Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Confess Your Sins to Be Free (2022)

Peter Scanavino: ADA Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi, Jr.

Quotes 

• ADA Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi, Jr. : Ryan. I was so proud of you when you were ordained. But taking the blame for the sins that Father Regis committed... you're letting him choke you with your own collar.

  Father Ryan Duffy : I... I don't have a choice.

  ADA Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi, Jr. : Yes, you do. And you and I both know how our church works. He confessed to you. You absolved him. And now... now they're gonna transfer him to another poor parish where he's gonna rape again.

  Father Ryan Duffy : Sonny, are you still asking a priest to break his vows?

  ADA Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi, Jr. : No. I'm asking you to look into your heart. I'm asking you to look into your soul. At what point do your vows become more important than your fellow human beings? What if he rapes a child? Huh? Or he murders somebody? Are you gonna absolve him then? Let him keep doing what he's doing? Is that what you're gonna do, Ryan?

  Father Ryan Duffy : You swore to uphold the law. I vowed to uphold a higher law.

  ADA Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi, Jr. : The God I believe in would not sanction rape to protect canon law.

  Father Ryan Duffy : Are you asking me to leave the order, my calling, to reveal a confessional secret?

  ADA Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi, Jr. : Maybe I am, Ryan. Because I believe if you stay silent right now, on Judgement Day, you'll answer to God for it.