Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

The Burden of Our Choices (2019)

Jamie Gray Hyder: Detective Katriona 'Kat' Tamin

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• Olivia Benson : So, Officer Tamin, your provisional tour starts today. I'm so sorry that I can't be here. I'm sorry you had to come in on your Sunday off. So if you have time, I thought maybe you could catch up on some open cases.

  Katriona Tamin : Already did, and I read the files from all the major cases over the last five years.

  Olivia Benson : So you're an underachiever.

  [Tamin laughs] 

  Olivia Benson : You're gonna be fine, and very nice job with Sir Toby.

  Katriona Tamin : Thanks. I'll feel better once he's convicted.

  Olivia Benson : Yeah, you and me both.

• Katriona Tamin : Going through this girl's social media, it's a mash-up of "Jesus is my boyfriend" songs and kitten videos.

  Odafin Tutuola : Anything that puts her in New York?

  Katriona Tamin : No, but I do have a lead on Isaac.

  Odafin Tutuola : Look who made it to New York. That's a fresh tattoo. So all we gotta do is check out tattoo parlors.

  Katriona Tamin : Already did. I started with parlor websites near Port Authority, East Village, Uptown, and I found this. Gretchen, artist-in-residence, In the Heights Tats.

  Odafin Tutuola : Well, let's go.

  Katriona Tamin : Just spoke to her. She knew where Isaac lives. Didn't ask why.

  Odafin Tutuola : Good work.

• Katriona Tamin : I'm sorry, what century is this? All these old white men trying to control women's bodies? I mean, how far off are we from "The Handmaid's Tale"?

  Olivia Benson : You grew up taking these rights for granted. My mother, there was a time when she considered abortion, and her only option was was back-alley. The bottom line is, if you have enough money, there's always a way, but it's these poor women, these girls in some states, they're gonna see deaths. That's where this is going.

  Katriona Tamin : They think that's what we're going back to.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : Fundamentalists, Catholics, they see abortion as deaths.

  Katriona Tamin : You're Catholic, right? Is that what you think?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : What I think is what I think, but if a woman is the victim of rape or incest...

  Katriona Tamin : I hear that. And it sounds like you're saying that a woman has to be a victim in order to have control over her own body.

  Olivia Benson : That's not what he's saying.

  Katriona Tamin : Good, because it's not a decision that should ever be made by a group of men or a prosecutor who's never had to make that choice.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : Appeals court just refused to hear Ohio's case. Even some pro-life groups thought the charges were ridiculous.

  Olivia Benson : Well, they are.

  Katriona Tamin : So you guys aren't under arrest? What about the stay on the abortion?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Family court didn't want to make a ruling until Ohio's arrest warrants have been dismissed. They're still deliberating.

  Katriona Tamin : For how long? She's twelve weeks pregnant. Any day after the first trimester, it gets more complicated.

  Olivia Benson : And that's part of Ohio's plan, is to run out the clock.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : My job is to uphold that girl's rights, and that's what I'm doing. But I'm sorry, I don't see this as black and white. In my experience, no woman wants to have an abortion.

  Olivia Benson : Okay.

  Katriona Tamin : Fair enough. But these laws that are getting passed, they are not the answer.

  Olivia Benson : No, they're not.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : [Benson's phone chimes]  What?

  Olivia Benson : Text from Rollins. Evangeline just threw herself down a flight of stairs.

• Odafin Tutuola : Where's Evangeline?

  Isaac Franklin : I don't know, I...

  Katriona Tamin : Wrong answer, Isaac. We know she's in New York, and we know you're the only person here she knows.

  Isaac Franklin : I didn't tell her to come.

  Odafin Tutuola : When'd you see her?

  [seeing he's reluctant to say] 

  Odafin Tutuola : I'm calling the Jolene sheriff. He has a warrant out for your arrest.

  Isaac Franklin : What? For hooking up with my girlfriend?

  Katriona Tamin : [taking out her handcuffs]  So, Isaac, you can talk now or pray later. Turn around.

  Isaac Franklin : She needed a place to crash, okay? I mean, she's friends with my kid sister, okay?

  Katriona Tamin : Where is she now?

  Isaac Franklin : I don't know. We... we got in kind of argument. She left.

  Odafin Tutuola : Why'd she leave?

  Isaac Franklin : She needed money. I told her she could crash here all she wants, but that's all I could do.

  Katriona Tamin : And you have no idea where she is now?

  Isaac Franklin : I loaned her my dog. I told her she could panhandle with Duke, by the... by the 99 cents pizza place.

• Olivia Benson : A teen runaway from Jolene, Ohio? That's still Missing Persons.

  Katriona Tamin : She's 13. I called her parents. They think that she was lured here by a boy, Isaac Franklin, 19, from their town.

  Odafin Tutuola : Jolene sheriff says Isaac skipped out on a bench warrant for a statutory; different girl.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, so track the boy down, call the parents back, and tell them that SVU is...

  Katriona Tamin : Actually, they're here. Drove all night. They're in the waiting room.