Over in Cragen's office, Amy is telling the Cap'n, Munch, and Cassidy, "They said I wouldn't get into trouble if I told the truth." Munch explains to Cragen that Martin went to Amy when he was out of money. Cragen guarantees Amy full immunity. Amy tells of how she first met Frank at happy hour, how she and her friends would go and try to get jobs from drunken businessmen. "Frank was always in control, but little did I know." Munch and Cassidy ask if he every tried his little strangulation-for-kicks trick on her. "Hell, no!" she answers. "I don't mind a little recreational spankies, being tied up, playful stuff, so he quickly lost interest in me. He liked the thrill of controlling women who struggled against him. The sick bastard." She starts crying as she gets to the big plot revelation. "He told me he and his HOMEBOY Tucker used to tie farm girls to trees and sit in the woods just laughing -- getting off on watching them struggle." All ears in the room have pricked up at the mention of Tucker's name, and Cragen realizes that Martin was from Tennessee too. Amy's full of sickening information. "Yeah, but they never got into trouble because they were minors at the time. And besides, as he says, 'they were only colored girls.'" Ugh. Anyone else ready to hurl? Munch adds, "The chivalry part comes in where they let them go rather than leave them there and let them die of exposure and humiliation." Cragen points out that this happy little bedtime tale doesn't help with the murder investigation. Amy takes some papers from her purse that she says will help.
In the interrogation room, Stabler has the file in Martin's face, telling him, "No, Frank, you called Tucker." Martin says Tucker called him. Stabler says no, Martin called Tucker, and says the records show he called at 8:22.













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