Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Caretaker (2018)

Sandrine Holt: Lisa Martin

Quotes 

• Anne Mill : I loved them. I loved them all more than anything.

  Lisa Martin : Then I don't understand why you killed them.

  Anne Mill : I ate lunch at a diner every day round the corner from my office. I bring my work. I sit at the counter. And last week, I saw a cockroach. And it was scurrying its way up the metal hood right above the grill. And it could feel the heat... and it was doing its best not to fall down into the sizzling grease. And up he'd go, scurrying up the hood, and then he'd slide back down, catching himself on the ledge. Over and over, up and down. And then finally he just dropped.

  [imitating sizzling] 

  Anne Mill : Ssss. Sss... pop.

  Lisa Martin : And you related to the bug?

  Anne Mill : No, I was the ledge. My children... I had to save them before they dropped onto the burning grill.

  Lisa Martin : Which was inevitable?

  Anne Mill : Wouldn't you rather die in your sleep, Doctor? 'Cause I couldn't bear to watch them pop.

• Lisa Martin : She's what the textbooks call a family annihilator. It's typically an upper middle class male - in this case, a female - who can't stand to see their family suffer.

  Olivia Benson : So she kills them.

  Lisa Martin : In her mind, it's better than the alternative. It's usually triggered by a big financial setback.

  Peter Stone : Like when you're caught stealing from your clients.

  Lisa Martin : Her life is over. She wants to spare her husband and her children the pain of going on without her.

  Olivia Benson : [to Stone]  I'm sorry, are you buying any of this? Because to me, it sounds like some made-up syndrome cooked up by a defense attorney.

  Lisa Martin : Bottom line: she believed that the murders were necessary, even though she knew they were wrong.

  Olivia Benson : Good, then she's not legally insane.

  Peter Stone : Not to us, but to a jury looking at a woman who killed her children, she's per se crazy. And Mr. O'Boyle's going to make a seven-course meal out of it.

  Olivia Benson : What can I do?

  Peter Stone : Prove she planned the killing?