Olivia, Munch and others in “Unfinished Business”

Olivia

How did you know?

Munch

We searched her house, I looked at that four-year-old, flashed on a little girl that used to live across the street from us in our old neighborhood on the Lower East Side. She had that same look in her eyes.

Olivia

What look?

Munch

Sad, lost. She used to stand on her porch every afternoon when I came home from school. Like she was waiting for me. Sometimes, she'd have a black eye or a bloody lip. Never said anything to me. Just looked at me like she was trying to tell me something. But I was too full of my own teenage crap to pay any attention. One day, I came home. She wasn't there. Found out her mother threw her through a plate glass window. Went to the funeral. Saw her dad. It's the first time I saw a grown man cry.

Benson

What happened to her mother?

Munch

They sent her to a sanitarium. She told my mother she didn't understand what all the fuss was about. She was the one that had to get a new window. Months later, I'd come home and I'd look up at the porch. I swear, I saw that little girl standing there, looking at me with that look. I almost let her down again.