Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
We Dream of Machine Elves (2019)
Peter Scanavino: ADA Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi, Jr.
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Olivia Benson : So, the brownstone here with the red door was bought 30 years ago by a foundation for radical therapy, and gifted to Julius Adler for his institute.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : He's the white-bearded wizard?
Amanda Rollins : Dr. Julius Adler, an esteemed professor of radical psychiatry at Tompkins Square, a prolific author, and...
Odafin Tutuola : And a freak. He uses psychedelics as a cure-all.
Amanda Rollins : In controlled, clinical studies.
Katriona Tamin : I ran the building. It's got nonprofit status. Seven complaints over the last year. Noise, kids partying, a cello being thrown out a third-story window.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : And both victims remember going into that brownstone? Can they ID him?
Olivia Benson : No, but Freja was clearly triggered. Now, she thinks she remembers the red door and the high stoop.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : She thinks. She also remembered trolls.
Katriona Tamin : There's reason to believe he has DMT and other psychedelics inside.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : But if he's running clinical trials, that may not be illegal.
Odafin Tutuola : Come on, Carisi, you can trust us.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : I do, Fin, but every time I go out on a limb for you guys, somebody saws it off. Look, it's an academic institute. I need some patina of probable cause.
Odafin Tutuola : Patina?
Katriona Tamin : That guy was really a cop?
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Dr. Julius Adler : So, where, uh did you go, Amanda?
Amanda Rollins : Excuse me?
Dr. Julius Adler : Well, I saw the light come on in your eyes, your soul leave its cage. You were on your journey. So I'm curious, where did you go?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : [watching with Benson] What the hell is he doing?
Olivia Benson : She's just letting him establish rapport.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Uh-huh. Who else did we pick up?
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Amanda Rollins : There you are.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Hey, what's up?
Amanda Rollins : Um, I went and checked on Adler. He's been at Bellevue for the last three days and hasn't eaten, spoken, slept. He's completely unresponsive. And it's not a ruse.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, even so, I still plan on arraigning him and his disciples, including Anais. What they did to those women...
Amanda Rollins : I hear you. Just, can you give me 24 hours before you arraign Anais?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah. Yeah, sure.
Amanda Rollins : Thanks.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Hey, Rollins, if you don't mind me asking. What's your deal with this guy?
Amanda Rollins : I wanted to hear his side of the story. I had no idea how far gone he was. There was a time that... I was lost and... thought he had the answers, I wanted to learn from him. I wanted to follow him.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, but you didn't. You were smart, Rollins.
Amanda Rollins : Hmm.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Hey. You dodged a bullet.
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Deputy Chief Christian Garland : So, Adler's a false prophet. To paraphrase Joseph Campbell, the mystic swims in the same water in which the psychotic drowns.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Even so, his students still believe everything he feeds them.
Olivia Benson : And the daughter thinks he's a saint. The mother died when she was three, so he raised her.
Amanda Rollins : Something happened to Adler. Twenty years ago, he was one of the foremost authorities in liberation psychiatry.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Okay, well, whatever alternate reality he's in, this reality, he's guilty of either conspiracy to rape or sex trafficking.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : I agree. Charge him with both.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : How? Who am I gonna put on the stand? Caleb? Meghan and her elves?
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Charge Anais. Flip her.
Amanda Rollins : She won't turn on him. They're sutured.
Katriona Tamin : [on her phone] Or maybe that's just another alternate reality he's created. I found a marriage certificate. Adler married Kathleen Bell in '94, but no obituary, no death certificate.
Olivia Benson : Well, if she's not deceased... then where is she?
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Find out.
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Amanda Rollins : Adler swears there were no assaults.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, no surprise there. What do the victims say?
Olivia Benson : Uh, victim. Freja went back to Stockholm. So, Meghan IDed Anais and Caleb, and she remembers Adler giving a lecture.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : But after that, machine elves. We got any DNA hits from the men?
Olivia Benson : Not yet, but they're in front of it.
Amanda Rollins : And they claim it was a mutual psychonautic sexual exploration.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Wh... translation, consensual?
Amanda Rollins : Yeah.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Okay, so this guy claims academic freedom, but the truth is, he's a puppet master who gets his acolytes to rape and torture girls.
Amanda Rollins : I don't think that's what this is.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Oh, yeah? So Meghan wanted to dig her own grave, run around half-naked in a bed sheet?
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Anais Adler : We're a family. Maybe not the Brady Bunch, but that was an artificial construct to make us all conform.
Katriona Tamin : Your father tell you that?
Anais Adler : And more. Every day since I was three, when my mother died. He sacrificed everything to take care of me. What he's built and taught. No one can take that away.
Katriona Tamin : Which is what, exactly?
Anais Adler : How to be whole. People come to him searching for an alternative path.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : So she's drunk the Kool-Aid, too. Do we have anybody else?
Olivia Benson : Caleb, the pedicab driver, and ten others who are all on video taking a hit from the pipe.