Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Personal Fouls (2011)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

Quotes 

• Olivia Benson : [to Nick Amaro]  A cop who doesn't eat donuts? How can I trust you?

• Olivia Benson : [to Cragen]  We're hiring another detective?

  Donald Cragen : Well, we're short-staffed. He's a good guy, out of warrants. He starts tomorrow. You have a problem with that?

  Olivia Benson : Well, it's hard enough showing one rookie the ropes and now we have two. I mean, what is this, a day care center?

  Donald Cragen : Elliot's not coming back, Liv.

  Olivia Benson : It takes me twice as long to explain the job to somebody else as it does to do it myself. Captain...

  Donald Cragen : It's not your call. Now you want to be here, you're gonna have to start working with other detectives. All right? Let him go. And you can start by packing up his desk. We can't keep it as a shrine.

• Supreme : [to Fin]  Hey, man, you got your 20 years in yet? I mean, when you put your papers in, why don't you come on down and work for me. I take real good care of my soldiers.

  Olivia Benson : No job for me, Supreme?

  Supreme : I don't know, sweetheart. Uh, can you dance?

• Donald Cragen : Folks, this is Detective Second Grade Nick Amaro. He just transferred in.

  Amanda Rollins : Second Grader already, huh? You must have caught some big fish.

  Nick Amaro : Nah, just kissed a lot of ass.

  Donald Cragen : Detective Amaro is being modest. Two years under in Narcotics, Warrants. He took down the MS-13 case.

  Olivia Benson : Well, this is a whole different world, Serpico. Not everybody has the stomach for it.

• Nick Amaro : I gotta call my wife.

  Odafin Tutuola : Short leash?

  Nick Amaro : Not exactly. She's in Iraq. It's a seven-hour difference.

  Olivia Benson : Iraq?

  Nick Amaro : She's in propaganda, you know, just trying to win hearts and minds. She's got eight months to go. If anyone could do it, it's her.

• Olivia Benson : [to Dr. Warner after Stevie Harris' death]  Circumstances undetermined? All that heroin in his blood? The guy's not exactly an amateur. Somebody gave him a hot shot.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : Or he gave it to himself. What's undetermined, Detective is whether it's a homicide or a suicide. It's a cuppi: pending police investigation.

  Olivia Benson : Come on, Melinda.

  Nick Amaro : See, that's why the M.E.'s office is separate from the police. So they don't jump to our conclusions.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : Don't play me, Amaro.

  Nick Amaro : Never.

• Olivia Benson : [to Prince about who murdered Stevie Harris]  You were telling the truth. It wasn't you. It was Supreme.

  Prince Miller : Supreme wouldn't kill Stevie, either. That's crazy.

  Olivia Benson : Wouldn't he? Supreme and Coach are the same. Coach ran you for ten years and now it's Supreme's turn. Neither one of them ever looked out for you, Prince.

• Olivia Benson : [to Coach Masters]  Think the law can't touch you, Coach?

• Olivia Benson : [to Dr. Warner]  Look, Melinda, it's not our call. There's someone that we really like for this and we need cause to bring him in.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : I can't get you there. Your scenario works. Here's another one: you saw the beating he took at the club. He was concussed, got woozy, couldn't find a vein. Fielder's choice.

  Olivia Benson : So if it could go both ways. Then give us a break.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : Come on, Olivia. You know better.