"Hey, how did it go with the girls?" Rollins asks as we reach the 3 of them down the hall.

Rollins answers "the timeline is way off. They're both blaming Charlie. We've had him in custody since Sunday afternoon."

"Well, they may just be confused. He could have walked them up there and then got back to Inwood by the time we picked him up." Amaro offers the idea.

Rollins fills them in "except the doctor just told me Perry's wounds are fresh."

"Okay, so they're covering for someone." Carisi says.

Amaro asks the obvious "who?"

"I don't know." Carisi answers. "Maybe it's a "Romeo and Juliet" kind of thing? Two girls go off to be with some Svengali."

"Well, then who stabbed Zoe?" I question, still not ready to share my theory.

"I don't know." Benson hums out. "Rollins, did you check the girls' social media?"

Rollins answers "yeah, in their texts, their emails, there's no boyfriends, not even really any other friends. It's just a lot of back and forth between Perry and Mia. They're in their own world."

The four of us stand there for a moment, wondering in our own silence what exactly happened that night. "I'm going to re-interview Zoe." Benson tells us before going off towards Mia's room.

When I go to leave to head to my apartment to get a shower and a change of close, Carisi catches me in the elevator. He waits for the doors to shut before asking "how are you doing? It's been a few days." He looks down at me with his hands on his hips.

"A few days since what?" I ask as the elevator begins to descend.

He lowers his arms "since the prison break. Have you heard anything, have they found him yet?"

I nod my head, catching on to what he's talking about now. "Oh! No, I haven't heard anything. Which means they are probably still looking." I say and the elevator opens to the lobby "see you in an hour Sonny." I call back to him.

"Careful out there Maddy!" He calls back to me. I turn around and give him the same glare I did when he called me that in D.C and he smiles before the door closes on him "sorry, be careful out there Grey!" He gets out.

When I return to the precinct we are waiting for Benson to give us the results back from the lab. It's only about 30 minutes after I get there that she comes in looking it over on her phone "breaking news the knife that we found inside the gatehouse only one set of prints- Perry's."

"Her wounds were all on one side no defensive marks. She stabbed herself." I finally say out, the evidence of the knife confirming my own theory.

"After she tied Mia up." Carisi says working through it in his head. "Yeah, okay. So who stabbed Zoe?"

Benson holds up a finger for a moment "hold on. We got that too." She scrolls down on her phone "here it is. DNA from Zoe on the blade of the knife found in Charlie's camp. Ah, this is interesting. On the handle, touch DNA from Charlie and guess who else." She pauses for a moment. "Perry and Mia."

"So Charlie was telling the truth." Carisi says, sounding relieved. "He picked up that knife same as he did the camera."

"Go give him the good news." Benson directs to him. Carisi sort of smiles, happy to go talk to Charlie.

"Bring those girls back in here and tell their mothers why." Benson tells us next.

I ask "should we call Barbara too?"

Benson explains "both of the girls are under 14 years old. Zoe lived. They can't be tried as adults." She exhales once "i'll call corporation council."

"I'll call Zoe's mom, you call Perry's." Rollins tells Amaro and the two of them go off.

I make my way to find Carisi, wanting to help if Charlie got anxious again. I slow my walk as I get closer, listening to their conversation. "You really are a good samaritan. You saved that girl Zoe."

Charlie stutters back "so- so, so I can I can leave now?"

Carisi tells him straight up "you did violate your parole"

"Don't- - don't send me back to Attica." Charlie begs.

"I won't, but you know you can't just go back to the woods, so how about we get you in a program Maybe we get you on some meds? I know how you feel about that, but you just got to trust me on this, okay, Charlie?" He asks him kindly. "Do you think you can do that?"

Charlie eventually answers "for a while, yeah."

"Good man." Carisi tells him. "Take a seat and I'll make some calls." He directs and moves to head back out. When he comes out the door I look at him with a smirk "what?" He asks back shrugging.

"Nothing. I think it's sweet you how you want to help him." I confide.

He responds back "it's the right thing to do. Even through his crazy episodes, he did the right thing. He deserves another chance."

I nod back "you're right little brother, he does." I use the knickname Charlie called him in the woods to get back at the him for calling me Maddy earlier.

He chuckles "it doesn't bother me like it bothers you Maddison."

"We'll see!" I laugh back and go over where Amanda is hanging up the phone to hear what Zoe's mom said to having them come to the station.

The next day I watch Carisi and Rollins interview Mia, I go in with Benson to interview Perry afterwards. Benson starts off the interview harsh "Mia is blaming you, Perry. She said that stabbing Zoe was your idea."

I add on to her, taking a seat at the table "what we don't understand is why you would want to hurt your friend's little sister?"

"It wasn't my idea." She argues back.

"All right, you want to tell us what really happened?" Benson directs.

"I was simply following orders." She responds

I ask "whose orders?"

"Glasgowman." She says his name as if it's the only one she's ever wanted to say. "He comes to me at night. We communicate. He stared into my eyes and told me my mission. If I failed, he was going to take my breath away at midnight." Her voice starts to get shaky. "I had to prove my loyalty."

"Perry, where are you getting this?" Her mom asks in a high pitched voice.

Benson puts her arm up towards her mom "let her talk. Perry, how did you prove your loyalty?"

"I had to take innocent blood. Okay." She squeals.

I ask the obvious "whose blood?"

"Zoe." She admits. "That's how you get to be a proxy. But when Zoe was lying there Bleeding, I didn't feel Glasgowman's presence. I started to doubt." Her voice lowers "that's why she survived. He must have switched the plan.

I ask another question, keeping her talking "okay, so what did the plan become?"

She goes on willingly "he led us to the gatehouse In the form of a cat, but I mean, I knew it was him because he had Glasgowman's eyes, and when I looked into them He told me to murder Mia." Her eyes are filled with tears.

Benson encourages her to continue "well, then what happened?"

"The cat was glaring so powerfully, trying to make this hypnotic connection. I couldn't take it, so I stabbed it through the heart because I didn't want to kill my friend. Glasgowman tricked me." She pleads us to believe her.

"I swear this isn't my daughter." Her mother shakes and steps away from the table "I've never heard her talk like this before."

"Can I have a moment with my client and, uh, her mother?" Their lawyer asks.

We both know we have to leave so we step out and talk with everyone else, along with a counselor from family court. "Counselor, what do you think?" Benson asks.

"First impression she's not competent to stand trial." She tells us.

I shake my head disagreeing "for what it's worth, there was no sign of this behavior before she knew that we were onto her."

The women disagrees "she took two girls into the woods, stabbed one, stabbed herself, killed a cat. I'd call at least one of those a sign.

"And we don't think Mia is involved?" Rollins asks.

Carisi shakes his head "Nah. I have an easier time believing that she's under Perry's spell. She's scared to death. I have a hard time believing that she stabbed her own sister and left her for dead."

Benson exhales with frustration "what do you recommend?"

"Do you have any proof of conspiracy emails, texts, posting on social media?" She asks.

"No. No, we don't." Carisi answers instantly.

The counselor tells us her plan "I'll order a psych eval, see where we are."

Within a week the evaluation comes back and the case moves to family court. At the hearing, the judge determined the sentence for the girls. Mia was released to her mother and Perry was sentenced to a hospital ward until she is no longer a danger to herself or others. Some people in the department think her sentencing was a joke, but others agree with it. We move forward with work, letting the case of these young girls fall behind us.