Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Game (2005)

Diane Neal: ADA Casey Novak

Quotes 

• Casey Novak : [to Garrett]  Larry got that e-mail two hours before he killed himself. Did you want to push him over the edge?

  Garrett Perle : No.

  Casey Novak : Oh, then why would you send it, huh? Did the game make you do that, too?

  Garrett Perle : No.

  Casey Novak : Then why?

  Garrett Perle : It was a joke.

  Casey Novak : First you say kicking a woman to death is a game and now this is a joke? Do you think this is funny?

  Garrett Perle : You're confusing me.

  Casey Novak : Well, you weren't confused. You knew exactly what you were doing. You were afraid Larry was going to turn you in to the police. So you preyed on him until he killed himself.

  [points to the photo in the e-mail] 

  Casey Novak : Larry Tauber, murderer, LMAO. What's that mean, LMAO? Why don't you tell us?

  Garrett Perle : Laughing my ass off.

  Casey Novak : What? I'm sorry. I can't hear you.

  Garrett Perle : Laughing my ass off!

  Casey Novak : Larry's dead, Melody's dead and you're laughing your ass off.

  Garrett Perle : Yeah, you bet I am. Because you are a joke. This whole damn thing is a joke.

• Casey Novak : [in her closing statement]  Did Garrett and Louise get the idea from a game? Yes. But we get ideas all the time, from books, from TV, from friends, from life, from everywhere. We don't act on them. We know that the idea doesn't justify the deed. Don't let Mr. Gates blind you to the facts. Real people ran over a real person and then they beat her to death. Melody Quinn felt real pain. She bled real blood, and she died a horrible and lonely death. It was not a game. Now, did Melody's killers know what they were doing? Well, their taunting of Larry Tauber, the one member of their trio with the humanity to feel regret, proves that they did. Garrett Perle said it himself, "It was a joke." Well, you know what? Murder is no joke, so don't let them use a game as an excuse for their cruel and callous actions.

• Oliver Gates : Garrett plays these games up to 40 hours a week.

  Casey Novak : It's amazing he found the time to commit murder.

• U.S. Attorney Raul Menedez : [after the detectives discover that the surveillance tape of the murder has been taken away by the U.S. Attorney's Office]  You can't have it. As soon as that tape appears in discovery, the defense will want to know context, provenance, everything.

  Casey Novak : It won't affect any ongoing operation.

  U.S. Attorney Raul Menedez : I can't risk surveillance of a vital target in a war against terror becoming front page news.

  Casey Novak : But that's more important than letting two psychopaths walk free?

  U.S. Attorney Raul Menedez : Frankly, yes. If this tape's your only evidence, you should ask the NYPD to get off their asses and find you some more.

  Elliot Stabler : I met your vital target. This guy's no terrorist. He's a sleazy joke.

  Casey Novak : I need the tape, Raul.

  U.S. Attorney Raul Menedez : I said you can't have the tape because there is no tape.