Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Beautiful Frame (2013)

Shamika Cotton: Carol McEwan

Quotes 

• Eddie Baker : [when Amaro and Olivia arrive to Carol's house]  Who the hell are you?

  Nick Amaro : Looking for Carol McEwan.

  Eddie Baker : Yeah, what do you want with her?

  Olivia Benson : Carol, can we speak with you privately, please?

  Eddie Baker : No.

  Carol McEwan : We're married ten years. I'm more comfortable with my husband here.

  Nick Amaro : Okay, we're here...

  Carol McEwan : I know why you're here. My 911 call. The D.A. told me not to talk to anyone before I testify, not even cops.

  Nick Amaro : Okay, but, uh, you live a half hour from the crime scene. You just happened to be driving by that night?

  Carol McEwan : I was taking a shortcut to meet my husband. It was our anniversary.

  Eddie Baker : Okay? Good-bye. Go back to the city. She got nothing else to say to you.

  Olivia Benson : Carol, please.

  Carol McEwan : No, I'm sorry.

  Olivia Benson : If you're scared of Michael Provo...

  [Eddie shuts the door in their face] 

• Carol McEwan : [When Amaro and Olivia approach Carol]  I'm not supposed to talk to you.

  Olivia Benson : Says who? Your husband or Michael Provo?

  Nick Amaro : You know you could be charged with perjury for lying in front of a jury?

  Carol McEwan : Who said I was going to lie?

  Nick Amaro : You told us you heard shots on the way to your anniversary dinner, but it turns out you two are common law.

  Carol McEwan : So what? I didn't say it was a wedding anniversary.

  Olivia Benson : No, it was another kind of anniversary. It's been a year since Eddie was paroled from prison.

  Nick Amaro : Where Michael Provo helped to send him.

  Carol McEwan : So you know we don't owe him anything.

  Nick Amaro : Except we checked and Eddie was supposed to do 15 years upstate. Instead, he does five in Queensboro Correctional in Long Island City. That's a lot closer to your house.

  Carol McEwan : He got time off for good behavior.

  Nick Amaro : Yeah, after Michael Provo got the D.A. to intercede on his behalf. See, we know Provo's M.O. He was having a relationship with you while your husband was away.

  Carol McEwan : You can't prove that.

  Olivia Benson : Carol, it's what he does. He takes advantage of women who are already in trouble.

  Carol McEwan : I love my husband.

  Nick Amaro : Did Provo threaten to tell Eddie about your affair?

  Carol McEwan : I'm Eddie's whole world. If he finds out, he'll kill me, then he'll kill himself.

  Olivia Benson : And we don't want to have to tell him, but there's an innocent woman who's looking at 25 to life.

  Carol McEwan : So you're gonna blackmail me into doing what's right? Who's taking advantage of who now?