Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Alta Kockers (2018)

Mariska Hargitay: Lieutenant Olivia Benson

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• Olivia Benson : Amanda, I can't tell you how many times in my career I've heard the exact same thing from survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

  Amanda Rollins : Only that's coming from a 73-year-old hoarder whose completely rejected and alienated society.

• 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?

• Olivia Benson : [about Ben and Joe]  They were both abused as kids, Peter.

  Peter Stone : And conveniently, they didn't say anything until they were charged with murdering their mother.

  Olivia Benson : I believe them.

  Peter Stone : And I'll do my best to get it excluded at trial.

  Olivia Benson : Look, you won't have to. Neither of them will admit it. They won't even admit it to each other.

  Peter Stone : So that's that, then.

  Olivia Benson : Look, the M.E.'s report said that Rose's cancer cost her intolerable pain.

  Peter Stone : You and I both know that that doesn't matter.

  Olivia Benson : Cut them a deal.

  Peter Stone : I worked one out with their attorney. One year jail time. Ten years probation.

  Olivia Benson : Well, that's generous.

  Peter Stone : They turned it down.

  Olivia Benson : Look, they are sympathetic defendants.

  Peter Stone : Until the jury hears that they kept Mom's body on ice in the basement.

• Dominick Carisi : Was she raped?

  Olivia Benson : Apparently not.

  Dominick Carisi : Well, due respect, lieu, but what are we doing here?

  Olivia Benson : She's a not a she; physically, anyway. We may be looking at a hate crime.

• Dominick Carisi : We pulled prints from the brick, but they're not in any database. Now, Bobbi's got a learner's permit from North Carolina. He's sixteen years old.

  Olivia Benson : Did you try reaching out to his family?

  Dominick Carisi : Yeah, we tried, but the address wasn't real.

• Dominick Carisi : Bobbi made a lot of money off that book. Why the hell would he go back out on the street?

  Olivia Benson : Look, he's been doing it a long time. It's all he knows. He doesn't know how to stop.

  Dominick Carisi : Or somebody was forcing him to keep hooking.

• Odafin Tutuola : You know, this book is filled with sex between Bobbi and scores of adult men, who all could be charged with statutory rape.

  Olivia Benson : Fin, I'm pretty sure that Bobbi didn't use any real names.

  Odafin Tutuola : Well, what if we could find him?

  Dominick Carisi : [scoffing]  Come on. There's zero chance that this kid's gonna show his face now.

  Odafin Tutuola : Bobbi made a couple of online banking transactions, so I had TARU track the IP address.

• Odafin Tutuola : The kid's a ghost. 'Til last night, nobody ever saw him but his publisher.

  Dominick Carisi : Yeah, the home address he gave the bank was the 92nd Street Y.

  Odafin Tutuola : And none of them recognized Bobbi or the guy in the video.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, guys, so let's... let's get back to basics here. Why would somebody want Bobbi dead?

  Odafin Tutuola : It could be money. He has over half a mil in his bank account.

  Olivia Benson : That's... a lot of books.

  Odafin Tutuola : He sold his rights to Hollywood.

  Dominick Carisi : Yeah, well, jealousy, all right? Another writer gets mad about his success.

  Odafin Tutuola : Enough to kill?

  Dominick Carisi : Well, Norman Mailer would've killed Gore Vidal on principle.

• 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.