Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Down Low in Hell's Kitchen (2019)
Ice-T: Sergeant Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
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Deputy Chief Christian Garland : [about Mathis] What the hell is this kid thinking?
Amanda Rollins : He was gonna be outed. He was getting in front of it.
Odafin Tutuola : He figured he could get more sympathy as a victim.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Not from me. I want him in cuffs.
Olivia Benson : But Chief, our other actual victims are afraid. So we go after Mathis, then nobody comes forward.
Vanessa Hadid : It's too late for that. If your other victims had been willing to testify in the first place, we wouldn't be here.
Olivia Benson : Okay, Ms. Hadid, you're new to SVU. We don't blame victims here. Human sexuality and criminal behavior are a hell of a lot different than securities fraud.
Vanessa Hadid : Thank you, Captain. What I do know, the longer this stays in the news cycle, the longer we're standing here with our junk in our hands.
Olivia Benson : Excuse me?
Vanessa Hadid : Oh, I'm sorry. Egg on our faces?
Olivia Benson : Ms. Hadid, you're the one who pushed Carisi in the first place.
Dominick Carisi : Listen, all due respect, but this feels like a circular firing squad. All Captain Benson is saying is that we have an obligation to make this case, and Ms. Hadid is just reminding us that the clock is ticking, quickly and loudly.
Vanessa Hadid : The clock isn't ticking, Counselor. It's blown up.
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Odafin Tutuola : [to Olivia] So what's this new chief's deal?
Olivia Benson : Well, he's methodical, he's thoughtful and he's Ivy League educated.
Odafin Tutuola : So why is he a cop?
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Jeffrey Moran : Waiting for your prince? Got something for you.
Amanda Rollins : Hey! NYPD! Put it down. Drop it. Drop the weapon.
[Moran drops his taser]
Amanda Rollins : Get your hands up.
Jeffrey Moran : Jeez. I was just going for a walk.
Amanda Rollins : You all right, Chief?
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Glad you made it before he tased me.
Jeffrey Moran : I didn't do anything wrong, man. It's for protection.
Odafin Tutuola : Keep talking, Prince Charming. You're under arrest.
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Deputy Chief Christian Garland : So, what do you need?
Olivia Benson : Manpower for a wider canvass, security cam checks. I would like to augment with detectives from Hate Crimes.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : They're spread thinner than SVU. And if they'd heard about this, they'd have looped me in.
Odafin Tutuola : So what do we do, just wait on him to strike again?
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : [hearing Benson's phone buzz] No, we can be proactive. Increase uniform patrols, work your contacts. Everything okay, Captain?
Olivia Benson : Detective Rollins says that there's another vic at Mercy Hospital.
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Vanessa Hadid : What do we have?
Amanda Rollins : Well, four victims, all assaulted after leaving bars in Hell's Kitchen. The perp knows the neighborhood. He surprises all his vics in isolated, scaffolded areas.
Odafin Tutuola : All tased and assaulted with a bottle.
Vanessa Hadid : And this hasn't gone to the grand jury why?
Olivia Benson : Because these victims won't testify.
Vanessa Hadid : They'll testify if we subpoena them.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Uh, counselor, these men lead double lives that we ought not force them to reveal. They are helping us to find the pattern.
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Ken Randall : Jaden was just talking about you.
Odafin Tutuola : Yeah? He like that shirt I got him?
Ken Randall : He'll grow into it.
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Olivia Benson : Someone is out there, preying on gay men. Gay men who are afraid to come forward, to... to file a police report.
Odafin Tutuola : Mathis, your music means a lot to people of all types. If you were to come forward...
Robert Fischer : If you did that, everyone would think he was gay.
Mathis Brooks : Look, hold up, Fisch. So you think that if I made a public statement, that... that it would matter?
Odafin Tutuola : No doubt.
Olivia Benson : More than you can imagine.
Robert Fischer : Come on, man.
Mathis Brooks : Look, who cares if some people choose to think that I'm gay? This is bigger than Mathis now.
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Olivia Benson : Fin, I just heard from a nurse at Mercy. There's another attack in Hell's Kitchen. Black male, tased.
Odafin Tutuola : He filing a complaint?
Olivia Benson : No.
Odafin Tutuola : Then what are we supposed to do?
Olivia Benson : Your son still works at the gay men's crisis center, right?
Odafin Tutuola : LGBTQ, as Ken reminds me.
Olivia Benson : So talk to him, right? If we're hearing about this, you know he is.
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Ken Randall : So, why are you here?
Odafin Tutuola : There's a rumor about a serial predator working the gay bars.
Ken Randall : In Hell's Kitchen.
Odafin Tutuola : Yeah. The victims are all black, professional, and everybody's talking about it.
Ken Randall : But no one wants to talk. I know.
Odafin Tutuola : So do you think you can get somebody to file a police report?
Ken Randall : I can't. These men, and I shouldn't even tell you this much, have wives, kids.
Odafin Tutuola : Oh, they're on the low. That's why he's targeting them. He knows they don't want to speak up. Well, tell 'em we'll do our best to keep their case confidential.
Ken Randall : I'm their advocate, dad, not yours.
Odafin Tutuola : Yeah, but if nobody says anything, he has no reason to stop.
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Olivia Benson : So, Mathis is the only one who saw his assailants come forward. The other three only remember a tense interaction with a big, red-haired man at their bars.
Amanda Rollins : And this is who they saw. That's Mathis' sketch.
Vanessa Hadid : You've noticed the sketches diverge?
Odafin Tutuola : The M.O. is different, too. Mathis saw the guy. He also heard him say gay and racist slurs.
Amanda Rollins : Which could be our perp escalating or devolving...
Olivia Benson : Or both.
Amanda Rollins : Right.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Yeah, we can't have another assault. Today's Tuesday. We flood the zone tonight.
Olivia Benson : Chief, I don't have the manpower.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Well, you will now. I'll borrow UCs from from Street Crimes for every bar on the list.
Dominick Carisi : Black UCs that read as upper middle class, late 30s, sophisticated?
Olivia Benson : Not a lot of these in Street Crime.
Odafin Tutuola : You know what, Chief? Don't take this the wrong way, but you're his type.
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Dominick Carisi : You should know Moran has an alibi for the night you were assaulted.
Mathis Brooks : Okay, I... I see. So y'all pick up the wrong guy, a-and now you're trying to make me carry the weight.
Odafin Tutuola : Okay, let's go over your story and find out what we missed.
Mathis Brooks : Hey, maybe there's a copycat. Huh? M-Maybe there's two guys out there.
Counselor Julie Kang : Mathis, stop talking. We came here to cooperate. Is my client now a suspect in any way?
Dominick Carisi : That remains to be seen.
Counselor Julie Kang : [moving to leave] Then we're done.
Odafin Tutuola : Whoa, whoa, listen. We're just trying to get to the truth.
Mathis Brooks : Look, the truth is I was attacked! Come on. Brother, you saw me in the hospital. The cuts, the burn. Look, I'm telling y'all this happened. What that guy took from me, I can never get back. Why in the hell would I make something like that up?
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Robert Fischer : Everybody thinks Mathis is lying. But I know that kid.
Odafin Tutuola : Did you know he was gay?
Robert Fischer : Oh, okay, that came as a bit of a shock. I knew his family. They're church people. I think he was just ashamed.
Amanda Rollins : But he was brave enough to out himself and say he was the victim of a crime.
Robert Fischer : Because of his integrity.
Amanda Rollins : Only thing is, we don't think that a crime took place.
Odafin Tutuola : You like Mathis, right?
Robert Fischer : I love him like a son.
Amanda Rollins : Well, the D.A. wants to come down on him hard. Now, do you think your client is so desperate for attention that he would stage an attack? 'Cause we can subpoena your phone, your e-mail, your business records, and if we find out you were complicit in this...
Robert Fischer : No, no, no. I don't know. I swear to God. I thought he'd really been attacked.
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Robert Fischer : I didn't believe he was gay. But TMZ was threatening to out him.
Amanda Rollins : So he heard about the assaults and he made a plan.
Odafin Tutuola : So why didn't TMZ break the story anyway?
Robert Fischer : I threw 'em some dirt on a former client. Crazy thing is, if you hadn't found the actual guy, this would've worked.
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Odafin Tutuola : [Mathis' brother was caught on security cameras buying a stun gun the day of Mathis' assault] Dumbass used his corporate credit card.
Olivia Benson : D'Angelo must've known to go looking for this. Did somebody tip him off?
Amanda Rollins : Moran told him that he didn't do Mathis, and he would know.
Dominick Carisi : Moran's alibi check out?
Odafin Tutuola : Yeah, his ex took a selfie of them and their kids on the upper deck at Citi Field.
Amanda Rollins : [on her phone] It's already all over Twitter. #MathisMadeItUp.
Olivia Benson : So even if Moran is good for the other three assaults...
Odafin Tutuola : Which he is.
Olivia Benson : Mathis poisoned the well.
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Deputy Chief Christian Garland : I have good news and better news. I heard you about being short-handed. I'm getting SVU a white shield.
Olivia Benson : A white shield?
Odafin Tutuola : You mean somebody that's not a detective.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Yeah, you'll both be great mentors. Also, Ms. Hadid just called to thank me. Jeffrey Moran took a plea. He'll do seven years for sexual abuse 1.
Olivia Benson : So nobody has to testify. That... that is great news.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Any thoughts on what changed his mind?
Odafin Tutuola : Um... it's kind of a "don't ask, don't tell."
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : All right. I'll take the win. But next, we need to pursue charges against Mathis. We have to send a message.
Olivia Benson : And what message is that? False reporting is extremely rare. We keep this in the news, and survivors are going to be afraid that they won't be believed.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : So Mathis never pays for the damage he's caused?
Odafin Tutuola : He's paying. Plenty.
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Odafin Tutuola : For what it's worth, my Deputy Chief wanted to put you in jail, but we talked him out of it.
Mathis Brooks : So, what, I'm supposed to thank you? I didn't make this up.
Odafin Tutuola : Look, I don't know why you did what you did, but it's coming from a bad place.
Mathis Brooks : This where you tell me that you're disappointed in me? That I screwed everything up?
Odafin Tutuola : Not everything. I was talking to my captain. If you had have never came forward, we would've never caught Moran.
Mathis Brooks : That's true. Nobody remembers that. The whole world's just laughing at me.
Odafin Tutuola : Not me. See, I know something was done to you. It ain't about this time. It ain't about this thing. But you gotta deal with whatever happened to you in your past that brought you here. That's on you.
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Mathis Brooks : Is this for real? My brother buys a taser, and now y'all think I made the whole thing up.
Dominick Carisi : No one here is saying that.
Mathis Brooks : It's all over the news. NYPD's trying to make me look like a liar.
Odafin Tutuola : NYPD or your brother?
Mathis Brooks : He likes gadgets. He has a drone, too.
Counselor Julie Kang : And tasers are legal in New York State.
Odafin Tutuola : They are. Any idea where your brother was during the time of your attack?
Mathis Brooks : I'm not his keeper.
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Odafin Tutuola : He really believes it now.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : You mean he's doubling down.
Dominick Carisi : Yeah, you gotta give him credit for that copycat theory.
Olivia Benson : I think it's more likely that he's the one who copied the crime. He's heard about these other assaults. He piggybacked.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : So we grill him until he admits it.
Odafin Tutuola : That's not gonna happen.
Vanessa Hadid : Can we at least agree that he didn't tase himself?
Olivia Benson : That's a good point. So let's talk to Aygon. He bought the stun gun. Ask him why.
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Devonn Thompson : Ken said something I left out. Could be helpful.
Odafin Tutuola : Talk to me.
Devonn Thompson : You remember the first time I told you I met Moran? I was outside the bar, smoking. I left out a part. Uh... he followed me back into the bar... then the bathroom. He got down on his knees... unzipped my pants.
Odafin Tutuola : Was that consensual?
Devonn Thompson : Very. I know I'm repressed, but... once we started, he really let go.
Odafin Tutuola : Then what happened?
Devonn Thompson : I went back to the bar. I took a picture of us. It was like Jekyll and Hyde. He just... snapped. I got out of there. Fast.
Odafin Tutuola : Now, this wasn't the same night he assaulted you.
Devonn Thompson : No. I ran into him at the bar a month later. I got out of there, but... he must've followed me.
Amanda Rollins : [watching with Benson] That explains a lot, but unless Devonn testifies, that photo is inadmissible.
Olivia Benson : Let me call Carisi. Maybe there's a way that this gives him some leverage.
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Odafin Tutuola : Ken tried to get Devonn Thompson to come in. No dice.
Amanda Rollins : And I'm 0 for 2. Marcus, Talbot, they won't return my phone calls.
Olivia Benson : And we can't run the rape kits without their permission. Any evidence from the crime scene?
Odafin Tutuola : The only bottle CSU found was Mathis', and that's just gonna end up having his DNA and Aygon's prints on it.
Olivia Benson : Did you re-check security cams?
Amanda Rollins : Yeah, Moran grew up there, though. He skirted the cams like a guy staying dry in the rain.
Olivia Benson : Hadid gave us 'til end of day. So go back to 9th Avenue, see if any of the bartenders, any of the patrons can put Moran with the other vics.
Amanda Rollins : We can try, but after Mathis, their walls are up.
Devonn Thompson : Can you blame us? I came to you because of Mathis. And now because of him, even if I did testify... who would believe me?
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Olivia Benson : So, Mathis, you should know that we think that the man who assaulted you may be a serial predator.
Mathis Brooks : What?
Odafin Tutuola : Yeah, he's attacking black gay men in Hell's Kitchen.
Mathis Brooks : That's horrible. I mean, I-I'm not gay, but... you-you mean just because the color of my skin, and because I was walking down those streets...
Odafin Tutuola : Did you stop anywhere on your walk?
Mathis Brooks : No. No, I was... I was just getting some air. Like, that's all. I'm walking home after midnight. You know what, guys, I'm sorry, I'm getting really tired. Do-do you think that we can... we can do this later?
Olivia Benson : Of course.
Odafin Tutuola : If you remember anything else, call us.
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Rudy Syndergaard : Mathis, this is Captain Benson. I told you about her.
Olivia Benson : Hi. And my sergeant.
Odafin Tutuola : Fin Tutuola. How you doing?
Mathis Brooks : Honestly... honestly, I'm-I'm still not in my body.
Rudy Syndergaard : Mathis, I'll be right outside.
Mathis Brooks : He's good people. He said that you guys were, too.
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Deputy Chief Christian Garland : A serial rapist in Hell's Kitchen?
Olivia Benson : Yes, Chief. The victims are male. He tases them, and then he sodomizes them with a bottle.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Well, we need to establish more of a pattern. When did he start? How many assaults?
Olivia Benson : We don't know.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : I'll try again. How many reports have been filed?
Odafin Tutuola : None. We think he picks his vics on the down-low so he knows they don't want to report.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : So, are we divining it?
Olivia Benson : No, we're not divining it. EMS calls, advocacy groups, and the rumors are out there in gay bars.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : I can't take rumors to CompStat.
Olivia Benson : I know, and I know that you just got here and you don't want to report a spike in assaults two weeks in, but...
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : No, that will never be my concern. If stats go up, good. It means people trust us enough to disclose.
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Wayne Talbot : All I remember... when he was, uh... assaulting me, I could see the toes of his boots covered with paint.
Odafin Tutuola : Six days ago?
Wayne Talbot : Yeah. Tuesday, I visited my mother, and got a beer on the way home.
Odafin Tutuola : Okay, when you stopped at the bar, do you remember anybody asking you about your wife or your family?
Wayne Talbot : Earlier that evening. Tall guy, white, thuggish, trying to pry. I shut that down. My two worlds must run on separate tracks. You understand?
Odafin Tutuola : Yeah. I'm just trying to catch this guy.
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Devonn Thompson : I was leaving a bar. Swank.
Odafin Tutuola : In Hell's Kitchen?
Devonn Thompson : It's low-key. Uh... I mostly keep to myself. Someone starts a conversation, okay.
Odafin Tutuola : Anybody talk to you that night?
Devonn Thompson : No. I headed home. I was going to the E train, walked down under scaffolding, and they said someone tased me. Used a bottle. I came to in the ambulance.
Odafin Tutuola : So you didn't get a look at him? They say anything?
Devonn Thompson : Not that I heard.
Olivia Benson : And how often do you go to this bar?
Devonn Thompson : Tuesdays. My family thinks I'm going out with the choir after practice.
Olivia Benson : Has anyone ever approached you on another Tuesday that seemed... odd?
Devonn Thompson : Yeah, actually, uh... about a month before, I was outside smoking. This white guy, drunk, asked for a cigarette. He saw they were menthol. He gave me a hard time.
Odafin Tutuola : How so?
Devonn Thompson : He said, uh... "your wife know you smoke those?"
Odafin Tutuola : What, like he made you?
Devonn Thompson : I got a bad vibe. Went back inside.
Olivia Benson : Is it possible that this guy was there the night you were assaulted?
Devonn Thompson : I didn't see him.
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Odafin Tutuola : What's up with the paparazzi?
Amanda Rollins : Well, it turns out the vic is a celeb. Mathis...
Olivia Benson : Mathis Brooks, the pop star?
Amanda Rollins : Yeah. Yeah.
Olivia Benson : Same pattern?
Amanda Rollins : Close enough. Tased, beer bottle.
Olivia Benson : Hold on, I thought Mathis Brooks was straight.
Amanda Rollins : Yeah, I mean, as far as we know, he is, but he was in the neighborhood, and he has a gay following.
Olivia Benson : So the perp assumed, the hospital called us. Any chance he'll report?
Amanda Rollins : I'm not sure. He's still in the ER, and his brother and manager are here. They're being... protective.
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Rudy Syndergaard : Mathis is ready to talk to you.
Olivia Benson : Great. That's good news. Uh, you do a rape kit?
Rudy Syndergaard : Mm, he's a little too traumatized for that right now.
Olivia Benson : Understood.
Rudy Syndergaard : I told him you guys were cool, that you'd respect his privacy. You will, right?
Odafin Tutuola : Absolutely.
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Odafin Tutuola : Keep talking Prince Charming, you're under arrest.