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All characters portrayed in this story are completely fictitious. Any similarity or resemblance whatsoever to any persons living or dead is purely coincidental and is completely unintentional.
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Police & Justice
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Victims of Special Crimes Unit
Part 1 - Jenson and Collins
"In the offender judiciary administration, sexual crimes are treated as particularly atrocious. In New York City, the committed investigators who probe these savage violations are part of an elect division called the VSC Unit. These are their stories, some of their more... intimate, erotic, and private stories... of their personal lives!"
As the title screen...
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Victims of Special Crimes Unit
Fades the show opens with the 'Dun-Dun' sound which is a combination of the sound of a jail door slamming shut as well as the sound of a man hitting an anvil with a hammer...
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DARK BACK ALLEY STREET
JUST OFF 9TH AVENUE
MANHATTAN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
A lone figure, a police woman, sits in the darkness of an unmarked and very non-descript car, partially hidden in the even darker nighttime shadows of a back alley street, somewhere in Manhattan's southern district. It's a very quiet night here, save for the soft, distant sounds of a little traffic and some car horns on 9th avenue a little ways away. This is Octavia Jenson, Captain of the VSC, which is short for Victims of Special Crimes, of New York City's NYPD's Manhattan Borough, as the five major political districts of New York are referred to among the police in NYC.
Captain Jenson runs the VSC, a five member squad, including captain Jensen herself and also consisting of....
Sargeant Oleng Futola, a former street hardened gangster himself who previously worked undercover as a detective in Brooklyn narcotics before joining VSC and quickly becoming a valued member of the squad, being promoted to Sargeant, and a now close personal friend and trusted confidant of Captain Jenson. Futola is known as a good cop and a very good guy, but also someone tough who you don't want to screw with if you're a low life perp, like a girl pushing pimp, a drug dealing scum bag or a member of the local street gangs like the Manhattan Borough's infamous MX6.
Supervising Detective Belinda Collins, a sweet southern Georgia peach of a woman, beautiful and slender with long straight blonde hair, also tough, who had arrived at VSC a few years ago from Georgia and proven herself to be a good cop and who has also become a close, personal and very trusted friend of Captain Jenson's in her time at VSC.
Junior Detective Nick Velez who grew up in Ciudad JuΓ‘rez, Mexico, violent cartel gang territory. After getting mixed up with gang members, he crossed the border when he was 14 and eventually came to New York, where he later joined the force and became a deep undercover agent, before eventually moving to Captain Jenson's VSC Unit. With a reputation for possibly being somewhat rogue, Velez is really just a tough street hardened cop who's really seen it all and has had to learn to play more by the rules and follow protocol since joining VSC.
And the newest member of VSC junior Detective Carol Malone, who lives in a house with her brother in Queens. Before she was added to Jenson's team, she was part of the Bronx gang unit. Detective Malone has only been with VSC for a short time and is still learning her place in the squad.
On this particular evening Captain Jenson is closely following the work of Detective Belinda Collins. Collins is working undercover with Detective Rena Santiago who's on liaison from Brooklyn gangs squad. The VSC and Brooklyn Borough have discovered that a prostitution ring VSC is investigating, a sex crime, has ties to some well known Brooklyn street gangs, so VSC and Brooklyn gangs are working together on this case now. Although Collins is a close personal friend and trusted confidant of Captain Jenson's, there's just been something a little off in her reports lately.
Unexplained missing pieces of time, forty minutes here, an hour there. It might be no big deal. But the fact is, Collins has somewhat of a checkered past during her time here with VSC, she perviously struggled with a gambling problem, causing her to get into deep debt with some very dangerous sharks, for which Sergeant Futola discretely came to her rescue, a fact which they probably thought Captain Jenson didn't know about. But Jenson is smart and has been both a very sharp detective in and captain of VSC for too long to not know what's going on in her squad.
Add to that the fact Collins had also struggled with something of a little drinking problem and depression at that same time. Collins had gotten herself straightened out very well since those days, proving herself to be a very reliable detective, a very good cop and becoming a very close trusted personal friend of Captain Jenson's in that same amount of time too. But if something was going on Jenson wanted to get out ahead of it, especially if it meant her friend Collins might be in need of some kind of help again, and maybe just a little too proud to ask for it.
So she is out here tonight not to keep tabs on Collins, who she does trust, but to see if there is something up in her squad she should know about and to maybe look out for her friend if there's some reason she needs to. It's a little past ten pm and it's the time of night their operation is supposed to be winding down for the evening, which is usually about the time of night in Collins' reports lately when a certain piece of time seems to go missing unexplainably.
So Jenson has made sure to get herself here, parked discretely, just a few minutes early so she can observe Detectives Collins and Santiago as they close their operation for the night. They are inside of a dirty run down apartment complex meeting with a couple of possible informants, current or former prostitutes, who may be able to provide valuable information on their current investigation, interviewing them and trying to gather any evidence they can.
A few minutes after ten thirty pm a woman emerges from the building into the dark night, gets into a car and drives away. Captain Jenson recognizes her from their case files as Maggie Ames, one of their potential informants. A few minutes later Detectives Collins and Santiago emerge and get into their car. Jenson thinks they are going to head back to VSC, log any evidence they've gathered and check in and then go home for the evening.
But instead they turn their car around in a u turn, almost catching her in their headlights as they pass by so that she has to duck down real quick to keep out of sight, and head west up nineteenth street, driving in the opposite direction from VSC. Where are they going she wonders, puzzled. Jenson waits until they are just barely still in sight and then starts her own car and drives discretely after them, staying far behind enough to just barely keep them in her sights.
As she tails them carefully they wind their way through the darkened back streets of this district to an equally seedy area of town, a place of pimps, pushers and midnight motel meetings which Captain Jenson knows all too well from her own days as a detective in VSC, before she was promoted to captain herself when captain Ronald Pragen retired. Finally arriving at a dimly lit cheap flop house of a motel called the Shadz Inn, Collins and Santiago park and go inside.
They might be here to interview a night clerk about possible sightings of suspects, but if they're actually looking for a specific perp they should at least call her to let her know or call Sargeant Futola for backup, that's standard protocol at VSC. But they don't even do that, they just skip the front desk lobby and go straight down the walkway out front, past all the room doors to a room they already apparently have a key to and slip inside, closing the door behind them.