Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Counselor, It's Chinatown (2019)
Jamie Gray Hyder: Detective Katriona 'Kat' Tamin
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Quotes
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Lily Song : Mamasan ask many question. I tell her my legal aid lawyer need to see me.
Katriona Tamin : That's good, Lily. After the grand jury, we'll get you housing.
Lily Song : But after I testify, Mamasan in jail. Everything good. I start new life. Charlie get out, too, right?
Katriona Tamin : Let's take it one step at a time. You ready?
Lily Song : Piece of cake. What Charlie say.
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Lily Song : [outside the courthouse] So big.
Katriona Tamin : Never been here before?
Lily Song : Never been anywhere. Just spa to spa. But after today, I free as a bird.
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Olivia Benson : So, what do we have on this creep?
Katriona Tamin : Theo Pappas, 30. No record, no job.
Olivia Benson : And no idea who the friend is.
Odafin Tutuola : Some guy who rents out the space.
Olivia Benson : Okay, are we any closer to tracing the leasing agent?
Katriona Tamin : On all four parlors that we raided, it's just a firewall of LLCs from the Caymans to Korea to Hong Kong.
Olivia Benson : So Theo is all we have. Mei Mei and Lily IDed him. Will she testify?
Odafin Tutuola : Rollins took Mei Mei to a shelter. She's shaky.
Olivia Benson : And Lily?
Katriona Tamin : She went back to the massage parlor, but she's feisty. She wants to do this.
Olivia Benson : Set up a meet away from the spa. Walk her in.
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Olivia Benson : And they know nothing about him?
Katriona Tamin : Just that he sweats gin and has enough hooks to get a free pass.
Amanda Rollins : So, we lean on Mamasan. Charge her with aiding and abetting unless she gives him up.
Odafin Tutuola : She won't. She lets him rape her girls. He's too connected for her to turn on him.
Olivia Benson : Mamasan knows the game. She told me she'd be out on bail and open for business by the weekend, and she's probably right.
Amanda Rollins : Maybe that's not such a bad thing. I mean, Mei Mei said that he's a Sunday regular, so maybe we just let her re-open.
Olivia Benson : It's worth a shot, but this guy's connected. Is he really gonna talk?
Odafin Tutuola : A piece of crap like that? He'll flip to save his own ass.
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Katriona Tamin : This is Officer Kat Tamin, SVU portable. I need a bus to 60 Center Street. We've got a jumper down.
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Olivia Benson : Hey, guys, listen up. So, welcome to Operation Dragon Slay. This is Sergeant Joe Chin from the Human Trafficking Task Force.
Sergeant Joe Chin : Thank you, Captain. Our focus: massage parlors that are fronts for sex slavery and debt servitude, undocumented women being forced to pay off their family's debt to smugglers.
Olivia Benson : So, SVU has been tasked with investigating the Sweet Joy Relax Spa down on Eldridge.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : How long have we had them under watch?
Odafin Tutuola : This one, a week. The girls are let out one hour a day, always escorted by Charlie Hu. He's illegal with ties to Chinatown gangs.
Amanda Rollins : We estimate off-menu extras bring the spa around 50k in cash a week.
Katriona Tamin : The women keep the bare minimum for food. The rest they turn over to the spa's mamasan, Evelyn Lee. Korean-Chinese.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : So she's the manager? Do we know who they lease the space from?
Amanda Rollins : Not yet. The buildings and spas are hidden behind a web of offshore LLCs.
Sergeant Joe Chin : UCs will pose as clients. The goal is we arrest the johns, management. We flip 'em, we follow the money, we get the owners.
Olivia Benson : Okay, but the girls we do not arrest, right? If they talk, great, but if not, we still offer them immigration, legal, and medical assistance. Take them to social services.
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Lily Song : Mamsan say let him do what he want.
Katriona Tamin : What he wants? Lily... did he rape you?
Lily Song : No. He rough, but... Mamasan say on the house because he have...
Katriona Tamin : [interpreting her Chinese] Connections? To who?
Lily Song : I don't know. Must be very high rank for Mamasan not to take money.
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Olivia Benson : So, Carisi says that we lost the Changs.
Katriona Tamin : What?
Olivia Benson : The feds took the case.
Katriona Tamin : Did he say why?
Olivia Benson : Apparently, they didn't have to.
Odafin Tutuola : We knew those two were connected.
Katriona Tamin : What about the rape case against Theo and Rick?
Olivia Benson : Theo pled guilty. Uh, they're asking the judge for seven years. And Rick, they're still negotiating.
Katriona Tamin : You mean he's gonna get off.
Olivia Benson : Kat, why don't you punch out?
Odafin Tutuola : [watching her leave] She's not gonna last here.
Olivia Benson : Hold on, Fin. The girl that she was supposed to be protecting jumped out a window.
Odafin Tutuola : That's not her fault.
Olivia Benson : Well, she doesn't believe that.
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Katriona Tamin : Uh, my friend and I were wondering if you would settle a bet for us?
Rick Olin : Uh, for the two of you, I would be happy to. What.. what can I do for you?
Amanda Rollins : Okay, she said that you would rather be cuffed, and I said you would rather walk to the car and get in the back.
Rick Olin : I don't know...
[they flash their badges]