Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Home Invasions (2012)

Danny Pino: Detective Nick Amaro

Quotes 

• Emmy Eckhouse : Carmen and Jimmy were trying to save me. I told them Friday night my parents would both be home. I was supposed to be at Rob's house. I told them to write "Queers" on the wall so the police would think it was a hate crime.

  Nick Amaro : And, look, your father, I get. But your mother?

  Emmy Eckhouse : My father was just pathetic. He couldn't help himself. But my mom? I hated her more than him.

  Olivia Benson : She knew.

  Emmy Eckhouse : She let it happen! Carmen tried to tell her. I tried. Everybody thinks that she's some kind of hero, but she was more worried about saving the world than she was about saving her own daughter.

• Nick Amaro : [to the doctor about Emmy]  Hey, doc, you have a second? I saw you have her on antivirals? Can I ask why? Look, this may be pertinent to our investigation.

  Dr. Sloane : The surgery triggered a herpes outbreak. A nurse noticed it when they were changing her catheter.

  Olivia Benson : Genital herpes?

  Dr. Sloane : Simplex two. Not that unusual in a sexually-active 14-year-old. I should get back in there.

  [leaves] 

  Nick Amaro : So she was having sex.

  Olivia Benson : Emmy's boyfriend told us that they took a vow of celibacy.

• Olivia Benson : Absentee mother, adolescent girl left alone in the house with her father.

  Nick Amaro : Who has a drinking problem.

  Olivia Benson : Says she's a virgin, but somehow contracted genital herpes? Wouldn't be the first time we tested a corpse for STDs.

• Nick Amaro : Lab report on Sidney Eckhouse's tissue samples from the autopsy. Father and daughter tested positive for the same strain of herpes.

  Captain Donald Cragen : Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Find out who else knew.

• Rob Fisher : Emmy was supposed to come over tonight to study but my dad made me cancel. If he hadn't grounded me, she wouldn't have been shot. I know it.

  Nick Amaro : Did she come over a lot of nights? To... study?

  Rob Fisher : All the time. My dad thought Emmy was distracting me. That's my dad, always trying to teach me a lesson.

  Olivia Benson : How long have you two been together?

  Rob Fisher : Eight months. We connected right away.

  Olivia Benson : But your dad didn't think it was a good idea for you two to be in a relationship?

  Rob Fisher : I told him we weren't sleeping together. Even got Emmy to take the abstinence pledge. He just couldn't let it go.

• Olivia Benson : Messy crime scene. What the hell happened?

  Nick Amaro : Delivery guy found them. No forced entry, no sign of robbery. You walked in past the wife, Joan. She opened the door on the shooter. Now he does her, then before they can react, he moves to the husband and daughter on the couch. This is the husband, Sidney Eckhouse.

  Olivia Benson : What about the daughter?

  Nick Amaro : Emmy, 14. In surgery at St. Michael's. bullet in her head.

  CSU Tech : [carrying an evidence bag with a bullet inside]  Found this in the wall. We're looking for the others. EMS made a mess of the scene. Good luck trying to reconstruct what went down.

  Olivia Benson : Full metal jacket?

  Nick Amaro : It's a Winchester 357 sig. It's one way to send a message.

  Olivia Benson : I've seen my share of hate crimes, but, uh... execution of a whole family? That's, uh... extreme.

• Nick Amaro : So she said Rob didn't know, but she could be covering for him.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, so he shoots the father to stop the incest. Okay. But why shoot Emmy? We need to recheck forensics.