Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Counselor, It's Chinatown (2019)

Karen Tsen Lee: Christine Chang

Quotes 

• Olivia Benson : Let me ask you a question, Mrs. Chang. Did the mothers know what you forced the girls to do to pay off the debt?

  Counselor Josh Wang : These criminals...

  Christine Chang : Enough! When I was growing up, the Cultural Revolution was ruining China. My parents were doctors. They were arrested for practicing Western bourgeois medicine. Sent to the countryside...

  [speaking Chinese] 

  Christine Chang : ... for "re-education." My sister and I... no one would talk to us because our parents were criminals. And no food to eat... no place to sleep.

  Olivia Benson : That doesn't justify what you did...

  Christine Chang : Please, please!

  Olivia Benson : ...to those girls.

  Christine Chang : And then a man helped me to come over. He helped me to get over here. I came with nothing. A-And what can a girl do, huh? With no education, no resources. You can guess. I promised myself if I could, I would help other girls escape, and I would. I have helped hundreds, thousands of girls make their way here. But... in... my zeal to help others down the golden path... my path has deviated. And for this... I must atone.

• Counselor Josh Wang : The Changs among the most well-respected business leaders in New York.

  Olivia Benson : Okay.

  Counselor Josh Wang : These are wild, baseless and, frankly, offensive accusations.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Offensive? Yeah. Baseless? No. In addition to trafficked sex workers, a mamasan, and a bag man, your lead CPA, Lester Ping, has agreed to cooperate.

  Christine Chang : Lester, he's only our travel agent.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, you should have paid him more. He's still walking our forensic accountants through your maze of money laundering. Smuggler pay-offs, bribery, fraud, embezzlement. From here to Guangdong.

  Counselor Josh Wang : The Changs know nothing of any of this.

  Olivia Benson : Really?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Is that true, Mrs. Chang? Because in your home village, Dalang, six girls were smuggled out last year.

• Christine Chang : Sex trafficking? That cannot be. My husband and I only own legitimate businesses. Restaurants, travel, real estate, import/export, hotels.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : And, uh, transportation, right? The Silver Rabbit Bus Line?

  Christine Chang : Yes, uh, very successful. We started this because we have so many restaurants. We needed to transport our workers. Other bus lines charge too much, but... our Chinatown buses became very popular.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, Mrs. Chang, we read the articles. Thank you very much. And we also know that you use the bus lines to transport girls from one massage parlor to another under armed escort.

  Christine Chang : To protect them.

  Olivia Benson : No, no, it's so they don't run away.

  Christine Chang : They are freelance. They want to work for us.

  Olivia Benson : They want to perform sexual services a dozen times a day six days a week while you take away their pay?