Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Murdered at a Bad Address (2019)

Guillermo Diaz: Carlos Hernandez

Quotes 

• Carlos Hernandez : [at the graves of his mother and sister]  That stone looks new.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Some people read about your case. There was a GoFundMe.

  Carlos Hernandez : A what?

  Odafin Tutuola : Folks chipped in.

  Carlos Hernandez : How can I ever thank you?

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : Carlos, whatever you say here does not leave this room if you don't want it to, I swear. Where were you that night?

  Carlos Hernandez : I was at the beach.

  Odafin Tutuola : What beach?

  Carlos Hernandez : Plumb Beach in Brooklyn.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : That's the boy-meets-boy beach off the Belt Parkway? That Plumb Beach, right?

  Odafin Tutuola : Okay, so you and Ricky hooked up?

  Carlos Hernandez : That was the first time. Beautiful night... until I got home and I found my mommy and Jacinta dead on the floor.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Carlos, a lot of people have... have come out of the closet since then. Times have changed.

  Carlos Hernandez : Not in here. In here? Out of the closet means into a casket. The other inmates find out I'm gay? Gangs will turn me into a Maytag. Washing socks and spit-shining.

  Odafin Tutuola : Yeah, we get it.

  Carlos Hernandez : I'd get bitched out until I got the bug. Like Ricky. I know I'll never walk again as a free man, but can I ask you a favor?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : What's that, Carlos?

  Carlos Hernandez : At night... I still get the horrors, wondering where my mommy and my little sister are buried. Thinking that they're in an even worse place than me. I don't know... Potter's field or unmarked graves... just lost souls. Find out where my family's buried.

• Carlos Hernandez : Man, I don't know who killed them. All I know is that Ricky and me didn't do it, I swear. I could never hurt my mommy or little Jacinta. That night, Ricky and me, we was just hanging.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Really? That's not what he said. This is his hand-written confession. Says that the whole thing was your idea and he just went along.

  Carlos Hernandez : Ricky was just a kid. Detective Monte convinced him if turned state's on me, he'd get man two and out in 15.

  Odafin Tutuola : Then why'd you fess up?

  Carlos Hernandez : Because Monte and the D.A. told me if I didn't confess that I'd get the sayonara syringe. Man, I was 18. I didn't have no mommy no more to help me.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Look, Carlos, I don't know what went down then, but if you work with us now, you give up your accomplice, when you come up for parole, I will go to the board.

  Carlos Hernandez : Why do you keep saying accomplice, man? I told you I wasn't even there.

  Odafin Tutuola : Come on, man. Everybody in here says they're innocent. It's been 16 years. That's almost half your life. Why are you covering for this guy?

  Carlos Hernandez : I swear to God, I came home and I saw them lying there like that. It's all I've ever thought about since.

  Odafin Tutuola : Carisi, this is a waste of time.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : Carlos, you said that... that you and Ricky were, uh, you were... you were hanging. Where?

  Carlos Hernandez : That, I can't say.

  Odafin Tutuola : I told you this was a waste of time.

  Carlos Hernandez : Look, I'm not lying, okay?

  [taking a note out of his jumpsuit pocket] 

  Carlos Hernandez : After he was released, Ricky sent me this. He apologized for putting me away. He said he was just saving himself, and back then... in Far Rock, we weren't angels. All right? But my mommy? She was all I had.

  Odafin Tutuola : Okay. You got an alibi for that night? Or this goes nowhere.

  Carlos Hernandez : Thank you for your visit, gentlemen.

• Odafin Tutuola : I'mma ask you again, Carlos, 'cause we know there was a third person who helped kill your mama and your kid sis.

  Carlos Hernandez : What you mean you know?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : We found DNA of a third man.

  Carlos Hernandez : You did? So you know... you know who did it. You arrest him?

  Odafin Tutuola : If we knew who did it, we wouldn't be asking.