Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Pure (2005)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

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• Carlene Ballentine : I don't understand.

  Olivia Benson : Well, it's simple math, Carlene. Your 10th wedding anniversary is coming up next month, but your husband has only been out of prison for eight years. You had a jailhouse wedding, so you had to know what he was in for. Didn't that bother you?

  Carlene Ballentine : You don't know him. Henry's the smartest, sweetest, most charming man I've ever met.

  Olivia Benson : He was doing time for sexual assault. How did you two meet?

  Carlene Ballentine : Through a pen pal program.

  Olivia Benson : With inmates?

  Carlene Ballentine : Can you imagine anyone more in need of a friend? Poor things are completely cut off from society.

  Olivia Benson : Yes, that's the point of putting them behind bars.

  Carlene Ballentine : You think that will make them better?

  Olivia Benson : Sweetie, did you think that you could?

• Detective Elliot Stabler : [after Sister Peg goes missing and Ballentine is suspected of abducting her]  Why would he go after Sister Peg?

  Olivia Benson : Kaley was selling her virginity on the Internet. Sister Peg's a nun. In his sick mind, that means she's a virgin.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Just like Kaley.

• Casey Novak : [after Stabler and Fin break down the door of Ballentine's apartment to search for him and Fin calls to get a warrant from Novak]  Has he lost his mind? You tell them to get out of there now.

  Olivia Benson : But you can get us a search warrant, right?

  Casey Novak : No.

  Olivia Benson : Fin, let me call you back.

  [hangs up her phone] 

  Olivia Benson : Casey, please. This is Sister Peg. He could be assaulting her right now.

  Casey Novak : Do not make me the bad guy on this. I'm not the one who just violated someone's constitutional rights.

  Olivia Benson : This is Sister Peg. She testified for you in the Hector Ramirez case.

  Casey Novak : And I would do anything to help her, but no judge in his right mind is gonna sign off on a search warrant without probable cause.

  Olivia Benson : I was there when he met her. Fireworks went off when he found out that she was nun.

  Casey Novak : Liv, he was in your precinct the entire time.

  Olivia Benson : Which means that he has to be working with a partner. They killed Kaley. The same thing is gonna happen to Sister Peg.

  Casey Novak : So you're psychic now, too?

• Olivia Benson : [to Langan]  We should be holding this press conference, not you.

  Trevor Langan : This isn't about who gets the most air time.

  Mrs. Sellers : Do you have any news?

  Olivia Benson : I'm sorry.

  Trevor Langan : There is really no other option than to appeal to the public for help.

  Olivia Benson : I agree with you, but we need to control which information gets released.

  Trevor Langan : And you just told Mrs. Sellers that you don't have, and given the 48-hour statistic...

  Mrs. Sellers : Well, what's that?

  Olivia Benson : It's a stat that he's confusing on the abduction of much younger children.

  Mrs. Sellers : You think he's gonna kill her.

  Olivia Benson : We don't know that, Mrs. Sellers.

  Mrs. Sellers : He's had her for at least 16 hours and you people haven't done anything.

• Mrs. Sellers : [to Olivia]  Mr. Ballentine hasn't asked for a cent.

  Olivia Benson : Mrs. Sellers, I know that you're desperate to get your daughter back, but you need to understand that there are unscrupulous people out there.

  Mrs. Sellers : That's not Sebastian.

  Olivia Benson : Psychics come out of the woodwork in high profile cases for exposure. It gets them business.

  Mrs. Sellers : But he had a vision.

  Olivia Benson : And so did the 600 psychics who called in tips on the Elizabeth Smart case. Not to mention all the callers who had dreams about it. A psychic has never solved a case.