Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Spellbound (2017)

Stuart Townsend: Declan Trask

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• Odafin Tutuola : NYPD.

  Declan Trask : What's going on?

  Amanda Rollins : Look deep into my eyes. You're under arrest.

• Declan Trask : I'm flattered you think my words wield so much power, but, you know, that's absurd.

  Odafin Tutuola : Well, it didn't sound so absurd when you were talking to your friend Jack Roe.

  Olivia Benson : See, 'cause we have you on tape saying "Hypnosis can lead to sex. It's not a big deal. I'm just helping a woman get what she really wants."

  Declan Trask : Uh, I wasn't speaking about myself personally. I was trying to reassure a friend.

  Olivia Benson : What about Rachel Sykes? Were you just trying to reassure her, too?

  Declan Trask : I think it's best if I talk to my attorney.

  Odafin Tutuola : If you lawyer up, I can pretty much tell you this is going to trial.

  Declan Trask : Do you really think a jury's gonna believe that I... that me, Declan Trask, hypnotized Abby to... to, what, to have sex with her?

  Olivia Benson : A, what you did wasn't sex. That's called rape. And B, yes, I really think the jury will believe it. So, Fin, can you please escort Mr. Declan Trask to Rikers?

• Rafael Barba : You help broken people become whole with your retreats?

  Declan Trask : Yes, and sometimes I help whole people become more whole.

  Rafael Barba : People pay you for this?

  Declan Trask : Yes.

  Rafael Barba : But you don't keep all of the money. You give some of it to your foundation.

  Declan Trask : That's right.

  Rafael Barba : What does your foundation do?

  Declan Trask : They provide safe drinking water to the poor and impoverished nations.

  Rafael Barba : You save lives?

  Declan Trask : I do, and I'm proud of it.

  Rafael Barba : As you should be. Have you ever been arrested for a crime?

  Declan Trask : Never.

  Rafael Barba : Nothing further.

  [as Trask steps out of the witness box] 

  Rafael Barba : Your Honor, I'd like to call a rebuttal witness, Philadelphia Lieutenant Richard Hill.

  Rita Calhoun : Objection. May I approach?

  Judge Karyn Blake : [waving them forward]  Where are you going, Mr. Barba?

  Rafael Barba : Lieutenant Hill arrested the defendant twenty-two years ago.

  Rita Calhoun : What the hell does that have to do with this case?

  Rafael Barba : Everything. It proves he's a liar, and that he has no regard for anyone but himself.

• Declan Trask : With all due respect, I think you guys have got this wrong.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, so enlighten us. Tell us what we're missing.

  Declan Trask : I'm a healer, okay? My work is intimate by nature, and sometimes that intimacy leads to sex. Consensual sex. That's it.

  Odafin Tutuola : Then if it was so consensual and so simple, why did she come down to the precinct and tell us you raped her?

  Declan Trask : Great question. I wish I knew the answer. Look, I don't know. Maybe she had a change of heart or her boyfriend found out. I don't know.

  Olivia Benson : So you didn't hypnotize Abby? Put her into some sort of a trance? Incapacitate her in some way and then... and then assault her?