Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Venom (2006)

LisaGay Hamilton: Teresa Randall

Quotes 

• Teresa Randall : You and I need to talk.

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : Talk or yell?

  Teresa Randall : That's up to you.

• Teresa Randall : [to Fin]  How'd you find out? Nobody knows Darius is my son. Not even Ken.

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : We checked Ken's DNA against what was left at the crime scene. You should have told me.

  Teresa Randall : It happened before I met you.

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : So why'd you give him up?

  Teresa Randall : He had to go somewhere. He certainly couldn't stay with me. I was 16 and his father was a bastard. You don't know what he did to me. Darius looks just like him. I guess he's starting to act like him too.

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : So why not put him up for adoption? Why give him to your mother to raise?

  Teresa Randall : I didn't give her anything. She took. You knew her. She wouldn't allow blood out of the family.

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : Where's the father now?

  Teresa Randall : I don't know. I hope he's dead.

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : What happened to you, Terry?

  Teresa Randall : I will not... I won't talk about that. Not to you. Not to anyone.

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : Well, maybe that's the real problem.

  Teresa Randall : You don't know what it's like to have to look at someone that has the face of someone you hate! Every time he came over to see Ken, every time he came to family functions, it made me sick. I can't stand to look at Darius. Even now.

• Teresa Randall : [Fin brings Ken to his mother, Theresa's house from the police station]  Oh, my God, what happened to you?

  Ken Randall : It's not a big deal, Mom.

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : Yes it is. He got pinched on a Class E felony and two misdemenors.

  Teresa Randall : For what? What do we need to do?

  Ken Randall : Why are you asking him? I can handle this myself.

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : Yeah. Looks like you got it covered.

  Ken Randall : [stares at Fin]  I'm going to bed.

  [Ken leaves; Theresa glares at Fin] 

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : That look doesn't work on me anymore.

  Teresa Randall : Our son was beaten and arrested and you couldn't pick up a phone?

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : I just found out myself. I'm looking for Darius. You know where I can find him?

  Teresa Randall : What's he got to do with this?

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : What, something I should know?

  Teresa Randall : Darius is poison and always will be. Of course, you were never around much and that hasn't changed.

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : You still ain't pulling punches. When I was working undercover, I warned you I'd be gone a lot.

  Teresa Randall : You weren't gone a lot, you were just gone.

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : I must've been around sometime or is Ken not my son?

  Teresa Randall : I see your lips moving, but I still haven't heard why he was in jail.

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : Ask him! It might not have been an issue if he had to use my last name.

  Teresa Randall : [Theresa shows Fin the door]  If you haven't heard, sperm donors don't get parental rights!

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : Cool. Just tell me where Darius is and I'm gone.

  Teresa Randall : Al's Auto Body on Frederick Douglass.

  [Fin leaves; Theresa shuts the door] 

• Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : Prisons are full of innocent people and we both know what color most of them all.

  Teresa Randall : You don't trust your own people?

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : I don't trust the system, not completely.

• Teresa Randall : [to Fin about Ken]  What you're doing isn't the answer. He needs direction. I can't teach him how to be a man by myself, Fin.

  Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola : So what do you expect me to do?

  Teresa Randall : Be his father, not his friend.