Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Design (2005)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

Quotes 

• [a rape suspect claims that the victim's baby isn't his] 

  Olivia Benson : Immaculate conception's not gonna hold up in court, so why don't you try again?

• Dr. Melinda Warner : This is all that survived the fire.

  Olivia Benson : Not very much.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : Fire marshal says an accelerant was used, probably gasoline, to enhance the burn.

  Elliot Stabler : Smart guy. Wanted to make sure we didn't find a body.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : I didn't.

  Olivia Benson : You mean it was incinerated?

  Dr. Melinda Warner : No, I mean there wasn't one in that car. Body burns, you always find something.

• Elliot Stabler : You walked through this city carrying $500,000 and just handed it over to her?

  Barclay Pallister : Yeah.

  Olivia Benson : Then why did she leave crying?

  Barclay Pallister : Because she's crazy. I was happy to pay her just to get her out of my life. She left with the money and I never saw her again.

  Elliot Stabler : The problem is neither has anyone else.

  Chauncey Zeirko : We're through here. Charge my client or leave.

  Elliot Stabler : [turning to leave]  By the way, your cleanup job at the apartment sucked. You should have let April burn up in that car. You've made an awful lot of mistakes, and I promise they're gonna catch up to you.

• April Troost : You were my friend. You promised to protect me.

  Olivia Benson : When you were a rape victim, not a rapist. You sexually assaulted three dozen men.

  April Troost : Really? Did they tell you I assaulted them?

  Olivia Benson : We've got you on extortion and fraud. Not to mention ripping off childless couples. And extorting half a million dollars from Barclay Pallister.

  April Troost : It was a settlement. There's nothing illegal about being paid for my pain and suffering.

  Olivia Benson : Faking your own murder for the insurance money is. Gotta hand it to you, smearing your own blood on the walls? That was good.

• Captain Donald Cragen : How's the baby?

  Olivia Benson : Sarah's fine. Not that April or her mother give a damn. I bet you they're in a bar right now laughing at us.

  Captain Donald Cragen : Let it go.

  Olivia Benson : I can't. They scammed everyone, and we just let them walk.

  Captain Donald Cragen : We got the baby.

  Olivia Benson : I know. But we haven't seen the last of them. They will never stop playing their sick games.

• April Troost : You have a sick imagination.

  Olivia Benson : On my best day I couldn't make this stuff up.

• Olivia Benson : You're only charging April with fraud and extortion? She's a walking crime spree.

  A.D.A. Casey Novak : My hands are tied. The three dozen of her victims don't even have a memory of being raped.

  Olivia Benson : What about the baby?

  A.D.A. Casey Novak : No hospitals in the tri-state area even have a record that she delivered one.

  Olivia Benson : Casey, trust me, she did. And then she sold it or she drowned it or who knows. But that evil bitch did something terrible with that baby.

  A.D.A. Casey Novak : You know, for all we know, it really was stillborn, and that's not a crime.

  Olivia Benson : No, it's a con! April has been scamming us since day one. She never had any intention of jumping off that ledge.

  A.D.A. Casey Novak : She played you, so now you're pissed.

  Olivia Benson : Yes, I'm pissed. But we still have to find that baby. Not to mention ruining Barclay Pallister's life.

  A.D.A. Casey Novak : That's not our fault. That's April's.

  Olivia Benson : And knowing her, she will find someone else to blame.

• Elliot Stabler : [after April's presumed death in a car crash]  Liv, there's nothing you could've done.

  Olivia Benson : I was angry, and I let it show.

  Elliot Stabler : You got pissed off because she lied to you. She needed somebody to believe in her.

• April Troost : I actually believed that he was interested in me. A nurse's aide. I barely have my GED.

  Olivia Benson : April, what happened to you wasn't your fault. Facing him is gonna help you deal with this.

  April Troost : I can't.

  Olivia Benson : You gotta be strong for little Sarah. You're all she has.