Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Taboo (2006)
Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson
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Quotes
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Olivia Benson : I'm sorry to be rude, Mrs. Drake. I just got a little upset when I saw your husband working on a third baby to kill. Did you tell your wife that her grandson is also her stepson?
Mrs. Drake : What?
Olivia Benson : Your husband's been cheating on you. With his own daughter.
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Captain Donald Cragen : Interrogation 101. Overcoming resistance through compassion.
Elliot Stabler : I can't. Not with this one.
Olivia Benson : [to Cragen] It's Saturday.
Elliot Stabler : Holding that kid she just threw away.
Captain Donald Cragen : Kathy still has custody.
Elliot Stabler : It's my week and the day's half gone. I'm still here.
Olivia Benson : Look, Captain. DNA's gonna close the case on this one.
Captain Donald Cragen : [to Stabler] Go on. Be with your kids.
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Olivia Benson : [to Ella] You cold?
Ella Christiansen : Yeah.
Olivia Benson : Then why are you sweating?
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Olivia Benson : [to Ella] Are you okay?
Ella Christiansen : Cramps. I think I'm getting my period. I really have to go.
[walks out the door]
Olivia Benson : [as she follows Ella] You know, women don't get their period for six to eight weeks after giving birth.
Ella Christiansen : Then I wish I had given birth then.
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Olivia Benson : [after Ella passes out and is taken to the hospital]
[to Dr. Aiken]
Olivia Benson : Hey, how is she doing?
Dr. Marnie Aiken : She'll be fine, thanks to you. It's a good thing you brought her in when you did.
Olivia Benson : Complications from childbirth?
Dr. Marnie Aiken : I'm afraid I can't tell.
Olivia Benson : Well, you examined her. Isn't it obvious if she just gave birth?
Dr. Marnie Aiken : You're misunderstanding me. I'm saying I can't tell you. I'd be breaching doctor-patient privilege.
Olivia Benson : You examined a suspect earlier right in front of me.
Dr. Marnie Aiken : I had that patient's consent. And if I remember correctly, you were equally convinced that woman was guilty of a crime she didn't commit.
Olivia Benson : This is crazy. I had a court order in the works right before she passed out.
Dr. Marnie Aiken : That's all I need. Come and find me when you have it.
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Olivia Benson : Ella, why didn't you go to the doctor earlier to have this baby?
Ella Christiansen : I had no idea I was pregnant.
Olivia Benson : Missing your period for nine months wasn't a clue?
Ella Christiansen : I swear, I had no idea. I didn't know.
Olivia Benson : You had to have figured it out at some point.
Ella Christiansen : No, not until it came out of me.
Olivia Benson : And you just panicked.
Ella Christiansen : It doesn't seem real. It just couldn't be real. And I didn't see why I was still being punished.
Olivia Benson : For having sex?
Ella Christiansen : For being raped.
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Casey Novak : [to Olivia] Why haven't you arrested Ella Christensen?
Olivia Benson : She's not going anywhere. I have a guard on her at the hospital. I just wanted to look into this rape allegation.
Casey Novak : She never reported being raped.
Olivia Benson : 60% of women don't.
Casey Novak : And a bigger percent aren't looking at attempted murder in the second degree.
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Dr. George Huang : [about Ella] I think she's suffering from postpartum psychosis.
Olivia Benson : Giving birth made her crazy.
Dr. George Huang : It's a hormonal imbalance stemming from pregnancy. Its onset can be quick and severe. Its symptoms include agitation, hallucinations, delusions...
Captain Donald Cragen : The Andrea Yates defense.
Olivia Benson : Look, the only thing making this girl crazy is the baby's father. I don't know what part he played, but I know that he's involved.
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Olivia Benson : How did it start, Ella?
Ella Christiansen : Do you have any idea what it's like to wonder who your father is your whole life?
Olivia Benson : What do you mean?
Ella Christiansen : I mean what does he look like? What does he do? Does he ever think about me on my birthday? On Christmas? Ever? I mean I never even knew his name. Do you have any idea what that feels like?
Olivia Benson : Yes.
Ella Christiansen : My mother could not stand the sound of my laugh. She said it was just like his and I mean, she always ignored me. But if I asked about him, then she wouldn't even talk to me for days. She'd...
Olivia Benson : She took what he did to her out on you.
Ella Christiansen : [crying] He didn't do anything to her. She just didn't want him. She didn't want him like she didn't want me.
Olivia Benson : Ella, I'm sure that that's not true.
Ella Christiansen : I knew she'd never love me. Just like I knew he always would.
Olivia Benson : You had never met him. You idealized him.
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Olivia Benson : [to Everett Drake] Ella was just telling me how you two lovebirds met.
Everett Drake : She showed up at my office pretending to be one of my constituents.
Olivia Benson : Oh, so she tricked you.
Everett Drake : She didn't tell me she was my daughter.
Olivia Benson : Well, how did you figure it out? Was it the first time you had sex with her?
Everett Drake : Before.
Olivia Benson : You're a sick man, Mr. Drake.
Everett Drake : We couldn't help it!
Olivia Benson : She's your daughter!
Everett Drake : I saw her as a woman, not as my child.
Olivia Benson : You took advantage of a young girl's desperate need for her father's love.
Everett Drake : You think I'm proud of this? You think this is something that I wanted to have happen? My life is ruined!
Olivia Benson : Well, it wouldn't have been if you'd succeeded in getting rid of baby number two.
Everett Drake : I wish to God Ella had told me about him. I would never have let her do it.
Olivia Benson : You can't still be claiming that you didn't know she was pregnant.
Everett Drake : I didn't.
Olivia Benson : Wow. Denial really does run in your family.
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Olivia Benson : [after Ella is found not guilty of attempted murder due by reason of insanity] I think she had to be crazy, don't you? She did what Everett told her to do.
Casey Novak : I don't know, but I bet she'll have the hospital convinced she's cured in no time at all.
Olivia Benson : Then back to daddy.
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Olivia Benson : [to Ella] Your father was involved somehow, wasn't he?
Ella Christiansen : No.
Olivia Benson : Ella, the trial is over. Double jeopardy is in play. No matter what you tell me now, you cannot be retried for attempted murder charges. Do you understand that?
[Ella doesn't answer her]
Olivia Benson : You know, I never knew my father either.
Ella Christiansen : What?
Olivia Benson : I have no idea who he is. To this day. My mother never told me about him until until after I grew up.
Ella Christiansen : Why not?
Olivia Benson : I'm the product of my mother's rape.
Ella Christiansen : Oh, my God.
Olivia Benson : So I think that I understand what you went through growing up. I could never understand my mother's inability to love me until after I learned the truth about myself.
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Ella Christiansen : [to Olivia] Why are you telling me this?
Olivia Benson : Because I understand the desire to get rid of the constant reminder of your own rape. That's what I was to my own mother.
Ella Christiansen : I'm sorry.
Olivia Benson : That's what happened to you, isn't it? You just couldn't face it.
Ella Christiansen : No, I wasn't raped.
Olivia Benson : Yes, you were.
Ella Christiansen : No.
Olivia Benson : Did your father tell you to get rid of them?
Ella Christiansen : Everett had nothing to do with it. He never even knew about it.
Olivia Benson : He had to. He had to have helped you!
Ella Christiansen : No, he didn't! I got rid of them myself! I just thought if I just ignored them, they'd just go away, and... and, like, it never happened. But then once they were born, I couldn't ignore them because they just kept screaming and crying and screaming and they were... that's why I threw them away and then they really didn't exist anymore.
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Ella Christiansen : [to Olivia after she's been arrested] What's gonna happen to it?
Olivia Benson : Your baby? Well, thanks to the media attention, ACS is getting flooded with calls. His future's looking up.
Ella Christiansen : I'm sorry.
Olivia Benson : You're only sorry because you got caught. You got lying down to a science, don't you? That one about you being raped? That was a good one.
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Olivia Benson : [to Novak about Everett Drake] Arrest him for the incest.
Casey Novak : Even if Jersey weren't outside our jurisdiction, it's a hard case to make.
Olivia Benson : [while looking at Ella and Everett] Take a picture! That's your case.
Casey Novak : It was consensual sex between adults.
Olivia Benson : Adult incest isn't a crime?
Casey Novak : Not a sex crime. Under New York penal code, it's listed right next to adultery as an offense affecting the marital relationship.
Olivia Benson : That's insane.
Casey Novak : It's an "E" felony. He'd get probation.
Olivia Benson : He should rot in jail!
Casey Novak : They'd have to try Ella as well. She committed the same crime.
Olivia Benson : So get him on attempted murder. I know that he's involved in this.
Casey Novak : He has a solid alibi. We can't make him legally culpable just because we want him to be.
Olivia Benson : So Ella gets put away for attempted murder and he gets off scot-free?
[looks at Ella and Everett again]
Olivia Benson : Look at them.