Law & Order (TV Series)

Vendetta (2004)

Carolyn McCormick: Dr. Elizabeth Olivet

Quotes 

• Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : There's no need to be anxious. We're just having a conversation.

  Walter Grimes : I ain't anxious. What makes you think I'm anxious?

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : Do you know why you're here?

  Walter Grimes : My lawyer says it's because of what happened to me in prison. I lose control.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : What do you think?

  Walter Grimes : I spent twenty years in prison for something that I didn't do! I don't have control over nothin'! How can I lose what I don't have?

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : You're talking about Leanne Testa's murder.

  Walter Grimes : Of course that's what I'm talking about. The police said I killed that girl. I'd never even met her.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : They found a bloody knife in your apartment with your fingerprints on it.

  Walter Grimes : They planted that knife.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : The police?

  Walter Grimes : Yeah, the police. I had an alibi. They didn't believe me.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : But this time, you did kill someone. You killed Brendan Donner.

  Walter Grimes : He laid hands on me.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : And that justified killing him?

  Walter Grimes : I bumped into him, by accident. But this guy, he gets all freaky on me. In my face, telling me the whole world's against him.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : And you thought hitting him with a bottle was an appropriate response?

  Walter Grimes : I didn't think about it. He grabbed me. A guy comes at you, you don't think twice. You just put him down. You stop to think about what to do, you're dead.

• Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : Walter Grimes is legally sane.

  Jack McCoy : But?

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : But I'm sure his lawyer can find experts who will say that his experience in prison so programmed him that he lacked the ability to appreciate that his conduct was wrong.

  Jack McCoy : It turned him into a killer?

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : Well, they'll argue that he couldn't differentiate between his old environment and his new one.

  Jack McCoy : He couldn't tell the difference between Rooney's Tavern and the exercise yard at Green Haven?

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : Exactly. The defense will get a gaggle of psychiatrists to say that Grimes lacked the ability to curtail a lethal instinct developed by two decades in prison.

  Jack McCoy : I'd feel sorry for a man who lost that much of his life on a wrongful conviction.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : If Fallon gets this in front of a jury, you could have a problem.