Ellis quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Ellis

[about Stanton] I'd ask that he be released of his own recognizance, but I'm not sure he'd be able to find his way home.

Munch

Counselor Ellis.

Ellis

Have we met?

Munch

Sergeant John Munch. I admire your second act.

Ellis

Um, I'm not sure I get the joke.

Munch

I'm not joking. You can be NYPD and still believe in "innocent until proven guilty".

Ellis

Well, I'm about to put that to the test.

Benson

You proud of yourself? You brought up every stereotype, you shamed that girl about her sexuality, you said that if a white girl in that neighborhood cries rape, she must have wanted it. Nice work.

Ellis

And your case? The ID, the gun your partner "heard" slide under the couch? No DNA? If Michael were white, this never would have gone to trial.

Benson

Oh, wow. You're still playing the race card, huh?

Ellis

84 percent of the young men in jail are black and Latino.

Benson

He raped her!

Ellis

So she says. We don't know. Neither one of us was there. The only thing we can do is believe our people. And we do it, without question.

Benson

So that's it. You're a true believer.

Ellis

I am, and so are you.

Ellis

You have any vacation days accumulated?

Benson

Oh, I don't know... 50, 60 weeks?

Benson

Mr. Amiri, we've also become aware that Mr. Rhodes was a victim of sexual abuse as a child.

I'm sure that's true for half my cases. But the government doesn't pardon murderers because they had a bad childhood.

Ellis

Look, it took me 15 minutes to find out that the deceased had a record for solicitation of young men. I need to prove that the original defense lawyer to tell the jury about mitigating circumstances. Period.

Mr. Ellis, what we do is triage. I've got people on death row for crimes they didn't commit. You think you can come in and do a better job? Have at it.

Ellis

Thank you. That's all I wanted to hear.

Sonny

Justice delayed does not have to mean justice denied.

Ellis

So... you're new here.