Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Devastating Story (2015)

Ally Ioannides: Heather Manning

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• Professor Jessica Dillon : [to Olivia]  I hope, going forward, that we can kick apart their stories, not Heather's.

  Olivia Benson : We can, and we will. And I hope, going forward, Heather, that you'll stop talking to the press and at rallies about this so we can do our job. You understand?

  Heather Manning : There's only one problem with that.

  Olivia Benson : Which is what?

  Heather Manning : I'm supposed to go on Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow tonight.

  Olivia Benson : Heather, you're going to have to cancel those.

  Professor Jessica Dillon : That's impossible. It's it's too late. These issues are finally being brought to national attention. The whole country is waking up to the rape epidemic on our campuses.

  Olivia Benson : I thought that you said that you wanted to bring your assailants to justice.

  Heather Manning : I did say that. I do, but this is so much more than that now. I'm the face of a movement.

• Heather Manning : Once the story got out there, I had all these survivors coming to me and disclosing, counting on me to be their strength. I couldn't just take back my story.

  Olivia Benson : But your story wasn't true, Heather.

  Heather Manning : Brian may think he didn't rape me, but we were both drunk. Professor Dillon told me that that means that I wasn't capable of consenting. She also said that once I passed out, there's no way to know what happened to me. I could have been gang-raped.

  Olivia Benson : But we can't make that case.

  Heather Manning : What about Connor? I know he raped me. Brian left and I was passed out. I was half-naked and then I came to because Connor was raping me, hard, violent.

  Olivia Benson : Did anybody else see?

  Heather Manning : Yes. Brian came in. He saw everything and then he just turned and walked away. Like you're doing now.

  Olivia Benson : I believe you, Heather, but a jury is going to have reasonable doubt.

  Heather Manning : So that's it? I have to go to school every day and see my rapist?

  Olivia Benson : I'm sorry, Heather. I'm sorry about all of it and if there was something I could do to go back and change it, I would, but at this point, there's nothing we can do.