Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Man Down (2018)

Kurt Fuller: Jed Karey

Quotes 

• Peter Stone : Good men?

  John Conway : What?

  Peter Stone : What most fathers would say: they want their son to grow up to be a good man. Good, bad; that doesn't seem to matter to you.

  John Conway : Of course I want them to be good men.

  Peter Stone : A good man plays sports?

  John Conway : Both my boys made varsity. Teaches teamwork, self-confidence.

  Peter Stone : A good man shoots rabbits?

  John Conway : He sure as hell isn't afraid to. You don't have a boy, do you, Mr. Stone?

  Peter Stone : No, I don't.

  John Conway : You got a lot of nerve criticizing how I raise mine.

  Peter Stone : You mean I've got balls.

  Jed Karey : Objection!

  John Conway : It's okay, Jed. I got this. As a matter of fact, if we weren't in a courtroom, that is exactly what I would have said.

  Peter Stone : As opposed to what?

  John Conway : Excuse me?

  Peter Stone : If I don't have balls, what do I have? I'd have the lifelong shame of a boy who could never live up to his dad's perverse idea of manhood, isn't that right?

  Jed Karey : Your Honor!

  Judge Karyn Blake : Mr. Stone.

  Peter Stone : I'd be a little girl, wouldn't I, Mr. Conway? And there's nothing in the world worse than that, is there?

• Jed Karey : You have got to be kidding me. My wife's yoga pants don't stretch this much.

  Peter Stone : I'm just following the statute, Mr. Karey.

  John Conway : How was I negligent? My guns were locked up.

  Peter Stone : But your son wasn't.

  John Conway : What the hell is he talking about?

  Peter Stone : Think of it this way, Mr. Conway: pit bulls are actually very good pets. It's their owners that turn them into killers.

  John Conway : You think I made Sam walk into that school and start shooting?

  Peter Stone : I think that A, you failed to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that he would harm others. And B, such a failure constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe, under the circumstances. You put them together, and what have you got? C: criminally negligent homicide.

  John Conway : Is he saying I didn't bring my boy up right?

  Jed Karey : It's a snowflake defense, Johnny. "Daddy made me do it." Come on.

  [to Peter, as they stand to leave] 

  Jed Karey : I thought you were better than this.