Dominick Carisi, Jr.

**A.D.A Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, Jr.** is a former detective at the Manhattan Special Victims Unit. He is now an assistant district attorney.

## On SVU

Carisi transferred into the precinct, as a detective, after Sergeant Benson put in a request for an "experienced, empathetic Detective" following the temporary demotion of Detective Nick Amaro to patrol officer. He also took Nick's place as the lead male detective of the Manhattan SVU after his departure at the end of Season 16. He was in Staten Island Special Victims Unit for two months, Brooklyn for almost a month and Queens for a week and before that, he was a patrol officer on Staten Island. He also worked in the Homicide Unit for a couple years. Though his brash and argumentative attitude has placed him at odds with Benson and the others, he's shown a knack for interrogations, by pretending to empathize with suspects and getting them to open up to him. In 2019, he was promoted to Assistant District Attorney.

At Fin and Phoebe's wedding, Carisi approaches Rollins and tells her that he wrote a speech but he couldn't say it because Fin and Phoebe made the last-minute decision not to get married. Carisi read Rollins the speech which filled her eyes with tears and made her fall for Carisi. After the speech was read, Rollins kissed Carisi. (SVU: "Forget It Jake; It's Chinatown")

In the courthouse, Rollins and Carisi are seen kissing again but Carisi doesn't think it's a good idea but Rollins says that the cleaning crew aren't going to bust them. Rollins asks if this is really happening and Carisi says that he thinks it is. But when Rollins asks what's going to happen tomorrow, Carisi didn't respond. Later, Rollins asks Carisi if he could take a break and Carisi says that he wants to take Rollins out to dinner. (SVU: "And The Empire Strikes Back")

Carisi tried Richard Wheatley for the murder of Kathy Stabler. Before the trial, Carisi tells the judge that Izak Bekher couldn't be called to the stand because they believe that he was murdered under Wheatley's orders. Later, Carisi and Bell approach Angela Wheatley to run through her testimony for the trial. At the trial, Carisi cross-examined Bell and asked her about how Wheatley first became a suspect in the murder of Kathy Stabler. Bell explained that Bekher led them to discover new evidence which links to Wheatley. When Carisi cross-examined Richie, Richie recanted and told the court that he didn't hear Wheatley conspire with Bekher to kill Kathy Stabler, which shocked Carisi and the courtroom. When Wheatley was on the stand under his request, Carisi tried to get Wheatley to confess to ordering the murder of Kathy Stabler and several other witnesses including Izak Bekher. Wheatley then had a breakdown and threatened Carisi. In the end, the jury did not end up delivering a verdict and Wheatley remained incarcerated in Rikers until the next trial. (SVU: "People Vs Richard Wheatley")

At the courthouse, Carisi called Fin, Benson and Velasco to meet him at the courthouse. Carisi then surprised them when they realised he was getting married to Rollins. Carisi then married Rollins in the courthouse before celebrating after with friends and family. After the wedding, Carisi then took Elias Olsen to trial where he prepped witnesses to testify at Olsen's trial including Muncy and Priya Singh. Later, after Rollins told Benson that she was leaving the squad, Rollins met with Carisi in his office where she told him that she was going to accept the job offer at Fordham Law and that Benson didn't take the news very well. Carisi told Rollins that Benson will come to her senses.

Whilst investigating several rapes, Carisi visits Benson at the precinct where he becomes upset. Carisi tells Benson that he's about to bring a kid into the world that everybody hates. Benson assures Carisi that they will catch the suspect. However, the serial rapist who attacked Kate finally gets caught. While Kate identifies the perp in a lineup, Carisi tells her that he hopes she will give New York another chance but she can't promise that. As things wrap up on the case, Carisi and Fin decide to go home but Stabler doesn't. (SVU: "All Pain Is One Malady")

Carisi and Rollins give birth to their baby boy, Nicky. Carisi invites the whole squad to Nicky's baptism where Carisi attempts to set Benson up with his cousin, Steve Mancuso. Benson then becomes annoyed with Carisi before Carisi walks up to Rollins and hands the baby to Fin. Carisi and Rollins go into a separate room where they talk about Nicky's future and spend some alone time together.

## On OC

### Season 1

Carisi worked with Stabler and Bell to prosecute Wheatley's bodyguard, Izak Bekher. However, a deal was made between Carisi, the judge and the Organized Crime Control Bureau and they all agreed that Bekher would be released from prison to work with the NYPD as an informant to help them catch Richard Wheatley. Bekher agreed to work with them but told them that he didn't agree to wear a wire. The judge warned him that if he turns on them then the deal is off and he goes back to prison facing two murder charges. (OC: "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of")

### Season 3

After Kyle gets arrested, Carisi tells McGrath that Kyle is going for the insanity defense. McGrath tells them to arraign Kyle in his hospital bed. Later, Carisi and Bell meet with Kyle after he agrees to cooperate. Carisi tells Kyle that he's going to do life in prison and he is going to shut down the site down. Kyle then gets wheeled into the precinct where he shuts down the site. (OC: "With Many Names")

## On L&O

After Rollins gets shot while trying to protect Nicole, Benson gets approached by Carisi at the scene. Carisi starts crying and becomes concerned about the situation with Rollins. Benson tells Carisi that Rollins is strong and that if anybody could survive a gunshot wound, it's her. Later, Carisi comes to see Rollins and Carisi takes her hand. (L&O: "Gimme Shelter")

## Officer-Involved Shootings

* Pierce
* Diego Diaz

## Appearances

* Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
	+ Season 16: "Girls Disappeared" • "American Disgrace" • "Producer's Backend" • "Pornstar's Requiem" • "Glasgowman's Wrath" • "Pattern Seventeen" • "Decaying Morality" • "Intimidation Game" • "Undercover Mother" • "December Solstice" • "Parole Violations" • "Devastating Story" • "Granting Immunity" • "Daydream Believer" • "Perverted Justice" • "Parents' Nightmare" • "Surrendering Noah"
	+ Season 17: "Devil's Dissections" • "Criminal Pathology" • "Transgender Bridge" • "Institutional Fail" • "Community Policing" • "Maternal Instincts" • "Patrimonial Burden" • "Melancholy Pursuit" • "Depravity Standard" • "Catfishing Teacher" • "Townhouse Incident" • "A Misunderstanding" • "Forty-One Witnesses" • "Nationwide Manhunt" • "Collateral Damages" • "Star-Struck Victims" • "Manhattan Transfer" • "Unholiest Alliance" • "Sheltered Outcasts" • "Fashionable Crimes" • "Assaulting Reality" • "Intersecting Lives" • "Heartfelt Passages"
	+ Season 18: "Terrorized" • "Making a Rapist" • "Imposter" • "Heightened Emotions" • "Rape Interrupted" • "Broken Rhymes" • "Next Chapter" • "Chasing Theo" • "Decline and Fall" • "Motherly Love" • "Great Expectations" • "No Surrender" • "Genes" • "Net Worth" • "Know It All" • "The Newsroom" • "Real Fake News" • "Spellbound" • "Conversion" • "American Dream" • "Sanctuary"
	+ Season 19: "Gone Fishin'" • "Mood" • "Contrapasso" • "No Good Reason" • "Complicated" • "Unintended Consequences" • "Something Happened" • "Intent" • "Gone Baby Gone" • "Pathological" • "Flight Risk" • "Info Wars" • "The Undiscovered Country" • "Chasing Demons" • "In Loco Parentis" • "Dare" • "Send In The Clowns" • "Service" • "Sunk Cost Fallacy" • "The Book of Esther" • "Guardian" • "Mama" • "Remember Me" • "Remember Me Too"
	+ Season 20: "Man Up" • "Man Down" • "Zero Tolerance" • "Revenge" • "Accredo" • "Exile" • "Caretaker" • "Hell's Kitchen" • "Mea Culpa" • "Alta Kockers" • "Plastic" • "Dear Ben" • "A Story of More Woe" • "Part 33" • "Brothel" • "Facing Demons" • "Missing" • "Blackout" • "Dearly Beloved" • "The Good Girl" • "Exchange" • "Diss" • "Assumptions" • "End Game"
	+ Season 21: "I'm Going To Make You a Star" • "The Darkest Journey Home" • "Down Low In Hell's Kitchen" • "The Burden Of Our Choices" • "At Midnight In Manhattan" • "Murdered at a Bad Address" • "Counselor, It's Chinatown" • "We Dream Of Machine Elves" • "Can't Be Held Accountable" • "Must Be Held Accountable" • "She Paints For Vengeance" • "The Longest Night Of Rain" • "Redemption In Her Corner" • "I Deserve Some Loving Too" • "Swimming With The Sharks" • "Eternal Relief From Pain" • "Dance, Lies and Video Tape" • "Garland's Baptism By Fire" • "Solving For The Unknowns" • "The Things We Have To Lose"
	+ Season 22: "Guardians and Gladiators" • "Ballad Of Dwight and Irena" • "Remember Me In Quarantine" • "Sightless in a Savage Land" • "Turn Me On Take Me Private" • "The Long Arm Of The Witness" • "Hunt, Trap, Rape and Release" • "The Only Way Out Is Through" • "Return Of The Prodigal Son" • "Welcome to the Pedo Motel" • "Our Words Will Not Be Heard" • "In The Year We All Fell Down" • "Trick-Rolled At The Moulin'" • "Post-Graduate Psychopath" • "What Can Happen In The Dark" • "Wolves In Sheep's Clothing"
	+ Season 23: "And The Empire Strikes Back" • "Never Turn Your Back On Them" • "I Thought You Were On My Side" • "One More Tale of Two Victims" • "Fast Times @ TheWheelHouse" • "The Five Hundredth Episode" • "Nightmares In Drill City" • "People Vs Richard Wheatley" • "Burning With Rage Forever" • "If I Knew Then What I Know Now" • "Video Killed The Radio Star" • "Promising Young Gentlemen" • "Sorry If It Got Weird For You" • "Eighteen Wheels A Predator" • "Tangled Strands Of Justice" • "Did You Believe In Miracles?" • "Confess Your Sins To Be Free" • "A Final Call At Forlini's Bar"
	+ Season 24: "The One You Feed" • "Mirror Effect" • "Breakwater" • "Controlled Burn" • "A Better Person" • "And A Trauma In A Pear Tree" • "Jumped In" • "Soldier Up" • "Blood Out" • "Intersection" • "Dutch Tears" • "King Of The Moon" • "The Presence of Absence" • "Bubble Wrap" • "Bend The Law" • "Debatable" • "Bad Things" • "All Pain Is One Malady"
	+ Season 25: "Tunnel Blind" • "Truth Embargo" • “The Punch List” • “Duty To Report”
* Law & Order: Organized Crime
	+ Season 1: "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of"
	+ Season 3: "With Many Names"
	+ Season 4: "The Last Supper"
* Law & Order
	+ Season 22: "Gimme Shelter"
* Chicago P.D.
	+ Season 2: "The Number of Rats"