Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
We Dream of Machine Elves (2019)
Mariska Hargitay: Captain Olivia Benson
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Meghan Gale : Where am I? It's so light in here.
Olivia Benson : You're at Mercy Hospital in Manhattan.
Meghan Gale : New York? I'm still here?
Olivia Benson : Yeah.
Meghan Gale : I want to go home.
Olivia Benson : Can you tell us where your home is?
Meghan Gale : 190 Forest Avenue, Great Bend, Kansas. My name is Meghan Gale.
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Freja Bergdahl : There she is.
Olivia Benson : The giant stone woman.
Freja Bergdahl : Yes. Yes. We were here.
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Meghan Gale : Yeah, that's her. Anais.
Olivia Benson : Good, and... and she's the one who hailed the pedicab?
Meghan Gale : Yeah, she told him to take us to her place. There was an older man there. White beard, he was like a wizard. He was teaching.
Amanda Rollins : Teaching?
Meghan Gale : He said... "depression is the child of repression."
Olivia Benson : Okay, Meghan, are you getting tired?
Meghan Gale : No. No, no, no. I don't want to fall back asleep. What if I go back there? I don't want to go back to sleep.
Amanda Rollins : It's okay. It's okay. I'll... I'll stay with you.
Meghan Gale : Thank you.
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Rudy Syndergaard : Okay, well, your detective was right. There's a reason Meghan was so out of it.
Olivia Benson : Well, DMT.
Rudy Syndergaard : Yeah. Lab says a hundred times the usual dose. Also traces of ketamine.
Olivia Benson : Anything else?
Rudy Syndergaard : Well, if I had to guess, GHB.
Olivia Benson : So, too long ago to show on a tox screen. Thank you.
Rudy Syndergaard : Okay. One more thing. DMT overdose is not a regular Saturday night, so I called a Bellevue nurse I know to see if they had any cases. She said a girl was brought in two weeks ago, same tox screen.
Olivia Benson : Where can we find her?
Rudy Syndergaard : She's still there. Psych ward. Never came back.
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Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Two victims dosed with DMT?
Olivia Benson : Meghan Gale and Jane Doe. She was found two weeks ago, 6:00 a.m., wandering, wearing a sheet by the fountain at Rockefeller Center.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : How did we miss it?
Olivia Benson : The unis thought that she was homeless, an EDP. So they took her to the psych ward. And she hasn't uttered a coherent sentence since. Doctor says that she stays awake for days at a time. She might be afraid to sleep.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : We have no idea who she is?
Olivia Benson : Oh, no. There's no ID, there's no DNA, there's no missing persons. Now, the medical report shows signs of sexual assault, and from the tox screen, she was taking prescription antipsychotics.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : What are we looking at here?
Olivia Benson : It's a man-woman team who pick very young victims, take them to some group house, drug with DMT, rape them, and then... and then dump them in some public space.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Have you ever seen something like this before? Could it be some kind of cult?
Olivia Benson : I don't know. I mean, Meghan says that she remembers an older man talking to the group. She called him a wizard.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Until we have more answers, let's try and keep the details out of the press.
Olivia Benson : [checking her phone] Well, we may not be able to. Another victim just turned up. Central Park, off 5th Avenue.
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Freja Bergdahl : The trolls kept me in the dark. They held me down. They were inside me.
Amanda Rollins : Was anyone with the trolls?
Freja Bergdahl : A king. W-With a white beard. Like a John Bauer fairy tale. He ruled the house.
Olivia Benson : Tell me about the house. H-How did you get there?
Freja Bergdahl : It was bumpy.
Amanda Rollins : You were in a car?
Freja Bergdahl : Nej. A bicycle.
Olivia Benson : Okay. Good, Freja. Do you remember... you remember seeing anything else?
Freja Bergdahl : We went past a... a giant stone woman. And later, up a high stoop. Many stairs.
Amanda Rollins : Freja, you're an art student. All right, you think you can draw the... the woman and the trolls?
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Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Machine elves, Swedish trolls? So this girl was also drugged with DMT?
Olivia Benson : A huge dose, and ketamine.
Amanda Rollins : Both rape kits came back with semen from multiple donors. No hits.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : No criminal records, not DNA savvy. Led by a wizard? A king?
Amanda Rollins : Yeah, who has unlimited access to DMT, tougher to get than cocaine and meth.
Olivia Benson : You know, shamans in South America use it to access a higher dimension.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : So our wizard gets DMT through a religious group or medical research?
Olivia Benson : We're checking clinical trials to see if they've had any of the drugs stolen.
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Amanda Rollins : Freja remembered passing a huge stone woman. Maybe a hallucination.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Or not. What about the Bust of Sylvette? The Picasso statue.
Olivia Benson : By the I.M. Pei Towers. Okay, we'll start a canvass.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Why don't you put Freja in a car, drive her around, see what comes back?
Olivia Benson : Um, uh, she's... she's actually quite traumatized.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : I won't tell you how to do your job, Captain.
Olivia Benson : Thank you.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : But I know you'll be sensitive to her experience, and to our needs. We need a break.
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Meghan Gale : I saw a hawk above me. I tried to jump on its back and fly away... but my hands melted into the headboard.
Olivia Benson : So you were on a bed.
Meghan Gale : A woman brought me there. I thought she was helping me.
Amanda Rollins : How was she helping you?
Meghan Gale : She got us a chariot, without a horse.
Olivia Benson : What about the driver?
Meghan Gale : He sat on a leopard. He was nice. He gave me water.
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Olivia Benson : Machine elves?
Amanda Rollins : Yeah, I'm having 'em check for DMT. It's a common hallucinogen among users.
Olivia Benson : And a very powerful psychedelic. I... I haven't seen this in years.
Amanda Rollins : Well, she must have taken a massive dose for her to still be feeling symptoms.
Olivia Benson : So, do we know if she was assaulted?
Amanda Rollins : She's got ligature marks, she may be concussed. She's not lucid enough to consent to a rape kit.
Olivia Benson : Okay, well, the chief just called twice. So I need to figure out what we're looking at.
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Olivia Benson : [finding Adler's allegedly-deceased wife in a hospital psych ward] Adler did this to her.
Amanda Rollins : We don't know that.
Olivia Benson : I do. Hey, Rollins, I know that you have a blind spot for men that you think are smarter than you...
Amanda Rollins : No, I just want to ask him about his wife.
Olivia Benson : Can I... can I actually trust you with him?
Amanda Rollins : Who else is gonna get through? I mean, you, Fin, Carisi? Okay, he thinks... he thinks you're all so covered in armor that you'll never open up. No offense.
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Olivia Benson : Rollins, are you okay?
Amanda Rollins : Yeah, I didn't inhale.
Olivia Benson : Are you sure?
Anais Adler : Wait, you're a cop?
Katriona Tamin : Captain, everyone goes?
Olivia Benson : Everyone goes until we find out who's a vic and who's a perp.
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Olivia Benson : So, the brownstone here with the red door was bought 30 years ago by a foundation for radical therapy, and gifted to Julius Adler for his institute.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : He's the white-bearded wizard?
Amanda Rollins : Dr. Julius Adler, an esteemed professor of radical psychiatry at Tompkins Square, a prolific author, and...
Odafin Tutuola : And a freak. He uses psychedelics as a cure-all.
Amanda Rollins : In controlled, clinical studies.
Katriona Tamin : I ran the building. It's got nonprofit status. Seven complaints over the last year. Noise, kids partying, a cello being thrown out a third-story window.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : And both victims remember going into that brownstone? Can they ID him?
Olivia Benson : No, but Freja was clearly triggered. Now, she thinks she remembers the red door and the high stoop.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : She thinks. She also remembered trolls.
Katriona Tamin : There's reason to believe he has DMT and other psychedelics inside.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : But if he's running clinical trials, that may not be illegal.
Odafin Tutuola : Come on, Carisi, you can trust us.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : I do, Fin, but every time I go out on a limb for you guys, somebody saws it off. Look, it's an academic institute. I need some patina of probable cause.
Odafin Tutuola : Patina?
Katriona Tamin : That guy was really a cop?
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Dr. Julius Adler : So, where, uh did you go, Amanda?
Amanda Rollins : Excuse me?
Dr. Julius Adler : Well, I saw the light come on in your eyes, your soul leave its cage. You were on your journey. So I'm curious, where did you go?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : [watching with Benson] What the hell is he doing?
Olivia Benson : She's just letting him establish rapport.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Uh-huh. Who else did we pick up?
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Olivia Benson : You said that the house had a high stoop.
Freja Bergdahl : Mm-hmm.
[starting to panic]
Freja Bergdahl : Oh, I don't want to do this.
Olivia Benson : Freja, was it one of these?
Freja Bergdahl : With the red door.
Olivia Benson : Okay.
Freja Bergdahl : I have to go.
Olivia Benson : Listen to me. Listen to me, we're done. We're done. We're done. It's over, and you're safe. You're safe, okay? You're safe.
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Olivia Benson : So, Freja, is... is there anything else that you... that you remember passing?
Freja Bergdahl : [thinking] On the side of the road, a canopy of floating triangles.
Olivia Benson : Okay.
Freja Bergdahl : There! Those triangles.
Olivia Benson : That's the AIDS Memorial.
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Olivia Benson : [on the phone with Garland] Yes, Chief, she's an exchange student from Sweden. Her name is Freja Bergdahl. This one went missing two days ago. You know, the roommate says that she's a good kid, she's a grad student at Pratt, not a drug taker.
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Meghan Gale : It was dark. They held me down.
Olivia Benson : [taking her restraints off] Let's get these off her. Okay. Meghan, tell me about "they."
Meghan Gale : The machine elves. Before they came in, the room spun, and then flowers bursting. And all the eyes...
Amanda Rollins : The elves had eyes?
Meghan Gale : A hundred. Purple and yellow faces. Oh, and they crawled all over me, inside me.
Olivia Benson : Inside you how?
Meghan Gale : Like they were having sex with me. I tried to get away, to get to my friends.
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Deputy Chief Christian Garland : So, Adler's a false prophet. To paraphrase Joseph Campbell, the mystic swims in the same water in which the psychotic drowns.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Even so, his students still believe everything he feeds them.
Olivia Benson : And the daughter thinks he's a saint. The mother died when she was three, so he raised her.
Amanda Rollins : Something happened to Adler. Twenty years ago, he was one of the foremost authorities in liberation psychiatry.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Okay, well, whatever alternate reality he's in, this reality, he's guilty of either conspiracy to rape or sex trafficking.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : I agree. Charge him with both.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : How? Who am I gonna put on the stand? Caleb? Meghan and her elves?
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Charge Anais. Flip her.
Amanda Rollins : She won't turn on him. They're sutured.
Katriona Tamin : [on her phone] Or maybe that's just another alternate reality he's created. I found a marriage certificate. Adler married Kathleen Bell in '94, but no obituary, no death certificate.
Olivia Benson : Well, if she's not deceased... then where is she?
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Find out.
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Amanda Rollins : Adler swears there were no assaults.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, no surprise there. What do the victims say?
Olivia Benson : Uh, victim. Freja went back to Stockholm. So, Meghan IDed Anais and Caleb, and she remembers Adler giving a lecture.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : But after that, machine elves. We got any DNA hits from the men?
Olivia Benson : Not yet, but they're in front of it.
Amanda Rollins : And they claim it was a mutual psychonautic sexual exploration.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Wh... translation, consensual?
Amanda Rollins : Yeah.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Okay, so this guy claims academic freedom, but the truth is, he's a puppet master who gets his acolytes to rape and torture girls.
Amanda Rollins : I don't think that's what this is.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Oh, yeah? So Meghan wanted to dig her own grave, run around half-naked in a bed sheet?
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Odafin Tutuola : [watching a surveillance feed] How long are we gonna let this guy hit on Rollins?
Olivia Benson : We're gonna wait for probable cause.
Katriona Tamin : Or machine elves?
[seeing Benson's look]
Katriona Tamin : Sorry. I don't believe in regular psychiatry, let alone this.
Olivia Benson : I'm with Kat. Paying someone to listen to you talk?
Olivia Benson : Guys, please.
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Amanda Rollins : We could take a run at Adler, see if he gives us anything.
Olivia Benson : That's a good idea. Kat, Fin, you're off to see the wizard.
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Amanda Rollins : I heard Adler wasn't helpful.
Olivia Benson : Nope. But he did claim that so many students passed through the doors of his institute that he can't keep track of 'em.
Amanda Rollins : I, um, didn't want to get into it before, but back in Atlanta, when I was going through some stuff, I took some psych courses at Georgia State, and Adler was a guest professor. I'm telling you, this man... he's brilliant, empathically, a real healer. Whatever happened to those girls, I can't imagine how he'd be involved.
Olivia Benson : Rollins, I hear you. But you and I both know that that was a long time ago, and people change.
Amanda Rollins : They do. But it sounds like he still keeps an open door for his students. It couldn't hurt to make an approach.
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Doctor : Kathleen Bell Adler. Admitted in '97. She was a brilliant clinician until she was found naked in the middle of Harvard Square.
Olivia Benson : What was her diagnosis?
Doctor : Hallucinogenic-induced psychosis with underlying paranoid schizophrenia.
Amanda Rollins : Can she communicate?
Doctor : Intermittently. This week, she's been having agitated conversations with someone who's not there, about her daughter.
Olivia Benson : Her daughter doesn't know that her mother is even alive.
Doctor : Anais? Kathleen's worried about her.
Amanda Rollins : Does her husband, Dr. Adler, visit?
Doctor : No one's ever visited her.
Amanda Rollins : Ever?
Doctor : At least not since I've been on staff. That's going on 15 years now.
Amanda Rollins : What's her prognosis?
Doctor : After all this time here? No one re-integrates from that.
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Anais Adler : We're a family. Maybe not the Brady Bunch, but that was an artificial construct to make us all conform.
Katriona Tamin : Your father tell you that?
Anais Adler : And more. Every day since I was three, when my mother died. He sacrificed everything to take care of me. What he's built and taught. No one can take that away.
Katriona Tamin : Which is what, exactly?
Anais Adler : How to be whole. People come to him searching for an alternative path.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : So she's drunk the Kool-Aid, too. Do we have anybody else?
Olivia Benson : Caleb, the pedicab driver, and ten others who are all on video taking a hit from the pipe.
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Odafin Tutuola : What's up with that van? White male.
Katriona Tamin : Look like our pedicab driver?
Olivia Benson : Industrial tanks. Maybe ether?
Odafin Tutuola : I knew it. They're cooking their own drugs.
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Odafin Tutuola : [after Dr. Adler's mental break in the interrogation room] I've got an ambulance on the way.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Could this be an elaborate act?
Olivia Benson : If you ask me, he's just escaped.
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Anais Adler : Will she know who I am?
Doctor : She's been here 20 years. You can't expect too much.
Anais Adler : I didn't even know she was alive.
Amanda Rollins : The doctor understands.
Olivia Benson : And if-if... if you're not up for this, we can turn around right now.
Anais Adler : She's my mother.