Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Swimming with the Sharks (2020)

Mouzam Makkar: Dara Miglani

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!

• Luna Prasada : So, Tisa admitted I never assaulted her? Well, why would she make that up?

  Olivia Benson : Because she was having an affair with Vinay. He talked her into it. He told her that they had to force you out.

  Luna Prasada : Why would he do that?

  Amanda Rollins : He's denying all of this. He said that Tisa came to him, and he believed her.

  Luna Prasada : And do you believe him?

  Dara Miglani : What is going on here?

  Olivia Benson : We think that Bobby, Vinay, and Melanie conspired to frame you for the embezzlement and assault.

  Luna Prasada : So the e-mails, I never wrote them?

  Olivia Benson : No. We believe that Bobby did.

  Amanda Rollins : We assume it was Vinay that broke into your accounts, but we can't prove that.

  Luna Prasada : Okay, but my... my passwords would be very difficult to hack. They're very complicated.

  Amanda Rollins : First pet, street you grew up on?

  Luna Prasada : Yes, but also my home phone number from when I was a kid. It was unlisted. Only a...

  [realizing] 

  Luna Prasada : ...a few friends knew it. Pinky.

  Olivia Benson : Pinky?

  Luna Prasada : Melanie's name; her nickname from when we were kids. We used to go to summer camp together.

  Olivia Benson : Luna, you... you never mentioned that.

  Luna Prasada : It never... that was a lifetime ago. I'm not Lori from Hackensack anymore. I evolved.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, but is it possible that you evolved, but Melanie didn't?

• Luna Prasada : Tisa Chee, she was in product testing. New scents, toys...

  Olivia Benson : Vibrators.

  Luna Prasada : Well, hopefully not in the office.

  Olivia Benson : Mm. And how about on a... on a corporate retreat?

  Dara Miglani : You said new allegations have been raised. Can we get to them?

• Olivia Benson : Tisa Chee is claiming that you bondage-taped her and then used the device on her against her will.

  Luna Prasada : Wait, what? That's insane.

  Olivia Benson : Now, but she did come on the corporate retreat to Lake George?

  Luna Prasada : It was a team-building event. I-I think her whole group came.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, were you ever alone with her?

  Luna Prasada : It's possible.

  Dara Miglani : What is she claiming, exactly?

  Amanda Rollins : That Luna invited Tisa back to her cabin, offered her tequila, and then when she wouldn't test - the Vi-Brildo, is it? - bondage-taped her to the bed and forced it on her.

  Luna Prasada : Okay, this is ludicrous, because I never stepped foot in that cabin. I stayed in the main lodge in a suite with Sequoia.

  Dara Miglani : What is this, open season on my client? Anyone who wants to can make up a completely specious claim?

  Olivia Benson : We do have an apology e-mail that you wrote to Tisa. This is your e-mail account?

  Luna Prasada : I never wrote this.

  Amanda Rollins : And you didn't authorize these 11 payments? Or this NDA?

  Luna Prasada : [giving it a glance]  I've never seen this.

  Olivia Benson : That... that's not what your COO said.

  Luna Prasada : Oh, Melanie? Well, that's impossible.

  Dara Miglani : We need some time to go over these documents.

  Olivia Benson : Yeah, you do.