Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Imprisoned Lives (2013)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

Quotes 

• Rafael Barba : [to Olivia]  You okay with all this?

  Olivia Benson : Are you? I got a seven-year-old in the car who's spent his entire life in a basement and God knows what else went on down there. We have no idea where this Pa is or... or... or who he is. And now the feeding frenzy begins?

  [walks away] 

  Rafael Barba : Welcome back.

• Olivia Benson : [to Cragen]  If you can't trust me, then I'm done.

• Donald Cragen : Liv, it's just your second day back.

  Olivia Benson : Captain, you're paying me to be here. You sent me home yesterday after two hours. It's a lost kid. Please, I can handle this.

• Donald Cragen : [to Olivia]  When's the last time you slept?

  Olivia Benson : Captain, please. I'm fine.

  Donald Cragen : Fine. Even so take a few hours.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, you have to stop treating me like I'm broken.

  Donald Cragen : Well, nobody is saying that.

• Olivia Benson : [after Cragen pulls Olivia out of interrogating Ma]  I was getting somewhere.

  Donald Cragen : No, you were attacking her. She was shutting down.

  Olivia Benson : I made a mistake.

  Donald Cragen : You're too raw.

  Olivia Benson : She knows who he is and where he is. I'm going back in there.

  Donald Cragen : No, you are not going back in. You are going home. It was too soon for you to come back to SVU.

• Nick Amaro : [as he looks at Olivia]  Sorry.

  Olivia Benson : Nick, it's okay. You don't like my haircut?

  Nick Amaro : It'll grow.

  [Olivia laughs] 

• Olivia Benson : [to Ma]  You took Kayla. You're as guilty as he is, okay? You're gonna be charged with kidnap, assault, rape. That's life in prison.

  April 'Ma' Hendricks : I didn't rape nobody.

  Olivia Benson : No, no, you just kept them chained up so he could.

  April 'Ma' Hendricks : They love me. I took care of them. It's okay.

  Olivia Benson : No, no, you took care of yourself. You see, Rhonda has nerve damage. She will never be the same.

  April 'Ma' Hendricks : She was always trouble. He had to do it. She asked for it.

  Olivia Benson : And Kayla asked for it? And Buddy asked for it?

  April 'Ma' Hendricks : He never hurt Buddy.

  Olivia Benson : He's a seven-year-old, terrified, locked in a basement his whole life!

  April 'Ma' Hendricks : [getting upset]  Stop, stop!

  Olivia Benson : He will never, ever, ever be the same.

  April 'Ma' Hendricks : Stop! I love Buddy!

• Olivia Benson : [to Kayla]  This, uh... this isn't gonna be easy.

  Kayla 'Sissy' Greyland : I don't care about me. It's... it's Buddy. I tried the best I could, teaching him, but I didn't want him to know too much about the outside because I was afraid that he would want things that he couldn't have. I want him... I want him to go to school and have friends and family and a normal life. And he's never gonna be normal, is he? He doesn't even have a name.

  Olivia Benson : You know, what I've seen is that people who have gone through unfair, horrific experiences is that they have this will. And when they get support, a chance, they cannot only survive, they can thrive.