Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Swimming with the Sharks (2020)

Peter Scanavino: ADA Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi, Jr.

Quotes 

• Luna Prasada : [When Olivia and Carisi talk to Luna and her lawyer in Rikers]  The other inmates held me down, and I heard somebody say, "Oh, yeah, she needs to know what it's like to be raped by another woman."

  Olivia Benson : Oh, Luna, I am... I am so sorry.

  Luna Prasada : The thing is, she was probably right. I mean, I must be guilty 'cause there is no other explanation.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Your client wants to change her plea?

  Dara Miglani : Against my advice.

  Luna Prasada : I... I can't go through the trial. I just want this to be over.

  Olivia Benson : Are you saying that you did embezzle from We-B-Well? That you did assault Tisa Chee?

  Luna Prasada : I'm saying that I can't remember. At first, I thought, "Oh, oh, they're setting me up." Someone's gotta be setting me up. " I read your emails. I read the documents. It sounds like me. It's got to be me.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Ms. Prasada, if you're gonna change your plea to guilty, you have to admit your guilt.

  Luna Prasada : So I've got to swear to crimes that I don't remember or I have no awareness of? Oh, my God. Have I lost my mind? I gotta be crazy! I mean, that's the only thing that makes any sense! Oh, I mean, as a woman, you know, I always thought, "I've gotta be strong. "I'm... I can I can get on top of things. I can take control of things, 'cause I'm a woman!" You know? I've always been about empowering women. Women, because we can overcome things. We can overcome anything. We can. We're women, okay? We're women! I can't overcome this. I feel like I've been betrayed by my mind. I'm going insane. I think I'm going insane!

• Amanda Rollins : Bobby Frost, Stanford frat boy. A decade in Silicon Valley before becoming the CFO of Luna's company, We-B-Well.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Any criminal record?

  Amanda Rollins : College DUIs, a divorce with mutual DV allegations. Basically, nothing worse than your typical congressman.

• Vinay Gupta : Luna is not the easiest, but I believe in what we've built, and I... I can't say anything that's gonna damage the IPO.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : No, we're way past that now. You're looking at fraud, money laundering...

  Vinay Gupta : I was only doing my job.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, traditionally, not a great excuse for breaking the law.

• Counselor Art Blumfeld : What exactly do you have on my client?

  Olivia Benson : She's part of a conspiracy with Vinay Gupta and Bobby Frost to frame Luna for embezzlement and to rape her.

  Melanie Franks : No. No, that was never part of the plan.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : When you help plan a rape, you're just as guilty as the rapist.

  Melanie Franks : [Blumfeld whispers in her ear]  No, Bobby told me that never happened, that Luna was making it up.

  Olivia Benson : Well, after he saw the rape kit results, he told us that it was consensual sex.

  Melanie Franks : God damn it. Bobby... he never got over her dumping him.

  Olivia Benson : And you had nothing to do with this assault?

  Melanie Franks : No, I swear. It was all to protect the company. We all knew that at some point, Luna was going to drive us over a cliff, with an HR lawsuit, the FDA. She has no boundaries. It's all about her all of the time.

  Counselor Art Blumfeld : Have Bobby and Vinay cooperated yet?

  [Carisi shakes his head] 

  Counselor Art Blumfeld : So we get the cheese?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : The whole wheel.

  Olivia Benson : He has to cut a deal with you, but... if it was up to me...

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : Luna is... is not faking this. She had... she had a breakdown right... right in front of us.

  Vanessa Hadid : Okay, I hear you, but we're not dropping the charges against Luna. In fact, we're moving forward on the prosecution.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : What?

  Vanessa Hadid : Prep all four accusers for a grand jury.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Why? So they can nail down their stories? Get immunity? All due respect, Ms. Hadid...

  Vanessa Hadid : If they're going to lie, I want them on record. Right now, they think they've gotten away with toppling Luna. If this is some sort of conspiracy, we don't want them to know we're on to them.

  Olivia Benson : Fair enough. Start with the victim Tisa. There's no way that she's the mastermind.

• Vanessa Hadid : [to Melanie]  I spent five years in white collar crime, Ms. Franks. I see offshore LLCs, that's a red flag.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, most often for embezzlement, drug running or money laundering, so which are you involved with?

  Melanie Franks : None of them. I tried to tell Luna it would look bad. She stopped listening to me. We've known each other a long time. Her star rising, the money, celebrity friends She let it go to her head. My mother used to say, "You climb too fast, you end up gasping for air."

• Bobby Frost : She's created her whole persona as a sales tool, and it worked.

  Counselor Lisa Turner : Until my client started preparing the IPO prospectus.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Due diligence, huh? So, what'd you find out?

  Bobby Frost : Well, at first, small things. Travel and expenses were overly generous. Spa visits categorized as research. Then I dig deeper and, fast-forward...

  Counselor Lisa Turner : She's embezzling on a major scale.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : But you didn't report that to the D.A. or the SEC?

  Amanda Rollins : Or us when we first talked to you?

  Counselor Lisa Turner : My client's only crime is putting his concern for his company over his concern for himself.

  Bobby Frost : If word gets out, this torpedoes the IPO, thousands of jobs gone, but Luna is forcing my hand.

  Amanda Rollins : One last chance. What happened when you walked into Luna's room?

  Bobby Frost : I showed her my spreadsheets.

  Amanda Rollins : Mm-hmm.

  Bobby Frost : I told her she could reimburse the company, and we could paper it over.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : And how did she respond to that?

  Bobby Frost : By seducing me. She takes off her clothes. She gets down on her knees.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : And you went along with it.

  Amanda Rollins : We get the picture. Go on.

  Bobby Frost : She pulls me into that feng shui thing she calls a bed. We're going at it, and boom, her assistant, Sequoia, walks in. Luna pushes me off of her and cries rape.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : So you're the victim here?

  Bobby Frost : Thank you. Yeah, me and the company, too.

• Katriona Tamin : Security cams show Frost entering Luna's suite at 8:30 p.m. and exiting 34 minutes later.

  Olivia Benson : Did we get results from the rape kit and her exam?

  Amanda Rollins : Yeah, tox screen showed high levels of alcohol, marijuana, and Adderall.

  Olivia Benson : Which she also told me about.

  Katriona Tamin : Also the presence of trauma and semen, not inconsistent with assault.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, also not inconsistent with rough sex if he gets a good defense attorney.

  Olivia Benson : [sarcastic]  Thank you, counselor.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : How... how cooperative is Luna?

  Olivia Benson : She said that we can start the investigation, but she's afraid of how it will affect her company's upcoming IPO.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Any outcry witnesses?

  Olivia Benson : Yes. Her assistant, Sequoia, texted me right after it happened.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : All right, take her statement, and let's see if we can catch this guy Frost off guard.

• Vinay Gupta : Bobby Frost gave you these?

  Amanda Rollins : Yeah, he said as chief tech officer, you could shed light on some of these IT expenses. Like, uh, this one here, yeah, for $800,000. That's your signature?

  Vinay Gupta : I sign off on dozens of projects every month.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : So that's a yes? Did you get any feedback about the work that was done?

  Vinay Gupta : I don't recall receiving any complaints.

  Amanda Rollins : Yeah, you wouldn't have, because the vendor doesn't exist. It's a shell company, and when we try to track the money down, it disappears into a Carribbean LLC.

  Vinay Gupta : [getting the implication]  I'm not laundering money.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Then who submitted the bill?

  Vinay Gupta : It was Luna Prasada.

  Amanda Rollins : Did she say what the work was for?

  Vinay Gupta : Not specifically, no.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : You didn't ask? You usually sign six-figure checks without knowing what they're for?

  Vinay Gupta : She made it clear that wasn't my concern. Look, she's starting a charitable foundation. She mentioned needing to move money around for tax reasons. She swore is was all legal.

  Amanda Rollins : And you just went along?

  Vinay Gupta : She's the boss. The tech officer before me? She fired him because she didn't like the color of his aura.

• Melanie Franks : So Vinay said that she was diverting our tech budget to fund the foundation? My god. There's no saying no to Luna.

  Amanda Rollins : But you're the chief operating officer. It's your job to keep her in line, right?

  Melanie Franks : She's the majority shareholder of her own company. The board is all of her rich girlfriends. It's Luna's world. None of us would be here without her.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Is it possible that she was using the foundation as a personal account?

  Melanie Franks : How do you mean?

  Amanda Rollins : There are wire transfers to offshore LLCs. There's payments to shell companies. Eleven checks made out to cash, $9,000 each, deposited by a Tisa Chee.

  Melanie Franks : Tisa. She worked in creative. I didn't know these were for her, but Luna did ask me to approve these payments.

  Amanda Rollins : Did she tell you what they were for?

  Melanie Franks : Consulting fees.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : We need to get in touch with Ms. Chee.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : [after Luna's breakdown]  What, is she trying for a psych defense?

  Olivia Benson : I think she's trying to figure out what the hell is going on here. She spent her entire career empowering women and now she just falls apart? Look, either she's got a split personality...

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : That's not likely.

  Olivia Benson : Or her employees are framing her and she's having a breakdown because she's being gaslighted.