Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Perfect (2003)

Tamara Tunie: ME Dr. Melinda Warner

Quotes 

• Dr. Melinda Warner : [about Samantha Tassler's autopsy]  When a woman goes through her menstrual cycle, one, maybe two eggs are released, leaving the follicles where the eggs came from empty.

  Olivia Benson : And something was wrong with Samantha's ovaries?

  Dr. Melinda Warner : She had 12 visibly involuted follicles. That means 12 eggs all released at the same time. I've never seen that in a 14-year-old.

  Elliot Stabler : But I thought women were most fertile in their teenage years.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : Usually this only happens when the ovaries are hyperstimulated by hormones, like for in-vitro fertilization.

  Olivia Benson : So assuming that she even wanted to, why does a 14-year-old girl need help getting pregnant?

  Dr. Melinda Warner : I don't know, but whatever the reason, it worked. Samantha was carrying an 8-week-old fetus.

• Elliot Stabler : [to Dr. Warner]  Now what about Samantha's fetus? I mean, you're not going to tell us that that's the clone of some family's dead child, are you?

  Dr. Melinda Warner : Until someone proves otherwise, that's science fiction.