Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Countdown (2001)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

Quotes 

• Detective Elliot Stabler : [about the missing girl]  She's got four hours left to live. We gotta track down family and friends...

  Olivia Benson : Elliot, she's already dead. This guy is on the run. You think that he's sticking to a time-clock?

  Detective Elliot Stabler : We proceed under the assumption she's still alive. You know that.

  Olivia Benson : Proceed? What are we gonna proceed to? What are we gonna do?

  Capt. Donald Cragen : Get a few minutes of rack time, both of you.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Olivia]  Take a nap. I'll let you know how it turns out.

  Olivia Benson : Screw you.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Screw you.

• Olivia Benson : [to Detectives Tatum and Becker]  Look. I know that we're on your turf and I would be prickly about it, too. That's why I had every intention of coming in here and schmoozing and kissing a little ass, but we have got a ticking clock, do you understand? Now, my partner and I have been on this case for three days straight and we're too damned tired to get in a pissing match, so I just need to know if you're gonna help us or not.

• Olivia Benson : [about the kidnapper]  We're positive it's the same guy?

  John Munch : Unless there's a white-van-driving, dentally-challenged pedophile convention in town, I'd say yes.

• Capt. Donald Cragen : Dammit, this place is a pig sty!

  Olivia Benson : You said no janitors.

  Capt. Donald Cragen : Oh thanks a lot, Olivia, it's all my fault.

• Olivia Benson : I have read the same paragraph five times, and I still have no idea what it says.

• Olivia Benson : [after Mrs. Douglas puts an end to the detectives talking to Sophie]  Well, you know, she's not bringing her back anytime soon.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : If at all.

  Alexandra Cabot : Well, if she continues to be uncooperative, we still have legal recourse.

  Olivia Benson : Puts her in the room. It doesn't pull the words out of her.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : I wouldn't put my girls through it. You don't know.