Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Cage (2006)

Ken Howard: Dr. Arlen Rieff

Quotes 

• Dr. Arlen Rieff : Kids like Rose are born to addicted or absent parents. As a baby, Rose would have followed her instincts, would have kept smiling, kept reaching out. Not for seconds, for months, for years. She would have kept trying until her natural affections were burnt out.

  Donna Emmett : And after that?

  Dr. Arlen Rieff : Her only instinct is survival. Most psychiatrists, they see these children as untreatable.

  Donna Emmett : In your opinion, were my clients wrong to try and treat Rose?

  Dr. Arlen Rieff : Well, it's hard to speak of right and wrong when they're facing an impossible choice: to surrender Rose to an institution where she'll live her life in a state of overmedicated catatonia or to try and bring her back to life.