Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

The Burden of Our Choices (2019)

Ice-T: Sergeant Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola

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• Katriona Tamin : Going through this girl's social media, it's a mash-up of "Jesus is my boyfriend" songs and kitten videos.

  Odafin Tutuola : Anything that puts her in New York?

  Katriona Tamin : No, but I do have a lead on Isaac.

  Odafin Tutuola : Look who made it to New York. That's a fresh tattoo. So all we gotta do is check out tattoo parlors.

  Katriona Tamin : Already did. I started with parlor websites near Port Authority, East Village, Uptown, and I found this. Gretchen, artist-in-residence, In the Heights Tats.

  Odafin Tutuola : Well, let's go.

  Katriona Tamin : Just spoke to her. She knew where Isaac lives. Didn't ask why.

  Odafin Tutuola : Good work.

• Olivia Benson : Evangeline is here now, and New York has full reproductive rights for girls of any age.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : That is right. It's the girl's decision.

  Amanda Rollins : Well, she's upset, but she definitely wants the abortion.

  Odafin Tutuola : The parents are fundamentalists. Once they get here, they're gonna throw her in the car and take her home.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : She's 13?

  Olivia Benson : She is.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : It's gonna be hard for a judge to deny parental custody.

  Amanda Rollins : Even with evidence of sexual abuse? I mean, going back years.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : That's a different story. A family court prosecutor could argue that the parents knew or should've known about the abuse. That gets you neglect.

  Odafin Tutuola : There may not be time for that. The Millers are on their way here now.

  Olivia Benson : We're talking about a pregnant 13-year-old runaway. Carisi, can't we take emergency custody? I'm going to call ACS.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : She's also gonna need her own lawyer. I'll call Legal Aid.

  Olivia Benson : And they're gonna just send someone who's handling 75 other cases. Look, I... I know someone who's very good with custody issues. So, Fin, in the meantime, find out from Isaac exactly what their relationship was and how much the parents knew.

• Odafin Tutuola : Where's Evangeline?

  Isaac Franklin : I don't know, I...

  Katriona Tamin : Wrong answer, Isaac. We know she's in New York, and we know you're the only person here she knows.

  Isaac Franklin : I didn't tell her to come.

  Odafin Tutuola : When'd you see her?

  [seeing he's reluctant to say] 

  Odafin Tutuola : I'm calling the Jolene sheriff. He has a warrant out for your arrest.

  Isaac Franklin : What? For hooking up with my girlfriend?

  Katriona Tamin : [taking out her handcuffs]  So, Isaac, you can talk now or pray later. Turn around.

  Isaac Franklin : She needed a place to crash, okay? I mean, she's friends with my kid sister, okay?

  Katriona Tamin : Where is she now?

  Isaac Franklin : I don't know. We... we got in kind of argument. She left.

  Odafin Tutuola : Why'd she leave?

  Isaac Franklin : She needed money. I told her she could crash here all she wants, but that's all I could do.

  Katriona Tamin : And you have no idea where she is now?

  Isaac Franklin : I loaned her my dog. I told her she could panhandle with Duke, by the... by the 99 cents pizza place.

• Olivia Benson : A teen runaway from Jolene, Ohio? That's still Missing Persons.

  Katriona Tamin : She's 13. I called her parents. They think that she was lured here by a boy, Isaac Franklin, 19, from their town.

  Odafin Tutuola : Jolene sheriff says Isaac skipped out on a bench warrant for a statutory; different girl.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, so track the boy down, call the parents back, and tell them that SVU is...

  Katriona Tamin : Actually, they're here. Drove all night. They're in the waiting room.