Olivia Benson quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Benson

Sit down in the chair, Maggie.

Where's Elliot?

Benson

Just us girls now. Sit! That act of yours was a whole lotta fun to watch. But you should know that it's not gonna work with me.

What act?

Benson

Pretend to be a victim, you can pretend to be a whore, you can pretend to be whatever it is you wanna be. It's a joke. Maggie, you're done.

Where's my son?

Benson

Oh... see, that's not gonna work either.

I do not believe that you are talking to me this way. I was raped more times than I can remember!

Benson

Right, and your mom died, and your dad beat ya. [slides a paper towards Maggie] Your mom's alive. No dad on the birth certificate. You never knew him, did you? Was your mom a pro, too?

Where's my son? I need to see him.

Benson

Your son? You're never gonna see that kid again. You murdered 7 men for a hotel room and a manicure.

They raped me!

Benson

You want the whole world to think that you're a victim? Well, Maggie, you're getting your wish. Because the state's gonna kill you.

Stabler

I never want to grow old.

Benson

In our line of work, be careful what you wish for.

Munch

There's a fine line between the right to privacy and prevention.

Benson

People have a right to know if they've been exposed to HIV.

Munch

Yeah, I just get a little nervous when the government starts drawing up lists.

Fin

Please don't get him started. He goes off on black helicopters and we'll be here all night.

You cannot interrogate the prisoner about the federal case against her or anything related to it.

Benson

What if her criminal affiliations directly relate to the attack?

Well if Miss Curry's business associates were involved, she'd be in the morgue.

Stabler

[sees Dr. Warner enter the restaurant where he and Benson are eating lunch] An ME out of the lab? It must be big.

Dr. Warner

I got the report back from the contents of the vomit.

Benson

Am I gonna wanna stop eating for this?

Dr. Warner

Roast beef, mozzarella cheese, corn, and raisins. Luckily, it had only been in the stomach a few hours, so it was only partially digested.

Benson

All right, I'm done. [pushes her salad away]

Benson

You used your own daughter.

No. Those men did. Randall and Eno.

Benson

They swear that they didn't!

But they're lying!

Stabler

Either you let them rape your daughter, or your husband took their semen out of you and did it himself.

That's disgusting.

Stabler

YOU'RE DISGUSTING!! YOU ARE! Your own child!

We got called out on a domestic case. The husband and wife were going at each other, as soon as we walked in the door, I didn't see the gun. Cooper jumped in front of me and held the bullet in his hand.

Benson

And you've been repaying the favor since?

He saved my life.

Benson

He did it for 2 Mercedes and a condo.

Benson

You wouldn't do what they did.

Fin

It's not like I haven't thought about it, every cop alive has.

Benson

There's a difference in thinking about it and actually doing it.

Stabler

You call beating the crap out of her intense? Huh? You little prick. You did this to her.

Yes, I did do this, but she wanted me to.

Benson

No! No woman wants this!

Carmen did! This was her thing!

Benson

So you beat and rape her because it was "her thing"?

Benson

Your one night as a bachelor, and you went grocery shopping? That's pretty pathetic.

Stabler

It was a grocery store with strippers.

Stabler

You’re good. You got your own mother to alibi you, and, to tell you the truth, we believed her.

Benson

She’s a bigger sociopath than you.

Everyone assumes she did something awful to me, but she didn’t.

Stabler

You’re a liar.

She never abused me once.

Stabler

You’re a liar.

Not physically, not psychologically...

Stabler

You’re a liar! That woman did something terrible to you, boy.

I wish. Poor old thing. She got hate mail, death threats. People spit on her in the street. But she stuck it out there, just to see me. Now that’s love.

Benson

No, that’s denial. You think that your mother can't be broken? You think you're in total control of her? You just watch me!

Bring it on, bitch!

Benson

I've got a psychic who says she can channel Annika for the right price.

Munch

Let me guess. She's in a cold, dark place near a body of water.

Stabler

Look, we had a good run. Conviction rates are up. We had to get screwed sometime.

Benson

Cesar Velez can probably do more damage to Zapata now than the justice system ever could.

It just-- It never seems like enough, you know. The Feds'll get Zapata for killing Donovan. But what about Livia Sandoval? She dies without any justice, and we're supposed to be happy about it? We tell ourselves that we speak for the victims, but we don't. We can close cases. But the victims, even if they survive, their lives are ruined. I just get so sick of it.

Stabler

Alex, we can't always win.

But that's just it. Even when we win, we don't.

Novak

I wanted straight homicide. No living victims, all the glory.

Benson

Lesson #1: Nobody is prepared to handle the children.

Benson

Did you know that in just one night of drinking, fetal alcohol syndrome can set in?

Stabler

I didn't know that.

Benson

If your wife got pregnant again, would you allow it?

Stabler

If Kathy got pregnant again I'd shoot myself.