Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

- So you bust a sex party and find a nun.

- You saw who was there. Politicians, police.

- The johns, they must know who threw the party.

They're not saying.

Somebody knows how these girls got caught up.

- Is there someone at the school we should be looking at?

- What's the monsignor doing here?

- He has made some very serious allegations against Tucker.

Sex trafficking, corruption...

They really set me up good.

1PP wants to see me.

Lieutenant, what's going on?

- I'm out, effective immediately.

Male narrator: 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.

- I know having your lieutenant transferred abruptly

is unsettling, but ours is not to reason why.

How long is Liv gonna be gone?

Best hope... temporarily.

For now, keep doing your jobs.

You're in good hands with the sergeant here.

- First off, I was as blindsided by this as all of you,

and second,

I'm gonna need your help.

- Copy that, Sergeant. - What are we supposed to do?

Leads me to my third point.

The lieutenant was recused

because of the allegations against Captain Tucker.

- So what's that got to do with Liv?

- I can't speak to that, and neither should any of you,

but this is still our case,

and since charges have been made against Tucker,

Barba's been pressuring us to follow up on them,

so start following up.

- If Detectives Russo and Jefferson

claim they told me about this ring, they're lying.

I called them in on a completely separate matter.

- They're alleging you blackmailed them

into cutting you in on the operation.

They're dirty.

SVU busted them in the raid.

Whosever running this thing told them to blame me.

We have two priests, Captain,

Father Eugene O'Hanigan and Monsignor Patrick Mulregan,

who confirm parts of the story.

Are you saying they're in on a conspiracy too?

I don't know.

Father Eugene is my cousin,

so... some of this might be personal.

There is a nun, though, a Sister Nina Kelly.

She suggested to me

that Father Eugene was somehow involved.

Have you spoken to her yet?

Sister, is anyone else coming?

- Not today. Just... just get in.

Barba.

- We're not supposed to be talking.

No?

Did you know that I was getting transferred?

- 1PP doesn't keep the DA's office apprised

of its Byzantine maneuvers. - No? Well, let me fill you in.

You told them about me and Tucker,

and a few hours later I'm getting pep talks

about what a great asset that I would be

to women in Community Affairs.

- Liv, you're seeing someone I'm investigating.

1PP had to know.

- Tucker is not a sex trafficker.

- Then the investigation will clear him.

Until it does, just stay out of it.

- Whoever's behind this murdered Cara,

and while you and 1PP are chasing their Trojan horse,

other girls are in danger.

We can't talk about this.

Wha...

Hello? - This is Nina.

Did you tell them that I'm not cooperating anymore?

- Okay, Nina... Nina, where are you?

- Jus... just tell them that I'm leaving town

and that they don't have to worry about me.

- Wait, Nina, wait. Listen to me...

- I have to go. - Nina, hold on...

Nina? Hello?

Ed, hey.

How are you holding up?

- Group One's been grilling me since 8:00 a.m.

- They can't think that you're in on this.

- Oh, yeah, they can. What do you got?

You need to be careful.

Somebody's after Sister Nina, and you might be next.

What are you talking about?

- She called me this morning, spooked,

and now I can't reach her.

Dodds is tracking her phone.

- Great. All right, keep me posted.

Listen, I'm due back upstairs.

More questions about me and my cousin Eugene.

- Okay, I know you can't violate any oaths,

but when these girls confessed to you...

I became concerned

that the girls were being preyed upon

by the two vice cops, and I suggested to the monsignor

that he talk to my cousin in Internal Affairs.

- When was this? - A year ago,

March 14th... that's the date of the letter

I sent to Ed Tucker outlining these crimes.

- You still have that letter on your computer?

- I write by hand, but I kept a photocopy

if you'd like to see that.

Yeah, please.

Yep, last March, hmm.

And you... are you sure he got this?

I me... did you hear back from Captain Tucker?

Tucker calls my partner and I

and says he wants to meet.

- When was this? - March 16th, last year.

Here's a print out of Detective Russo's calendar.

- Was your lawyer or rep with you?

- No, Tucker said that it was off the record,

strictly for intel.

So we go to... - Wait just a minute.

Let me make clear

anything my client says to implicate Tucker

cannot be used against him.

Go on.

We go down.

Tucker's there without his partner,

says he knows about us and the girls

and that it can go one of two ways:

We lose our badges and we do some hard time,

or we cut him in on our action

and he closes this file out.

- Do you have any way to verify this?

Were the meetings with Tucker recorded?

- No, it was Tucker, my partner, and me.

I told my captain about it.

Yeah, give me a few minutes.

That guy's got his story down.

- Well, if Jefferson and Russo met with Tucker,

IAB is sure to have a record of it.

Hey, Sergeant,

this is a copy of the letter the monsignor sent Tucker

outing the vice cops.

Either Tucker's dirty

or somebody's setting him up good.

- Okay, I'll give this to Group One.

Next problem, the lieutenant called.

Sister Nina might be in trouble,

and her burner phone's going straight to voicemail.

A burner... so no GPS.

TARU just triangulated.

The last call came from Saxon Woods.

I got an emergency exception to put a Triggerfish on her phone.

If it's on, we'll find it.

- Where was the last call made from?

- TARU said less than a mile from here.

The minivan is Nina Kelly's?

- No, it belongs to an Episcopal Church in Yonkers.

I left word.

- Can you call again? - Sure.

- Well, somebody ran her off the road.

- Yeah, and look. You see these drag marks?

Go over here to the tire tracks.

So they... they put her in their vehicle

and they took off. - That's not good.

- No. - I got two suitcases.

It's women's clothes.

This one is Nina's.

And that one looks like a teenage girl's, right?

So we got two vics.

- Okay, church lady says the van is usually driven

by their reverend, a Father Joseph Leahy.

Another priest?

You got to be kidding me.

Yes, that's our minivan.

I loaned it to Nina this morning.

She said she was in trouble. Is she okay?

- Do you have any idea where she was headed?

- I gave her the keys to my family's lake house in Vermont.

You did?

All right, so you two must be... must be close.

Episcopalian reverend, a Catholic nun.

How'd you meet?

- I used to be a Catholic priest.

That's when Nina and I, uh...

Became involved?

We were in love.

I asked her to marry me, to start a new life together.

But she turned you down?

- She said she had too much work to do.

Girls were being abused.

I asked her to stop, but Nina's dogged.

She never quits anything, not even the Church.

- When you gave her the keys to the car,