Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Redemption in Her Corner (2020)
Zuleikha Robinson: Vanessa Hadid
Quotes
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Vanessa Hadid : So, Mr. Solis died of a brain bleed minutes after his beside arraignment?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, I... I don't think that there was a cause and effect.
Amanda Rollins : Subdural hematoma, common among boxers, from a head trauma.
Vanessa Hadid : Inflicted by one of the teens he trained with?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, Esperanza Morales, 19, his protege. She's a champion boxer and one of the success stories at his gym.
Vanessa Hadid : Had he abused her, too?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, she hasn't said that. She was confronting him about the one victim we know about so far, Cami Vega.
Vanessa Hadid : Well, that's moot. Your rape case just became a murder case.
Amanda Rollins : I interviewed Esperanza. This wasn't premeditated. It wasn't even intentional.
Vanessa Hadid : Intent or not, a man is dead. You're gonna have to pivot your investigation.
Amanda Rollins : Murder?
[glancing at Carisi for support]
Amanda Rollins : But she's a kid. She... she has no priors.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : He... he was a predator. She...
Vanessa Hadid : I feel for her, but she's a trained boxer. Unless you can prove she or someone else was in imminent danger, Ms. Morales is facing man two.
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Dominick Carisi Jr. : So her sister knew about the abuse, but she'll only testify if she gets paid?
Katriona Tamin : Yeah.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : What about Esperanza?
Amanda Rollins : She won't testify. She's too ashamed.
Vanessa Hadid : And she's still looking at man two.
Katriona Tamin : Santos abused his daughters for years. We should be arresting him.
Vanessa Hadid : You're right, but we're not. I'm sorry.
Katriona Tamin : [Hadid and Carisi leave] Espe's in jail, and her sister won't help her. My sisters and I would do anything for each other. I still don't get it.
Amanda Rollins : I do. She didn't say she wouldn't help. She said she wanted to get paid.