Casey Novak quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Novak

What are you selling, Brett?

Criminal Defense.

Novak

Yeah, hard to imagine.

You've worked sex crimes longer than most and you're still passionate, we need you.

Novak

Yeah, well, it's harder to care when your clients are guilty.

Ours are accused of SEC violations, not diddling some 4-year-old on the playground.

Novak

Look, I'm sorry. I have to go.

No more late night calls, no more rape victims and dead kids. How do you sleep at night?

Novak

I don't.

Novak

You wanted to see me, Judge Donnelly?

Yes. The DA is declining to re-file charges against Thomas Crane.

Novak

He raped and murdered Alisa Hernandez, and he gets to keep his badge?

Because of your actions, counselor.

Novak

With all due respect, ma'am, this doesn't concern you.

It does now. [hands Novak a notice]

Novak

I'm being called before the bar.

At my insistence.

Novak

Why?

Because you lost perspective. And because I sit on the peer review board, and I cannot allow you to commit a Brady violation and lie to the court without consequence.

Novak

The reports weren't finished, your honor! I sent them back!

You lied to Petrovsky, and now, you are lying to me. The lab reports were dated and stamped! We are civil servants, Casey! No one is falling on their sword for you. What I want to know is why.

Novak

Because the bad guys can't always win. He deserved to pay.

And so do you.

Novak

How much trouble am I in?

Censure. Possible suspension.

Novak

For how long?

A year. Maybe more.

Novak

What should I do?

Something else.

Fin

Hardwicke's in Miami at a Bar conference. Any idea who's our temporary ADA?

Novak

How 'bout one back from the dead?

Stabler

Casey Novak!

Novak

Alive, and fairly well.

Novak

I know that reliving the rape is painful...

You don't know the meaning of the word! Have you ever been looked upon as something less than human? Denied service? Spit on? Beaten? Raped repeatedly?

Novak

The thing that scares me about cases like this is there's always another shoe.

You know why I love cases like this? There's always another shoe.