Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Dependent (2007)

Cary Elwes: Sidney Truex

Quotes 

• Sidney Truex : [after Charlotte ends up in the hospital after attempting suicide] 

  [to Elliot and Olivia] 

  Sidney Truex : What'd you do to my daughter, hmm? She gonna be okay?

  Olivia Benson : She's sleeping. The doctor says she's gonna be fine.

  Sidney Truex : Oh, fine. Sure, sure. She's lucky you didn't kill her.

  Elliot Stabler : We didn't slit her wrist.

  Sidney Truex : [yelling]  No, but you interrogated her without a lawyer present! You told her she did it! You made her suicidal with your accusations and innuendo!

  Olivia Benson : No, the drugs that she was on made her depressed and her own guilt made her suicidal.

  Sidney Truex : She's innocent, Detective.

  Olivia Benson : Well, you know that's not true since you're the one who saw her at the house.

  Sidney Truex : I had a head injury. I don't know who I saw. And stay away from Charlotte. As soon as she's discharged, I'm taking her home.

  Elliot Stabler : She's going to Rikers.

  Sidney Truex : Over my dead body!

• Casey Novak : You can't represent your own daughter, Sidney.

  Sidney Truex : There's no way I'm letting Charlotte go to jail.

  Casey Novak : I think you're letting your feelings get in the way of your judgment.

  Sidney Truex : She's my daughter. I love her and I know what's best for her.

  Casey Novak : Then don't gamble with her life.

  Sidney Truex : I'm not and I won't lose. You see, my daughter's a drug addict. She's depressed. She needs help, not prison.

  Casey Novak : So Charlotte's the victim? I see.

  Sidney Truex : That's how the jury will see her.

  Casey Novak : And then I'm gonna show the jury pictures of the crime scene with blood everywhere. And how do you think they're gonna vote after they hear Charlotte sodomized her own mother with a candlestick?

  Sidney Truex : They'll see a young girl with serious emotional problems.

• Olivia Benson : [to Sidney]  Your son put Ryan here the night of the murder. Forensics confirmed that she wasn't alone. Now, only Charlotte can tell us what really happened.

  Sidney Truex : She doesn't remember.

  Olivia Benson : That's why I wanna give her a sodium amytal interview.

  Sidney Truex : Let me get this straight. My daughter is a recovering drug addict. You want me to let you pump her full of barbiturates just so you can save your partner's ass?

  Olivia Benson : It's your daughter's ass too. She's still charged with murder. Now, if Ryan is the killer, this will exonerate her.

  Sidney Truex : Why are you suddenly so concerned about my daughter?

  Olivia Benson : 'Cause I don't want anyone going to jail for a crime they didn't commit.

  Sidney Truex : You mean you don't want your partner going to prison.

  Olivia Benson : IAB sees Ryan as a defenseless kid who was brutally murdered by an out-of-control cop. And when the grand jury gets the case, they're gonna see him as an innocent victim.

  Sidney Truex : Unless my daughter points the finger at Ryan and swings the jury's sympathies over to Detective Stabler. You should've been a lawyer.

  Olivia Benson : I have no hard evidence of Ryan's guilt. The only chance that my partner has is if I prove that Ryan killed your wife.