Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Obscene (2004)

Ice-T: Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola

Quotes 

• Franco Marquez : We've been through enough. I don't need you bitching about how Jessie is playing "inappropriate material."

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Look, pal, basically you got her stripping for money. And sleeping with the teacher?

  Franco Marquez : It's called drama.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : It's called pimping out a 16-year-old to jack up your ratings. Come on.

  Franco Marquez : The average girl loses her virginity by 16. Now what's the responsible thing to do, pretend it doesn't happen? Or show a girl in charge of her sexuality?

  Odafin Tutuola : A 16-year-old girl may be having sex, but she ain't in charge of squat.

• Odafin Tutuola : [after it's discovered Danny went on BJ Cameron's radio show]  What kind of dipstick goes in front of two million people knowing they're going to be humiliated?

• Radio Producer : The station got so many phone complaints about our obscene show, they yanked us off the air. We're not on the air, we don't roll tape. It's a shame, too. It got cut off just before the best part.

  Odafin Tutuola : What, something heavy fell on BJ's head?

• BJ Cameron : [to Fin and Stabler]  Did you get a big happy when the anti-smut crusaders yanked my show off the air this morning?

  Odafin Tutuola : You were humiliating a rape victim.

  BJ Cameron : Great, take me off the air. You know what I find offensive? "Catcher in the Rye." Let's find every copy and burn it.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Give me a break here. You're pissed off because your show got pulled.

  BJ Cameron : I'm pissed off because a couple of hundred crackpots want to decide what's appropriate for two million people to listen to and you're letting them win.

  Odafin Tutuola : We're not trying to shut you down. We're trying to catch a rapist.

  BJ Cameron : And I'm exercising my right not to speak.

• Detective Elliot Stabler : [about BJ]  Son of a bitch wants to turn himself into a martyr for free speech.

  A.D.A. Casey Novak : Didn't the producer hear Danny admit to raping Jessie?

  Odafin Tutuola : BJ told him that later and the station doesn't record unless they're broadcasting.

  A.D.A. Casey Novak : So we can't use the confession unless BJ gives it up.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : We subpoena him, he's going to turn that trial into a free speech circus.

  A.D.A. Casey Novak : BJ likes whining about his freedom of speech? Let's give him something to really cry about. I'll take a page out of Carolyn Spencer's playbook. How do you hurt Howard Stern? Go after Clear Channel.

  Odafin Tutuola : So you gonna put the screws to Entropy Broadcasting?

  A.D.A. Casey Novak : And their sponsors and their advertisers. Ask them how they feel about Entropy's star personality hindering the prosecution of a rapist.

• Odafin Tutuola : [to Carolyn Spencer]  I don't see what makes Jessie such a bad role model. She's young, successful. What's wrong with that?

  Carolyn Spencer : Look at this.

  [shows him a picture of Jessie Dawning] 

  Carolyn Spencer : A 16-year-old done up like a hooker. We don't want that marketed to fifth-graders. Let the network move the show to 10:00, I'll shut up.