Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Know It All (2017)

Raúl Esparza: ADA Rafael Barba

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  Rafael Barba : Word is Willard's attorney's already scrambling to make a deal.

  Olivia Benson : Look, unless he pleads to murder, I say try the case.

  Rafael Barba : Me, too, but I have no input. I'm off the case.

  Olivia Benson : I'm so sorry about all of this, Rafael.

  Rafael Barba : What I did was wrong, but the truth is I'd do it again. Not everything done in the dark is shameful.

  Olivia Benson : So now what?

  Rafael Barba : I have a meeting with the D.A. in five minutes. He'll tell me what happens next. You know, I love this job. Oh, I really do, but sometimes...

  Olivia Benson : Oh, I know.

• Rafael Barba : Wait a minute. They're about to build a statue in your honor at 1PP for catching the serial killer/rapist that had the whole city on edge. Now you're telling me this guy didn't do it?

  Olivia Benson : He didn't do one.

  Rafael Barba : Right, because why? Because her boyfriend had sex with her before she was killed?

  Olivia Benson : Her controlling, emotionally abusive boyfriend whom she broke up with that night.

  Rafael Barba : So he killed her in her apartment and transported her to the construction site.

  Olivia Benson : Four blocks away. Completely doable.

  Rafael Barba : And then what? Then he left her there with her hands tied with a rope, hair shorn, using the exact M.O. as the Second Avenue Strangler? No, that information was private. Willard could not know those details.

  Olivia Benson : Unless... unless he hacked into NYPD's computer system. He's a technical genius. If anyone could do it, he could.

  Rafael Barba : Okay, so in your scenario, Willard, with his dead girlfriend in the room, hacked the NYPD, and then tied her with a rope.

  Olivia Benson : A rope that the Second Avenue Strangler never used before. A rope that Willard found in Jennifer's apartment.

  Rafael Barba : Which is your only actual piece of real evidence.

  Olivia Benson : Which is a damn good piece of evidence.

  Rafael Barba : True.

  Olivia Benson : If the rope matches...

  Rafael Barba : The crusading Lieutenant Benson gets her man. And upsets a very large apple cart in the process.