Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Swing (2008)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

Quotes 

• Detective Olivia Benson : Did you ever try medication?

  Bernie Stabler : Once. I got into a fight with my husband and his gun went off, he had me committed. They tied me down and forced pills down my throat. I felt like a shell, like somebody had reached inside of me and scooped out my soul. I would rather die than ever go back there.

• Detective Elliot Stabler : What the hell just happened?

  Detective Olivia Benson : Maybe God just remembered how cute you were as a carrot.

• Detective Olivia Benson : Did you ever see a doctor?

  Bernie Stabler : You have to understand, in my day, eccentricity was tolerated, today they give you pills for everything.

• Detective Olivia Benson : The earliest picture I saw of Elliot was when he graduated the police academy.

  Bernie Stabler : Oh yeah, he tried to erase his childhood. He tries to pretend I never existed. He would've preferred a more conventional mother.

  Detective Olivia Benson : He turned into a fine man and I know him well enough to know he didn't get that from his father.

  Bernie Stabler : Thank you, dear.

• Detective Olivia Benson : Elliot, I know that bottling it up doesn't work for you, and neither has beating up perps, or walls, or garbage cans.