Angels (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)

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Angels is an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It originally aired on November 1, 2002.^[2]

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An unidentified boy is found unconscious (and later dead) in the luggage compartment of a motorcoach bus, and bruising is found all over his body. Benson and Stabler then go back to the crime scene and find a piece of another boy’s shirt caught in a hole in the fence by the buses’ parking lot, as well as a teddy bear that the boy was holding (which has dried blood on it). The detectives watch the bus’ security tapes from the previous night, where they see the victim walking with the boy whose shirt was torn.

At the morgue, Benson and Stabler learn that the boy had implanted teeth that cost about $10,000, and the odontologist (Dr. Kamens) informs them that the dentist’s signature should be on them. Afterwards, another bus driver recognizes the second kid from his torn shirt, and then the detectives use a detection dog to eventually find the boy (Ernesto Diaz), who pleads that he wants to go home. He tells Benson and Stabler that the deceased boy is his friend José, and that they both came via boat from Guatemala to go to school, but instead they were given to a child molester (Bret Jansen) who would beat them if they refused to have sex with him. The detectives search Jansen’s apartment (which is soundproofed and has magnetic locks on all the doors), and they eventually find him dead, with his throat slit and having been castrated.

Dr. Huang then suggests that Olivia give Ernesto much approval because he was abused by a man, and Ernesto eventually tells her that Jansen passed him around to other pedophiles. Munch and Fin then show a videotape of Jansen and a friend with a tattoo molesting another boy, as well as NAMBLA brochures. They then interview José’s dentist (Walt Massey) while Benson and Stabler interview Jansen’s secretary, who seems confused when they mention Jansen’s two sons. They then interview Jansen’s friends Dr. Lynch (a hand surgeon) and Tony Damon (a travel agent), and Damon tells them that Jansen joked that he should have cut off Damon’s genitals; Dr. Warner later clarifies that Jansen’s genitals were actually excised, and that the killer thus had medical knowledge.

After Ernesto identifies Dr. Lynch as his doctor, Munch goes undercover and catches Damon trying to send him on a trip to the Philippines to rape children. During interrogation, Damon insists that he isn’t a NAMBLA member, and then he says that Dr. Lynch killed Jansen and that Lynch’s videotape of his trip is in the mail. The detectives go to Lynch’s house and find him watching the tape, which shows him and another boy. Lynch insists that his sons are legally adopted, but the adoption papers turn out to be forgeries.

After Dr. Lynch is accused of smuggling the boys into the country himself, he admits that Damon actually did so. He is then accused of killing Jansen, but Lynch claims he was in Rochester. After Lynch's alibi cleared him, the detectives focus on Dr. Massey, who would have attained knowledge on excision in dental school. Benson and Stabler interview Dr. Massey’s wife Laura, who reveals that Walt is the stepfather of her two sons, but she also states that although they never have sex, he spends a lot of time with her son Shawn.

Shawn confesses to Stabler that Walt molests him often; then Walt is brought into an interrogation room. Stabler tricks him into thinking that he agrees that statutory rape is an overreaction; then he says that he doesn’t believe that Walt would abuse his sons. Then he points out the tattoo on Walt’s arm that he saw on the videotape, as well as glass from Jansen’s window that he found in Walt’s sneaker, and he charges Walt with killing Jansen and abusing Shawn.

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Stabler: Stewart Lynch has three sons; all adopted; he’s never been married. He’s the head of reconstructive surgery at Chelsea Hospital. He’s known for operating on disfigured kids in Third World countries.

Munch: In his spare time, he sews up his friends’ slave boys. The guy’s a real humanitarian.

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[edit] External links

• "Angels" at the Internet Movie Database
• "Angels" at TV.com