Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Blood Brothers (2011)

Diane Neal: ADA Casey Novak

Quotes 

• Casey Novak : Look, Olivia, okay, I understand you've been going through a lot.

  Olivia Benson : Oh, no. Don't you dare patronize me.

  Casey Novak : You're off. What I saw, your anger pushed her disclosure.

  Olivia Benson : I'm off? You know what I see? Is an A.D.A. who's too afraid to follow the facts because the family has too much muscle. You and your office have lost your nerve.

• Nick Amaro : [after Ella reveals that Tripp Raines raped her] 

  [to Novak] 

  Nick Amaro : Okay, Counselor, there's not much doubt there.

  Casey Novak : I don't know.

  Olivia Benson : What do you mean you don't know? She's describing a rape.

  Casey Novak : A jury won't think so. Sexual misconduct, if we're lucky. And with his legal team, consensual.

  Olivia Benson : Are you kidding me? She's 13.

  Casey Novak : So is he, so technically, that means...

  Olivia Benson : That he got her drunk. The lemonade was spiked. She was a virgin, she said that it hurt. She was crying, she said no.

  Casey Novak : There was no outcry afterward. He sent her flowers. Even Ella told you that she thought they were gonna get married.

  Nick Amaro : That's his game. I mean, he knows how to take advantage of girls like this.

  Casey Novak : Do you have any way of backing that up? Ella has changed her story three times. We can't even prove that she's carrying his baby. I mean, unless you want my office to compel a fetal DNA test.

  Olivia Benson : No, no, no. It took a long time to earn her trust.

  Casey Novak : I'm sure it did.

  Olivia Benson : What the hell's that supposed to mean?

  [Novak doesn't answer her] 

  Olivia Benson : Counselor, what the hell does that mean?