Raúl Esparza credited as playing...
ADA Rafael Barba
- Rafael Barba: [seeing one of Noah's toys in a "prison"] What's he in for?
- Olivia Benson: Stealing all the ice cream.
- Rafael Barba: I never trusted that elephant.
- Rafael Barba: How long was she online?
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: A few hours. And the defense claims that's part of her emotional disturbance?
- Rafael Barba: All it takes is one juror. What else?
- Amanda Rollins: Well, that's it for her Google searches, but she did watch "The Little Mermaid" seven times in three days.
- Rafael Barba: What does that mean?
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Well, her classmate, Cody. The nineteen year old with autism.
- Rafael Barba: We didn't charge him.
- Amanda Rollins: Well, Mariel thought that she was the Little Mermaid, and that Cody was her Prince Eric.
- Olivia Benson: There you are.
- Rafael Barba: What are you doing here?
- Olivia Benson: I was in the building, checking in with Dodds. You know I got to come back to work eventually. You okay? I heard Judge Barth read you the riot act.
- Rafael Barba: I deserved it.
- Olivia Benson: Well, whether you deserved it or not, I have absolute faith in your humanity.
- Rafael Barba: The family court judge gave Mariel a three year sentence. Suspended to probation, community service. With the stipulation of regular mental health evaluations.
- Olivia Benson: So... justice was served.
- Rafael Barba: Hope so.
- Odafin Tutuola: We got enough for a case, Barba?
- Rafael Barba: Based on the files you gave me, probably. I need a full medical and psych workup on Mariel. And I need a court order for a full psych eval on Dawn.
- Olivia Benson: How about a confession?
- Rafael Barba: She's been getting away with this for fifteen years. She's good at covering her tracks.
- Olivia Benson: So she knows what she's doing is wrong?
- Olivia Benson: So, what's happening with Dawn McLaughlin?
- Rafael Barba: Yeah, she was arraigned today. Charged with reckless endangerment. The judge RORed her, which was completely against my recommendation.
- Olivia Benson: Rafael. Do you really think this woman belongs behind bars? She's mentally ill, like...
- Rafael Barba: Like Sheila Porter?
- Olivia Benson: Noah keeps asking me to see her. I don't know what to tell him. Just avoid the subject altogether.
- Rafael Barba: Liv, you're going to get throught this. You've gotten through a lot worse.
- Olivia Benson: You did your job, Rafael.
- Rafael Barba: I also might have sent a horrifically abused teenager to prison.
- Olivia Benson: They could acquit. Or you could drop the charges.
- Rafael Barba: I drop the charges, that's tantamount to saying there's no rule of law. That the judicial system changes its mind. Makes exceptions on a whim. Or for sympathetic defendants. Yeah, that's the jury's determination, not mine.
- Olivia Benson: Well, the law says she's guilty. But your heart says she's not. So... so what are you gonna do?
- Rafael Barba: I don't know.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: "I was abused, so I'm an abuser"? If her lawyer goes with a psych defense, she could get off.
- Rafael Barba: Just as long as she never gets custody of her daughter again.
- Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: She fits all the diagnostic criteria for Factitious Disorder, or Munchausen by proxy. There's a cognitive distortion in her thinking. She knows what she's doing is wrong, but she doesn't know why she's doing it. And she certainly can't stop herself.
- Rafael Barba: Is she competent to stand trial?
- Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: In my opinion, yes. But she's going to need a lot of treatment.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: So is Mariel.