Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Missing Pieces (2011)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

Quotes 

• Nick Amaro : That's my daughter. Everything's a negotiation.

  Olivia Benson : Gee, I wonder where she gets that from.

• Olivia Benson : [to Amaro]  So what's your gut on Tim?

  Nick Amaro : Well, we got off to a bad start. I got in his face, his ego's up.

  Olivia Benson : [referring to Allie]  And she saw you as protecting her. You want to do-si-do?

  Nick Amaro : That's what I'm thinking.

• Olivia Benson : [as she shows Tim photographs of the cooler]  Do you recognize this? Is that your cooler, Tim?

  Tim Holland : Those coolers, they all look alike.

  Olivia Benson : Yeah, some of them do.

  Tim Holland : Yeah, so how do you know that one's even ours?

  Olivia Benson : Because this one has your fingerprints on it.

  Tim Holland : Well, then, there you go. Yeah, yeah.

  Olivia Benson : The lab found something else inside. Found fecal matter, and traces of soy formula, just like Nate drinks. Do you want to explain that to me?

  Tim Holland : I don't know. Uh, Nate's a handful. Maybe Allie was busy, she put a diaper in there.

  Olivia Benson : No mother puts dirty diapers in a cooler. So you have two choices, Tim. The good outcome would be that we find out that this is an accident, and that the baby fell and hit his head.

  Tim Holland : No.

  Olivia Benson : And the bad outcome would be that you lost your temper, and maybe shook Nate.

  Tim Holland : That's not what happened.

  Olivia Benson : Then tell me what did happen. Because I know that that baby wasn't taken from...

  Tim Holland : [yells]  Don't you attack me!

  [Olivia glares at him; he begins to cry] 

  Tim Holland : I'm sorry.

  Olivia Benson : That doesn't matter. How did Nate end up in the cooler?

  [Tim doesn't answer] 

• Olivia Benson : [to Cragen]  Tim's overloaded, shut down. Amaro getting anywhere?

  Donald Cragen : They haven't left Buffalo yet.

• Nick Amaro : So, whatever happened, they either did it together, or she's covering for him.

  Olivia Benson : Allie and Tim aren't going anywhere. Why don't you, uh, go home and hug your daughter.

  Nick Amaro : Uh, she's taking a nap, so...

  Olivia Benson : You know, Amaro, SVU...

  Nick Amaro : Yeah, I know.

  Olivia Benson : I'm the last person to be giving parental advice.

  Nick Amaro : No, right now, this kid, he needs us.

• Tim Holland : When are you going to find my son?

  Olivia Benson : We are doing everything that we can.

  Tim Holland : I don't understand why I have to stay here and answer questions.

  Olivia Benson : Because anything that you remember may help us.

  Tim Holland : I wasn't even there!

  Olivia Benson : I understand that, Tim. I know that you were meeting about the Craigslist rental.

  Tim Holland : Did you talk to the guy?

  Olivia Benson : We did.

  Tim Holland : I'm not lying about that.

  Olivia Benson : I understand how... how stressful this is, and how inful this is, how angry you are...

  Tim Holland : Yeah? Do you know why? Because I wasn't there. I wasn't there to protect my boy. Aw, I screwed up. I screwed it up.

  Olivia Benson : It's okay, Tim, it's okay.

  Tim Holland : No, it's not. You don't think so, and she doesn't think so.

  Olivia Benson : She? Allie? You think Allie's going to blame you because your baby's missing?

  Tim Holland : She'll find a way.