Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Hothouse (2009)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

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• A.D.A. Kendra Gill : Yeah, I've gone two days without sleep... only thing I murdered at the end of it was my pillow.

  Detective Olivia Benson : I knew a cop who worked double homicide for 41 hours straight, went home and went to bed. He had an asthma attack and reached for his inhaler, but he grabbed his service revolver instead. He put it in his mouth and blew his brains out.

• Detective Olivia Benson : [about the murder victim]  She was beaten and tortured. She still believed in God.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : You'd think he could have protected her just a little bit.

• Detective Olivia Benson : [to Jennifer]  This isn't a vocabulary test, okay? Elsa was murdered.

  Jennifer Banks : Look, I don't have time for this, okay? They put me in a tournament next week, and I need to study Molnar-Nagy 1966. I'm in zugzwang, but if I can solve it, maybe it's H7 to J6...

  Detective Olivia Benson : Hey, the only way you're going to solve this is by talking to us.

• Alik : [about him prostituting young women]  You make it seem so tragic. Their lives aren't terrible.

  Detective Olivia Benson : So what do you call daily beatings, rape, exposure to HIV? The good life?

• A.D.A. Kendra Gill : [about Jennifer Banks]  Your rich white girl has a 160 IQ and no history of abuse, addiction or mental illness. Don't tell me she didn't know what she did was wrong.

  Detective Olivia Benson : She's 14 years old. Are you the same person that you were back then?

  A.D.A. Kendra Gill : At 14, I wasn't a murderer.

• Dr. Melinda Warner : [about Jennifer's handwriting]  This type of hypergraphia is common with Provigil abuse. The drug was developed to treat narcolepsy and other sleep disorders, then the government discovered its military value as a stimulant, gave it to the troops to keep them alert in the field.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Now kids are using it to cram for their exams.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : When used properly, it is an effective treatment for ADD.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Properly, yeah, right. Tell me those kids at Morewood popping pills all have attention deficit.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : I'll tip off a friend in the Health Department. See if we can stop the pill-pushing.

• Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Danny Burke]  Aren't you a little old to be rebelling against your high school?

  Danny Burke : Be the best. Great isn't good enough. Maximize your potential. They even feed their students a special diet to increase brain activity. Omega-3s and all that crap. That place is toxic.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Is that why you dropped out a month before graduating?

  Danny Burke : I couldn't take it anymore and neither could Elsa. She wanted to be a kid, not their effing robot.