Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

A Misunderstanding (2016)

Olivia Birkelund: Ellen Roberts

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• Rafael Barba : [after Chris and his family refuse to accept a plea deal]  Chris, is this what you want? To go to trial?

  Chris Roberts : Does that mean I'm on the news? Everybody knows who I am?

  Rafael Barba : Once you're arrested and charged, your name is made public. Anytime anyone Googles you for the rest of your life, this is what will come up.

  Dennis Roberts : Don't threaten my son. This girl's slandering him. We need to fight this.

  Chris Roberts : Mr. Barba, what if I just say sorry to Abby and her family?

  Ellen Roberts : You have nothing to be sorry for.

  Dennis Roberts : No, absolutely not. Let's go.

  John Buchanan : [to Barba]  We're calling your bluff. No deal. You want to take this to trial, you'll regret it.

• Rita Calhoun : [When Olivia & Calhoun are in the bathroom with Abby]  We said no makeup. Remember, Abby?

  Abby Stewart : But I'll look like a little girl.

  Rita Calhoun : They're making him look like a saint. You can't look like a sinner.

  Olivia Benson : [Mrs. Roberts walks into the bathroom]  Mrs. Roberts, would you give us a minute?

  Ellen Roberts : [walks over to the bathroom sink]  I'm just washing my hands. Abby, did they tell you that Stanford requested Chris withdraw his application?

  Rita Calhoun : This isn't the time.

  Ellen Roberts : [grabs Abby]  Do you understand that you're ruining my son's life?

  Olivia Benson : Hey, you need to stop talking.

  Ellen Roberts : A woman cop like you, you always take the girl's side, don't you?

  Olivia Benson : That's not what's happening here.

  Ellen Roberts : Yeah, well, I've seen it. The sweet little girl becomes the victim and then the boy is made out to be a brute and do you know why that is?

  [yells in Abby's face] 

  Ellen Roberts : Because teenage girls are better liars!

• Ellen Roberts : [after hearing her son is accused of rape]  I know how these things go, how girls are.

  Mike Dodds : We understand this is very upsetting, ma'am, but right now we're just investigating.

  Ellen Roberts : No, before our daughter went to college, I'd overhear her friends talking, saying that they would accuse a boy of rape if he didn't call them back.