- Rafael Barba: [to Justin Vichinsky] You believe that Martha Cobb is a right-wing extremist?
- Justin Vichinsky: Yeah, except she's way worse than the people that she provokes. Like she has any idea what it's like to be a hardworking American with her prep-school privilege and her gated Bel Air mansion. Sure, she presents as this blonde beach bunny, but in reality, she's the Joseph Goebbels of the alt-right propaganda machine and we need to stop her by any means necessary.
- Rafael Barba: Hmm. Disgust, lack of control, rage. You just checked all the boxes on the rapist checklist, Mr. Vichinsky.
- Olivia Benson: Martha, I am not a fan of yours and I think that your views on sexual assault are reprehensible, but you are a survivor and I really want to help you get justice.
- Martha Cobb: Always effective. The inspirational mission statement.
- Olivia Benson: [sighs] If you're pulling your punches for ideological reasons because you don't have the integrity to be honest...
- Martha Cobb: Do not question my integrity.
- Olivia Benson: Then how about you drop the armor? How about you start talking to me like a human being, not a media personality? Can we do that? Can we... can we just talk?
- Olivia Benson: Martha, all I can tell you about your case Is that we don't always catch the bad guy and I'm very sorry.
- Martha Cobb: No apologies necessary, Lieutenant. I know I won't be the first or last woman who doesn't get justice after being raped at Hudson University.
- Rafael Barba: [about Martha Cobb] Well, let's just say that she doesn't present as your typical rape victim.
- Olivia Benson: How do you mean? Martha Cobb has made a career out of playing fast and loose with the facts.
- Rafael Barba: Fact: She was raped.
- Olivia Benson: Right, and that doesn't endow her with sainthood.
- Rafael Barba: Don't you just love free speech? You get what you paid for.
- Olivia Benson: A dismissal? That's what you came up with?
- Rafael Barba: How would you have voted?
- Olivia Benson: Look, whether or not I believe her, this woman deserves her day in court.
- Rafael Barba: But this case stopped being a search for the truth. It turned into a Rorschach test about which side butters your political bread.
- Rafael Barba: You're in my seat.
- Jed Karey: Well, I was at the legal aid bar. Too many lawyers buying me drinks. I literally had ten beers lined up in front of me on the bar.
- Rafael Barba: That is such a nice perk for representing a rapist.
- Rafael Barba: You heard.
- Olivia Benson: How bad was it?
- Rafael Barba: The Titanic meets the Hindenburg meets my first year of Little League. Martha never mentioned that she spurned a sexual overture from Randy Platt the night before the assault?
- Olivia Benson: No.
- Rafael Barba: Why the hell not?
- Olivia Benson: I'm gonna find out.
- Olivia Benson: Thank you for coming in, Martha. How are you feeling?
- Martha Cobb: Emboldened and empowered.
- Olivia Benson: Well, I know how difficult this must be, especially with your public profile.
- Martha Cobb: You have no idea what my life is like.
- Olivia Benson: Doesn't mean that I don't understand what you're going through.
- Martha Cobb: Do you people ever stop with the empathy?
- Olivia Benson: Which "people" are you referring to?
- Martha Cobb: Let me guess. You cried tears of joy when Obama was elected. Said you'd move to Canada if Trump ever got in. Yet, here you are.
- Olivia Benson: I was never going anywhere, but right or left, I want to find the man who assaulted you and make sure that he is apprehended and punished.
- Martha Cobb: I told you I knew who Randy Platt was.
- Olivia Benson: Well, you didn't tell me that you humiliated him the night before you were attacked.
- Martha Cobb: Because it was irrelevant.
- Olivia Benson: Trust me, the jury doesn't think so.
- Martha Cobb: Then Barba is incompetent.
- Olivia Benson: If you would have given him half a chance to get out in front of this...
- Martha Cobb: I needed a bulldog for this. A Rudy Giuliani. And instead, I got a little schnauzer.
- Martha Cobb: I'm a target every day of my life, Lieutenant. I can take it.
- Olivia Benson: I understand that.
- Martha Cobb: And I'm a warrior. So to find myself in this position, where I feel embarrassed, vulnerable, like the kind of spineless victim that I ridicule...
- Olivia Benson: Martha, you didn't ask for this. You're under so much pressure, you don't realize that this is not your fault. So tell me who did this to you.
- Rafael Barba: The People are unable to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Justin Vichinsky sexually assaulted Martha Cobb. Accordingly, I move to dismiss the indictment.
- Jed Karey: The defense joins in this motion.
- Judge Heshy Horowitz: This is highly unusual, Mr. Barba. Are you sure that's what you want to do?
- Rafael Barba: I am sure that the perpetrator of this crime will never be known to a legal certainty.
- Judge Heshy Horowitz: I appreciate your candor. Very few prosecutors would have the courage to make this call. The case is dismissed.
- Martha Cobb: How dare we continue to glorify Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner who raped his slave mistress?
- [crowd booing]
- Martha Cobb: Exactly. I know. And why stop there? The liberals want to put Susan B. Anthony on our money.
- [crowd booing]
- Martha Cobb: But I think they forgot she said she would cut off her own arm before helping Negroes to get the right to vote.
- [crowd booing]
- Martha Cobb: Yeah, I know. She was a racist too.
- [crowd laughing]
- Martha Cobb: Guess who else was? Ugh. Gandhi. He called Africans "savages." But meanwhile, the liberal snowflakes, they're concerned with tearing down statues of Andrew Jackson
- [crowd booing]
- Martha Cobb: Jefferson Davis. I think they forgot those guys are all Democrats.
- [laughter, booing]
- Martha Cobb: Just saying. And that is why I come to college campuses like Hudson
- [applause]
- Martha Cobb: Yeah, Hudson! Because in many cases, I'm the only conservative voice they will hear in four years.
- Randy Platt: I'm here because I was served with a subpoena, and I obey the law unlike some other individuals.
- Jed Karey: Why'd you attend Martha Cobb's speech at Hudson University, Mr. Platt?
- Randy Platt: Because we knew the antifa cucks and the "Black Lies Matter" crybabies would try to stop her from speaking.
- Jed Karey: Now, who's this "we" you're referring to?
- Randy Platt: I'm the leader of a group called Patriots of the American Way.
- Jed Karey: Right, yeah. According to your website, its mission statement is to, "Purge the country of degenerate filth and create a white ethno-state"?
- Randy Platt: That's right.
- Jed Karey: Well, just so we understand this clearly, which members of the jury would your group want to purge?
- Rafael Barba: Objection.
- Judge Heshy Horowitz: I'll allow it.
- [to Platt]
- Judge Heshy Horowitz: You may answer.
- Randy Platt: [points out nonwhite jurors] Him, her, her, him, her.
- Juror: [angrily rises from his seat] Step out of this courtroom, and I'll kick the living crap out of you.
- [all talking indistinctly; gavel bangs]
- Judge Heshy Horowitz: All right, let's all take it easy.
- Randy Platt: Oh, and just to finish my answer flannel shirt in the back row. I can't tell if he's a Jew and/or a homosexual. We'd have to conduct some research into him.
- Jed Karey: Is this one of your books with a picture of you in a skimpy outfit on the cover?
- Martha Cobb: Yes. That "skimpy outfit" put me on the "New York Times" best-seller list for 43 straight weeks.
- Jed Karey: So, what are you selling your readers, Ms. Cobb? Ideas or T and A?
- Rafael Barba: Objection!
- Martha Cobb: This is all very entertaining, but do you really wanna ask me about my ass after what I've been through?
- Jed Karey: Withdrawn!
- Jed Karey: Mr. Platt, isn't it a fact that you're an ignorant troll who fetishizes guns because of your tiny, tiny hands? That's what Martha Cobb called you at the bar at the Park Milano Hotel the night before her speech.
- Randy Platt: Wait a sec.
- Jed Karey: You made a pass at her there, and she proceeded to humiliate you.
- Randy Platt: Who told you that?
- Jed Karey: The three witnesses from the bar I have waiting in the rotunda. Your hero emasculated you. That must have infuriated you, right? So much so that you got payback the next day at Hudson University.
- Randy Platt: Dirty little shyster!
- Jed Karey: Nothing further.