NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system,
sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. Ripped By mstoll
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.
LEWIS: Welcome home, Detective Benson.
NARRATOR: Previously on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
A detective has been kidnapped. You find him.
(SIREN WAILING)
When he can, he moves them to a safe house,
where he can take his time.
LEWIS: Let's get to the action.
BENSON: There was a struggle.
(GROANING)
I managed to incapacitate the suspect.
BENSON: He still got to me.
Got to you? Yeah.
(SCREAMING)
(KEYS JINGLING)
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
(SIGHS)
Time to wake up, sweetheart.
(GROANS)
Hey, Liv, I wish you'd let me do this for you.
Yeah, I just, uh... I wanted to open some windows.
You okay?
Whoa, hey. Let me get that for you. Stop. I got it.
Okay.
I'm fine. Okay.
(EXHALES) TEACHER: Two.
(EXHALES) Three.
(EXHALES) Four.
BENSON: I mean, I know that he's locked up.
And I know that he can't get to me.
But I feel very angry.
If I hadn't let my guard down,
if somebody had put him away,
then, he wouldn't have raped Alice Parker,
or raped Mrs. Mayer, or...
Or you.
That wasn't rape.
That was an assault.
An ugly, violent one, but...
But they had it worse.
You can take care of yourself.
You're fine.
Are you saying that I'm not?
Olivia, I'm suggesting that you've undergone
a traumatic experience.
And that even you are not a superwoman.
We went there today.
Your apartment?
The first time since the assault?
How was that? Not good.
Returning for the first time can be a trigger for...
Yes, I know. I know all about that. Thank you.
I'm sure you do.
I'm sorry. It's just, uh...
That place, it was so dark there.
Then, I realized that I haven't...
Thrived there.
We can talk about that some more, if you'd like.
In our next session? (LAUGHS)
Or not.
You know, I... I think...
I think I'm just...
I'm just ready to go back to work.
I know you feel antsy, but right now,
is SVU the best place for you?
Excuse me?
I hear you reevaluating your home,
your relationship.
I wonder if you've given any thought to the toll your job takes.
Not for a second.
He doesn't get to take that from me.
Does the thought of doing something different,
does that frighten you?
What I'm afraid of
is walking back to my...
To my squad room, and having everybody
look at me
and wonder if I'm okay.
Hey, guys.
What, no cake?
We were gonna get you cupcakes.
Rollins, I was... I was joking.
They're... They're beautiful. Thank you. That's so nice.
Welcome back, Detective Benson.
(HORN HONKING)
MO-MO: Hey. Want a picture? Come on.
Oh, okay. It's Mo-Mo!
MAN: Buddy! Hi.
Hi, there. It's Mo-Mo.
Hi, Mo-Mo. Hi.
Hi, uh, what's your name?
Buddy, you don't run away from me, okay? Hey, is that your daddy?
Do you want him to take a picture of you with Mo-Mo?
Ten bucks, take a video.
You want a picture, don't you? Back off.
Hey, don't push me. Excuse me, please.
MO-MO: It's just five bucks for a kid.
MAN: Back off. Hey.
Excuse me. Whoa. It's for him. What?
Not again. What's going on?
That guy started it. He pushed me.
Take the head off, sir. I need to see some ID.
In front of these kids?
BUDDY: Pa?
Pa?
Where's Pa?
You're here with your dad, son?
We'll find him. What's your name?
(INAUDIBLE)
Sorry.
Nick, it's okay.
You don't like my haircut?
Lt'll grow.
(CHUCKLES)
Where's your ring?
It is what it is.
An abandoned kid in Times Square.
Another Mo-Mo incident.
Again?
What is it with these guys?
Go wake up your partner and find out.
We got this, Captain.
Liv, it's just your second day back.
(SIGHS) Captain, you're paying me to be here.
You sent me home yesterday after two hours.
It's a lost kid.
Please, I can handle this.
Hey, Cap. We're good.
Okay.
BENSON: He doesn't know his own name? OFFICER: Or he won't say.
Or his parents' names, or where he lives.
Okay. He's young. What, seven? Eight?
He doesn't know his birthday.
He just says he wants to go home.
But he does speak English.
When he speaks, yeah.
I don't know. Something's off developmentally.
BENSON: Could he be autistic?
Nah, my nephew's on the spectrum.
This is something different.
NICK: And what about the father? Okay, thanks.
That dad, he started it.
The boy, was he comfortable with him? Scared?
The dad scared me.
And the kid, he... He was weird.
Clinging to me like I was real?
Hi, there.
My name's Olivia.
I'm here to help you.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Is it okay if I hold your hand?
So, can you tell me your name?
What's your name?
Buddy.
A lost boy and the man with him
took off when he saw cops?
That's not good.
All the crowd, the tourists,
the guy just melted away.
Mo-Mo's getting us a police sketch.
TARU's checking all the security cameras.
Kid show any signs of abuse?
Doctors say he's underweight for his age,
but he's bright, aware, physically unharmed.
ROLLINS: We ran his profile through Missing Persons.
There's no matches yet.
And his DNA is not in the system.
No maternal or paternal hits.
Still. At seven or eight, he should be able to tell us something.
BENSON: Okay, Buddy. So, who is this?
Ma.
Ma?
Okay.
Do you live with Ma?
In house.
Who are these other two?
BUDDY: Auntie.
And Sissy.
She plays with me the most.
And that man that you were with today.
Who was he? No.
He'll come back.
He'll be mad.
So, this man, tell me.
What's his name?
Pa.
You live with Pa?
When he's at house.
He goes sometimes.
But he always comes back.
So, when Pa comes and goes,
do you know where he goes?
Don't ask.
Be quiet.
Then, he won't be mad.
If you're quiet, you get ice cream.
Or go out.
Out.
Out, like today.
Like today, when you saw Mo-Mo.
So, did... Did you and Pa walk to see Mo-Mo?
Yeah.
We walked a long way.
Then, we go upstairs.
Upstairs?
To the train.
High up.
I look out the window.
Then it got dark.
Sissy taught me a trick to make the walk go fast.
Count the cracks.
In the sidewalk.
I bet you're a really good counter.
Me and Sissy have lots of tricks.
We count lots of things.
Yeah?
Do you count the train stops?
BUDDY: That's train.
NICK: Okay. Good, Buddy.
But is there anything you remember hearing, Buddy?
Maybe at night? Sirens?
Dog one and dog two.
They bark.
I don't like it when they bark.
Okay. Keep looking out the window, Buddy.
Tell me if you see where you walk.
That bridge.
We cross that bridge.
There's lots of cars.
It's loud.
BENSON: Okay. How many sidewalk cracks to house?
A hundred cracks to get that far.
Okay, around this corner, this way?
BUDDY: Yes.
Fifty five cracks. NICK: To house?
BUDDY: Yeah.
Okay, Buddy. Tell us if you see house.
There.
House.
(DOGS BARKING)
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Police! You sure we got the right place?
The kid's positive.
Open up!
You looking for Tony? Tony?
The house is owned by Angie Minetti.
Yeah. Tony's her son. They live together.
Where's Tony right now?
I ain't seen him since yesterday.
Mr. Minetti. Police!
He left in a hurry.
ROLLINS: Nobody's upstairs.
Open up!
NYPD.
NICK: Mr. Minetti?
FIN: Hello? Anybody in here?
ROLLINS: What kind of hell is this?
NICK: One cell.
Two cells.
Three.
Wait. There's somebody in there.
Hey, come cut this open.
ROLLINS: Hey.
Hey. (WOMAN MOANS)
We're going to need an ambulance.
(MOANS) Hey.
Hey. Listen, we're here to help you.
Hey. We're police.
Hey. You're safe.
There's no sign of him. He may have left with two other women.
ROLLINS: It's a house of horrors. It's sick in there.
He's got Tasers, zip tie restraints,
there's German Shepherds out in the yard.
He's another Ariel Castro. My God.
What do we have on him?
The neighbors say he's Tony Minetti.
Son of homeowner, Angie Minetti.
Neighbors know the mother?
Nobody has seen her in years.
But her Social Security checks get direct deposited every week.
Neighbors see anything?
Well, three complaints to the local precinct this year,
including a woman tied up outside in the dog house.
Cops showed up, no answer. They left.
Ain't they great.
This is incredible. Incredible.
I had beers with this dude.
You ever been in his house?
No, my backyard. We'd have a smoke.
He was just a regular dude. Until today.
You never heard or saw anything that didn't seem right?
No, sir.
What about the little boy?
Quiet little fella. Uh, Tony said it was his girlfriend's nephew.
But you know, it could have been his son.
BUDDY: That's Auntie.
Can I see Sissy?
It's over now.
The press is here?
Please tell me that you have something.
An address on the homeowner's son.
Fin and Amaro are en route.
Is the vic any help?
Rollins says she may have issues.
You okay with all this? Are you?
I've got a seven-year-old in the car
who's spent his entire life in a basement.
And God knows what else went on down there.
We have no idea where this Pa is, or, or, or who he is.
And now, the feeding frenzy begins?
Welcome back.
CRAGEN: There's no sign of the other women at Tony Minetti's apartment.
They're bringing him in.
And he claims to have no idea about any of this?
What do we know about the first vic?
Um...
Uh, Rhonda Davis, 24.
She's been missing since 2002.
How did she end up in that basement?
Well, Rollins says that it's been very slow going.
Um, she seems to have a diminished mental capacity.
Uh, grew up in Delaware, in and out of foster care.
Any family?
No, the parents are deceased.
Last we know, she was living in a group home in Brooklyn.
They didn't even report her missing
until two years after she ran away.
They wanted the government checks to keep coming.
NICK: Come on.
Can somebody tell me what's going on?
FIN: Shut up.
I haven't been to that for-crap house in 20 years.
So, you haven't seen your mother in two decades?
No. And if she says I have, she's lying.
Where did you pick her up?
I told you. I've never seen her before.
We found her chained up in your house.
In your basement. It's not my house.
I don't even like women.
So, what, you're saying you're gay?
That's why my mother hates me.
When I came out, she spit in my face
and told me I was going straight to hell.
So, no, I've never seen the girl before.
My mother must have set me up.
RHONDA: Mmm-mmm.
That's not Pa. That's not Pa.
I want to get out.
Out. Out. Hey.
(SHUSHING) Okay.
All right? You want to get out? We can do that.
You want to get something to eat?
How about some ice cream? No, no ice cream.
Sissy said that's for Buddy.
Sissy.
She's a good sister.
Can you tell me about her?
She sleeps with Pa.
Except when he sleeps with me,
or Ma.
Except he doesn't sleep.
He stays awake and awake and awake.
Okay.
And Pa, he...
He took Ma and Sissy with him.
Yes.
He didn't want me to go.
He said only Ma and Pumpkin Pie.
And Sissy's Pumpkin Pie?
That's when she came to live with us.
Pa said she's our pumpkin pie.
Our Thanksgiving blessing.
We think one of the girls from the basement is Kayla Greyland.
She went missing in the Poconos area nine years ago around Thanksgiving.
Big media case. Buddy ID'd the age progression photo.
So, this guy's been holding two missing girls for 11 years?
What about the third woman?
We're checking her sketch against old Missing Persons records.
No hits so far.
Could it be Angie Minetti?
No, it's unlikely. Angie's 85.
And Angie's real son has no idea
who was impersonating him? No.
So, who is this guy?
No mail, no prescription bottles.
Utilities, phone all in Angie Minetti's name, paid direct deposit.
ROLLINS: And CSU ran prints. No hits.
So, you're nowhere closer to finding this guy or the other two women.
Look. At least we can tell Kayla's parents that their daughter's still alive.
Well, take the police sketch.
Predators tend to work their own neighborhoods.
SCOTT: It doesn't look like anyone we know.
The police, after all these years,
said we shouldn't expect too much.
But you're saying she's alive with him?
It's possible.
(SOBBING) It's... I told you.
I kept praying every day.
They said on the news there were other girls in the house.
And a little boy.
Do we know...
Well, when you reported Kayla missing,
the police didn't collect a DNA sample.
Kayla's toothbrush or hairbrush.
They said there was no point unless they found a body.
Okay. Kayla's things, you saved them?
I have her first lost tooth.
He kept her alive nine years...
He must be attached.
He wouldn't do anything now, would he?
CSU found human skeletal remains
in the backyard in Greenpoint,
wrapped in a bedspread.
Nice sheets.
CRAGEN: Liv?
Was it another girl?
Well, they're checking dental records.
It might be Angie Minetti.
So, he kills this old woman.
Liv, it may have been natural causes.
He buries her in the backyard.
The M.E. Didn't find any signs of foul play.
He keeps cashing her check.
He keeps these girls chained.
And he keeps raping them over and over.
Okay. Hold on. Okay.
When's the last time you slept?
Captain, please, I'm fine. Fine.
Even so, take a few hours.
Okay. You have to stop treating me like I'm broken.
Well, nobody is saying that.
(KNOCKS ON DOOR)
They found Kayla.
She got picked up by New Jersey police shoplifting in Kmart.
BENSON: She wanted to get caught.
CRAGEN: Any signs of our suspect? He bolted.
Witness says he was with an older woman, in her thirties.
They thought the three of them were a family.
FEMALE REPORTER: (OVER TV) Kayla, over here.
My name is Kayla Greyland.
I've been missing from home for nine years.
I want to see my mom and my dad.
And I want to see Buddy.
I just want to go home.
Everybody's been so nice. But I don't need to be in a hospital.
Well, the doctors just want to make sure that you're okay.
I'm fine.
When can we take our daughter home?
The doctors have a few more tests.
We have a few more questions.
She doesn't need to be upset right now.
Mr. And Mrs. Greyland, let me buy you a cup of coffee?
I'm not leaving her. Never again.
Your daughter's safe here.
Mom, Dad, it's okay.
You want to come with?
I'm gonna stay.
How are you doing, Kayla?
I'm worried about Buddy.
When can I see him again?
Uh...
The doctors just. I'm not gonna hurt him.
I told you, he's my baby. I swear.
And we believe you.
Auntie told us that...
That Buddy's your son.
But he doesn't know it.
No.
Pa said our... Our names were Sissy, Auntie, and Ma.
Can you tell us about Ma and Pa?
Were they always together?
KAYLA: I think so.
She was in the car when they...
ROLLINS: When Pa took you?
Do you remember?
It was Thanksgiving.
I was watching TV at my friend's house,
and my mom called and said that the...
The turkey was ready, so I started walking home.
And this car pulled up. Ma was driving.
And...
She asked for directions, so I came over.
Then, the back door opened, and I just felt...
Jolted. I... I was shaking.
They tasered you.
When I woke up, I was chained to the wall.
There was a bucket.
They told me that they were my new family.
My new Ma and Pa.
That I would learn to love them.
Maybe after...
About a week, Pa said that
it was time for me to help him.
That I could better help him if I wasn't chained.
So, he took off my clothes, and...
And his, and he had sex with me.
I didn't even know that that was what that was called,
but Ma explained it to me, and she said that I was lucky.
That I was Pa's favorite.
And Ma?
She wasn't locked up?
No, she went upstairs.
Sometimes, Pa would go away.
And I would... (SNIFFS)
I would ask her to let me... let me go.
But she said she couldn't.
That Pa was coming back.
She was just sitting in a McDonalds by herself for five hours.
The manager finally called the cops.
Any sign of the man she was with?
No. He must have dumped her.
Left her with no cash, no nothing.
She say anything? Just that she had to wait there.
It took two of us to haul her into the car.
Are you Ma?
We're going to need you to come with us.
No. Pa's coming back.
He's coming back and he won't find me.
We brought this woman in?
We need to interrogate her.
She's a victim. Or a suspect.
You heard Kayla.
She was in on the kidnap.
She had free reign of the house.
She was in control when he left.
No, no. Liv, she is classic Stockholm. Look at her.
I mean, the woman has been brutalized.
What she needs right now is a psych eval.
Not to be... CRAGEN: Well, that can wait.
This guy's getting away.
She won't tell us her name or his.
Because she's covering for him.
Or maybe she doesn't know it.
CRAGEN: You both could be right.
At the very least, she had this guy's trust.
She's our best shot to apprehend him.
And you think she's going to open up to the two male cops
that cuffed her and dragged her in here against her will?
Let us to talk to her.
Hi.
I'm Detective Rollins. This is Detective Benson.
What's your name?
Everyone calls me Ma.
Yeah, we know that that was Pa's house rule,
but we need to know your real name.
Or how about Pa's real name?
Pa.
He didn't tell me any other name.
Are you sure?
Because we know that you lived upstairs with him.
You shopped for him.
You... You got to come and go.
Hmm? It wasn't like the other girls.
Like Rhonda and Kayla.
Auntie. Sissy.
We're gonna keep you safe. He can't hurt you anymore.
You can't hold me here. I want to go.
Oh, no. You're not going anywhere.
I haven't done anything. Well, you were in the car.
You took Kayla.
You're as guilty as he is.
Okay? You're going to be charged with kidnap, assault, rape.
That's life in prison.
I didn't rape nobody.
No, no. You just kept them chained up so he could.
They loved me. I took care of them.
It's okay. No. No, you took care of yourself.
You see, Rhonda has nerve damage.
Now, she will never be the same.
Auntie was always trouble.
He had to do it. She asked for it.
And Kayla asked for it?
And Buddy asked for it?
He never hurt Buddy.
He's a seven-year-old, terrified.
Locked in that basement his whole life.
Stop! Stop!
Stop! Stop! Stop! He will never, ever, ever...
Stop! Stop! be the same.
(SCREAMS) I love Buddy!
(MA SOBBING) Detective.
My office. Now.
I was getting somewhere.
No, you were attacking her. She was shutting down.
I made a mistake. You're too raw.
She knows who he is and where he is.
I'm going back in there. No, you are not going back in.
You are going home.
It was too soon for you to come back to SVU.
(SIGHS)
(SCREAMING)
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
My parents have been sending toys and money.
Everybody wants to help you. And Buddy.
I hope so.
I don't know.
Some... Sometimes, it's...
It just feels like the top of my head is going to go flying off.
All that time, all I wanted was more.
More to do, more to see,
different things to talk about.
Now, I can do whatever I want, and I just...
I just want to stay in bed.
I'm just tired of everyone looking at me like I'm gonna break.
I saw on the TV that you found Ma.
We did.
Buddy wants to see her.
When her face came on the TV,
he touched the screen.
I don't know how to, how to tell him that she's not his Ma.
The doctors are gonna help you with that.
Tell you how.
Tell you when.
She must miss him.
All that time we were on the road,
she just kept saying that she hoped that
Buddy didn't think that we had left him behind.
If she wants to see him, that's fine with me.
I don't want to take anything from anybody.
BENSON: Hey.
Olivia. Listen, if Cragen sees you, he's going to... Ma.
Did you talk to her today?
Yeah, but she's so traumatized,
she's never giving him up.
What's this?
It's something to trade for.
Okay. You want me to give it a shot? I...
No.
I need to do this.
How long is this going to take?
This guy could be in South Carolina by now.
We keep going at her, she's gonna shut down for good.
Liv?
I was wrong before.
But she knows who he is.
And I can get her to tell me.
How?
I talked to Kayla at the hospital.
I said you're off this case, Olivia.
Cap, she can get through to her.
Take my place in there.
If you can't trust me,
then, I'm done.
Buddy made that for me?
Yes.
He says that he misses you.
I miss him.
Sissy says that she's...
She's fine
with you seeing Buddy.
I don't believe you. Sissy has a good heart.
I know you know that.
And I know that you know that...
That she wouldn't lie about that.
(SNIFFS)
When?
You can have Buddy in your life.
But just not as his mother.
He needs to know the truth.
But you can still be family.
And all you have to do is talk to us.
(SOBS)
Can you tell us Pa's name?
I can't.
Can you tell us yours?
I just can't say it.
Okay.
So, how about you...
How about you write it down?
Tell us the name that they used to call you
when you were a little girl.
Hmm.
So, April Hendricks, she went missing 18 years ago in Greenpoint.
She grew up two blocks from that house?
Any connection to the Minetti's?
NICK: Well, none we can find.
She was raised by a single mother, now deceased. A junkie.
Yeah, and there were allegations of abuse
from the mother's drug dealing boyfriend.
April ran away from home multiple times.
So, NYPD didn't work the case.
No, police questioned a few suspects and two are dead.
And one, Michael Williams, whereabouts unknown,
was a maintenance worker at her parochial school.
Some of the students say she had a crush on him.
He claimed he was counseling her.
Police ruled him out.
The school has no contact for him?
No, closed down five years ago.
Track down everybody who worked there.
See if they know where he is.
COLLEEN: I wasn't her principal then. I was her teacher.
This poor girl, everyone thought she ran away.
She's the one on the news?
Yeah, she was held prisoner for 18 years.
Mmm. Horrible story.
Yeah. At the time, the police questioned a maintenance worker?
Michael Williams.
They said he didn't have anything to do with it.
You know where he is now?
I can get you his phone number.
He works here.
He had an accident a few days ago. He's on sick leave.
Police. ROLLINS: Open up.
Can I help you? We're looking for Michael Williams.
That's my husband. What's this about? Is your husband home?
He's in the back playing with our boys. Can you tell me why?
No, ma'am. Please, just back up.
NICK: Michael Williams.
Yeah? Who the hell are you?
NYPD.
Get off of me. Game's over, player.
Come on.
Slaves.
That's what the girls told you?
No. That's what the chains, fences, and Tasers told us.
I was the slave.
I worked my ass off for them.
I clothed them, fed them.
Took care of their needs.
Is that what you call raping 'em?
ROLLINS: There's no mistake.
He kept three women imprisoned
in Angie Minetti's house for 18 years.
I worked there, taking care of his mother. I would have known.
It wasn't his mother.
I mean, they didn't even share the same last name.
After his parents divorced,
she went back to her maiden name.
He tells me everything.
April and Rhonda, they came after me.
April was 12 when you took her.
No. When I saved her.
FIN: Like you saved Rhonda.
Beat her and put her in the backyard with the dogs.
She was on drugs.
She was out of control.
I was the only stability in her life.
I told you, I do not know these women.
I took care of his mother upstairs.
That was my job.
Until she died? What?
She's not dead. She has Alzheimer's.
Michael stays with her all week long, taking care of her.
No, you know what? That's not who he's taking care of.
Angie Minetti died nine years ago.
Kayla Greyland?
She was 10.
Kayla was, was different. She was... She was special.
But it was... It was for the greater good.
See, because I'm not evil.
No, I got problems.
And she, she helped me.
And after her, I didn't need any others.
DAGMARA: He's a good man.
He's so good with the boys.
He taught me English,
helped me stay in this country.
By marrying you.
Then, he moved you to the Poconos? Yes.
Tell me more about that.
He said it would be better for the children.
The city, he said it was filled with bad men.
MICHAEL: Angie Minetti was
a friend of my mother's.
I took care of that woman.
I got her house in shape.
Well, see, the neighbors,
they think you were that woman's son.
Now, your wife does, too.
Yeah, well, I was like a son to her.
FIN: Until you killed her.
What, did she find out about the girls in the basement?
She didn't find out.
And no, I didn't kill her.
One morning, I took in some breakfast,
and she was gone.
So, naturally, you buried her in the backyard
and kept cashing her Social Security checks.
Well, I didn't kill her.
FIN: No?
What did you think was gonna happen to Rhonda,
the girl you left chained in the basement
when you took off with Ma and Sis?
Well, you can't save them all.
I was gonna to call for help.
You know, I was going to go there myself and,
and get her after I found us a place.
But then, Kayla, she took off.
And what was I to do with, with just Ma?
I saved those girls.
They're alive because of me.
Me.
I gave them life.
I gave, I gave Kayla a son.
He's my boy.
His wife didn't know any of this?
Yeah, I believe her.
She was compliant. It's a green card marriage.
Doesn't ask questions.
What about April Hendricks? Ma? She knew all of it.
Uh, he took her when she was 12.
She thinks that it was consensual
because he saved her from her mother's boyfriend.
You cannot be thinking of charging her.
She did help keep Kayla and Rhonda imprisoned.
She is still scared to death.
She is...
A shell.
She needs long term help.
Not more punishment.
I hear you.
She's suffered enough.
But this guy, there's not enough suffering on earth for him.
He's never going to see the light of day again.
Guy's a coward.
He kept those girls locked up all that time.
Wonder how long he'll last in prison.
Think he'll kill himself?
So what if he does?
(CLAMORING)
KAYLA: Why can't we go?
They're working on moving the press away.
This, uh...
(SMACKS LIPS)
This isn't gonna be easy.
I don't care about me. It's... It's Buddy.
I... I tried the best I could, teaching him,
but I didn't want him to know
too much about the outside
because I was afraid that he would want things
that he couldn't have.
I want him...
I want him to go to school and have
friends and family, and a normal life.
But he's never going to be normal, is he?
He doesn't even have a name.
You know, what I've seen
is that people who have gone through
unfair,
horrific experiences,
is that they have this will...
And when they get support,
a chance,
they can not only survive,
they can thrive.
Buddy. (SNIFFS)
Buddy, wake up.
We're home.
(SNIFFS)
Glad you decided to come back.
How've you been?
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