- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Ischia is one of the most beautiful islands in the world.
- Amanda Rollins: I had never heard of it before this morning.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: My aunt from my, uh, mom's side, she was born there. I mean, she hasn't been back in sixty years, but she cannot stop talking about it.
- Amanda Rollins: Tell me about her cannolis.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: No, no, no, it's a marinara sauce. She gets the tomatoes flown in from Naples.
- Amanda Rollins: Of course she does.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: It is unbelievable. Listen, let me talk to these girls. I want to brush up on my Italian.
- Amanda Rollins: Well, you can brush up on your English while you're at it. Both the girls went to an American school over there. They sound like they grew up in Westport.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: You're kidding me.
- Amanda Rollins: No, I'm telling you, I have more of an accent than they do.
- Emilia Barassi: He drove right by my house.
- Olivia Benson: And what did you do then?
- Emilia Barassi: He was polite. I thought he might have made a mistake, misheard me, so I repeated "Central Park West and 69th, Central Park West and 69th."
- Olivia Benson: Okay, did... did you see his name on the... on the taxi permit?
- [she shakes her head]
- Olivia Benson: Did you see his face?
- Emilia Barassi: He was... he was black.
- Olivia Benson: Okay.
- Emilia Barassi: And then... and then the doors locked shut, and I freaked out that he was gonna kill me. Why did I...
- Olivia Benson: No, honey. This is not your fault. None of this is your fault.
- Amanda Rollins: [Carisi brings her a cup of coffee] That's sweet.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Well, I gotta keep you sharp.
- Amanda Rollins: But look what I found without caffeine. Look, this is from the Burkes' security cam. She's in a rush to get out of there.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Oh. I never caught a cab that fast.
- Amanda Rollins: No, the cab company has no record of any pickups or drop-offs on that street at that time.
- Odafin Tutuola: [approaching] There was no phone in that bag Tommy gave us.
- Amanda Rollins: Whoever's got that phone could be the rapist.
- Odafin Tutuola: I was thinking the same, so I had TARU run the GPS.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: And?
- Odafin Tutuola: We've got our bad guy.
- Amanda Rollins: Liv, I had TARU image Emilia's phone and, um, there's some videos on here that I don't think she wanted Richard to see.
- [playing a video of Emilia undressing with two men]
- Amanda Rollins: Should I get Emilia?
- Olivia Benson: Not yet. This is a whole new case.
- Amanda Rollins: Those guys are at least 40 years old.
- Olivia Benson: Well, now we know why Lara didn't want us to see her phone.
- Amanda Rollins: His name is Alex Kay.
- Odafin Tutuola: Who?
- Amanda Rollins: This scumbag. I ran him through facial recognition and came up with him at the Black & White Ball. He's a developer.
- Odafin Tutuola: That means he's got bucks.
- Amanda Rollins: Yeah, good. Get himself a good lawyer.
- Odafin Tutuola: Let me get my coat.
- Amanda Rollins: I can handle him myself, Fin.
- Odafin Tutuola: I'm not worried about you.
- Amanda Rollins: We wanted to ask you about a party that you attended.
- Alex Kay: Half my job is going to parties. Believe me, fun is a lot of work.
- Odafin Tutuola: Well, it seems like you really had fun at this party.
- Amanda Rollins: [handing him a tablet] Here, you can go ahead and press play.
- Alex Kay: That's obscene.
- Odafin Tutuola: She's 15. It's illegal.
- Alex Kay: And that's a good thing?
- Odafin Tutuola: Think you should take another look.
- Amanda Rollins: At the... the man right there beside the girl.
- Alex Kay: And?
- Odafin Tutuola: You recognize her?
- Alex Kay: Should I?
- Amanda Rollins: Yeah. That's you, Mr. Kay.
- Alex Kay: Me?
- Amanda Rollins: Yeah.
- Alex Kay: No. No, you're mistaken.
- Odafin Tutuola: Oh, you should look again.
- Amanda Rollins: Right here.
- Alex Kay: Sure, if you stretch your imagination. The hair is similar, maybe the nose, but I can assure you, it's not me.
- Amanda Rollins: And if we disagree?
- Alex Kay: I have an army of lawyers over there with their fingers on the "libel" buttons on their computers.
- Odafin Tutuola: You know what else is good about standing?
- [holding up a pair of handcuffs]
- Odafin Tutuola: It makes it easier to arrest your ass.
- Emilia Barassi: He's already in jail in Italy. Lara testified against him.
- Olivia Benson: I am so sorry for everything that you've been through. Emilia, how old were you?
- Emilia Barassi: Four. Do I have to talk about this?
- Olivia Benson: I... I really think that it will help.
- Emilia Barassi: Help what? I'm fine. I got over it.
- Olivia Benson: Sweetie, you're not fine, okay? You went to a sex party with two men that were over twice your age. It takes time...
- Emilia Barassi: You think I'm a slut.
- Olivia Benson: Uh, n-not at all. That's far from the truth. Okay? I think that you are punishing yourself.
- Emilia Barassi: For being a slut.
- Olivia Benson: I think that you are a young, innocent girl who had a bad thing happen to her.
- Emilia Barassi: It happened because of me.
- Olivia Benson: [trying to stop her from leaving] Emilia. Emilia, your father... is the criminal here. Not you. This is not your fault. What did your father do to you?
- Emilia Barassi: It was always in the morning when Lara was at school. Mama was in town at the market. She went every Tuesday. I could hear his flip-flops snap against the wooden floor, and I knew. He carried me into his bed. The same bed where he slept... every night with Mama.
- Olivia Benson: Rollins, listen to this. It's the transcript of the trial in Italy and Lara said...
- Amanda Rollins: [Benson starts speaking Italian] English, por favor.
- Olivia Benson: Sorry, sorry, sorry. "I could hear his flip-flops snap against the wooden floor, and I knew. He crawled on top of me and laughed. He grunted like a pig." These are the exact same words that Emilia used to describe what happened to her.
- Amanda Rollins: Lara said the same thing to me. Word for word.
- Olivia Benson: They both had to be coached.
- Amanda Rollins: Lara told me that it was Richard that helped her realize that she was molested. He went to Italy for the trial, too.
- Olivia Benson: Oh, my god.
- Richard Matthews: See that building over there on Third? That one. I used to own it. Sold it for six million. Today it's worth, oh, 150.
- Odafin Tutuola: Sometimes you just do something dumb. Some things are dumber than others.
- Richard Matthews: I love them, you know.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Who? Emilia and Lara?
- Richard Matthews: All of them. They were all different. All beautiful in their own way.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: They're kids.
- Richard Matthews: Yeah, they were. Young and innocent.
- Odafin Tutuola: And naive?
- Richard Matthews: They had no idea how cruel and indecent this world could be.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: So you showed 'em, huh?
- Richard Matthews: What I did with my girls wasn't dirty, Detective. It was beautiful.
- Odafin Tutuola: What about your wife?
- Richard Matthews: She had her day.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: You really are a prick, you know that?
- Richard Matthews: In your eyes. All my girls love me.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Even after you tossed 'em aside, you moved on to the next one?
- Odafin Tutuola: Or passed them around to your buddies?
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Let me ask you something, Mr. Matthews. What age were you when you were first abused?
- Olivia Benson: So, Emilia, I need you to tell me again exactly what your father did to you.
- Emilia Barassi: [standing to leave] This is dumb.
- Olivia Benson: No, listen to me. Please, it is very important. I need to trust me, and after this, I promise you I'm not gonna bother you again. Please.
- [they sit back down]
- Olivia Benson: So, you said... you said that it happened in the morning when Lara was at school, right?
- Emilia Barassi: Mama was in town at the market. She went every Tuesday. I could hear his flip-flops snap against the wooden floor, and I knew.
- Olivia Benson: That's exactly what your sister said. Word for word. Do you know what I think? I think maybe you weren't... really molested by your father.
- Emilia Barassi: Papa's in jail.
- Olivia Benson: I know he is, and I think that that is a mistake.
- Emilia Barassi: Why would I lie?
- Olivia Benson: You're not lying. I know that you believe that that really happened, Emilia, but I think that you were brainwashed. You and your sister...
- Emilia Barassi: You're crazy.
- Olivia Benson: ...were brainwashed.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: 27 stories.
- Amanda Rollins: You're not feeling guilty?
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: I'm Catholic. I always feel guilty.
- Amanda Rollins: [amused snicker] You know, the weird thing is, is if Emilia hadn't gotten assaulted by that cabbie, who knows how her life would have turned out.
- Odafin Tutuola: They pumped Lara's stomach. She'll be fine.
- Amanda Rollins: Fine is one thing those girls are never gonna be.
- Odafin Tutuola: I'm talking physically. The mom is coming in from Italy.
- Amanda Rollins: That's gotta be awkward.
- Odafin Tutuola: Liv will be there to break the ice.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: They put the father in jail for child rape. She's gonna need a pretty big ice pick for that.
- Odafin Tutuola: Moms forgive. That's part of the drill.
- Amanda Rollins: Matthews single-handedly destroyed an entire family.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Yeah, don't forget about the other seven exchange students scattered all over the world.
- Amanda Rollins: Yeah, welcome to America. Land of the free.
- Odafin Tutuola: Home of the sick bastards.
- Olivia Benson: Emilia... do you really remember being molested by your father?
- [she shakes her head]
- Olivia Benson: I didn't think so. Emilia, who told you that? Who put that idea in your head?
- Emilia Barassi: Lara. She said he did it to her, too. I didn't believe her.
- Olivia Benson: Did Richard tell you that, as well?
- Emilia Barassi: I didn't believe him, but he proved it.
- Olivia Benson: He proved it? How? How could he prove it?
- Emilia Barassi: I don't want to talk about it.
- Olivia Benson: Emilia, this is very important. How could he prove it?
- Emilia Barassi: With his fingers.
- Olivia Benson: Oh, sweetheart.
- Emilia Barassi: He put them inside me and he said...
- Olivia Benson: And what did he say?
- Emilia Barassi: He said he loved me.
- Olivia Benson: Emilia, that's not love, honey. He hurt you. He brainwashed you. It's called grooming.
- Emilia Barassi: Why would he do that?
- Olivia Benson: Because he wanted you to do what he wanted.
- Olivia Benson: Did Richard have sex with you?
- Emilia Barassi: He said he loved me.
- Olivia Benson: Did he take you to that party with the older men?
- Emilia Barassi: He shot the video on Lara's phone. Papa's in jail.
- [sobbing]
- Emilia Barassi: What did I do?
- Dr. Nancy Mayer: Some bruising, genital trauma, signs of sexual assault.
- Olivia Benson: Okay. Any chance she was drugged?
- Dr. Nancy Mayer: No drugs in her system, but her blood alcohol was .19.
- Amanda Rollins: Lucky she can walk.
- Olivia Benson: Okay, was there semen in her rape kit?
- Dr. Nancy Mayer: Yeah, we sent it to the lab. Hopefully we'll get a DNA hit.
- Olivia Benson: So, Emilia, I was hoping that you might be able to remember some more details about the man who attacked you.
- Emilia Barassi: I'm sorry.
- Olivia Benson: That's okay. Can you tell us where you were before you got into the cab?
- Emilia Barassi: I was at my friend's house. Tommy Burke. But he didn't do anything.
- Olivia Benson: Okay. Because if I know where the cab picked you up, then that would help us find him. How about your clothes? You have any idea what happened to them?
- Emilia Barassi: I left them at Tommy's, but it's not what you were thinking. We were just playing a kind of poker where you...
- Olivia Benson: Where if you lose, you lose your clothes. Gotcha. I was a teenager once.
- Tommy Burke: They don't really have to know about the strip poker, do they?
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Nobody's trying to bust you here, Tommy.
- Odafin Tutuola: Is this all Emilia's stuff?
- Tommy Burke: Uh, yeah. She gonna be okay?
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: That's a big TBD.
- Tommy Burke: Damn. I... I tried calling and there was no answer. I just figured Richard ripped her a new one for coming home without clothes.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: You don't care for him?
- Tommy Burke: Mein fuehrer? What's not to like?
- Odafin Tutuola: And when Emilia ran off?
- Tommy Burke: We wouldn't have forced her to do anything. It was just a game. I had no idea she'd freak.
- Odafin Tutuola: Anybody go upstairs to see if she was okay?
- Tommy Burke: We thought she wanted to be alone.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: All right, so I'm gonna assume that none of you guys saw her get into a cab?
- Tommy Burke: Man, I wish I did.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Me too, Tommy. Me, too.
- Lara Barassi: I must have picked it up by mistake.
- Amanda Rollins: In the hospital room?
- Lara Barassi: That's right.
- Amanda Rollins: So when the phone rang...
- Lara Barassi: Why are you talking to me like I'm a criminal?
- Olivia Benson: Well, Lara, I saw you check the caller ID.
- Lara Barassi: So?
- Olivia Benson: So, we know that Tommy Burke called your sister Emilia this morning.
- Lara Barassi: So?
- Olivia Benson: I bet if you check your call log, we'll all see that he made that call while we were all in that hospital room.
- Lara Barassi: What does that have to do with me?
- Amanda Rollins: Unless you're friends with a 15 year old high school kid, you knew that phone was your sister's.
- Lara Barassi: So you think that I had something to do with Emilia getting raped?
- Olivia Benson: What I'm wondering is why you're being less than honest with us.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: [IDing Emilia's rapist] We got the SOB. He lives on 121st Street in East Harlem. His shift starts at 5:00.
- Odafin Tutuola: Uptown during rush hour. This should be fun.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Hey, Oscar.
- Odafin Tutuola: [catching him as he tries to run] Nah.
- Oscar Grove: Come on, man, it's legal! It's legal!
- Odafin Tutuola: Rape isn't.
- Oscar Grove: Rape? What are you talkin' about? I didn't rape no girl.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Oh, yeah? Well, that girl's name was Emilia Barassi, and she was only 15.
- Oscar Grove: I never heard of her.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Oh, is that right? Then how come her FoneFare app says you picked her up at West 89th Street at 10:47 p.m.?
- Oscar Grove: 'Cause I pick up a lot of people.
- Odafin Tutuola: Half-dressed?
- Oscar Grove: I don't remember.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Oh. Well, fortunately for us, we got the rapist's DNA, and if it matches yours, then you're done.
- Odafin Tutuola: Do a lot of time, Oscar. Black time.
- Oscar Grove: Okay, let's say, for instance, that I maybe had something to do with it.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Yeah, well, then maybe our D.A. can shave off a couple years. What do you think, Fin?
- Odafin Tutuola: I don't think so. Black time. You're going under the jail.
- Oscar Grove: That girl was flashing her tig old biddies, man. What she expect?
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Is that a confession? 'Cause it sure sounds like one to me.
- Odafin Tutuola: Let's go tell it to the D.A.
- Olivia Benson: I saw the video on your phone.
- Emilia Barassi: I don't know what you're talking about.
- Olivia Benson: Are you sure? 'Cause I can talk to Mary or Richard about it.
- Emilia Barassi: No! He'd kill me.
- Olivia Benson: Okay, then why don't you tell me? Okay? Just you and me. And I need you tell me everything.
- Emilia Barassi: A man...
- Olivia Benson: What man?
- Emilia Barassi: I met him online. He said his name was Bob, but I don't know. It was when I first got here. And Richard and Mary are great, but...
- Olivia Benson: But?
- Emilia Barassi: I was just lonely, I guess.
- Olivia Benson: Emilia, the men in the video, they were more than... than twice your age.
- Emilia Barassi: It was just once.
- Olivia Benson: Okay. Do you remember where you were?
- [she's reluctant to say]
- Olivia Benson: Honey, what they did to you is against the law. It's illegal.
- Emilia Barassi: They didn't force me.
- Olivia Benson: It doesn't matter. Did they give you anything? Alcohol, drinks? Huh?
- Emilia Barassi: Yes. But I didn't even want it.
- Olivia Benson: Okay.
- Emilia Barassi: It was at the Harper Hotel, and I never went back. But please... if Richard finds out, he'll send me home.
- Alex Kay: Let me guess, Detective Rollins?
- Amanda Rollins: Pretty good.
- Alex Kay: Which makes you Sergeant Tutuola.
- Odafin Tutuola: Last time I checked.
- Alex Kay: Sit, sit.
- Odafin Tutuola: Oh, we're good. We'll stand.
- Alex Kay: Ah, a man after my own heart. You want a deal to tank, put your ass in a chair.
- Odafin Tutuola: What?
- Amanda Rollins: That was TARU. That sex tape, somebody e-mailed it to Emilia last August. It was her sister, Lara.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: The good news is, your kid sister kept your name out of it.
- Amanda Rollins: Bad news, we know you filmed her having sex with two older guys.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: That's child porn, Lara.
- Lara Barassi: We didn't sell it or anything.
- Amanda Rollins: Well, the feds aren't gonna really care.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Yeah, and a New York D.A. isn't gonna be too keen on pimping out a minor.
- Lara Barassi: Emilia and I swore that we'd keep this entire thing a secret.
- Amanda Rollins: Then why'd you send her the video?
- Lara Barassi: She wanted it. I don't know why. If Richard ever found out, he'd send her home.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Well, it sounds like she would have been a hell of a lot safer back there.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: You see that crucifix around her neck? I don't buy for one second that she didn't know what she was doing was wrong.
- Amanda Rollins: And how about the host parents? You-you think they had no idea this was going on?
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Let's go find out.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: So there's no doors on any of the bedrooms in that apartment. Emilia never had a moment's privacy.
- Amanda Rollins: This doesn't make sense. We know she was a victim. A victim would want double locks on the doors.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Right.
- Amanda Rollins: And the... the sister act at-at the sex party? It... it's strange.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: And it wouldn't be the first time an abused teen acted out sexually, but this? This doesn't add up.
- Lara Barassi: I could smell the wine on his breath from the night before. He crawled on top of me and laughed. He grunted like a pig.
- Amanda Rollins: How old were you?
- Lara Barassi: Four. Look, I already told the court in Italy all about it. They locked him up.
- Amanda Rollins: And what about your mom?
- Lara Barassi: We couldn't prove she knew about, but... she's suffering anyway.
- Amanda Rollins: Mm.
- Lara Barassi: Nobody in the town will talk to her anymore. That's why I insisted that Emilia come to America. Thank god Richard wanted another student.
- Amanda Rollins: What about Mary?
- Lara Barassi: Uh, sure. She loves us, too. But Richard? He helped me realize what my father had done to me. I'll love him forever for that.
- Odafin Tutuola: I got a list of all the exchange students that stayed with Richard and Mary. One of them's still here. She works as a translator at the UN.
- Olivia Benson: Talk to her and call me.
- Olivia Benson: Look at these photos, okay? Just...
- [showing her a picture of Emilia and her father]
- Olivia Benson: Emilia, do you remember that?
- Emilia Barassi: I don't want to look at him.
- Olivia Benson: [showing another picture] Do you remember riding a bike with your father?
- [showing another picture]
- Olivia Benson: How about this one?
- Emilia Barassi: That's my First Communion.
- [touching her necklace]
- Emilia Barassi: It's when Mama gave me this.