Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Intoxicated (2005)
Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson
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Quotes
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Detective Olivia Benson : [to Cragen] Denise Elderidge is a fruit cake.
Detective Elliot Stabler : [interrupts them] Well, uh... dessert is served.
[reveals Denise]
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Detective Olivia Benson : My mother was an English professor. When I was sixteen, I started dating one of her students. He was a senior, he was twenty-one years old. And he asked me to marry him. And I said yes. Because I wanted to get away from my mother. She found out and she told me that if I didn't stop seeing him, that she would have him kicked out of college. And I told her that I was moving out. She was half way through a bottle of vodka and she dropped it. It shattered all over the floor. And then she picked up the jagged edge of the bottle and... and she came at me, screaming, 'I'll never let anyone else have you.' And so I kicked her, hard. And then I kicked her again. And she went flying across the room, into the wall. And she slid down to the floor. I'd never hurt her before. I ran out. I was so afraid...
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A.D.A. Casey Novak : You didn't kill your mother, Olivia.
Detective Olivia Benson : I know what it's like to want to. That's how I know Simone Brice. I called her back then. She was a law student, and she helped me survive it.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : Why didn't Carrie say something?
Detective Olivia Benson : Because then the abuse becomes real. If you keep quiet, you can pretend that it's not.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : These pots and pans haven't been used in so long they got cobwebs on them.
Detective Olivia Benson : Sounds like the ones in my kitchen.
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Detective Olivia Benson : No wonder I hated Denise so much. All along, Carrie was just trying to get me to protect her. Look at this. Denise didn't care about her daughter. All she cared about was where she was gonna get her next drink.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Why'd you come here?
Detective Olivia Benson : To find out what else I was wrong about.
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Denise Eldridge : I'm a parent. I have rights, too.
Attorney Simone Bryce : Not when it comes to Carrie's privacy and sexual matters.
Denise Eldridge : [to Carrie] I don't care what she says. We're not leaving here until you've been checked out.
Attorney Simone Bryce : It's her body, and she's made her decision.
Detective Olivia Benson : Why don't you take your daughter home, Mrs. Eldridge? We're done here.
Denise Eldridge : My daughter's been violated. Whose side are you on?
Detective Olivia Benson : Hers.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [going to talk to Denise] She's probably not even home.
Detective Olivia Benson : Well, I'll leave my card in her mailbox.
Detective Elliot Stabler : With your name on it, she'll probably rip it up. Here, use mine.
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Donald Cragen : Why is Denise Eldridge screaming to 1PP that you talked her daughter out of a rape kit?
Detective Olivia Benson : Carrie didn't want it.
Donald Cragen : Now, that's exactly what Simone Bryce told Carrie's mother. That's funny how a children's rights attorney just happened to show up at the ER.
Detective Olivia Benson : She was there because I called her.
Donald Cragen : You've got enough on your plate without taking on this kid as a cause.
Detective Olivia Benson : Well, somebody's gotta protect her from that lunatic mother of hers.
Donald Cragen : Why are you calling her that?
Detective Olivia Benson : You saw how she humiliated Carrie in front of the entire squad. I don't like her.
Donald Cragen : Well, she has a right to be upset.
Detective Olivia Benson : She's upset because she thinks Carrie is gonna end up just like her: pregnant without a man.
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Detective Olivia Benson : Hey, how'd it go?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Judge remanded Carrie to Bridges. At least she won't be in Rikers.
Detective Olivia Benson : I really misjudged her. All I saw was a desperate teen needing help.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Look, I saw my daughter going out with a grown man. Sometimes it's hard to keep your own crap out of the work.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : [entering] Speaking of crap, psych defense.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder?
[sarcastically to Benson]
Detective Elliot Stabler : PMS made her do it.
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Detective Olivia Benson : Women who suffer from PMDD always have one week where they don't have any symptoms. All their anxiety, psychosis, depression is gone. One normal week starting from around day four of their period. Carrie killed her mother on day six. Which means she couldn't have had any symptoms.
Carrie Lynn Eldridge : I was early this month.
Detective Olivia Benson : You put this defense in her head.
Attorney Simone Bryce : She tied my hands behind my back and wouldn't let me tell the whole story.
Detective Olivia Benson : About the drinking.
Attorney Simone Bryce : Yeah.
Detective Olivia Benson : You didn't want anyone to know. You were too ashamed. Carrie, tell me what really happened.
Attorney Simone Bryce : [Carrie looks at her in worry] It... it can't hurt you anymore.
Carrie Lynn Eldridge : I was at school that day when Justin called me on my cell and told me that... he told me that he didn't want to see me anymore, because he was afraid of my mother.
[starting to cry]
Carrie Lynn Eldridge : And I tried to deal, but I just couldn't. So I went home. My mother was there. And I... I tried to talk to her. I really did. But she... she just picked up a bottle and started drinking. She said that if she couldn't put Justin in prison, that she was gonna get him fired from his job. She was gonna do anything she could so that he wouldn't love me anymore. And I told her that I would always be with Justin, and that I would rather be homeless than spend another minute with her. And then she slapped me really hard. She called me a slut. And she hit me again, and again, and again. And I just lost it. I grabbed a lamp. And I hit her over and over and over. I loved my mom very much. But when she was drunk, she wasn't a mother.
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Detective Olivia Benson : Those two are like magnets. Romeo and Juliet.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Yeah, except Juliet's too young and Romeo's too old.
Donald Cragen : Any chance we can get Romeo's parents to put some pressure on him?
Detective Elliot Stabler : No, they died in a car accident two years ago.
Detective Olivia Benson : Wouldn't matter. Neither one of 'em's ever gonna admit that they did anything.
Donald Cragen : Well, unless mom was in bed with them and saw what they were doing, there's no rape case.
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A.D.A. Casey Novak : So, what, you guys couldn't deal with Denise Eldridge so you sicced her on me?
Detective Olivia Benson : What happened?
A.D.A. Casey Novak : Oh, she blew in here with her shopping bag saying you guys weren't doing anything about her daughter. She wanted me to charge you guys for not arresting Justin Sharp.
Detective Elliot Stabler : So what do you want us to do?
A.D.A. Casey Novak : Did he rape Carrie?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Letter of the law, yeah. But we can't prove it.
Detective Olivia Benson : The sex was consensual. You charge Justin with endangering, it's a misdemeanor, first offense. He's not gonna do any time. So how is justice served there?
A.D.A. Casey Novak : It's not.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Right. And when Denise comes back next week with the same accusation...
A.D.A. Casey Novak : Why don't you advise her that unless she has pictures, we're not prosecuting Justin.