Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Gone (2006)

Judith Light: Judge Elizabeth Donnelly

Quotes 

• Judge Elizabeth Donnelly : Arthur? Casey?

  Casey Novak : We need to talk to you.

  Judge Elizabeth Donnelly : In the middle of a trial? I don't think so.

  Arthur Branch : The defense had their ex parte moment.

  Judge Elizabeth Donnelly : In chambers, not my living room

  Arthur Branch : This is different. Can you step outside a moment.

  Judge Elizabeth Donnelly : [Donnelly steps outside]  Why the cloak-and-dagger routine?

  Arthur Branch : We couldn't take the chance your house was bugged.

  Judge Elizabeth Donnelly : Bugged? Why would anyone want to bug my...

  Casey Novak : Jason King, our star witness disappeared last week. We have evidence he was kidnapped but we can't prove it.

  Arthur Branch : The leak's not in our office Liz, or SVU. Whoever took Jason had to find out where he was from somebody that works for you.

  Judge Elizabeth Donnelly : You think I have a mole in my office and you didn't tell me?

  Arthur Branch : My orders. If Jason's still alive, and the kidnappers find that we're on to them, they could kill him. We couldn't risk it.

• Arthur Branch : We could sure use a mistrial here, Liz.

  Judge Elizabeth Donnelly : Unless you can prove Nick Pratt and Doug Waverly bugged this office or that they murdered Jason King, you haven't got grounds for a mistrial.

  Casey Novak : We're out of witnesses.

  Judge Elizabeth Donnelly : I know, Casey. And I don't like it any more than you do, but I can't play games with the law. If you can find Jason by tomorrow or show me that he's met with foul play, I'll grant a motion to have his grand jury testimony read to the jury. Otherwise, there's nothing I can do.

• Judge Elizabeth Donnelly : [to Novak]  That liquid lunch isn't going to change what happened.

  Casey Novak : Yeah, but it'll help me forget.

  Judge Elizabeth Donnelly : You played the hand you were dealt.

  Casey Novak : I had to look Jennifer Durning's parents in the eye and tell them that their daughter would never get justice because I let Nick Pratt and Doug Waverly get away with murder.

  Judge Elizabeth Donnelly : Well, that wasn't your fault, but it will be if you let them get away with another one and don't try to stop it.

  Casey Novak : We haven't found Jennifer, so what makes you think Jason's gonna be any different?

  Judge Elizabeth Donnelly : Because whoever planted that bug in my office knows what happened to him and you are going to find that person if you have to interrogate everyone who works in that courthouse. Trial's over, Casey. Put the gloves on for round two.