Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Birthright (2004)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

Quotes 

• Olivia Benson : Mrs. Osborne, we're gonna have to place you under arrest.

  Michelle Osborne : For what?

  Olivia Benson : Conspiracy to commit kidnapping.

  Michelle Osborne : Go ahead. You'll see I'm right.

• Olivia Benson : Michelle, this has got to stop now. Okay, we know everything. Anna was on the police report from your husband's accident. She died in the car with him.

  Michelle Osborne : No. They never found her remains.

  Olivia Benson : Michelle, they were hit by a gasoline tanker. There was nothing left. I'm sorry, but you know what I'm telling you is the truth.

  Michelle Osborne : I know my daughter is alive!

• Olivia Benson : [about Michele Osborne]  She's clean. There's nothing suspicious. Even her credit's perfect.

• Olivia Benson : [after Patty is kidnapped by Michelle Osborne and Olivia finds her after Michelle is arrested]  Are you okay, Patty?

  Patty Branson : I don't want to stay here.

  Olivia Benson : You don't have to, sweetie. I came to take you back to your mommy and your daddy.

  Patty Branson : They still want me?

  Olivia Benson : Of course they do, honey. Why would you think they don't?

  Patty Branson : Because Michelle said she's my real mommy. It's not true, is it, Olivia? Is it?

• Olivia Benson : Casey, you've got to plead her out.

  ADA Casey Novak : Why would I do that?

  Olivia Benson : Because what happened was a mistake.

  ADA Casey Novak : Michelle is uncontrollably driven to kidnap someone else's child.

  Olivia Benson : Her little girl biologically!

  ADA Casey Novak : But not legally. I can't let Michelle off the hook just because you feel guilty you didn't believe her.

  Olivia Benson : Well then give her a break because she's also a victim. What that fertility doctor did to those two women is genetic rape. And don't tell me that that doesn't bother you on some level.

  ADA Casey Novak : Talk to the doctor, confirm what Michelle and the Bransons say and I'll consider a deal.

• Olivia Benson : [to Dr. Huang]  Something else is bugging you.

  Dr. George Huang : It's what you told me about how Michelle keeps Anna's room.

  Olivia Benson : That it's ready for a six-year-old?

  Dr. George Huang : Most missing children's rooms become shrines, frozen in time from the moment the child vanished. Michelle updating Anna's room tells me that she's confident that Anna's coming home.

  Olivia Benson : You mean, even if she has to steal another Anna to make it so.

• Elliot Stabler : Maybe it's buyer's remorse. Michelle did consent to donate her embryos and now she's sorry she did.

  Olivia Benson : That doctor pulled that story out of his ass. Come on, Elliot, he was making it up as he was telling it to us!

  ADA Casey Novak : So you think he's lying. Michelle Osborne hired private detectives to kidnap a child. Why do you believe her?

  Olivia Benson : Because Michelle Osborne has never lied to us about anything. Patty is her biological daughter.

  Elliot Stabler : So let Michelle and the Bransons sue Norton for malpractice.

  Olivia Benson : But if he intentionally put one woman's eggs into another without consent, we can't just let him get away with it.

  ADA Casey Novak : There's no law against that in New York State. And we can't charge him with larceny because stolen property has to have value and body parts don't.

  Olivia Benson : In vitro fertilization costs tens of thousands of dollars a pop. If Norton misrepresented what he did and put that "X" on this form, then we have him on fraud and forgery. If he did it once before, you can bet that he's done the same thing to other women.

  ADA Casey Novak : Now all we have to do is prove it.

  Olivia Benson : Right. This consent form is a copy. You get us a warrant for the original and we will.

• Dr. Stanley Norton : All I have ever done is help infertile couples have children.

  Olivia Benson : All you've ever done is pad your bank account.