Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Girls Disappeared (2014)

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

Quotes 

• Dominick Carisi, Jr. : [First appearance]  They shot at cops right outside the station? So, they want us to know they're crazy.

  Olivia Benson : You must be my new detective.

  Dominick Carisi, Jr. : Dominick Carisi Jr. Call me Sonny. I brought zeppoli.

  Olivia Benson : I asked for an experienced, emphatic detective and... and they send you?

  Dominick Carisi, Jr. : I'm way experienced, sensitive and moody too. And I can do that whole empathy thing.

  Amanda Rollins : Where are you from?

  Dominick Carisi, Jr. : Uh, Staten Island SVU for two months, Brooklyn for almost a month and then Queens last week.

  Olivia Benson : So they love you wherever you go, Carisi?

  Dominick Carisi, Jr. : Call me Sonny. I was supposed to start tomorrow, but I heard about the shooting over the scanner, so I came in.

• Olivia Benson : [to Carisi]  What are you, an immigration lawyer?

  Dominick Carisi, Jr. : Halfway there. Night school, Fordham Law. I just did a term paper on "T" non-immigrant status. She's a good candidate.

  Olivia Benson : So you did a paper and now you told her that you have pull?

  Dominick Carisi, Jr. : It doesn't actually matter if I'm actually telling the truth. I mean, I got her to believe I am.

  Olivia Benson : Look, that may work in Staten Island, but that's not how we do things here, okay?

  Dominick Carisi, Jr. : My apologies, sergeant.

• Luna Garcia : [to Carisi]  How's my application for "T" status going?

  Dominick Carisi, Jr. : I'm working on it.

  Olivia Benson : [about Selena]  Luna, do you know her?

  Luna Garcia : Everybody knows Selena. She's in charge of us.

  Olivia Benson : So she's the enforcer?

  Luna Garcia : Yes, but now she thinks she's better because she works for them. She used to be like us. She tells me it's my fault I'm a whore.

  Olivia Benson : Your fault?

  Luna Garcia : She asks how could I be so stupid? In our village, Vargas, every girl knew it could happen and I did what my mother said. I never wore makeup, I tried to look ugly, no dresses and when the Narcos come, you hide.

  Olivia Benson : It's okay.

  Luna Garcia : One day, I was hiding with my kitten when she ran away. I climbed out after her and they took me just after my first communion.

  Dominick Carisi, Jr. : Luna, why did you say "our village?"

  Luna Garcia : Selena was one of the first girls taken. Everybody knew her story. She was at the market one day with her mother and she let go of her mama's hand. And that was it. And everybody knew she got taken to Tenancingo. Same place I got taken.

• Dominick Carisi, Jr. : [to Luna]  How long you been on the streets? One year, two? Six months before that, you're in Mexico getting turned out. You have any hope left? You still praying to our lady of Guadalupe every night, asking her forgiveness?