Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

I'm Going To Make You a Star (2019)

Kelli Giddish: Detective Amanda Rollins

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• Amanda Rollins : Your name's Carisi and you're pulling an Irish goodbye?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : I didn't want anybody to make a fuss or anything, so...

  Amanda Rollins : Mission accomplished. How you feeling?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : I'm nervous. Had to turn in my gun today. This... this whole thing is a big leap. It's... it's risky, but if I don't make this move now, I'm...

  Amanda Rollins : Yeah, I hear you. Hey, uh, before you leave me, one last drink?

• Odafin Tutuola : Packing? You going somewhere?

  Pilar Reyes : My agent said if I don't want trouble, I should get out of town. I already overstayed my visa.

  Amanda Rollins : You're an NYPD material witness. You don't have to worry about any of that.

• Amanda Rollins : This is the dress you wore the night he attacked you?

  Gemma Brooks : I know it's crazy, but I saved it.

  William Dodds : [watching with Benson]  Does Sir Toby know she's here?

  Olivia Benson : No, but he's been ahead of us so far. So, call Carisi in?

  William Dodds : Hold off. Keep this under wraps until we can get Sir Toby's DNA.

  Olivia Benson : I already have it. I took his glass from our drink at the bar.

  William Dodds : Test the dress. When it's a match, pick him up.

  Olivia Benson : Then we're good to go?

  William Dodds : We're NYPD. We arrest people all the time without the D.A. signing off.

• Olivia Benson : You drove the victim over from the 11?

  Uni Jones : Pilar Reyes. Says she was assaulted by some media bigwig, and my sergeant told me after the Weinstein mess not to put his name on the radio.

  Olivia Benson : Thank you. What's his name?

  Uni Jones : [checking his notes]  His name's Sir Tobias... Toa-bee-us...

  Amanda Rollins : Sir Tobias Moore? From Picflix. He just moved to New York ahead of Brexit.

  Uni Jones : The girl was crying so hard in the car, I thought I might have to take her to the hospital.

• Pilar Reyes : His people are checking me out? What does that mean?

  Olivia Benson : It means that we have to stay ahead of Sir Toby, Pilar. He's gonna try to dig up any dirt that he can on you.

  Pilar Reyes : There's nothing to find. I... I lived with my mother before I came here.

  Amanda Rollins : [knocking on the door]  Liv, um, you have a visitor.

  Olivia Benson : I'll be right back.

  [following Amanda out] 

  Olivia Benson : What do you got?

  Amanda Rollins : Just shut up.

• Odafin Tutuola : So, no arrest warrant.

  Olivia Benson : She wants to take it step by step.

  William Dodds : She's covering her ass.

  Amanda Rollins : Yeah, maybe not a bad idea, 'cause I've been tracking Sir Toby. MeToo lists, blind items, blogs, all over the Internet.

  Olivia Benson : Any arrests?

  Amanda Rollins : No, that's the thing. The charges don't get dropped. They never even get filed. Or the victims suddenly recant.

  Odafin Tutuola : He rapes them, then he pays them off.

  Olivia Benson : Probably, which means that he's gonna go right for Pilar. Listen, you two keep digging. Call Carisi in.

  William Dodds : Where are you going?

  Olivia Benson : Hadid told us she wants us to work the case. It won't hurt to go right at the target.

• Odafin Tutuola : [at Sir Toby's movie premiere]  Where the hell's Carisi?

  Amanda Rollins : He'll be here.

  Olivia Benson : [on her phone]  Well, there's nothing on TMZ. That's a miracle.

• Odafin Tutuola : Nice basket.

  Pilar Reyes : It got here right before you did.

  Odafin Tutuola : [reading the card]  "Lovely to meet you. Hope we get to work together soon. All the best, Sir Toby." He left his number. Did you call him?

  Pilar Reyes : No! He makes me sick.

  Amanda Rollins : Pilar, this means that he's worried. Okay, you could call him, you could... you could arrange a meeting. Listen, we would have eyes on you the entire time.

  Pilar Reyes : I don't want to see him again.

  Odafin Tutuola : Yes, you do.

• Amanda Rollins : This one's scared, this one is out of our jurisdiction.

  Odafin Tutuola : This woman right here, Nina, she had an audition with him on Tuesday and signed her NDA on Saturday.

  Amanda Rollins : Well, Carisi told me that Pilar has got a lawyer now. Her NDA's in the works.

  Odafin Tutuola : Well, that's that. I'll tell Liv.

• Odafin Tutuola : Gemma played us.

  Olivia Benson : Oh, not just Gemma. Sir Toby. That tape that Barth handed us was his Trojan horse.

  William Dodds : You told me you vetted her.

  Olivia Benson : I took the disclosure myself. She's not making this up. We even confirmed her outcry to friends. She's telling the truth.

  Amanda Rollins : Part of it.

  William Dodds : So what's she doing now?

  Amanda Rollins : She wouldn't be the first vic to start a consensual relationship with her rapist in order to gain some sense of control.

  William Dodds : Try explaining that to a jury.

• Olivia Benson : He's flipping the script on her.

  Amanda Rollins : What's her signal word?

  Olivia Benson : Bastard. Her idea.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : What are you guys doing here?

  Amanda Rollins : It's your first arraignment. We wouldn't miss it.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, spoiler alert. Sir Toby's gonna get bail, and then it's gonna be a motion a day for ten months.

  Olivia Benson : Look, these guys believe that they can't be held accountable, but... you need to take him down.

• Monica Belasio : He got kind of grabby. I left, went up to my room.

  Amanda Rollins : Okay.

  Monica Belasio : Turns out his room happened to adjoin mine. He came in in this silk robe and... ugh, he wouldn't take no for an answer.

  Amanda Rollins : Was this in New York?

  Monica Belasio : No, South by Southwest in Austin.

  Amanda Rollins : Okay. And you still auditioned for him?

  Monica Belasio : I've seen actresses so traumatized by him, they leave the business.

  Amanda Rollins : You have friends this happened to?

• Amanda Rollins : The scenes always end before he makes his move.

  Odafin Tutuola : He knows how to edit.

  Olivia Benson : Right. So there's five auditions, all with a blurred line between coercion and direction.

  Amanda Rollins : Lieutenant, we know how this goes. So does Sir Toby. I mean, he's so used to being above the law. He didn't even remove the footage from his other victims.

  Odafin Tutuola : 'Cause he knows they're not gonna talk. He's taunting us.

  Olivia Benson : And maybe he just overplayed his hand. Find out if any of these women will come forward.

• Pilar Reyes : He sent his assistant home. It was just us. He said he wanted to tape me. I'm so stupid. I should have just left.

  Olivia Benson : No, it's not stupid, Pilar. He's a very powerful man.

  Pilar Reyes : He... poured me a few drinks. He said I needed to... to relax, and then... he made me take my blouse off.

  Amanda Rollins : Made you?

  Pilar Reyes : He yelled at me. So I did what he said. And right away, his hands were all over me. I said no, but he got angry, and he pushed me on the couch. And he took out his, um... his... his thing and he said, "Come on, you're a... you're a big girl." And I kicked him.

  Olivia Benson : And he let you go?

  Pilar Reyes : He blocked my way. And he forced me to watch him while he... while he finished. All over the couch. The lampshade.

• Amanda Rollins : Gemma, you need to know that when you do file charges, he will do anything he can to...

  Gemma Brooks : I know. That's how he keeps getting away with this. I can't let him do to one more woman what he did to me.

• Cindy Morrison : He's my boss. I was just setting up meetings for him.

  Odafin Tutuola : Come on, Cindy. You bring these women into his office, his hotel room. They trust you, then he assaults 'em. That makes you accessory to rape.

  Cindy Morrison : I don't know what he does with them.

  Odafin Tutuola : You don't know? You mind telling me why you were swapping out his furniture Sunday at midnight? That's destroying evidence. Listen... he will not think twice about throwing you under the bus, and then backing up over you.

  Cindy Morrison : He can't know. Please.

  Amanda Rollins : [watching with Benson]  That didn't take long.

• Odafin Tutuola : Toby is cold. He taped that statement in the same room he did Pilar.

  Amanda Rollins : Well, just another way to punk us.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : [noticing something]  Or maybe he finally screwed up. Rollins, you got Pilar's audition?

  Amanda Rollins : Yeah.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Can you throw it up there, please?

  [she does so] 

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Son of a bitch. You notice anything?

  Amanda Rollins : [spotting it]  Different couch. Pillows. Lamp.

  Olivia Benson : He was afraid that we were gonna get a warrant, so he swapped them out.

  Odafin Tutuola : When'd he have time to do that?

• Amanda Rollins : [surveilling an undercover operation]  You're right. Different day, same script. At least this time there's a wheelchair.

  Odafin Tutuola : She's doing a good job.

  Olivia Benson : She studied the tape. She knows where he's going.

• Amanda Rollins : So, here's Pilar. Friday evening, 7:00 p.m. She's entering Sir Toby's building. Now, this is Pilar an hour later. She's in the lobby. She's in tears. Her clothes are a mess. And we've all seen this as she's exiting his office, but then we skip ahead to Sunday night, 11:55 p.m. This is his assistant Cindy. She's supervising three movers as they pull the new couch out of a truck. Ten minutes later, they're pulling out Sir Toby's old couch and lamp.

  Odafin Tutuola : Good luck finding those.

  Amanda Rollins : This is a specialty cleaning crew at 6:00 a.m. on Monday. At 7:45 a.m., Sir Toby and Cindy walk in. She stays downstairs, and ten minutes later, on the march. A former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District, a former Attorney General.

  Olivia Benson : Wow.

  Amanda Rollins : Cabinet members, Deputy Mayor.

  Olivia Benson : I've heard of power teams, but this...

  Amanda Rollins : It gets worse. Fifteen minutes later, look who walks in.

  Olivia Benson : Vanessa Hadid and half of the eighth floor.

  Odafin Tutuola : They're going into Toby's office. Why, to kiss his ring?

  Olivia Benson : To destroy Pilar's credibility.

  Odafin Tutuola : Like I said, he's got this whole game rigged.

  Amanda Rollins : Yeah, he may, but you know what? We have his assistant on tape destroying evidence.

  Olivia Benson : Bring her in.

• Olivia Benson : Guys like this, they rule by fear. Nobody likes them.

  Amanda Rollins : Okay, so maybe now we take a run at Gemma Brooks. Maybe she'll walk back on her denial.

  Olivia Benson : It's too late. It turns out after her press conference, she hopped a plane to New Zealand. She's directing a movie for Picflix.

  Amanda Rollins : He has a way to get to everybody.

  Olivia Benson : Maybe we need someone new.

  Amanda Rollins : Hmm.

  Olivia Benson : Call Vice.