Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Season 1
[about her bipolar disorder] It makes sense: all the highs and the lows, and... I've been on meds for a year. Sure, there's downfalls. Sometimes I miss the manic energy. But for the first time in my life I feel really good about myself.
You didn't tell me.
You didn't ask, Amanda.
He lied to save your ass. In my world, that gets you disbarred.
Yeah, in my world, it gets you a promotion.
He is my son. He is 22 years old. He graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth, he has a six figure job and you want to destroy his life because he had sex with some drunk girl?
I'm sorry, Patrick. If there was something I could have done...
There was. You chose not to do it. I went to bat for you!
And the truth is, I wish you hadn't. I wish you had just told the truth.
Nice suit, homey. What is that? Zegna? Armani?
Caprizio. Lives two blocks from where I grew up on Staten Island.
Hype's an up-and-coming rapper, hardcore at that.
So he's lying to protect his image.
Or his career. This style of rap, it's all about reputation, it's all about street cred. For him to tell his fans he's in love with a transgender woman... they'd laugh at him. His whole brand would go up in smoke.
It's 2016, for God's sake.
Not for people selling gangsta rap.
Or for some of my relatives.
Or mine, too.
Look, I understand that this is hard, but your daughter needs to start telling the truth.
She's not going to testify. I'm not going to risk her safety over some...
Some what? Some freak?
She's just a kid. It's not her fault some man in a dress got attacked.
Her name is Eva. She's an art student who lives with her family, with her parents, Nina and Mark. The mother is a fifth grade teacher, and the father is an electrician. And if you continue to interfere with our investigation or encourage your daughter to lie, I will arrest you. Am I making myself clear?
Three lives destroyed, and all because some woman named Eva was born a boy.
[about Wilson] Maybe he really did find God in the can and worked all that dark, ugly stuff out of his system.
It's possible, but prison usually changes you for the worse, not the better, unfortunately.
Like bein' a cop.
Who are you, and what have you done with Carisi? You really feel that way?
Talk to me in 20 years.
I will, and you'll realize that the job doesn't change you. It makes you more of who you are.
I wasn't stalking her, for God's sake, not in a creepy way.
There's no other way to stalk someone.
So the stalker was being stalked. Is that ironic, or just weird?
Both.
Why'd you run?
[Sonny pulls a gun out of Norton's pants]
Maybe because of this?
Is that registered?
I think I should call my lawyer.
I'll take that as a "no".
I know what you're thinking, Amanda, and you're wrong. You're a great mother.
I'm not so sure.
Well, I am.
I... it just gets lonely sometimes.
Jesse still up?
Yep. Uh, sitter said she was.
All right, well, let's go get some groceries. I wanna make spaghetti for all three of us and then we're gonna watch some terrible reality TV. I mean, it is gonna be so bad.
You got nothing better to do?
No, I do not.
When, uh... when I was at IAB, I learned to listen. To know when people are telling me who they are, what they're really thinking. A few months ago, you said you were happy, but you were crying. You were afraid it wasn't gonna last.
I remember.
You were telling me the truth. That we weren't gonna last.
I tried, Ed and I know you tried too, but if we've both been trying this hard... I have this little boy who who needs me, who needs his mother, and I have to give him all the attention and all the time and and all the love that I have.
He has to be your priority right now. I get that. I do.
I'm sorry.
Me too. Take care of yourself, Olivia Benson.
We're looking for a young guy, it's not Lawrence Hendricks. He's 75 years old.
Yeah, but don't you get to subtract ten years for every billion dollars you have?
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