Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Counselor, It's Chinatown (2019)
Ice-T: Sergeant Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
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Odafin Tutuola : Condoms, lube. You know how many massage parlors I've raided? What's the point?
Sergeant Joe Chin : We're looking for the beast with nine eyes.
Odafin Tutuola : Come on, man, you already know the girls won't talk, the johns won't talk.
Sergeant Joe Chin : Charlie talked.
[spotting something]
Sergeant Joe Chin : What's that?
Odafin Tutuola : Smoke detector.
Sergeant Joe Chin : One in each room. These people seem interested in worker safety to you?
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Charlie : Lily would never jump. You push her.
Odafin Tutuola : No, not us, Charlie.
Sergeant Joe Chin : Lily's mom.
Odafin Tutuola : Who did this? Mamasan?
Charlie : I don't know.
Odafin Tutuola : Yes, you do. Lily was gonna testify against the guy who roughed her up, who raped Mei Mei. It all happened on your watch, Charlie. Now, this guy, he shows up Sunday morning for his hangover.
Charlie : He'd never rape Lily. The other girls? I couldn't stop that.
Sergeant Joe Chin : Why? Because he was
[speaking Chinese]
Sergeant Joe Chin : ? You can stop it now, Charlie. We know his friend's connected to the building. Who is he?
Charlie : I don't know his name.
Odafin Tutuola : They kill your girl and you're still protectin' 'em?
Charlie : No, no name. Old school. I text his pager, meet him once a week, give him cash.
Odafin Tutuola : Okay, so we get you your phone and you text him.
Charlie : Okay. Doesn't matter. Lily, did she get a funeral?
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Charlie : We all have our own jobs. I do mine. Why didn't you do yours? You barely search Sweet Joy.
Odafin Tutuola : We swept that place room by room.
Charlie : Mamasan...
[speaking Chinese]
Charlie : Sees more than you.
[in question, Chin repeats the Chinese phrase]
Charlie : Beast with nine eyes. Your problem? You look... but you don't see.
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Olivia Benson : So, what do we have on this creep?
Katriona Tamin : Theo Pappas, 30. No record, no job.
Olivia Benson : And no idea who the friend is.
Odafin Tutuola : Some guy who rents out the space.
Olivia Benson : Okay, are we any closer to tracing the leasing agent?
Katriona Tamin : On all four parlors that we raided, it's just a firewall of LLCs from the Caymans to Korea to Hong Kong.
Olivia Benson : So Theo is all we have. Mei Mei and Lily IDed him. Will she testify?
Odafin Tutuola : Rollins took Mei Mei to a shelter. She's shaky.
Olivia Benson : And Lily?
Katriona Tamin : She went back to the massage parlor, but she's feisty. She wants to do this.
Olivia Benson : Set up a meet away from the spa. Walk her in.
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Odafin Tutuola : Illegal gun, that's four years.
Charlie : That's a piece of cake.
Odafin Tutuola : So what's up, man? You wanna tell us about Sweet Joy?
Charlie : It's a massage parlor. So what? Talk, no talk. I get locked up, sent back either way. So... no talk.
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Olivia Benson : And they know nothing about him?
Katriona Tamin : Just that he sweats gin and has enough hooks to get a free pass.
Amanda Rollins : So, we lean on Mamasan. Charge her with aiding and abetting unless she gives him up.
Odafin Tutuola : She won't. She lets him rape her girls. He's too connected for her to turn on him.
Olivia Benson : Mamasan knows the game. She told me she'd be out on bail and open for business by the weekend, and she's probably right.
Amanda Rollins : Maybe that's not such a bad thing. I mean, Mei Mei said that he's a Sunday regular, so maybe we just let her re-open.
Olivia Benson : It's worth a shot, but this guy's connected. Is he really gonna talk?
Odafin Tutuola : A piece of crap like that? He'll flip to save his own ass.
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Olivia Benson : So, we arrested four johns. They all claim they were getting a "massage."
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah. Tough to prove otherwise. Who else?
Sergeant Joe Chin : Charlie Hu. Bodyguard/muscle. Carrying an unregistered .45.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Hey, we can work with that.
Olivia Benson : Other guy's over here.
Odafin Tutuola : The mamasan, Evelyn Lee, she's hanging tough.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, no surprise there. What about these women?
Olivia Benson : We're waiting on a translator for the ones who don't speak English, and, uh, Kat and Rollins are with two who speak some English. Kat says she's not fluent, but she does have some Cantonese, Mandarin, and Hokkien.
Odafin Tutuola : Of course she does.
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Olivia Benson : Hey, guys, listen up. So, welcome to Operation Dragon Slay. This is Sergeant Joe Chin from the Human Trafficking Task Force.
Sergeant Joe Chin : Thank you, Captain. Our focus: massage parlors that are fronts for sex slavery and debt servitude, undocumented women being forced to pay off their family's debt to smugglers.
Olivia Benson : So, SVU has been tasked with investigating the Sweet Joy Relax Spa down on Eldridge.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : How long have we had them under watch?
Odafin Tutuola : This one, a week. The girls are let out one hour a day, always escorted by Charlie Hu. He's illegal with ties to Chinatown gangs.
Amanda Rollins : We estimate off-menu extras bring the spa around 50k in cash a week.
Katriona Tamin : The women keep the bare minimum for food. The rest they turn over to the spa's mamasan, Evelyn Lee. Korean-Chinese.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : So she's the manager? Do we know who they lease the space from?
Amanda Rollins : Not yet. The buildings and spas are hidden behind a web of offshore LLCs.
Sergeant Joe Chin : UCs will pose as clients. The goal is we arrest the johns, management. We flip 'em, we follow the money, we get the owners.
Olivia Benson : Okay, but the girls we do not arrest, right? If they talk, great, but if not, we still offer them immigration, legal, and medical assistance. Take them to social services.
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Theo Pappas : That's not rape. These girls get paid to do what clients ask.
Odafin Tutuola : You don't pay 'em a dime.
Theo Pappas : I'm comped. It's part of the deal.
Odafin Tutuola : Part of the deal you and your friend have?
Theo Pappas : Yeah. You know, like you'd rent a space to a restaurant. You eat for free.
Odafin Tutuola : Oh, okay. So this is all on the up-and-up. So, I need to confirm with your friend. What's his name?
Theo Pappas : Uh, tell you what: I want a lawyer.
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Olivia Benson : Surveillance cameras in the smoke alarms.
Sergeant Joe Chin : All nine rooms. Mamasan's nine eyes.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Not security for the girls?
Odafin Tutuola : No, to keep an eye on the cash.
Amanda Rollins : TARU went through the servers. It turns out the cameras were routed to Mamasan's nail salon across the street. I went through some of it. It's... it's pretty ugly. Each woman services over a dozen men a day. Um, I found this in there.
Olivia Benson : [watching a feed] Okay, turn that off. That's rape.
Sergeant Joe Chin : Mm-hmm.
Olivia Benson : Who is she?
Amanda Rollins : This is Mei Mei. I-I spoke with her. She didn't say one word about this.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Of course she didn't. She's scared of Mamasan.
Olivia Benson : So, bring Mei Mei in and let her know that if she helps us, we will take Mamasan down.
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Olivia Benson : So, Carisi says that we lost the Changs.
Katriona Tamin : What?
Olivia Benson : The feds took the case.
Katriona Tamin : Did he say why?
Olivia Benson : Apparently, they didn't have to.
Odafin Tutuola : We knew those two were connected.
Katriona Tamin : What about the rape case against Theo and Rick?
Olivia Benson : Theo pled guilty. Uh, they're asking the judge for seven years. And Rick, they're still negotiating.
Katriona Tamin : You mean he's gonna get off.
Olivia Benson : Kat, why don't you punch out?
Odafin Tutuola : [watching her leave] She's not gonna last here.
Olivia Benson : Hold on, Fin. The girl that she was supposed to be protecting jumped out a window.
Odafin Tutuola : That's not her fault.
Olivia Benson : Well, she doesn't believe that.
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Counselor Art Blumfeld : Mr. Olin is a real estate broker. He was merely collecting rent.
Odafin Tutuola : $15,000 in small bills?
Counselor Art Blumfeld : Mr. Olin acts as a broker for his father's company renting to legitimate businesses. If these businesses illegally sublet... eh.
Odafin Tutuola : I got it. When Rick visits Sweet Joy, it's just for his own release?
Rick Olin : I have some back problems.
Odafin Tutuola : One of these girls get the kink out?
Rick Olin : Yeah, that's kind of a perk.
Counselor Art Blumfeld : This is ludicrous. These aren't even victimless crimes. I make one call to the D.A.'s office, this all goes away.