Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Spiraling Down (2011)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

Quotes 

• Detective Nick Amaro : [as the detectives head to a hotel to find a runaway teenage girl]  Deja vu. Busted up a heroin ring here in '08.

  Olivia Benson : Some places are like people. They never change.

• Olivia Benson : Vicki, what Tre did to you. that's not love. Your parents, they love you.

  Vicki Harris : My dad came home from a tour in Iraq and signed up for another one just to get away from us.

• Olivia Benson : [while talking to Nick about her date]  So he doesn't share food, he split the check and we missed the entire opening number.

  Detective Nick Amaro : So receding hair? Academic? Checkered shirt?

  Olivia Benson : D, all of the above. You're good.

  Detective Nick Amaro : That's what I do.

• Bayard Ellis : [to Olivia]  Hypothetically, have you told the suspect's wife to call me?

  Olivia Benson : Hypothetically.

  Bayard Ellis : I would ask why risk losing your badge for a man you'd just arrested for a terrible crime?

• Alexandra Cabot : [after Jake Stanton testifies in court]  Well, that was ugly.

  Olivia Benson : Ellis was just doing his job. Stanton is not competent. I tried to warn you.

  Alexandra Cabot : Warn me? You walked me right into it. You wanted a sting operation. You wanted to prosecute all the johns for rape.

  Olivia Benson : The guilty ones. Stanton...

  Alexandra Cabot : You don't get to cherry pick. What are we supposed to do, prosecute some of the Johns and not Stanton? What kind of message does that send? That the DA's office gives sports stars a free pass? You want justice for her, you want compassion for him. You can't have it both ways, Olivia. The world doesn't work that way.

  Olivia Benson : Alex...

  Alexandra Cabot : And I don't even want to know how Ellis showed up in your squad room.

• Detective Nick Amaro : [about Vicki Harris]  This girl's been turned out for two weeks, forced to have sex with dozens of men...

  Alexandra Cabot : Relax, we're not charging her and we've got the pimp. We've got enough to put him away on sex trafficking charges for 25 years.

  Olivia Benson : What about the johns? What about Tre's friends?

  Odafin Tutuola : She is underage, so every single one of them's a rapist under the law.

  Alexandra Cabot : Don't start that again.