Olivia Benson quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Benson

FBI Agent Lewis, this is my partner, Detective Nick Amaro.

Agent Lewis

Nice to meet you, sunshine.

You, too. Hey, can I ask what the FBI's interest is in a New York cold case?

Agent Lewis

We think he's a serial. He's our prime suspect in three other rape/murders - Sacramento, Philadelphia, Washington, besides two in New York.

But the DNA matched a Manhattan case, makes it ours. And these aren't federal crimes.

Agent Lewis

How about we work together on this?

Benson

Just so you know, Nick, when she asks, it's not really a question.

Yeah, I'm getting that.

Fin

I don't wanna move.

Benson

It's 6 feet, Fin.

You're all still too complacent. I've said before, I'll say it again. It's a new year, I wanna shake things up.

Fin

I like my old desk.

Well, we can get you a grief counselor.

Amanda can't keep me from my baby.

Benson

You want us to bring you in right now? [he stays silent] I didn't think so.

Fin

So what do we do now?

Munch

We wait.

For what?

Benson

The inevitable.

Really? You and Cassidy?

Benson

A: I didn't tell you because it's none of your business. B: It's really not that big of a deal. And C, Nick: I didn't tell you because I didn't want this.

Benson

Brian, you didn't do anything.

Cassidy

Once accused, always under suspicion. Even from you.

Benson

From me? Brian, I believed you.

Cassidy

I'd like to believe that. [starts to leave]

Benson

Whoa, Brian, Brian... So what, we're over now?

Cassidy

I don't know. [pause, smiles] Wanna get a drink somewhere and not talk about it?

How many innocent men have you arrested?

Benson

Only one, and when I found out he was innocent, I fought for his release.

One, out of thousands of others. Men, they're all rapists, right?

Objection. Argumentative - and ridiculous.

Benson

Remember when you asked about my father, and I told you it was a long story?

Yeah.

Benson

It's not that long.

Benson

It's all about control. I mean, they do their own investigations. If the school decides no crime has been committed, it's dropped. No press, no police.

We need to go after the school.

Fin

And charge 'em with what?

That's the great part about being a D.A.: I don't have to decide that right now.

[after her assailants are convicted] I thought they were my friends. I trusted them.

Benson

Well, if it makes a difference, a man who doesn't even know you went through a lot of trouble to help you.

[of the victim] The way she was dressed, she's gotta be a working girl.

Benson

Nick, you gotta get out more - everyone dresses like that now.

Benson

After what you did to her, you're lucky I didn't kick your teeth in.

Lewis

What I did, you should be so lucky someone does that to you.

Shut the hell up or I'll take you out right now and wipe that stupid smile off your face.

Benson

Nick, it's all right. I wanna hear this. I should be so lucky? How?

Lewis

Well, sure, sweetheart. What do you want to hear?

Benson

Whatever you got.

Lewis

You mean, like, how disturbing it would be to make a fine, educated, cultured woman like that disrobe? How humiliating it would be? How she might have covered herself with her hands?

Benson

Go on.

Lewis

You want to hear about how I tied her to the bed. Not too tight, so I could watch her struggle. Or do you want to hear how I made her get down on her knees and forced myself inside her? Is that your thing? Or do you wanna hear about the pyrotechnics? How I put out cigarettes on her? [smiles] Yeah, gotcha. You want to hear how I branded her private parts with keys and hot hangers.

All right. I know you're getting off on this, but you know what? I wanna know how you got in that apartment.

Lewis

That's by the numbers. [to Benson] Men are from Mars, right, detective? He wants the logistics, but you... you want the emotions.

Benson

I do. So tell me more.

Lewis

A 60-year-old woman. She did things she never expected to do... things she never knew were possible... with her fingers, with her mouth. Do you wanna hear how, in the evening, she said she would do anything as she begged for her life? Or how, in the morning, she begged me to take her out of her misery? Which do you think I enjoyed more?

Benson

[to Lewis] My partner, my squad, the entire department will hunt you down. You think that you've put people through hell. It will rain back down on you.

Lewis

You know what? Let it rain.

I knew it was too soon for you to come back to SVU.

Benson

If you can't trust me, then I'm done.

Benson

What happened?

Munch

Fear won out.

I'm sorry.

Fin

It's not on you. It's just the way it is.