Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Counselor, It's Chinatown (2019)

Shuya Chang: Mei Mei Li

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• Mei Mei Li : Mamasan pay for funeral, but no one come.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : I'm sorry, Mei Mei.

  Mei Mei Li : Lily very good person. All the time, she make us smile. She very brave. She must be very scared if she jump.

  Amanda Rollins : She was threatened. Do you... you know who this is?

  Mei Mei Li : Lily mother. Mamasan do this. Mamasan know where all parents are.

  Amanda Rollins : So will you help us? You can testify against Theo, against Mamasan...

  Mei Mei Li : No. No, I can't. They hurt my family.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Mei Mei... is there anything that you can tell us?

  Mei Mei Li : If Charlie there, he no let this happen.

  Amanda Rollins : Why not?

  Mei Mei Li : Charlie love Lily. They saving up. He help pay off debt, then run away so no one find them.

• Amanda Rollins : If you could just tell us who this is.

  [Mei Mei says something in Chinese] 

  Amanda Rollins : Hmm?

  Mei Mei Li : Bad egg. Don't know name. Loud, do anything he want. Last week was my turn.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : When does he... he usually show up? After work?

  Mei Mei Li : No, he have no job. He used to come with friend. Now just alone. Wait. He come in on Sunday. He say we're his special hangover cure.

• Mei Mei Li : I still don't understand. Bad lady don't go to jail?

  Amanda Rollins : The federal government has her now. They decide.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Either way, you won't have to worry about your debt anymore. Mrs. Chang has agreed to pay off the smugglers. You're free.

  Mei Mei Li : To do what?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Mei Mei, we talked to your brother.

  Mei Mei Li : Did you tell him what I do?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : No, no. Just that you were working to pay off the money your family owed to the smugglers and that we busted that ring.

  Amanda Rollins : [handing her phone to Mei Mei]  He'd like to talk to you.

• Mei Mei Li : I cannot do more. I have to go back to work to make money. I... I have to... pay back every week or they hurt my brother.

  Amanda Rollins : If you testify against Theo and he turns against the owners, we could put them all away.

  Mei Mei Li : That is a good dream, Ms. Amanda. But it's not a come-true dream. I stay here tonight. Get rest. Then back to spa.

  Amanda Rollins : You don't have to do that.

  Mei Mei Li : [speaking Chinese and seeing Rollins doesn't understand]  Nothing can be done.

• Mei Mei Li : Thank you, Mr. Dominick. I know what the Chinese proverb say, but you save me twice now. You can rest.