Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

The Darkest Journey Home (2019)

Amy Hargreaves: Dr. Alexis Hanover

Quotes 

• Dr. Alexis Hanover : Olivia, you ask victims when they're at their most vulnerable to go back to a place they'd rather not go.

  Olivia Benson : Okay. Uh, I felt, uh, I felt him pulling the duct tape off my mouth, and it was burning, stinging. I felt his... I felt him breathing in my ear and the whole time, I just kept thinking I'm a cop. How could I have... how could I have let my guard down?

• Amanda Rollins : I smelled the Jack Daniels on his breath. He was drunk. I laid down on the bed like he asked me to.

  Dr. Alexis Hanover : Tell me more about that.

  Amanda Rollins : I tried to just lay there. I was listening to the TV in the next room. "The Price Is Right." Then he got he got rough with me. You know, I told him to slow down. Then he... he hit me, banged my head against the headboard. I mean, I was... I was bleeding.

  Dr. Alexis Hanover : You were bleeding?

  Amanda Rollins : Yeah.

• Olivia Benson : Thank you so much for seeing me after hours.

  Dr. Alexis Hanover : I'm glad you could make the time.

  Olivia Benson : Well, the new Deputy Chief made is very clear that this was mandatory. So, thank you.

  Dr. Alexis Hanover : Mm-hmm.

  Olivia Benson : So, um, I have been investigating sexual assault for twenty years, and I'm pretty familiar with... with trauma-based interviewing.

  Dr. Alexis Hanover : Of course. So, you know this part of the training is role-playing. Can you think of a trauma in your life?

  Olivia Benson : [sardonic chuckle]  A trauma.

  Dr. Alexis Hanover : Something that you may have thought about a lot already.

• Olivia Benson : He gave me something to drink. It wasn't water. It was vodka. That he... he forced down my throat.

  Dr. Alexis Hanover : Can you tell me what you felt?

  Olivia Benson : Uh... I felt his hand... gripping my face. Hard. And then he put the... tape back on. And then he kissed me. And I couldn't breathe. And I was so scared. And I knew... and I knew that I was gonna die.

• Odafin Tutuola : I heard the gunshot, and I knew what it was. And I saw my mom fall. I tried to get to her, but I was a kid. They wouldn't let me get to her.

  Dr. Alexis Hanover : Tell me more.

  Odafin Tutuola : I just wanted her to get up. That's all I wanted. I just wanted her to get up. Okay. I see what you did there. You help the vic go back there, and you just stay out of the way, am I right?

  Dr. Alexis Hanover : That's right. Sometimes this can bring up feelings you may not want to have.

  Odafin Tutuola : It's okay. I know they're still there.