Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Spellbound (2017)

Ice-T: Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola

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• Odafin Tutuola : NYPD.

  Declan Trask : What's going on?

  Amanda Rollins : Look deep into my eyes. You're under arrest.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : Why do I get the feeling this guy's shoes cost more than my rent?

  Odafin Tutuola : Because they do. Dude comes from real money. His dad's that hedge fund guy, Tate Trask.

  Amanda Rollins : And look what I pulled.

  Olivia Benson : [reading a newspaper blurb]  "From notorious party boy to Shaman of the rich and famous, Declan Trask changed his life and now he wants to change yours. A host of followers who pay..."

  [in disbelief] 

  Olivia Benson : "$5,000 for a weekend with him say that he can."

  Amanda Rollins : There's a sucker born every minute.

  Odafin Tutuola : Yeah, but everybody needs something. My ex made me go on a Reiki retreat to clear my energy.

  Olivia Benson : And how'd that work out for you?

  Odafin Tutuola : It made me realize it was time for us to break up.

  Olivia Benson : [amused laugh]  Okay.

  Odafin Tutuola : You ever do anything like that, Liv?

  Olivia Benson : Uh, no. Anyone who claims that they can change your life in a weekend can't. So, Rollins and Carisi, talk to the Shaman to get his side of the story.

• Olivia Benson : Okay, this is horrifyingly familiar.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : And she was tested for drugs and alcohol. She was totally clean, just like Abby.

  Odafin Tutuola : Maybe he put something undetecable in the water.

  Rafael Barba : I think he slipped something undetectable in his words. Neuro-linguistic programming.

  Odafin Tutuola : Neuro-linguistic what?

  Olivia Benson : Are you suggesting that she was hypnotized?

  Rafael Barba : Exactly.

• Declan Trask : I'm flattered you think my words wield so much power, but, you know, that's absurd.

  Odafin Tutuola : Well, it didn't sound so absurd when you were talking to your friend Jack Roe.

  Olivia Benson : See, 'cause we have you on tape saying "Hypnosis can lead to sex. It's not a big deal. I'm just helping a woman get what she really wants."

  Declan Trask : Uh, I wasn't speaking about myself personally. I was trying to reassure a friend.

  Olivia Benson : What about Rachel Sykes? Were you just trying to reassure her, too?

  Declan Trask : I think it's best if I talk to my attorney.

  Odafin Tutuola : If you lawyer up, I can pretty much tell you this is going to trial.

  Declan Trask : Do you really think a jury's gonna believe that I... that me, Declan Trask, hypnotized Abby to... to, what, to have sex with her?

  Olivia Benson : A, what you did wasn't sex. That's called rape. And B, yes, I really think the jury will believe it. So, Fin, can you please escort Mr. Declan Trask to Rikers?

• Olivia Benson : It seems possible. I mean, the victims' stories are basically the same. The way he talked to them, massaging their temples. I mean, the elements are all there.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Hold on. Isn't hypnotism, like, a carnival trick, though? This... this seems out there to me.

  Odafin Tutuola : Uh, my cousin quit smoking with hypnotheray. He was a pack a day guy. One session with a hypnotist, bang, he was clean.

  Rafael Barba : In Brooklyn, I had a hypnosis case. One of my first sexual assault trials - lost - broke the record for fastest felony acquittal. We made a strong case, but the judge never bought in.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : If the judge doesn't buy it, then the jury does the math.

  Rafael Barba : Trust me. I know this sounds crazy, but I've seen this. Trask used common hypnotheraputic methods on both those women. How do we prove it?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : We can't use Rachel Sykes. That criminal case was never filed, the civil suit was dismissed.

  Rafael Barba : No way a judge allows that in.

  Olivia Benson : Well, hold on. So we get into this case another way.

  Rafael Barba : First we have to prove that Trask knowingly used hypnosis to rape Abby.

  Amanda Rollins : Which means we need evidence that Trask even knows how to hypnotize.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, he must have learned how to do it somewhere.

  Olivia Benson : Yeah, so start digging.

• Amanda Rollins : According to witnesses, Trask had his eye on Abby the whole night.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : And he was hell-bent on getting her to take that drug, too.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, so he finds a vulnerable woman, convinces her to trust him, drugs her, and then he assaults her.

  Amanda Rollins : Wouldn't be the first to utilize that game plan.

  Odafin Tutuola : Rape kit and the tox results are in. Semen is a match to Trask, but there's a problem, Liv.

  Olivia Benson : What's up?

  Odafin Tutuola : No drugs, no Ayahuasca, no alcohol.

  Olivia Benson : So Abby's story doesn't add up. What are we missing?

• Declan Trask : With all due respect, I think you guys have got this wrong.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, so enlighten us. Tell us what we're missing.

  Declan Trask : I'm a healer, okay? My work is intimate by nature, and sometimes that intimacy leads to sex. Consensual sex. That's it.

  Odafin Tutuola : Then if it was so consensual and so simple, why did she come down to the precinct and tell us you raped her?

  Declan Trask : Great question. I wish I knew the answer. Look, I don't know. Maybe she had a change of heart or her boyfriend found out. I don't know.

  Olivia Benson : So you didn't hypnotize Abby? Put her into some sort of a trance? Incapacitate her in some way and then... and then assault her?

• Odafin Tutuola : How long are we gonna watch this guy hit on Rollins?

  Olivia Benson : We gotta wait till we have probable cause.