Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Dear Ben (2019)

Mariska Hargitay: Lieutenant Olivia Benson

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• Noah Benson : [to Olivia]  Why are you home early?

  Olivia Benson : I thought we'd spend a little time together.

  Noah Benson : I want Lucy.

  Olivia Benson : [sighs]  Okay, so, uh, Noah, we all get in bad moods sometimes and that's okay. And sometimes it's not about Lucy or olives or homework. Right? It means that we're upset about something else. What's wrong, honey?

  [Noah doesn't answer] 

  Olivia Benson : You can tell me. Noah? Tell me.

  Noah Benson : It's Jeremy. He keeps asking where my dad is. I told him he's in heaven.

  Olivia Benson : That's right, Noah. He is.

  Noah Benson : Did he love me?

  Olivia Benson : Oh, sweetheart. Honey, of course he did. Very, very, very much. And someday, when you get older, I promise you I'm gonna tell you all about him. But for right now, it's just... it's just Team "You and Me." And I feel so very lucky to be on that team.

  Noah Benson : Me too.

• Peter Stone : "Dear Ben, I was thinking about you last night. Wondering about Mary."

  Olivia Benson : Mary Harris. Infinity's 22nd victim.

  Peter Stone : "Wondering if Mary would tell you what I did to her. What I made her say. If she would get the details right or if she would leave out the interesting parts because she was ashamed."

  Edgar Noone : Infinity had a way with words.

  Olivia Benson : That's probably what made him interesting to Ben Stone.

  Peter Stone : Yeah. My father studied him. He read and re-read the letters, looking for clues about... about the crimes. His life. About his traumatic childhood.

  Edgar Noone : What do you mean?

  Peter Stone : As a boy, Infinity was forced to listen while his father raped his mother.

  Olivia Benson : Explains the pathology, but... I don't think any of that was in the books.

  Edgar Noone : And... and Ben Stone knew that?

  Peter Stone : Oh, my father was obsessed. I mean, he kept everything. I mean, look, letter after letter. Infinity even sent him a Father's Day card one year. Look.

  Olivia Benson : "Dear Ben, happy Father's Day." Signed with the infinity symbol.

  [handing it to Edgar] 

  Olivia Benson : Take a look.

  Edgar Noone : Ben Stone kept this?

  Peter Stone : [taking the card back]  Yeah, he did. He kept it in an evidence file so it wouldn't get smudged or torn. Of course, the idiot, he sent a card with golf clubs. My father never played a game of golf in his life.

  Edgar Noone : [snatching for the card]  Infinity couldn't have known that...

  Peter Stone : Right. Because he knew nothing about my father.

  Edgar Noone : They had a relationship.

  Olivia Benson : There was no relationship.

  Edgar Noone : All those hours Ben Stone spent on the case? He spent more time with Infinity than he did with his own family!

  Olivia Benson : Ben Stone cared about the women who were raped. He cared about getting justice for them. You're a little confused.

  Peter Stone : If you think this was about you, you're more insane than I thought.

• Edgar Noone : [after a DNA swab is taken]  Now what happens?

  Olivia Benson : We wait for the DNA match and then we arrest you for 23 rapes.

  Edgar Noone : I'm not Infinity.

  Odafin Tutuola : Let's agree to disagree.

• Peter Stone : I found this in my father's notes. Uh, "Peter's game today. Don't be late. He's the starting pitcher." I was in junior high. It was the first game of the season. He never showed. I hit a homer in the last inning. I went home and, uh... I could tell he wanted to talk, but I was so angry I just went to my room. I'll never forget the disappointment in his eyes.

  Olivia Benson : You were a teenager.

  Peter Stone : Yeah. The next day, he wrote this: Uh... "Peter's team won. Maybe he'll forgive me someday." We never talked about that game. It was September '93. Turns out... Infinity had struck again the night before.

  Olivia Benson : Peter. It's time to forgive him.

• Peter Stone : You got a good kid there.

  Olivia Benson : You should see him at dinnertime or bedtime or homework time.

  Peter Stone : Well, all kids go through phases. I'm told.

  Olivia Benson : Well, whatever he's going through right now, I gotta tell you, I'm a little over it. Maybe he... just needs some masculine energy.

• Olivia Benson : So, Infinity's last rape was January 2, 1994. I was a rookie in the 55. Everyone in the five boroughs knew about that case.

  Amanda Rollins : Well, not so much in Georgia. How many rapes was he good for?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : 22, in Manhattan and Brooklyn from '81 to '94. This guy targeted couples. He'd case out the place, jimmy open a door or window. Then he'd lie in wait, break in a second time.

  Odafin Tutuola : He'd tie up the boyfriend or husband, then he'd stack plates on their back and he said if he heard a rattle, the woman was dead.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : He took trophies. Small personal items. After the fifth rape, he started leaving messages. "Infinity: 5. NYPD: 0".

  Olivia Benson : You know, if this is him, he's been out of commission for over two decades, which makes him middle-aged or older.

  Amanda Rollins : So do we alert Crime Stoppers?

  Olivia Benson : Uh, no. Until we know what we're dealing with, 1PP wants to keep it on the DL.

• Peter Stone : The lab actually pulled DNA from Infinity memorabilia?

  Olivia Benson : Saliva residue from a stamp. A letter mailed back in '83.

  Peter Stone : Back before Infinity got careful.

  Olivia Benson : Yeah. The bad news is there's no hits in CODIS.

  Peter Stone : I'm starting to understand how my father must have felt.

• Olivia Benson : [after Infinity is captured]  He's going to spend the rest of his life in prison. Your father would be proud, Peter.

• Olivia Benson : Surveilling the apartment, breaking the door lock, stacking plates...

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : I didn't want to believe it either. How long has it been?

  Olivia Benson : Twenty-five years. The Infinity Rapist.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : Hey, sorry to interrupt, but the, uh, DNA from the stamp? I got a hit.

  Olivia Benson : How?

  Peter Stone : I thought there was nothing in CODIS?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : No, from learnmylineage.com.

  Olivia Benson : You sent Infinity's DNA to a genealogy website?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : It was a shot in the dark. I figured it was easier to ask your forgiveness than your permission.

  Peter Stone : And?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : I got a familial hit. A close female relative. She's got an address in Brooklyn, and she gave the site permission to contact her with any matches. So now I'm, uh... I'm asking your permission.

  Olivia Benson : Go, run with it. Go.

• Olivia Benson : So, April Baker says the attack happened around midnight. She managed to free herself - untie herself three hours later.

  Odafin Tutuola : Husband says son of a bitch stacked plates on his back.

  Olivia Benson : So while he's raping her, he can hear if the husband moved.

  Odafin Tutuola : Exactly.

  Olivia Benson : Let's get inside.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : So, whoever did this disassembled the door latch, then jerry-rigged it back together so that nobody would notice.

  Odafin Tutuola : The perp staked out the place when they were out of town?

  Olivia Benson : We're looking at a pro.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Maybe worse.

• Olivia Benson : Okay, we have unmarked cars on the Bakers' block, right? We're monitoring their calls?

  Odafin Tutuola : Nothing so far. This guy was and continues to be a ghost.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : [entering with Stone]  Nope, not a ghost. A copycat. We've been going through the old case files. Ben Stone was the lead ADA in the case.

  Olivia Benson : I didn't realize that.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : And whoever attacked the Bakers was definitely not Infinity. The signatures, the reconnaissance, the-the plates. That was all in the papers, plus three books.

  Peter Stone : What wasn't made public and what was consistent with each victim: he forced them to pretend they were enjoying the assault. Lovely.

  Amanda Rollins : For the tied-up husband to hear.

  Olivia Benson : And this guy made April keep quiet.

• Odafin Tutuola : Okay, no DNA in April's rape kit. CSU found two hairs in the bed, but they're not a match to the Bakers and no match in CODIS.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, so check that DNA against old evidence. Have Stone do some digging.