Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Contrapasso (2017)

Mariska Hargitay: Lieutenant Olivia Benson

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• Rafael Barba : [to Olivia]  Listen, I'm considering offering a deal. Karr does the same four years Evelyn Bundy agreed to.

  Olivia Benson : You proved forcible rape. If she cut off his finger, if she poked him in the eye...

  Rafael Barba : It shouldn't make a difference. We don't live in a vacuum. I can assure you, the seven guys on that jury, they feel Karr's pain.

  Olivia Benson : And if Karr wasn't castrated, if he had cancer...

  Rafael Barba : It's not the same thing.

  Olivia Benson : It should be. Why do we do this, Rafael?

  Rafael Barba : Because the next girl who gets raped needs to know that that person is us. No matter what.

• Olivia Benson : The three women got together twenty years after high school and within a few hours, one of their teachers was found castrated in a hotel room.

  Rafael Barba : What's the presumed motive?

  Odafin Tutuola : It wasn't for giving 'em all C's.

  Olivia Benson : Given the nature of the injury, there's a sexual motivation behind it.

  Amanda Rollins : Explains why Karr won't talk.

  Rafael Barba : Yeah, I can't prosecute the assault unless the victim makes an ID.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Okay, well, how about we charge the three women with obstruction?

  Rafael Barba : For asserting their Fifth Amendment rights?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : After they lied to us and obfuscated our investigation.

  Rafael Barba : Obfuscate. Yummy.

  Olivia Benson : Hold on, Rafa. An obstruction charge would certainly leverage some cooperation. If you can't prove the crime, prove the cover-up.

  Rafael Barba : You'd have reasonable cause for an arrest, but my advice is get Jason Karr on board, or this train is going nowhere.

• Olivia Benson : [to Rollins]  The D.A. cleared me. They are closing the investigation of Noah's bruises.

  Amanda Rollins : Liv, I'm so sorry you had to go through that.

  Olivia Benson : Yeah, well. Happy ending at least.

• Trevor Langan : [to Olivia]  You don't return my calls.

  Olivia Benson : Hi. I am so sorry. It has been crazy around here, but I did want to tell you that both the D.A.'s office and ACS have closed their case files.

  Trevor Langan : Not about that. Back when I filed your application for custody, I was under the impression that both of Ellie Porter's parents were dead.

  Olivia Benson : Yeah. That's what she told me.

  Trevor Langan : Ellie lied to you, Olivia. Her mother is alive. Sheila Porter. She hired a PI to track down her daughter. They... they somehow found out about Noah and she has now filed a petition to vacate Noah's adoption.

  Olivia Benson : Wow. Why didn't you corroborate what Ellie told me about her parents?

  Trevor Langan : You're blaming me?

  Olivia Benson : Yeah, I'm blaming you. You didn't do your homework.

  Trevor Langan : Do you know how many Porters there are in New York State?

  Olivia Benson : This woman is in New York?

  Trevor Langan : New Hampshire.

  Olivia Benson : This is unbelievable. The one thing that you had to get right.

  Trevor Langan : You said she had no relatives.

  Olivia Benson : I am not a lawyer.

  Trevor Langan : You have a database.

  Olivia Benson : For police business!

  Trevor Langan : All right, I'm not gonna stand here and defend myself.

  Olivia Benson : You better defend yourself.

  Trevor Langan : We'll fight this, Liv.

  Olivia Benson : If I lose Noah after everything that I've been through...

  Trevor Langan : That is not going to happen, Liv. there is no legal basis to vacate this adoption.

  Olivia Benson : We both know that Judge Linden fast-tracked this adoption for me.

  Trevor Langan : I know. Even so, there is...

  Olivia Benson : Please leave. Please leave.

• Karen Karr : [to Olivia]  How can you do this to my husband?

  Olivia Benson : I can't imagine having to...

  Karen Karr : Do you even understand what that bitch did to him?

  Olivia Benson : Of course I do.

  Karen Karr : And it is awful, but he's the one being prosecuted for something 20 years ago that probably never happened.

  Olivia Benson : With all due respect, you weren't there, were you?

  [Mrs. Karr scoffs] 

  Olivia Benson : I understand why you would want to support your husband.

  Karen Karr : Jason is not a rapist!

  Olivia Benson : You know, I'm curious. How did you two meet?

  Karen Karr : So you think because he's older than me, that he has, what? Some kind of fetish?

  Olivia Benson : I didn't say that.

  Karen Karr : We met four years ago. I had a summer internship at the publisher he was working for.

  Olivia Benson : So you were in college.

  Karen Karr : We fell in love. We wanted to have a family. So much for that.

  Olivia Benson : You know, I have a son and I adopted him and he... he is what makes everything worth it.

  Karen Karr : After what my husband has been through, it would just be a reminder of the night he stopped being a man. You're really going to try to put him in jail after that?

  Olivia Benson : I'm sorry for what happened to you. I really am, but that's not up to me.

• Olivia Benson : Any defensive wounds?

  Dr. Darby Wilder : None, but his tox screen showed a high level of alprazolam, and his BAC was .19. Lucky for Mr. Karr, he was thoroughly zonked when he gave up the family jewels.

• Dr. Darby Wilder : Jason Karr, the unfortunate recipient of an amateur gonadectomy.

  Olivia Benson : Okay. Patrol said that they recovered the missing parts and brought them here?

  Dr. Darby Wilder : Once the spermatic cord is severed, the testicles are just medical waste. Good news is he'll be okay with some plastic surgery, prosthetics, hormone replacement therapy.

  Amanda Rollins : Depends on what you mean by "okay".

• Odafin Tutuola : Julie's not a good liar.

  Olivia Benson : Yeah, she's terrified.

  Odafin Tutuola : So how do we connect her to Karr?

  Olivia Benson : Rollins and I showed Karr her DMV photo. He says he doesn't know her.

  Odafin Tutuola : I understand why she would lie, but why would he lie?

• Olivia Benson : Did the lab get back to you about the name that was found on the knife that we found at the hotel room?

  Odafin Tutuola : Cheyenne.

  Olivia Benson : Cheyenne? Isn't that a steak house in Hell's Kitchen? It's... it's three blocks from her hotel.

  Odafin Tutuola : Maybe that's where their night started. I'll check.

• Evelyn Bundy : It was the last time I went to his apartment. I went over there to tell him that it was over, because I'd-I'd heard he was seeing some other girl. A senior in his advisory. And he got angry. And he told me that he wasn't ready to say goodbye yet. And then he... he took a corkscrew, and he held it to my face. And he told me not to scream, and then he held me down and forced me to have sex with him, so...

  Olivia Benson : [knocking on the one-way mirror]  You on this?

  Odafin Tutuola : Force. Rape one.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : No statute of limitations.

  Amanda Rollins : Now, hold on. Did she just come up with that because Benson told her that we can't prosecute Karr?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : That's not what I saw.

  Odafin Tutuola : For Evelyn to do what she did to him, I believe every word of it.

• Amanda Rollins : I get the whole seduction/robbery thing. That's been going on for ages. But why castrate the guy?

  Odafin Tutuola : Somebody with anger issues.

  Olivia Benson : Look, this kind of act is almost always motivated by revenge. And there's a sexual component.

  Odafin Tutuola : Yeah, but Karr says he doesn't know the perp. Could be some psycho that hates men.

  Amanda Rollins : Or the cutter's taking care of somebody else's business.