson: mrs. boggs when was the last time you saw your husband? when he was leaving for work. what time was that? 4:00. he works the night shift. do you know why he would have been in riverside park between 7:00 and 10:00? no. that doesn't make sense. uh-uh. no. he worked at the reclamation plant on randall's island. we're still trying to piece together all the details. he did, however, have a high level of alcohol in his blood. that's impossible. edward doesn't drink anymore. mrs. boggs... was your husband having an affair? no.

another victim was also found in the park. a woman. ( over speaker ): a woman? ( crying ) she's good. she's in shock. housewife, completely dependent. suspects he's cheating. follows him. catches him in the act. seya. you really think meek mindy here could blitz attack two people? you don't need pecs to hire a killer. find what else ed lied to the missus about. recanvass the park, bars, liquor stores anything within staggering distance. woman: yeah, i know him. whiskey, straight up. been in every night the last two weeks. he friendly with any of the customers? not until thursday. then he hooks up with one of the regulars. you know her name? his. vinnie. scum. what did they talk about? women. vinnie's all, "bitches this, bitches that" every time i walk by. they leave together? after the game, about 9:00. anything else?

okay. trouble at home, stress at the job. ed goes out to the bars to unwind and rag on the old lady. enter vinnie. they start pounding them back. stories get heated. we've been looking at ed as only a victim. maybe he and vinnie run into the woman on the street d wolf-pack her. ed's down for the rape, but not the murder. he freaks. vinnie takes him out. hey, you got a vinnie up there. is that our guy? yeah, chronic loser. does he play the weekly pool, too? never picks more than three winners a week. my labrador does better than that. today's his lucky day. you know, this is entrapment. i'm a victim of a sting operation. i'm here under, uh... false pretenses? false arrest. stabler: hey, manyou're not even under arrest yet so why don't you just settle down and tell us about your friend ed? hey... screw you. i can screw you harder. see, we have this handy little law enforcement tool

in jail for 24 hours. so why don't we try this again? look, i got this job. i can't mess up, all right? they're going to fire me if i don't show. stabler:so tell us about your night with ed. we had a conversation. is that a crime? it depends. what'd you two talk about? bitches. guy had this female boss-- real ball-buster. you know, and about two weeks ago, fires his ass for no reason whatsoever. that must have pissed him off. he was crying in his whiskey when i found him. so you join him and you stoke up the fires there? i spent the better part of the night reinflating the y's gonads. now he wants revenge. so you two start talking about bitches to take it out on. he didn't even have the stones to go home and tell his old lady he'd been fired. pretended to go to work every day. that's why he was loading up on liquid courage-- to go home and confess. but you had a different plan. yeah. another bar. you know, pick up some broads. but he turned me down flat so we parted company. and now where would this have been?

where i caught a taxi. which way did ed go? ed went into the park. nature called. female victim was attacked here. dragged over to this spot where she's butchered. she's then sexually positioned with the male victim who bled out right here. one perp, two victims. fin: look at this. now i'm no park ranger but since when did trees bleed red sap? m.e. found bark in ed's forehead. footprints are pointing toward the tree. run a urine analysis on that bark i bet you find ed's dna about waste high. vinnie said that nature called. so he had no connection whatsoever to the female victim? okay, new theory. perp rapes her, starts dismemberment. he hears a twig snap. sneaks up behind ed. smashes his head into the trunk right there. no witness. explains why his pants were open. wait a minute. the m.e. said

perp's screwing with us. he staged that relationship to throw us off track. ( phone rings ) benson. yeah, right. sewer worker in brooklyn just found the remains of a hand. you mind slipping this on? why? i need it to hold form. thumbs have to be similar in size, or we'll get diorted results. too manly. it's been through hell and back. submerged for at least 20 hours. after which rats made a picnic out of it. i'll run her through the system. let's just hope she's an ex-con a teacher or otherwise bonded.

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you think pam knew her killer? lengths taken to hide her identity-- it's a good bet. was she havi any trouble in her personal life? not that i know of. boyfriend? pam was married to the job. here she is. she was with us seven years. benson: she worked out in the field? okel: there are five million animals in this city and just 14 of us-- we all work the field. she working any case recently that might have put her atisk? well, we don't carry firearms for the fashion statement. you never know what's on the other side of the door. we're going to need a copy of those case files. munch: who do we sweat first-- granny with the 65 cats, or the soho poodle poisoner? well, here's the last case she closed. this guy jake moves into his father's basement with his new bride, missy. father walks in on them on their wedding night. how's that animal cruelty? missy's a german shepherd. ( laughs ): that's perfectly legal in 26 states. jake argued it wasn't bestiality where the animal is often hurt but zoophilia, which is a loving, life commitment. unfortunately, we're not looking for zoo couples. you got anything further up the violence scale there?

"films contain shots of small creatures-- "frogs, hamsters, baby bunnies and whatnot. "a woman's "stiletto-heeled foot enters frame... " whoa, whoa, whoa-- i can't hear that stuff. that goes in the good pile. benson: arson of those stables in brooklyn-- 21 horses werkilled. dog fighting ring. see, now you're talking gangs-- that'll be right there with tien's most violent perps. you know how they train those dogs to fight? they starve them, beat them and then collect strays to use as sparring partners. come fight night, big money changes hands and only one dog comes out alive. mfpca removed those dogs, right? stabler: ten pit bulls. brought in gang intel to shut down the operation. was there payback? kennel was vandalized two days later. okel: they broke in here and graffitied the place with gang symbols. why didn't you mentionthat before? it was an isolated incident months ago... and between drug busts and assorted felonies the gang's been pretty much decimated. hey, pooch. i can always spot an animal lover. pam used to spend her downtime in here.

not if she thought there was a hurt animal in there. all these animals are abused? mm-hmm... or neglected. they're all up for adoption, if you're interested. did you talk with agent tilden? sure. did she ever mention anyone causing her trouble threatening her, something like that? uh... yeah, the kid who did this one. pss-pss-pss-pss-pss. hey, slinky, hi. what did he do to her? poured paint thinner on her tail and set it on fire. wanted to see what she would do. how old's the kid? old enough to know better. 15, 16 maybe. and he threatened agent tilden? said whenever she ran into him upstairs he'd cuss her out. what was he doing here? ( phonrings ) that's the court's big punishment-- ten sessions on the couch with our company shrink. yeah?

court-mandated counseling for animal abusers. instead of jail time? do you know the incarceration rateor cruelty convictions? about zero. it's a misdemeanor. $45, a few hours of community service... not much of a deterrent. no... but at least with this program they are forced to address their actions talk about them. now this kid, uh, who torched the cat... harry baker? what does he talk about? if harry had made any direct threats i would have notified the police and the person at risk. and when you say direct threats...? harry has aggression issues. he had a positive tox screen at birth-- cocaine. makes for a hyperactive kid. ritalin was recommended in the first grade... harry refused. well, didn't his mother insist? his mother couldn't afford daycare so she'd take him to work with her... to her strip club. there was a lot of disciplinary problems for him early in school. dumped in special ed?

gifted program. refocused, he'd have great potential. but... right now, he does presenas predatory. benson: all right. all right, well, thank you. thanks anyway. you owe me. harry baker's file. for what? there's nothing here. i asked for transcripts. on a juvie? you're lucky i got his pre-sentencing report. "probation officer recommended intensive supervision "based on agent tilden's suspicion of numerous unadjudicated prior offenses." what do you suppose those were? lord knows. any way we can find out? shaheen! i have a fact-finding in 20 minutes on a ten-year-old who took a baseball bat to his grandmother and my witness is in the wind. you know, we never rescheduled that lunch. from a year ago? what do you want, alex?

cat flamb\ boy? he was only 15 so you know those records are sealed. but your memory isn't. a lot of these cases are a cry for help. you uncover the dad's abusing the mom the mom in turn abuses the kid... the kid completes the cycle by abusing the only member of the family more vulnerable-- the pet. right. but i didn't find any history of physical abuse with harry. what did you find? about a dozen other animals that had turned up dead and mutilated in his neighborhood. could you link any of them to harry? closest we came was a girl he had the hots for. let me guess she spurned his advances. she went into a deli, left her dog tied up outside comes back out and it's gone. could be a coincidence. it tned up on her stoop the next morning. dead? decapitated. stabler: where was your son thursday night between the hours of 7:00 and 10:00? in his bedroom, reading, like always.

sure. i had, uh... company. is this where you sleep? yeah. i'm having the penthouse painted. this harry's room? the beads. pretty hard t to overhear company. yeah, or walk in on them. so, what's this all about, anyway? how long's harry been killing animals? ( chuckles ): he would never do that. he set a cat on fire. people say these things about him but they're just jealous because their own kids aren't as gifted. he plead guilty. he's misunderstood. in science class, he gets an a+ because he is so good at dissecting frs. he's just really curious about the biology stuff. stabler: right. you mind if we take a little peek in his room? he's got nothing to hide. tidy. ( sighs ): could use a splash of color.

blood-red wasn't what i had in mind. fire escape right outside the window. how hard would it be to sneak out while mom's entertaining? no smell... no nooks and crannies big enough to stash a head. check out this library-- true crime, police procedure every book ever written on serial killers. all in alphabetical order. boy: you looking for something? harry, i'd like to ask you a few questions. it's about pam, right? yeah, that really bites. pam? officer tilden? we were kind of tight. benson: she arrested you. testified against you... even threw you into counseling. mm-hmm. stabler: you the pe to hold a grudge? i've been known to, but pam was cool. i read her death was totally wack. 'course they-they never publish all the details. any you can give me?

what do you mean? stabler: you got pathology of homicide death investigator's handbook... seems like your interests run pretty dark. my shrink says i have a... an aggressive orientation to the world. something about a predatory drive. sa if i don't rechannel it, i could-- i could wind up a... what did she say? a cop. hmm. well, we also heard that you have experience with surveillance. a girl in your class carey thorne? i broke her heart. by killing her dog? no, by ending our relationship. not to sound egotistical or anything, but...

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or if he can't have me, nobody can. you still have any of these letters? god, no. i burned them. did you notify the police? they talked to harry. he turned on the charm got his friends to lie for him. suddenly at school, i'm the nutcase. did your friends see any of these letters? they were, like, "what's ur problem? he's so cute." we need to get harry off the street but we're going to need your help. you don't get it. all i did was turn him down for a date and he killed my dog. i'm not messing with harry. could you at least steer us towards someone who would? fi( singsongy ): phillip... oh, phillip. come out, come out, wherev you are! now what have we here? thisoor appears to be locked but... do you see legs?

cooking spray. wh now do you suppose he thinks is going to get stuck? come on out, phil. what do you guys want? lowdown on your buddy, harry. we're not tight anymore. let me guess: you're missing a pet. dude's obsessed with death. i mean, it's one thing to hate cats but harry went superfreak. anything iolving a hunting knife? where does he keep it? how should i know? see? you're burning out too many brain cells. affects your memory. maybe we should give his principal and parents the 4-1-1 on his lite huffing habit. all right. he's got this place in central park. it's private, so hcan be alone with his collection. collection of what? skulls. cragen: the kid told us that harry's been slicing and dicing furry things for years. you got a fix on him yet?

he likes to take his time. draw out the pain. he gets off on the control and the domination. during the torture, he feels no empathy and when it's over, he feels no remorse. okay, but what i don't get is this: his burial ground is here-- why lure agent tilden to riverside park? look at this. open it up. harry's heads. looks like there's about a dozen in there. they're small. my guess is cats and dogs. big. i'd say hunting. get this to the lab. anything human in the?

i don't understand why we're here. they think i killed two people. daisy: that's ridiculous! harry is a good boy. he gets straight as. well, he also gets his kicks playing with the heads of animals he's butchered. that's not true. harry? take a pill, mom. i'm not going to listen to these lies. it's just an interrogation technique. now they've got you good and riled and it's time for q&a. first they'd want to know if i'm a bed-wetter. this is all about the accident with the cat. that gave them fire-setting and animal abuse. throw in enuresis and i fit the triad of sociopathy. three childhood indicators of a future serial killer. so, did he wet his bed? ( pounds table ) can we go now? harry... animal torture-- that's the biggie. that's true. i mean, look at all the major leaguers. as a kid, jeffrey dahmer ud to impale dogs and frogs and cats on sticks. albert desalvo, the alleged boston strangler

and then shoot arrows through the slots. little teddy bundy killed more than his share. as did, uh, as did son of sam... andrew cunanan... most of your high school shooters like, uh, kip kinkel-- ( over speaker ): i mean, the list goeson and on and on... stop it! ( snickering ) that is one cold kid. no conscience. no rard for others and yet superficially charming, manipulative. and an expert on everything, whether he did it or not. mrs. baker needs a break. she's waived harry's miranda. let's get you some coffee. this kid knows all the tricks. any suggestions? his ego's too inflated not to instruct and inform. get him to talk about it hypothetically

we've got yournife, kid. it's only a matter of time before they find the victims' blood on it. look, if it was me, i would've cleaned it very thoroughly. but it wasn't me. okay. well, then, who was it? sorry, i can't help you there. wow, all those books-- you can't put together a simple profile? caucasian, male. late 30s, early 40s. menial job. lives alone. how'd he do it? he was already in theark. he was waiting in the shadows. took her awhile to find but he didn't mind. the hunt's the most exciting part. took her awhile to find what? the injured animal. if he knew her that's what he used as bait. i mean, why else would she go? ( sighs ) why her?

stabler: so he lures her to the park, then what? takes her to a private place where he could be alone with her for awhile. 'cause he owns her now. he owns her body, her soul. and now he can do whatever he wants. agent tilden was in prime physical condition. she carried a gun. i don't see how he could've overpowered her. she never saw him. she was preoccupied. she was be over the animal, and it was a blitz attack. what did he use? something handy. like a rock. was that detail ever released? no. could be a lucky guess.

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dispatch said that her last call came in at 5:30. didn't come from dispatch. we traced it to a phone down in thkennels. finally finished running all their employees. only one popped up in the system. who? joe poletti. we talked to him. he's the dog walker. and a seven-time rapist. detectives. bens: in there, poletti. hey, that's the guy from the kennel, right? is he the one who did it? what are we doing with him? cutting him loose. let's do this again, real soon. count on it. poletti: i was in atlantic ty. left right after work. i hit a royal. joey, you called agent tilden from the kennel at 6:37 p.m. uh-uh. it wasn't me. a lot of people have access to that phone. how'd you get down to a.c.?

he's got a van. yeah, they all do. don't tell me-- you just had it detailed. that's funny you should say, 'cause i was about to but someone swiped it. joe, can you breathe without lying? you file a police report? no. can i do that here? don't worry, we're going to find that van for you. does anyone down at the "m" know your past? hmm? ( clears throat ) it never came up. it should've on your job application. you should know that's a violation the number of times you've been on parole. took your first rape collaat 18. you got lucky with that one: probation. that's ancient history. well, history has a way of repeating itself. you did three years for the rape of coral jividen. she was my girlfriend. she was 14 years old. you're out, what, two weeks before you start your string. five break-in rapes, all at knifepoint. i don't have those feelings anymore. that'd make you the first i've come across. i got he. i never missed a session while i was in.

three years of that pressure building? benson: pam tilden was at that kennel every single day, and you try to fight those urges but they kept getting stronger and stronger. the wallsyou built up crumble. you pick up right where you left off. okay, i was sick back then, but tell me how many of those people i kill, huh? none. that's why you did 12 years. living victims, living witnesses. you didn't want to go back and that's why you killed pam tilden and ed boggs. no. that's why you cut off her head and hands so she couldn't be linked to you. no! i'm rehabilitated. please tell me there's a head in there. tore poletti's house apart. this is all we could find. his pleasure chest. victoria's secret catalogs... strip club flyers. personal ads from new york magazine?

sex chats are on his no-no list. yeah, but we want him for murder not some pissant parole violation. want him off the street or what? i'm getting him on what we can. pretty gray area stuff. i doubt a hearing officer will even go for it. i'll take anything at this point. what will it get him? whatever he still owes on his parole. three weeks, two days. stabler: there you go. now there's justice. three weeks for a double murder. plenty of time for him to rest up plan his next attack. munch: or catch up on his writing. prolific little bastard. about 20 short stories of wall-to-wall rapeorture. anything in there a thinly veiled tilden/boggs confession? no, but rave review from one of his old offender program buddies. he sent them to another sex offender? munch: "joe, last batch was your best yet. "jumper cables to the girls' goodies finished me off. "send extra copies of the next one. they're a big hit with the guys." let me see those. woman: they're his private thoughts.

people v. kirpatrick found mere possession of obscene material without dissemination is not sject to prosecution. he mailed more than six copies of his story meeting the presumption of dissemination. he sent them to friends. fellow sex offenders. don't you see what the ada is doing? she couldn't substantiate murder charges against my client, so she's shooting blind seeing what sticks. i do not take a serial rapist's graphically violent writings about the torture of women and children lightly. this is backdoor and you know it. your client opened that door. save it r the ethics board ms. conrad. i'm only here to decide whether thcharge tracks under the statute. the obscenity statute is overly broad and void for its vagueness. it encompasses everything and nothing. in the venerable words of justice potter stewart "i can't define it, but i know it when i see it." two words: first amendment. the supreme court has come down on the side of limiting free speech when the need to protect the public is of overriding importance.

on this one, ms. cabot. but i'm going to let a jury decide. judge: mr. foreman have the members of the jury reached a verdict? foreman: we have, your honor. what is your verdict? on the sole count obscenity in the third degree we find the defendant, joseph paul poletti guilty. motion to set aside verdict. denied. remand continued until sentencing. ( gavel pounds ) nice snow job. well, i knew i had them when juror number six asked me to stop reading one page into it. it's a misdemeanor. one year, max. there's no statute of limitations on murder.

what are you doing here? homework. come here, you sick little freak. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. criminology 101, detective: "if you're going to break the law you don't want witnesses around." yeah, you think you're real cute, don't you? 23 cheerleaders can't be wrong. i know where you live, i know where you learn and i know where you bury your kill. you get used to my face, 'cause you're going to be seeing it every time you turn around. don't lose your head, detective. you're having enough trouble finding one. eh. that's good. we found your whole stash. r is just one stash. stabler: we gave up too easily.

go back through that house, over every scrap of paper. pull up his financials, dig up the backyard. i want every key he owns matched to a lock. every lock accounted for. poletti's stolen van. jackpot. joey's little reading room. his own "yank" stadium. ( sighs ) it's not here. i think we got bloodstains. it's blood, all right. stabler: so, match it to tilden. that's problematic. why? because of the cell surface antigens. it's canine blood. he tracked it in here from work. we lost him again. have a little faith. i got his travel itinerary off his tires. south jersey, above bedrock, is unconsolidated marine sand. atlantic city. he already told us that. did he mention something

or a sharp u-ey? how do you know that? i found microscopic frments of glass beads and of yellow and white reflective paint. glass beads could be any streh of road. but the paint... yellow and white together could be a hill or a sharp curve. the outer depositional strata of dirt says he then pulled off of the paved road. we got a heavy buildup of soil inside a wheel well and inside the bumper. he spun his tire in the mud. i got shoe prints inside thean. the same consistency. so he got out of the van dump the head and then he floored it out of there. do we have a clue as to where "thereis? someplace with a high level of soil contamination. what kin chemical byproducts. x-ray fluorescent spectrometer will give us the exact composition. you're saying it's near a chemical plant. what, with levels this high? d say he practically stopped on top of one's drainage ditch. think you've got enough red up there? garden state, my ass. i guess "chemical capital of the world" didn't have the same zing to it.

from the crime scene... to ac. stabler: now, we've confirmed that he made it all the way down there? fin: he was there. he didn't get a room, but he gambled till 5:00 in the mning. he pulled on his first one-armed bandit at 12:52. which fits the window. has him leaving manhattan between 10:00 and 11:00. cragen: how do we know the times? went out and spoke to the casino. he uses a player's card. just missed winning the free wayne newton tickets. okay, so from the crime scene he jumps on the west side highway... benson: finds his way over the manhattan bridge, down to the bqe. stabler: on and off to ditch the hands but not the head? well, csu measured. head was too big to fit through the sewer grate. all right, so he continues down over the verrazano bridge. maybe a quick stop at home. tossed the house. nothing there. all right, then he continues on over the outerbridge and it is a straight shot down the parkway. easy access to about eight plants. mercury. the soil contained absurdly high levels of mercury. we're looking for a mercury plant? no, no, plants use mercury as a cathode.

electrolytic cells to decompose salt brine. the end product being? chlorine and sodium hydroxide. how many plants are there in jersey that produce that? hold on. i also found a low ph level. it might also produce hydrochloric acid. ramon, how many plants we talking? ju one. idj chemicals. it's right on the toms river. benson: halfway down, right off the parkway. ( background radio communication ) ( siren approaching ) they're giving up. there's still one diver down there. you know how cold that water is? they were supposed to be up 45 minutes ago. they'll find it. they found poletti's tire tracks. doesn't mean a thing without that head- clothing, knife, anything. theyl go back out tomorrow. you find anything? a big party spot. got beer cans, couple hundred cigarette butts

and an earring. let me see that. elliot! what do you want? nothing. i just came by to gloat. yeah? well, don't overexci yourself. i can do a year standing on my head. what the hell is that? it's a little doggie earring. 18 carats. you don't recognize that? that's funny, because we found it where you dumped pam tilden's head. you can't prove it hers. well, it was made especially for her to commemorate five years on thforce. doesn't mean jack. it's got her dna on it...

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known as the special victims unit. these are their stories. officer: two-two edward, ten-four. it ain't stolen. soone could afford a nice car like this you think they'd get a room. yeah but 's empty. you're out of luck. guess there's no free show tonight. couldn't have been here very long. still in one piece. could have broken down, the owner went for help. with the keys in the ignition? who's going to do that a guy that can't afford the payments on his lease. i bet he left the car here and he reports it stolen in a day or two. you bet... and you lose. what? what are you talking about? here you go. fin: all right, nice dress. yeah, it was a nice date. where's munch? banged in sick. he's such a hypochondriac.