Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Perfect (2003)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

Quotes 

• Ed Tucker : [When a teenage girl is found deceased at the crime scene]  We think the perp shot her.

  Elliot Stabler : No, you think the cops accidentally shot her, and you're trying to pull us into your own mess by calling it an SVU case.

  Ed Tucker : This girl was tortured and we have no idea who she is. You want her parents to see her face in the morning news?

  Elliot Stabler : That's your problem, not ours.

  [he and Olivia begin to walk off] 

  Ed Tucker : Come on, SVU knows how to protect victims and deal with families.

  Elliot Stabler : You mean you want us to keep this under wraps.

  Ed Tucker : We want this to look clean from the beginning, so I'm asking for a favor.

  Olivia Benson : All the times that you people at IAB jammed us up and now you want to play nice? You've got a set of balls on you asking us for anything.

  Elliot Stabler : If we find out that a cop shot that girl, you expect us to keep it quiet?

  Ed Tucker : I expect you to do your job. However this turns out, it turns out. You don't want to do it for me, fine. Do it for her.

• Dr. George Huang : [about Dr. Lang]  He's a narcissistic bastard and he's calling all the shots. You saw the way his lawyer deferred to him.

  Olivia Benson : I can understand a 14-year-old being taken in by Lang, but not a smart, educated woman like Quentin.

  Dr. George Huang : Jim Jones got hundreds of his disciples to drink poisoned Kool-Aid because he had a charismatic personality. Lang uses his to get people like Quentin and Haggerty to love and obey him.

  Elliot Stabler : Those teenage girls couldn't be more vulnerable. They're not that attractive. Probably got bad grades in school. They're just social outcasts.

  Olivia Benson : So this cult is a place for them to fit in.

  Dr. George Huang : And inundate them with approval and affection. It's called love bombing: "You're perfect the way you are."

  Olivia Benson : Right, which is what every teenage girl wants to hear.

• Elliot Stabler : Kind of strange Cragen calling us in on an officer-involved shooting.

  Olivia Benson : Maybe not. Look who's over there.

  Elliot Stabler : [the detectives see Tucker from IAB at the crime scene]  Swell.

• Dr. Melinda Warner : [about Samantha Tassler's autopsy]  When a woman goes through her menstrual cycle, one, maybe two eggs are released, leaving the follicles where the eggs came from empty.

  Olivia Benson : And something was wrong with Samantha's ovaries?

  Dr. Melinda Warner : She had 12 visibly involuted follicles. That means 12 eggs all released at the same time. I've never seen that in a 14-year-old.

  Elliot Stabler : But I thought women were most fertile in their teenage years.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : Usually this only happens when the ovaries are hyperstimulated by hormones, like for in-vitro fertilization.

  Olivia Benson : So assuming that she even wanted to, why does a 14-year-old girl need help getting pregnant?

  Dr. Melinda Warner : I don't know, but whatever the reason, it worked. Samantha was carrying an 8-week-old fetus.

• Olivia Benson : [to Dr. Lang]  What about Samantha Tassler undergoing in vitro fertilization, which you happen to perform? Are we wrong about that, too?

  Dr. Garrett Lang : Any OB-GYN who's a fertility specialist could have done that.

  Elliot Stabler : Yeah, but she and the other girls weren't wearing any other fertility specialist's infinity necklace and you've got Miss Haggerty here who's got that symbol tattooed on her wrist.

  Dr. Garrett Lang : Any questions from the FBI, Agent Huang?

  Dr. George Huang : You enjoy this, don't you, Dr. Lang?

  Dr. Garrett Lang : I enjoy helping those girls thrive and realize their full potential. Because of you people, we may have to close down the foundation.

  [turns to Quentin] 

  Dr. Garrett Lang : Joan?

  Joan Quentin : Unless you're going to arrest me or either of my clients, we're through. Or my next call is to the Internal Affairs Bureau for harassment.