Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
PTSD (2008)
Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson
Quotes
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Detective Olivia Benson : I was sexually assaulted six months ago.
Master Sgt. Dominic Pruitt : Quit kicking yourself.
Detective Olivia Benson : Well... that's easy to say and hard to do.
Master Sgt. Dominic Pruitt : Takes practice. You'll get there.
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Odafin Tutuola : What's our next move?
Detective Olivia Benson : Talk to one of the patients from Jessie's support group.
Odafin Tutuola : The shrink won't tell you about the rape. What makes you think she's gonna give up her patient list?
Detective Olivia Benson : I don't need it. I already know who to talk to.
Odafin Tutuola : Does anyone else know you're in therapy?
Detective Olivia Benson : No.
Odafin Tutuola : Then they won't hear it from me.
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Donald Cragen : I want you to take some personal time off.
Detective Olivia Benson : Why?
Donald Cragen : You know why. Just do it.
Detective Olivia Benson : Is that an order, captain?
Donald Cragen : No. If it was, I'd have to make a notation in your jacket.
Detective Olivia Benson : How much time should I take off?
Donald Cragen : As much as you need.
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Odafin Tutuola : How'd it go?
Detective Olivia Benson : Better than I thought. Pruitt's attorney didn't mention the fact that I held a gun to his client's head.
Odafin Tutuola : It had nothing to do with Jessie's murder.
Detective Olivia Benson : Defense attorneys find every weakness. That's what they do
Odafin Tutuola : I get you not wanting people to know that you're in therapy.
Detective Olivia Benson : Ah, well, I may not have a choice.
Odafin Tutuola : As long as you work at it, the flashbacks will go away. Did for me.
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Detective Olivia Benson : I need you to open your jacket.
Rochelle Rodriguez : Get off me.
Margo : This is a safe place. Everything that is said in session is confidential. You are a client here, Olivia.
Detective Olivia Benson : And I am a cop, and I cannot let you leave with a gun.
[Rochelle opens her jacket, and Benson removes said gun]
Detective Olivia Benson : Where'd you get this? If there are any bodies on this gun, you are gonna be in deep. Now, I don't want that. Do you?
Rochelle Rodriguez : I just wanna feel safe again.
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Detective Olivia Benson : Your husband raped and murdered Jessica Crewes, and you helped him.
Marlene Rosten : That's ridiculous.
Detective Olivia Benson : You like being married to a pilot. You love the prestige. And you weren't gonna let Jessica ruin everything that you built.
Marlene Rosten : You're crazy. I... I'm not listening to this, and you can't keep me here.
Detective Olivia Benson : [Marlene stands to leave] Your husband's DNA matches the baby's blood.
Marlene Rosten : That's a lie. There is no baby.
Detective Olivia Benson : Then how come I have a piece of the umbilical cord that the bastard left behind? You could be charged with aiding and abetting. And trust me, no judge is gonna be lenient.
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Margo : He violated you, Rochelle. It is not your fault.
Rochelle Rodriguez : Yeah. But I was the one that had to hit the head for sneaking beer, and I was the one without my M4.
Kayla : I had mine and I still got raped.
Rochelle Rodriguez : Well, then you should have killed that bastard, Kayla. I'm always strapped now.
Detective Olivia Benson : You... you can't carry a concealed weapon. If you get caught, you'll go to prison.
Rochelle Rodriguez : Sounds better than gettin' raped.
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Margo : You know, you're supposed to be addressing your anxiety from sexual assault. I put you with these women because you have the same mindset.
Detective Olivia Benson : And if you knew that Rochelle Rodriguez was carrying, you should have reported it.
Margo : I had my suspicions. No one would trust me if I frisked them.
Detective Olivia Benson : And I had probable cause.
Margo : You crossed the line, Olivia. When we're in session, you have to put your job aside.
Detective Olivia Benson : Not if they break the law.
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Dr. Melinda Warner : Rigor's set. T.O.D.'s about twelve hours. She has bruising around her throat.
Detective Olivia Benson : Looks like she was yoked.
Dr. Melinda Warner : One jagged stab wound to the back.
Detective Olivia Benson : Any way the baby could have survived the attack?
Dr. Melinda Warner : How far along was she?
Detective Olivia Benson : 32, maybe 33 weeks.
Dr. Melinda Warner : The lungs aren't fully developed yet, but that's not what worries me.
Detective Olivia Benson : You think the baby was cut.
Dr. Melinda Warner : I'd be surprised if it wasn't. The killer really hacked up the womb. I got pieces of placenta and part of the umbilical cord. I'll rush DNA on the cord blood, see if we can ID the father.
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Donald Cragen : Pruitt's about to ship out again. You think he raped any others?
Odafin Tutuola : There's no record of sexual assault.
Detective Olivia Benson : That means nothing. When women refuse to serve with the men who rape them, they get court-martialed for desertion, dereliction, conduct unbecoming. I mean, their files get red flagged and the men who raped them get a weekend pass.
Donald Cragen : He passed a polygraph, Olivia.
Detective Olivia Benson : Any psycho can do that.
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Odafin Tutuola : I can't let you question the suspect.
Detective Olivia Benson : I'm fine, Fin.
Odafin Tutuola : You held your gun to the back of a man's head. Do you have any idea how much trouble you're in?
Detective Olivia Benson : You reported me?
Odafin Tutuola : No, I'm talking about you getting your head together.
Detective Olivia Benson : I am working on it.
Odafin Tutuola : Are you? Seems like you even have issues with your shrink. You need to talk to someone.
Detective Olivia Benson : The only person that I'm interested in talking to is the man who raped and killed Jessica Crewes. We need to find that baby.
Odafin Tutuola : If I let you do this, I'm sitting in.
Detective Olivia Benson : Look, I'm okay!
Odafin Tutuola : No, no, no. It's either me or it's Cragen. You choose.
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Donald Cragen : Do we have any idea where this Marine was killed?
Odafin Tutuola : A large pool of blood was found in Battery Park. The lab's testing it now.
Donald Cragen : She was stationed in North Carolina. What was she doing in New York?
Detective Olivia Benson : She went AWOL to join a therapy group that specializes in treating military rape victims with PTSD.
Donald Cragen : That's a long way to travel for therapy.
Odafin Tutuola : It's a long waiting list, and returning vets need help now.
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Donald Cragen : What do we know about the sexual assault?
Detective Olivia Benson : Next to nothing. She was raped in Iraq and couldn't, or wouldn't, identify her attacker.
John Munch : Let me guess, the military will not release an active file.
Odafin Tutuola : Well, if it happened in-country, it had to be somebody she worked with.
Donald Cragen : What unit was she assigned to?
John Munch : A squadron in the 2nd Airwing. Maintenance on light attack helicopters.
Odafin Tutuola : Okay, there's fifteen helos per squadron.
John Munch : So?
Odafin Tutuola : Cobra gets a three-man maintenance team to work on engines, navi, weapon systems, and ordnance. Plus there's two pilots and door gunner per bird.
Detective Olivia Benson : That's over seventy-five suspects.
Donald Cragen : Then narrow it down. Go back to the therapist, see if the victim gave her a name.
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Odafin Tutuola : We should probably figure the best way to talk to Pruitt.
Detective Olivia Benson : Put him in the box and sweat him.
Odafin Tutuola : He's not like a normal hump we pick up off the street. Pruitt's not just gonna start spilling his guts. They train him not to.
Detective Olivia Benson : Look, he's gonna cooperate or he's gonna sit in a cell.
Odafin Tutuola : Sounds like you've already decided he's guilty.
Detective Olivia Benson : 'Cause that's how it looks.
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Donald Cragen : He passed a polygraph, Olivia.
Detective Olivia Benson : Any psycho can do that!