Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Murdered at a Bad Address (2019)

Ice-T: Sergeant Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola

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• Carlos Hernandez : [at the graves of his mother and sister]  That stone looks new.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Some people read about your case. There was a GoFundMe.

  Carlos Hernandez : A what?

  Odafin Tutuola : Folks chipped in.

  Carlos Hernandez : How can I ever thank you?

• Judge Mary Connor : Counselor, you're representing the defendant, Carlos Hernandez?

  Legal Aid : Yes, Your Honor.

  Judge Mary Connor : I understand you have a motion?

  Legal Aid : I do. Based on new exculpatory evidence, defense moves to vacate the sentence of Carlos Hernandez.

  Judge Mary Connor : People?

  A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : The People believe there's been a miscarriage of justice in this case, Your Honor. Due to newly discovered DNA evidence implicating a serial predator in these crimes, the People ask that this verdict be vacated.

  Judge Mary Connor : Mr. Hernandez, please stand.

  [Carlos does so] 

  Judge Mary Connor : Carlos Hernandez, I apologize on behalf of the state of New York for your wrongful imprisonment that has cost you 16 years of your life. It is my duty today to vacate this unjust conviction. You are free to go. Bailiffs, take off those chains.

  Odafin Tutuola : You can walk like a man now, Carlos.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : A free man.

• Katriona Tamin : Lupe Perez, 14, assaulted in the stairwell. She's still in shock, but she didn't want to leave her little sister upstairs alone, so I put a uni with her.

  Odafin Tutuola : You got here fast.

  Katriona Tamin : 2 train. Faster than lights and sirens every 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.

• Katriona Tamin : CSU is on the way.

  Amanda Rollins : And the girl's parents?

  Katriona Tamin : Her mom works the night shift at the Double Dutch Donuts on 125th.

  Odafin Tutuola : Cameras?

  Katriona Tamin : Busted, like the elevator. Like always.

  Odafin Tutuola : Wait a minute. You're a former projects kid?

  Katriona Tamin : Gowanus. And no such thing as a former projects kid.

  Odafin Tutuola : Okay. Is the girl comfortable with you?

  Katriona Tamin : Mm-hmm.

  Odafin Tutuola : Why don't you ride with her to CAC?

• Amanda Rollins : Just to be clear, we've got a guy doing life for murdering his mother and his sister and there was someone else's DNA on the victim?

  Odafin Tutuola : Why check DNA? They had confessions.

  Katriona Tamin : Yeah, and it's the projects. They were murdered at a bad address.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : Carlos, whatever you say here does not leave this room if you don't want it to, I swear. Where were you that night?

  Carlos Hernandez : I was at the beach.

  Odafin Tutuola : What beach?

  Carlos Hernandez : Plumb Beach in Brooklyn.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : That's the boy-meets-boy beach off the Belt Parkway? That Plumb Beach, right?

  Odafin Tutuola : Okay, so you and Ricky hooked up?

  Carlos Hernandez : That was the first time. Beautiful night... until I got home and I found my mommy and Jacinta dead on the floor.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Carlos, a lot of people have... have come out of the closet since then. Times have changed.

  Carlos Hernandez : Not in here. In here? Out of the closet means into a casket. The other inmates find out I'm gay? Gangs will turn me into a Maytag. Washing socks and spit-shining.

  Odafin Tutuola : Yeah, we get it.

  Carlos Hernandez : I'd get bitched out until I got the bug. Like Ricky. I know I'll never walk again as a free man, but can I ask you a favor?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : What's that, Carlos?

  Carlos Hernandez : At night... I still get the horrors, wondering where my mommy and my little sister are buried. Thinking that they're in an even worse place than me. I don't know... Potter's field or unmarked graves... just lost souls. Find out where my family's buried.

• Tim Stanton : Look, I feel sorry for the girl, but I got places to be. You need anything else from me, let me know.

  Amanda Rollins : First guy to say no. I'm calling Carisi for a warrant.

  Odafin Tutuola : [picking up a discarded cigarette butt]  Yeah, save him the trouble.

  Amanda Rollins : In that case, I'll call Liv.

• Carlos Hernandez : Man, I don't know who killed them. All I know is that Ricky and me didn't do it, I swear. I could never hurt my mommy or little Jacinta. That night, Ricky and me, we was just hanging.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Really? That's not what he said. This is his hand-written confession. Says that the whole thing was your idea and he just went along.

  Carlos Hernandez : Ricky was just a kid. Detective Monte convinced him if turned state's on me, he'd get man two and out in 15.

  Odafin Tutuola : Then why'd you fess up?

  Carlos Hernandez : Because Monte and the D.A. told me if I didn't confess that I'd get the sayonara syringe. Man, I was 18. I didn't have no mommy no more to help me.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Look, Carlos, I don't know what went down then, but if you work with us now, you give up your accomplice, when you come up for parole, I will go to the board.

  Carlos Hernandez : Why do you keep saying accomplice, man? I told you I wasn't even there.

  Odafin Tutuola : Come on, man. Everybody in here says they're innocent. It's been 16 years. That's almost half your life. Why are you covering for this guy?

  Carlos Hernandez : I swear to God, I came home and I saw them lying there like that. It's all I've ever thought about since.

  Odafin Tutuola : Carisi, this is a waste of time.

• 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.

• Amanda Rollins : Last one. I cleared all the registered sex offenders near Lupe's projects.

  Odafin Tutuola : And no leads on the canvass. Do we have anything?

  Katriona Tamin : Lupe said the perp's hands were calloused, smelled like wood shavings. Maybe a projects worker?

  Odafin Tutuola : Okay, give me a list of the maintenance guys from the Jacob Lawrence Houses.

  Amanda Rollins : I just got a weird hit on the touch DNA from Lupe's headphones. It matches a double homicide in the Wave View projects in Far Rockaway... from 2003.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : Carlos, you said that... that you and Ricky were, uh, you were... you were hanging. Where?

  Carlos Hernandez : That, I can't say.

  Odafin Tutuola : I told you this was a waste of time.

  Carlos Hernandez : Look, I'm not lying, okay?

  [taking a note out of his jumpsuit pocket] 

  Carlos Hernandez : After he was released, Ricky sent me this. He apologized for putting me away. He said he was just saving himself, and back then... in Far Rock, we weren't angels. All right? But my mommy? She was all I had.

  Odafin Tutuola : Okay. You got an alibi for that night? Or this goes nowhere.

  Carlos Hernandez : Thank you for your visit, gentlemen.

• Odafin Tutuola : I'mma ask you again, Carlos, 'cause we know there was a third person who helped kill your mama and your kid sis.

  Carlos Hernandez : What you mean you know?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : We found DNA of a third man.

  Carlos Hernandez : You did? So you know... you know who did it. You arrest him?

  Odafin Tutuola : If we knew who did it, we wouldn't be asking.

• Tim Stanton : Yeah, well, see, I did some work on Lupe's mom's bathroom recently, and so I moved the kid's headphones out of the way. I didn't... I didn't want to get no water on 'em.

  Amanda Rollins : Okay, well, that makes sense.

  Tim Stanton : So I'm good to go?

  Odafin Tutuola : More like good to go away. We got another hit on your DNA, from a 16-year-old attack in Far Rock.

  Tim Stanton : The double murder? No, the son and his buddy confessed. It can't be me. That's, uh, like, double jeopardy or something.

  Amanda Rollins : Not really.

  Tim Stanton : Besides, even if my DNA was there, I probably worked on that apartment, too.

  Odafin Tutuola : Work? That's how your blood and skin got under the victim's fingernails?

  Tim Stanton : All due respect, I think it's time for me to shut down and lawyer up.

• Teen Dude #1 : Five-0, always five minutes late.

  Juanita : No city cameras to protect our girls, but plenty for mug shots of our boys.

  Odafin Tutuola : We're SVU, ma'am, not the Warrant Squad.

• 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.

• Odafin Tutuola : So, you're the maintenance guy. You been working here a long time?

  Tim Stanton : They send me where they need me.

  Amanda Rollins : Well, you notice anybody who doesn't belong? Trying doors, checking out the stairwell?

  Tim Stanton : All the time. Bangers, homeless, dealers. They got guys on the registry in this neighborhood.

  Odafin Tutuola : We're all over that. Just hoping maybe you could come check out some mug shots.

  Tim Stanton : Shouldn't the girl do that?

  Odafin Tutuola : She didn't get a good look at him.

  Tim Stanton : Ah, that's too bad. Listen, I'd do anything to help, but I don't have a head for faces.

  Amanda Rollins : There's something else you could do. We need your DNA to exclude you from the investigation.

  Tim Stanton : My DNA put in the system? That ain't happening. Who knows what the government does with that?