Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Taboo (2006)
Schuyler Fisk: Ella Christiansen
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Quotes
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Elliot Stabler : [to Ella] You look just like him.
Ella Christiansen : Who?
Elliot Stabler : Your son.
Ella Christiansen : I don't... this... I don't have a son.
Elliot Stabler : Carried him nine months. You didn't want him, you had legal options. You have a problem with abortion, that's your choice. I understand that. There's adoption. You chose to give birth!
Ella Christiansen : You have the wrong person.
Elliot Stabler : You chose to walk six blocks with him, right past a firehouse! A hospital where under safe haven laws, you could have just left him anonymously!
Ella Christiansen : Why are you yelling at me?
Elliot Stabler : Because you tossed him in the trash like the garbage you are! All those choices. How is that even an option?
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Olivia Benson : [to Ella] You cold?
Ella Christiansen : Yeah.
Olivia Benson : Then why are you sweating?
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Olivia Benson : [to Ella] Are you okay?
Ella Christiansen : Cramps. I think I'm getting my period. I really have to go.
[walks out the door]
Olivia Benson : [as she follows Ella] You know, women don't get their period for six to eight weeks after giving birth.
Ella Christiansen : Then I wish I had given birth then.
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Olivia Benson : Ella, why didn't you go to the doctor earlier to have this baby?
Ella Christiansen : I had no idea I was pregnant.
Olivia Benson : Missing your period for nine months wasn't a clue?
Ella Christiansen : I swear, I had no idea. I didn't know.
Olivia Benson : You had to have figured it out at some point.
Ella Christiansen : No, not until it came out of me.
Olivia Benson : And you just panicked.
Ella Christiansen : It doesn't seem real. It just couldn't be real. And I didn't see why I was still being punished.
Olivia Benson : For having sex?
Ella Christiansen : For being raped.
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Olivia Benson : How did it start, Ella?
Ella Christiansen : Do you have any idea what it's like to wonder who your father is your whole life?
Olivia Benson : What do you mean?
Ella Christiansen : I mean what does he look like? What does he do? Does he ever think about me on my birthday? On Christmas? Ever? I mean I never even knew his name. Do you have any idea what that feels like?
Olivia Benson : Yes.
Ella Christiansen : My mother could not stand the sound of my laugh. She said it was just like his and I mean, she always ignored me. But if I asked about him, then she wouldn't even talk to me for days. She'd...
Olivia Benson : She took what he did to her out on you.
Ella Christiansen : [crying] He didn't do anything to her. She just didn't want him. She didn't want him like she didn't want me.
Olivia Benson : Ella, I'm sure that that's not true.
Ella Christiansen : I knew she'd never love me. Just like I knew he always would.
Olivia Benson : You had never met him. You idealized him.
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Olivia Benson : [to Ella] Your father was involved somehow, wasn't he?
Ella Christiansen : No.
Olivia Benson : Ella, the trial is over. Double jeopardy is in play. No matter what you tell me now, you cannot be retried for attempted murder charges. Do you understand that?
[Ella doesn't answer her]
Olivia Benson : You know, I never knew my father either.
Ella Christiansen : What?
Olivia Benson : I have no idea who he is. To this day. My mother never told me about him until until after I grew up.
Ella Christiansen : Why not?
Olivia Benson : I'm the product of my mother's rape.
Ella Christiansen : Oh, my God.
Olivia Benson : So I think that I understand what you went through growing up. I could never understand my mother's inability to love me until after I learned the truth about myself.
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Ella Christiansen : [to Olivia] Why are you telling me this?
Olivia Benson : Because I understand the desire to get rid of the constant reminder of your own rape. That's what I was to my own mother.
Ella Christiansen : I'm sorry.
Olivia Benson : That's what happened to you, isn't it? You just couldn't face it.
Ella Christiansen : No, I wasn't raped.
Olivia Benson : Yes, you were.
Ella Christiansen : No.
Olivia Benson : Did your father tell you to get rid of them?
Ella Christiansen : Everett had nothing to do with it. He never even knew about it.
Olivia Benson : He had to. He had to have helped you!
Ella Christiansen : No, he didn't! I got rid of them myself! I just thought if I just ignored them, they'd just go away, and... and, like, it never happened. But then once they were born, I couldn't ignore them because they just kept screaming and crying and screaming and they were... that's why I threw them away and then they really didn't exist anymore.
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Ella Christiansen : [to Olivia after she's been arrested] What's gonna happen to it?
Olivia Benson : Your baby? Well, thanks to the media attention, ACS is getting flooded with calls. His future's looking up.
Ella Christiansen : I'm sorry.
Olivia Benson : You're only sorry because you got caught. You got lying down to a science, don't you? That one about you being raped? That was a good one.