Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Branded (2010)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

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• Olivia Benson : [to Hardwicke]  Are you proud of yourself? You trashed her.

  A.D.A. Gillian Hardwicke : My job's to win the case.

  Olivia Benson : No, your job is to make sure that justice is done. Convicting Camille isn't justice.

  A.D.A. Gillian Hardwicke : That's for the jury to decide.

  Olivia Benson : The jury is gonna throw the book at her because you turned her into some crazy slut. Congratulations.

• Olivia Benson : [after she and Elliot talk to Alexander Gammon]  You believe a word of that?

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Only the part about the lubricant. He's gonna wish he had some if he's attacked.

• Camille Walters : Thank you, Detective Benson.

  Olivia Benson : You'll still need to see Judge Andrews about sentencing, but on two minor counts of trespass, I think you'll do okay.

  Camille Walters : Well, whatever sentence the judge gives, I deserve it.

  Olivia Benson : Come on. Somebody wants to say hi to you.

  [shows her Camille's daughter, Hannah] 

  Camille Walters : Hannah

  Hannah Milner : I just wanted to say good luck in court.

  Camille Walters : I'm sorry this is the way we had to meet.

  Hannah Milner : I'm not.

• Olivia Benson : Well, you don't get "ruiner" branded on your chest for being well-liked.

• Olivia Benson : So where do we go from here?

  A.D.A. Gillian Hardwicke : How 'bout nowhere? I can't prosecute this case.

  Donald Cragen : Well, that's a hell of a "how do you do," Counselor.

• Olivia Benson : We're all branded, I guess, By our parents, our childhoods.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Think you turned out all right.

  Olivia Benson : Makes one of us.

• Olivia Benson : You're not nobody, Camille. You were 14 and you spent a summer at a camp run by the Clean Air Fund and something terrible happened. Now, whatever that was, yo've been holding it in all these years and you need to talk about it now.

  Camille Walters : I don't want to.

  Olivia Benson : Camille, you've been through terrible pain and I'm here to listen. Camille, I'm asking you to tell me. Please tell me.

  Camille Walters : It was 4th of July, and they just set off the fireworks across the lake. And... and I was walking back to my bunk, And I saw Alexander. And he said He said that a bunch of people were gonna go into the woods and drink and play games.

  Olivia Benson : Victor and Bill were there too?

  Camille Walters : Yeah. They were already drunk and after they led me into the woods, I asked where everyone else was. And they laughed and said that it was a p - that it was a private party.

  Olivia Benson : It's okay.

  Camille Walters : Alexander and Bill held me down. And Victor tried to get them to stop, but Alex - Alexander ripped off my shorts and raped me. And then Bill and I was bleeding.

  Olivia Benson : He ruined you.

  Camille Walters : And Victor didn't want to, but Alexander pushed him and said he was a punk if he didn't get a little.

  Olivia Benson : Making him a traitor.

  Camille Walters : When they were done, Alexander told me that if I told anyone, he'd deny it and he said, "who'd believe the word of a little nobody anyway?" Yeah, I branded them so they'd never forget what they did to me. And I wish, I wish that I'd branded Alexander. I would have burnt "hell" on his chest becaue that's where I was gonna send him.

• A.D.A. Gillian Hardwicke : That's quite a stretch. Hearing a laugh and assuming it's the child you gave up for adoption?

  Olivia Benson : A mother knows her child.

• Olivia Benson : So tell me, Camille. Who are you?

  Camille Walters : I'm nobody. Who are you? Are you nobody too?

• Olivia Benson : Camille, why would you wait 14 years after you were raped?

  Camille Walters : A few weeks ago, I was walking down Central Park South and I h... I heard this laugh. And it sounded exactly like the way that I used to laugh. And I knew. I knew that it was her. I could feel it!

  Olivia Benson : Who, Camille?

  Camille Walters : [crying]  My daughter.

  Olivia Benson : The rape got you pregnant.

• Olivia Benson : [to Hardwicke]  You're going to prosecute Camille when you can get irrefutable evidence that she was raped?

  A.D.A. Gillian Hardwicke : I have no choice. You gave me her confession on tape.

  Olivia Benson : So Camille goes to prison for a post-traumatic reaction to being gang-raped and those bastards are gonna walk away free?

  A.D.A. Gillian Hardwicke : Before you get too weepy for the defendant, bear in mind, she sodomized two men and seared their chest with a scorching coat hanger.

  Olivia Benson : You bear in mind that she was raped or is keeping your percentage up too important?

  A.D.A. Gillian Hardwicke : You did your job. Now it's time to do mine. No matter how much it hurts.