Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Counselor, It's Chinatown (2019)

Margaret Cho: Evelyn Lee

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• Evelyn Lee : No speak English.

  Olivia Benson : Please stop. I'm looking at your record. You've been here for 30 years and this is your tenth arrest. So I'm not buying it.

  Evelyn Lee : Ten arrests, no conviction. Charges always drop. I run legal massage business.

  Olivia Benson : Where your workers are forced to perform illegal sex services.

  Evelyn Lee : I take care of my girls. Like a mother. Food, medicine, cake for birthday. No force. Force is, uh, hit, starve.

  Olivia Benson : Is that what happened to you? You know, if you really cared about these girls, you would help me find the people that are running them and running you. Ms. Lee, you're in a lot of trouble.

  Evelyn Lee : Trouble? We both know your UCs can't unzip, so your case gonna go south. I call my legal aid lawyer, make bail. I'm back in business by the weekend. You know, you look like you are under a lot of stress. Need massage. Come by. On the house.

• Evelyn Lee : I am so sorry she died. Lily was like daughter to me.

  Olivia Benson : But not like your real daughter. The one in China; Jia.

  Evelyn Lee : She good girl. She know nothing about this.

  Olivia Benson : Oh, she's a good girl, and she's a smart girl, from what I understand. She just got accepted into UC Davis.

  Evelyn Lee : What do you know about that?

  Olivia Benson : I know that universities don't like bad publicity... and I know that they don't accept tuition paid for by sex traffickers.

  Evelyn Lee : She get accepted on her own. No

  [speaking Chinese] 

  Evelyn Lee : , no back door.

  Olivia Benson : That won't matter. They find out about you, they won't take Jia.

  Evelyn Lee : No.

  Olivia Benson : You've worked hard your whole life so Jia would have the break that you never did. But I pick up the phone to the dean of admissions of Davis...

  [snapping and blowing air] 

  Olivia Benson : ...that all goes away.

  Evelyn Lee : What do you want?

  Olivia Benson : I want you to tell me about the Changs. Where do they get the girls? Where do they get the money? Not from Rick Olin.

  Evelyn Lee : No. He take money for rent to grease building inspector, politicians. But the real money... we pay to mai-mai ren. The buy/sell man.

  Olivia Benson : So, an intermediary. And what's his name?

  Evelyn Lee : Lester Ping. He run World Wide China Travel Agency. I see him once. He help fancy lady get out of fancy car.

• Evelyn Lee : I never meet these people.

  Olivia Benson : I'll buy that, but you do know them by name. Chang, Christine and Arthur. Right? They own the spa and many others. They supply the girls.

  Evelyn Lee : No. Girls show up, need work, I give work. Massage. Massage very good...

  Olivia Benson : Stress, I know, I know. You know what's stressful? Prison. And I know that you're out on bail now... but you're looking at sex trafficking, abetting rape.

  Evelyn Lee : Rape? No. My girls would tell me.

  Olivia Benson : Stop. We have your own surveillance video. You knew what was goin' on. You allowed it to happen. And when Lily was going to testify, you threatened her family, and that's why she jumped.