Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Military Justice (2013)

Danny Pino: Detective Nick Amaro

Quotes 

• Olivia Benson : [about Amelia]  She was gang-raped, and he calls it "poor judgment on her part."

  Donald Cragen : Easy, Olivia, it's not our turf.

  Nick Amaro : They don't want women here in the first place. She gets raped. They're gonna use it to end her career.

• Odafin Tutuola : [after Amaro was talking on the phone to his ex-wife]  Everything all right?

  Nick Amaro : A word of advice: Don't get divorced.

  Amanda Rollins : Think I'm good.

• Nick Amaro : [to Maria]  You're a single woman in the military, okay? So just please, please be careful.

• Odafin Tutuola : [to Lippitt]  I'm going to ask you again. Was there a fourth man there with you?

  Petty Officer Zeke Lipitt : No. Maybe she had sex with someone else that day. See, this is why everyone at sector is calling her a whore. When we left her, she wanted more. She probably went out and banged one of those Mexicans after.

  Nick Amaro : Really. So that's it? That's all you got? You know, I want you to think about what you just said a year from now while you're getting turned out by your cell mates in Attica.

• Rafael Barba : [about the trial]  That went about as badly as it could have gone.

  Amanda Rollins : They heard the extent of her injuries, the results of the rape kit.

  Rafael Barba : Uh-huh. All it takes is one juror to believe that she likes rough sex.

  Olivia Benson : Rough sex? They practically tore her apart.

  Amanda Rollins : You're gonna get these guys on the stand. You're gonna break...

  Rafael Barba : Not a chance. After today, the defense won't bother to put the guys up there. She was drunk, her story changed, her details are inconsistent. Cue the reasonable doubt acquittal.

  Nick Amaro : I might have something that can help. Taverts' testimony at a military hearing...

  Rafael Barba : Stop! No, stop talking.

  Amanda Rollins : Okay, you all right, counselor?

  Rafael Barba : You almost tripped over the Garrity Rule. Everything in this file is dirty. An officer can't invoke at a military hearing, so the courts consider this testimony to be compelled, to be coerced.

  Olivia Benson : So these statements cannot be used in a criminal prosecution.

  Rafael Barba : If I even so much as look at this file, I have to recuse myself from the case. Mistrial. Game over.

• Donald Cragen : An admiral's daughter comes into our city and gets gang-raped.

  Olivia Benson : Well, they're not gonna get it from her.

  Amanda Rollins : And what about the guys she came in with?

  Olivia Benson : Oh, they're back on their base.

  Nick Amaro : Well, military and rape. They won't be happy to see us.

  Donald Cragen : Well, that's too bad. We're investigating an assault on one of their own. They'll cooperate.