Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Mean (2004)
Diane Neal: ADA Casey Novak
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Quotes
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Lionel Granger : [on the defendants] They're us, Casey. Our sisters, our daughters, our high school girlfriends. No one wants to believe...
Casey Novak : No, they're monsters. They're mean, vicious little girls who think they can do whatever they want, and up until now they've gotten away with it. But not anymore.
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Attorney Lynne Riff : So, uh, you say Andrea and Paige never asked you to stop. Let me ask you this: did Emily?
Brittany O'Malley : [scoffs] I guess.
Attorney Lynne Riff : You guess? What, didn't she beg you to stop? Didn't she offer you money, her diamond earrings, anything you wanted?
Brittany O'Malley : Yes.
Attorney Lynne Riff : Didn't she cry out for her mother, and you thought that was funny?
Brittany O'Malley : [defiant stare] Yes.
Attorney Lynne Riff : Who was it that cut Emily's skin with scissors over 100 times?
Brittany O'Malley : I did.
Attorney Lynne Riff : And who brought a knife and later used it to cut Emily's throat?
Brittany O'Malley : Me.
Attorney Lynne Riff : And the cigarettes you went out to buy, you used those to burn Emily's skin, right?
Brittany O'Malley : Right.
Attorney Lynne Riff : So the truth is, you didn't want Andrea and Paige to help you torture and kill Emily. You just wanted an audience.
Casey Novak : Objection.
Attorney Lynne Riff : Withdrawn. Nothing further.
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Casey Novak : No one's going to believe that, Andrea. This lie you and your friends cooked up, it's a bad one, so if you've got anything you want to say to me before I walk out that door, you better say it now.
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Casey Novak : You feel bad now for everything that happened to Emily.
Andrea Kent : Yes. When I got home that morning, I threw up. But I was afraid.
Casey Novak : Of getting caught? Of Brittany?
Andrea Kent : No. I was afraid if I told, Brittany wouldn't be my friend.
Casey Novak : You said your cover story was going out to celebrate your birthday. January... that makes you a Capricorn, right?
Andrea Kent : Yeah.
Casey Novak : What's your birthstone?
Roger Kressler : Objection. Relevance?
Casey Novak : I'm getting to it, Your Honor.
Attorney Lynne Riff : Hurry it up, Ms. Novak. The witness will answer the question.
Andrea Kent : My birthstone's garnet.
Casey Novak : That's what I thought. I see you're wearing your class ring. That's my birthstone: sapphire. September birthday. You know who else had a September birthday, Andrea?
Roger Kressler : Objection.
Attorney Lynne Riff : Relevance?
Judge Lena Petrovsky : Overruled.
Casey Novak : Didn't Emily have a September birthday?
Andrea Kent : I don't know.
Casey Novak : Emily had a class ring. It was engraved with her name. It was never found with her body. Your Honor, would you instruct the defendant to remove her ring?
Judge Lena Petrovsky : Hand it to me, Ms. Kent.
[pause]
Andrea Kent : [blurts] Paige gave it to me. She took it off Emily after she was dead!
Paige Summerbee : You're a liar! You took her Prada purse!
Attorney Lynne Riff : [stands up] Sidebar, Your Honor.
Andrea Kent : She's got Emily's clothes, too! The ones with all the blood on them!
Casey Novak : [walks towards the witness stand, directly facing Andrea] If you feel so bad about what happened, then why are you wearing a dead girl's ring?