Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Fallacy (2003)

Kate Moennig: Cheryl Avery, Charlie Avery

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• Morty Berger : [to Cabot]  You had no right to speak to my client without me. I'm taking this to Judge Larsen and the disciplinary committee.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Go ahead. They'll love the part where you ignored your obligation to bring my deal to your client and then lied to me and told me you had.

  Morty Berger : I've done hundreds of trials and made new case law. I think I know what's best for my client.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Doesn't Cheryl have a right to decide?

  Morty Berger : Fine. Cheryl, I have your best interests at heart. Go ahead, take the deal and you'll go to prison for at least five years.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : And if you don't take the deal and you get convicted, you'll go for a minimum of fifteen-to-life.

  Cheryl Avery : Well, do you think we'll lose?

  Morty Berger : You're not guilty, Cheryl.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Answer her question.

  Morty Berger : Look, she's trying to scare you. Yeah, there's a chance you'll lose, but think of everything you're going to gain.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : He's trying to make you a martyr for the cause.

• Cheryl Avery : When I was seven, I knew I was different. I mean, every night I'd go to bed dreaming about being a girl.

  Dr. George Huang : Well, how did you handle that?

  Cheryl Avery : Forced myself to be a boy.

  Dr. George Huang : That must have been difficult.

  Cheryl Avery : Yeah, I played with G.I. Joes when I wanted to dress up Barbies.

• ADA Alexandra Cabot : [to Cheryl]  Thanks for meeting me.

  Cheryl Avery : Well, I shouldn't be speaking to you without my attorney.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : I shouldn't be asking you to, but I'm very concerned about how Mr. Berger is handling your case.

  Cheryl Avery : You're the one prosecuting me. Why would you care?

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Because I think you're getting bad advice.

  Cheryl Avery : No, he's... No, he's the only one who's been on my side. He knows what I've been through.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Then he should be the first one to tell you that your chances of acquittal are slim to none.

  Cheryl Avery : I was attacked and almost raped, okay? He says a jury will take my side.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : I think a jury is going to have some trouble separating the facts of the case from who you are.

  Cheryl Avery : Well, if you're so sure I'm going to lose, then why are you here?

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Because I want to know why you won't take the deal.

  Cheryl Avery : What deal?

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : I told Berger I would plead down to first-degree manslaughter.

  Cheryl Avery : He never told me.

• Cheryl Avery : [to Olivia]  Look, you have to help me, I cannot stay here.

  Olivia Benson : Cheryl, you pled guilty. You knew that you were going to prison.

  Cheryl Avery : I'm a woman and they put me in a cell with men.

  Olivia Benson : [to Berger]  You didn't tell her?

  Morty Berger : I told her to go to trial.

  Olivia Benson : Bull. You set her up for your own career. What, the murder case wasn't enough for you?

  Morty Berger : The civil rights issue is more pressing.

  Olivia Benson : Oh, and you're going to ride it all the way to the Supreme Court, aren't you?

  Morty Berger : Why not? This could be a precedent-setting case.

  Olivia Benson : Yeah, not to mention a juicy story. A woman in a man's prison? You'll have the media drooling.

• ADA Alexandra Cabot : [to Cheryl]  You told Detective Benson that you were afraid Eddie was going to leave you. In fact, Eddie committed suicide when he found out.

  Cheryl Avery : And I blame myself for that.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Do you blame yourself for Joe's death?

  Cheryl Avery : I was protecting myself. All I wanted to do was hit him over the head.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : If you hadn't killed him, he would have told everyone your secret when he came to.

  Cheryl Avery : Well, I wasn't thinking that far ahead.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Weren't you? Joe was going to tell Eddie and you couldn't take that chance. You were finally happy. Eddie loved you.

  Cheryl Avery : Well, Joe was gonna ruin that. He was gonna ruin it and I couldn't let him do it. I could not let him do it. I had to stop him.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : You did. Nothing further.