Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Hammered (2009)
Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson
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Quotes
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Olivia Benson : Please, people do bad things because they're bad people. Getting drunk to do it is just an excuse.
Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton : Olivia, finally, we agree on something.
Captain Donald Cragen : Liv, if there had been a cure a decade ago, your mom might still be alive.
Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton : [to Olivia] Wait, Mommy liked her cocktail or...?
Olivia Benson : My mother was a falling-down drunk. She died going down a flight of stairs.
[walks away]
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Olivia Benson : [when Sonya refuses to take a breathalyzer in court] Sonya, your eyes are bloodshot and watery, your speech is slurred and you stink of booze. Now blow.
Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton : I thought you were my friend.
Olivia Benson : Just do it.
Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton : Don't do this to me, Olivia. Please don't do this to me.
Olivia Benson : You did this to yourself, Sonya.
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Rita : Life begins at conception.
Olivia Benson : What if my life is at risk?
Rita : It's in God's hands, not yours.
Olivia Benson : And what if I told you I was raped?
Rita : Well, the Lord wouldn't have brought a child into this world if he didn't have great plans for it.
Olivia Benson : Even though she'll be a constant reminder? You have no idea the toll that takes on a woman.
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Captain Donald Cragen : [about Sonya] SVU was too much for her. The pressure must have triggered her drinking.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Explains why she was such a control freak. White-knuckle drunk just hanging on by a thread.
Olivia Benson : What a hypocrite.
Captain Donald Cragen : She was a good lawyer with a bad problem.
Olivia Benson : I definitely saw a lot of my mother in her.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Well, her career's over. There's no way she's coming back from this. I mean, she's a walking cluster...
[Sonya walks in the room]
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Bill Tattenger : I didn't do anything illegal.
Olivia Benson : No, not by frat boy standards. You want to have your way with them? Get them nice and drunk.