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 are you ready to teach me some of those dance moves?

Yeah.

Can we get ice cream? We're right by the cart.

- Before dinner? - I won't have dessert after.

Olivia!

Simon.

Hello, I'm Simon.

Hi, I'm Noah.

Yeah, go ahead. Go pick a flavor, run along.

Who's Noah?

Uh, Noah is my son.

I have a nephew and you didn't tell me?

Well, that's on me.

I haven't exactly been in touch.

Simon, what are you doing here?

I moved back to Jersey a few years ago,

working at the Carpet King.

How is your family, your... your children?

I don't know.

Tracy took the kids, so I haven't seen her or them

since I last saw you.

I'm sorry.

I thought about asking you to help me track them down...

but I always end up making more trouble for you.

Look, Olivia, I just...

I just want to make it up to you.

Maybe I can... I can take you and Noah out to lunch?

Simon, I don't think that's such a good...

Just don't... don't say no.

All right, look, I've been clean five years.

Look at this.

All right? You're my only family.

I wanna get to know my nephew.

Come on. Wednesday, lunch.

It's my day off. You pick the place, the time.

I can be anywhere.

Eight Bronx Science grads have won Nobel Prizes.

I'm gonna be the ninth.

Good for you, Lupe.

That's a lucky ice cream.

Dream on.

She's a herb, but smart's hot, too.

No!

*LAW AND ORDER * Special Victims Unit

*LAW AND ORDER SVU* Season 21 Episode 06

Episode Title : "Murdered at a Bad Address"

Sync corrections by srjanapala

Well, the word is definitely on the street.

Hey, move aside, folks, please.

Thank you.

Five-oh, always five-oh minutes late.

No city cameras to protect our girls,

but plenty for mug shots of our boys.

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

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.

- You got here fast. - Two train.

Faster than lights and sirens every time.

CSU is on the way.

And the girl's parents?

Her mom works the night shift

at the Double Dutch Donuts on 125th.

Cameras?

Busted, like the elevator. Like always.

Wait a minute, you're a former projects kid?

Gowanus.

And no such thing as a former projects kid.

Okay.

Is the girl comfortable with you?

- Mm-hmm. - Why don't you ride with her to CAC?

The doctor was nice, but the exam hurt.

I. siento.

Teenage girl assaulted in the projects?

Any witnesses?

Fin's still canvassing, but there's nothing

on the rape kit, no semen or hairs.

So we're looking at a pro.

But we really want to catch this guy.

You're letting Kat take the lead?

We're giving her a shot. She was first on scene,

she rode with her, and she took the disclosure...

And I'm right here if she needs me.

Kat doesn't miss a trick.

Somebody must've stolen her lunch money once.

Or tried to.

I tried to scratch him for DNA,

but he choked me with my headphone cord.

Did you see his hands?

Big, white maybe.

Or Hispanic.

They smelled bad.

What kind of smells?

Like a woody smell.

Good, like, like a park?

No, pencil sharpener smell.

Good, Lupe. Did you hear his voice?

He said...

"Okay, chiquita,

do it nice for Papi."

My real papi died.

I'm so sorry, Lupe.

You were saying that he...

He said if I didn't...

You know...

he would go upstairs

to my little sister Gizelle.

So the rapist knew Lupe; they knew her family.

It's why he didn't let her get a look at him.

He pulled down my pants...

Please, I don't want anyone to know that.

Hey... you don't have to worry about that.

Okay?

Lupe's mom is here.

I was working, um...

My husband died two years ago, that 9/11 cancer,

so I work extra...

if I had been there...

You were working for your family.

Listen to me, this is not your fault.

Ms. Perez, we think whoever did this to Lupe knew her.

So can you think of anyone,

a neighbor, a teacher that maybe pays too much attention?

No... um... Lupe's always in the library

or at the school lab or...

babysitting her little sister.

Please, I need to see Lupe.

Of course.

Last one.

I cleared all the registered sex offenders

near Lupe's projects.

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

Lupe said the perp's hands were calloused,

smelled like wood shavings. Maybe a projects worker?

Okay, give me a list of the maintenance guys

from the Jacob Lawrence Houses.

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.

You have a closed rape and double murder

from 16 years ago?

And they had the DNA and never tested it?

It was tested by mistake,

swept up while they were going through the backlog.

And the touch DNA on Lupe's headphones matched the DNA

found under the fingernails of which victim?

Both. Nydia Hernandez,

strangled with an electric cord and her daughter, Jacinta.

She was sexually assaulted and then strangled.

Two teenagers confessed.

Ricardo Torres, 15 at the time.

He turned state's on Carlos Hernandez, 18,

the son and brother of the vics.

And which of their DNA matches Lupe's?

That's the thing. Neither.

What does that mean?

That we're looking at a third accomplice?

Someone who was never caught.

Okay, so we're gonna need to talk with

Ricardo and Carlos. Where are they now?

Hernandez is still serving 25 to life in Green Haven.

25 to life and he never gave up the third guy?

He's not talking.

So take Carisi with you.

If he sees a DA, maybe he'll think that he can cut a deal.

And what about Ricardo?

Finished his 15 a year ago.

Last known, Wave View Houses in Far Rock.

Parole officer's on vacay.

That's leverage.

So, Rollins, Kat, lean on him, hard.

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?

Why check DNA? They had confessions.

Yeah, and it's the projects.

They were murdered at a bad address.

I'm gonna ask you again, Carlos,

'cause we know there was a third person

who helped kill your mama and your kid sis.

What you mean you know?

- We found DNA of a third man. - You did?

So you know... You know who did it.

You arrest him?

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

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.

Really? That's not what he said.