Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Brothel (2019)

Joanne Baron: Counselor Diane Schwartz

Quotes 

• Olivia Benson : Detective Carlos Ramirez, Officer Felicia Taggart, and Devon Jones are all being arraigned as we speak.

  Dominick Carisi : Yeah, they all told IAB that you were the mastermind of the whole operation.

  Judge Edward Kofax : That's ridiculous.

  Dominick Carisi : Every detail, how you hand-picked vulnerable girls, and then you got the cops to do your dirty work.

  Judge Edward Kofax : Testimony of co-conspirators. They don't know the real story.

  Olivia Benson : Well, Judge Barth is cooperating, and, by the way, so is your wife.

  Judge Edward Kofax : My wife doesn't know anything.

  Dominick Carisi : We're gonna find the money. Kofax, it's over.

  Counselor Diane Schwartz : Maybe it's time we called in the ADA.

• Judge Edward Kofax : There is no money, I didn't take a dime. I was helping those girls.

  Olivia Benson : By trafficking them? By using their addiction as a weapon?

  Judge Edward Kofax : They wanted a fix. I just gave them what they wanted. I took care of them.

  Olivia Benson : You took care of them?

  [showing him a picture of Torie's body] 

  Olivia Benson : Torie Meeks, 22 years old, dead.

  [showing him Anne's picture] 

  Olivia Benson : Anne Kuzmin, 25 years old, survived by the skin of her teeth. And four others under your care, under your protection, in your courtoom.

  Judge Edward Kofax : And I protected all of them.

  Olivia Benson : You protected them. How?

  Judge Edward Kofax : Like they were my own daughters. Lisa White, Farrah Bashir, Britt Baker, Anya Pliskova; she was 18. They were all dead already.

  Dominick Carisi : What are you talking about?

  Judge Edward Kofax : Their souls were dead the minute they walked into my courtroom. Junkies, addicts, thieves stealing their own lives, their own futures from their parents, who loved them, who were helpless. I kept their daughters safe. I made sure they only had good, clean doses, no ODs, kept them alive.

  Counselor Diane Schwartz : That's enough, Edward.

  Judge Edward Kofax : It is not enough! It's never enough. They're dead inside. Their eyes are dead. But if they're still breathing, if their hearts were still beating, then there was a chance. If I'd given Delia that chance, maybe...

  Dominick Carisi : Delia?

  Judge Edward Kofax : She was 16 when she overdosed. It did not have to end that way. Her body in the ground... cold alone... my little girl.