Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Bubble Wrap (2023)

Michelle Gomez: Connie Parish

Quotes 

• Connie Parish : All I ask is for one night a week. Just us.

  Martin Parish : But it's never one night, is it? It's canasta before bed followed by Fox News under a cotton duvet. She gets mad if we don't commute to work together. My life is an unending Mobius strip of violent closeness.

• Connie Parish : Well, congratulations, Captain. You've managed to turn my son against me. You call this police work?

  Captain Olivia Benson : You just don't get it, do you? Your son's a rapist.

  Connie Parish : Okay. I don't want to keep hearing that. I raised a good boy.

  Captain Olivia Benson : No, you raised a son who is still a little boy who is afraid of displeasing you, so he does everything that you tell him to do. You've crippled him and that is not parenting.

  Connie Parish : Parenting? I had no parenting. I parented myself. That house you went to, that was my father's real child, and I swore I would never let that happen to my son. I'm a tough woman and I'm a tough mother because I want what's best for Martin because my career wasn't the most important thing in my life. He was. He needed me.

  Captain Olivia Benson : Maybe when he was little, but you never let him grow up.

  Connie Parish : He wasn't ready.

  Captain Olivia Benson : Is that what you tell yourself? No, Connie, you see, you needed him and you used him.

  Connie Parish : He loves me and I love him.

  Captain Olivia Benson : That's not love. That's not mothering. That's narcissism.