Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Denial (2002)

Ice-T: Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola

Quotes 

• [Claire walks out of the station after being released and sees Fin on the street holding a package] 

  Claire Rinato : How's my grandmother?

  Fin Tutuola : She's holding her own. Won't be able to see her till tomorrow.

  [Claire sees the package he's holding] 

  Claire Rinato : What's that?

  [Fin gives it to her and she opens it] 

  Fin Tutuola : Your last excuse not to go to rehab.

  [It's the computer-generated picture of her sister Lisa] 

  Fin Tutuola : No more lame-ass whining about how you gotta get high to remember what your sister looked like.

  Claire Rinato : I would hug you, but I can tell you don't like to be touched.

  [Fin gives her a card with a name of a place on it] 

  Fin Tutuola : This is a good place to go to start getting clean. A friend of mine runs it and I told him to expect you.

  Claire Rinato : Okay

  Fin Tutuola : Don't make me have to come run your ass down, Claire.

  [Claire can't help it and hugs Fin] 

  Claire Rinato : Thanks

  [Fin slowly starts to hug her back as he closes his eyes] 

• [Claire Rinato wakes up in a hospital bed and sees Detective Fin Tutuola reading a paper at her bedside after him saving her from a drug over dose] 

  Fin Tutuola : Trying to take the easy way out?

  Claire Rinato : And if I was?

  Fin Tutuola : Then it's too bad I got there in time.

  Claire Rinato : I really didn't mean to overdo it. Really.

  Fin Tutuola : That's what all junkies say.

  Claire Rinato : You've done your good deed, now you can go.

  [Fin looks up from his paper] 

  Fin Tutuola : Maybe you don't get it, you're in serious trouble, if you don't pay attention you're going to prison.

  Claire Rinato : Are you still here?

  [Fin looks back down at his paper] 

  Fin Tutuola : I really can't believe, you know I almost bought it. How you took care of your sister and loved her. Damn girl, you're better than the soaps.

  Claire Rinato : You have no idea what it feels like to have a mother that doesn't give a damn about you.

  Fin Tutuola : Violins gonna start any minute.

  Claire Rinato : Screw you. Lisa was all I had. She was actually happy to see me come through the door. Unconditional love is a rush.

  [Fin puts the paper away and comes to closer to the bed] 

  Fin Tutuola : Give it to me straight. You kill her?

  Claire Rinato : No, but I couldn't protect her. Grace was too strong. She told me, that if I didn't keep my mouth shut, I was next.

  Fin Tutuola : You tell anybody?

  Claire Rinato : I called my grandmother the first time I was alone, but she was recovering from another stroke and I guess she didn't believe me.

  Fin Tutuola : If that's how it went down, then it wasn't your fault.

  Claire Rinato : That little girl trusted me to keep her safe. How is it not my fault?

• Claire Rinato : What kind of a name is 'Fin'?

  Fin Tutuola : It's mine.

• Fin Tutuola : [to Cabot]  Claire's on her way back to the Tombs. Is there anything we can do to help her?

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : No, she's going to prison. With her history of violent rages, the jury's going to believe that she is guilty.

  Fin Tutuola : That's what you're going with? She did it 'cause you can sell it?

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : I'm not railroading her.

  Fin Tutuola : You just need a win to get the boss out of your ass.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : You seem to have done a 180 all of a sudden.

  Fin Tutuola : Excuse me?

  Donald Cragen : Alex, if Claire killed her sister, she wouldn't have taken the finger after all those years.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Well, I might be able to sell that if she had turned her mother in or asked for help or told someone.

  Fin Tutuola : She did tell somebody. She told Grandma. Grace had three kids. Two are dead. Now I don't like those odds, do you?