Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

American Tragedy (2013)

Cybill Shepherd: Jolene Castille

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• Jolene Castille : [to Rollins]  Where are you from, honey? Georgia? How'd they put you up to this charade?

  Amanda Rollins : Excuse me?

  Jolene Castille : We both know if we were down home, I'd be getting a medal.

• Rafael Barba : [to Jolene]  On the night you saw Mehcad Carter, did you see a field hand, a jungle animal or just a boy trying to make his way home?

  Ben Cohen : Objection.

  Jolene Castille : No, I want to answer that. I saw a hooded man following me. I told him to back off, and he came through my gate.

  Rafael Barba : So if it had been a white man who was walking behind you, would you have told him to get back? Would you have pulled your gun?

  Ben Cohen : Objection.

  Jolene Castille : If it was a white boy, I wouldn't have been afraid.

  Rafael Barba : So, let's be clear. Mehcad Carter didn't have to do anything. He didn't have to say anything. He just had to be a black boy standing on your sidewalk and that gave you the right to shoot him?

  Jolene Castille : That's not what I said.

  Rafael Barba : Isn't it? Nothing further.

• Jolene Castille : [to Olivia]  I was afraid for my life.

  Olivia Benson : He was 16.

  Jolene Castille : He was 6-foot tall and he was coming after me. You're a cop. You've known what it's like to be a woman, alone, vulnerable.

  Olivia Benson : He wasn't a rapist. He was just a boy.

  Jolene Castille : I know, I know. I don't have any children. My restaurants are my babies. God, the look in his parents' eyes... That boy is dead and there's not anything I can do about it. I'm sorry.

• Rafael Barba : Ms. Castille, you just said you love your black employees.

  Jolene Castille : I love all my employees. I have a gay Japanese assistant.

  Rafael Barba : Good for you.