Law & Order (TV Series)

Damaged (1998)

J.K. Simmons: Dr. Emil Skoda

Quotes 

• Dr. Emil Skoda : [discussing the alleged rape of a mentally handicapped teenager]  She's a sweet girl with an IQ of 65. And the school thinks exposing her to ridicule from normal kids somehow does her good.

  Jack McCoy : She understand what she did?

  Dr. Emil Skoda : Not in any meaningful way. She'd do whatever it takes to please whoever she was with.

  A.D.A. Jamie Ross : Would that be obvious to another teenager?

  Dr. Emil Skoda : That'd be crystal clear to anyone who talked to her for two minutes.

  Jack McCoy : Those boys are gonna claim the last thing they did in that music room was talk.

• Valerie Maxwell : My mom's dead. She's in heaven though and she watches over us all the time. That's what Sally told me.

  Dr. Emil Skoda : What else has she told you?

  Valerie Maxwell : She told me that it's very important to know the names of people when you're talking to them, Dr. Skoda, and to always look people in the eye, and say thank you and please.

  Dr. Emil Skoda : Sally takes good care of you.

  Valerie Maxwell : I'm the oldest. I should be the one watching after Sally.

  Dr. Emil Skoda : Does that bother you?

  Valerie Maxwell : Dad says I'm special. That's why I'm Special Ed.

  Dr. Emil Skoda : Do the other kids treat you special?

  Valerie Maxwell : Nicole. She spilled ice cream on my new dress. Didn't even say "I'm sorry". She just called me a dummy.

  Dr. Emil Skoda : What about Hayden, Roscoe and Randy? Did they ever call you names?

  Valerie Maxwell : They're my friends. Friends don't hurt each other. It's what Gina said.

  Dr. Emil Skoda : Who's Gina?

  Valerie Maxwell : She's in 12th grade. Gina Bowman. She's my friend, too. She told me Hayden wanted to play.

  Dr. Emil Skoda : Valerie, can you tell some reasons why a woman might want to have sex with a man?

  Valerie Maxwell : Cause that's what you do when somebody loves you.

• Defense Attorney Painter : [to Dr. Skoda]  Are you familiar with the term "mainstreaming," Doctor?

  Dr. Emil Skoda : Yes. In Valerie's case, it's an attempt to integrate someone with a mental disability into what we would consider normal life by having her attend a regular school.

  Defense Attorney Painter : But she ate lunch in a room away from the other kids?

  Dr. Emil Skoda : No, I don't believe she did.

  Defense Attorney Painter : Oh. They had a special bus come and pick her up every day, did they?

  Dr. Emil Skoda : No.

  Defense Attorney Painter : So I assume the school made her wear some kind of scarlet "D" for "disabled" on her dress each day?

  Dr. Emil Skoda : No, of course not.

  Defense Attorney Painter : So if one could see Valerie riding the same bus with all the other kids, eating the same lunches, one could actually think she was just like all the other kids, isn't that right, Doctor?

  Dr. Emil Skoda : They might until they actually talked to her.

  Defense Attorney Painter : I don't think Valerie and these boys were in the music room for conversation.