'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' Season 14, Episode 15: 'Deadly Ambition' Recap

‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’, season 14, episode 15, ‘Deadly Ambition’

Officers Rollins and Tutuola fail a training session, learning the hard way to not assume the female is always the victim. In the shooting range, Rollins aces the target testing. (Amaro and Benson did pretty well, too. Tutuola, not so much.)

When she goes home that night she finds her sister Kim, battered and bruised. But she reveals that she’s pregnant, despite the beating by Jeff, her baby daddy. She has her sister sleep in her bed as she takes the couch.

Rollins comes in to work late, and the team all offer to help her out and get a restraining order against her sister’s abusive ex. Tutuola and Amaro track Jeff down and warn him to not go near her again.

Rollins takes her sister out baby shopping, but it isn’t long before Jeff shows up, demanding to talk to his fiancé… who apparently thought it was wise to check into FourSquare, so he could see her location. Rollins warns him to stay away. He threatens them and leaves.

That night, Rollins helps Kim fill out the paperwork for a restraining order. She documents the abuse for the judge.

In the judge’s chambers, the judge is hesitant to grant the order since neither Kim nor Jeff are from New York. But since Rollins gave a sworn statement, she does anyway, on the condition that Rollins not serve the papers herself.

Outside the court, Rollins says that Benson and Tutuola are serving the papers, and Kim wants to call Jeff first, Rollins forbids it.

Benson and Tutuola serve the papers, but Jeff says that he’s the one who needs protection. He threatens them again, and Benson warns that they’ll take him down to the precinct now.

Kim visits her sister at the precinct, but runs into Amaro instead. She flirts with him a bit, and asks him for some money for food. He takes her out for Chinese food. They talk about how hard they had it growing up when Rollins comes back. She gets a case, and tells her sister to go home.

When Rollins gets home, she overhears Jeff and Kim arguing in her apartment. She breaks down the door, gun in hand. She finds Jeff on top of Kim, but he says that she called him and asked him to come. Rollins doesn’t believe him, and when Jeff draws a gun, she shoots him in the chest.

When the cops arrive, Capitan Cragen and Benson advise Rollins to speak to no one about the incident aside from her lawyer. Lieutenant Tucker arrives and immediately doubts her story. Benson and her delegate urge Rollins get a psychological examination.

The psychologist says she’s ‘normal’, but wants a follow-up. Rollins insists she’s fine.

The detectives dig up dirt on Jeff, afraid that Tucker is going to strike Rollins hard.

Tucker questions Kim and Rollins, obviously weary of their story. Rollins is told she should be fine once ballistics comes back.

Kim goes to Tucker behind Rollins’ back, and changes her story. Tucker brings Rollins in for further questioning, asking about her history with Jeff. Tucker spins the story to make it sound like Rollins had a vendetta against Jeff.

Rollins confronts her sister, saying that she could go to prison because she changed her story. Kim says that if she changes her story, then they won’t get the life insurance money. Kim reveals that she took a life insurance policy out on Jeff, and she forged one in Rollins’ name as well, and if the death isn’t an accident, they won’t get any money. Kim has doomed her sister.

Rollins goes to Tucker and says that Kim forged her name on the insurance policy. This causes Tucker to bring up more of Rollins’ history, and reveal an outstanding debt that she owed. He asks her how he’s supposed to believe this was an accident, especially with so much money on the line.

In interrogation, Tucker questions Kim about the policies. Kim says it was Rollins’ idea to get the life insurance. This causes Rollins to get arrested and charged for murdering Jeff.

In her cell, Rollins meets with her lawyer.

The detectives try to figure out how to free her. They know her signature on the insurance policy was forged, but they no longer have access to it, since Rollins gave her only copy to Tucker. They have to focus on Kim instead. They believe she set Rollins up, and staged it so Rollins would kill Jeff.

Her bail is set at $250,000 and the Capitan and detectives bail her out right away. Rollins wants to go to her sister, but the detectives and her lawyer both urge her to stay away, trying to convince her that Kim is setting her up.

Rollins goes to visit her sister anyway. She gets a confession from Kim; that she set up Rollins and Jeff. She says he was a bad man and deserved to die anyway. Rollins is in denial that all this is happening. She also learns that Kim wasn’t even pregnant.

Rollins goes to visit her psychologist, emotionally wrecked. She turns her away, because she works for the NYPD.

Kim goes to detective Amaro, and tries to flirt her way back into his heart. He acts dismissive, but gives in. He takes her out to dinner. He sets up his phone to record their conversation, and gets her talking about the case, and how she covered her tail by adding Rollins to the insurance policy. She tells him that she wanted Jeff dead.

Rollins and Amaro bring the recording to Tucker. He says that if the recording checks out, she’ll be freed and they’ll pursue Kim for the murder charge. Rollins doesn’t want that, but the Capitan convinces her to let her go.

Tucker and his group of officers go to Kim’s hotel room, and find her gone. In Rollins’ apartment, she finds her sister took everything she owned from her apartment and vanished.