Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Psycho/Therapist (2014)

Raúl Esparza: ADA Rafael Barba

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• Donald Cragen : [to the SVU squad]  These next few weeks are going to be stressful for Olivia and for us.

  Nick Amaro : Lewis has some stones, putting her through this.

  Amanda Rollins : He can't really think he's gonna get away with it again.

  Rafael Barba : He's five for five. That breeds hubris.

  Odafin Tutuola : We should have shot him when we got there.

  [everyone looks at him] 

  Odafin Tutuola : Hey, we were all thinking it.

• Olivia Benson : [to Barba about Lewis]  He wants to plead to rape?

  Rafael Barba : Multiple counts of rape in the first, multiple counts of sodomy and he wants to plead guilty with an allocation of each specific.

  Olivia Benson : He wants to stand up in open court and give graphic details of what he did not do to me?

  Rafael Barba : He will get 25 years to life. He will die in prison, Olivia. You will avoid a trial and having to testify.

  Olivia Benson : No, no. No, he does not get to do that to me. He did not rape me. He did not sodomize me. You look at that rape kit. After four days, he did not have the balls to rape me and now he wants to stand up in open court?

• Odafin Tutuola : [to Barba]  Counselor, don't mess this one up.

  Rafael Barba : I was gonna tell you the same thing.

• Olivia Benson : He's gonna walk. The jury knows that I lied.

  Rafael Barba : The jury saw him attack you. They didn't like it. We repaired a lot of the damage.

  Olivia Benson : That forewoman. He's playing her.

  Nick Amaro : So what? Barba's gonna tear him apart.

  Olivia Benson : [to Barba]  Don't chance it. Take the deal. He wants to allocute about raping me? He's already humiliated me. What's a few more hours?

• Rafael Barba : [to Olivia]  I have to tell you, given the extent of his injuries, they will go after you for excessive force. He may claim that he was handcuffed when you crushed his skull. You testified to a police investigator and a grand jury that Lewis lunged at you, that you used the bar to defend yourself until he was no longer a danger to you.

  Olivia Benson : That is what I said.

  Rafael Barba : Your grand jury testimony from last May. You study those transcripts. If you deviate from your statement in any way, it will create reasonable doubt about all of your testimony. He will use it as a wedge. He could walk again, Liv.

• William Lewis : [to the judge]  I offered a plea that would have guaranteed a lengthy prison term and spared the victim the pain of a trial. My so-called attorney has failed to get the D.A.'s office to agree to accept my capitulation. I have serious reservations about her competence. I would like to request a change of attorney.

  Judge Edward Kofax : Counselor?

  Martha Marron : I'm just hearing this now, your Honor.

  Rafael Barba : Are you? This is an oft-used delaying tactic of Mr. Lewis' in several trials.

  William Lewis : I'm not requesting any additional time.

  Judge Edward Kofax : Realistically, it would take months for a new attorney to get up to speed.

  William Lewis : I don't believe it would, your Honor, if that attorney was myself.

  Rafael Barba : Your honor, Mr. Lewis is simply trying to use this trial to publically humiliate and retraumatize Detective Benson.

  William Lewis : Objection. I was the one who offered to spare her this burden entirely, but this is not up for debate. This is my constitutional right, is it not?

  Judge Edward Kofax : It is. However, I will insist that you keep your current attorney with you to advise and if any of Mr. Barba's fears prove prescient, I will strike you with contempt. Is that understood?

  William Lewis : Perfectly

• Rafael Barba : [to the detectives]  Eating together across from the courthouse when he's accusing you of conspiring against him?

  Odafin Tutuola : We're just having dinner, Counselor.

  Rafael Barba : Get it to go.