Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Retro (2008)

Tamara Tunie: ME Dr. Melinda Warner

Quotes 

• Dr. Melinda Warner : [going after Hutton on court steps]  City Health Department Study says New Yorkers contract H.I.V. three times the national rate. That a lie too?

  Dr. Gideon Hutton : [turns to her]  Wake up, Doctor. We have immunized people against every viral disease for two centuries. We know that people produce antibodies to H.I.V. So why is there no anti-AIDS vaccine and why hasn't one AIDS patient ever been cured?

  Dr. Melinda Warner : You son-of-a-bitch. We all want a cure for AIDS. You're killing people with your outrageous beliefs.

  Dr. Gideon Hutton : My beliefs are scientific fact.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : They're junk science. You're a murderer and a false prophet.

  Dr. Gideon Hutton : That's what they called Jesus Christ.

  [gives her a small smile and descends the stairs and Greylek comes into view to talk to Warner] 

  Dr. Melinda Warner : Hope the jury doesn't think he's the son of God.

  A.D.A. Kim Greylek : Jurors love conspiracy theories. I'm afraid they might buy the garbage Dr. Strangelove's selling.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : [turns to Greylek]  If we lose this case, it gives him credibility and more people will die.

• Dr. Melinda Warner : Two-thirds of the world's HIV-positive kids get infected during pregnancy or at birth from the mother. The rest acquire it during breastfeeding.

  A.D.A. Kim Greylek : Okay, so Susan could have passed the virus to Lisa either way.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : It's a shame. HIV-positive women in this country have a 98% chance of having a healthy baby if they take antiretrovirals during pregnancy and put the child on meds after birth.

• Donna Emmett : [to Dr Warner]  True or false, Doctor: every disease allegedly caused by AIDS can also appear in people who don't have HIV.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : True.

  Donna Emmett : Was there HIV in Lisa Ross' blood?

  Dr. Melinda Warner : No, but she...

  Donna Emmett : Then isn't it possible that her PCP pneumonia was caused by something other than HIV? Yes or no?

  Dr. Melinda Warner : It's not that simple.

  Donna Emmett : Do you have a hearing problem, Doctor?

  A.D.A. Kim Greylek : Your Honor, is she going to let her finish a sentence?

  Judge Walter Bradley : Ms. Emmett, that's enough.