Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

A Story of More Woe (2019)

Mariska Hargitay: Lieutenant Olivia Benson

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• Odafin Tutuola : Rollins is fine. Turns out the baby's not coming any time soon.

  Olivia Benson : She's not in labor.

  Odafin Tutuola : Not yet. They're keeping her at the hospital for observation. Carisi's there and Dr. Al.

  Olivia Benson : What could possibly go wrong?

  Odafin Tutuola : Dr. Al proposed.

  Olivia Benson : What?

  Odafin Tutuola : She said she'll think about it.

  Olivia Benson : Wow. Wow, um... Okay. So, uh, where are we on talking to Laura and Britney?

  Odafin Tutuola : Actually, nowhere. Their new lawyer says no more questions.

  Olivia Benson : [shocked]  What? Why?

  Odafin Tutuola : Well, it turns out Doug Moore did have a Deed of Guardianship. He named Greg Callahan the girls' legal guardian.

• Odafin Tutuola : I went through the document looking for red flags. Check this out. Britney's middle name is Katherine. It's spelled K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. All right, look at her birth certificate.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Cathryn with a C and a Y.

  Olivia Benson : Even bad parents know how to spell their child's middle name.

  Odafin Tutuola : Doug didn't fill out that deed.

• Olivia Benson : Is the lawyer right?

  Peter Stone : Yeah, we can't talk to the girls without their guardian's consent.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, they may have plotted to murder their father.

  Odafin Tutuola : Greg Callahan's involved. Is anybody still buying his "nice-guy-next-door" act?

  Peter Stone : Any evidence to indicate otherwise?

  Olivia Benson : The only ones who can tell us more are the girls, who we can't talk to as long as he's their legal guardian.

  Peter Stone : So what you need to do is find a way to challenge the guardianship itself.

• Olivia Benson : [to Britney]  Greg didn't care about Susan. He was after your sister. He manipulated her. He convinced her that she was in love with him. He even went so far as to propose to her.

  Britney Moore : He asked her to marry him?

  Olivia Benson : Yes.

  Britney Moore : It's that stupid ring. That's why she's been so happy.

  Olivia Benson : What did she say? What... what did she tell you?

  Britney Moore : That, um, that me and her and Greg, we were gonna all live together, you know, and everything was gonna be okay. And then she'd just been been babbling on about, like, this "Romeo and Juliet" stuff, which I... oh, my God. What did she do? What did I do?

  Olivia Benson : This isn't your fault or Laura's. This is one person's fault and that's Greg, and we will make sure that he never hurts you or your sister again.

• Olivia Benson : Um, Britney, Laura? I'm Olivia and this is Sonny, and we're here to help you.

  Britney Moore : You need to help my little sister.

  Olivia Benson : We will, honey, we're gonna... we're gonna get you to the hospital as soon as the ambulance gets here, okay?

  Laura Moore : I just wanna go home and stay with my daddy.

  Britney Moore : Daddy's dead. Tell her. He's dead.

• Carmen : Sergeant Tutuola's here to see you.

  Odafin Tutuola : Fin, everything okay?

  Olivia Benson : We just heard back from Doug Moore's boss. They had a staff meeting every Thursday from 3:00 to 6:00. Doug led it. Never missed one.

  Olivia Benson : So he couldn't have been home sexually abusing his 13 year old daughter.

• Laura Moore : Juliet fell in love with someone who she wasn't supposed to. We're star-crossed lovers even when it hurts because that's what people...

  Olivia Benson : Who love each other do? Laura, I know that it wasn't your father who had sex with you. I know that it was Greg.

  Laura Moore : I would never betray him.

  Olivia Benson : Honey, but he betrayed you.

  Laura Moore : He wouldn't do that.

  Olivia Benson : But he did. He told us that he was in love with Susan.

  Laura Moore : No. You... you're wrong. Susan doesn't even have a ring on her ringer.

  Olivia Benson : That's not what love is.

  Laura Moore : How would you know? You don't have a ring either.

• Olivia Benson : Stone says that he can charge kidnapping, but unless the girls testify, it's gonna be tough to convict.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : So this guy does a year for forgery? Come on. He had something to do with this murder. We got to talk to Britney. We got to talk to Laura again.

  Odafin Tutuola : They won't turn on him. He's probably been grooming them for years.

  Olivia Benson : So get me evidence of that.

• Greg Callahan : What did Laura tell you? She... look, you know how she makes things up.

  Odafin Tutuola : [watching a surveillance feed]  Son of a bitch.

  Olivia Benson : The undercovers are close by?

  Odafin Tutuola : A booth away. She'll be okay, Liv.

  Britney Moore : She showed me the ring. The one you gave her.

  Greg Callahan : Okay, yeah, I got her a ring. It was just to make her feel better.

  Britney Moore : Did you ask her to marry you?

  Greg Callahan : What? No, of course not.

  Britney Moore : So you're calling Laura a liar.

  Greg Callahan : She lives in a fantasy world. Look, just hang in there, Britney. I'm gonna get guardianship back, and we're all gonna live together. You, me, and Laura.

  Britney Moore : And the baby?

  Greg Callahan : What?

  Britney Moore : Look, I think Laura's pregnant.

  Olivia Benson : We didn't tell her to say that.

  Odafin Tutuola : She's going off-script, winging it. You want me to stop this?

  Olivia Benson : No. No, let's... let's give her a minute.

• Olivia Benson : Britney, I can see that you're an honest person, but if you're trying to protect someone or you're afraid of someone... we can help you.

  Britney Moore : Nobody can help me.

  Olivia Benson : What does that mean, honey?

  Britney Moore : I had to.

  Olivia Benson : You... you had to what?

  Britney Moore : I had to protect my sister, from my own father. My own father was raping my sister. I had to kill him.

• Olivia Benson : [to Britney]  There's just some things that don't make sense.

  Britney Moore : I don't care. You know why? 'cause my father's dead. Okay, my father is dead. So I... I don't really understand what difference it makes who killed him.

• Olivia Benson : So what are we looking at, Detective?

  Sam Williams : Male perp was average height, weight. Maybe white, maybe black, in a ski mask.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : What about a doorman?

  Sam Williams : Nope, no doorman.

  Olivia Benson : [noticing a circular mirror in a corner]  What about cameras?

  Sam Williams : Still checking, but don't hold your breath.

• Sam Williams : Victim was stabbed in the jugular with a kitchen knife. Perp left the weapon.

  Olivia Benson : The girls?

  Sam Williams : Traumatized, in shock. They're with a neighbor 'til the ambulance arrives.

  Olivia Benson : There's no mother in the picture?

  Sam Williams : Apparently not.

• Olivia Benson : What's gonna happen to them now?

  Alexis Farrow : Uh, the girls will spend the night in custody at the ACS facility. I'm assuming, given the circumstances, the D.A. will be open to a plea.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, we'll be in touch.

  Odafin Tutuola : So now what?

  Olivia Benson : We vet the story. Laura told us that she tried to disclose to the neighbor, Greg Callahan.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : We met that guy. We'll follow up.

  Amanda Rollins : And I'll have the lab run the father's DNA against Laura's rape kit.

  Olivia Benson : And check the bed sheets, the towels, and the clothes in the hamper.

• Olivia Benson : Laura, we need to talk.

  Laura Moore : Greg said we didn't have to.

  Olivia Benson : Well, it's not up to Greg.

  [looks at the book Laura is reading] 

  Olivia Benson : Shakespeare. It's... it's pretty grown-up stuff.

  Laura Moore : I am grown up.

  Olivia Benson : Well, good, because... because I have a grown-up question. You said that you love Greg.

  Laura Moore : I meant like a brother, family.

  Olivia Benson : Did Greg tell you to say that? Because I know that you two are reading "Romeo and Juliet" together.

  Laura Moore : He helps me with my English homework.

  Olivia Benson : But I saw the inscription. You are Juliet and he's Romeo. So you two are in love.

  Laura Moore : You think I'm too young to be in love.

  Olivia Benson : No, not at all. Not with someone your own age.

  Laura Moore : Juliet was 13. My mother, she killed herself. I'm not like other girls playing with baby dolls. I am a real woman.