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.

- So this is what being an SVU detective is?

Transporting bodily fluids?

- We're not just picking up any bodily fluid.

That's what I'm saying.

- I mean, what we're getting is evidence.

Yeah, sure. But it's also...

- Would you have a problem holding blood?

No. You know I wouldn't.

Saliva?

- This ain't gonna be blood or saliva.

- I don't think you appreciate the top-notch detective work

that's gone into this field trip, Griffin.

A rape suspect donated his sperm three years ago.

We have a warrant to take possession of said donation.

If we get a DNA match to the rape kit,

one less sicko on the street.

So grow up and imagine it's the tiny scales of justice

you're holding in here.

OK. Fine.

Why am I the one that's gotta carry

some suspect's crotch milk?

'Cause you're the new guy.

10-66, we have an explosion at 129 West 18th.

Send everybody.

Two SVU portables going in.

Hey, hey, hey. Come here.

Hey, come on. Come here.

I got you. You all right?

OK.

Damage was confined to the back part of the clinic.

Luckily, that part was clear when it happened.

But wait, let me understand.

Why did SVU respond?

- Oh, we were already on the premises.

Yeah, we were trying to collect a sample

to match DNA from a rape kit.

What's your suspect's name?

Ted Simons.

- You think he's good for a bomb?

- Would be a first for him, but never say never.

- I--I thought it was another earthquake,

like that one we had this summer.

And, uh, the patients were helping me up,

and smoke was pouring from the back.

- And what--what's located in the back?

- Uh, doctors' offices and the lab.

- Uh, that would be where they store the donor sperm?

Yeah. Why?

Excuse me.

What happened?

I need to get past.

This is my clinic. I work here.

Uh, that's Dr. Mukherjee.

She owns this place. It's her whole life.

- OK, thank you. - Please, can someone help me?

Please, let me go!

- Officer, let her through, please.

I'm Captain Benson.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Oh, my God, did anyone get hurt?

- No, no, no. Nobody is seriously hurt here.

Now, this is your clinic? - Yes.

I can't believe someone would do this.

What's going on? What happened?

- The FBI is, uh, working with the possibility

that somebody may have mistook your practice

for an abortion clinic.

- No, that's never been what we've done here.

- No. - We help people get pregnant.

It's strictly fertility treatments.

Yeah, OK.

So I'm gonna put you together with the FBI here.

And then when you're done with them,

I'd like to ask you a few questions

about a sperm donor, OK?

All clear.

How's it looking up there?

Single ordnance, homemade.

- Any chance we could take a peek,

see if our evidence is intact?

- Oh, it's not. - How do you know?

- Were you guys looking to collect ash and dust?

So my entire lab?

Fire got everything.

That's 10,000 embryos.

I'm so sorry, Dr. Mukherjee.

- I was gonna do a procedure in an hour.

She'd been trying for five years.

We just got viable embryos.

What am I supposed to tell her?

I'm so sorry.

Why don't we-- why don't we step over here?

- Oh, my-- - I'm so sorry.

- Well, you got your wish, Griff.

I take it all back.

- FBI says the IED was in a bathroom

next to the clinic's lab.

A combination of potassium perchlorate

and aluminum flash powder shoved in a cardboard tube.

Shotgun shells for fragmentation.

4th of July in a toilet roll.

- Well, Ted Simon sure is good at keeping his DNA under wraps.

No matter what we do, we can't seem to get it.

- OK, so how long have we had eyes on his trash?

Months.

- Guy must bleach his takeout containers.

Haven't even gotten a hint of saliva.

- He does know the judge is being

a stickler for the DNA swab.

So if he figured out that we're trying to get

his DNA from the clinic--

But planning a bomb?

That's a huge change in his behavior.

So is going to prison.

OK.

I think it's time to bring Mr. Simons in for a chat.

Give me a break.

Yo!

What did I do?

- Transporting an extra piece of trash

in the back.

- Come on, this is my workplace.

- I just thought up some new questions for you.

- I've talked to you three times now,

given you a statement.

Can we just move on?

I didn't know the girl.

And this, OK, is harassment.

Juan, what the heck?

Oh, shoot.

That wasn't very nice of Juan.

- Hey, do you-- do you need a ride?

This guy is a twerp.

We press him, I bet he folds in two minutes.

You remind me of someone.

Mr. Simmons.

Simons.

I'm Captain Curry.

This is Detective Velasco.

Water?

Where's Detective Bruno?

- I can see you two bonded, but this isn't his case.

- Do you prefer coffee or a soda?

Please.

- You sure you don't want any water?

- We all know the second I take a drink,

one of you is gonna swipe the bottle

and run it back there to test my DNA.

And what's so bad about that?

- You cops frame people every day of the week.

I'm not guilty, and I'm not stupid, OK?

Ask Detective Bruno.

Again, this isn't his case.

We're not here to talk about Katie Wilkins' rape.

You're not?

No.

Detective Bruno's closing that case.

He's already got your DNA.

No, he doesn't.

Oh, yes, he does.

From the fertility clinic.

Roosevelt Women's Health.

- You had a romantic affair with a plastic cup, 2022.

- You don't have my permission for that.

- It turns out we don't need your permission.

Yeah, because we have a warrant.

Detective Bruno's already testing

that sample as we speak.

So we don't need to talk about that case.

We're here about the bomb you set.

What bomb?

- The one you made and set off this morning.

- I don't know what you're talking about.

- You were trying to destroy evidence.

- You went from a small rape charge to, what is it, arson?

No, no, no.

- You're gonna be charged federally now.

- But I-- I didn't do anything.

Malicious use of explosives,

use of a weapon of mass destruction,

domestic terrorism.

- You're looking at multiple life sentences.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my--OK, OK.

Please, please, listen.

I swear, I swear,

I don't know what you're talking about.

- How am I gonna explain that to the Feds?

- Particularly when your sample comes back

a match to the DNA that was found inside Katie Wilkins.

- Hey, Feds, I know he lied about the rape, but, yeah,

let's trust him about the bomb.