Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Unorthodox (2008)

Diane Neal: ADA Casey Novak

Quotes 

• Casey Novak : Sleep deprivation's making you soft, Elliot.

• Elliot Stabler : Parents are supposed to love their children. They're supposed to protect them. Jack's father threw him to the wolves.

  Casey Novak : So he has a crap father. Lots of children do, but they don't become rapists.

• Casey Novak : [during her closing statement]  Jack Tremblay didn't do a cannonball off the high dive and splash a couple of kids. Jack Tremblay brutally raped four children. Now, 70 million kids in this country watch TV; some of it is entertainment and some of it is educational. But 70 million kids. They didn't do what Jack did. Something made Jack Tremblay commit a terrible crime, but it wasn't TV. Jack was picked on and he was angry, so he lashed out at smaller, weaker children to make himself feel better. Television didn't make Jack hold Michelle and Ashley down, and television didn't make Jack ignore Lucy and David's cries. Jack did it because Jack wanted to.

• Casey Novak : Roxana, you're representing Jack?

  Roxana Fox : George Tremblay called Legal Aid to ask how he could give up his son for adoption.

  Casey Novak : And you smelled headlines.

• Casey Novak : [about Jack Tremblay]  That child is a predator. He raped David a half a dozen times.

  Roxana Fox : They were a couple of kids screwing around, if you'll pardon the expression. You try Jack as an adult, you're looking at jury nullification.

  Casey Novak : I'll take my chances.

  Roxana Fox : And I look forward to kicking your ass.

• Roxana Fox : [to Casey]  How convenient. Three sweet and innocent little victims to bolster your case.

  Casey Novak : They were afraid to say anything.

  Roxana Fox : So what? Someone suddenly spiked the bug juice in the school cafeteria with liquid courage?