Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Infected (2006)

Diane Neal: ADA Casey Novak

Quotes 

• Casey Novak : Detective Benson, does witnessing a murder justify committing a murder?

  Olivia Benson : It doesn't justify it, but it might explain it.

• Olivia Benson : Casey...

  Casey Novak : You here to ambush me again?

  Olivia Benson : I'm here to apologize.

  Casey Novak : You gave the jury a reason to acquit.

  Olivia Benson : I was trying to tell the truth. I'm sorry. What are you gonna do?

  Casey Novak : Draft a plea bargain.

  Olivia Benson : I damaged your case that much?

  Casey Novak : You changed my mind and I'll bet you convinced a juror or two.

• Mike Geddes : [about Nathan after he is acquitted of all charges]  Killer got a foster family. That's nice.

  Casey Novak : You're a jerk, Geddes.

  Mike Geddes : Yeah, and you got a murderer off.

  Casey Novak : Nathan Phelps would be serving the sentence I had already negotiated had you not gotten involved, so why don't we put the blame where it really belongs: on your bosses.

• Mike Geddes : Casey, you honestly believe that guns cause a disease?

  Casey Novak : My dad had guns. He taught me how to use them when I was a kid. But I never saw anyone gunned down in front of me. Have you?

  Mike Geddes : Taking away guns isn't gonna cure the world of violence.

  Casey Novak : Unless the study's true. Then everything's different, isn't it?

• Casey Novak : If the NGA can stop a plea, then any individual corporation or special interest group with the money and the inclination can do the same.

  Judge Elizabeth Donnelly : And if prosecutors lose the ability to make plea bargains, the legal system comes to a grinding halt.