TIME JUMP - 4 MONTHS!

"You okay?" Finn asks me as I walk in to the office one morning.

I keep my head down, ignoring his question and sit down at my desk. "We have a call. Let's go." Rollins says coming out of the break room and grabbing her jacket. Finn follows right behind her.

I wipe away the tear from my face before anyone could see and follow them out of the precinct. "We're here for Luna Garcia." I tell the women at the desk in the police station some miles away form our precinct.

"You can help yourself to that bitch" the women says "my partner's processing her now." She walks out from behind the desk and calls into the next room "Guapo, you done with the empathy thing? We can let this one go."

Finn speaks first "What up man?"

Amaro turns his head to us and says "Yo," like he wasn't expecting anyone to know him. "What's up?"

"Hey Nick." I say to him walking closer with the others.

"How are you?" Amanda asks.

"Look, I know you called.." Amaro starts off "I've just been busy, you know, pulling as much OT as I can."

I comment back, figuring how uncomfortable this is for him "we know how it is."

Rollins adds on "Yah, you won't be here for much longer." Rollins changes the subject back to work "listen, this girl you brought in, Luna Garcia."

"Yeah, she's underage." He says back "her prints came in from INS a half hour ago."

I add on "she's also a material witness in the rape homicide of Ellie Porter.

"Noah's mom?" He asks. "Does Liv know?"

"That's why we're here." Finn tells him.

"My partner did the paperwork. If I'd seen the want card, I'd have called right away." He tells us. "You know, I have a rapport with Luna, if you want me to talk to her-"

Finn interrupts before he could continue "Liv wants us to bring her in."

"Yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, I get it." He returns. He moves closer to the cell she is in "here."

I help guide her out of the building in handcuffs. She yells at us along the way "what's going on? Where are you taking me?"

"You're gonna be fine, honey." I tell her as we move towards the car "we just need to talk to you."

Just then there's a gun shot and I duck, pushing the witness along down with me "stay down!" Amanda yells.

I keep myself with the witness as Finn and Rollins move to go after the shooter.

Finn gets the shooter in custody after being hit by a car he has to go to the hospital. Rollins and I take the witness to the precinct. "Where's the shooter?" Olivia asks greeting us at the entrance.

"At the hospital with Finn." She tells her.

"The girl, Luna, is in interview. She is shaken up." I tell her.

Olivia asks "how'd they know you were picking her up?"

Rollins answers "Amaro thinks that they were followed to the precinct."

"Amaro?" Olivia questions.

"Yeah." I say back elongating the word. "He was the arresting officer."

A man walks in front of the three of us in a suit with blonde hair, blue eyes and a mustache, he starts talking like he knows what's going on "they shot at cops right outside the station? So they want us to know they're crazy."

Olivia stands up a bit taller "you must be my new detective."

"Dominick Carisi, Jr." He introduces himself, putting his hand out to shake ours. "Call me Sonny. I brought zeppoli."

Olivia clearly a bit shocked responds "I asked for an experienced, empathic detective - and they sent you?"

He shakes his head once when saying "I'm way experienced. Sensitive and moody, too." Amanda and I eye each other, trying to hold back some laughter. "And I can do that whole empathy thing."

"Where are you from?" I ask as we begin to follow Olivia into her office.

"Staten Island SVU for two months, and Brooklyn for almost a month, and then Queens last week."

"So they love you wherever you go, Carisi?" Olivia basically sarcastically asks.

"Call me Sonny." He tells us "I was supposed to start tomorrow, but I heard about the shooting over my scanner, so I came in." He says to us all, then directs his attention to Olivia "What's our read?" He asks.

"The 116 had a witness of an open case. They took a shot at her." Olivia explains.

"The girl giving the smoothie to the mook in a minivan? What's she a witness to?" He asks.

I elaborate for him "a few months ago, a trafficked girl was gang-raped and set on fire-

He jumps in "the Ellie Porter case."

Amanda confirms "Yeah."

He says "I remember hearing about it. It was horrible. Her pimp green-lit her, right?" He asks, looking at the three of us.

"Little Tino." Olivia says his name with disdain "he took the rap, but we don't think he ordered the hit."

"So this girl's hooking for the same crew, and you think that she's gonna give up Mr. Big. Want me to take a run at her, sergeant?"

"I can certainly see why you're so popular." Olivia comments and directs "Rollins, how about you talk to the John. And, Carisi, come with Grey and I." She looks at me and I smile fakily, not really thrilled to be placed with the over enthusiastic newby. "I need you to follow my lead or you'll be oh for four, and then your all-borough tour of SVU will continue in the Bronx." We follow her out of her office and to another room.

"Let us do the talking." I say as Olivia opens the door so we can interview Luna. Olivia goes in first, sitting down across from her, I sit next to her and Carisi takes a seat next to Olivia, scooting a bit away from the table. "We want to know if you know who this is?" Olivia pushes the photo forward so she can see Ellie's photo clearly.

"I don't know her." She says in broken English.

"We believe you do." I encourage her to tell us.

"I don't know her." She repeats again.

Olivia answers back this time "yeah, you do, Luna. You lived with her. We found your passport when we raided Little Tino's mom's house. Do you know what happened to Ellie?" She asks her.

"Just put me in jail." She says back quickly with fear in her voice.

"Luna, listen to me." I say to her, being empathetic "they took a shot at you, they want you dead. They killed Ellie. Now if you work with us, if you talk with us, we can make sure that you stay safe."

Carisi feels the needs to jump in then "safe as you can be. Anyway." Olivia and I eye him with dark glares. "She's not gonna talk to us if we keep blowing smoke." We both sigh, not knowing what to say back to him but he takes it as a change to add more "how long you been on the streets? One year, two? Six months before that, you're in Mexico getting turned out." He pushes further "you have any hope left? You still praying to our lady of Guadalupe every night, asking her forgiveness?"

"Carisi, would you be so kind to get Ms. Garcia something to drink?" Olivia tries to get him out of the room.

"I told you, I don't know her!" She yells back as Sonny stands up to get the drink.

"Okay, no problem, sarge. But before I go, that wasn't a warning shot. Your papi green-lit your ass."

I try to stop him from scaring her further "hey, that's not helpful."

"You ask me, you got one hope, t-nonimmigrant status for trafficked girls." He says something that I've never heard of and I look to Olivia for clarification. "You get a new identity, you move to a new city. Welcome to America." The girl adjusts her eyes to the side, listening to what he is saying. "Now I can pull those strings and make that happen, but you have to make a statement. At least we can offer you a chance. But that's all it is, it's a chance." Olivia's face is as shocked as mine.

She asks Olivia if this is true "It's us or them. We want you to live, Luna. They don't. Do you understand that?"

"Si." She says back.

I quickly jump in on the silence "and my partner here is gonna get you that drink that we talked about." I urge him to move out of the room and he does. I follow the two of them out the room and to the window.

"You got pretty lucky in there, promising her "t" status." Olivia says to him once the door is closed. "What are you, an immigration lawyer?" She asks.

"Halfway there." He answers. "Night school, Fordham law. I just did a term paper on "t" non-immigrant status." He points to her behind the glass "she's a good candidate."

"So you did a paper, and now you told her that you have pull?" Olivia asks him.

"It doesn't actually matter if I'm actually telling the truth. I mean, I got her to believe I am." He responds.

I exhale with a small chuckle and an eye roll as Olivia replies "look, that may work in Staten Island, but that's not how we do things here. Okay?"

"My apologies, sergeant." He quickly apologies "but after what happened to Ellie Porter, she knows we can't keep her safe."

"So you scare her?" I ask him a bit too loudly, unable to control my voice.

"What happened to that empathy thing you do?" Olivia asks him.

"When's the last time she got empathy from a man?" He asks her back, making a point, "I mean, she's used to a pimp telling her what to do. To her, a nice guy is just playing her."

I try to keep my face firm with annoyance as Olivia agrees with his method this time. "Fine. Just get her to talk." She walks away, leaving us to interview the girl.

"So, I guess I'll let you take the lead on this one." I say as we walk to the door.

"Luna, look. We want to help you here alright." Sonny starts off once the door is shut "we moved you from that jail cell, to here for your safety but we need you to talk to us." He encourages her.

"And you can get me new identity?" She looks to him and then to me.

I nod to confirm "we can put in the paperwork by the end of business today." I change the subject "when did you start working for your pimp?" I ask her.

She shrugs, looking away from both of us "I was 12 when I ran away from home, he picked me up, told me he could take care of me." She explains to us.

"Did you get pimped out right away?" Sonny asks.

I cough, telling him to cool it and just let her talk through the timeline. She goes on "he kept me to himself at first, like a real relationship. He invited a friend over, let him have me for a night. I thought it normal." She says.

Sonny interrupts again and I roll my eyes "do you know his name?"

She shakes her head "Diego or someting, I don't remember." She goes on "He started to have more and more men come over to see me. Eventually he turned me to the street, too used for him."

She stops talking, so I ask her "do you remember where you stayed those first months?"

She hesitates, looking at Sonny before choking out "maybe. I don't know." She shifts her eyes to the side.

"Are you thirsty?" I ask her, wanting to build more trust. She nods to confirm that she is and I stand up, going to the door to leave and get her a soda "why don't you tell detective Carisi about the house and I'll get you a soda." She nods to me and I open the door to leave. I give Sonny an eye raise, to tell him to get that information before I get back and he nods back, hopefully understanding what I was going for.

I get the soda from the machine, on my way back I stop where Olivia is at our timeline board. "Okay, guys, so where are we at? Did you get anything from our John?"

"Looks like the same setup as Little Tino's operation." Amanda fills her in.

"Burner cell phones, craigslist ads." Finn adds on.

"But Little Tino's in jail." I comment from the side "this is another franchise."

"Okay. So what about the shooter? Diego Ramirez." She asks

"He somehow managed to lawyer up while still in surgery." Finn explains to us.

Amanda jumps in "but his prints match ones on the gas can, found at Ellie's murder."

Olivia jumps on that fact, asking "so he was there. Did he rape her?"

Amanda answers "we're waiting on that."

Sonny walks over from the room he was suppose to be in "I know why Luna doesn't need a lawyer. She's got a mouth on her." He eats a zeppoli out of his white bag.

Olvia asks "did you get anything?"

"I got the address of the house she's working out of." He informs her.

"But did you get her pimp?" Olivia pushes for more.

"It's too soon to ask." I jump in, knowing she's not ready to give that up.

"So you got nothing." Olivia says in a some what defeated tone.

"I'm trying to build a rapport." He says back, licking his fingers. "Just stake out the house, you'll find him." He offers Finn some food.

Finn's eyes widen at Sonny's odd behavior "who're you?"

Olivia semi smiles "Detective Tutuola, meet Sonny Carisi. Remember that sensitive, experienced detective that I put in for?" She asks a by sarcastically.

Finn nods towards him, widening his eyes in a bit of shock some more and I try not to chuckle. "So who do we call for a warrant?" Sonny asks eagerly.

"Easy there, cowboy." I push the brakes.

Olivia tells him "we've already taken down one house, and all we got was him. There's something bigger going on here.

"Maybe we do stake it out, put a U.C. inside?' Amanda says to her.

"Cool" Sonny jumps in "they don't know me. How about I do it?"

Olivia stops his eager thought again "hold that thought. How about we go with somebody that they do know, and somebody that they also know has a grudge against NYPD." She looks to us.

I look from her to Amanda and question "Nick?" Amanda shrugs back at me as if to say who else and Olivia moves to make a call.