Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Wrath (2001)

Richard Belzer: Detective John Munch

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• John Munch : Missing persons report was filed yesterday by the foster mother.

  Elliot Stabler : Do we know cause of death?

  John Munch : Preliminary tox reports just came in. All three victims were pumped full of sedatives and potassium chloride. M.E. says death was painless.

  Odafin Tutuola : Like that makes a difference.

  Donald Cragen : Interview the families. Let's find a connection other than Benson.

• Dr. George Huang : Three victims. Different race. Different gender. Different age. This is about revenge. The real target is Detective Benson.

  Olivia Benson : It's personal.

  Dr. George Huang : You've enraged someone so much, they want you twisting.

  Donald Cragen : Why the body farm? Why transport three victims ninety miles outside the city?

  Dr. George Huang : He wanted them found and studied. He dumped them in a research facility that's federally funded.

  Olivia Benson : Guaranteeing national attention. But how did the suspect find them? How did he get into my files? How did he even know that they're my cases?

  Donald Cragen : Tina Cordell case had a lot of national press coverage, right? High school kid raped, strangled with her purse strap by her boyfriend Victor Klaussen.

  Elliot Stabler : Latching onto a news story doesn't explain the other two victims, though.

  John Munch : The foster mother said that you supervised meetings between Clayton and his father. Why?

  Olivia Benson : Because the man is a drunk. I thought if I stuck around that he'd get some help. I know what it's like to live through that.

  Elliot Stabler : You maintained a personal relationship with Carmella Barrantes.

  Olivia Benson : Well, she needed help. My day doesn't end when we catch a perp or get a conviction.

  Dr. George Huang : No one's blaming you, Detective.

  Olivia Benson : Well, you think that I led him to these people? That... that I have a stalker?

  Dr. George Huang : If that's how he chose them, he wasn't stalking you. There was no sexual fixation. It was reconnaissance.

  Olivia Benson : Well, let's look into my files and see who has a grudge.

• Olivia Benson : These are our three victims. Our first victim was Peter Cordell. I met Peter in 1993 when his daughter, Tina Cordell, was raped and murdered. I kept him updated on the case. I drove him to court every day, and I held his hand when our perp, Victor Klaussen, was acquitted.

  John Munch : What went wrong with the case?

  Olivia Benson : A series of lab mix-ups contaminated the evidence.

  Elliot Stabler : Pioneer days of DNA. There was nothing you could do about it.

  Donald Cragen : What's the background on the Hispanic female?

  Olivia Benson : Victim number two is Carmella Barrantes. She was raped and beaten three years ago by a gangbanger who's now serving eight to twelve in Sing Sing.

  Elliot Stabler : I guess we can cross him off our suspect list.

  Odafin Tutuola : Why? This might be a revenge killing by the gangbanger's crew.

  Elliot Stabler : But there's no gang affiliation between the other two victims.

  Donald Cragen : Are we sure about that? What about the ten year old?

  Odafin Tutuola : Gangs are recruiting younger and younger these days.

  Olivia Benson : Victim number three is Clayton Derricks, who was physically abused by his father, Bruce Derricks. When Clayton was placed in a group home, he was sodomized by an older boy and then he was placed in foster care, and I cannot tell you what it took to get this boy to trust me.