Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

In the criminal justice system,

sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous.

In New York City, the dedicated detectives

who investigate these vicious felonies

are members of an elite squad

known as the Special Victims Unit.

These are their stories.

Amber! Where the hell are you?

Good thing I like slowpokes.

Hey.

You seeing anything?

No, it's late, the mothers are going in,

I don't think our guy's gonna show.

No, he groped ten women in the last six weeks.

Do you think he's just gonna stop now?

It's getting colder.

It's hard to cop a feel through a heavy coat.

Maybe he goes south for the winter.

Oh, come on.

Hey! Where'd you go?

Where are you?

Is that our guy?

Whoever it is, he's not right.

Not ready? Amber!

It's a jackhammer!

Hey, what the hell is your problem?

Everybody, back up. Back up, back up. Sir!

Police. Don't even think about it.

Put it down. Back up. Let's get some room here. Back up.

Rollins.

Oh, God.

Hey, sir. Hey.

It's not funny.

You're such a bitch.

Who the hell you talking to?

My girlfriend, Amber.

She's right there. Make her stop.

He's hallucinating. He's burning up.

SVU portable to central K.

We got a 54 in the Meer.

We need a bus for transportation to LaGuardia psychiatric ASAP.

The psych ER?

Ugh, what for?

He has to be cleared by a shrink before we can book him.

The guy is not nuts.

He's having a bad trip. That's it.

Come on, you can tell the difference

between a chemical wig-out and a psychotic break?

Yeah, I can.

Most of the time.

I grew up around both.

My sister had it rough, so...

We all come from something.

This won't take long.

Come on.

Captain Lee.

What's happening?

- Detective Rollins. - Hey, how ya doin'?

All right.

I just watched you two pinch the naked fish on YouTube.

2,000 hits.

Ready?

Any idea what he took?

Yeah, he was running around without any clothes on.

Collapsing, no tremors.

It could be PCP.

Probably.

We'll run a tox screen and see what happens.

Run an EKG and a CAT once he's stable.

He's all yours?

For now.

No need to babysit.

Why don't y'all go home? I got this.

- Sure? - Yeah.

Guess we'll see him at arraignment.

I'm sick.

Please, I need a doctor.

Soon as you get your EKG,

you're going straight to jail. Now shut up.

10-85. Patient eject.

Ward six. Need assistance.

Stay here. You move, I pound you.

Get away from me!

Get lost.

Shut the door.

Shut the door!

Somebody!

Hey!

Hey, help!

Rape! Rape!

Next case.

People versus Darren Bickford.

One count exposure, one count public lewdness.

How do you plead?

I saw a girl get raped last night.

- Not today. Counselor-- - Listen to me.

A girl was attacked.

I know what I saw.

I'm not making this up.

A guy was choking her.

I told the doctors, th-the guards,

now I'm telling you.

Are you the arresting officers?

Yes, Manhattan SVU, your honor.

And this is the first time we've heard anything about a rape.

Good, then you can investigate starting now.

With all due respect, ma'am,

the suspect was apprehended while masturbating publicly

under a drug-induced hallucination.

Was he seeing things when he witnessed the rape?

I would have no way of knowing, your honor.

Then don't speculate.

We'll reconvene in two weeks.

I expect to hear from the people

about the defendant's complaint at that time.

A girl got raped.

I swear I'm telling the truth.

What makes you think it was a rape?

She was on top of him, facing me--

- She was on top? - Yeah.

But his arm was around her neck, choking her.

Her eyes were shut tight.

She was crying.

What did she look like?

White girl, dark blonde hair.

Young. I-I don't know.

What about the doer?

You see his face?

No, she was blocking him.

He yelled, "get lost, shut the door!"

Did anybody else see this?

Like, maybe a guard?

I was, uh, on my own.

Look, she was trying to pull his arm from her neck, and...

She had a hospital bracelet and a-a-a--

a deep scar on the inside of her left arm.

She tried to killed herself.

There's plenty of suicide attempts in a psych ward.

Go back to LaGuardia, ward six.

She's real.

Keep your clothes on.

So we have a flasher who was hallucinating,

claims to have seen a girl raped at LaGuardia.

- Can't we farm this one out? - Not according to the judge.

This kid was high as a kite.

- Who says he saw anything at all? - The rape wasat?

Five hours after you busted him? He would have come down by then.

If there was a rape, yeah.

Why would he lie?

Public lewdness, first offense...

What's he looking at, a week of community service?

I don't think this guy premeditates or even thinks.

We have a description, we go to LaGuardia.

If the girl exists we find her.

We need to talk to you

about one of your female patients.

- Which one? - Well, we don't have a name.

But she's white, she's mid-20s, dark blonde hair.

She's got vertical scars on her forearm.

That's Gia Eskas. Oh, my God.

What's she being treated for?

Sorry, you know I can't answer that.

What's this about?

Well, we think she may have been raped last night.

What? By who?

We don't know.

That's why we need to talk to her.

You didn't get a report?

No.

But she had to be sedated last night.

Why?

- Is she lucid now? - She should be.

- I'll go in with you. - I'm sorry, doc.

It's a criminal investigation.

I got a hair.

The color matches our supposed victim.

You should find plenty.

Docs crash out here all the time

when they got patients on the ward.

Sleep's not the only thing going on here.

Cushion's covered in stains.

A quickie with a nurse isn't rape.

- Maybe that's what went down. - How would you know?

You left your prisoner unattended.

He was handcuffed to a wheelchair on a locked ward.

Look, I did vertical patrols in housing projects

for six years, I get it.

They expect you to have eyes in the back of your head.

85 call went down.

Patient going buck wild in ward six.

Attacked an officer and two nurses, all hands.

How many surveillance cameras are there on this floor?

There's two at the visitors' desk.

Let me, uh, get you the footage.

Who told you that?

If it was one of my fellow inmates,

you can't believe a word they say.

They're all crazy.

Is that a yes or a no?

Gia?