Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Harm (2007)

Diane Neal: ADA Casey Novak

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Quotes 

• Casey Novak : I just think we're gonna have a tough time trying to bring Helios or Tomforde to trial.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : What about Sutton?

  Dr. George Huang : She didn't kill Kate or Abbas.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : Might as well have.

  Dr. George Huang : Melinda...

  Dr. Melinda Warner : That woman's interrogation methods led to Abbas's death and God knows how many others.

  Donald Cragen : We can't arrest Sutton for something that happened in Iraq.

  Olivia Benson : No, but Abbas died in New York. If a reasonable doctor could have foreseen that her methods would lead to heart failure, heart attack, death...

  Dr. Melinda Warner : There's a case for criminally negligent homicide.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : And you really think a jury will hold Sutton responsible?

  Olivia Benson : She taught a loose cannon like Tomforde how to torture a man to death. That not enough for you?

  Dr. Melinda Warner : Someone should be held responsible. It's what Kate Simes would have wanted and what Haroun Abbas deserves.

• Casey Novak : [to Dr. Sutton]  You have no idea that a stress position could tear a rotator cuff? You had no clue that a long ice bath might lead to a coronary? A fifth of the detainees that died of natural causes in US custody died of heart attacks. Many of them young men with no history of heart disease. And yet, you, a successful medical professional had no suspicion that your methods might lead to death? Or didn't you care?

• Dr. Faith Sutton : Ms. Novak, let me ask you a question. How would you protect our country? I have a son in Iraq. How would you protect him?

  Casey Novak : Your Honor...

  Dr. Faith Sutton : No! You answer me! Intelligence gathering is one of the few weapons we have in the war on terror.

  Casey Novak : Your Honor...

  Dr. Faith Sutton : Maybe the only way to fight an enemy we can't see. You think asking nicely is gonna get them to tell us when they plan to fly the next set of planes into our buildings?

• Matthew Braden : [to Novak]  It is amazing how well you handle those steps.

  Casey Novak : Excuse me?

  Matthew Braden : Yeah, on that high horse you're riding.

• Matthew Braden : [to Novak]  Tell me what would you do if you had five minutes to stop a suicide bomber from killing 20 marines or 10 innocent civilians. Or one little girl?

  [shows her a photo of a young girl] 

  Casey Novak : Who's this?

  Matthew Braden : Elizabeth Ross. Elizabeth was buried alive in a construction pit in Brooklyn back when I was a cop. We had a suspect. I knew in my gut the guy did it, but we went at him 48 hours, couldn't break him. I told my partner to leave. I broke the bastard's arm in three places. He confessed. When we found Elizabeth, she was dehydrated, she barely had a pulse, but she was alive.

  Casey Novak : That how you got bounced off the force?

  Matthew Braden : His confession was thrown out. The guy walked, but Elizabeth's going to law school now, wants to be a prosecutor. You're gonna tell me the ends don't justify the means?