Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Mea Culpa (2018)

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

Quotes 

• Dominick Carisi : [to Olivia]  Stone's been released, ROR.

  Olivia Benson : Thanks. Yeah, I heard.

  Dominick Carisi : Is, um... Sarah gonna testify?

  Olivia Benson : If she wants to stay married, she is. Hey, Carisi, I hate every minute of this too, but we don't get to pick and choose who we investigate.

  Dominick Carisi : Lieutenant, he denies this. Maybe we owe him the benefit of the doubt.

  Olivia Benson : And what do we owe her?

• Amanda Rollins : We all realize that this sucks.

  Dominick Carisi : Yeah, you know what sucks, Rollins? This is what sucks. A busload of nuns could say that Peter Stone was in Albuquerque at the time of this rape. And still, somewhere in the back of my mind, every time I see him I'm gonna wonder, "did he?" That's what sucks.

  Sgt. Fin Tutuola : And we know it.

• Dominick Carisi : Hey, I'm going to the deli. You want anything?

  Amanda Rollins : No, I'm-I'm good.

  Dominick Carisi : All right. Steak for lunch, huh? I guess you are good.

  Amanda Rollins : It was leftovers. Al always over-orders.

  Dominick Carisi : Al, huh? How are things going with the good doctor? Using the term "good" pretty loosely here.

• Amanda Rollins : If I wanted a "why buy the cow" speech, I'd call my mother.

  Dominick Carisi : No, Rollins, I'm just saying that you deserve to be happy. You deserve to be taken care of.

  Amanda Rollins : And Al takes care of me.

  Dominick Carisi : No, he doesn't. Look, there is a difference between flowers and fancy-ass dinners and being taken care of.

  Amanda Rollins : You know what? People can change.

  Dominick Carisi : I'll believe that when I see it.

  Amanda Rollins : Okay.

  Dominick Carisi : Hey, I'm gonna get you a ginger ale, all right? That steak's gonna give you indigestion.

• Olivia Benson : What Sarah Kent described was an assault. With all the self-blame of not reporting, guilt about going to the bar, guilt about her marriage falling apart...

  Dominick Carisi : Wha... hold on a second. She said her marriage was falling apart?

  Olivia Benson : She said that she and her husband were going through a rough patch.

  Dominick Carisi : All right, that's interesting. Because the husband told me that they were madly in love. He's beating himself up about this. He was out of town at the time. She never told him about it.

• Dominick Carisi : She was afraid he was gonna get out on bail. Amazing, get a remand on he said/she said.

  Peter Stone : Yeah. Moral, don't piss off the judge.

• Sgt. Fin Tutuola : Way things are now, we're all looking at our past through a new prism.

  Dominick Carisi : Come on. We're talking about Peter Stone here. All right? There's a big difference between buying a woman another drink at the bar and-and-and felony rape.

  Amanda Rollins : Et tu, Carisi?

  Sgt. Fin Tutuola : We were all young and stupid, Amanda.

  Amanda Rollins : In my personal experience, age has nothing to do with it.

• Amanda Rollins : You doing okay?

  Dominick Carisi : Rollins, I know that our job is to believe survivors. That we start from there. On this one, I believe him. I...

  Amanda Rollins : You're allowed to feel that way.

  Dominick Carisi : I don't think that I am.

• Amanda Rollins : You know, you were right about me moving in with Al. It's, uh... it's not my style. The square footage, the, the fancy... Japanese toilets.

  Dominick Carisi : No, no, no. Don't listen to me. Don't listen to me. You-you gotta do what's right for you. For-for Jesse, for this... this little baby. Also, I heard those Japenese toilets? They're supposed to be pretty spectacular.