Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Info Wars (2018)

Mariska Hargitay: Lieutenant Olivia Benson

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• Olivia Benson : Martha, I am not a fan of yours and I think that your views on sexual assault are reprehensible, but you are a survivor and I really want to help you get justice.

  Martha Cobb : Always effective. The inspirational mission statement.

  Olivia Benson : [sighs]  If you're pulling your punches for ideological reasons because you don't have the integrity to be honest...

  Martha Cobb : Do not question my integrity.

  Olivia Benson : Then how about you drop the armor? How about you start talking to me like a human being, not a media personality? Can we do that? Can we... can we just talk?

• Olivia Benson : Martha, all I can tell you about your case Is that we don't always catch the bad guy and I'm very sorry.

  Martha Cobb : No apologies necessary, Lieutenant. I know I won't be the first or last woman who doesn't get justice after being raped at Hudson University.

• Rafael Barba : [about Martha Cobb]  Well, let's just say that she doesn't present as your typical rape victim.

  Olivia Benson : How do you mean? Martha Cobb has made a career out of playing fast and loose with the facts.

  Rafael Barba : Fact: She was raped.

  Olivia Benson : Right, and that doesn't endow her with sainthood.

• Rafael Barba : Don't you just love free speech? You get what you paid for.

  Olivia Benson : A dismissal? That's what you came up with?

  Rafael Barba : How would you have voted?

  Olivia Benson : Look, whether or not I believe her, this woman deserves her day in court.

  Rafael Barba : But this case stopped being a search for the truth. It turned into a Rorschach test about which side butters your political bread.

• Rafael Barba : You heard.

  Olivia Benson : How bad was it?

  Rafael Barba : The Titanic meets the Hindenburg meets my first year of Little League. Martha never mentioned that she spurned a sexual overture from Randy Platt the night before the assault?

  Olivia Benson : No.

  Rafael Barba : Why the hell not?

  Olivia Benson : I'm gonna find out.

• Olivia Benson : Thank you for coming in, Martha. How are you feeling?

  Martha Cobb : Emboldened and empowered.

  Olivia Benson : Well, I know how difficult this must be, especially with your public profile.

  Martha Cobb : You have no idea what my life is like.

  Olivia Benson : Doesn't mean that I don't understand what you're going through.

  Martha Cobb : Do you people ever stop with the empathy?

  Olivia Benson : Which "people" are you referring to?

  Martha Cobb : Let me guess. You cried tears of joy when Obama was elected. Said you'd move to Canada if Trump ever got in. Yet, here you are.

  Olivia Benson : I was never going anywhere, but right or left, I want to find the man who assaulted you and make sure that he is apprehended and punished.

• Martha Cobb : I told you I knew who Randy Platt was.

  Olivia Benson : Well, you didn't tell me that you humiliated him the night before you were attacked.

  Martha Cobb : Because it was irrelevant.

  Olivia Benson : Trust me, the jury doesn't think so.

  Martha Cobb : Then Barba is incompetent.

  Olivia Benson : If you would have given him half a chance to get out in front of this...

  Martha Cobb : I needed a bulldog for this. A Rudy Giuliani. And instead, I got a little schnauzer.

• Martha Cobb : I'm a target every day of my life, Lieutenant. I can take it.

  Olivia Benson : I understand that.

  Martha Cobb : And I'm a warrior. So to find myself in this position, where I feel embarrassed, vulnerable, like the kind of spineless victim that I ridicule...

  Olivia Benson : Martha, you didn't ask for this. You're under so much pressure, you don't realize that this is not your fault. So tell me who did this to you.