Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Smut (2008)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

Quotes 

• Olivia Benson : I don't know what's worse: not being able to remember your attack or not being able to forget it.

• Elliot Stabler : [about the diamonds discovered in Eric Lutz's apartment]  Looks like the stuff at the bottom of my son's fish bowl.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, if those were keeping Dickie's fish company, all three of us could retire.

• A.D.A. Kim Greylek : Get Morales to clean up the video. We'll release their faces to the media and get IDs for the women.

  Olivia Benson : You can't plaster them all over the news. The media's not going to cooperate. They're victims.

  A.D.A. Kim Greylek : Are you sure?

  Olivia Benson : Did you just watch the same tape that I did?

  A.D.A. Kim Greylek : Does it look like rape? Yeah. Does it turn my stomach? You bet, but Lutz is going to argue it was consensual rape fantasy and until we have a woman who says otherwise, we're stuck with his version.

  Dr. George Huang : Your perp has found the perfect MO. He can do whatever he wants and not worry about getting caught.

• Elliot Stabler : [to Olivia about Laurel Andrews]  Why did you do that?

  Olivia Benson : She's the same happy wife and mother she was before August 19th. It was like she was never raped.

  Elliot Stabler : But she was. We have it on tape.

  Olivia Benson : Right now, that woman is not a victim. If we play her that tape, we're making her one.

  Elliot Stabler : If we pretend that woman wasn't attacked, then Lutz gets away with it and when he rapes his next victim, that will be on us.

• Olivia Benson : [after Elliot shows Laurel Andrews a video of her being sexually assaulted]  What the hell were you thinking?

  Elliot Stabler : I was thinking about getting a serial rapist off the streets.

  Olivia Benson : I want to catch the guy as much as you do, but what about Laurel Andrews?

  Elliot Stabler : How many times have you said, "Confronting the attacker is the only way to move on"?

  Olivia Benson : Laurel doesn't have to move on. In her mind, she wasn't even raped.

  Elliot Stabler : Lutz will learn from his mistakes. He'll improve his MO. Then we'll never get him. You can't change what happened to Laurel.

  Olivia Benson : I can protect her from the damage.

  Elliot Stabler : No, you can't. You should know that better than anyone.

• Olivia Benson : [to Laurel Andrews]  A few months ago, I was sexually assaulted by a man while I was working undercover. I felt guilty that I didn't stop him, ashamed of how powerless I was. And then I got angry, but that didn't help me get over it.

  Laurel Andrews : What did?

  Olivia Benson : Admitting that it happened and putting the man who did it behind bars and going to counseling.

  Laurel Andrews : Are you over it now?

  Olivia Benson : I'll never be over it, but I can live with it now and I have my life back now.

• Elliot Stabler : Women making porn? That's like the whore on the corner working her way up to pimp. Doesn't make it right.

  Odafin Tutuola : Lighten up, choirboy. You don't have to be a perv to like porn.

  Olivia Benson : Oh, yeah? Then how come people don't put V for "vagina" next to "Vertigo" on their bookshelves?

  Odafin Tutuola : Because they're afraid of being judged by prudes like you.

• Laurel Andrews : Detective Benson?

  [slaps Olivia across the face] 

  Laurel Andrews : You're going to make me go through this again?

  [Elliot gets up to intervene, but Olivia stops him] 

  Olivia Benson : It was my duty to turn those photos over.

  Laurel Andrews : I thought your duty was to protect victims like me.

  Olivia Benson : Believe me, Laurel, the last thing that I want to do is to hurt your case.

  Laurel Andrews : You made me remember, relive that awful night! And now for the rest of my life, I will never get those horrible images out of my head.

  Olivia Benson : I'm sorry...

  Laurel Andrews : And I won't testify again.

  [storms away] 

  Elliot Stabler : [to Olivia]  You okay?

  Olivia Benson : No.

  [walks away] 

• Olivia Benson : [to Eric Lutz]  Who was she, Eric?

  Eric Lutz : What are you doing here?

  Olivia Benson : Just asking you a question.

  Eric Lutz : You're trying to intimidate me.

  Olivia Benson : A woman walks down a public street and you find that intimidating? Interesting.

• Eric Lutz : [to Olivia]  I'm going to have your badge.

  Olivia Benson : Yeah? Not before I throw you in jail.

• Olivia Benson : [to Greylek about Eric's psych defense]  Just like that? The judge didn't even want to read the motion.

  A.D.A. Kim Greylek : Nope. "Porn made me do it." Unbelievable.

  Olivia Benson : But is it? I can't count the number of perps that we've collared with porn stashes that would make Jenna Jameson gag.

• Olivia Benson : I can't count the number of perps that we've collared with porn stashes that would make Jenna Jameson gag.

  Odafin Tutuola : And that ain't easy