Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Know It All (2017)

Jason Bowen: Det. Marcus Perry

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• Amanda Rollins : Lieutenant, M.E. report came back. Looks like Jennifer's sister was right. There was no alcohol in her blood.

  Det. Marcus Perry : So?

  Amanda Rollins : Well, so, we also have semen that doesn't match our perp's DNA, and her cause of death blunt force trauma to the head, not asphyxiation. She was strangled postmortem.

  Det. Marcus Perry : So she had sex with somebody else before he got to her, and things got rough before he raped her. I mean, he got rough with all his vics. It happens. He confessed.

  Olivia Benson : Right, but it's possible that we have a copycat.

  Det. Marcus Perry : A copycat who knew our rapist ties his victim's hands behind their backs and cut their hair? Those details weren't released.

  Olivia Benson : Does it hurt to be sure?

  Det. Marcus Perry : Look, Lieutenant, you outrank me, but you don't make friends at 1PP by unsolving homicides. As far as I'm concerned, this case is closed.

  Olivia Benson : As far as I'm concerned, it's not.

• Olivia Benson : These three victims are the work of our pattern 23 rapist.

  Det. Marcus Perry : The ones the papers are calling the Second Avenue Strangler. His victims were all last seen near bars on Second Ave.

  Amanda Rollins : Witnesses report seeing a gold TLC car near two of the victims. Now, we checked with Uber, QuikRide, other services. It doesn't match any of their cars.

  Odafin Tutuola : So he could be a guy working off the books.

  Olivia Benson : No matter who he is, he's a serial rapist/murderer who has struck every two weeks for the last month. So for those of you who are just joining us now, this is going to be a joint investigation with Homicide and Detective Perry.

  Det. Marcus Perry : This started as an SVU case, but you all will be our feet on the ground. Detective?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Okay, the M.O.s are the same. The victims are all between twenty and thirty. They're long-haired brunettes. They had secondary trauma from the struggle. They were dropped off at a construction site. Now, the cause of death was asphyxiation.

  Amanda Rollins : All of his vics were found naked from the waist down. Their hands were tied with rope, and they all had a chunk of hair shaved from the back of their neck.

  Det. Marcus Perry : That's his trophy and his signature.

  Odafin Tutuola : Easy marks, drunk and walking home alone.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, so get this sketch out there. Be our eyes, be our ears. Go.

• Olivia Benson : [at a crime scene]  Rollins, is it?

  Amanda Rollins : It looks like it. Number four. Same victim profile. It's the same staging, same binding, same rope.

  Det. Marcus Perry : And he took his trophy. Shaved a chunk from the base of the neck.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, head trauma, no pool of blood. She wasn't killed here.

  Olivia Benson : If it follows pattern, there won't be any DNA. Let's check security cameras.

  [noticing a patrol cop talking to two construction workers] 

  Olivia Benson : Hold everybody back.

  Amanda Rollins : She deserves that much.

  [as she leaves] 

  Amanda Rollins : Let's go, guys.

  Det. Marcus Perry : This is our guy, and he's early.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, by over a week.

  Olivia Benson : He's accelerating, which means it's only gonna get worse from here.

• Det. Marcus Perry : They found her purse near the body, exactly like the others.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, cash was gone, the rest intact.

  Olivia Benson : You get a name?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah. Jennifer Knowles. We got an ID from a company called Attention, Inc.

  Det. Marcus Perry : We can run the credit cards to get a timeline.

  Olivia Benson : Next of kin?

  Amanda Rollins : Laura Knowles, younger sister. I notified; she's gonna meet us at the morgue.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : We're gonna grab the video footage, canvass the neighborhood, double down on the community outreach. Anything else?

  Olivia Benson : Yeah, get all of that evidence to the lab. Our perp's gotta screw up sometime.

  [to Rollins as Carisi and Perry leave] 

  Olivia Benson : I need anything - anything - that can give us a lead.

• Olivia Benson : This our serial?

  Det. Marcus Perry : Looks like.

  Olivia Benson : Where'd we get him?

  Det. Marcus Perry : The vic got into a fight with her boyfriend at a bar. She stumbles out drunk, breaks a heel, gypsy cab driver offers her a ride. Lucky for her, she's not as drunk as he thought. Recognizes him from the sketch; realizes she's in trouble, that he's got her locked in, so she texts a picture to the tip line.

  Amanda Rollins : Good for her.

  Det. Marcus Perry : Yeah, a precinct car pulled them over, searched the cab. His whole toolkit's here. Knife, rope, clippers, condoms.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Did you get any blood?

  [a CSU tech shows them blood stains under an ALS] 

  Amanda Rollins : Well, check for fibers, see if they match the ones on our vics.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Looks like we got our guy.

  Olivia Benson : I want this sewn up. Get him to the squad. I want to hear him say that he did it.

• Alex Ryan : I was trying to help that girl.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, well, we're checking your DNA right now, Alex, and I'm pretty sure it's gonna match.

  Alex Ryan : Yeah, DNA. Right. If I were a rapist, I wouldn't leave any DNA.

  Det. Marcus Perry : You think? Hair, saliva; if you sneezed, we got a match.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, we already found rug fibers that came from your cab and their blood in your trunk.

  Det. Marcus Perry : We don't even need a confession. Rape and murder, that's life.

• Olivia Benson : We're three days in, and we got a week and a half if he stays on pattern.

  Det. Marcus Perry : I can't afford another one. COMPSTAT counts these against Homicide. I got three unsolveds over my head.

  Olivia Benson : So we'll flood the streets. We're gonna flood social media, get this sketch out there. Make sure that everybody knows.