Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Caretaker (2018)

Gary Basaraba: Billy O'Boyle

Quotes 

• Peter Stone : This other woman, the one you saw saving your family from the suffering, did you say anything to her?

  Anne Mill : Excuse me?

  Peter Stone : You testified it was like watching another woman. I just want to know if you spoke to her before she stabbed your husband and your children.

  Anne Mill : No.

  Peter Stone : Did you try and stop her?

  Anne Mill : She wasn't real.

  Peter Stone : But you thought she was, isn't that right? I mean, that's your proof that you're insane.

  Anne Mill : No, I didn't try to stop her.

  Peter Stone : Because you wanted them dead, isn't that right?

  Anne Mill : Because I wanted to protect them. They're better off now.

  Peter Stone : Better off than what?

  Anne Mill : For facing a world without...

  Peter Stone : Without what, Mrs. Mill?

  Anne Mill : Well, isn't it obvious?

  Peter Stone : No. It's not.

  Anne Mill : Without me.

  Peter Stone : I've got news for you, Mrs. Mill. You're not so great.

  Billy O'Boyle : Objection.

  Judge Felicia Catano : Sustained.

  Anne Mill : I shelter them, I protect them. It is a hard world, Mr. Stone, and I didn't want to watch my babies be swallowed up by it.

  Peter Stone : Then why didn't you just kill yourself?

• Olivia Benson : I spoke with Mrs. Mill several times. The first was shortly after she committed the murders.

  Billy O'Boyle : Objection.

  Peter Stone : The defendant admitted she murdered her family.

  Billy O'Boyle : No, she did not. She stated that she killed them. It does not become murder until the People establish the necessary mens rea. It is the defense position that a mental defect prevented her from ever forming the requisite intent.

  Judge Felicia Catano : Sustained.

  Peter Stone : Please continue, Lieutenant.

  Olivia Benson : I spoke with her shortly after she killed her husband Julian, her daughter Rachel, and her son Charlie.

  Peter Stone : And how did she act?

  Olivia Benson : She was traumatized by their deaths, she was emotional, she was disoriented.

  Peter Stone : Did she appear sane?

  Olivia Benson : Yes.

  Peter Stone : What about the last time you spoke with her?

  Olivia Benson : I've been a cop for twenty years, and never in my career have I seen anything like this. She convinced herself that murdering her children and murdering her husband was the only choice. So, this woman deserves to be in prison. She's not "legally" insane.

• Judge Lee Wong : How do you plead, Mrs. Mill?

  Billy O'Boyle : [she glances at him]  Mm-hmm.

  Anne Mill : Not guilty.

  Billy O'Boyle : By reason of mental defect, Judge.

  Peter Stone : The People request remand.

  Judge Lee Wong : Mr. O'Boyle?

  Billy O'Boyle : Your Honor, my client's on so much medication, she needs help to get out of the shower. She is not going to run.

  Peter Stone : Judge, she confessed to killing her family.

  Judge Lee Wong : $2 million bail. All cash.

  Billy O'Boyle : Your Honor, my client's accounts have all been frozen pending another criminal proceeding.

  Judge Lee Wong : Well, then she certainly has a problem. Next.

• Billy O'Boyle : I know, I know. What am I doing here? Well, turns out that my client, her firm, has a satellite office in Chicago, and I did some work for her once upon a time. Mrs. Mill is a... good lady. Bedbug crazy. But a good lady. You look, uh... I don't know, distraught?

  Peter Stone : Three murders does that to me.

• Billy O'Boyle : Well, can I buy you two a drink?

  Olivia Benson : Actually, I have a son at home. But thank you.

  Billy O'Boyle : I don't know how you do it. I mean, I know you're top of the line at, uh, one, but how do you rate at the other?

  Olivia Benson : Goodbye.

  Peter Stone : Good night.

  Billy O'Boyle : [she leaves]  Open mouth, insert foot.

• Billy O'Boyle : Everything has to be perfect. That... that is exactly what Anna Mill had in her head. "I have to. I have to. I have to. I have to go to school, get a job, get married, beget 2.3 children. If I don't, I have failed. What happens to my 2.3 children? What...?" Anna Mill, she heard voices in her head. She heard the voice of her own mother telling her "You need to earn money, or the world will eat you and your offspring raw." She heard Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem telling her "You are the equal to any man." She heard Hillary say "Aim high, but rely only on yourself". "I have to, I have to, I have to, I..." And then what happens when you can't? It's enough to... drive you crazy. Crazy to do what Anna Mill did. You would have to be... crazy.

  Peter Stone : You know, I almost fell into Mr. O'Boyle's trap. I very nearly stood up here and told you that today's woman can do it all. She can have everything. But that's a lie, and we... we all know it. Surely women can have it all; but just not all at the same time. This case, it isn't about feminism. It's about what was going on in Anna Mill's head when she stabbed her son, her daughter, and her husband. Did she know what she was doing? She told us she wanted them dead. Did she know it was wrong? She let the police believe her nanny was the killer. That's it. It's that simple. Under hundreds of years of case law, she is not insane. And here's the truth: I feel for every woman in this courtroom and the completely unrealistic expectations that society puts on you. But that does not allow you to kill without consequence.

• Billy O'Boyle : I don't know when I'm gonna realize, the fairer sex is the more sensitive sex. So you gotta hand it to 'em these days. They gotta be smart, pretty, bring home the bacon and fry it up in the pan . Hmm. You know, that sounds like an opening statement.

  Peter Stone : Oh... why didn't I think of that?