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Part 1
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The episode opens in May 2001. Rosie Miles and her
six year old daughter Toya are going to bed. Toya is
scared. There's a knock on their apartment door.
Someone enters and it sounds like they are headed for
the bedroom door. The next shot shows Rosie and Toya
coming through the glass window and falling to the
pavement below. They lie there unconscious and
bleeding. The case box is filed in the vault under
Miles, Toya.

Present day, Stillman tells Lilly that Rosie Miles
woke up from her coma. Scotty joins them and tells
Lilly that ADA Kite was asking about her. Lilly seems
uncomfortable and changes the subject back to Rosie.
Stillman wants them to look into her daughter's (Toya)
death since Rosie woke up. The Detective originally
assigned the case had few leads - a black man was seen
running from the scene that night.

Lilly and Scotty head to the hospital to talk to
Rosie. Unfortunately, Rosie has no memory of the
night she and Toya went out the window. She tells
Lilly that she remembers "bruises and butterflies."
She says the man in the bedroom hurt Toya, but she
doesn't remember the man. She doesn't know yet that
Toya died.

Down in the vault, Lilly, Scotty, and Stillman go
through the case box from 2001. The assigned thought
it was a burglary gone bad. There was forced entry
and a missing VCR. Lilly tells Stillman that Rosie
has no memory of that night. According to her doctor,
she is suffering from emotional memory loss.

Lilly and Scotty visit Child and Family Services and
speak with Rosie's case worker Mr. Freely. He tells
them that Rosie got a DUI, but cleaned up after that.
He made unannounced home visits, and everything always
checked out. He never noticed any bruises on Toya.

Vera and Jeffries visit Toya's teacher. She tells
them that she last saw Rosie and Toya the night of the
play. The kids were doing "Flight of the Monarch
Butterflies" like they do every year. Toya was
dressed up with her butterfly wings and singing on
stage (note: the lyrics in the song include the words
"fly away"). The teacher saw Rosie in the audience
crying. She doesn't know what about. She says that
Toya always had clean clothes, and she never noticed a
mark on her. She believes Rosie was a good mother.

Lilly and Scotty go to the apartment that Rosie used
to rent. The landlady tells them that no one has
rented it, but her brother stayed there for a little
while. Lilly takes pictures, and notices a small hole
on the wall near the ceiling in the bedroom. There is
a matching hole in the living room. The landlady
tells them that she saw a black man running from the
building the night Toya died. She tells them that she
believes that Toya slept on the couch b/c Rosie had
men come up and stay with her often. She tells Lilly
that she didn't pass judgment like Lilly is now. The
landlady says that the man she saw running from the
scene was not a boyfriend b/c she had rules against
her tenants dating black men. She believes that the
man she saw that night murdered Toya.

Back at the police station, Lilly tells Stillman that
she's not getting anywhere with the bruises. Vera and
Jeffries tell them that CSU traced the holes in the
wall and black marks from the original crime photos to
cables used for a VCR/television and video camera.
The question is, what was Rosie taping in her bedroom.
Scotty wonders if she was blackmailing married men
with the tapes she was making, but her bank account
had less than $200 in it. Lilly points out that you
can't have too much in the bank and still receive
public assistance. Vera and Jeffries look into pawn
shops that might have seen equipment with Rosie's
make/model.

[Naj]

Part 2


Lilly and Scotty look through Rosie's things that her
landlady has stored for her. Lilly confesses that she
doesn't like Rosie b/c she got a DUI with Toya in the
car. She believes that Toya had a rough life before
her death. Scotty finds an address book among Rosie's
stuff. There's a page missing, and he decides to have
CSU look at it. An expert runs the page after the
missing page through a new machine they got, and it
reads out the imprint left from the missing page. It
has the name Angel and a phone number.

Lilly and Scotty head out, but run into Vera and
Jeffries. They found the missing VCR and camera at a
pawn shop. It was sold at the pawn shop by someone
named Angel about a year after Toya's death. Angel is
a janitor at Toya's old school. Lilly and Scotty find
him mopping at the school. He denies knowing Rosie,
but after they tell him that they know his mom is here
illegally he cooperates. He says that he and Rosie
used to date, but he broke it off. He saw her the
night of the play. She was outside on a pay phone
crying about someone hurting her and Toya. She wanted
Angel's help, but he refused. She told him that she
had a tape, and she would show it to his girlfriend.
Later that night, Angel busted into her apartment
while Rosie and Toya were eating in the kitchen. He
grabbed the VCR and camera and then he grabbed a tape.
Rosie pleaded with him not to take "that tape." It
was the last time he saw her. He kept the tape.

Lilly and Scotty take the tape to the hospital to show
Rosie. On the tape, there is a pony tailed man seen
from behind approaching Toya. Toya backs up slowly
and he keeps approaching her. The tape cuts off.
Rosie doesn't know who the man was or what was going
on. She doesn't remember Angel either, but she does
remember that the bedroom on the tape was Toya's.
Lilly keeps pushing her, but she gets upset and gives
up b/c she says there's no point in remembering.

Vera and Jeffries find a large sum of money in Rosie's
account. It just appeared since she woke up from the
coma. They trace the name of the man who made the
deposit and find that he is Rosie's father.

Lilly and Scotty go back to Child and Family Services
looking for evidence of sexual abuse with Toya. Mr.
Freely directs them to the files with all the cases in
them. Lilly knows exactly where to go. She goes to
"M" for Miles, and digs in. Scotty notices her
familiarity with the system and points out her
knowledge of public assistance. She tells him, "Ellen
Rush - two dependents." She finds a file under Miles.
She opens it and there's a picture of a little girl
with bruises all over her arms. It's not Toya, but
Rosie.

Lilly interrogates Rosie's father at the police
station. She keeps telling him to hit her since he
likes hitting girls so much. She reads back what he
did to Rosie, including giving her gonorrhea at age
eight. She tells him that she knows that Rosie called
him from a pay phone at the school. He insists that
she was talking crazy about someone hurting her and
Toya. He tells Lilly that he has changed. He went to
see Rosie and Toya that night to apologize to Rosie.
He waited outside in his car trying to get up the
nerve to go in. He saw a pizza delivery man enter the
building. The man was black.

Lilly and Scotty go back to the hospital to ask Rosie
about the pizza delivery man. She doesn't remember
him coming that night. Lilly implies that she might
have been seeing him. Rosie tells them that Toya
loved her butterfly wind chimes. According to Rosie,
the man who made them used to come by at night a lot.
Outside the hospital, Scotty confronts Lilly about her
harsh treatment toward Rosie. She says, "did your
mother ever forget to feed you because she was too
drunk or tired or out looking for a man? Toya's a
dime a dozen. Unwanted kid. Mom runs out of food
stamps and makes an excuse why there's no dinner
tonight. Oh, and no breakfast either, so thank God
for the free cornflakes at school if you get there
early. And maybe some kid will give you scraps out of
his lunch box later on." She tells him that there
were no good times with her mom.

[Naj]

Part 3


The next day, Lilly and Scotty take Rosie back to her
old apartment to see if she will remember what
happened that night. Lilly walks her into Toya's
bedroom. She keeps seeing Toya in butterfly wings.
Scotty enters the room and startles her. Rosie
explains that "he" was standing right there just like
Scotty. Lilly asks who "he" is, but Rosie doesn't
remember. She suddenly remembers that Toya was hiding
in the closet drawing. Scotty goes into the closet
and says that he knows who "he" is - Toya drew a
picture of a pony tailed man and wrote "Mr. Freely"
next to it on the wall.

They bring Mr. Freely into the police station. Lilly
plays the tape, but he denies that he did anything
wrong. She gets angry and tells him that she has the
tape to prove that he was going to abuse Toya. She
tells him that he was like God to these women, and he
took advantage of his position with "their pretty
little girls." She tells him that all the other women
and their children that he abused are on the other
side of the glass waiting to give their statements.
The shot shows the other side of the glass and the
only thing there is an empty room. Mr. Freely buys
Lilly's fib, and tells her that it doesn't matter that
he abused the little girls b/c they're all trailer
trash anyway. He went to Rosie's apartment the
morning before Toya died to do a random check. Rosie
was in the shower, so Toya let him in. He followed
her to her room and told her she was pretty. Toya
backed up slowly, but he kept following her. He
started to touch her face, but Rosie came in and
yelled at him to leave her alone. She wanted to
report him, but he threatened her and told her that he
would tell the board that she was drinking again (a
lie) and they would take Toya away. She apologized,
but he left telling her to "just wait until you hear
the knock on the door" b/c he's coming for Toya.

Vera and Jeffries tracked down a name that they found
on the wind chimes. They were made by a Philip
Williams. He worked at Toya's school making arts and
crafts for the kids. He also worked as a pizza
delivery man. Lilly and Scotty find him in a pool bar
shooting pool. He tells them that he knew this day
would come. He knew Toya from school. He used to
bring her and Rosie leftovers from the pizza place he
worked at back then. He knew that Rosie didn't have a
lot of money, so he wanted to help. He went to their
apartment that night to bing them the leftovers. When
he got there, the door was busted open, but he knocked
anyway. No one answered, so he entered and walked
down the hall to the bedroom door. He heard glass
break, so he opened the door. When he looked in the
room, no one was there.

Lilly goes back to the hospital to talk to Rosie. She
tells her that she knows that Rosie didn't mean to do
what she did, and the ADA would not press charges
against her. Lilly assures her that she'll find her a
place to go until she gets back on her feet. Rosie
starts to cry and she remembers what happened that
night. When she heard Philip knocking, she assumed it
was Mr. Freely coming back to take Toya. In a panic,
she grabbed Toya and jumped out of the window.

The closing montage is to DJ Sammy's (featuring Yanou)
"Heaven (Candlelight Mix)." Lilly comforts Rosie,
Rosie's father sits alone in a bar looking at a
picture of himself and Rosie as a young girl, Lilly
walks past a line of sad children at the police
station to give their statements about Mr. Freely, she
comes to a room where a little girl with a tear
rolling down her face identifies Mr. Freely behind the
glass, Lilly exits the room once the girl has made the
identification, Lilly helps Rosie walk outside in the
snow to a van that is waiting to take her to a safe
place, and Lilly sits alone at home in her window sill
watching home movies of her and her mother making snow
angels.