Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Intoxicated (2005)

Glenne Headly: Attorney Simone Bryce

Quotes 

• A.D.A. Casey Novak : She'll be in a juvenile facility, no hard time.

  Attorney Simone Bryce : I polled the jury; eleven of them thought she was guilty. You would've had your murder two conviction. Why'd you plead her out?

  [Casey nods to Olivia] 

• Denise Eldridge : I'm a parent. I have rights, too.

  Attorney Simone Bryce : Not when it comes to Carrie's privacy and sexual matters.

  Denise Eldridge : [to Carrie]  I don't care what she says. We're not leaving here until you've been checked out.

  Attorney Simone Bryce : It's her body, and she's made her decision.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Why don't you take your daughter home, Mrs. Eldridge? We're done here.

  Denise Eldridge : My daughter's been violated. Whose side are you on?

  Detective Olivia Benson : Hers.

• Detective Olivia Benson : Women who suffer from PMDD always have one week where they don't have any symptoms. All their anxiety, psychosis, depression is gone. One normal week starting from around day four of their period. Carrie killed her mother on day six. Which means she couldn't have had any symptoms.

  Carrie Lynn Eldridge : I was early this month.

  Detective Olivia Benson : You put this defense in her head.

  Attorney Simone Bryce : She tied my hands behind my back and wouldn't let me tell the whole story.

  Detective Olivia Benson : About the drinking.

  Attorney Simone Bryce : Yeah.

  Detective Olivia Benson : You didn't want anyone to know. You were too ashamed. Carrie, tell me what really happened.

  Attorney Simone Bryce : [Carrie looks at her in worry]  It... it can't hurt you anymore.

  Carrie Lynn Eldridge : I was at school that day when Justin called me on my cell and told me that... he told me that he didn't want to see me anymore, because he was afraid of my mother.

  [starting to cry] 

  Carrie Lynn Eldridge : And I tried to deal, but I just couldn't. So I went home. My mother was there. And I... I tried to talk to her. I really did. But she... she just picked up a bottle and started drinking. She said that if she couldn't put Justin in prison, that she was gonna get him fired from his job. She was gonna do anything she could so that he wouldn't love me anymore. And I told her that I would always be with Justin, and that I would rather be homeless than spend another minute with her. And then she slapped me really hard. She called me a slut. And she hit me again, and again, and again. And I just lost it. I grabbed a lamp. And I hit her over and over and over. I loved my mom very much. But when she was drunk, she wasn't a mother.

• Carrie Lynn Eldridge : Justin?

  Justin Sharp : Carrie.

  Carrie Lynn Eldridge : She said you were... why did you tell them everything?

  Justin Sharp : No, I swear, I didn't say a thing. But they saw you. They... they saw you on the web cam.

  Carrie Lynn Eldridge : [to Benson]  You lied to me?

  [turning to Simone] 

  Carrie Lynn Eldridge : She can't do that, can she?

  Attorney Simone Bryce : They do it all the time. That's why I told you to stop.

  Carrie Lynn Eldridge : You lying bitch! I hate you!

  [Carrie moves to attack Benson, but Stabler intervenes and drags her out of the room] 

  Carrie Lynn Eldridge : I hate you! I hate you, you lying bitch! You lying bitch! I hate you! You ruined my life, you lying bitch!