Amaro walks in after watching the interview with Perry's mom. "She doesn't place him?" I ask when the door shuts.
"No" He answers "Zoe's convinced it's him and that he's Glasgowman, but she doesn't remember being stabbed."
Carisi comes back in "Perry's mom-no help. Her boyfriend's got his hands full with that one." His hands go up as if to say no way.
"Okay. What do we have on Glasgowman?" Benson asks.
Rollins answers first "Charlie Dorsey, he's 36. The local precinct's seen him rummaging through the garbage, collecting cans.
"Frequent-flier at the Hudson river state asylum until they dumped him back on the streets when it closed down in 2003." I add on.
"After that, he stops taking his meds, jumps the couch a few times." Amaro finishes explaining. "It's minor stuff first, then amps it up. Subway assaults, then he stabs a guy in the kidney at a homeless center shelter, gets a three-year bid in attica."
Rollins goes on "he gets released two years ago, meets once with his P. O. and then goes off the grid until today."
Carisi comments "it was only a matter of time. I mean, you can't unscrew the top of the salt shaker and then be surprised when it spills all over the table."
Benson stops us all from going on "all right. Do we have any physical evidence linking him to Zoe's assault?"
I tell her the bad news "no sign of the weapon, negative on the rape kit, and we're running his clothes now for DNA, and that eye patch is just for show. He got extremely agitated when we tried to take it off."
"Find anything in that cave?" She asks next.
Amanda shakes her head "no, it's tiny a spider hole."
Benson doesn't allow it "well, he lives in that park. He's got to sleep somewhere."
Amaro disagree's "we haven't found anything yet. Look, those woods are dense. It's the last primeval forest in the area. - It's going to take some.."
Benson catches on "okay. All right. Did he say anything about Perry or Mia?"
Carisi answers "No. He clammed up. He claims he has no idea."
Amaro offers "okay, why don't I take a run at him?"
Carisi interjects "no disrespect, Nick, but I-I think he trusts me, sarge."
Amaro asks him "wait. You just said he clammed up."
"Rollins?" She asks for her opinion.
She shrugs, clearly uncomfortable with all eyes on her "uh, Carisi did get them to stop tasering, - um, helped talk him down."
I thought that would be the end of it but Benson asks me next "Grey?"
"I agree with Rollins, he seemed to be okay with Carisi." I sound as confident as I can.
Nick offers a sad smile, like he's been betrayed. "Okay, guys, it's been over 12 hours since two girls went missing." Benson looks around before walking towards the door "Carisi, let's go."
Carisi quickly follows her into the room as Rollins and I watch from the window. We watch as the two of them try to talk to this man, as crazed as he is. After Benson shows him the photo of the girls he starts to get mad again. Sonny pulls him back in and I look at Rollins "he's good." She nods back to me without saying anything and we watch further as they listen to him tell them about Zoe
The two of them come out of the room and Benson gives her orders "Carisi, Grey you go with Charlie back to the woods. Rollins, stay here and find out everything you can about this Glasgowman."
Carisi and I prepare for our trip back to the woods with Charlie and are on the road within the hour. He takes us through the woods, further and further in to where he calls home. "It's down there." He directs as we go, his hands still cuffed together.
"Where?" Carisi asks.
"Under the kudzu" He explains.
"All right, show us." I add on.
We move closer to an opening but Charlie turns around and looks to Carisi "little brother, I need you to switch my eye patch over to the other side."
Carisi looks at me strangely but responds "so you can see in the dark? Yeah, I get it."After the eye patch was switched he says "all right, the device, Charlie where is it?"
"It's the third bag on the left." He tells us after the three of us are inside.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! What are you doing?" Charlie hesitates loudly as Carisi leans towards the bag to look through it.
"Okay. Calm down. This is just so we can prove that it was planted here." He tells him what he needs to here. I look at him in awe, kind of shocked how good he is at reading behavior. "Okay. Okay. We got it. Good job, Charlie." He tells him. "Hey, Grey, I want nobody in here. Nobody disturbs a thing until Charlie here is released."
He tells me in front of him, really telling me to get on the radio and call it in. "All right, I'm on it." I turn away and radio out "hey, get CSU down here right now."
After I radio out I hear Charlie and can tell he's agitated "you- you- you and your people can go now. I'm gonna stay here."
Carisi answers him "you know I can't let you do that. "It's going to be okay. Come on." He encourages him.
"You know what?" I say getting both their attention "it's okay. You guys go on ahead. I'll stay and make sure nobody comes in, all right?"
We both wait for his answer and when he agrees Carisi and I look at each other with relief. He turns to my partner "I need you to switch my eye patch over to the other side. I don't want the sun to blind me."
Carisi puts the flashlight into his mouth and slowly switches his eye patch over. I try to hide my smirk, but he looks kind of adorable helping this giant man through everything. "Let's go, Charlie." He says and I regain myself. Carisi looks over his shoulder as he follows Charlie out and gives me a nod.
I search around, waiting for CSU. I look through one of his bags and find a bloody knife. I pull it out with a heavy sigh, not wanting to believe Charlie really did this.
I walk into the precinct later that afternoon after leaving right after CSU got there. I got it into evidence right away, knowing how time sensitive everything is with the other two girls still missing. "Hey, so no trace of the other girls in or around his encampment, and the dogs didn't pick up any scent either."
Benson asks "what about the knife?"
Carisi answers "Charlie claims they're for hunting and fishing and that the blood on the knife is from bluefish. We're running it now for prints and DNA."
Amaro pipes in "CSU is still there going over his place."
"And this device?" Benson asks, wanting more.
"It's a handheld zoom camera. It's pretty dinged up." Carisi tells her.
Amaro adds "we sent it to TARU. - Could be the girls'. Zoe told us Perry had a camera that night."
Carisi pulls out his cell and read something, then looks back to Benson "these guys are good. TARU's already got something." He moves over to his computer and pulls up the file that was just sent to him.
We watch a video that the girls were making the night before. They intended to meet Glasgowman at his mansion, confusing us with this new piece of information. "Mansion, map?" Rollins speaks out shaking her hair.
"Zoe didn't mention any of this." Benson says before leaving the precinct, presumably heading to the hospital.
Benson calls us after visiting Zoe and gives us information on a babysitter named Leslie. "Find where he lives, you and Grey are coming with me." She directs to Nick who put the call on speaker.
The police officer with us knocks on the door. Amaro calls out "NYPD."
"Can I help you?" The tiny man answers the door and we push ourselves in. "Whoa."
"Back away." I direct him as he stumbles to put his glasses on "where are they?"
"Who?" He asks.
"Mia, Perry, the girls. When was the last time you saw them?" Amaro asks him.
He answers, his face confused "uh, I don't know. Tuesday maybe?" He answers unsure.
Benson questions further "is that when you gave them the map?"
He asks "what?"
I spot a mansion painted on his wall and point it out "that mansion where is it?"
He shakes his head "Oh, it doesn't exist. It's all in here." he points to his head while staring at the picture in awe.
"Hey, listen to me." Benson grabs at his arm to get his attention "we don't have time for that. Those girls went into the woods with your map looking for Glasgowman."
Amaro pushes further "you tell them to do that? You meet them there?"
His face shows more shock "what? No. No. Glasgowman isn't real."
Amaro steps up, pulling up Charlie's photo on his phone "no? Recognize him? We have him in custody."
"You arrested Charlie." He gets out meekly.
"Oh, so you do know him." Benson returns.
Leslie answers "he's homeless. I bring him food. He tells me crazy stories. The kids call him Glasgowman. I just amped it up, created the lore."
"The lore?" Benson repeats, unfazed by his story, "Zoe got stabbed. She almost died."
"Stabbed? You can't think I had anything to do with that. I adore Zoe." He offers.
"Is that why you drew her here covered in blood with Perry and Mia?" I shove a photo towards him that doesn't look good.
He explains "look, Perry likes scary stories. I started to turn them into a graphic novel, - but it's all fiction."
Amaro isn't buying it "yeah, fiction. So what's the plot? What happens to the girls?"
Leslie answers "there's, like, six books. I just started editing it all this weekend. I don't know where they are."
"They said they were looking for Glasgowman's mansion, okay? And we know that they were using your map." Benson repeats. "Hey, I'm going to ask you again. Where's the map?" She asks him.
He keeps his eyes trained on the mansion on his wall "I don't know where they are."
Benson gives the order "tear this place apart until we find it."
Amaro and I grab a board off the wall and pull it off. Leslie pleads with us "no, no, no! Please, please, please, no! Please, wait. Don't. Don't."
We see more painting on the wall and I ask "is this it? Is this the map?"
Leslie finally tells us "okay, okay, here In the story, Glasgowman goes over the bridge and then up and down the river. That's the lizard's tail.
Amaro turns a light on "wait, it's got to be the Hudson."
Leslie nods "uhhuh."
Benson questions "what are we looking at here?"
Leslie explains further "this is the gateway to the mansion." He points out to what looks like an old abandoned factory. "It's like the portal to the other realms. I based it off of one of Charlie's hideouts."
I push for more "okay, so where is it?"
"It's upriver somewhere Spuyten Duyvil Park." He says and we leave, knowing where we are going to go next.
"I'll head to the hospital and tell their parents, get Carisi to meet you there and find those girls!" She directs as we leave Leslie's building.
We meet Carisi near the park and make our way in further to find the old building. This is a solid lead that we all hope gives us mroe answer. "What is that down there?" Rollins asks leading the way.
"Could be the gateway." Amaro answers.
"Perry? Mia?" I call out.
"Perry? Mia?" Amaro also calls out.
Carisi gets ahead of us "oh, no, I got a knife." He picks it up "and a dead cat."
Rollins says "that can't be good."
"All right, guys, let's get this bagged and tagged for CSU" Carisi directs the officers passing it off.
"Perry? Mia?" I call out again moving further through the old concrete. I spot something in the wall and hurridely go over to it. It's a whole in the wall and I go inside. As soon as I shine the light in I notice the bodies on the ground. "Hey. Hey! A little help in here!" I call loudly moving to one of the girls.
"We got both of them." Amaro comments loudly once inside.
"Oh, my God. Oh, geez." Rollins comes over to help the other girl. "Mia?" She asks then yells out "call a bus. Mia. Perry. - Are you all right?"
"Help us. Help us." Perry pleads.
"Perry. Hey, can you hear me?" I ask her trying to get her friend conscious.
"Yes." She barely answers.
Rollins helps steady her head "who did this to you, baby?"
"Glasgowman." She answers. "He said he was coming back to bleed the devil out of us, but he never did."
I throw my jacket over her "alright, alright. We're here, everything will be okay." I encourage her, knowing knows not the time to get the rest of her statement.
As Benson, Amaro and Carisi go in to get the girls' statement, Rollins and I talk with the doctor once she's available. She comes over to us looking at the chart "they're suffering from exposure and dehydration. They had food in their backpacks mostly candy."
"And the stab wounds on Perry?" I question.
The doctor explains "not as deep as the ones on Zoe, all on the left side of her body mostly the arms, no organs."
"Right. Anything else?" Rollins asks.
"Perry was disoriented." The doctor tells us. "She said she was attacked last night, but there was no inflammation, no bruising. These injuries are fresh. I'd say an hour old, two at the most."
Rollins goes to walk away but I stop to ask once more question "and, doctor, any defensive wounds?"
Rollins looks back waiting for the answer as well "No. None, actually."
I nod in her direction to thank her and we walk to find the others. "That's just not right." I say in a hushed tone.
"I know, why all on one side of her body?" Rollins questions.
I sigh out "I have a theory." And she looks at me wondering what it is.
