Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Alta Kockers (2018)

Wallace Shawn: Benjamin Edelman

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• Benjamin Edelman : And this Bobbi boy...

  Odafin Tutuola : He dressed as a girl.

  Benjamin Edelman : Ah, a fegulah.

  Odafin Tutuola : Uh, yeah, but I don't think it's okay to say that word anymore.

  Benjamin Edelman : Why not?

  Odafin Tutuola : Because it hurts people.

  Benjamin Edelman : It's just a word.

  Odafin Tutuola : Yeah, but words can hurt more than a gun.

• Olivia Benson : [to Ben]  I wanna talk about your book. It was, uh, it was powerful.

  Benjamin Edelman : You read it?

  Olivia Benson : I did. And it was... um, so real. And actually, I... I don't understand how you could've written it without...

  Benjamin Edelman : Oh, I... uh, I don't wanna talk about that.

  Olivia Benson : I know how hard it must have been.

  Benjamin Edelman : You know bubkes.

  Olivia Benson : No, Ben. I know that anyone who could've written a book like "Blue Barracuda" certainly must have lived through something. You wrote that book so you could tell the world how devastating, how horrifying it was.

  Benjamin Edelman : I wrote that book because we needed the money.

  Olivia Benson : And you were ashamed. That's why you didn't use your real name on the book. I could only imagine what you must have felt hate, rage, disgust. But shame... shame isn't on you, Ben. This wasn't your fault. Who did this to you? Who hurt you?

• Odafin Tutuola : We traced his IP address to your building.

  Benjamin Edelman : IP?

  Odafin Tutuola : Yeah.

  Benjamin Edelman : What's an IP?

  Odafin Tutuola : These computers...

  Benjamin Edelman : They tell you where they are?

  Odafin Tutuola : Yeah, I don't get it either, but it's cool.

• Benjamin Edelman : Joe and I... we were riding the waves, it seemed like for hours. Mama was on the beach, reading her book. She loved books.

  Olivia Benson : Well, maybe that's where you got your talent.

  Benjamin Edelman : We'd swim out to where the waves broke and then ride them in to see who could come closest to shore, over and over again until there were no waves anymore. We tried to swim in, but the undertow... no matter how hard we tried, we just ended up getting further and further from the shore. We thought we were gonna die, Joe and I. He put his arms around me. And then suddenly, the lifeguard saw us, blew his whistle, stood up out of his chair, and swam out toward us. And the next thing I knew, I was face down on the beach, regurgitating salt water with every cough.

  Olivia Benson : Well, you certainly owe that lifeguard.

  Benjamin Edelman : No, no. I owe Mama. She beat the lifeguard out to us and kept us afloat until he got there.