Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Dance, Lies and Videotape (2020)

Victoria Pollack: Rose Sullivan

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• Rose Sullivan : That was a lifetime ago.

  Olivia Benson : That was at the gala last year. It's right after you got picked to be the principal.

  Rose Sullivan : How did you get my name? I quit the company a year ago. No one from the National has even called.

  Amanda Rollins : We read the interview in your hometown paper, the Suffolk Times. How excited you were to get your first lead, and you never actually danced.

  Rose Sullivan : You're with NYPD. Why do you care?

  Olivia Benson : Well, we're looking into a... a company-wide pattern of... of sexual abuse.

  Rose Sullivan : You're actually investigating those pricks?

  Olivia Benson : We are.

  Rose Sullivan : How did you even find out about this? Who came forward?

  Olivia Benson : Dehlia Kelly, initially.

  Rose Sullivan : Oh, no. She was one of my students. Sascha raped her, too?

• Olivia Benson : Is Sascha the reason that you left the company?

  Rose Sullivan : Well, he's the reason I'm here. Jason made a sex tape of me. Sascha got a hold of it, told me he could make it go away if I did to him what I did to Jason. He wouldn't take no for an answer. I just gave up and let him do it.

  Olivia Benson : Rose, I'm... I'm so sorry.

  Rose Sullivan : A few days later, he promoted me, told me that what happened was just between he and I, and that he'd do it again any time he wanted.

  Amanda Rollins : Did you tell anybody? I mean, any other dancers or friends or family?

  Rose Sullivan : I told the one person who I thought could help me; Alistair. Alistair said he would help me, that I could do a lot better than Sascha.

  Olivia Benson : And what did he mean?

  Rose Sullivan : Every year at the gala auction, dinner with the prima ballerina is the top item. But what's expected is not just dinner. Alistair said if I'd let him auction me off, he'd get Sascha to back down. Then he told me if I said no, he'd leak Jason's sex tape, fire me immediately for cause, and blackball me with every other company.

  Olivia Benson : So that's why you left.

  Rose Sullivan : I didn't even dance the premiere. I couldn't go on that night. And Alistair was right. I've never danced since.