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.

Get off me!

911. What's your emergency?

- Let me in. - He raped me. Please help.

Okay, honey, take a deep breath.

Open the door!

I pulled up your address.

- The police are on their way. - Please hurry!

Kristi, open the door now!

Is your attacker still in the apartment?

Yes, he's my sister's boyfriend.

Kristi... tell us what happened.

We all ate dinner. Chinese takeout.

Who was there?

Me, my sister Rachel, and Dan.

He's not still here, is he?

You're safe now, Kristi. Dan can't hurt you anymore.

So what happened after dinner?

We talked for a while,

and then we all went to bed.

- What time? - 10:00.

Rachel and Dan went into her bedroom.

I went to sleep on the couch.

And then the next thing I knew, Dan was on top of me.

And he raped me.

Please let me talk to Rachel.

I need to talk to my sister.

Excuse me, detectives. I need to speak with you now.

- What's up? - Rachel's gone.

Where? You don't usually go for a walk after your sister's been raped.

I don't think she left under her own steam.

Blood on the bed.

And spatter on the floor by the window. No prints, wiped clean,

same for the fire escape.

Rachel McGarrett. 21.

Her sister's raped. Rachel's missing.

Let's go talk to the boyfriend.

It's quite a mess you've made here, Dan.

Where's Rachel?

I don't remember.

Conk on the head give you amnesia?

There's no way you forgot raping your girlfriend's little sister.

What are you talking about?

Maybe the precinct will jog your memory.

Look, you're not gonna believe me if I tell you.

Why don't you try us?

I did it in my sleep.

What'd you do with Rachel?

You forget, or you sleepwalker her into a dumpster?

I swear, I don't remember a thing...

Maybe you got into a fight, huh?

Get in fight, get out of hand, you kill her, dump her body...

No, I didn't. / Then you had to get rid of Kristi because she could finger you...

No, no, look. You don't understand.

Okay, I have this condition.

And I have a headache.

You his lawyer?

Anna Bentley.

My client suffers from arousal parasomnia.

It's a real disorder.

He had sexual intercourse with Kristi McGarrett while he was asleep.

Look, Rachel knows about my condition, okay? She loves it.

She says when I'm asleep, it's the best sex she's ever had.

He was so violent.

He was grunting and panting like an animal.

How long have you know him?

I met him for the first time yesterday at the train station

when he and Rachel picked me up.

So you're visiting.

From Boston. I came to look at colleges.

She told me that she was in love with him.

How could he do this?

Now if Rachel's so hot for you when you're, uh, sleep sexing,

why'd you rape Kristi?

Rachel must've already been gone.

Yeah, because you got rid of her.

That's where the blood in the bedroom came from.

No, look, I woke up after Kristi cut me with the glass.

When I went in the bedroom to tell Rachel, she wasn't there.

You can't arrest my client for a rape he didn't know he was committing.

Dan's attorney's right. We can't charge him with the rape.

If it looks like a rape and acts like a rape...

It is a rape, unless the accused isn't conscious of what his body's doing.

It's like a sleeping mother who rolls over on her baby.

Her body did it, but her mind wasn't aware of it.

Well, it still doesn't explain what happened to Rachel.

I think that it does. When a patient with sexsomnia has an episode,

he'll seek sex with whoever's available.

I think that he raped Kristi because Rachel was already gone.

I gotta tell you it sounds like a cover-up for killing Rachel and dumping her body.

There's never been a case of sexsomnia linked to a homicide.

You're telling me there's no connection

between Dan attacking Kristi and Rachel's disappearance.

If she's in love with Dan, I doubt she'd leave in the middle of the night.

I think Rachel was kidnapped.

Did your sister ever mention anybody bothering her?

- Giving her the creeps? - No, Rachel would've told me.

Kristi, I... I am so sorry.

I never meant to hurt you!

Shut up! Nothing you say will bring my sister home!

Kristi! Kristi! / Dad.

- Is this the guy? - Yeah.

Dad.

Back off! Back off!

Mr. McGarett, I understand that you're upset...But you can't...

What do you expect me to do? He took my daughter.

We don't think that he's involved.

You don't think he's involved?

He raped Kristi. What are you gonna do about that?

There's nothing we can do.

- What? - He has a medical condition

that made him unaware of his actions.

And the law says that we can't charge him.

This is a nightmare.

We are working around the clock to find your daughter.

Good, because so far all you have done is hide behind the law.

- Mr. McGarrett... - No excuses!

Find my daughter.

CRIME LAB ONE POLICE PLAZA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

I took hair from a brush in Rachel's room.

Typed her DNA and then compared it to the blood on the scene.

DNA on the left is Rachel's. The right's from the blood.

- They don't match. - But this does.

DNA from a blood sample Dan gave

when he participated in a parasomnia study at Hudson Med School.

So Dan told me truth.

He bled all over the bedroom when he went in to look for Rachel.

At least we know Rachel wasn't hurt badly.

Well, that's all we know.

Whoever took her didn't leave a shred of forensic evidence.

I'm getting a text here from my captain.

He wants me to turn on channel 4. Do you mind?

Last night. One of my daughters was raped.

The incompetent detectives at Manhattan's Special Victims Unit

refused to charge her attacker.

And if this tragedy isn't horrible enough,

my daughter Rachel was abducted from her bed.

We're reaching out to the public for help.

My family is offering a $50,000 reward

for any tip leading to Rachel's safe return.

If you have information, please...

call... Manhattan SVU's tip line.

Captain, woman claims she saw Rachel eating a chili dog in Times Square.

Wants the 50 grand in 20s and 10s.

Reward offer brings out all kind of crazy.

One bogus lead after the next. Follow those two.

- Maybe not! - Who's it now, psychic hotline?

A friend of Rachel's.

- You still there, Ginger? - Yes.

Tell the detectives what you just told me.

I think Rachel's in Another Youniverse.

GINGER MAXON'S LOFT 488 WEST 20TH STREET TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

Another Youniverse is a virtual reality game.

Rachel and I play online all the time.

Is that how you know Rachel?

No, we met at art school.

Saw an ad for another you in the student union.

So we checked it out.

This is my avatar, Tawny Coppercuffs.

She's my alter ego in Another Youniverse.

This is my homepage. It's really cool.

You can do anything want in A.Y. just like in the real world.

I'll show you video from my game diary.

Here's me shopping.

I have a chauffeur. And this is my dog Rex.

That's where I bought my virtual car.

And this one's me and my friends hanging out by the pool.

Who does Rachel hang out with?

She was at my virtual condo last week. See?

Hi, Vixy.

And what is Rachel's avatar's name?

Vixy Platinum.

She's Vixy.

You're Tawny. Sounds like a couple of strippers.

Actually, you're close.

Rachel and I use A.Y. to explore our fantasies.

What kind of fantasies?

We own a couple of virtual sex clubs.

How do avatars have sex?

Same way as humans do.

Only in A.Y. it's just animated.

I'll show you.

Here's me and Vixy entertaining a couple of dates.

So you can do anything you want, and you and Rachel chose to be prostitutes?

It's a fantasy, not a crime. Plus it's safe.

Sex for money with no risk of STDs or getting pregnant.

We're not hurting anybody.

Someone may have hurt Rachel.

This is her club.

"Vixy Platinum's Underage Wonderstage."

"Live Sex Nude."

There's a whole new world out there just waiting for perverts.

Who are all these guys holding signs?

Those are Rachel's fans.

She performs every day at 2:00pm.