Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Down Low in Hell's Kitchen (2019)

Peter Scanavino: ADA Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi, Jr.

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• Deputy Chief Christian Garland : [about Mathis]  What the hell is this kid thinking?

  Amanda Rollins : He was gonna be outed. He was getting in front of it.

  Odafin Tutuola : He figured he could get more sympathy as a victim.

  Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Not from me. I want him in cuffs.

  Olivia Benson : But Chief, our other actual victims are afraid. So we go after Mathis, then nobody comes forward.

  Vanessa Hadid : It's too late for that. If your other victims had been willing to testify in the first place, we wouldn't be here.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, Ms. Hadid, you're new to SVU. We don't blame victims here. Human sexuality and criminal behavior are a hell of a lot different than securities fraud.

  Vanessa Hadid : Thank you, Captain. What I do know, the longer this stays in the news cycle, the longer we're standing here with our junk in our hands.

  Olivia Benson : Excuse me?

  Vanessa Hadid : Oh, I'm sorry. Egg on our faces?

  Olivia Benson : Ms. Hadid, you're the one who pushed Carisi in the first place.

  Dominick Carisi : Listen, all due respect, but this feels like a circular firing squad. All Captain Benson is saying is that we have an obligation to make this case, and Ms. Hadid is just reminding us that the clock is ticking, quickly and loudly.

  Vanessa Hadid : The clock isn't ticking, Counselor. It's blown up.

• Dominick Carisi : Mr. Moran, here's your choice: Confess and you go into prison as a straight man who assaults gays. Or this goes to trial and everybody hears that you're a self-loathing homosexual who gets angry after he services black men in bars. As your attorney once said to me, "What's your preference?"

• Olivia Benson : So, Mathis is the only one who saw his assailants come forward. The other three only remember a tense interaction with a big, red-haired man at their bars.

  Amanda Rollins : And this is who they saw. That's Mathis' sketch.

  Vanessa Hadid : You've noticed the sketches diverge?

  Odafin Tutuola : The M.O. is different, too. Mathis saw the guy. He also heard him say gay and racist slurs.

  Amanda Rollins : Which could be our perp escalating or devolving...

  Olivia Benson : Or both.

  Amanda Rollins : Right.

  Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Yeah, we can't have another assault. Today's Tuesday. We flood the zone tonight.

  Olivia Benson : Chief, I don't have the manpower.

  Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Well, you will now. I'll borrow UCs from from Street Crimes for every bar on the list.

  Dominick Carisi : Black UCs that read as upper middle class, late 30s, sophisticated?

  Olivia Benson : Not a lot of these in Street Crime.

  Odafin Tutuola : You know what, Chief? Don't take this the wrong way, but you're his type.

• Mickey D'Angelo : Hey, Carisi. I always liked you as a cop, so here's a tip. Your star witness is lying. I mean, demonstrably.

  Dominick Carisi : You should save that for trial.

  Mickey D'Angelo : Oh, it'll come out before then. Right now, I'm trying to decide between CNN and Fox. You got a preference?

• Dominick Carisi : You should know Moran has an alibi for the night you were assaulted.

  Mathis Brooks : Okay, I... I see. So y'all pick up the wrong guy, a-and now you're trying to make me carry the weight.

  Odafin Tutuola : Okay, let's go over your story and find out what we missed.

  Mathis Brooks : Hey, maybe there's a copycat. Huh? M-Maybe there's two guys out there.

  Counselor Julie Kang : Mathis, stop talking. We came here to cooperate. Is my client now a suspect in any way?

  Dominick Carisi : That remains to be seen.

  Counselor Julie Kang : [moving to leave]  Then we're done.

  Odafin Tutuola : Whoa, whoa, listen. We're just trying to get to the truth.

  Mathis Brooks : Look, the truth is I was attacked! Come on. Brother, you saw me in the hospital. The cuts, the burn. Look, I'm telling y'all this happened. What that guy took from me, I can never get back. Why in the hell would I make something like that up?

• Dominick Carisi : The detective told me that she'd never had a victim ask that before.

  Vanessa Hadid : Okay, he was nervous. Cross-racial IDs are always difficult. We caught Moran with a stun gun.

  Dominick Carisi : But none of the other victims have agreed to testify. That puts Mathis front and center. Moran's got an alibi for Friday night. He said he was at a Mets game with his ex-girlfriend.

  Vanessa Hadid : An ex-con's ex-girlfriend. I think you'll find a way to deal with that.

  Dominick Carisi : Ms. Hadid, you warned me that D'Angelo finds holes.

  Vanessa Hadid : So fill them up after the arraignment. The press knows we have a suspect. This train's left the station.

• Odafin Tutuola : [Mathis' brother was caught on security cameras buying a stun gun the day of Mathis' assault]  Dumbass used his corporate credit card.

  Olivia Benson : D'Angelo must've known to go looking for this. Did somebody tip him off?

  Amanda Rollins : Moran told him that he didn't do Mathis, and he would know.

  Dominick Carisi : Moran's alibi check out?

  Odafin Tutuola : Yeah, his ex took a selfie of them and their kids on the upper deck at Citi Field.

  Amanda Rollins : [on her phone]  It's already all over Twitter. #MathisMadeItUp.

  Olivia Benson : So even if Moran is good for the other three assaults...

  Odafin Tutuola : Which he is.

  Olivia Benson : Mathis poisoned the well.

• Amanda Rollins : [after Mathis tries to identify his assailant in a lineup]  How'd it go?

  Dominick Carisi : Not great.

  Amanda Rollins : Doesn't surprise me. Listen, on the drive over here, he kept asking what number the perp was gonna be.

• Judge Colin McNamara : Mr. Moran, you're charged with four counts of aggravated sexual abuse in the first degree. How do you plead?

  Mickey D'Angelo : Not guilty, Your Honor.

  Dominick Carisi : Your Honor, Mr. Moran was arrested while on parole. It's a clear violation.

  Judge Colin McNamara : I'm sorry you didn't learn your lesson. Remand to Rikers.

• Mathis Brooks : Is this for real? My brother buys a taser, and now y'all think I made the whole thing up.

  Dominick Carisi : No one here is saying that.

  Mathis Brooks : It's all over the news. NYPD's trying to make me look like a liar.

  Odafin Tutuola : NYPD or your brother?

  Mathis Brooks : He likes gadgets. He has a drone, too.

  Counselor Julie Kang : And tasers are legal in New York State.

  Odafin Tutuola : They are. Any idea where your brother was during the time of your attack?

  Mathis Brooks : I'm not his keeper.

• Odafin Tutuola : He really believes it now.

  Deputy Chief Christian Garland : You mean he's doubling down.

  Dominick Carisi : Yeah, you gotta give him credit for that copycat theory.

  Olivia Benson : I think it's more likely that he's the one who copied the crime. He's heard about these other assaults. He piggybacked.

  Deputy Chief Christian Garland : So we grill him until he admits it.

  Odafin Tutuola : That's not gonna happen.

  Vanessa Hadid : Can we at least agree that he didn't tase himself?

  Olivia Benson : That's a good point. So let's talk to Aygon. He bought the stun gun. Ask him why.

• Dominick Carisi : Moran was released from Greenhaven four months ago after a three-year bid on assault. He's got a rap sheet going back to his childhood.

  Vanessa Hadid : Sexual assaults or hate crimes?

  Olivia Benson : Neither, but he fits the profile.

  Dominick Carisi : And he obviously has a problem with gays and blacks. We caught him following Garland with a stun gun in his hand and a bottle in his pocket.

  Vanessa Hadid : I know the attorney. He'll find the holes. Call the victims and do a lineup.

  Olivia Benson : Well, the first three can only put him at the bar. They didn't see their assailant.

  Vanessa Hadid : But Mathis did? Bring him in.