Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Manipulated (2006)

Diane Neal: ADA Casey Novak

Quotes 

• Dr. George Huang : [to Novak]  From everything that you're telling me, it seems to me that Tessa has a factitious disorder. Munchausen's syndrome.

  Casey Novak : She's making herself sick to get attention?

  Dr. George Huang : She was in a nearly fatal car accident and she does have diabetes. The syringe that Olivia and Elliot took from her contained insulin, but my guess is that she just became addicted to all the attention she gets being sick.

  Casey Novak : Well, it's one thing to play sick to get attention and another to inject yourself with streptococcus bacteria. I mean, she could have died.

• Casey Novak : [after Tessa McKellan has a seizure in the courtroom]  The seizure was self-induced. Tessa McKellen intentionally OD'd on insulin.

  Attorney Walsh : Proving my point. She is not fit to stand trial.

  Casey Novak : Your honor, she is manipulating the court. She's faking illness to get sympathy and dodge a life sentence.

  Attorney Walsh : My client is sick, your Honor. She cannot stop. Whenever she's under stress, she will make herself ill.

  Casey Novak : Well, then, gee, why don't we let her off before she injects herself with HIV?

  Judge Lena Petrovsky : Nobody is talking about letting her off, but I'm concerned about another incident like today. I don't think Mrs. McKellen is fit to stand trial at the moment. She needs psychiatric treatment.

  Attorney Walsh : We agree, your Honor. And we ask that because of the rarity of this condition and her paralysis, that she be given treatment in a private hospital, which, of course, my client will pay for.

  Judge Lena Petrovsky : That sounds reasonable.

  Casey Novak : And when she gets out, who's she gonna kill next?

  Judge Lena Petrovsky : That's enough, Counselor.

  Attorney Walsh : My client will surrender in the morning, your honor.

  Judge Lena Petrovsky : Her bail is continued and your request is granted.

  Casey Novak : Your Honor, don't fall for this.

  Judge Lena Petrovsky : Don't question the ruling of this court, Ms. Novak. If and when the defendant is well enough to stand trial, she will. Until then, she will receive the treatment she needs.

• Casey Novak : I have a bulletproof case against Tessa, but I can't put her on trial so long as she's hanging out at some cushy private mental hospital.

  Dr. George Huang : At least she'll be in some locked ward where she won't hurt herself or anybody else.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Yeah, but she belongs in prison with her hit man buddy Inman.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Is there any way to change Petrovsky's mind?

  Dr. George Huang : Show her that Tessa's a manipulative calculating bitch who planned this defense meticulously just like the murders.