Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Pretend (2007)

Diane Neal: ADA Casey Novak

Quotes 

• Detective Elliot Stabler : [about Cassandra Sullivan's true identity]  Denise Pickering, arrested for shoplifting in Detroit.

  Casey Novak : Who's Denise Pickering?

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Cassandra Sullivan. AKA Loretta Sheridan, AKA who knows who else?

  Casey Novak : She was 16 at the time of her arrest? That makes her 28 now.

  Olivia Benson : Gotta give her one thing. She does look good for her age.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : The address listed on the report, that was her very first foster family. Child services had removed her from an abusive home.

  Olivia Benson : Foster mom said that she was in bad shape when she came in, but a happy kid by the time she aged out at 18.

  Casey Novak : So happy she didn't want to leave apparently. So, what, she just went from state to state sneaking back into foster care for the next 12 years?

  Olivia Benson : I think so.

  Casey Novak : Does she realize she could go to jail for theft over this? She's fraudulently been receiving a free education and free foster care from the state.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : I think our biggest problem is we have a grown woman attending high school with a bunch of kids.

  Casey Novak : Not anymore. Yank her out and notify A.C.S. to cut all services.

  Olivia Benson : What is gonna happen to her? Because I think psychologically, she still is a kid. She's never taken care of herself.

  Casey Novak : Well, she's pushing 30. It's time to grow up, but I'll help her find some counseling.

• Casey Novak : Scott Heston cleans up nicely. He looks like a choir boy today. You should have seen him on the night of March 28th when he was pummeling Riley Cuskey with fluorescent light tubes, thumbtacks, chairs, and a bat wrapped in barbed wire. It's hard to imagine, isn't it? Luckily, you don't have to because he videotaped it. You get to watch him actually wielding those deadly weapons and you'll see him acting with reckless disregard for human life. Engaging in acts that brought about the death of Riley Cuskey.

• Cassandra Sullivan : [to Novak]  They kicked me out of school, out of foster care. Everything I own in the world is in those two garbage bags. If you hadn't gotten me into this shelter, I'd be living on the street.

  Casey Novak : I want you to take the plea.

  Cassandra Sullivan : I didn't rape anybody.

  Casey Novak : Technically, you did.

  Cassandra Sullivan : I'm only 16.

  Casey Novak : You're gonna have to drop that act, Denise.

  Cassandra Sullivan : My name is Cassandra.