Law & Order Special Victims Unit s27e10 Episode Script
Fidelis Ad Mortem
1
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.
Look at this.
Original 2002 Levi's.
So excited for this.
I mean, I love that for you,
but doesn't it hold,
like, three songs?
It's got real buttons.
[BUTTON CLICKS] Mm!
That's so satisfying.
All right, let's see
if this thing works.
Maybe this is a mix tape.
How much did you get that for?
30 bucks.
They're like 100 at Urban.
[SCOFFS]
[STATIC CRACKLING]
You're not supposed to be here.
Hey, come on.
Don't do that.
No.
No.
I said no!
Please!
[SOBBING] Get off!
Please!
- Please!
- Shut up.
You know you want it.
[SOBBING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
That sounded real.
Where's the case?
♪
I'm gonna show this to my mom.
[DRILL WHIRRING]
Mom?
Hey, pass me the
Phillips number 2, will you?
And don't you have a
Mandarin quiz tomorrow?
You ready?
What's up?
I think you should listen to this.
[SOBBING] No!
Please!
- Please!
- Shut up.
You know you want it.
[SOBBING]
I listened to the rest
of the tape, both sides,
and it's all blank
except for this section.
Okay, and this is
the only tape like this
that you guys had?
The rest was music.
Well, that must have
been hard to listen to.
It's fine.
It's whatever.
The thrift store opens at 11:00.
They may be able to tell us
where the tapes came from.
Okay.
Well, Gabe, thank you.
Thank you so much
for bringing this in to us.
Yeah.
No problem.
All right, go on.
I'll see you after practice.
You know, I gotta say,
I can't believe that you paid money,
for cassette tapes.
I still have my old
Dire Straits collection.
You think that might
be worth anything?
Is that a band?
I hate you.
- Go to school.
- [LAUGHS]
- You okay?
- Well, you know how boys are.
They act like nothing gets
to them, but I can see it does.
He's got a therapist.
He'll be all right.
Yeah?
And what about you?
I got a therapist too.
[CHUCKLES]
We'll hit the store
as soon as it opens.
Here's what I'm thinking.
There's a forensic audiologist
that we've worked with before.
They might be able to clean this up,
see if there's anything more to hear.
So what we have here is a tiny win.
Out of 120 minutes, I
was able to successfully
recover four seconds.
And that's a win?
I did everything I could.
Anything you can tell
us about the tape itself?
When it was made,
how readily available
was this particular format?
Sony HF Type 1,
mainly used for dictation.
I can even tell you exactly
when the tape was recorded.
[WHIRRING]
October 2, 1999.
403 West 24th Street.
And that's all she wrote.
My guess is someone
tried to degauss this.
- De-what?
- Degauss.
These tapes are magnetic.
That's how they hold the information.
So you wave a
demagnetizing wand over it,
and all that data is toast.
Someone knew they recorded a crime
and didn't want anyone finding out.
We sell dozens of tapes a day.
Can barely keep 'em on the shelves.
Funny how all this stuff comes back.
Well, this one looks
like a home recording.
It had "number 56" written on it.
- You know when he bought it?
- Sunday afternoon.
Let me see what I can find.
Oh, my God.
I would have died for one
of these when I was little.
That one's got her adoption
papers and everything.
- Come on.
- [LAUGHS]
Oh.
No, I'm good.
I can drop a hint to Carisi.
- Birthday gift.
- No.
- Maybe.
- Mm-hmm.
Friday night we got a decent haul
from this estate sale on West 46th.
Whole building was being demoed.
We took everything they had.
Got the building
for next to nothing,
comparatively speaking.
Foreclosed property built in 1910.
Last of the tenants moved
out, so we started demo.
You recently had an estate sale.
- Where'd you get the items from?
- Basement.
It was loaded with crap from,
like, generations of tenants.
Still a ton of stuff down there.
Gonna take me another six
months to sort through it all.
You mind if we take a look?
Oh, knock yourselves out.
All right, so I just wanna warn you,
if we encounter a rodent of any kind,
my reaction will be intense.
Noted.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Hey, Rollins?
There's something back here.
You wanna help me out with this?
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
The remains are with the ME.
They're still working
on cause of death,
but preliminary report
says our vic was a woman,
roughly 22 to 25 years old.
And CSU turned that building
inside and out, what was left of it.
No other human remains were found.
Okay, is there any updates
with Missing Persons?
UF 61 was filed October 7, 1999.
Right age range and
exactly five days after
the date we heard on the tape.
Tameka Davis
She was 24,
when she went missing.
Single.
We found some
employment records from '97
saying she waited tables,
but nothing from '99.
- She got a record?
- No.
But she rented an apartment
at 403 West 24th Street,
the same address
mentioned on the tape.
She was living there
when she went missing.
What about next of kin?
Her mom, Tiffany Davis,
who reported her missing,
she's still around.
She's 67.
Tameka also had a son, Jayden.
He's 31, but he was
just a little guy at the time.
No dad on the birth certificate.
It's not a coincidence that there was
a dead body, and a recording
of a sexual assault in that building.
So the former owner
was Brendan Kearney,
a known Westies enforcer.
And the FBI seized
the building in '99.
That makes sense, the Westies
were mostly disbanded by then,
but there were still a
few running around.
They were good for two things:
running coke and contract killings.
Well, we could track down whoever
was heading up OC at the time.
I actually already found
a detective who was
undercover for Narcotics back then.
Ha!
Welcome back, Sergeant.
It's part-time for now.
You look good.
- Glad to have you back.
- Thank you.
Well, I looked into that
24th Street apartment.
That whole 24th Street
block was a hot zone.
All kinds of gangs
fighting for territory.
But I happen to know
a guy who took down
the Westies back in the day.
- I'ma hit him up.
- You want company?
Let's roll.
Black with a packet of Sweet'N Low.
Half a pack now,
but with your ugly mug,
I'll burn a cheat day.
Bring it in, brother.
Good to see you.
This is Sergeant Rollins.
She's with me at SVU.
Chess partner call in sick?
Moved to Florida 24 hours
after hanging up his badge.
What can I do for you, Sergeant?
Well, I'm wondering if
you recognize this woman.
Sorry, I can't place her.
There were so many of them.
So many bodies.
Doesn't mean that
this one didn't matter.
- Mm.
- Where'd you find the body?
Found the body in a
basement on West 46th Street.
We think she was killed on West 24th.
24th?
That would have been Gibbs' territory.
- Mm-hmm.
- Miles Gibbs.
Bed-Stuy born and
raised, just like you, Fin.
Started dealing south
of the Lincoln Tunnel.
Little upstart grew his empire
all the way up to the West Side.
And man, were those turf wars bloody.
Remember that?
Hey, man, back then, somebody
would try to serve you a baggie
just for sitting where you are now.
What a world.
[KNOCKING]
You must be Jayden.
Uh, can I help you?
I'm Olivia Benson.
This is Renee Curry.
We're from NYPD
Special Victims Unit.
Is your grandmother home?
Who is it, honey?
The
The police.
Well, it's about time.
Tameka's dental records.
Pulled them for some
cops a couple of years back.
Hiked all the way up to
the precinct in Chinatown
just to find out they had
already ID'd their Jane Doe.
At least Captain
Benson and Captain Curry
- came in person, Gran.
- Mm-hmm.
If it's all right, we'd like
to ask you a few questions.
- Okay.
- Okay.
Does the name Miles
Gibbs mean anything to you?
He was Tameka's man for a bit.
Didn't last long, though.
She ever tell you what happened?
Mm-mm.
How about you, Jayden?
You remember Miles?
Uh, sure.
Yeah, um
He bought me a race
car when I turned five,
but that's about it.
When did they break up?
A couple of days
before she went missing.
Miles was a bad egg.
I guess I don't have to tell
you what he did for a living, but
He was paranoid,
always accusing Tameka
of talking too much.
Was she involved
in Miles's business?
Absolutely not.
She hated drugs.
Hated what they were
doing to the community.
So Tiffany, there's something else
that we need your help with.
Whatever you need.
He's old enough now.
He deserves the truth.
We have a sound recording,
of what we believe
Might be the last
moments of Tameka's life.
This is gonna be
very, very hard to hear.
So if you don't wanna do it,
we completely understand,
and I won't ask you again.
It's your choice, Jayden.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
You're not supposed to be here.
Hey, come on.
Don't do that.
No.
No.
I said no!
Please!
[SOBBING] Get off!
Please!
- Please.
- Shut up.
You know you want it.
[SOBBING]
♪
Um
That's her.
That's my baby.
I didn't think it'd be so hard.
[SOBBING] Please!
Please!
Shut up.
You know you want it.
- [SOBBING]
- Turn that off.
You know who that was.
You recognize that voice.
Yeah.
Whoever that dude was, it wasn't me.
Okay, then who was it?
If you know something,
you're not just helping us.
You're helping her.
I don't work with
cops, no matter how nice
you bat those long eyelashes.
Come on, man.
I came up in Bed-Stuy.
I rolled through boys
and girls high just like you.
Here we go with the "you
and me, we're not so different"
- psychobabble BS.
- Hey, come on.
We know from her mom
that you two were on the outs.
Huh?
What happened there?
It was dark days back then.
Stash houses got
cleaned out left and right.
Took a minute before I even
realized that she was gone.
You're shaking down the wrong perp.
My crew, we sold crack.
The Westies,
whats-ever ever left of them,
they did the contract cleanups.
But there was a third crew
That nobody likes to talk about
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
'Cause they all dressed in blue.
♪
What is all this?
Griff and I pulled every file
that was ever filed in the
original Miles Gibbs case.
An undercover op from the 2-9
was what eventually sunk him.
The cops had Tameka's
apartment bugged for months
without Miles knowing, and that,
is where our cassette tape came from.
We went through every cassette tape
in the storage boxes.
Tape 56 is the only
one that is missing.
So the cops knew a
rape had been recorded.
They tried to erase it
then chucked the tape.
Okay, so a possible rape
and murder from 27 years ago,
and our main suspects are cops.
- Let's hear it.
- Okay.
Four cops, front and center.
First, we got Jerry Kuenzel.
He put his papers in shortly
before Miles was arrested.
He bought a house upstate in Hornell.
And besides cashing his pension
checks, he keeps a low profile.
Okay, next we've got Paul Holliday.
He retired as soon as he
could get his full pension.
Deceased as of five years ago.
Before then, he was
living large in Florida.
Well, it looks like
Kuenzel cashed in too early.
No kidding.
Thomas Ahearn retired from
the force seven years ago.
Got into private security consulting.
He lives in Nyack.
Going private certainly pays, huh?
- Leo Eichmeier
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I know Leo.
This guy's a DA investigator.
If Leo's involved in this, then Baxter
might want me to call
in a special prosecutor
from another borough.
This is a conflict of interest.
Hang on, because we don't
know what he did or didn't do.
So I think for now, this
all has to stay under wraps.
Miles said that cops were raiding
stash houses left and right,
but these logs only show two busts.
Two of these cops
are stacked with assets.
The best way to swipe loot
from raids is to not report them.
It says here that both
busts were off intel
- from CI 17-A52.
- Okay.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
It was Tameka.
She was the confidential informant.
Her mom did say that Miles
said she talked too much.
So, we're saying she was a CI
and the very cops she
was helping killed her.
Care to visit your old
stomping grounds to find out?
Happy to.
♪
Here we go.
Intake photos.
You know how to use this thing?
I do.
Had to look up some
old RICO files last year.
Yep. 17.
A1, A2.
Liv was right.
CI 17-A52.
That's our girl.
Dental records were a match.
These are the remains of Tameka Davis.
Impossible to tell if she
was sexually assaulted,
obviously, but hyoid
bone was fractured,
indicating strangulation.
COD was blunt force
trauma to the head.
Her last moments weren't easy.
- She fought hard.
- Okay.
I appreciate your thoroughness,
but, you could have told
me this over the phone.
This is why you're here.
We've got a second victim.
Found them in the same bag.
These over here, skull fragments,
and these are hands and feet.
So this is a professional hit.
The killer wanted to make sure
that the body couldn't be ID'd.
Yep, and based on bone volume
and the right foot's talus length,
odds are your victim was male.
So where's the rest of him?
Kind of shocking, isn't it,
how small we all are at the end?
Thank you, for bringing
my daughter home.
So there is one more thing
that I need from you, Tiffany.
I need you to tell me if you
recognize any of these men.
No.
- They're police.
- They are.
Tameka never had
no problems with them.
So we learned that
Tameka was actually
helping them as an informant.
And you think one of these men
might have done this to her?
- What we're trying to figure out
- Wait, I know him.
I know him.
He came to the apartment not
too long before she went away.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
They were yelling at
each other in the kitchen.
Did he
Did he threaten her?
No, no, he was afraid for her.
He said if she left that
night that he would help her.
I mean, it's one of the last things
I remembered about my mom.
Thank you, Jayden.
That's
That's very helpful.
I've been mad at her for leaving me
for so long, you know?
I've been telling
you for years, Jayden,
you gotta let that go.
Me being mad at her kind of
Kept her alive.
♪
Keep your ass in your pants.
I'll be right there.
Hi.
I'm Detective Bruno.
This is Detective Griffin.
We're with the NYPD Special Victims.
Is Jerry here?
Out of town.
Not exactly sure when he'll be back,
but I'll let him know you stopped by.
- Have a nice day.
- Okay.
Hey, can we get his
cell number, Mrs?
Letitia.
I'm his
We live together.
Look, am I under arrest or something?
You're not under arrest,
but it wasn't very
considerate of Jerry
to leave you home alone
and not tell you where he was.
Is he treating you right, ma'am?
Not as good as I deserve.
But we broke up a long time ago.
Jerry doesn't live here anymore.
- No.
- Huh.
That's interesting, because, uh,
someone has been
cashing his pension checks.
Look, the jerk walked out on me.
We just wanna know how to reach him.
Well, good freaking luck.
I haven't heard from
the loser in 25 years.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Jerry's been missing for 25 years,
and you didn't report it?
He was a dumbass!
First, he quits his police job.
Says he can't stand the place no more.
Then he goes off on a
bender with his ex-cop buddies.
Goes off to some cabin.
Probably just got too pissed to
come home and show his face.
Letitia, do you still
have anything of Jerry's?
Like old clothes, a hairbrush?
Probably got, like,
an old cop uniform.
- Why?
- We found some remains.
It might be him.
Lab results came back.
They pulled a hair from
the hat in Kuenzel's uniform.
DNA was a match
for the extra body parts
found with Tameka's remains.
Okay, so we got a dead CI,
and now a dead cop,
both connected to the Miles
Gibbs op and both found dead
in the basement of a building
that was owned by a
known Westies associate?
- What are we thinking?
- All right.
Tiffany said Miles accused
Tameka of talking too much.
We know Kuenzel warned her.
So, maybe she feared she was burned,
tried to back out, and the
other cops wouldn't let her.
One of them gets violent,
and the others, they're
all lining their pockets.
One of them goes down, they all do,
so together, they clean up shop.
Well, when there's a cleanup,
we know that one of them
has a weaker stomach.
And in this case, that was Kuenzel.
Last Letitia heard from him,
he was headed up to a cabin
with his cop friends.
Eichmeier's got one up in Roscoe.
If these snakes kept
this secret for this long,
they'd be willing to do
anything to keep it buried.
I hope you're right.
Thomas Ahearn.
Good morning, detectives.
I'm Captain Curry.
This is Sergeant Rollins, SVU.
Beautiful property you got here.
I can't complain.
So what can I do for you?
We caught a case that might
involve some people you helped
put away back in the day.
We're hoping maybe
you can walk us through
some of your old case files.
- Which case?
- Miles Gibbs.
Oh.
My memory's shot, Captain.
And to be honest, Sergeant,
I try not to think about
those days too much.
But maybe we can walk
you through what we have.
- It won't take longer than a minute.
- Gotta go!
Have a nice day, detectives.
NVIDIA is gonna double by March.
- I promise you that.
- Leo Eichmeier.
What are the chances?
Oh, sorry to interrupt.
I'm Jake Griffin.
My dad was a detective in the 2-9.
He talked about you guys
all the time growing up.
Griffin, Griffin.
You're Jimmy's kid.
Yeah, sure am.
By the look at you,
you made detective.
- Yeah.
- What do they got you on?
Special Victims.
Oh, sex police.
- You're a bit of a pervert, huh?
- [LAUGHS]
You know, I just
go where they tell me to.
Great to meet you.
Jimmy Griffin.
Whoo!
That's a blast from the past.
Yeah.
Uh, to be honest, I knew
you'd be here, and, uh
[WHISPERING] I, uh,
I gotta tell you something.
[LAUGHS]
- I won't be more than a minute.
- No problem.
So my dad spoke very highly of you.
He always said that you
put your guys first, okay?
So I, uh
I wanted to tell you
that SVU is looking into the
Miles Gibbs undercover op.
What does SVU care about Gibbs?
- That case was all Narcotics.
- [LAUGHS]
Honestly,
I'm just the new guy.
Still trying to figure
out why SVU looks into
half the cases it looks into.
All I'm saying is, if there's
a particular direction
that you want me to
turn everyone's neck
[TENSE MUSIC]
Jimmy worked days.
I worked midnights.
I offered to get him
a shift on my crew.
I told him the overtime was killer.
You know what Jimmy, the rookie
detective making peanuts, said?
What?
He said, I've got
a little guy at home.
I gotta take care of him.
Good luck with the investigation, kid.
♪
Hey.
I just got nudged.
Jimmy Griffin's kid.
Oh, yeah?
How's he?
Eh, bit of a putz.
I mean, he's not wrong.
Okay, quiet.
I'm wondering about our old friend.
I'm thinking there's a chance
he comes over for dinner.
- When?
- Soon.
He still like that
place you got upstate?
Yeah.
Then let's make
sure it's spic and span.
He's gotta be talking
about Eichmeier's cabin.
They're gonna get rid of the body.
I'll expedite a warrant.
♪
NYPD!
- Don't move!
- Hold on a minute.
Why don't we all calm down?
♪
Put your hands
behind your head, now.
Watch them.
Everybody else, fan out.
♪
Griff!
[CLATTERING]
After you, new guy.
[GRUNTS]
Griff!
[STRAINING]
Ladder stops here.
How much further you got?
I think I can make it.
[GRUNTS]
You all right?
Yeah.
You see anything?
Found the rest of Kuenzel.
♪
You wanna explain to
us how half of Jerry Kuenzel
wound up on your property?
And what were you
and Thomas Ahearn doing
with an angle grinder
and a couple of tarps
at 10:00 at night?
You got nothing to say?
You know, my old partner
at Bronx SVU used to say
there's only two kinds of perps
honest crooks and crooked police.
Well, at least one of them can
look themselves in the mirror.
Back in the day, Bronx
police used to pull stunts.
Made the 2-9 look like honest Abes.
[LAUGHS]
Oh, how they let you within
an inch of the DA's
office, I have no idea.
But you know what?
You are not as slick as
you think you are, man,
because we found something. Oh, yeah.
We found the cassette tape
that you and your friends doctored,
and, it has got cover-up
written all over it.
So we're gonna look into
every aspect of your life
until we find the truth.
I bet you all of Jimmy's buddies
told you your daddy was
clean as a baby's soul.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Keep believing that, kid.
That big house, that cute boat,
the condo you just
bought your daughter,
we're gonna go after all of it.
You tell us what happened to
Tameka Davis, Jerry Kuenzel,
we may try and get
you a lighter sentence.
You wanna know how
SVU got ahold of that tape?
Hmm?
My teenage son found it,
accidentally listened to it,
and then Captain Benson
and I had the true pleasure
of playing it for Tameka's mother.
Hadn't heard her
daughter's voice in 27 years,
and now this is the last
memory she's gonna have of it.
The sound of Tameka
pleading for her life,
- pleading to be with her son.
- You know something,
and you wanna sit
there and say nothing.
Thomas, did you hurt her?
Did you use Tameka for intel?
And then when you realized
you couldn't squeeze her anymore,
- you raped her.
- No.
- You beat her.
- No, I could never
Look, look,
we manipulated her to
get us all rich, like you said.
Leo was her handler,
and he had this, um
Let's call it a fixation for her.
Okay.
Was he in her apartment that night?
He and I both were.
And yeah, Leo
Leo got a bit fresh.
Did you see him hurt her?
No, he didn't
he was just flirting, you know?
He put his hand on her waist.
You didn't feel the need to step in?
Leo told me to get lost.
Told me to meet him at the corner pub.
An hour later, the guy
shows up, and he's panicked.
He said that Tameka
just flipped out on him
and he had to put her down,
and then he needed our help.
And Kuenzel and Holliday and me were
the only guys he could trust.
So Eichmeier rapes and kills her,
and then he calls
you all to clean house.
It's not like we had a choice.
How'd she end up in a basement
in a building on West 46th?
Leo had a Westie contact.
It's like calling a guy who
To come pick up your dry cleaning.
You ring him up, and
no questions asked.
So what happened in Leo's cabin?
Leo was always scared that Kuenzel
was eventually gonna crack,
so we put the screws to him.
I can still see it to this day.
We had poor Jerry there,
swearing on his dead mother's grave
he's never gonna tell a soul.
Then Leo just
♪
Leo just reached into his
couch cushions, pulled out a gun,
and shot the guy mid-sentence.
But it's been 27 years.
I can't carry this thing no more.
What are we thinking here?
Rape and first-degree murder charges
for Leo Eichmeier on top
of all the corruption charges?
Hard to believe
Leo's capable of all this.
I know.
What do you wanna do with Ahearn?
Look, everything that he said
matches up with the evidence we found.
Let's charge him with conspiracy
for the cover-up as
well as the corruption.
We'll plead down on sentence
if he helps us nail Eichmeier.
Chief Tynan, it's nice to see you.
I would have given you a
call, but since you're here,
Ahearn just flipped on Eichmeier.
We're discussing a plea deal.
I see.
Look, nobody likes to
force open old wounds,
least of all 1PP.
But I'd just like to underscore
how much locking up
two dirty cops would
give the department
the boost it needs
in light of all the,
uh,
recent bad press.
And Captain Benson has done
such a terrific job investigating.
It was a group effort.
No need to be modest.
We all know how much you
love being in the trenches.
Let's offer Ahearn five years.
You want me to call the Brooklyn DA,
get a special prosecutor assigned?
I mean, Eichmeier does work with us.
Not anymore, he doesn't.
I was weak, plain and simple.
And I'm not trying to get
a free ride here, okay?
I'm gonna do time for
my corruption charges.
But I never hurt that girl.
And I didn't kill Jerry Kuenzel.
Leo Eichmeier did.
Thank you, Mr. Ahearn.
Nothing further, Your Honor.
Everyone loves a reformed cop.
Now, Mr. Ahearn, please
tell the jury how you know
- a Michael Christopher Lally.
- Objection. Relevance?
Overruled.
Answer the question, Mr. Ahearn.
Michael was an acquaintance.
He was a member of
the notorious Irish gang
called the Westies, wasn't he?
That's what I heard.
And isn't it also true, Mr. Ahearn,
that Mr. Lally was your
ex-wife's first cousin?
That's correct.
And isn't it also
true that it was you,
Mr. Ahearn, not the
defendant, who called Mr. Lally
to help dispose of the bodies?
Yes, but I did it at Leo's behest.
Thank you for answering
the question, Mr. Ahearn.
What did you do with
the drugs that you stole?
[TENSE MUSIC]
- We sold them.
- So all four of you
went to the streets and took up
slinging crack as a side gig?
We sold them to Michael Lally.
Ah, so through your
connection to Mr. Lally,
you're the reason everyone got rich.
And you're the reason
that Tameka Davis
and Jerry Kuenzel's remains
wound up in that basement.
Now, you're saying that my client
was the one calling the shots,
but it sounds to me
like you were the one
keeping the machine running.
Could any of this
the corruption, the
murders, the cleanup
Could any of this have
happened without you?
♪
So that makes the rest of
his testimony null and void?
Vaughn's gonna pin
this whole thing on Ahearn.
If we're lucky, Eichmeier
does minimal time
for the corruption and conspiracy.
And Tameka just
gets lost in the shuffle.
Well, Miles Gibbs,
he's the first one to hint
that cops were involved.
Well, he wouldn't
give up details then.
What makes you think
that he's gonna talk now?
I'll tell him we listen.
I saw the look on your
face when you were
listening to that recording.
Tameka just wasn't some girl.
You cared about her.
You loved her.
I also know you applied
for parole last year
and got denied.
Tell me what you know,
and I promise I will show up
to your parole hearing,
and tell the parole board
what you did to help Tameka.
I do some cop dirty, what you
think they're gonna do to me?
This won't reopen your case.
You've done your time.
You help put some
murderous, raping cop away,
and the parole board
will look at you differently.
Leo Eichmeier put me in bracelets.
And when he did, you know
what that pig said to me?
That he gave Tameka what she deserved,
that she liked it,
that she died begging for more.
You'll tell that to a jury?
I probably can do better than that.
FBI had ears all up in my business.
My place was bugged,
just like Tameka's.
I learned that in court.
- You're saying this is all on tape.
- I don't know.
What, am I supposed
to do your job for you?
Go talk to the Feds.
All right.
Okay.
There was a lot of ugliness,
a lot of violence back then.
But Tameka, she was innocent.
She was good.
You know, when I met
her she was waiting tables.
I left her a $100 tip.
I shouldn't have done that.
And maybe
Well
if I hadn't asked her out,
we wouldn't be here now, would we?
♪
When you're in the game,
you don't make it to the top
'cause you can shoot a gun straight.
You get there because you
can look a man in his eye
and know if what he's selling is BS.
Leo Eichmeier did what
he said he did on that tape.
Mr. Gibbs, can you
enlighten the jury on the charges
brought against you in '99?
It might be best you do it.
The DA tells me I don't
do lawyer-speak right.
Possession and distribution
of controlled substances,
racketeering, obstruction of justice,
and, ah
Here's the one
Lying to federal officers
while under oath.
Do you remember doing that?
I said some things.
I did some things back
then, a lot of things.
But every man's gotta have a code
And this here's mine.
[TENSE MUSIC]
I never raped, or murdered anyone.
All the crimes I did do,
I served my time.
And Leo Eichmeier's gotta do his.
♪
Guilty on all counts.
Gibbs did good, but
Fin, I gotta tell you, man,
- it's great to have you back.
- Actually, um.
That was just a one-off.
Fin is not back full-time yet.
What are you talking about?
Why?
Still making my way through "GTA V."
Hey, well, look,
seeing as I just put away
one of my own investigators,
there's an opening in my office
if you're ever looking to
take things down a notch.
What? Okay, hold on.
What is happening here?
Now you're poaching
people from my unit?
What?
No, never.
Come on.
It's just an idea.
- Fin is fine. Fin has a job.
- Okay.
Hey, yo, I'ma let
you two hash this out.
I've still got a ton of gold
bullion waiting on me to boost.
Well, come on.
It's just an idea.
Oh, what is the idea?
That Fin needs to
take it down a notch?
Is that
Is that any of your business, Carisi?
No, it's not, but
that's not what I said.
He doesn't need to take it
down a notch or slow down.
He needs SVU.
Liv
Are you talking about Fin,
or are you talking about you?
♪
[SCOFFS]
Junior's?
Eileen's.
Jimmy raised you right.
Mm.
So what's on your mind, kiddo?
I, um
I interrogated Leo Eichmeier.
Leo Eichmeier is a murderer, rapist,
and an embarrassment to
this department and this city.
Keep that at the
forefront of your mind
whenever he opens his mouth.
Yeah, well, he said Dad
wasn't who I thought he was.
I just gotta know what's what, for me.
I could find out myself, I guess,
but I wanted to ask you first.
I need you to understand something.
Back then, it was a different world.
The perps were different.
The rules and
standards were different.
Were there things
we did back in the day
that wouldn't fly now?
Sure.
But was Jimmy a good cop?
Absolutely.
He was brave.
He was loyal.
Well, Leo Eichmeier
valued loyalty too.
He valued loyalty so much, in fact,
that he killed Jerry Kuenzel over it.
What's the ideal
outcome of you and I
engaging in this conversation?
- The truth.
- To what end?
To know
Who he was, you know?
And if he was
something different, then
You'll stop loving him?
You'll stop being a cop?
No.
I'd suggest figuring
out what you want
before asking those questions, Jake.
[APPREHENSIVE MUSIC]
Things going well at SVU?
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Smooth sailing.
I might need you to look into
something for me down the line.
- What's that?
- Just some old cases.
Which is evidently
right up your alley.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um, well, you know, I'm
pretty busy over there, so
You'll find the time.
Well, thank you for the chat, Chief.
You're welcome.
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.
Look at this.
Original 2002 Levi's.
So excited for this.
I mean, I love that for you,
but doesn't it hold,
like, three songs?
It's got real buttons.
[BUTTON CLICKS] Mm!
That's so satisfying.
All right, let's see
if this thing works.
Maybe this is a mix tape.
How much did you get that for?
30 bucks.
They're like 100 at Urban.
[SCOFFS]
[STATIC CRACKLING]
You're not supposed to be here.
Hey, come on.
Don't do that.
No.
No.
I said no!
Please!
[SOBBING] Get off!
Please!
- Please!
- Shut up.
You know you want it.
[SOBBING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
That sounded real.
Where's the case?
♪
I'm gonna show this to my mom.
[DRILL WHIRRING]
Mom?
Hey, pass me the
Phillips number 2, will you?
And don't you have a
Mandarin quiz tomorrow?
You ready?
What's up?
I think you should listen to this.
[SOBBING] No!
Please!
- Please!
- Shut up.
You know you want it.
[SOBBING]
I listened to the rest
of the tape, both sides,
and it's all blank
except for this section.
Okay, and this is
the only tape like this
that you guys had?
The rest was music.
Well, that must have
been hard to listen to.
It's fine.
It's whatever.
The thrift store opens at 11:00.
They may be able to tell us
where the tapes came from.
Okay.
Well, Gabe, thank you.
Thank you so much
for bringing this in to us.
Yeah.
No problem.
All right, go on.
I'll see you after practice.
You know, I gotta say,
I can't believe that you paid money,
for cassette tapes.
I still have my old
Dire Straits collection.
You think that might
be worth anything?
Is that a band?
I hate you.
- Go to school.
- [LAUGHS]
- You okay?
- Well, you know how boys are.
They act like nothing gets
to them, but I can see it does.
He's got a therapist.
He'll be all right.
Yeah?
And what about you?
I got a therapist too.
[CHUCKLES]
We'll hit the store
as soon as it opens.
Here's what I'm thinking.
There's a forensic audiologist
that we've worked with before.
They might be able to clean this up,
see if there's anything more to hear.
So what we have here is a tiny win.
Out of 120 minutes, I
was able to successfully
recover four seconds.
And that's a win?
I did everything I could.
Anything you can tell
us about the tape itself?
When it was made,
how readily available
was this particular format?
Sony HF Type 1,
mainly used for dictation.
I can even tell you exactly
when the tape was recorded.
[WHIRRING]
October 2, 1999.
403 West 24th Street.
And that's all she wrote.
My guess is someone
tried to degauss this.
- De-what?
- Degauss.
These tapes are magnetic.
That's how they hold the information.
So you wave a
demagnetizing wand over it,
and all that data is toast.
Someone knew they recorded a crime
and didn't want anyone finding out.
We sell dozens of tapes a day.
Can barely keep 'em on the shelves.
Funny how all this stuff comes back.
Well, this one looks
like a home recording.
It had "number 56" written on it.
- You know when he bought it?
- Sunday afternoon.
Let me see what I can find.
Oh, my God.
I would have died for one
of these when I was little.
That one's got her adoption
papers and everything.
- Come on.
- [LAUGHS]
Oh.
No, I'm good.
I can drop a hint to Carisi.
- Birthday gift.
- No.
- Maybe.
- Mm-hmm.
Friday night we got a decent haul
from this estate sale on West 46th.
Whole building was being demoed.
We took everything they had.
Got the building
for next to nothing,
comparatively speaking.
Foreclosed property built in 1910.
Last of the tenants moved
out, so we started demo.
You recently had an estate sale.
- Where'd you get the items from?
- Basement.
It was loaded with crap from,
like, generations of tenants.
Still a ton of stuff down there.
Gonna take me another six
months to sort through it all.
You mind if we take a look?
Oh, knock yourselves out.
All right, so I just wanna warn you,
if we encounter a rodent of any kind,
my reaction will be intense.
Noted.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Hey, Rollins?
There's something back here.
You wanna help me out with this?
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
The remains are with the ME.
They're still working
on cause of death,
but preliminary report
says our vic was a woman,
roughly 22 to 25 years old.
And CSU turned that building
inside and out, what was left of it.
No other human remains were found.
Okay, is there any updates
with Missing Persons?
UF 61 was filed October 7, 1999.
Right age range and
exactly five days after
the date we heard on the tape.
Tameka Davis
She was 24,
when she went missing.
Single.
We found some
employment records from '97
saying she waited tables,
but nothing from '99.
- She got a record?
- No.
But she rented an apartment
at 403 West 24th Street,
the same address
mentioned on the tape.
She was living there
when she went missing.
What about next of kin?
Her mom, Tiffany Davis,
who reported her missing,
she's still around.
She's 67.
Tameka also had a son, Jayden.
He's 31, but he was
just a little guy at the time.
No dad on the birth certificate.
It's not a coincidence that there was
a dead body, and a recording
of a sexual assault in that building.
So the former owner
was Brendan Kearney,
a known Westies enforcer.
And the FBI seized
the building in '99.
That makes sense, the Westies
were mostly disbanded by then,
but there were still a
few running around.
They were good for two things:
running coke and contract killings.
Well, we could track down whoever
was heading up OC at the time.
I actually already found
a detective who was
undercover for Narcotics back then.
Ha!
Welcome back, Sergeant.
It's part-time for now.
You look good.
- Glad to have you back.
- Thank you.
Well, I looked into that
24th Street apartment.
That whole 24th Street
block was a hot zone.
All kinds of gangs
fighting for territory.
But I happen to know
a guy who took down
the Westies back in the day.
- I'ma hit him up.
- You want company?
Let's roll.
Black with a packet of Sweet'N Low.
Half a pack now,
but with your ugly mug,
I'll burn a cheat day.
Bring it in, brother.
Good to see you.
This is Sergeant Rollins.
She's with me at SVU.
Chess partner call in sick?
Moved to Florida 24 hours
after hanging up his badge.
What can I do for you, Sergeant?
Well, I'm wondering if
you recognize this woman.
Sorry, I can't place her.
There were so many of them.
So many bodies.
Doesn't mean that
this one didn't matter.
- Mm.
- Where'd you find the body?
Found the body in a
basement on West 46th Street.
We think she was killed on West 24th.
24th?
That would have been Gibbs' territory.
- Mm-hmm.
- Miles Gibbs.
Bed-Stuy born and
raised, just like you, Fin.
Started dealing south
of the Lincoln Tunnel.
Little upstart grew his empire
all the way up to the West Side.
And man, were those turf wars bloody.
Remember that?
Hey, man, back then, somebody
would try to serve you a baggie
just for sitting where you are now.
What a world.
[KNOCKING]
You must be Jayden.
Uh, can I help you?
I'm Olivia Benson.
This is Renee Curry.
We're from NYPD
Special Victims Unit.
Is your grandmother home?
Who is it, honey?
The
The police.
Well, it's about time.
Tameka's dental records.
Pulled them for some
cops a couple of years back.
Hiked all the way up to
the precinct in Chinatown
just to find out they had
already ID'd their Jane Doe.
At least Captain
Benson and Captain Curry
- came in person, Gran.
- Mm-hmm.
If it's all right, we'd like
to ask you a few questions.
- Okay.
- Okay.
Does the name Miles
Gibbs mean anything to you?
He was Tameka's man for a bit.
Didn't last long, though.
She ever tell you what happened?
Mm-mm.
How about you, Jayden?
You remember Miles?
Uh, sure.
Yeah, um
He bought me a race
car when I turned five,
but that's about it.
When did they break up?
A couple of days
before she went missing.
Miles was a bad egg.
I guess I don't have to tell
you what he did for a living, but
He was paranoid,
always accusing Tameka
of talking too much.
Was she involved
in Miles's business?
Absolutely not.
She hated drugs.
Hated what they were
doing to the community.
So Tiffany, there's something else
that we need your help with.
Whatever you need.
He's old enough now.
He deserves the truth.
We have a sound recording,
of what we believe
Might be the last
moments of Tameka's life.
This is gonna be
very, very hard to hear.
So if you don't wanna do it,
we completely understand,
and I won't ask you again.
It's your choice, Jayden.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
You're not supposed to be here.
Hey, come on.
Don't do that.
No.
No.
I said no!
Please!
[SOBBING] Get off!
Please!
- Please.
- Shut up.
You know you want it.
[SOBBING]
♪
Um
That's her.
That's my baby.
I didn't think it'd be so hard.
[SOBBING] Please!
Please!
Shut up.
You know you want it.
- [SOBBING]
- Turn that off.
You know who that was.
You recognize that voice.
Yeah.
Whoever that dude was, it wasn't me.
Okay, then who was it?
If you know something,
you're not just helping us.
You're helping her.
I don't work with
cops, no matter how nice
you bat those long eyelashes.
Come on, man.
I came up in Bed-Stuy.
I rolled through boys
and girls high just like you.
Here we go with the "you
and me, we're not so different"
- psychobabble BS.
- Hey, come on.
We know from her mom
that you two were on the outs.
Huh?
What happened there?
It was dark days back then.
Stash houses got
cleaned out left and right.
Took a minute before I even
realized that she was gone.
You're shaking down the wrong perp.
My crew, we sold crack.
The Westies,
whats-ever ever left of them,
they did the contract cleanups.
But there was a third crew
That nobody likes to talk about
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
'Cause they all dressed in blue.
♪
What is all this?
Griff and I pulled every file
that was ever filed in the
original Miles Gibbs case.
An undercover op from the 2-9
was what eventually sunk him.
The cops had Tameka's
apartment bugged for months
without Miles knowing, and that,
is where our cassette tape came from.
We went through every cassette tape
in the storage boxes.
Tape 56 is the only
one that is missing.
So the cops knew a
rape had been recorded.
They tried to erase it
then chucked the tape.
Okay, so a possible rape
and murder from 27 years ago,
and our main suspects are cops.
- Let's hear it.
- Okay.
Four cops, front and center.
First, we got Jerry Kuenzel.
He put his papers in shortly
before Miles was arrested.
He bought a house upstate in Hornell.
And besides cashing his pension
checks, he keeps a low profile.
Okay, next we've got Paul Holliday.
He retired as soon as he
could get his full pension.
Deceased as of five years ago.
Before then, he was
living large in Florida.
Well, it looks like
Kuenzel cashed in too early.
No kidding.
Thomas Ahearn retired from
the force seven years ago.
Got into private security consulting.
He lives in Nyack.
Going private certainly pays, huh?
- Leo Eichmeier
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I know Leo.
This guy's a DA investigator.
If Leo's involved in this, then Baxter
might want me to call
in a special prosecutor
from another borough.
This is a conflict of interest.
Hang on, because we don't
know what he did or didn't do.
So I think for now, this
all has to stay under wraps.
Miles said that cops were raiding
stash houses left and right,
but these logs only show two busts.
Two of these cops
are stacked with assets.
The best way to swipe loot
from raids is to not report them.
It says here that both
busts were off intel
- from CI 17-A52.
- Okay.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
It was Tameka.
She was the confidential informant.
Her mom did say that Miles
said she talked too much.
So, we're saying she was a CI
and the very cops she
was helping killed her.
Care to visit your old
stomping grounds to find out?
Happy to.
♪
Here we go.
Intake photos.
You know how to use this thing?
I do.
Had to look up some
old RICO files last year.
Yep. 17.
A1, A2.
Liv was right.
CI 17-A52.
That's our girl.
Dental records were a match.
These are the remains of Tameka Davis.
Impossible to tell if she
was sexually assaulted,
obviously, but hyoid
bone was fractured,
indicating strangulation.
COD was blunt force
trauma to the head.
Her last moments weren't easy.
- She fought hard.
- Okay.
I appreciate your thoroughness,
but, you could have told
me this over the phone.
This is why you're here.
We've got a second victim.
Found them in the same bag.
These over here, skull fragments,
and these are hands and feet.
So this is a professional hit.
The killer wanted to make sure
that the body couldn't be ID'd.
Yep, and based on bone volume
and the right foot's talus length,
odds are your victim was male.
So where's the rest of him?
Kind of shocking, isn't it,
how small we all are at the end?
Thank you, for bringing
my daughter home.
So there is one more thing
that I need from you, Tiffany.
I need you to tell me if you
recognize any of these men.
No.
- They're police.
- They are.
Tameka never had
no problems with them.
So we learned that
Tameka was actually
helping them as an informant.
And you think one of these men
might have done this to her?
- What we're trying to figure out
- Wait, I know him.
I know him.
He came to the apartment not
too long before she went away.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
They were yelling at
each other in the kitchen.
Did he
Did he threaten her?
No, no, he was afraid for her.
He said if she left that
night that he would help her.
I mean, it's one of the last things
I remembered about my mom.
Thank you, Jayden.
That's
That's very helpful.
I've been mad at her for leaving me
for so long, you know?
I've been telling
you for years, Jayden,
you gotta let that go.
Me being mad at her kind of
Kept her alive.
♪
Keep your ass in your pants.
I'll be right there.
Hi.
I'm Detective Bruno.
This is Detective Griffin.
We're with the NYPD Special Victims.
Is Jerry here?
Out of town.
Not exactly sure when he'll be back,
but I'll let him know you stopped by.
- Have a nice day.
- Okay.
Hey, can we get his
cell number, Mrs?
Letitia.
I'm his
We live together.
Look, am I under arrest or something?
You're not under arrest,
but it wasn't very
considerate of Jerry
to leave you home alone
and not tell you where he was.
Is he treating you right, ma'am?
Not as good as I deserve.
But we broke up a long time ago.
Jerry doesn't live here anymore.
- No.
- Huh.
That's interesting, because, uh,
someone has been
cashing his pension checks.
Look, the jerk walked out on me.
We just wanna know how to reach him.
Well, good freaking luck.
I haven't heard from
the loser in 25 years.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Jerry's been missing for 25 years,
and you didn't report it?
He was a dumbass!
First, he quits his police job.
Says he can't stand the place no more.
Then he goes off on a
bender with his ex-cop buddies.
Goes off to some cabin.
Probably just got too pissed to
come home and show his face.
Letitia, do you still
have anything of Jerry's?
Like old clothes, a hairbrush?
Probably got, like,
an old cop uniform.
- Why?
- We found some remains.
It might be him.
Lab results came back.
They pulled a hair from
the hat in Kuenzel's uniform.
DNA was a match
for the extra body parts
found with Tameka's remains.
Okay, so we got a dead CI,
and now a dead cop,
both connected to the Miles
Gibbs op and both found dead
in the basement of a building
that was owned by a
known Westies associate?
- What are we thinking?
- All right.
Tiffany said Miles accused
Tameka of talking too much.
We know Kuenzel warned her.
So, maybe she feared she was burned,
tried to back out, and the
other cops wouldn't let her.
One of them gets violent,
and the others, they're
all lining their pockets.
One of them goes down, they all do,
so together, they clean up shop.
Well, when there's a cleanup,
we know that one of them
has a weaker stomach.
And in this case, that was Kuenzel.
Last Letitia heard from him,
he was headed up to a cabin
with his cop friends.
Eichmeier's got one up in Roscoe.
If these snakes kept
this secret for this long,
they'd be willing to do
anything to keep it buried.
I hope you're right.
Thomas Ahearn.
Good morning, detectives.
I'm Captain Curry.
This is Sergeant Rollins, SVU.
Beautiful property you got here.
I can't complain.
So what can I do for you?
We caught a case that might
involve some people you helped
put away back in the day.
We're hoping maybe
you can walk us through
some of your old case files.
- Which case?
- Miles Gibbs.
Oh.
My memory's shot, Captain.
And to be honest, Sergeant,
I try not to think about
those days too much.
But maybe we can walk
you through what we have.
- It won't take longer than a minute.
- Gotta go!
Have a nice day, detectives.
NVIDIA is gonna double by March.
- I promise you that.
- Leo Eichmeier.
What are the chances?
Oh, sorry to interrupt.
I'm Jake Griffin.
My dad was a detective in the 2-9.
He talked about you guys
all the time growing up.
Griffin, Griffin.
You're Jimmy's kid.
Yeah, sure am.
By the look at you,
you made detective.
- Yeah.
- What do they got you on?
Special Victims.
Oh, sex police.
- You're a bit of a pervert, huh?
- [LAUGHS]
You know, I just
go where they tell me to.
Great to meet you.
Jimmy Griffin.
Whoo!
That's a blast from the past.
Yeah.
Uh, to be honest, I knew
you'd be here, and, uh
[WHISPERING] I, uh,
I gotta tell you something.
[LAUGHS]
- I won't be more than a minute.
- No problem.
So my dad spoke very highly of you.
He always said that you
put your guys first, okay?
So I, uh
I wanted to tell you
that SVU is looking into the
Miles Gibbs undercover op.
What does SVU care about Gibbs?
- That case was all Narcotics.
- [LAUGHS]
Honestly,
I'm just the new guy.
Still trying to figure
out why SVU looks into
half the cases it looks into.
All I'm saying is, if there's
a particular direction
that you want me to
turn everyone's neck
[TENSE MUSIC]
Jimmy worked days.
I worked midnights.
I offered to get him
a shift on my crew.
I told him the overtime was killer.
You know what Jimmy, the rookie
detective making peanuts, said?
What?
He said, I've got
a little guy at home.
I gotta take care of him.
Good luck with the investigation, kid.
♪
Hey.
I just got nudged.
Jimmy Griffin's kid.
Oh, yeah?
How's he?
Eh, bit of a putz.
I mean, he's not wrong.
Okay, quiet.
I'm wondering about our old friend.
I'm thinking there's a chance
he comes over for dinner.
- When?
- Soon.
He still like that
place you got upstate?
Yeah.
Then let's make
sure it's spic and span.
He's gotta be talking
about Eichmeier's cabin.
They're gonna get rid of the body.
I'll expedite a warrant.
♪
NYPD!
- Don't move!
- Hold on a minute.
Why don't we all calm down?
♪
Put your hands
behind your head, now.
Watch them.
Everybody else, fan out.
♪
Griff!
[CLATTERING]
After you, new guy.
[GRUNTS]
Griff!
[STRAINING]
Ladder stops here.
How much further you got?
I think I can make it.
[GRUNTS]
You all right?
Yeah.
You see anything?
Found the rest of Kuenzel.
♪
You wanna explain to
us how half of Jerry Kuenzel
wound up on your property?
And what were you
and Thomas Ahearn doing
with an angle grinder
and a couple of tarps
at 10:00 at night?
You got nothing to say?
You know, my old partner
at Bronx SVU used to say
there's only two kinds of perps
honest crooks and crooked police.
Well, at least one of them can
look themselves in the mirror.
Back in the day, Bronx
police used to pull stunts.
Made the 2-9 look like honest Abes.
[LAUGHS]
Oh, how they let you within
an inch of the DA's
office, I have no idea.
But you know what?
You are not as slick as
you think you are, man,
because we found something. Oh, yeah.
We found the cassette tape
that you and your friends doctored,
and, it has got cover-up
written all over it.
So we're gonna look into
every aspect of your life
until we find the truth.
I bet you all of Jimmy's buddies
told you your daddy was
clean as a baby's soul.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Keep believing that, kid.
That big house, that cute boat,
the condo you just
bought your daughter,
we're gonna go after all of it.
You tell us what happened to
Tameka Davis, Jerry Kuenzel,
we may try and get
you a lighter sentence.
You wanna know how
SVU got ahold of that tape?
Hmm?
My teenage son found it,
accidentally listened to it,
and then Captain Benson
and I had the true pleasure
of playing it for Tameka's mother.
Hadn't heard her
daughter's voice in 27 years,
and now this is the last
memory she's gonna have of it.
The sound of Tameka
pleading for her life,
- pleading to be with her son.
- You know something,
and you wanna sit
there and say nothing.
Thomas, did you hurt her?
Did you use Tameka for intel?
And then when you realized
you couldn't squeeze her anymore,
- you raped her.
- No.
- You beat her.
- No, I could never
Look, look,
we manipulated her to
get us all rich, like you said.
Leo was her handler,
and he had this, um
Let's call it a fixation for her.
Okay.
Was he in her apartment that night?
He and I both were.
And yeah, Leo
Leo got a bit fresh.
Did you see him hurt her?
No, he didn't
he was just flirting, you know?
He put his hand on her waist.
You didn't feel the need to step in?
Leo told me to get lost.
Told me to meet him at the corner pub.
An hour later, the guy
shows up, and he's panicked.
He said that Tameka
just flipped out on him
and he had to put her down,
and then he needed our help.
And Kuenzel and Holliday and me were
the only guys he could trust.
So Eichmeier rapes and kills her,
and then he calls
you all to clean house.
It's not like we had a choice.
How'd she end up in a basement
in a building on West 46th?
Leo had a Westie contact.
It's like calling a guy who
To come pick up your dry cleaning.
You ring him up, and
no questions asked.
So what happened in Leo's cabin?
Leo was always scared that Kuenzel
was eventually gonna crack,
so we put the screws to him.
I can still see it to this day.
We had poor Jerry there,
swearing on his dead mother's grave
he's never gonna tell a soul.
Then Leo just
♪
Leo just reached into his
couch cushions, pulled out a gun,
and shot the guy mid-sentence.
But it's been 27 years.
I can't carry this thing no more.
What are we thinking here?
Rape and first-degree murder charges
for Leo Eichmeier on top
of all the corruption charges?
Hard to believe
Leo's capable of all this.
I know.
What do you wanna do with Ahearn?
Look, everything that he said
matches up with the evidence we found.
Let's charge him with conspiracy
for the cover-up as
well as the corruption.
We'll plead down on sentence
if he helps us nail Eichmeier.
Chief Tynan, it's nice to see you.
I would have given you a
call, but since you're here,
Ahearn just flipped on Eichmeier.
We're discussing a plea deal.
I see.
Look, nobody likes to
force open old wounds,
least of all 1PP.
But I'd just like to underscore
how much locking up
two dirty cops would
give the department
the boost it needs
in light of all the,
uh,
recent bad press.
And Captain Benson has done
such a terrific job investigating.
It was a group effort.
No need to be modest.
We all know how much you
love being in the trenches.
Let's offer Ahearn five years.
You want me to call the Brooklyn DA,
get a special prosecutor assigned?
I mean, Eichmeier does work with us.
Not anymore, he doesn't.
I was weak, plain and simple.
And I'm not trying to get
a free ride here, okay?
I'm gonna do time for
my corruption charges.
But I never hurt that girl.
And I didn't kill Jerry Kuenzel.
Leo Eichmeier did.
Thank you, Mr. Ahearn.
Nothing further, Your Honor.
Everyone loves a reformed cop.
Now, Mr. Ahearn, please
tell the jury how you know
- a Michael Christopher Lally.
- Objection. Relevance?
Overruled.
Answer the question, Mr. Ahearn.
Michael was an acquaintance.
He was a member of
the notorious Irish gang
called the Westies, wasn't he?
That's what I heard.
And isn't it also true, Mr. Ahearn,
that Mr. Lally was your
ex-wife's first cousin?
That's correct.
And isn't it also
true that it was you,
Mr. Ahearn, not the
defendant, who called Mr. Lally
to help dispose of the bodies?
Yes, but I did it at Leo's behest.
Thank you for answering
the question, Mr. Ahearn.
What did you do with
the drugs that you stole?
[TENSE MUSIC]
- We sold them.
- So all four of you
went to the streets and took up
slinging crack as a side gig?
We sold them to Michael Lally.
Ah, so through your
connection to Mr. Lally,
you're the reason everyone got rich.
And you're the reason
that Tameka Davis
and Jerry Kuenzel's remains
wound up in that basement.
Now, you're saying that my client
was the one calling the shots,
but it sounds to me
like you were the one
keeping the machine running.
Could any of this
the corruption, the
murders, the cleanup
Could any of this have
happened without you?
♪
So that makes the rest of
his testimony null and void?
Vaughn's gonna pin
this whole thing on Ahearn.
If we're lucky, Eichmeier
does minimal time
for the corruption and conspiracy.
And Tameka just
gets lost in the shuffle.
Well, Miles Gibbs,
he's the first one to hint
that cops were involved.
Well, he wouldn't
give up details then.
What makes you think
that he's gonna talk now?
I'll tell him we listen.
I saw the look on your
face when you were
listening to that recording.
Tameka just wasn't some girl.
You cared about her.
You loved her.
I also know you applied
for parole last year
and got denied.
Tell me what you know,
and I promise I will show up
to your parole hearing,
and tell the parole board
what you did to help Tameka.
I do some cop dirty, what you
think they're gonna do to me?
This won't reopen your case.
You've done your time.
You help put some
murderous, raping cop away,
and the parole board
will look at you differently.
Leo Eichmeier put me in bracelets.
And when he did, you know
what that pig said to me?
That he gave Tameka what she deserved,
that she liked it,
that she died begging for more.
You'll tell that to a jury?
I probably can do better than that.
FBI had ears all up in my business.
My place was bugged,
just like Tameka's.
I learned that in court.
- You're saying this is all on tape.
- I don't know.
What, am I supposed
to do your job for you?
Go talk to the Feds.
All right.
Okay.
There was a lot of ugliness,
a lot of violence back then.
But Tameka, she was innocent.
She was good.
You know, when I met
her she was waiting tables.
I left her a $100 tip.
I shouldn't have done that.
And maybe
Well
if I hadn't asked her out,
we wouldn't be here now, would we?
♪
When you're in the game,
you don't make it to the top
'cause you can shoot a gun straight.
You get there because you
can look a man in his eye
and know if what he's selling is BS.
Leo Eichmeier did what
he said he did on that tape.
Mr. Gibbs, can you
enlighten the jury on the charges
brought against you in '99?
It might be best you do it.
The DA tells me I don't
do lawyer-speak right.
Possession and distribution
of controlled substances,
racketeering, obstruction of justice,
and, ah
Here's the one
Lying to federal officers
while under oath.
Do you remember doing that?
I said some things.
I did some things back
then, a lot of things.
But every man's gotta have a code
And this here's mine.
[TENSE MUSIC]
I never raped, or murdered anyone.
All the crimes I did do,
I served my time.
And Leo Eichmeier's gotta do his.
♪
Guilty on all counts.
Gibbs did good, but
Fin, I gotta tell you, man,
- it's great to have you back.
- Actually, um.
That was just a one-off.
Fin is not back full-time yet.
What are you talking about?
Why?
Still making my way through "GTA V."
Hey, well, look,
seeing as I just put away
one of my own investigators,
there's an opening in my office
if you're ever looking to
take things down a notch.
What? Okay, hold on.
What is happening here?
Now you're poaching
people from my unit?
What?
No, never.
Come on.
It's just an idea.
- Fin is fine. Fin has a job.
- Okay.
Hey, yo, I'ma let
you two hash this out.
I've still got a ton of gold
bullion waiting on me to boost.
Well, come on.
It's just an idea.
Oh, what is the idea?
That Fin needs to
take it down a notch?
Is that
Is that any of your business, Carisi?
No, it's not, but
that's not what I said.
He doesn't need to take it
down a notch or slow down.
He needs SVU.
Liv
Are you talking about Fin,
or are you talking about you?
♪
[SCOFFS]
Junior's?
Eileen's.
Jimmy raised you right.
Mm.
So what's on your mind, kiddo?
I, um
I interrogated Leo Eichmeier.
Leo Eichmeier is a murderer, rapist,
and an embarrassment to
this department and this city.
Keep that at the
forefront of your mind
whenever he opens his mouth.
Yeah, well, he said Dad
wasn't who I thought he was.
I just gotta know what's what, for me.
I could find out myself, I guess,
but I wanted to ask you first.
I need you to understand something.
Back then, it was a different world.
The perps were different.
The rules and
standards were different.
Were there things
we did back in the day
that wouldn't fly now?
Sure.
But was Jimmy a good cop?
Absolutely.
He was brave.
He was loyal.
Well, Leo Eichmeier
valued loyalty too.
He valued loyalty so much, in fact,
that he killed Jerry Kuenzel over it.
What's the ideal
outcome of you and I
engaging in this conversation?
- The truth.
- To what end?
To know
Who he was, you know?
And if he was
something different, then
You'll stop loving him?
You'll stop being a cop?
No.
I'd suggest figuring
out what you want
before asking those questions, Jake.
[APPREHENSIVE MUSIC]
Things going well at SVU?
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Smooth sailing.
I might need you to look into
something for me down the line.
- What's that?
- Just some old cases.
Which is evidently
right up your alley.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um, well, you know, I'm
pretty busy over there, so
You'll find the time.
Well, thank you for the chat, Chief.
You're welcome.