Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Murdered at a Bad Address (2019)
Jamie Gray Hyder: Detective Katriona 'Kat' Tamin
Photos
Quotes
-
Lupe Perez : I tried to scratch him for DNA, but he choked me with my headphone cord.
Katriona Tamin : Did you see his hands?
Lupe Perez : Big. White, maybe. Or Hispanic. They smelled bad.
Katriona Tamin : What kind of smells?
Lupe Perez : Like a woody smell.
Katriona Tamin : Good. Like... like a park?
Lupe Perez : No. Pencil sharpener smell.
Katriona Tamin : Good, Lupe. Did you hear his voice?
Lupe Perez : He said... "Okay, chiquita, do it nice for Papi." My real papi died.
Katriona Tamin : I'm so sorry, Lupe.
-
Savannah 'Moms' Baker : Morning, detectives. Help y'all?
Amanda Rollins : Yes, ma'am. You are Savannah Baker?
Savannah 'Moms' Baker : Well, the kids call me "Moms". Moms Baker. Don't tell me another child has died from them dopey-oids.
Katriona Tamin : No, ma'am. We're here looking for Ricardo Torres.
Amanda Rollins : The captain of the housing unit thought you might know where he is.
Savannah 'Moms' Baker : He paid his debt.
Amanda Rollins : No, no, we just wanna ask a few questions.
Savannah 'Moms' Baker : And Carlos. No way he would hurt a June bug, let alone his family.
Amanda Rollins : You know about the murders.
Savannah 'Moms' Baker : I know he was a mama's boy. Never raised a hand to hurt another child.
Katriona Tamin : And what about Ricardo?
Savannah 'Moms' Baker : If Ricky threw himself on the floor, he'd have missed.
Amanda Rollins : But they both confessed.
Savannah 'Moms' Baker : Down home, we call that railroading, right, honey? Detective Monte, that prosecutor... they had the wrong boys, but they didn't care.
-
Katriona Tamin : Lupe Perez, 14, assaulted in the stairwell. She's still in shock, but she didn't want to leave her little sister upstairs alone, so I put a uni with her.
Odafin Tutuola : You got here fast.
Katriona Tamin : 2 train. Faster than lights and sirens every time.
-
Olivia Benson : You have a closed rape and double murder from 16 years ago? And they had the DNA and never tested it?
Amanda Rollins : It was tested by mistake, swept up while they were going through the backlog.
Olivia Benson : And the touch DNA on Lupe's headphones matched the DNA found under the fingernails of which victim?
Amanda Rollins : Both. Nydia Hernandez, strangled with an electric cord and her daughter Jacinta. She was sexually assaulted and then strangled.
Katriona Tamin : Two teenagers confessed. Ricardo Torres, 15 at the time. He turned state's on Carlos Hernandez, 18, the son and brother of the vics.
Olivia Benson : And which of their DNA matches Lupe's?
Amanda Rollins : That's the thing. Neither.
Olivia Benson : What does that mean? That we're looking at a third accomplice?
Odafin Tutuola : Someone who was never caught.
Olivia Benson : Okay, so we're gonna need to talk with Ricardo and Carlos. Where are they now?
Katriona Tamin : Hernandez is still serving 25 to life in Green Haven.
Odafin Tutuola : 25 to life and he never gave up the third guy? He's not talking.
Olivia Benson : So take Carisi with you. If he sees a D.A., maybe he'll think that he can cut a deal. And what about Ricardo?
Katriona Tamin : Finished his 15 a year ago. Last known, Wave View Houses in Far Rock. Parole officer's on vacay.
Olivia Benson : That's leverage. So, Rollins, Kat, lean on him, hard.
-
Katriona Tamin : CSU is on the way.
Amanda Rollins : And the girl's parents?
Katriona Tamin : Her mom works the night shift at the Double Dutch Donuts on 125th.
Odafin Tutuola : Cameras?
Katriona Tamin : Busted, like the elevator. Like always.
Odafin Tutuola : Wait a minute. You're a former projects kid?
Katriona Tamin : Gowanus. And no such thing as a former projects kid.
Odafin Tutuola : Okay. Is the girl comfortable with you?
Katriona Tamin : Mm-hmm.
Odafin Tutuola : Why don't you ride with her to CAC?
-
Amanda Rollins : Just to be clear, we've got a guy doing life for murdering his mother and his sister and there was someone else's DNA on the victim?
Odafin Tutuola : Why check DNA? They had confessions.
Katriona Tamin : Yeah, and it's the projects. They were murdered at a bad address.
-
Savannah 'Moms' Baker : Ricky lit right back here from prison. He was so skinny. I knew he had the bug.
Amanda Rollins : HIV?
Savannah 'Moms' Baker : Full-blown AIDS. He caught that while inside. He cried on my shoulder. He had lied on Carlos to save his own skin.
Amanda Rollins : Moms, you know where we can find Ricky?
Savannah 'Moms' Baker : He just passed. Last week. He asked me to, uh, scatter him out there where he and Carlos skipped stones.
Katriona Tamin : I'm so sorry.
Savannah 'Moms' Baker : Do you know who killed Ricky? That detective. You're sorry? Talk to him.
-
Viviana Perez : I don't understand. Stanton's pleading guilty?
Olivia Benson : To two murders.
Viviana Perez : But not for Lupe's rape?
Amanda Rollins : Well, either way, he's going far away for a very long time.
Katriona Tamin : And Lupe, she won't have to testify.
-
Amanda Rollins : Carisi sent us cannolis from his favorite bakery in Staten Island.
Katriona Tamin : [taking one] Mm, I'll make an exception.
Olivia Benson : So, aside from the baked goods, did we get anything out there?
Amanda Rollins : Pretty much what we suspected. Detective Monte wasn't interested in any other suspects, and Carisi thinks both confessions were coerced.
Olivia Benson : So we're not looking for the third guy in, we're looking for the only guy.
Odafin Tutuola : The one that got away with it.
Amanda Rollins : You know, I thought he was just trying to justify what he did, but Monte... Monte did say that there'd been other rapes in the projects around the same time.
Olivia Benson : So we could be looking at a serial who's been out there for 16 years. Okay, let's go back to unsolved project rapes, check M.O.s. Kat, you got the records on maintenance workers at Lupe's projects, right?
Katriona Tamin : Yep.
Olivia Benson : So, cross-check them and see if anybody who worked there also worked at Wave View 16 years ago.
-
Amanda Rollins : Last one. I cleared all the registered sex offenders near Lupe's projects.
Odafin Tutuola : And no leads on the canvass. Do we have anything?
Katriona Tamin : Lupe said the perp's hands were calloused, smelled like wood shavings. Maybe a projects worker?
Odafin Tutuola : Okay, give me a list of the maintenance guys from the Jacob Lawrence Houses.
Amanda Rollins : I just got a weird hit on the touch DNA from Lupe's headphones. It matches a double homicide in the Wave View projects in Far Rockaway... from 2003.
-
Katriona Tamin : You were saying that he...
Lupe Perez : He said if I didn't... you know... he would go upstairs to my little sister Gizelle.
Olivia Benson : The rapist knew Lupe; they knew her family.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : It's why he didn't let her get a look at him.
-
Katriona Tamin : We got a match on Tim Stanton. The lab confirms that his DNA matches the touch DNA on Lupe's headphones and the DNA found under the nails of Jacinta and Nydia.
Odafin Tutuola : I was ready to arrest that guy right there.
Olivia Benson : Hold on, let's... let's wait. Touch DNA on headphones... I'd like to see Lupe make a positive ID. Where did you leave it with Stanton?
Amanda Rollins : He pretended like he wanted to help.
Olivia Benson : So tell him that we've collared a sex offender that we know is good for this and we just need help with the lineup.
Katriona Tamin : You think he'll go for that?
Olivia Benson : I think that he let Hernandez and Torres take the fall before. He's just gonna think that we've screwed up again. See if Lupe is up for a lineup.
-
Viviana Perez : Lupe would have to testify?
Olivia Benson : I'm sorry, she would.
Viviana Perez : She's been through enough already. And the lawyers? They'll trick her.
Lupe Perez : No one can catch me in a lie if I just tell the truth.
Katriona Tamin : And she'd be prepped. We'd be with her every step of the way.
Viviana Perez : Lupe, you don't need to do this.
Lupe Perez : Mama, if he goes free, next time, he might just go after Gizelle.
