Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Acceptable Loss (2012)

Kathryn Erbe: Lieutenant Alexandra 'Alex' Eames

Quotes 

• Lieutenant Alexandra Eames : They all have a reason. Something.

  Detective Olivia Benson : And that's how you break them. Get them to tell their story.

  Lieutenant Alexandra Eames : Isn't that how you do it?

  Detective Olivia Benson : Well, I don't normally do it leaning over sideways.

  [Mimicks the lean. They both laugh] 

  Lieutenant Alexandra Eames : I learned that from my partner at Major Case. It was his way of keeping eye contact.

  Detective Olivia Benson : It's a little eccentric.

  Lieutenant Alexandra Eames : You have no idea.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Okay.

  Lieutenant Alexandra Eames : All that time together, the two of us... it was like we were married.

  Detective Olivia Benson : [Knowingly]  But you weren't.