Crime!
A/n: This sure has been…interesting for me to write. Combining Rent and Law and Order SVU was great, since it's two things I love. I promise it mostly makes sense, there's sort of a plot, and you can sing along. This first chapter is to the song called Rent and the song called You'll See. I don't own Rent, or Law and Order SVU…here's the cast list, so to speak.
John Munch: Mark Cohen
Elliot Stabler: Roger Davies
Olivia Benson: Mimi Marquez
Odafin Tutuola; Tom Collins
Casey Novak; Maureen Johnson
Alex Cabot: Joanne Jefferson
George Huang :Angel Dumott Schunard
Don Cragen: Benjamin Coffin II
Without further ado…here's the chapter…and I'll update really soon, depending on the response I get.
Chapter 1: Crime!
John Munch is using his barely used bicycle to drive to the precinct. He is worried about their newest case. There's a particularly dangerous rapist who has been abducting random women off the street. There have been millions of bogus tip calls. There are even pictures of the suspect done by a sketch artist posted everywhere. The public still got on with their day as if nothing was happening. He rips a sketch of the suspect off a post and starts singing.
JOHN MUNCH: How do you catch disgusting perps, when the public remains so unaware? Warrants, suspects, I can't find….and now they're getting away with the crime…Crime!
Elliot Stabler sitting at his desk, sifting through mountains of paperwork. He has a half full cup of coffee beside him, and he looks very tired. Like John, he's very much affected by the serial rapist on the loose.
ELLIOT STABLER: How do you stop the rapes when the leads are bad, though they looked like they would go somewhere? When no one knows nothing, where is the help for all these overworked cops?
JOHN: There's nothing to go on…
ELLIOT: This case is getting cold fast.
John Munch bursts into the office, to find only Elliot there so far. He was after all a little early. He sits at his own desk, and gets to work on his own gigantic mountain of paperwork. He looks at Elliot, who nods in acknowledgement. They are both frustrated.
ELLIOT AND JOHN: How we gonna stop? How we gonna stop? How we gonna stop? All that crime?
John Munch goes to the fax machine, and adds another paper to his extensive file.
JOHN: How can you follow a lead when it doesn't make sense?
JOHN AND ELLIOT: And you don't know what to do?
Elliot starts taking some of his files, and adding them to John's. Elliot is hoping to have a more complete picture of their most complex case to date, but it's just making things more comfusing. They are both crumpling up pages and throwing them out due to their frustration.
JONH: You gather evidence…
ELLIOT: DNA!
JOHN: Witnesses!
ELLIOT AND JOHN: How we gonna solve? How we gonna solve? All that crime?
Odafin Tutuola, better known as Fin, is stumbling to work after a long night of partying. Just like everyone, the current case was getting to him, and he decided alcohol would be his escape. He knew it was best to get to work quietly, but he was having the hangover from hell.
ODAFIN TUTUOLA: How do you do your job when you can't see straight and this perp's getting into your head? This is just the job. Oh I should go home. Everything's wrong, and uh oh, I feel sick!
He stumbles very near to the precinct, and then can no longer stand. He slumps to the ground in an alley.
At the precinct…
JOHN: Where is Fin?
Back in the alley…
FIN: I'm comin'
All of the other detectives arrive simultananeously. There all concerned about the same case, which has been getting a lot of attention.
DETECTIVES: How we gonna solve? How we gonna solve?
JOHN, ELLIOT, AND DETECTIVES: All that crime!
John picks up a paper from his extensive pile, looks at it, then crumples it and throws it out.
JOHN: This witness statement's as useful as a kick in the face!
Elliot picks up a paper, looks at it, then crumples it and throws it out.
ELLIOT: These phone records tell us as much as a deaf mute on drugs.
JOHN: Pay attention to what we do…
They pile up all their crumpled papers and kick them in anger. All the other detectives are with them, and are cheering for them.
JOHN AND ELLIOT: And feel our anger grow! How do you make the bastard stop, when he's leaving no clues, and learns every time? He gets under your skin and haunts you nightmare until your torn apart! Crime!
JOHN, ELLIOT AND DETECTIVES: How can you solve crime in an age where tv, books and movies teach criminals what to do? What holds our precinct together, when there's rapists loose on the street and they will not stop!
You'll Solve
Captain Don Cragen walks into the squadroom to see what his detectives are doing. He once had a more equal relationship with them. Now they just had to do what he said. When he got into the squadroom, all the detective pretended like they were working…except for John Munch and Elliot Stabler.
CAPTAIN CRAGEN: What the hell is this? Get back to work!
ELLIOT: Gonna hafta say no!
JOHN: I said no first.
The other detectives are now behind them. They too throw all their files to the ground. They are tired of the way Cragen is controlling them, and overworking them. They decide it's time to say something.
TENANTS: Enough's enough – We work too much.
ELLIOT AND JOHN: We just cannot solve
ELLIOT, JOHN AND DETECTIVES: We just cannot solve, We just cannot solve, last year's crime. This year's crime. Next year's crime. Crime, crime, crime, crime, crime. We can't solve the crime. Cause everything's a crime!
All the other detectives have gotten back to work, but John and Elliot still have something to say. They want to solve this case as much as anyone. It's all they think about. They still believe that Cragen's working to hard. They walk into Cragen's office without knocking.
ELLIOT: What happened to Cragen, what happened to his roots? And the crimes that he used to solve?
Cragen, who was sitting down, gets up and looks at Elliot angrily.
CRAGEN: Well reporters and lawyers out there have the right to handle this how they want to?
ELLIOT: You know that that means nothing.
CRAGEN: The case!
John and Elliot hated the way Cragen spoke to them now. He acted as if they were his slaves. Well, they were only human, and they had limits. Cragen seemed to be testing those more and more.
JOHN: We have no more time.
ELLIOT: We're stuck!
JOHN: And you make it worse – this is absurd.
Cragen considered them for a moment. He thought of a way that would make their life easier, and his life easier as well. It was definitely win, win.
CRAGEN: There's a way you won't work so hard.
ELLIOT: Let's hear it.
CRAGEN: Casey's really fierce 'bout this, and now that this case has so much press, she wants to do a press conference. You'll solve guys, You'll solve guys. Just talk to the press, be very vague, and after you do this for me, Your case load will be so much lighter.
John and Elliot couldn't believe what they were hearing. Neither of them had held a press conference before. Why couldn't Cragen do it? And they thought that Cragen liked Casey. It didn't make sense that he wanted to undermine her like that. He had really changed.
JOHN: What?
CRAGEN: Convince Casey to change her plans.
JOHN: Why not just do it yourself? What's wrong with that.
CRAGEN: Well, I would. But my bosses would rather this case get less publicity.
Elliot was angry now. He couldn't believe his boss would act in such a deceitful way.
ELLIOT: You can't quietly talk about a rapist and expect people to feel safe!
He motioned to John, and his fellow detective followed him to the door. They slamed the door. On their way out, they heard captain Cragen say one last thing.
CRAGEN: You wanna catch perps and save lives? You need some time to do it. Just think of all the good you'll do. Think before you don't do it. You'll solve boys, You'll solve boys. You'll solve- the most difficult case, that will prevent twenty more rapes. You'll put more in jail, you'll prevent more crimes. Just do this, and you'll have the time. You'll solve…or you're fired.
John and Elliot weren't going to listen to this. They had better things to do.