Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Heartfelt Passages (2016)

Mariska Hargitay: Lieutenant Olivia Benson

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• Deputy Chief William Dodds : His last day at SVU, he does this. He knew better. He's known since he was six, since I was a beat cop. DV is the most dangerous situation in the world. What the hell was he thinking?

  Olivia Benson : That he wanted to be like his father. A hero.

• Ed Tucker : I put transfer papers in today. Hostage negotiation has an opening.

  Olivia Benson : You're leaving IAB? After all this time, that's...

  Ed Tucker : Like letting go of a rope. At the funeral, I realized I can't spend the rest of my life obsessing about whether or not a cop is lying to me.

  Olivia Benson : Wow, Ed. You know, I never did ask you how you ended up in IAB to begin with.

  Ed Tucker : It's a long story. Actually, no, it's not. After my ex and I... she, uh... I just thought I could never trust anybody again.

  Olivia Benson : So you joined IAB to confirm that belief.

  Ed Tucker : Turns out I was wrong. Olivia Margaret Benson, I trust you. And this little guy.

  [he playfully tickles Noah] 

  Ed Tucker : We have a good thing going here, the three of us.

  Olivia Benson : Yeah, we do.

• Olivia Benson : If I could do it again, I... I wouldn't have left him in that house. I have more experience. Maybe I could've talked to him...

  Dr. Peter Lindstrom : Talked Munson out of it? Or overpowered a 6'8" man with a gun and nothing to live for? You said there were two children there. You got them out. They have their mother.

  Olivia Benson : And Chief Dodds doesn't have his son. Why does he deserve that?

  Dr. Peter Lindstrom : Or do you mean why do you deserve to live when Dodds is dead? You've got to mourn this loss, but you cannot judge yourself for feeling relieved that you survived.

  Olivia Benson : I can't?

  Dr. Peter Lindstrom : You are lucky to be alive, and Noah is lucky that you are. But that is not why you left that house. I know you think you know everything, but no one could have predicted what was going to happen there. It was Dodds' time. It wasn't yours.

• Dominick Carisi, Jr. : How is he? How's Dodds?

  Olivia Benson : He took a bullet.

  Amanda Rollins : How bad?

  Olivia Benson : Bad. There was a lot of blood. He, uh... it was a gut shot, so they just took him to Lincoln Hospital.

  Dominick Carisi, Jr. : All right, let's go.

  [seeing the worry in Benson's face] 

  Dominick Carisi, Jr. : Lieutenant, are you all right?

  Olivia Benson : No. We didn't search Munson, so I left Dodds in there. So this is on me.

• Olivia Benson : How is he?

  Deputy Chief William Dodds : Well, shot through the abdomen, bullet hit an artery. He, uh... he lost a lot of blood. But Mike's a fighter. I told him that.

  Amanda Rollins : What can we do?

  Deputy Chief William Dodds : He's B negative. Highway's been dispatched to the blood bank, but they're going through what they have fast.

  Dominick Carisi, Jr. : I'm O negative. That works. Where do I go?

  Deputy Chief William Dodds : It's right down the hall. All right, thank you.

• Ed Tucker : I got here as quick as I could. He still in surgery?

  Olivia Benson : He's alive.

  Ed Tucker : We'll take that. You all right?

  Olivia Benson : I... I was walking Munson's kids out to the car.

  Ed Tucker : Yeah.

  Olivia Benson : And I left Dodds in there. I had a feeling...

  Ed Tucker : Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't do that. There's a hundred ways that could've gone.

  Olivia Benson : I should have let Dodds walk the kids out to the car.

  Ed Tucker : Hey, look at me. You all right? You need anything? Something to eat? Maybe a coffee.

  Olivia Benson : Just be here.

  Ed Tucker : I'm not going anywhere.

• Ed Tucker : It might be nice to get away for a while. How do you feel about Paris?

  Olivia Benson : Paris?

  Ed Tucker : Yeah.

  Olivia Benson : I like it.