Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Caretaker (2018)

Aida Turturro: Trial Judge Felicia Catano

Quotes 

• Peter Stone : This other woman, the one you saw saving your family from the suffering, did you say anything to her?

  Anne Mill : Excuse me?

  Peter Stone : You testified it was like watching another woman. I just want to know if you spoke to her before she stabbed your husband and your children.

  Anne Mill : No.

  Peter Stone : Did you try and stop her?

  Anne Mill : She wasn't real.

  Peter Stone : But you thought she was, isn't that right? I mean, that's your proof that you're insane.

  Anne Mill : No, I didn't try to stop her.

  Peter Stone : Because you wanted them dead, isn't that right?

  Anne Mill : Because I wanted to protect them. They're better off now.

  Peter Stone : Better off than what?

  Anne Mill : For facing a world without...

  Peter Stone : Without what, Mrs. Mill?

  Anne Mill : Well, isn't it obvious?

  Peter Stone : No. It's not.

  Anne Mill : Without me.

  Peter Stone : I've got news for you, Mrs. Mill. You're not so great.

  Billy O'Boyle : Objection.

  Judge Felicia Catano : Sustained.

  Anne Mill : I shelter them, I protect them. It is a hard world, Mr. Stone, and I didn't want to watch my babies be swallowed up by it.

  Peter Stone : Then why didn't you just kill yourself?

• Olivia Benson : I spoke with Mrs. Mill several times. The first was shortly after she committed the murders.

  Billy O'Boyle : Objection.

  Peter Stone : The defendant admitted she murdered her family.

  Billy O'Boyle : No, she did not. She stated that she killed them. It does not become murder until the People establish the necessary mens rea. It is the defense position that a mental defect prevented her from ever forming the requisite intent.

  Judge Felicia Catano : Sustained.

  Peter Stone : Please continue, Lieutenant.

  Olivia Benson : I spoke with her shortly after she killed her husband Julian, her daughter Rachel, and her son Charlie.

  Peter Stone : And how did she act?

  Olivia Benson : She was traumatized by their deaths, she was emotional, she was disoriented.

  Peter Stone : Did she appear sane?

  Olivia Benson : Yes.

  Peter Stone : What about the last time you spoke with her?

  Olivia Benson : I've been a cop for twenty years, and never in my career have I seen anything like this. She convinced herself that murdering her children and murdering her husband was the only choice. So, this woman deserves to be in prison. She's not "legally" insane.