Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Hothouse (2009)

Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler

Quotes 

• Detective Elliot Stabler : What's with the rice? Did he make you eat down here too?

  Katrina Lychkoff : No, he had us kneel on it. It's not so bad at first, but after a while the grains dig into your skin and you start to bleed.

  [shows her knees with old rice grain indentions] 

• Suzanne Banks : Jennifer, that's enough. I think we'd better go now.

  Jennifer Banks : Don't tell me what to do! Don't! Don't tell me what to do! I'm sick and tired of everyone always telling me what to do, what to say, how to think, how to act. I just wanted to talk to her. That's all. I just wanted to talk to her and then take the next ferry back, but she screamed at me. Why was I following her? She called me a loser. She said I was pathetic and dumb, and that I was only at Morewood because my family is rich. That I'd never be able to make it on brains alone like her. She tried walking away and so I grabbed her arm and she pushed me, so I jabbed her chest with my pen! And she pushed me again...

  Suzanne Banks : [in tears]  Jennifer, stop!

  Jennifer Banks : And so I pulled her hair and I slammed her head into the railing over and over and over again!

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Did anybody see you fighting?

  Jennifer Banks : Everyone was inside because it was raining. She tried screaming for help, but no one could hear her because the ferry horn started to blow. That's when she fell down and I pushed her into the river.

  [to her mother] 

  Jennifer Banks : I'm number one now, Mom. Aren't you happy for me?

• 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.

• Odafin Tutuola : [about Elsa's father]  Lychkoff got fired by Boeing after six months, then hired by Lockheed and they dumped his ass four months later.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Sounds like our genius is one dumb son of a bitch.

• 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.