Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Part 33 (2019)
Ice-T: Sergeant Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
Quotes
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Odafin Tutuola : [to Carisi] Look, man, we can only do our job.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : What, that's all this is to you?
Odafin Tutuola : Yeah. I get up in the morning and I get dressed. I come to the office. After that, I go home. At the end of the week, I get a check and the check clears. That's called a job.
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Amanda Rollins : Okay, you know what? It's not all on us, though, Carisi. We do our part, but the rest is up to a judge and jury.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : All right, so what happens upstairs, that doesn't concern you at all?
Odafin Tutuola : The short and sweet is fine with me.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Oh, please, give me a break. This from the guy who flew to Cuba on his own nickel to catch a fugitive rapist.
[to Rollins]
Dominick Carisi Jr. : And you, with that Labott girl...
Odafin Tutuola : Enough. Carisi, have a donut.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Are you telling me that you never even think about this? I mean, the the responsibility? The... the power that we have? I mean, I could get up on that stand and I could lie. I could say, "Yeah, Annabeth told me" she planned on killing Thomas for the past six months. Now, I do that, she is done. No question. Or I could say I don't recall. I don't recall to anything that Stone asks me, and maybe she gets to live a nice, peaceful, safe life in a Chelsea apartment.
Amanda Rollins : Or door number three, you tell the truth.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : All I'm saying is It's a lot of power. And who the hell are we?
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Odafin Tutuola : [to Rollins] You alone?
Amanda Rollins : Yep. What you got?
Odafin Tutuola : [as he opens up the box of donuts and offers it to Rollins] All right. Anything but the jellies.
Amanda Rollins : Ooh, thank you.
Odafin Tutuola : No sign of Liv?
Amanda Rollins : No, I was hoping you heard something.
Odafin Tutuola : [sighs] Scruples are a hard thing to live with.
Amanda Rollins : What if she doesn't show?
Odafin Tutuola : Then she doesn't show.
Amanda Rollins : Her testimony will be the nails in Annabeth's coffin. Without it, Stone...
Odafin Tutuola : [after he touches the hot coffee and drops the cup on the floor] will be hot as that cup of coffee.
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Olivia Benson : [to Fin] What's happening upstairs?
Odafin Tutuola : Bloodbath.
Olivia Benson : Whose blood?
Odafin Tutuola : Well, you know how they say you only die once? Well, that's a lie at least for Tommy Pearl.
Olivia Benson : So Stone is gonna call me.
Odafin Tutuola : If he wants any shot at winning this case, yeah.
Olivia Benson : Fin, what am I gonna do?
Odafin Tutuola : Running's not an option? I didn't think so. I mean, as far as I can see, this is just another case to me.
Olivia Benson : Listen, your BS doesn't fly with me. I should know that by now. Fin, I'm I'm asking you... do you think Annabeth belongs in prison?
Odafin Tutuola : Liv, half the guys I grew up with are in prison. Do they belong there? They don't think so.
Olivia Benson : But you do?
Odafin Tutuola : It's not my place to judge.
Olivia Benson : Oh, my God. Again with your BS.
Odafin Tutuola : Look, last Sunday I went fishing off of Sheepshead Bay. Four hours passed, not a nibble. Then right when I'm ready to pack it up, my rod starts jerking. So I start reeling. I'm reeling. I swear, I've never had a perp fight that hard. And then there it was, flopping around on the deck of the boat, a 35-pound bluefish. The most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life.
Olivia Benson : That's... that's great, Fin.
Odafin Tutuola : I threw it back in the bay. Anything that's willing to fight that hard to stay alive deserves to live.
Olivia Benson : Like Annabeth.
Odafin Tutuola : Just saying.
Olivia Benson : So you're telling me to lie.
Odafin Tutuola : I'm just saying, that blue's not gonna get hooked again, but that's just me.
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Odafin Tutuola : Jerry Griffin. He's the bartender at the Tatum. He met me outside in the front. He told me Annabeth Pearl was inside with a gun.
Peter Stone : Mr. Griffin knew her personally?
Odafin Tutuola : Ms. Pearl and her husband lived across the street. It was their local joint.
Peter Stone : What, if anything, did you do then?
Odafin Tutuola : I went inside. I saw Ms. Pearl sitting alone covered in blood, with the gun sitting in front of her on the table.
Peter Stone : Was there anything else on the table?
Odafin Tutuola : Yeah, what looked like a wedding ring.
Peter Stone : Huh. Thank you, Sergeant.
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Dominick Carisi Jr. : This room gives me the willies.
Odafin Tutuola : The belly of the beast.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, well, my belly feels like the professor's about to hand out the final exam.
Amanda Rollins : It's Annabeth that should be nervous, not you.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : This is wrong.
Amanda Rollins : Don't go all Liv on us, all right? The woman shot her husband because he didn't like her dinner.
Odafin Tutuola : Life should be so easy.
Amanda Rollins : Come on, not you, too.
Odafin Tutuola : I don't judge. Is it hot in here?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Hell always is.
Amanda Rollins : Yeah, he is. He's going full Liv.
Odafin Tutuola : Somebody has to.