Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Post-Mortem Blues (2014)

Elizabeth Marvel: Rita Calhoun

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• Ed Tucker : Which hand was Lewis holding the gun in?

  Olivia Benson : Lewis had two guns. He had a Glock that he kept pointed at either Amelia or myself, and he had his revolver.

  Ed Tucker : Now, when he shot himself with the revolver, which hand was that gun in?

  Olivia Benson : His left hand.

  Ed Tucker : Even though he's right handed?

  Olivia Benson : Lewis deliberatley switched hands. He forced me to play Russian roulette. In the first round, he held the gun in his right hand. And on the final round, with one bullet left in the chamber, he switched it to his left hand. He pointed the gun at me, and then he turned it on himself.

  Ed Tucker : [stopping the recording]  Hold on one second. Let me get this straight, Sergeant. With seconds to live, one bullet in the revolver, the rest of your squad rushing to your aid. You're unarmed, you're tied to a table. He points the gun at you, but instead of firing, he turns the gun to his head and ends his own life?

  Olivia Benson : That's exactly what happened.

  Rita Calhoun : What's going on?

  Ed Tucker : Rita, please. Look, we have no problem with Lewis being dead. But your insistence on telling us that this was a suicide makes it start to sound like a bad cover story.

  Olivia Benson : And I'm telling you the truth.

  Sergeant Cole Draper : The GSR, the prints, the fact that he was shot in the left temple, all consistent with your having shot him with your right hand.

  Olivia Benson : [emphatic]  I didn't shoot Lewis!

  Ed Tucker : I mean, is it possible that there was a struggle for the gun? You were trying to save the little girl?

  Olivia Benson : That's not what happened.

  Ed Tucker : If there was a struggle for the gun, and you pulled the trigger to save your life or the life of the little girl. That's a case IAB can close.