Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Dreams Deferred (2012)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

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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.

• FBI Agent Cantwell : [about Jeannie]  Well, nobody at the FBI likes the angle that we used a street hooker to get this guy.

  Olivia Benson : So what, we just forget about her? We used her, now we throw her away. How is that different from her johns?

• Donald Cragen : Before Rasmussen's cell phone went dead, he made two calls to Jeannie Kerns, a prostitute working Hunts Point.

  [to Olivia] 

  Donald Cragen : Liv, you remember her?

  Olivia Benson : Should I?

  Donald Cragen : '92, you intervened in a dispute between her and a john.

  Olivia Benson : When I was on patrol, Captain, I did that a hundred times.

• 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.

• FBI Agent Cantwell : [about questioning Jeannie]  My team will interrogate, ascertain if he shared any confidences or if he told her his destination.

  Olivia Benson : Hold on. With all due respect, I think that she would be more comfortable if we talked to her. We talk to sex victims every day.

  FBI Agent Cantwell : No, she's not a victim. She's a prostitute.

  Olivia Benson : Are you kidding me?

  FBI Agent Cantwell : It's FBI protocol. You have yours, we have ours.

  Olivia Benson : Take that attitude in there, I can promise you, you're gonna shut her down.

  Nick Amaro : Look, she wants out as it is and we can't hold her.

  FBI Agent Cantwell : So arrest her.

  Olivia Benson : Arrest her? Well, forget about her cooperation.

  Donald Cragen : Agent Cantwell, my people have a rapport with her. They'll get what you need.