Olivia Benson quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Benson

You mutilated women.

There's beauty in everyone. Sometimes you have to dig deep to find it.

Benson

He has the right to know.

Stabler

It's not our place to tell him.

Benson

Jake is raising a child that biologically isn't his. He's married to a woman who's being unfaithful. You think that ignorance is bliss?

Stabler

First of all, Tommy is his son. And Jake is the only father he's ever known. Now they love each other. Why do you want to mess with that?

Benson

Because it's not fair to Jake or Tommy.

Stabler

If Leah Keegan wants to tell her husband that Tommy's not his, that's her choice, not ours.

What do you mean? Tommy's not my son?

Stabler

Kathy wants to name him after me.

Benson

Just what the world needs. Another Elliot Stabler.

Please tell the jury what happened.

I was walking home from work on 168th Street when I saw a man beat a boy with a metal pipe.

[shows a photo of the victim] This is the victim, Damon Moore. Is he the boy you saw?

Yes.

And the man who beat him to death, is he in this courtroom?

That is the man. There.

He's a liar. The cops are makin' him lie!

Dennis, shut up!

No! NO! [jumps out of his seat] You murdered that boy in front of a crowd of people! And in front of GOD!!

[storms out of his seat, topples the table, and charges at Chuckwei] You're a dead man! You're a dead man! Ya hear me?!

Order! ORDER! Get the jury out of here! Court officers!

Get 'em off! Get off me! [to Chuckwei] You're dead! Your family's dead! Everything you love is dead! You're dead!

Take the defendant to lockup!

Benson

Are you okay?

Yes. I'm no longer afraid.

Benson

Are you Lavender?

Its La-van-der! Do I look like a damn flower to you?

Benson

[to Cooper] Are you okay?

[crying] No. I said I wasn't used to dealing with victims.

You must get a lot of confessions in here. Can't wait to unburden the soul, confirm your deepest suspicions. They want absolution. They want to be able to sleep at night.

Benson

Can you sleep at night, Lauren?

I sleep. Just. Fine.

Benson

Just how close were you 2?

He was like a father to me!

Benson

Is that what they're calling it these days?

[As Lake and Benson arrive to arrest her] Proud of yourself?

Benson

I would have been proud to help you collar the bastard who murdered 24 women. That would have satisfied me.

That wasn't good enough.

Benson

[Quickly takes away Cooper's gun] Why not?

You know why. How many dead babies have you stood over? How many rape victims? You can't tell me you never wanted to put your gun under the bastard's chin who raped a 2-year old.

Benson

[pause] I have too much to lose.

I don't.

Benson

Take the deal, Lauren. It's a way out.

No.

Benson

Why the hell not?

Because those who fight monsters better make damn sure they don't become them. [pulls out her gun]

Lake

GUN!!

Benson

What they are doing is trapping her in a child's body forever.

Stabler

Parents have to make hard choices. This last pregnancy, Kathy was over 40. That carries a higher risk of things like Down Syndrome.

Benson

And, you know what? Eli turned out perfect, so spare me the perils of women over 40 having babies.

Benson

Lowell Harris, you're under arrest for raping Ashley Tyler.

Fin

And the attempted murder of a police officer.

You're a cop?

Benson

Who's the bitch now?

Benson

Seventeen years as a corrections officer. Eleven different prisons. It says here that the first ten stops were maximum security men's facilities.

I go where I'm told.

Benson

You go where you're not gonna get your ass kicked.

[pauses] What are you talking about?

Benson

I read your evaluations. They dumped you at Sealview because you didn't have the balls to handle men.

Shut up.

Benson

You know what I think? I think you hate women. That's why you rape them. And if you hate women so much, that must mean that you like men.

Shut up. Shut up, you filthy whore. Do you understand me?

Benson

Did I strike a nerve?

Benson

He almost killed me.

Hunter

He didn't know you were a cop.

Benson

And that gives him the right to attack me?

Hunter

The law gives Officer Harris every right to strike an inmate to force compliance!

Benson

But not the right to try and rape me!!

Dr. Warner

How'd you know to ask Ashley about the mole?

Benson

[evasive] She remembered.

Dr. Warner

But you couldn't have known she was right.

Benson

[pause] I saw it... when he had me in the basement.

Dr. Warner

Olivia, did he rape you?

Benson

[quietly] It's the closest I've ever come.