"Alex, last time I checked you weren't catching cases on the night shift."

"Last time I checked, Fox News was reporting that the DA's niece was sitting in Judge Bradley's courtroom awaiting arraignment on felony charges. But that was before you breezed in and got the case transferred down to kiddie court," Cabot bluntly countered. "When it came out that Lindsay Malinowski isn't just your niece, but your underage niece, Bensen figured this might be a bit much for our new ADA to handle her first week on the job. So she suggested that ADA Von give me a call."

"I was under the impression the victim died of a drug overdose. That makes this case a narcotics collar, how is special victims involved," McCoy gruffly shot back.

The cool looking blond wordlessly moved down the corridor with McCoy on her heels. Once she found an unoccupied conference room, she opened the door and waited for it to close behind her superior. Having worked under four D.A.'s with four very different temperaments, Alexandra Cabot knew one of the common threads among that elite group was that no authority figure appreciated having their authority questioned. With that knowledge in mind, Cabot turned to face her superior with the intent to choose her words carefully.

"Jack, as D.A. you obviously have the right to ask about any case that falls under your jurisdiction. But given the fact you have a personal relationship with this defendant, I'm hesitant-"

"Alex, just bring me up to speed and let me worry about whatever fallout I'm going to be dealing with later," McCoy cut in before stifling a yawn, as he began to feel the effects of the lateness of the hour.

"Alright. When the CSI team arrived they found the victim was missing her panties. There were also signs of vaginal trauma, hence the reason SVU was brought in. There were traces of cocaine on the body...around the nose and eyes…and on the floor near the body. The M.E. won't be able to confirm the cause of death tonight, but the evidence does seem to point to a drug overdose," Cabot admitted as she paused to remove a file from her briefcase. "Right now all I have are the preliminary reports from CSI and the investigating officers. Given that your niece's involvement is bound to make this case high profile overnight, Von asked me to assist her at arraignment."

McCoy absentmindedly acknowledged her comment with a nod as he thumbed through the file. Though he'd been impressed with the Brooklyn ADA when he'd interviewed her, he had to agree having someone who knew the workings of the SVU and well as the workings of the Manhattan D.A.'s office as well as Cabot did would help to make what promised to be a controversial case, a little more palatable.

"Tell me what you know about this 'party' and the other defendants," McCoy said without looking up from the file.

"The girl goes to school with your niece. Once you had Lindsay taken out of Judge Bradley's courtroom the other girl…Kendell McCleary…got scared enough to admit she'd lied about her age too," Cabot explained. "She asked the bailiff to call her parents and when they arrived they confirmed she's just barely seventeen."

"And the boys? Wes Mac Farland…Chad…Wentworth," McCoy inquired while he scanned the arresting officers narrative. "The boys that she came to the party with?"

"You're gonna love this. Their college kids. Wes is twenty-two. Chad is twenty-three. They both go to Brooklyn College. Apparently they supplement their tuition with the money they get selling coke between classes."

Lindsay's going to be doing more than a few hail Mary's when her dad finds out she's running around with those two, McCoy mused before turning the page and noting the information on the victim.

What he found raised more questions than it answered. But before he could inquire further, Sam Prescott opened the conference room door and announced that Danielle and Lindsay had been summoned upstairs for arraignment.

"Ah, Jack, I didn't want to make a bad situation worse for Andy by askin' about Brooke in front of him," Prescott murmured after Cabot had passed by him. "I know that blow out at the party was a big one, but she is comin' down here isn't she? I mean, whether Andy is willin' to admit it, he's goin' need his sister's support."

While usually McCoy found it annoying to discuss anything involving his wife with Sam Prescott, this time he had to admit Prescott had a valid point. When he informed his wife of Lindsay latest emergency, McCoy had assumed Brooke would make a call to her brother and rush to meet himself and Lindsay at the courthouse.

Belatedly, he noted his wife's uncharacteristically vague response to his news.

"To be honest Sam, you're guess is as good as mine," McCoy frankly admitted as he pulled his phone from his pants pocket. After finding no new voice-mail waiting for him, he noticed the indicator for his phones rarely used text messaging function showed there was an unread text in his in-box.