PREVIOUSLY ON SVU
"Amanda Rollins." Said a familiar voiced. She turned her head up and saw Lt. Murphy.
"What do you want?" she asked.
"What are you doing here? Going undercover for Olivia?" he questioned.
"No. Can't a girl just have a drink at a bar?"
"I guess, but I have my eyes on you." He said walking away with his friends behind him.
"Zara! Where are you?!" he shouted again. Seconds later Zara come running out from the hallway. She ran up to her dad.
"It's mommy, somethings happened to her!" she told him.
"Anybody her from Nick?" she asked both Amanda and Fin.
"He's at the hospital. His ex-wife got attacked last night." Fin informed her.
"I hope everything is all right." Olivia told Fin. Fin's desk phone rang and he answered it.
"Detective Tutuola." He said.
"Alright thank you." Fin said hanging up.
"CSU has confirmed that it was a suicide, they'll send the information to us within the hour." Fin told Olivia.
NOW ON SVU
"You sure you want to go another round with beating?" the bar tender asked her.
"Yeah, I need to make up for the money I owe somebody." She said looking at him then looking back down on the counter.
"Okay." He said not wanting to know her story. The bar tender flip a few cards.
"Hit me." She said again and held the glass of alcohol in her hand. He flip over the next card. The bar tender starred at her. She looked up.
"Hit me." She continued to say.
"You sure?" the bar tender asked while hesitant to flip the cards again.
"Yes, so hit me again." She told him as he flipped the card over once again.
SVU
"Is she ever going to be on time again this week?" Olivia asked Fin.
"I don't know. I'll give her a call." Fin said.
"No need to." Olivia said nudging Fin as Amanda came walking in.
"You go to the Pub last night?" Olivia immediately asked her while she sat down and then put her face in her hands. Then she looked at Liv.
"Yeah, I went. There was nothing to report." She replied rubbing her head.
"Didn't get enough sleep?" Fin asked.
"I just don't feel that great that's all." Amanda told him while going to work. Olivia went over to Nick.
"How's Maria?"
"I don't really know. I mean she says she's fine but she probably isn't. She was raped and abused and I don't know what to do. She won't even look at me. I have to keep Zara away from the hospital… she wants to know why mommy is like this and I just come up with another lie after lie." Nick explained.
"Is there anything I can do?"
"Could you investigate? Maybe you could get her to talk?" Nick suggested.
"I would be happy to. Rollins you want to come?" Olivia asked.
"Yeah sure." Amanda told her while getting up to grab her coat. Amanda and Olivia left the station and headed to the hospital.
QUEEN MERCY HOSPITAL
"Maria I need your statement." Sergeant Benson said while standing next to Maria's bedside. Maria's face was all burse up and she could barely open her right eye.
"I-I can't." Maria responded.
"Maria I know you don't want to. But we have to find this guy. Okay? I'm doing this for Nick so I need you to tell me what he did to you." Olivia said again.
"He r-raped m-me." Maria said stumbling over the words.
"Okay, okay, that's a good start. What else? What do you remember?"
"He had on a m-mask and he was w-white."
"And?"
"Black j-j-jacket. Blue glo-ves." She said.
"Anything else?" Benson asked her. She shook her head.
"N-n-no." Maria replied. Olivia took her hand.
"We will find him." She said then left.
SVU Station
"This case sounds really familiar. I think I did a similar one back at Atlanta PD." Amanda had informed them.
"Remember anything?" Finn asked her.
"Yeah, the mask, blue gloves, the bruises and marks on her body, they're the same as the other victims that I remember coming into Atlanta PD." Rollins replied.
"Well… if I am allowed, could I go to Nick's apartment and investigate the place? Most times, he leaves the same message." Rollins asked.
"Same message?" Olivia questioned.
"It depends on his victim but they all mean the same thing. If this is the same guy, I'm gonna have to get permission to re-open the case. It's about 7 years old." Rollins explained.
"7 years old?" Olivia exclaimed.
"Yes, it's a cold case. We never managed to catch him. Maria isn't his first victim and won't be his last until we find him… this guy… he's a rapist. Sells girls and women. I remember the first one. It was a hard enough case for APD back then. Chief—"she stopped at the word Chief Patton.
"Chief did what? Didn't want to investigate?" Olivia asked.
"Yeah, he said we don't investigate rapes and never really did anything about it. We received about five reports of the same attacker. Then another couple from other states. Now he's made his way to New York." Rollins went on saying.
"Go to Nick's investigate." Benson ordered. Amanda grabbed her car keys and coat and headed to Nick's Apartment.
Apartment of Nick Amaro.
YOU WILL NEVER LIVE, NOBODY EVER WILL. THIS IS HAPPENING, YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.
Amanda continued to shine her light at the wall. It was him. The same guy from APD. The same exact message. She never did figure out what was meant by 'this is happening'.