Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Dance, Lies and Videotape (2020)

Jamie Gray Hyder: Detective Katriona 'Kat' Tamin

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• Grace Pressley : Did Jason post this on the porn site, too?

  Katriona Tamin : Not to our knowledge.

  Grace Pressley : I can't have that happen. I'm engaged. My fiance's family is very religious.

  Katriona Tamin : I don't think Jason wants to make things worse. He's in a lot of trouble right now.

  Grace Pressley : Not with the company. There are 20 ballerinas to every male dancer. These guys can't get fired.

• Tina Bishop : There are no videos of me and Jason.

  Amanda Rollins : Because Sascha had it deleted?

  Tina Bishop : You know about that? Sascha's a friend.

  Katriona Tamin : With benefits.

  Tina Bishop : After Sascha saw the video, he said he needed to make sure it didn't get out, or my career would be over.

  Amanda Rollins : But not Jason's?

  Tina Bishop : You kidding? There's a hundred other dancers who could be in my costume and my solo tomorrow. Sascha said he'd make sure that didn't happen.

  Katriona Tamin : And what did he want in return?

  Tina Bishop : For me to do to him what I did to Jason in the video.

  Amanda Rollins : Tina, he pressured you. He extorted you. That's rape.

  Tina Bishop : Like any of the other girls wouldn't do it. Sascha saw all the videos. He chose me.

• Olivia Benson : Hey, CSU got anything?

  Katriona Tamin : A lot of bodily fluids. Sweat, blood, semen; it's like a petri dish in there.

  Olivia Benson : What about a camera?

  Katriona Tamin : Looks like a wall mount was ripped out.

  Olivia Benson : So they knew we were coming. Get me a list of... of anyone who had access.

  Katriona Tamin : On it.

• Olivia Benson : TARU went through Jason's phone. He uploaded the video to Pornmonger, but he didn't record it.

  Amanda Rollins : So who did?

  Katriona Tamin : It was texted to him by Brad. Along with other homemade sex videos.

  Amanda Rollins : So the nice, sweet guy twirling his baton out in front of the victim bandwagon...

  Olivia Benson : Are you surprised?

• Brad : Dehlia and I are on Internet porn sites? How did that happen?

  Amanda Rollins : We were hoping you could tell us.

  Brad : I have no idea, I swear.

  Katriona Tamin : You didn't know that you were being recorded?

  Brad : No, neither of us did. Ask Dehlia, she'll tell you.

  Amanda Rollins : We did. She's wondering why you haven't texted her back.

  Brad : Well, our rehearsals have been at different times, we're... we're opening in five days. If... if I'd know that was why she was texting me, I, um... she didn't say.

  Katriona Tamin : She's embarrassed, humiliated.

  Brad : I get it. This is terrible for both of us. C-Can you take it down?

  Katriona Tamin : Well, as far as we can tell, the site that initially reposted it is based in Cypress. We're trying to find out how it got uploaded in the first place.

  Brad : There must have been a camera hidden in the studio.

  Katriona Tamin : [sarcastic]  You think?

  Brad : Dehlia and I aren't the only people to hook up in there. It's secluded, you know? It... it locks from the inside.

  Amanda Rollins : Everybody knows about this?

  Brad : It's the company's worst-kept secret.

• Katriona Tamin : How long you out?

  Hudson Curtis : Rest of the season. Fifth surgery in ten years. But no one leaves ballet until they're fired or crippled. You here to talk to me about Dehlia? Poor kid.

  Katriona Tamin : You knew what was happening?

  Hudson Curtis : Honey, everybody knows.

  Katriona Tamin : But no one says anything?

  Hudson Curtis : It's a straight male world. We just dance in it. You dance?

  Katriona Tamin : Uh, hip-hop, modern. I was a little...

  Hudson Curtis : Statuesque for ballet?

• Olivia Benson : Hey, Kat, any luck?

  Katriona Tamin : Struck out again.

  Amanda Rollins : So we're 0 for everyone?

  Katriona Tamin : They've danced their whole lives, sacrificed everything to get to the National. They have too much to lose. Sorry.

  Olivia Benson : Don't be. Just need to find somebody who already lost.

• Katriona Tamin : [listening to Hasim's undercover wire]  He's pretty good.

  Olivia Benson : I'm buying it.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Let's hope they do.

• Hudson Curtis : Look, if you're here to talk to me about male dancers videotaping girls, I can't help you.

  Katriona Tamin : Actually, I'm here to ask you about your choreographer.

  Hudson Curtis : Sascha? What's to know? He's a pig.

  Katriona Tamin : Can you give me any specifics?

  Hudson Curtis : You want me to be the Norma Rae of the National? While I'm hanging on to my spot in the company by a thread? Talk to me in a few years.

  Katriona Tamin : So, that's it? These girls are just on their own?

  Hudson Curtis : They know the drill. You want this life, you pay the price.

• Olivia Benson : That's an admission.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : It's more like an innuendo. Ashley still needs to show she's willing to play for pay.

  Katriona Tamin : So, he's a trafficker and we're going after the victim?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : She has not been cooperative so far, right? We need the leverage. I know you wish there was a better way, but...

  Olivia Benson : Yeah, I do.

• Katriona Tamin : Well, she says it wasn't rape. That's that.

  Amanda Rollins : Well, from what I heard, rape culture is so much a part of this company, they don't even realize it anymore.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : Tina said the sex was consensual?

  Amanda Rollins : But it wasn't. She just doesn't wanna see it that way. Sascha's her boss, he gave her the choice of losing her job or getting a solo, depending on whether or not she was gonna re-enact that video with him.

  Olivia Benson : It's forcible coercion, rape three.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : In theory, yes. But his defense attorney's gonna say the relationship was consensual. At worst, transactional, one in which she was a willing part of.

  Katriona Tamin : Sascha? From what the other dancers said, this is happening all the time at the company.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Then we need to try to establish a pattern. Are there any other allegations against Sascha?

  Amanda Rollins : No official complaints lodged with the National HR department.

  Katriona Tamin : Yeah, the cone of silence in ballet is real. I knew a few bunheads at LaGuardia; rehearse nonstop, never spoke out of turn, never ate... I mean, that kind of conditioning sticks with you

  Olivia Benson : Listen, this isn't just ballet. It's churches, news organizations, movie sets. When your boss is a predator, people are afraid.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, unless someone breaks ranks, we're stalled.

  Olivia Benson : [checking her phone, she groans]  More bad news. Cybercrime said somebody ran Dehlia's image through facial recognition. Her identity has gone viral.