After the commercial, a Bai Ling manqué with a bicep bracelet and mental patient bangs is entering Cap'n Cragen's office. She asks if he's with immigration. No, Cragen just wants to hear about Frank Martin. Long story short: Bai Not Ling met Martin at a party where she was a paid submissive. He asked if she was into high-risk sex, which she was not. Two days later he called her and threatened to have her deported back to Vietnam if she didn't meet him for some games. He tried choking her, she was scared, he promised it would be okay, he put a belt around her neck, she blacked out, he was gone when she woke up. Cragen's brow is furrowed more than normal during this excruciating scene, and all he can say to her is "I see." Good job, Muppety Bastard.
We do the non-chung over to Martin Global Fund, Inc. Instead we have a funky sex-crimes rock tune to show us Benson, Stabler, Cassidy, and Munch walking through the deserted halls of Martin Global to Frank Martin's office, which contains a giant pile of shredded paper. Bummer.
Cop shop. Cragen says, "The feds don't give a damn about the dead girl. The financial fraud got their motor running." Munch says the FBI is the hired gun of The Powers That Be. Um, okay. Cassidy attempts to jump in with, "Fronting for the trilateral council, the World Bank, and the Mansons." "The Masons," corrects Cragen. Aw, Cassidy's so cute. Anyway, Martin's still the chief suspect, and Benson thinks that to find him they've got to follow the diamonds. Stabler observes that "$9 million in diamonds is an albatross if you can't cash them out." Cragen tells them to canvass the diamond dealers as Research Jeffries comes in carrying, you guessed it, a big pile of files. She's cracked the damn case, y'all! Well, maybe not so much, but she did get in touch with a woman whose case she once worked, who works at the State Insurance Company. It turns out the cops aren't the only ones investigating Martin: "The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance was all over him like a cheap suit." Apparently, they even sent up an auditor four months ago. Can you guess who we'll meet next?













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