A Young Student Confesses to Murder of Her Rival | Law & Order: SVU — Transcript

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1. 0:00Jennifer, just a minute.
2. 0:03You lied about the clothes.
3. 0:05They're yours, aren't they?
4. 0:06What? They're from Halloween.
5. 0:07I'll still like them, so I let her wear
6. 0:09them. That's what friends do.
7. 0:10But she's not your friend.
8. 0:11And Nelson never would have worn those
9. 0:13clothes.
10. 0:13Who told you that? Danny Burke.
11. 0:15He's a prevaricator synonym for liar.
12. 0:19Hey, this isn't a vocabulary test.
13. 0:22Elsa was murdered.
14. 0:23Look, I don't have time for this, okay?
15. 0:26They put me in a tournament next week, and I
16. 0:28need to study. Molnar Nagy, 1966.
17. 0:30I'm in zugzwang, but if I can solve it, it.
18. 0:34Maybe it's H7 or G6.
19. 0:36Hey, the only way you're going to solve this
20. 0:38is by talking to us.
21. 0:42Tell us what happened to Elsa.
22. 0:54I want my mom.
23. 0:57I'm Suzanne Banks, Jennifer's mom.
24. 1:02Why is she alone in there?
25. 1:04What did you do to her?
26. 1:06The question is, what did she do to her
27. 1:07roommate.
28. 1:08Elsa? They were best friends, weren't they?
29. 1:16I'm glad she's dead.
30. 1:18Don't say such a thing.
31. 1:19Why not? It's the truth.
32. 1:22Elsa got all the attention.
33. 1:24She was in the newspaper.
34. 1:25She had scholarship offers.
35. 1:27Sweetie, you have a college fund.
36. 1:29That's not the point.
37. 1:30It's about the competition being the best.
38. 1:32There is no second place.
39. 1:34That's why the school roomed us together.
40. 1:36So we push each other.
41. 1:37But Elsa always came out on top.
42. 1:39It wasn't fair.
43. 1:40She never studied.
44. 1:42And I worked so hard.
45. 1:44But she was smarter than me.
46. 1:45Baby, that's not true.
47. 1:46It is true, mom.
48. 1:48I'm smart, but she's a genius.
49. 1:50And she never let me forget it.
50. 1:51Was she mean to you?
51. 1:52She wouldn't even talk to me.
52. 1:53Not a word like I was too insignificant, too
53. 1:56stupid to waste her breath on.
54. 1:57Oh, baby, I'm not a baby.
55. 1:59And I'm not stupid.
56. 2:01I just wanted to be the best.
57. 2:02You just couldn't beat her. It wasn't
58. 2:04fair. She didn't want to go to MIT.
59. 2:06She was going to drop out like that loser,
60. 2:08Danny. So why couldn't she let me win her
61. 2:10just once so that I could be the smartest
62. 2:12girl at Warwood.
63. 2:13Then every college would want me.
64. 2:15Did you ever say this to Elsa?
65. 2:16I told you she wouldn't speak to me.
66. 2:18So I followed her onto the ferry one day
67. 2:20when she went to see Danny.
68. 2:21But she couldn't run away from me in the
69. 2:22middle of the Hudson River. Well, Jennifer,
70. 2:24that's enough.
71. 2:24I think we'd better go now. Don't tell me
72. 2:26what you do!
73. 2:27Don't. Don't tell me what to do.
74. 2:29I'm sick and tired of everyone always
75. 2:32telling me what to do, what to say, how to
76. 2:34sing and to act.
77. 2:35I just wanted to talk to her, that's all.
78. 2:37I just wanted to talk to her and then take
79. 2:39the next ferry back.
80. 2:40But she screamed at me.
81. 2:42Why was I following her?
82. 2:43She called me a loser.
83. 2:45She said I was pathetic and dumb and that I
84. 2:47was only at Morewood because my family is
85. 2:49rich, that I'd never be able to make it on
86. 2:51praise alone. Like her.
87. 2:52She tried walking away and so I grabbed her
88. 2:54arm and she pushed me.
89. 2:56So I jabbed her chest with my pen.
90. 2:58And she pushed me- Jennifer stop!
91. 3:00So I pulled her hair and I slammed her head
92. 3:02into the railing over and over and over
93. 3:05again.
94. 3:14Did anybody see you fighting?
95. 3:18Everyone was inside because it was raining.
96. 3:23So she tried screaming for help, but no one
97. 3:25could hear her because the fairy horns
98. 3:27started to blow.
99. 3:29That's when she fell down and I pushed her
100. 3:31into the river. I'm number one now mom,
101. 3:42aren't you happy for me?
102. 3:55She made a full confession and her mother let
103. 3:57it happen.
104. 3:58Well, there's no stopping Jennifer.
105. 3:59The kid was on fire.
106. 4:00Great. Won't be any Miranda issues at trial.
107. 4:02But there are some other issues.
108. 4:05Cue the violins.
109. 4:06She needs to be locked up, but someplace
110. 4:08where she can get help.
111. 4:10You want me to dump the case on family court?
112. 4:12We don't want you to dump anything.
113. 4:14Jennifer is a killer, but she's 14.
114. 4:18She's not a hardened criminal.
115. 4:19Trier as a juvenile.
116. 4:21I would, but it's not my call.
117. 4:23I got Warner's results on the tide charts.
118. 4:25Elsa's body went into the river just off
119. 4:27Hoboken.
120. 4:30The horn blew because the boat was docking.
121. 4:32This isn't a New York case.
122. 4:33It's new Jersey.
123. 4:35Which is bad news for Jennifer.
124. 4:37They tried kids her age as adults and send
125. 4:39them to prison for life.