What happens now?
We wait for the DNA to come back, and then we arrest you for 23 rapes.
I'm not Infinity.
Let's agree to disagree.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[to Stone after loses a case] Your father would have done better.
As a boy, Infinity was forced to listen while his father raped his mother.
That explains the pathology, but I don't think any of that was in the books.
Ben Stone knew that?
My father was obsessed. He kept everything, letter after letter. Look, Infinity even sent him a Father's Day card.
[reading] "Dear Ben, a happy Father's Day. Signed, the Infinity symbol". Take a look.
[moved] Ben Stone kept this?
Yeah, he did. He kept it in an evidence file so it wouldn't smudged or torn. Of course, the idiot sent a card with golf clubs. My father never played a game of gangry]olf in his life.
Infinity couldn't have known...
Right, because he knew nothing about my father.
They had a relationship!
There was no relationship.
All those hours Ben Stone spent on the case. He spent more time with Infinity than with his own family.
Ben Stone cared about the women who were raped. He cared about getting justice for them. You're confused.
If you thought this was about you, then you're more insane than I thought.
No! That's not true! I know!
You know what?
[pause] I would wait outside the D.A.'s office until the light in his office went out. Some nights, he wouldn't even get in his car until after midnight. It was me he cared about, not you! Me! It was me he loved!
NNoah
Why are you home early?
I thought we'd spend a little time together.
NNoah
[angry] I want Lucy!
[hurt but controlled] Okay, so, Noah, we get in bad moods sometimes, and that's okay. And sometimes it's not about Lucy, or olives, or homework. It means that we're upset about something else. What's wrong, honey? You can tell me. [Noah says nothing] Noah...?
NNoah
It's Jeremy. He keeps asking where my dad is. I told him he's in heaven.
[wary] That's right, Noah. He is.
NNoah
Did he love me?
Oh, sweetheart... of course he did. Very, very, very much. And someday, when you're older, I promise I'm gonna tell you all about him. But for right now, it's just team you and me. And I feel so very lucky to be on that team.
NNoah
[smiles] Me, too.
You deal with kids all the time. I don't know how you do it.
Sometimes I don't either.
There's just some things that don't make sense.
BBritney
I don't care. You know why? 'cause my father's dead. Okay, my father is dead. So I... I don't really understand what difference it makes who killed him.
They really could use me on this case. Man, I need to get back to work. [Al looks uncomfortable] What?
AAl
I guess I was kinda hoping you might take a nice, long maternity leave or even quit.
Quit my job? I love my job.
AAl
Amanda, I want to take care of you.
I know you do. Um... the thing is, Al, I can't marry you.
AAl
Why not?
I don't love you.
[long pause]
AAl
OK.
[surprised] OK?
AAl
I'm disappointed, but one of the only good things about getting older is that you get used to it. I'm glad I met you, Amanda, that we made a baby together. Um, I'll always be grateful.
Thank you, Al. Thank you.
AAl
Now let's have this kid already. What do you say?
Greg didn't care about Susan. He was after your sister. He manipulated her. He convinced her that she was in love with him. He even went so far as to propose to her.
BBritney
He asked her to marry him?
Yes.
BBritney
It's that stupid ring. That's why she's been so happy.
What did she say? What... what did she tell you?
BBritney
That, um, that me and her and Greg, we were gonna all live together, you know, and everything was gonna be okay. And then she'd just been been babbling on about, like, this "Romeo and Juliet" stuff, which I... oh, my God. What did she do? What did I do?
This isn't your fault or Laura's. This is one person's fault and that's Greg, and we will make sure that he never hurts you or your sister again.
This is wrong.
Don't go all Liv on us, all right? The woman shot her husband because he didn't like her dinner.
Life should be so easy.
Come on, not you, too.
I don't judge. Is it hot in here?
Hell always is.
[gestures to Sonny] Yeah, he is. He's going full Liv.
Somebody has to.
Yeah, and that somebody interrogated Annabeth. I wonder who that could be?
What if she doesn't show?
Look, man, we can only do our job.
What, that's all this is to you?
Yeah. I get up in the morning and I get dressed. I come to the office. After that, I go home. At the end of the week, I get a check and the check clears. That's called a job.
Okay, you know what? It's not all on us, though, Carisi. We do our part, but the rest is up to a judge and jury.
Sonny.: All right, so what happens upstairs, that doesn't concern you at all?
The short and sweet is fine with me.
Oh, please, give me a break. This from the guy who flew to Cuba on his own nickel to catch a fugitive rapist. [to Rollins] And you, with that Labott girl...
[severely] Enough.
Carisi, have a donut.
Are you telling me that you never even think about this? I mean, the the responsibility? The... the power that we have? I mean, I could get up on that stand and I could lie. I could say, yeah, Annabeth told me she planned on killing Thomas for the past six months. Now, I do that, she is done. No question. Or I could say I don't recall. I don't recall to anything that Stone asks me, and maybe she gets to live a nice, peaceful, safe life in a Chelsea apartment.
Or door number three, you tell the truth.
All I'm saying is It's a lot of power. And who the hell are we?
Lieu, I'm sorry. I'm not feeling okay about this case, okay? Maybe I feel like SOBs like Tommy Pearl get exactly what they deserve.
When a cop gets killed, it's an itch I can't scratch.
He's a cop who abused his wife!
With his words. Annabeth didn't have to listen.
Look, guys, stop. Stop. And law without empathy doesn't help anyone, Rollins.
I... I'm all about empathy. Come on, it's... it's coming out of my ears. For eight years, I'm drowning in it.
When I was in the bag, I took a domestic disturbance call. All right? Craig and Ellen Carter. Their neighbor was complaining because they were screaming at each other all night. They were cursing. So I show up. I calm everybody down and do, you know, what we're supposed to do. And I'm looking at this guy and I can just see in his eyes. And he's got that smirk, you know? So I take Ellen outside, and I say, "Listen. Listen, you've gotta stand up for yourself." I told her that she needed to leave this guy, but there's no signs of physical violence, so that's that's all I can do. A month later, I get another call. The same house, same complaint. Only this time Craig is taking her head and bashing it against the wall, and she's dead. So don't you stand there and say that all she had to do was walk out the damn door!
You have no idea what terror is, what pure and utter terror is. You know, they say that your heart beats faster, but it doesn't. It stops. Everything stops. You don’t breathe because... you're scared that it might upset him. And if you get a cramp in your foot, you tell yourself, ‘Just let it throb,’ because you'll live through that pain, and that's a hell of a lot better than what he'll do to you. And the pain is... so complete, and it’s so... so overwhelming. You can go without food for... for three days. And you don't close your eyes, because you—because you're scared that... you'll never open ‘em again. You pray... You pray... ‘Please God, don't let him climb on top of me again.’
Liv, I'm so sorry.
No one should have to live like that. No one.
Tommy Pearl is not William Lewis. Annabeth was not held hostage.
Wasn't she?
At least we know what our vic was running from.
What do you mean?
First time at a brothel, fellas?
PParetto
Look at this craftmanship - the stitching, the leather. Of course it's mine.
So you can tell us who bought them?
PParetto
Not on your life.
People pay thousands for these. You tellin' me you don't keep records?
PParetto
Of course I keep records. They pay thousands because they expect privacy.
The person who bought that shoe may have killed a woman. I don't know anything about cobbler-client confidentiality.
It's like playing Whack-a-Mole these days. The Internet moved traditional street trade indoors, so now we go after the more obvious fronts.
Thai rub-tug joints?
[grins] Something you wanna confess, Sergeant?
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