Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Father's Shadow (2012)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

Quotes 

• DNA Tech Susan Chung : [to Olivia and Amaro]  Your Jane Doe had a rough night. Prelim tox screen shows alcohol, Benadryl and Quaaludes. That combo will knock anyone on their ass.

  Nick Amaro : Ludes. That's old school for someone her age.

  Olivia Benson : Any sign of sexual assault?

  DNA Tech Susan Chung : Gray pubic hairs and semen on her breasts.

  Olivia Benson : Gray? The suspect's 20.

  Nick Amaro : And he claims he only worked her coat.

  DNA Tech Susan Chung : Oh, just getting to that. I found semen there too. I did ABO typing on both samples. One's from a secretor. One's not.

  Nick Amaro : Sorry?

  Olivia Benson : It's pre-DNA, Amaro. She's saying that there's two donors. The grinder was just an opportunist. So whoever gave her the Quaaludes assaulted her first.

• Olivia Benson : What's going on?

  Nick Amaro : The father's not coming.

  Olivia Benson : [to Sergeant Mullen]  No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. Let me talk to your boss.

  Nick Amaro : It's not him. Sandow won't cooperate unless we drop the charges.

  Olivia Benson : He doesn't care about his son?

  Sergeant Mullen : Do we know who else is in Eddie's life?

  Nick Amaro : Yeah, Fin and Rollins are trying to get in contact with the mother and sister in Canada.

  Olivia Benson : The mother's not going to be any help. He hates her. So now I have to go in there and tell him that his father's not showing?

  Sergeant Mullen : Tell him we're working on it. You tell him the truth, he could lose it.

  Olivia Benson : And if he senses that I'm lying, it's over.

  Sergeant Mullen : Detective...

  Olivia Benson : If he asks me, I'm telling him the truth.

• Executive A.D.A. David Haden : [to Olivia]  Look, I know you think you have a connection this kid, but the chief doesn't see Eddie as a special victim.

  Olivia Benson : You too?

  Executive A.D.A. David Haden : What?

  Olivia Benson : Eddie is a scared boy and these guys, they'd be happy to carry him out in a body bag.

  [storms off] 

  Executive A.D.A. David Haden : Better him than you.

• Eddie Sandow : [to Olivia about his father]  Do you really believe that he could do these things, that... that he's a bad person?

  Olivia Benson : I've seen that people have two sides.

  Eddie Sandow : Is something wrong with him?

  Olivia Benson : I think so. Yeah.

  Eddie Sandow : But... but, I'm his son.

  Olivia Benson : But that doesn't mean that you're anything like him.

  Eddie Sandow : No! No, I shot Jess. I held a gun to Lily's head. There's something wrong with me too.

• Eddie Sandow : [to Olivia]  Why do you care?

  Olivia Benson : Because I know what you're feeling.

  Eddie Sandow : No, you don't.

  Olivia Benson : Yes, Eddie, I do. My father did terrible things to women. To my own mother.

  Eddie Sandow : You're making this up.

  Olivia Benson : Eddie, you have a choice. I'm nothing like my father. You don't have to be like yours.

• Olivia Benson : Lacey... um, the counselor from the hospital said that... that you refused the rape kit?

  Lacey Ford : I was not raped. Mr. Sandow did not do anything.

  Nick Amaro : When we came in, your dress was open. He was on top of you. You saying you wanted that to happen?

  Olivia Benson : Lacey, Mr. Sandow assaulted you. He assaulted another woman last night. We need your help to stop him.

  Lacey Ford : If he goes to prison, what happens to the show? I really want this part.

  [Amaro and Olivia look at her in disbelief] 

• Olivia Benson : Eddie, I understand that you're upset, okay?

  Eddie Sandow : God, these girls... you can't trust them. My dad says this is a shakedown. He's old. He shouldn't be in jail.

  Olivia Benson : Eddie, your father can take care of himself. It's you that I'm worried about. Now, do you have somebody to talk to? Because this is a lot...

  Eddie Sandow : This is all your fault!

  Nick Amaro : Hey, all right, that's enough. Come on, let's take a walk.

  Eddie Sandow : [as Amaro escorts him out of the squad room]  If anything happens to my dad, I swear to God you'll be sorry.

• Sergeant Mullen : The father's at Rikers. It's bad precedent.

  Olivia Benson : That kid is 19 years old, going on 10. He has no impulse control. His father is his whole world.

  Sergeant Mullen : And you want to drop him into this?

  Nick Amaro : You got a better idea?

  Olivia Benson : Eddie already feels that his girlfriend betrayed him. If we jerk him around, he's going to turn on me too.

• Eddie Sandow : I can't believe that my mom came here. You know, she used to be a beauty queen. I bet she heard there were cameras here.

  Olivia Benson : Well, I think that she cares about you.

  Eddie Sandow : She left me. What kind of mother does that?

  Olivia Benson : I know that she didn't want to.

  Eddie Sandow : Don't mother me, okay? I had a mother.

• Eddie Sandow : You don't know anything about my dad. You know, he's awesome. When I was 16, I was a loser. He bought me my own apartment. I'd have girls, parties, anything I ever wanted. See, my dad knows how people are.

  Olivia Benson : And how are they, Eddie?

  Eddie Sandow : Everybody always wants something. All these girls just want my dad to make them a star. They only care about themselves.

• Olivia Benson : [When Eddie holds Lily and Jess hostage in their apartment at gunpoint]  Eddie, why don't you let Lily go and then we'll talk to a D.A.?

  Eddie Sandow : Oh, sure, hey yeah. Sounds good. I'll tell you what. Why don't I give you my gun and come out with my hands up and a target on my forehead!