Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Redemption in Her Corner (2020)
Kelli Giddish: Detective Amanda Rollins
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Odafin Tutuola : [watching Kat box] Kat looks good.
Amanda Rollins : Everybody looks good 'til they get popped in the mouth.
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Odafin Tutuola : Kat threw down. Our girl can fight.
Amanda Rollins : Yeah. She can drink, too, huh?
Odafin Tutuola : That's why I drove her home.
[seeing Kat come in]
Odafin Tutuola : Here she is. Rocky Tamin. What's up?
Amanda Rollins : [seeing the bruise around her eye] Ooh, nice shiner.
Katriona Tamin : Uh-huh. You and Carisi were hitting it pretty hard last night. You get home okay?
Amanda Rollins : Eh.
Odafin Tutuola : You had it, rookie, 'til you went to the overhand.
Katriona Tamin : Yeah, yeah. The captain in?
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Vanessa Hadid : So, Mr. Solis died of a brain bleed minutes after his beside arraignment?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, I... I don't think that there was a cause and effect.
Amanda Rollins : Subdural hematoma, common among boxers, from a head trauma.
Vanessa Hadid : Inflicted by one of the teens he trained with?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, Esperanza Morales, 19, his protege. She's a champion boxer and one of the success stories at his gym.
Vanessa Hadid : Had he abused her, too?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, she hasn't said that. She was confronting him about the one victim we know about so far, Cami Vega.
Vanessa Hadid : Well, that's moot. Your rape case just became a murder case.
Amanda Rollins : I interviewed Esperanza. This wasn't premeditated. It wasn't even intentional.
Vanessa Hadid : Intent or not, a man is dead. You're gonna have to pivot your investigation.
Amanda Rollins : Murder?
[glancing at Carisi for support]
Amanda Rollins : But she's a kid. She... she has no priors.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : He... he was a predator. She...
Vanessa Hadid : I feel for her, but she's a trained boxer. Unless you can prove she or someone else was in imminent danger, Ms. Morales is facing man two.
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Dominick Carisi Jr. : So her sister knew about the abuse, but she'll only testify if she gets paid?
Katriona Tamin : Yeah.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : What about Esperanza?
Amanda Rollins : She won't testify. She's too ashamed.
Vanessa Hadid : And she's still looking at man two.
Katriona Tamin : Santos abused his daughters for years. We should be arresting him.
Vanessa Hadid : You're right, but we're not. I'm sorry.
Katriona Tamin : [Hadid and Carisi leave] Espe's in jail, and her sister won't help her. My sisters and I would do anything for each other. I still don't get it.
Amanda Rollins : I do. She didn't say she wouldn't help. She said she wanted to get paid.
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Olivia Benson : Barba sends his regards.
Amanda Rollins : How's he doing?
Olivia Benson : He's in Iowa, uh, tilting at windmills. Where's Kat?
Odafin Tutuola : Oh, I let her out early so she could warm up for a boxing match. We're all going, remember?
Olivia Benson : Oh, I totally forgot. Um... uh... I-I have an appointment.
Odafin Tutuola : An appointment?
Amanda Rollins : Let it go, Fin. Meet us after.
Olivia Benson : You know what, I can't. Noah has a rehearsal, but wish Kat good luck for me.
Odafin Tutuola : [watching her leave] She just needs time. She'll be okay.
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Dominick Carisi Jr. : That's the, uh... that's the guy who runs Kat's gym, right?
Katriona Tamin : Romeo Solis. When I got back into boxing a year ago, everyone told me he was the best.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Ah. But?
Amanda Rollins : He may be sexually involved with an underage boxer.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Great. So what's his story?
Odafin Tutuola : No record. Box full of awards and honorary degrees.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Who's the complainant?
Olivia Benson : Well, she hasn't disclosed yet.
Amanda Rollins : So what do you have?
Katriona Tamin : I interrupted her and Romeo behind a locked door. They weren't working out.
Odafin Tutuola : He also set Kat up. He tipped off her opponent to Kat's fight plan.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : So that's why you got tagged.
Katriona Tamin : Look, I might've lost anyway, but he was pretty pissed when I called him out. Had her do his dirty work.
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Katriona Tamin : Esperanza was protecting Cami.
Amanda Rollins : Okay. Let her tell it. Esperanza, you can follow me.
Esperanza Morales : She knows why I did it. You guys weren't doing anything.
Katriona Tamin : [Benson approaches] Okay. She confronted him about Cami and she lost it.
Olivia Benson : Did she say that Romeo made an admission?
Katriona Tamin : We didn't get that far, but I can find out.
Olivia Benson : Okay, listen, I know that you're worried about her. Let us talk to her.
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Amanda Rollins : So, let's rewind. You talked to Cami.
Esperanza Morales : Yeah. Like your captain said, if Romeo was molesting her, I had to know.
Amanda Rollins : Right.
Esperanza Morales : She's my girl. Like a sister.
Olivia Benson : Good. Good, and what did... what did she say?
Esperanza Morales : First she denied, but I pushed, and she spilled it all. She showed me Romeo's texts. He's sick. And she thinks it's love. She doesn't know it's rape. I mean, she was only 14 the first time they...
Olivia Benson : We're aware.
Esperanza Morales : I did not know about her and Romeo. I mean, he looked out for me when no one else did.
Amanda Rollins : So Romeo never crossed a line with you?
Esperanza Morales : No. He's always treated me like a daughter.
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Dominick Carisi Jr. : Lot of people here. Kat any good?
Odafin Tutuola : She could whip your ass, counselor.
Amanda Rollins : Do we know anything about this opponent?
Santos Morales : Hell, yeah. It's my daughter. Esperanza Morales, huh? Most knockouts in the gym.
Graciela Morales : Yeah, total killer. Kat's a stepping stone.
Odafin Tutuola : Our money's on the girl from Gowanus.
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Sasha Rose : We were a family, and now we're broken. I don't know who to believe.
Amanda Rollins : We know you and Esperanza are close. Anything you saw could help her.
Odafin Tutuola : You were there. Can you tell us how it went down?
Sasha Rose : It's not gonna bring Romeo back.
Odafin Tutuola : Yeah, but it could prevent your girl from going away. You wanna lose her, too?
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Sasha Rose : Esperanza came into the gym all hyped up. She went to Romeo, they started arguing...
Odafin Tutuola : Could you hear what they were saying?
Sasha Rose : Pieces. Something about getting too close. Romeo said Esperanza was just jealous.
Amanda Rollins : Jealous of who, Cami?
Sasha Rose : Maybe. Look, all I know is that Romeo never crossed a line with me.
Amanda Rollins : Okay.
Sasha Rose : Esperanza doesn't stir the pot like that. She punched Romeo out. She had a reason.
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Santos Morales : My daughter's a very angry person. When people fail her, she lashes out.
Odafin Tutuola : Has she always been that way?
Santos Morales : Uh... her mother left us when she was ten. Esperanza never forgave her. Girls need their mothers, tú sabes.
Amanda Rollins : But she had her daddy.
Odafin Tutuola : Yeah, except you two don't seem so tight. Why's that?
Santos Morales : No sé. I gave her everything. Ballet, gymnastics. She wanted to become a boxer. I bust my ass so Espe could have the success I never had. Still, she pushed me away.
Odafin Tutuola : That must burn. You out here trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents, and she disrespects you.
Amanda Rollins : Or maybe it was because you got too close to her.
Santos Morales : What? What is Esperanza saying? I'm a good father. I did everything for my two girls.
Amanda Rollins : Es... Esperanza has a sister?
Santos Morales : Had a sister. Graciela. She... she got hooked. I tried to save her. Now I've lost both my girls. Now, excuse me. My kids need me.
Amanda Rollins : [leaving] So one daughter becomes a boxer, the other's a junkie who ODed?
Odafin Tutuola : You do whatever you can to get out of a house like his.
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Olivia Benson : Damaged goods? Jealous? I mean, it sounds like Romeo was abusing Esperanza.
Amanda Rollins : Maybe, but we don't know that, and she won't admit it.
Katriona Tamin : I don't see what difference it makes. If she was protecting Cami, I mean, wouldn't a jury be sympathetic to that?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Emotionally, yeah, but technically, you can't just kill someone because you don't like the way they're treating someone else.
Odafin Tutuola : But if we can prove he's abusing her?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, that changes the case. You know, she gets a good lawyer, she could do a variation of the battered wife defense. An abused teen snaps when she's taunted by a predator.
Katriona Tamin : She's a boxer. She'll never admit to it. She's got her rep to protect.
Olivia Benson : Or she's scared, or in denial.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : If she and her lawyer come to me with her admission, I can convince Hadid to make a deal. Good luck.
Amanda Rollins : Bail's set at 10 grand?
Odafin Tutuola : She won't be able to make that.
Katriona Tamin : How about I go over to Rikers and talk to her?
Olivia Benson : She's under arrest, Kat. None of us can talk to her without a lawyer present.
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Amanda Rollins : So, you went to the gym to confront Romeo.
Esperanza Morales : Yeah, he was coaching Sasha, and I told him we needed to talk. I asked him, how could he be having sex with Cami?
Olivia Benson : And how did he react?
Esperanza Morales : He said I was crazy, and that I should mind my own business.
Katriona Tamin : [entering with a knock] Sorry. Uh, Esperanza's father's here.
Olivia Benson : Oh, Kat, we're... we're still talking.
Esperanza Morales : Santos? He does not need to be here.
Katriona Tamin : He wants you to get a lawyer.
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Amanda Rollins : Hadid's in a good mood.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Always.
Amanda Rollins : Man two. How long could Esperanza get?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Up to 15 years.
[calling an elevator for her]
Dominick Carisi Jr. : See ya.
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Odafin Tutuola : Santos Morales?
Santos Morales : Yeah?
Odafin Tutuola : You're under arrest.
Santos Morales : What?
Amanda Rollins : Get your hands on the wall.
Santos Morales : What is this?
Amanda Rollins : Keep 'em up.
Santos Morales : Huh?
[seeing Graciela's look]
Santos Morales : My own daughter? You set me up? How could you do this?
Graciela Morales : How could I? How could you?
[spitting at him]
Graciela Morales : I hope you die in prison!
[to Fin]
Graciela Morales : Tell Officer Tamin she didn't need to pay me. I wanna give her the money back.