Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Hardwired (2009)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

Quotes 

• Olivia Benson : Eva, you don't have to move.

  Eva Banks : But Thomas pays the mortgage and he's never given me any of the passwords on any of our accounts.

  Olivia Benson : So we'll go to the bank, we'll show them your lD, we'll empty the accounts, we'll start a new one in your name and then we come home here and we change the locks.

  Eva Banks : Really?

  Olivia Benson : Yeah.

  Eva Banks : [sighs]  Damn, girl, you got a little gangster in you, huh?

• Dr. George Huang : The OSL goes a step farther. It claims that pedophilia is a genetically based sexual orientation Iike hetero or homosexuality and that pedophiles are being persecuted Iike gays in lraq and lran. It's despicable.

  Olivia Benson : I've never seen you this ticked off before.

  Dr. George Huang : Pseudo-science like this insults my intelligence as a psychiatrist and my humanity as a gay man.

• Cory Banks : Leave my mom alone!

  [kicks Elliot in the crotch, Elliot doubles over] 

  Olivia Benson : Okay, that's it, everybody's going to the station.

  [to Elliot] 

  Olivia Benson : You okay?

  Elliot Stabler : [nods, then straightens up]  Now I know why they call them special victims.

• Alexandra Cabot : [after Eva assaults her husband during an undercover operation]  You call this clown show an undercover operation? You promised me there would be no injuries.

  Elliot Stabler : We've got it under control.

  Alexandra Cabot : Not until you get the wild card out of here. Arrest her.

  Cory Banks : [to Cabot]  No, you can't take my mom!

  Olivia Benson : Alex, do you understand what he has been through tonight? She just endured dinner with her son's rapist and helped us bust a pedophile ring.

  Alexandra Cabot : I cannot whitewash assault with a deadly weapon when it happened on video and in front of three detectives.

  Olivia Benson : Cory needs his mother tonight. Please do not do this.

  Alexandra Cabot : [to Stabler]  Book her.

• Eva Banks : [to Olivia]  What if I go in there and make everything worse?

  Olivia Benson : You can do this. I wouldn't be here if I didn't believe in you.

  Eva Banks : I don't believe in me.

  Olivia Benson : You're a fighter. Look at everything that you've overcome. Don't quit now. You've just got to use your head and not your fist and you're going to win.

• Olivia Benson : Is Thomas ever alone with Cory?

  Eva Banks : No, because I'm watching Cory 24 hours a day.

  Olivia Benson : Well, you've got to sleep, don't you?

  Eva Banks : [Gets a look of horror]  Oh my god...

  Olivia Benson : What? What is it?

  Eva Banks : In the shelter, I had to stay up all night to make sure no one would mess with our stuff or mess with Cory, I became an insomniac. Thomas took me to this doctor who gave me these pills and he said that...

  Olivia Benson : Nothing wakes you up.

• Elliot Stabler : Your son has been sexually abused.

  Eva Banks : What?

  Thomas Banks : By who?

  Olivia Benson : His wrestling coach. He did time in a Maryland prison for child sexual abuse.

  Eva Banks : Oh my God! Are you sure?

  Olivia Benson : Well the doctor found evidence of long term sexual abuse, but Cory wouldn't disclose any information to Dr. Huang.

• Olivia Benson : Eva, I'm glad that you're putting the past behind you, but you can't throw out a subpoena along with Thomas' things.

• [O'Donnell has been thrown into a holding cell with all the alleged pedophiles who have been arrested because of information on his laptop] 

  Kevin O'Donnell : I want my lawyer.

  Olivia Benson : Yeah, she'll meet you in arraignment tomorrow.

  [O'Donnell looks around nervously at the angry alleged pedophiles in his cell] 

• Olivia Benson : [to Eva]  He was sentenced to 3,000 years.