Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Obscene (2004)
Diane Neal: ADA Casey Novak
Quotes
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [listening to BJ Cameron on the radio] And you wonder why people want that guy to shut up.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : Nobody's forcing them to listen.
[turns off the radio]
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Danny Spencer : [about Jessie Dawning] I told her I was a fan. I read her this poem that I'd written for her. She... she thought it was nice. Then we did it.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : So, you read her a poem and then she just said, "That's nice, let's have sex."
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [about BJ Cameron] He's encouraging people to rape. What, "Jessie needs a good banging, go out and give it to her"?
A.D.A. Casey Novak : This guy knows his law, though. He's protected under "Brandenburg" unless his intent is to go out and produce an imminent and probable lawless act. He could say to you, "Elliot Stabler, I command you to rape Jessie Dawning," you wouldn't have a case against him.
Detective Elliot Stabler : How is that possible?
John Munch : Elliot, he doesn't really mean for you to do it. It's a joke.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Except this time, someone really went out and did it.
John Munch : Yeah, well, there's your bad guy, not BJ.
Detective Elliot Stabler : They're both just as bad.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : Elliot, you're 0-for-3.
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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.
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BJ Cameron : [to Novak] Do you wake up every morning and think, "How can I trample on the First Amendment today?"
A.D.A. Casey Novak : I wake up and think, "How can I put away a rapist?"
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Jessie Dawning : [to Novak] What do I have to do?
A.D.A. Casey Novak : You'll go on the stand first and I'll lead you through what happened.
Jessie Dawning : Everything? Including how he found me passed out on my couch?
A.D.A. Casey Novak : We can explain that. You'd been working 16-hour days. You were exhausted.
Jessie Dawning : Will I have to tell them about the pills?
A.D.A. Casey Novak : If the defense asks you, yes.
Jessie Dawning : Great. They're going to say I'm a slut and a junkie.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : I can't imagine how hard this must be for you, Jessie, but your testimony will help put your rapist in jail.
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Attorney Shamal : Carolyn, this is a good offer.
Carolyn Spencer : Danny only went on that show to impress BJ.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : Danny confessed to rape.
Carolyn Spencer : BJ Cameron is the one you should be going after. Danny wouldn't have done anything if BJ hadn't egged him on.
Danny Spencer : Mom...
Carolyn Spencer : You don't have a say in this.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : Actually, he does.
Carolyn Spencer : I am his mother. You don't get to decide for him.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : You're here as a courtesy, Mrs. Spencer. This is a one-time offer. Rape three, he does 1-to-3 and tells the court everything he did.
Attorney Shamal : [to Carolyn] We should consider the deal.
Carolyn Spencer : No. There is no way you can prove he did anything wrong. It's his word against that junkie tramp. And who do you think the jury's going to believe?
A.D.A. Casey Novak : I thought you were a role model, Mrs. Spencer. Whatever happened to teaching kids to tell the truth?
Carolyn Spencer : I'm doing what's best for my son.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [about Carolyn Spencer] She's all about morals and decency until it becomes inconvenient.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : I can bully BJ onto the stand, I can present all the evidence that I want, but without Jessie, I got nothing.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Any chance of talking to Danny without Carolyn running interference?
A.D.A. Casey Novak : Yeah, and saying what, "Ignore your mom, listen to me and go to jail"?
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Danny Spencer : [to Jessie] Look, I'm sure you hate me.
Jessie Dawning : Shut up! You don't get to defend yourself. What you did to me You think I'm trash, don't you?
Danny Spencer : No. No, I... I don't.
Jessie Dawning : But all those things that BJ said about me you think are funny. Breaking into my trailer and stealing my panties.
Danny Spencer : It was just a stupid prank.
Jessie Dawning : You call raping me a prank?
Danny Spencer : I wish I could take it all back. I'm sorry.
Jessie Dawning : You're sorry? How could you be sorry when you went on the radio and bragged about what you did to me?
Danny Spencer : BJ started making jokes. I was just trying to keep up.
Jessie Dawning : Was your mom just trying to keep up, too? Because she said she wished I was dead.
Danny Spencer : No, no. She didn't mean it like that.
Jessie Dawning : She thinks she is so perfect, but all she does is give kids somebody to blame when they do something wrong. Kids shoot up a high school, blame Marilyn Manson. You raped me. Blame BJ Cameron.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : Danny, you're the only one who knows what really happened. You can own up to it like a man or you can hide behind your mother.
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A.D.A. Casey Novak : [to Donnelly] What did I do?
Bureau Chief Elizabeth Donnelly : You don't even say hi to your boss?
A.D.A. Casey Novak : Hi. What did I do?
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A.D.A. Casey Novak : Mr. Cameron, do you think that the KKK or Aryan Nations are funny?
BJ Cameron : Only in that they're the most ignorant bunch of jackasses in the country.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : So you don't agree with their views, but do you think they should still be allowed to express them?
BJ Cameron : They may be hate-mongering idiots, but they still have the right to speak their minds like everyone else.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : So, as much as you dislike their views, do you think it's okay just to go out and shoot them?
BJ Cameron : No.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : Thank you. Nothing further.
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A.D.A. Casey Novak : How do you deadlock with a mountain of evidence in front of you?
Detective Elliot Stabler : The jury thought BJ deserved what he got.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : He flapped his mouth on the radio. She picked up a gun and shot him. There's no question who broke the law here.
Detective Elliot Stabler : No, but after hearing BJ on the stand, half the jury would've done what Carolyn did.
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A.D.A. Casey Novak : B.J. has a right to say whatever he wants. Carolyn doesn't have a right to shoot him.