Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Murdered at a Bad Address (2019)

Kelli Giddish: Detective Amanda Rollins

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• 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.

• Savannah 'Moms' Baker : Morning, detectives. Help y'all?

  Amanda Rollins : Yes, ma'am. You are Savannah Baker?

  Savannah 'Moms' Baker : Well, the kids call me "Moms". Moms Baker. Don't tell me another child has died from them dopey-oids.

  Katriona Tamin : No, ma'am. We're here looking for Ricardo Torres.

  Amanda Rollins : The captain of the housing unit thought you might know where he is.

  Savannah 'Moms' Baker : He paid his debt.

  Amanda Rollins : No, no, we just wanna ask a few questions.

  Savannah 'Moms' Baker : And Carlos. No way he would hurt a June bug, let alone his family.

  Amanda Rollins : You know about the murders.

  Savannah 'Moms' Baker : I know he was a mama's boy. Never raised a hand to hurt another child.

  Katriona Tamin : And what about Ricardo?

  Savannah 'Moms' Baker : If Ricky threw himself on the floor, he'd have missed.

  Amanda Rollins : But they both confessed.

  Savannah 'Moms' Baker : Down home, we call that railroading, right, honey? Detective Monte, that prosecutor... they had the wrong boys, but they didn't care.

• 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.

• Savannah 'Moms' Baker : Ricky lit right back here from prison. He was so skinny. I knew he had the bug.

  Amanda Rollins : HIV?

  Savannah 'Moms' Baker : Full-blown AIDS. He caught that while inside. He cried on my shoulder. He had lied on Carlos to save his own skin.

  Amanda Rollins : Moms, you know where we can find Ricky?

  Savannah 'Moms' Baker : He just passed. Last week. He asked me to, uh, scatter him out there where he and Carlos skipped stones.

  Katriona Tamin : I'm so sorry.

  Savannah 'Moms' Baker : Do you know who killed Ricky? That detective. You're sorry? Talk to him.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Amanda Rollins : You're retiring to Florida? Pension'll go a lot further down there, that's for sure.

  Detective Monte : Yeah, disability. I'm out on three quarters. You know, after collaring skells like Hernandez and Torres, I don't wanna die shoveling snow here in the stepchild borough.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : I hear that.

• 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.

• 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.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : About Hernandez and Torres... you... you wrapped that case up pretty quick.

  Detective Monte : First 48. Listen, counselor, you're not on the job. Any cop who saw that scene knew right away it had to be banjos or bongos. The vics were PRs, the mother was a crack putan, and the daughter was 13, built like she was 23. Her son, Carlos, yeah, he was a big dopey stroonz, horny as a bag of cats.

  Amanda Rollins : For his own sister, really?

  Detective Monte : An hour under the lamp and the other one, Torres, flipped like an acrobat. A double homicide cleared off the radio. Why do you two care?

  Amanda Rollins : We're working a rape case, a young girl, and we got a DNA hit that matches DNA from your crime scene.

  Detective Monte : It's gotta be Hernandez. He was the doer.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : No, neither. Must've been a third man there. Do you... do you remember any other suspects?

  Detective Monte : Not a chance. And let me tell you something. Those two, it's not their first time. They were hittin' other projects. Three or four rapes, teenage girls. Cases we couldn't make. I just thank God that they were stupid enough to hit their own home.

• 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?