Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Down Low in Hell's Kitchen (2019)
L. Steven Taylor: Mathis Brooks
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Quotes
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Olivia Benson : Someone is out there, preying on gay men. Gay men who are afraid to come forward, to... to file a police report.
Odafin Tutuola : Mathis, your music means a lot to people of all types. If you were to come forward...
Robert Fischer : If you did that, everyone would think he was gay.
Mathis Brooks : Look, hold up, Fisch. So you think that if I made a public statement, that... that it would matter?
Odafin Tutuola : No doubt.
Olivia Benson : More than you can imagine.
Robert Fischer : Come on, man.
Mathis Brooks : Look, who cares if some people choose to think that I'm gay? This is bigger than Mathis now.
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Dominick Carisi : You should know Moran has an alibi for the night you were assaulted.
Mathis Brooks : Okay, I... I see. So y'all pick up the wrong guy, a-and now you're trying to make me carry the weight.
Odafin Tutuola : Okay, let's go over your story and find out what we missed.
Mathis Brooks : Hey, maybe there's a copycat. Huh? M-Maybe there's two guys out there.
Counselor Julie Kang : Mathis, stop talking. We came here to cooperate. Is my client now a suspect in any way?
Dominick Carisi : That remains to be seen.
Counselor Julie Kang : [moving to leave] Then we're done.
Odafin Tutuola : Whoa, whoa, listen. We're just trying to get to the truth.
Mathis Brooks : Look, the truth is I was attacked! Come on. Brother, you saw me in the hospital. The cuts, the burn. Look, I'm telling y'all this happened. What that guy took from me, I can never get back. Why in the hell would I make something like that up?
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Odafin Tutuola : For what it's worth, my Deputy Chief wanted to put you in jail, but we talked him out of it.
Mathis Brooks : So, what, I'm supposed to thank you? I didn't make this up.
Odafin Tutuola : Look, I don't know why you did what you did, but it's coming from a bad place.
Mathis Brooks : This where you tell me that you're disappointed in me? That I screwed everything up?
Odafin Tutuola : Not everything. I was talking to my captain. If you had have never came forward, we would've never caught Moran.
Mathis Brooks : That's true. Nobody remembers that. The whole world's just laughing at me.
Odafin Tutuola : Not me. See, I know something was done to you. It ain't about this time. It ain't about this thing. But you gotta deal with whatever happened to you in your past that brought you here. That's on you.
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Mathis Brooks : Is this for real? My brother buys a taser, and now y'all think I made the whole thing up.
Dominick Carisi : No one here is saying that.
Mathis Brooks : It's all over the news. NYPD's trying to make me look like a liar.
Odafin Tutuola : NYPD or your brother?
Mathis Brooks : He likes gadgets. He has a drone, too.
Counselor Julie Kang : And tasers are legal in New York State.
Odafin Tutuola : They are. Any idea where your brother was during the time of your attack?
Mathis Brooks : I'm not his keeper.
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Olivia Benson : So, Mathis, you should know that we think that the man who assaulted you may be a serial predator.
Mathis Brooks : What?
Odafin Tutuola : Yeah, he's attacking black gay men in Hell's Kitchen.
Mathis Brooks : That's horrible. I mean, I-I'm not gay, but... you-you mean just because the color of my skin, and because I was walking down those streets...
Odafin Tutuola : Did you stop anywhere on your walk?
Mathis Brooks : No. No, I was... I was just getting some air. Like, that's all. I'm walking home after midnight. You know what, guys, I'm sorry, I'm getting really tired. Do-do you think that we can... we can do this later?
Olivia Benson : Of course.
Odafin Tutuola : If you remember anything else, call us.
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Rudy Syndergaard : Mathis, this is Captain Benson. I told you about her.
Olivia Benson : Hi. And my sergeant.
Odafin Tutuola : Fin Tutuola. How you doing?
Mathis Brooks : Honestly... honestly, I'm-I'm still not in my body.
Rudy Syndergaard : Mathis, I'll be right outside.
Mathis Brooks : He's good people. He said that you guys were, too.
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Robert Fischer : [his cell phone rings] Oh, God. Look.
[shows Math his phone]
Mathis Brooks : Oh, come on, man. Not right now, Fisch.
Robert Fischer : Then when? This is not going away.
Mathis Brooks : Yeah, it is.
Robert Fischer : What are you talking about?
Mathis Brooks : Hasn't everything worked out till now?
Aygon Brooks : Don't bring my brother down, Fisch. All you do is worry.
Robert Fischer : That's my job.
Aygon Brooks : That's your job, huh?
Mathis Brooks : Yeah, go home. All right, have some wine, hug your wife. Hey, yo, Vlad, Vlad, pull over right here.
Robert Fischer : No, Math...
Mathis Brooks : Look, I need some air. All right, I'm just gonna walk. See you tomorrow?
Robert Fischer : [high fives Math] All right. I trust you.
Mathis Brooks : Tell your wife hello.
Robert Fischer : I will tell her hello.
Mathis Brooks : Have that wine.
Robert Fischer : I will.
[Math gets out of the car]
Vlad : Where are you going?
Mathis Brooks : It's all good, Vlad.