Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
The Undiscovered Country (2018)
Mariska Hargitay: Lieutenant Olivia Benson
Quotes
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Jack McCoy : I suppose you want to talk to me about ADA Barba.
Olivia Benson : He is the best ADA that I've ever worked with. He is honest and honorable.
Jack McCoy : But I can't have my ADAs running around killing people. It's unbecoming.
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Olivia Benson : Rafa, what the hell?
Rafael Barba : Latte, right?
Olivia Benson : I don't want coffee. You killed the baby?
Rafael Barba : I expedited his passing.
Olivia Benson : That's gonna be a tough hair to split in a courtroom.
Rafael Barba : The court room's the last thing I was thinking of when I was in that hospital room.
Olivia Benson : You could go to prison.
Rafael Barba : You don't think I know that? Sometimes you have to act without concern for the consequences.
Olivia Benson : Not you. You wear suspenders and a belt.
Rafael Barba : I had no option.
Olivia Benson : [sighs] I gotta fix this.
[walks off]
Rafael Barba : Liv. Liv! Liv, you can't help me.
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Olivia Benson : I feel so guilty about this.
Rafael Barba : What did you do?
Olivia Benson : I called you about this case.
Rafael Barba : You know, when we first started working together, what was it, five years ago?
Olivia Benson : Six.
Rafael Barba : [exhales deeply] The world was an old movie. It was all black and white and it was high noon. I was Gary Cooper.
[chuckles]
Rafael Barba : I was absolutely sure absolutely who were the good guys, who were the bad guys. And then you... you started to weasel your way into my world, and the black and white became different shades of gray. Don't say it. Before I knew it, there were blues and greens and yellows and reds. I'm you now, Liv. You opened my heart. and I thank you for it.
Olivia Benson : And?
Rafael Barba : I've got to move on.
[walks away as Olivia stands outside the courthouse alone]
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Olivia Benson : It's not right that a guy like that goes to prison.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, the law says it is.
Odafin Tutuola : Sometimes the law sucks.
Rafael Barba : I concur.
Olivia Benson : You think we should lock him up?
Rafael Barba : My dad always said he wasn't scared of being dead, he was scared of dying. That kid is dying every day. He's taking his folks with him.
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Aaron Householder : You don't look like a cop.
Olivia Benson : Okay, well, I'll take that as a compliment.
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Rafael Barba : Christ.
Olivia Benson : Nobody's forcing you to prosecute.
Rafael Barba : If I don't, I'm telling the world that baby Drew has no rights.
Amanda Rollins : What about his right to die?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Unfortunately, that's not in the Constitution.
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Rafael Barba : Let's find out if daddy's little excursion yesterday caused the baby any harm.
Olivia Benson : So you can let Aaron go with a clear conscience.
Rafael Barba : So I can prosecute, and maybe get some sleep in the next decade or so.
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Olivia Benson : [to Aaron] I spoke with with Maggie.
Aaron Householder : How is she?
Olivia Benson : Well, I gotta be honest with you, Aaron. She's not doing great.
Aaron Householder : I didn't wanna hurt her.
Olivia Benson : Aaron, you took her baby.
Aaron Householder : I just wanna be alone with my son.
Olivia Benson : Yeah, well, you know, some days that's all I wanna do too, but unfortunately, the world just... it just doesn't work like that.
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Maggie Householder : When he was two months old, Aaron noticed that he was struggling to breathe. It's called mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. It's a genetic thing. It causes muscle weakness that rapidly progresses.
Olivia Benson : So soon Drew won't be able to breathe on his own.
Maggie Householder : I spend more time at Mercy Hospital than I do at home.
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Aaron Householder : What's his name, your son?
Olivia Benson : Noah. He's five.
Aaron Householder : I bet he... I bet he loves baseball. I bet he and his dad go to the park and play catch. See? Drew is going to love baseball. And we're... we're gonna go to Yankee Stadium. And why us? It's a one in ten million chance. What did we do wrong? You don't think that I'm a good father.
Olivia Benson : I don't... I don't know you. The only thing that I have to go on is that you ran off with Drew.
Aaron Householder : It's not against the law.
Olivia Benson : It is if you kept him from his mother.
Aaron Householder : She doesn't want him.
Olivia Benson : I talked to Maggie, Aaron. And she... she wants him very much.
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Olivia Benson : Okay, any luck?
Odafin Tutuola : All we know is he returned a rental car to Sheepshead Bay.
Olivia Benson : Okay, so work backwards, looking for any calls he made to Sheepshead Bay.
Odafin Tutuola : Already done. Nothing in the past month.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : And he didn't check into any hotels or motels within a ten mile radius.
Amanda Rollins : At least not using his own name.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Nothing in his office suggests that he wasn't coming back.
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Odafin Tutuola : Two weeks ago, he charged about six grand to a medical supply store.
Olivia Benson : When did he rent the car?
Odafin Tutuola : Two days ago.
Olivia Benson : Okay, well, you can't just carry a ventilator onto a subway.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : And the store doesn't open 'till 10:00 a.m.
Olivia Benson : Okay, so track down the manager.
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Amanda Rollins : Yeah, he's in there. He's on the first floor, and he's not coming out.
Olivia Benson : And what about the baby?
Amanda Rollins : He says he's okay.
Odafin Tutuola : At least he's talking.
Amanda Rollins : It was hard to get him to even turn his cell on.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : The back door's bolted.
Olivia Benson : Get him on the phone.