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.
Larissa.
Larissa!
- Who are you? - I'm, uh, patrick,
- Larissa's boyfriend. - Prove it.
- I walk her home every night. She...
She didn't show up at work,
And she's not answering her phone.
- Well, she gave me a spare key in case of emergencies.
- Thank you.
Larissa!
Oh, god.
Larissa, wake up.
Larissa, wake up!
- Arrgh!
Get away from brandy!
- Aah!
[men grunting]
[punches thudding, grunting]
- Aah!
- Attacked by a naked man in a mask.
- That's what he said. Name's patrick binder.
Scalp laceration, but he's coherent enough to talk.
- Okay, and what about the girl?
- Larissa welsh. Still unconscious.
- She beaten too? - No.
An overdose of the sedative rohypnol.
I'm treating her with an antidote,
But it may be a while before she comes to.
I found vaginal scarring,
But no sign of sexual assault or semen.
- Rapist didn't finish the job.
- Her lucky day.
What's with all the band-aids? - She presented
With more than a dozen fresh razor cuts.
- Sexual torture?
- More like bumbling with a gillette.
Her attacker shaved her from the neck on down.
Law & Order: SVU Episode:Possessed
I should have seen his fat ass coming.
I could have taken him easy.
- Guy in his underwear swinging a tripod?
You're lucky to be alive.
- I grew up with three older brothers.
I can take a beating to the head.
- So how long have you and larissa been dating?
- About six months.
But we've known each other for two years.
Took her that long
To open herself up to a relationship.
- Any idea why?
- She was a foster kid.
But she's always been tight-lipped about it.
Whenever I tried to get close, she pushed me away.
- And her attacker.
You ever seen him around? - Never.
I would have remembered. Fat, sweaty creep.
- And you didn't see his face 'cause of the mask.
- If I did, I would've punched it in.
- We're gonna want a nurse to scrape your nails,
Check for hairs that the perp might have left on you
During the struggle.
- Whatever it takes to catch the bastard.
- One more thing.
The underwear that dressed larissa in
Had the name brandy on it.
Any idea who that is? - No.
Except...
Larissa told me she hates that name.
- Only in new york could you have no witnesses
To a masked man running down the street
In his tighty-whities.
- No dna from patrick or larissa's rape kits.
The hair and blood from the razors
Only matches larissa.
- They found pills all over the place, didn't they?
- Yeah, the roofies used on larissa,
And viagra you figure the perp was using on himself.
- It's a good thing patrick showed up.
A perp on viagra? Could have raped her for hours.
- This wasn't the hump's first brandy.
- What do you got?
- Perp's m.O. Matches the rapes of two ten-year-old girls
From jersey and connecticut in the last year.
- I've never seen a case where a rapist targets
Adult women and little girls.
- Maybe why he shaved larissa, make her look like a kid.
- This has to be our guy. Both girls have
Long, blonde hair which the rapist put in pigtails,
And he called 'em both brandy.
- I don't know why he called me that.
My name's kelly.
- Can you describe him?
- He was gross. And fat.
And he made me do my hair like the girl in the picture.
- He showed you pictures?
- Of a girl named brandy.
- He wanted you to look like her?
- Yes. Even here.
He said brandy had a birthmark.
So he drew one on me too.
And then he hurt me.
- He hurt me real bad, but...
I can't say anything else.
- You know, paula, anything you can tell me...
Could stop this man from hurting another little girl.
I just want you to know you can talk to me.
- A-are you testing me?
- Well, what do you mean by that?
What do you mean, test you?
- He said people would test me
To try to trick me into telling.
- Mm-hmm. And if you told anyone, he would hurt you.
- Me and daddy.
- He only said that to scare you.
Now, I can protect you, and I will protect you.
But you have to...
[sighs]
Tell me, you know, something about him.
- But... What about the letter?
- What letter?
Who gave that to you?
- I found it under my pillow.
They...Put it there.
They call themselves...
Coventry.
- The fbi has identified these marks
As underground pedophile trading symbols.
I've seen them on coins and rings and necklaces
But never used for intimidation purposes.
- Pedophiles use them to identify each other.
- Large triangle surrounding smaller triangles
Indicate boy lovers.
Hearts within hearts, girl lovers.
Butterflies indicate child lovers
That don't have a gender preference.
- So you're saying our rapist is part of a ring.
- Whether he's in a ring or not, he's fixated on larissa.
He made her dress as a little girl, shaved her.
- He still needed viagra to get it up.
- Because as an adult,
She only partially fulfilled his desires.
- Okay, how 'bout the name coventry?
I mean, who are they? - They're the bogeyman.
Pedophiles only use the name coventry
When they wanna scare their victims.
The fbi said this is the first film where the name was used.
- [distorted voice] take off your clothes, brandy.
- My name's not brandy. - Son of a bitch
Altered his voice... - Do it!
- So we couldn't I.D. Him. - Or coventry will kill
Your mommy and daddy and all your brothers and sisters.
- Okay. All right, munch, enough.
Wait a minute. Wait. Hold that. Freeze that.
Larissa has the same birthmark as the kid in the film.
She's brandy. - A lot of unidentified kids
Are part of this coventry series.
But brandy was the most popular,
Due specifically to a star-shaped birthmark.
- Got something that'll interest you.
Couldn't pull anything off the actual letter,
But new imaging technology
Lets me zoom in on the perp's fingertip.
Munch: You can get a print off a photo?
- And run it for a match.
- Eldon balogh.
He did time in 2006
For lewd and lascivious acts with a child.
- And lives in park slope.
- Police! Search warrant!
- Nypd!
Eldon balogh, show yourself!
- Clear!
- Hey, yo, el, check this out.
It's video of larissa before the boyfriend arrived.
- Let's check the pillowcase.
Videos and pictures.
- Is that brandy?
[beep]
What's that? [beep]
He left his email account open.
Wherever he is, he's sending photos to himself.
- Brandy. Pick 53. Open that one.
- It's larissa.
He's been stalking her ever since the attack!
- Son of a bitch is at the hospital.
I'm gonna call security. - Liv.
- [groans] ah!
- What are you doing? - Where's larissa welsh?
- An orderly took her for testing 20 minutes ago.
- This guy? - That's him.
- Ah...
Any sign of him? - No, ma'am.
- Lock this hospital down now!
- Security, central. Close all exits.
- Liv, I'm on my way to you. What's your 20?
- We've cleared one through four.
Security's working from the top down.
Head to six and work up.
[pounds twice] - police. Open up.
We have something in room 820.
[zipping sound] zzzt.
- It's okay.
I was just taking her temperature.
- Let go, el! El, el!
Easy, easy, man! Come on.
Man, come on, come on.
- Son of a bitch attacked her again.
How could this happen...
After everything that I've been through?
- Larissa, I'm so sorry.
- This hospital let me get raped?
- Please don't leave. Larissa, please don't leave.
Let the doctors keep an eye on you.
- Why?
'cause they're doing such a great job?
And what about you? What do you want?
- To tell you that we caught him.
And that he will never hurt you again.
- Before he knocked me out,
He said he was gonna take pictures.
Did he?
- He took video.
- Not again!
- This happened when you were a child.
You were brandy.
- I always will be.
- What do you mean?
- Sometimes when I'm walking down the street
Or in the subway, men stare at me.
- 'cause they recognize you from the movies.
- Yes.
They have this look in their eyes,
You know, perverts?
They get off on seeing me being raped.
They'll never leave me alone.
I wish he would have just killed me.
- Larissa,
The man that made you brandy...
Is that the same man who attacked you last night?
- No! It was a fan.
He followed me home,
And he broke into my window.
And I-I screamed...
But he shoved pills down my throat.
And you know what he said to me as I was passing out?
"this is the happiest day..."
- Of my life.
I have been looking for brandy for years.
You know, after- after I shaved her?
- Mm-hmm.
- If I squinted my eyes like this just the right way...
- Mm-hmm.
- And it looked like she was little again.
- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. - Oh!
- And paula and kelly,
You didn't have to squint when you were raping them, huh?
- It wasn't rape. No, they played brandy for me.
But it wasn't like the real thing.
- You wore a mask, you terrified them,
And you left them a letter saying coventry would kill them.
- Only paula.
She said that she was gonna tell her dad.
- Well, what were you expecting?
You kidnapped and raped her.
- I told you, it wasn't rape.
What I did with them was- was natural.
The love that I have for brandy
is pure.
It's honest.
It's as real as the love that you feel for your wife.
- You're insane.
- No. No.
Just jealous.
- What do you mean by jealous?
Are you jealous of the girls you attacked?
- The old man.
And how lucky he was.
I never meant to murder him.
- You murdered an old man?
- Underwood.
Um, I met him on the internet.
He knew brandy as a child.
And I just wanted to get him to tell me
Her real name.
Benson: Mr. Underwood?
Mr. Underwood? Are you here?
- Liv.
Hell of a lot of blood.
- Wait. You hear that? - [whimpering]
[grunting]
- Svu portable to central.
We need a bus at 160 grove street.
- Mr. Underwood. Mr. Underwood, can you hear me?
- Who are you? - I'm detective benson.
We're getting help for you right now, okay?
- My flowers. Are they all dead?
- Why don't you- why don't you lay back here
Until the paramedics come, okay?
- The man who beat me-
- We already have him in custody.
- [breathing heavily] it's always this way.
Ever since they accused me of raping that girl.
- What did you say?
- Liv, the missing pillowcase.
- Matches the one you found at balogh's.
- I only gave him larissa's real name
Because he said he'd kill me.
- He turned larissa into brandy.
- Me and my friends were playing hide and go seek,
And I was behind this car...
Down the block
When he opened up his car door
And he grabbed me from behind.
He pushed me facedown, and he made me take a pill.
- Like last night.
- Underwood drugged me every day...
Then made me do those movies.
- Where were your foster parents through all this?
- Edward and roberta parker
Had seven other foster kids at their home.
They never reported larissa missing.
- We have any idea how she finally escaped?
- Daniel saved me.
- Who's daniel? - He was a little bit older.
And underwood forced him to make movies with me.
But one time, daniel distracted him
And I jumped out the window and I ran.
- And do you know whatever happened to daniel?
- No.
But I like to think that he's okay.
- No one ever found daniel.
Larissa could only describe his smile.
Six months after she escaped, larissa saw a man in the park
Wearing a distinctive cat belt buckle.
She started to scream,
And the cops came and arrested underwood.
- He was charged with kidnapping larissa as a child in '95.
- And with the rape of a minor
And creating and distributing child pornography.
Ten-year-old larissa says he was the man
Who raped her on film.
- Why wasn't he locked up?
- Larissa never saw his face.
Lack of physical evidence led the jury to acquit underwood
On all charges. - Because of double jeopardy,
The old skeeze can't be tried again for raping larissa.
- Larissa, did... Any other girls make movies?
- Daniel said that there was...
Ones before me,
But they were targeted for termination.
- By coventry. - Yeah.
- After the brandy trial, underwood became a lawyer,
Fighting for the rights of the unjustly accused.
- Yeah.
Well, that pillowcase came from underwood's house,
And those brandy photos were in the pillowcase.
Those photos belong to underwood.
- Prove it, and we'll nail his ass for possession.
- Sharpen up those nails.
The brandy photos in the pillowcase-
The lab found orville underwood's dna all over 'em.
- My dna? - Your dried semen.
On this photo that we found at eldon balogh's house.
- You should really be more careful
Where you plant your seed.
- I've never seen that photo before.
- We know you're old. Now you're blind?
- It doesn't belong to me.
- Well, then how did you dirty it up-magic?
- I was over at balogh's house.
We were having a drink- - you were at his house?
Because he said the first time you two ever met
Was when he kicked in your door.
- Gentlemen, I don't know how much time you spent with him,
But he's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Still, I was having a chat at eldon balogh's place
When he left the room to take a phone call,
And I suddenly had an urge.
- An urge?
- To masturbate.
- In somebody else's house.
- My lungs might be quite frail,
But I assure you, all my other parts work.
- Right. Good for you.
So you're just sitting in another guy's house,
And suddenly you decide it's time to peel the banana.
- I did go into the bathroom.
There was a stack of magazines by the toilet,
And maybe that photo was in there
And my dna landed on it.
- Gotta give it to this guy. That's a new one.
- New? Yeah. But not good.
- Don't believe me? Prove me wrong.
But the clock is ticking, detectives.
You have 24 hours from the moment of my arrest
To arraign me.
- Yeah, I forgot. Pervert here is now a lawyer.
- Civil rights attorney...
Defending innocent citizens like myself
Against police abuse.
- From kiddie diddler to hump hustler-
That's not much of an improvement.
- You two can stay and continue to be titillated
By the specifics of my ejaculation habits
Or you can go try to find probable cause to hold me.
And I'd suggest the latter,
Because in... 22 hours and 38 minutes,
I walk out of police custody a free and innocent man.
Again.
[knock on door]
- Detectives, a word.
- Cut him loose?
- We don't have enough to hold him.
- Did you miss the part where there's semen on brandy's photo?
- I also heard his explanation.
- You bought that? - Of course not.
But the guy's not dumb. He went to law school.
- Since when is that mutually exclusive?
- I'm saying underwood is already spinning this.
He'll sing a sad song to the jury
Playing the crippled man
Whose life is once again being ruined
By false allegations.
- Jill, his dna was on the photo.
- It's not enough.
Possession is defined as dominion and control.
A fingerprint would prove
That underwood had the photo in his hand.
Finding it in his house would show it under his control.
Anything less is circumstantial.
- Especially when he was saying
His dna was flying every which way but loose.
- So you get balogh on the stand to testify
That he found the photos in underwood's home.
- Eldon balogh was beaten to death last night in prison
For bragging about raping brandy and those other girls.
Void the arrest. Let him go.
- Didn't I tell ya I'd be walking out a free man?
- Keep it up, underwood.
I'll wrap that oxygen line around your neck.
- You cops are all the same. You can't make the case,
So you make empty threats.
- I hope you die a slow, painful death.
Have a nice day.
- Taxi!
Oh, my goodness, brandy!
How have you been?
You are still a very beautiful girl.
- You told that guy where I was.
- Underwood! Get away from her!
- I'm just trying to tell her no hard feelings
After so many years! - Get away from her,
You son of a bitch!
- [vomiting]
I'm so sorry I threw up on you.
- I needed to get my suit dry cleaned anyway.
So when was the last time you saw underwood?
- 16 years ago. At the trial.
And then it's like, there he was
Standing right in front of me, and I just...
Felt like I was ten again.
- What did he say to you?
- He said I was still beautiful.
And he called me brandy.
- Larissa, the man who attacked you the other night,
Eldon balogh, was murdered last night in jail.
- He's dead? - Mm-hmm.
Never be able to hurt you or anyone else again.
- Yeah. But underwood is still out there.
- Oh, we're gonna get him too.
- How? You can't try him again.
- We got a warrant to search his place.
We find something there, we'll get him on a new charge.
- You know, maybe you can help us.
- [exhales]
Anything.
- Remember daniel, the boy in the movies with you?
If we could find him,
We could count him as a new accuser.
- Then underwood could be charged for the crimes
That he committed against both of you back then.
- You guys realize I've spent my entire life
Trying to forget about what's happened to me,
And you just want me to relive it?
- Not relive. Just remember.
Maybe there's some tiny details you've forgotten.
- Something that he said about his life
Before he was abducted or... Maybe where he came from.
- You know, all I can remember is daniel's smile...
The day that I got away.
- Victims deal with their trauma in numerous ways.
Larissa has obviously built cognitive walls
Between the present and her very painful past.
- Is there a way to break through them?
- Hypnosis is an option,
But it's often attacked on the stand
For being unreliable.
- We only need larissa to help us find daniel,
The boy who was in the movies with her.
- The brandy series was made in the '90s,
But it didn't make it to the internet until 2005.
Which means that it wasn't available
To the prosecutors at the original trial in 1996.
- So you're saying that she probably
Never even saw the movies that she starred in.
- Viewing the images might trigger more specific memories
About where and when they were made.
- If it doesn't destroy her in the process.
- It is a risk.
Are you willing to take it?
[young larissa] - please. Please don't make me.
I wanna stop.
[distorted voice] - take off your clothes, brandy.
- My name's not brandy. - Do what I say, brandy,
Or coventry will get you.
- Please... - Do it!
Or coventry will kill your mommy and daddy...
- Larissa. - And all your brothers
And sisters.
- Larissa, are you sure that you can do this?
- Please don't make me. Please.
- Yes. If it's the only way to stop him...
My god.
Forgot about that dress.
He used to always make me wear it, and I hated it.
- Do you remember those boys?
- No. There were so many.
- Do you remember him?
- That's daniel.
- Do you remember that day?
- No.
[sniffles]
It's like a dream, you know.
Underwood drugged me.
He always did before we made a movie.
- Can you tell me anything specific about that location?
- No.
I just remember the jars.
- The jars. What jars?
- The peanut butter.
That's like all underwood fed us, and...
When they were empty, daniel would...
Would bury them in the backyard,
And he'd put notes to his parents in them.
- So they would somehow find him.
- Yeah. He called them wishing jars,
And if we prayed that...
We might be found.
- What else can you tell me about daniel?
- [sighs]
I wore that leather wristband
The day that I got away,
The one that he's wearing right there,
And I buried it in a jar.
- Where?
- In the backyard of my foster home
After I escaped.
- Why did you bury the wristband?
- 'cause I made a wish...
That daniel might find me.
[chatter on police radio]
- Why couldn't this lead break in the summer?
- Munch, you just grab a shovel and dig.
You might get warmer.
- Hey. Over here.
The wristband was pretty degraded,
But I isolated exfoliated skin cells.
Ran it through codis and got five partial dna matches
That hit 11 markers with two varying indeterminates.
- Does that mean you found daniel?
- Of the five partials, one belonged to this boy.
Real name daniel brooks.
Reported missing to the national center
For missing and exploited children in '95
When he was 12.
- 16 years ago.
Well, we don't know if he escaped.
- If he didn't, it's a good bet that underwood killed him.
- Well, then he must have a twin.
Same dna popped for shoplifting and prostitution
In 2001, 2003, and 2006.
- Get an address? - Public records show
That daniel brooks now owns an abandoned factory
In lower manhattan.
Benson: Daniel brooks?
Daniel brooks.
- I mean, yeah, this place is a dump,
But how does a street kid buy something like this?
- El.
- [sighs] daniel never got out of the business.
- Let's go!
- Michael! - Let's go!
- Hey, hey...
Honey, are you okay?
- Yes. Daniel took michael away.
- Is it coventry? - Yes! They'll kill us
Unless you do everything I say!
Stay back!
- No, don't!
[crying]
- Put the boy down. - Do you wanna save him?
Back off! - [crying] no! No!
No, don't! - I'm backing off.
- [whimpering]
- Daniel.
Daniel, I'm sorry nobody was there to save you.
And right now, you have a choice.
- I've never had a choice.
- Look, I know you love that boy.
You don't want to hurt him.
He's innocent, just like you were, daniel.
You have a chance to take care of him right now.
Save him.
Come here. - [whimpering]
- What do you want from me?
- To get justice for the girl who played brandy.
And for you.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- The man who hurt you and brandy.
Orville underwood. - Underwood?
I don't know who that is.
- That's you, daniel...
As a boy.
- The kid in this picture...
That's not me anymore.
- You disassociated yourself
From everything that underwood made you do.
Daniel, that's you.
That is a boy whose childhood was stolen from him.
- And I'm nothing now.
- You're like all the children in these movies:
A victim.
- I was a victim.
But I'm not anymore.
Poor bastard.
It's almost like he's soulless.
- Well, we was abducted. He adapted to survive.
- He did.
Then he made his own choices after that.
- Daniel's abuse at such a young age
Is tantamount to being brainwashed.
His entire worldview was altered
After underwood got his hands on him.
- Well, we've seen it before.
Rescued children who didn't know their real names
Or recognize photos of themselves
Months after they were abducted.
- Didn't turn them into rapists.
- But daniel's evolution
From victim to victimizer
Could be his way of taking control
Over his own screwed up life.
- Heather and michael
Are gonna need a whole lot of help.
- Yeah. But with therapy, they have a chance.
Excuse me.
- Now, what about larissa?
If we can't get daniel to testify,
We got nothing on underwood.
- Don't need daniel anymore.
- Found something at underwood's?
- A panel in the basement wall,
And the hidden treasure inside.
- "the beauty of a child's love, by o.U."
- "chasing brandy."
"how I found brandy, and how you can too."
- Underwood started posting these to chat rooms
Not long after that first trial.
Pervs all over the world been gettin' off to them for years.
- He knew he couldn't risk making films anymore,
So he turned his hand to writing kiddie porn novels.
- Jill said he was a smart guy.
This one is a disgusting "how to" for pedophiles.
- I gotta say, this is the one time
I disagree with the first amendment.
This garbage should be banned.
- Perverts hiding behind free speech
And calling it literature.
As long as there's no pictures,
There's no way we can touch underwood.
- Maybe we can.
"when you find your brandy,
"give her something to make her feel real good.
"dress her up. Fix her hair.
Make her the little girl that you want to love."
Balogh followed underwood's directions to raping larissa.
Hardwicke can use this to get him.
- This book and the others the police found
In mr. Underwood's home
Prove conspiracy to commit rape.
- Falsehood after falsehood.
- You're saying the beauty of a child's love,
Days at camp, nights of passion
Aren't child porn?
- They are fiction protected under the first amendment,
Not child pornography.
No photos, no drawings.
Nothing but words on paper.
And as fiction, no children were harmed
In the writing of these books.
- Tell that to larissa welsh.
She was violently raped by a man
Following the explicit instructions
Provided in how I found brandy. How you can too.
- This is your conspiracy argument, ms. Hardwicke?
- Mr. Underwood published this book
As a how-to manual.
We found a downloaded copy in the home of eldon balogh,
Miss welsh's rapist, with passages highlighted
That specifically relate to the way she was attacked.
- And mr. Balogh will confirm this?
- Unfortunately, he was killed in prison
Before his testimony could be obtained.
But there's no question
He followed mr. Underwood's written instructions.
"how you should dress her. How you should drug her."
It even commanded balogh to videotape the assault
Because "you'll want the memories of brandy's sweetness
To last a lifetime."
- I...Commanded balogh?
Where's his name written in that book?
And if I wrote about a girl named brandy,
Why is the young woman who was regrettably attacked
Named larissa?
Right there, your theory falls apart.
- I think a jury will find the connection
Between miss welsh and brandy to be quite convincing.
- Your honor, her case fails by all criteria.
Conspiracy requires two or more people
To actually agree and intend to agree
To commit a crime.
Unless ms. Hardwicke is a mind reader,
She is talking out of her ass!
- Counselor, you're out of order.
- Your honor, I can take anything this toad can dish out.
- I'm only defending myself against her lies!
[judge pounds gavel]
- Both of ya shut up.
Give me 15 minutes to consider the facts.
This is one of those cases that makes me wonder
If it's time to retire.
After review,
And despite strong personal contempt
For the defendant's odious literary efforts,
This court has no choice
But to grant the defense motion for dismissal.
- Your honor- - ms. Hardwicke,
Spend your energy building a convincing prima facie case
For your charges.
The argument for conspiracy
Fails to present any meeting of the minds
Between the defendant
And his supposed coconspirator
Who is now unable to speak for himself.
You wanna try again... I'm all ears.
But for now, we're done.
[taps gavel]
- Good-bye, ladies...
As always.
- Larissa, do not turn and look at that monster.
- Please.
He cannot get away again.
- We'll figure out some other way.
I promise.
- There's only one other way.
We have to get daniel to testify.
- But he won't.
He's not the same person you used to know.
- Please...Let me talk to daniel.
I know I can get through to him.
[buzzer]
Daniel.
Hi.
Daniel, what happened?
How could you grow up to be like them?
You were my savior.
- You never came back for me.
- I tried. - Not hard enough.
- So now you wanna hurt more children...
For payback?
- No.
I love all my kids.
- Daniel, you're forcing them to make movies.
- It's better than the lives they had.
They're throwaways.
With my movies, they get to feel my love
And the love of our family.
- Daniel...
You had a family.
Underwood stole you from them.
He did it to me too.
Please...
The police really need your help.
I really need your help.
We gotta put him away once and for all.
- You wanna punish him.
What will that change?
- He deserves to be punished.
- We're broken.
Nothing can fix us.
- I don't believe that.
- It's been 15 years, larissa.
Are you fixed yet?
[whispering]
[door unlocks, opens]
- So it's over.
We'll lick our wounds and move on.
- It's that easy? - Didn't say it was easy.
But what choice do we have?
- You guys are better at this than I am.
- No. We've just been doing it longer.
The good news is-
There's not a lot of time to worry about failure.
- Bad news is that's because there's always...
A new victim needing help.
Detective stabler.
- I'm sure I'll be seeing you two tomorrow.
- Good night. - Hold on. Okay.
We'll be right there.
911 received a call from underwood.
He said a girl named brandy
Barged into his house with a gun.
Then the line went dead.
Where are they? - In the bedroom.
- But I love you, brandy. - Shut up!
- Larissa?
- I never meant to hurt you.
- Larissa, it's detective benson.
- Don't, don't, brandy! - Please, this is not the way
To handle this- [gunshots]
- Larissa, drop the gun.
Larissa, drop the gun.
Okay. - I...
I had to. I had to.
[child crying]
[crying continues]
- At rikers, daniel told me
That underwood was still doing it.
[girl hyperventilating]
- He hurt me. [sobbing
- So? What do we wanna do?
- She used deadly force to stop underwood from raping christina.
That's defense of a third person.
She walks.
- Works for me.
- You guys gonna arrest me now?
- No.
You saved christina.
It's over.
- Maybe.