Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Dreams Deferred (2012)

Patricia Arquette: Jeannie Kerns

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• Olivia Benson : [to Jeannie]  We can get you off the street.

  Jeannie Kerns : What else am I gonna do? What am I gonna write on my resume? Whore?

• Jeannie Kerns : [to Olivia about Amaro]  Does he always do what you tell him to?

  Olivia Benson : It's not like that, Jeannie. We're partners.

  Jeannie Kerns : Yeah, you're the boss.

• Jeannie Kerns : [to Olivia]  You got a place for me?

  Olivia Benson : I do, Jeannie. I do.

  Jeannie Kerns : Are they gonna let me smoke?

  Olivia Benson : Uh, you can ask, but it's not gonna be easy.

  Jeannie Kerns : Yeah, what is?

• Jeannie Kerns : [to Olivia]  in the old days on a Saturday night, I could've made enough for the whole week. You should've seen this place back in the day. You should've seen me. I was fine. There'd be cars lined up four deep on East Bay Avenue. Oof, and there was so much money. Ooh, we had some fun.

  Olivia Benson : Fun? That include getting your teeth cracked and floaters in your eye?

  Jeannie Kerns : Oh, and those high-rollers. There was nothing that a pair of thigh-highs, a stretch limo and an eight ball couldn't fix. Now...

  Olivia Benson : Now? Come on, Jeannie. It was dangerous then. It's dangerous now.

• Nick Amaro : [to Jeannie]  All right, listen. You've been out on the street long enough, all right? It's time for you to come inside.

  Jeannie Kerns : You know what, papi? Oh, I like my job, okay? I'm my own boss. I get to make my own hours.