Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Strain (2005)

CCH Pounder: Carolyn Maddox

Quotes 

• Carolyn Maddox : [during her closing summation]  There are no mysteries here. Two people are dead. Gabriel Thomason has told you that he shot and killed them both, and why he did it. In 1981, 41 gay men were diagnosed with a rare form of cancer no doctors had ever seen before. Now, 40,000,000 people are infected with HIV. 40,000,000! Gay and straight. And we keep hoping that they'll do something about it before it's too late, and no one does. That's why Gabriel Thomason took matters into his own hands. Robin Weller and Lydon Grant infected dozens of men, and could've infected hundreds if their drug and sex binge continued. They were terrorists. Let me put it to you this way. You walk out of here tonight, and on the courthouse steps is Osama bin Laden holding a dirty bomb. Everything you know about this man tells you that he will detonate it and turn Manhattan into a nuclear wasteland. You've got a gun. Would you shoot him to save the city? Desperate times require desperate measures. Gabriel Thomason did what he had to do to save innocent lives. Now, it's your turn. Do what you have to do. Find him not guilty.