Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Counselor, It's Chinatown (2019)

Jamie Gray Hyder: Detective Katriona 'Kat' Tamin

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• Lily Song : Mamasan ask many question. I tell her my legal aid lawyer need to see me.

  Katriona Tamin : That's good, Lily. After the grand jury, we'll get you housing.

  Lily Song : But after I testify, Mamasan in jail. Everything good. I start new life. Charlie get out, too, right?

  Katriona Tamin : Let's take it one step at a time. You ready?

  Lily Song : Piece of cake. What Charlie say.

• Lily Song : [outside the courthouse]  So big.

  Katriona Tamin : Never been here before?

  Lily Song : Never been anywhere. Just spa to spa. But after today, I free as a bird.

• 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.

• 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.

• Katriona Tamin : This is Officer Kat Tamin, SVU portable. I need a bus to 60 Center Street. We've got a jumper down.

• 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.

• Lily Song : Mamsan say let him do what he want.

  Katriona Tamin : What he wants? Lily... did he rape you?

  Lily Song : No. He rough, but... Mamasan say on the house because he have...

  Katriona Tamin : [interpreting her Chinese]  Connections? To who?

  Lily Song : I don't know. Must be very high rank for Mamasan not to take money.

• 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.

• Katriona Tamin : Uh, my friend and I were wondering if you would settle a bet for us?

  Rick Olin : Uh, for the two of you, I would be happy to. What.. what can I do for you?

  Amanda Rollins : Okay, she said that you would rather be cuffed, and I said you would rather walk to the car and get in the back.

  Rick Olin : I don't know...

  [they flash their badges]