Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Remember Me Too (2018)
Mariska Hargitay: Lieutenant Olivia Benson
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Quotes
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Peter Stone : Your certitude is a good thing, Liv. Hell, it may even be noble. Unfortunately, the law...
Olivia Benson : Can you stop? Please, just stop. I've, uh... I've heard the lecture before.
Peter Stone : Maybe, then, you should listen.
Olivia Benson : Maybe you should listen. Lourdes was raped. Her entire being - her past, her present, and most importantly, her future - negated.
Peter Stone : That doesn't entitle her to seek revenge.
Olivia Benson : But it does entitle her to reclaim what was once hers. And if revenge is part of that, then... then so be it.
Peter Stone : You don't believe that.
Olivia Benson : I believe that the wrong person is on trial.
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Olivia Benson : I believe Lourdes.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : I know, but she can't just take an NYPD lieutenant, hold her hostage, and walk away.
Olivia Benson : What happened to her was a thousand times worse.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : If we can prove it.
Olivia Benson : Carisi, I was there. I saw the scars. I heard her story.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Lieutenant, I am not saying that she wasn't trafficked. I'm not saying she wasn't abused. But was it Miguel? Is... is it not possible that he just looked like a coyote?
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Olivia Benson : Miguel Lopez is a trafficker.
Peter Stone : Do you have any evidence of that, other than Lourdes' word?
Olivia Benson : Not yet, but I will.
Peter Stone : Until then, my hands are tied.
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Olivia Benson : All I'm saying is that I... I won't make a very good witness.
Peter Stone : Did Lourdes Vega point a gun at you?
Olivia Benson : Yes, but she also...
Peter Stone : Did she prevent you from leaving that apartment?
Olivia Benson : Yes.
Peter Stone : You will do fine.
Olivia Benson : And what happens when Rojas asks me what went on between Lourdes and Miguel?
Peter Stone : Legally, it's irrelevant.
Olivia Benson : And what about morally?
Peter Stone : What does that even mean?
Olivia Benson : Maybe it means that whoever's less guilty wins.
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Peter Stone : You're right to have ambivalent feelings about this case.
Olivia Benson : No, no, you're wrong. There's nothing abivalent about this.
Peter Stone : What if Miguel wasn't the coyote who raped her?
Olivia Benson : He's the guy!
Peter Stone : Were you there? Do you have any evidence that he is the trafficker?
Olivia Benson : [biting her tongue] I don't know how to get through to you.
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Olivia Benson : So Miguel walks, and you're putting his victim on trial.
Peter Stone : I offered a deal. It was refused.
Olivia Benson : So drop the charges.
Peter Stone : Not for murder. Even if I could, she would be deported. Is that what you want?
Olivia Benson : No, it's not. But if she agrees to testify in a trafficking case, she will be granted asylum and go into witness protection. An inmate at Rikers threatened to skin her alive. That has to come from the cartels.
Peter Stone : We can get her into protective custody. At least until the trial is over. But I have to drop the charges against Miguel.
Olivia Benson : So he can run back to Mexico.
Peter Stone : We don't know he's gonna do that. We don't know he's anything other than what he says he is: a website designer.
Olivia Benson : With business associates who use hidden cameras to transmit on the dark net. They are hiding something.
Peter Stone : Then find me a reason to charge Miguel or turn him over to the feds or the Mexican federales or all of the above.