Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Confrontation (2006)

Connie Nielsen: Detective Dani Beck

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• Casey Novak : [to Dani after she assaulted Luke Dixon]  Beating up a suspect that was wanted for questioning was Bush league, Detective.

  Detective Dani Beck : He brandished a weapon. I had no choice.

  Casey Novak : He's claiming self-defense. He says that you never identified yourself and that he never saw a badge.

  Detective Dani Beck : He's a criminal. That's what they do.

  Casey Novak : Unless they're justified.

  Detective Dani Beck : What's your problem?

  Casey Novak : It's you. Your jacket has more than a few excessive force complaints and if IAB finds there's any merit to Dixon's story, you're a liability I just won't tolerate.

• Detective Dani Beck : These phone calls just started coming in from Attica.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Someone you collared?

  Detective Dani Beck : One of my husband's killers.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : I didn't know your husband, but I heard he was a straight shooter.

  Detective Dani Beck : Two 15-year-olds got pulled over in a stolen car. One of them had a bench warrant, so he was on the run. I was sitting in our favorite restaurant, waiting and fuming. They shot Mike in the head. By the time I got home, I was ready to light him up, but then I... uh... saw the brass at the door. He was dead, shot by two morons who didn't even have the sense to ditch the gun.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Did they get life?

  Detective Dani Beck : The shooter just died in a prison fight.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : So you won't talk to him on the phone, but you'll drive up to Attica and have a face-to-face with him?

  Detective Dani Beck : I went to see the cop killer's dead body.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Dani, I understand you need closure, but that's not the way to get it.

• Detective Dani Beck : [to Stabler]  You have something to say?

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Like what?

  Detective Dani Beck : The usual. I'm too hard on the victims. I lack social grace.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : True, but no. Megan Carlisle was lying in there. Even money says that baby is not her husband's.

  Detective Dani Beck : She's deluded or she wants a baby so badly, she's willing to protect the perp.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Right, well, either way, it's a delicate situation.

  Detective Dani Beck : Having a baby by a rapist isn't something you hide from your husband. Tell me that's not twisted.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : My old partner's a child of rape.

  Detective Dani Beck : Different era. There's no abortions, no options.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : You're saying it was easy for Olivia's mom?

  Detective Dani Beck : I'm saying decisions are simple when you have no choice.

• Tracy Monroe : [to Dani]  My name's Tracy Monroe and I killed your husband, Michael Dooley on November 28th, 2002.

  Detective Dani Beck : You admitting guilt to get parole? Demonstrating remorse so I won't object?

  Tracy Monroe : No, ma'am. I could see how you could think that but, you don't know me.

  Detective Dani Beck : You're my life, you know that? I know everything about you. Every visitor, your work detail, everything you're doing behind these walls every minute of every day. I know you. I promised myself you would never get parole. Ever. But I've realized that if I fixate on you, I will disappear. My whole life will have become about my husband's killer and he loved me with everything that he had, so I know that he'd be mad if I did that to myself. So I have to let it go. I have to forgive you somehow. You took a life. You need to know how much that life meant to everyone who knew him.

• Gina Maylor : [to Stabler and Beck]  What if he's watching now? If you don't catch him, what do you think he'll do to me after you're gone?

  Detective Elliot Stabler : We have plainclothes officers doing a sweep and you'll be at a safe house. Now, I can't guarantee that we'll catch him, but you'll have protection.

  Gina Maylor : For how long?

  Detective Dani Beck : Until you take your life back.

  Gina Maylor : That's easy for you to say. I have every right to be afraid. He's raped me three times.

  Detective Dani Beck : And we're trying to stop him from doing it again. Or have you given up?

  Gina Maylor : You think I like it?

  Detective Dani Beck : I think you can't sit in this apartment waiting for the other shoe to drop. I think you need to remember what kind of woman you are and get pissed off. Or you're gonna be a victim for the rest of your life.

  Gina Maylor : I guess I better go pack a few things.

  [leaves the room to go pack her things] 

• Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Dani]  When are you gonna get it?

  Detective Dani Beck : I didn't say anything she didn't need to hear.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : You're not qualified to be her counselor and I'll tell you another thing, you don't belong in this unit.

  Detective Dani Beck : Yeah, well, maybe you've been in this unit a little too long.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Really?

  Detective Dani Beck : Yeah, really. These victims don't need your broad shoulders to cry on. They need information. Once raped, a woman is seven times more likely to be raped again. Could that have something to do with their behavior?

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Right now, you're proving my point by blaming the victim.

  Detective Dani Beck : I am not blaming them. All I'm saying is, women need to be better prepared. Be aware of their surroundings, watch where they park and look at any strange guy's approach with caution and suspicion.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : That's fear.

  Detective Dani Beck : No, that's survival. Predators use psychology just like you and me. And last time I checked, they outnumbered us.

• Megan Carlisle : [to Dani]  Why can't you leave me alone?

  Detective Dani Beck : Because another rape victim's dead and you're our only hope to put that animal away.

  Megan Carlisle : That has nothing to do with me.

  Detective Dani Beck : Megan, he raped you twice. And the only reason he stopped was because you begged for your baby's life.

  Megan Carlisle : No. That didn't happen.

  Detective Dani Beck : Sure it did. He came back a third time, but he gave you a pass because he got what he wanted. Did you really think you could keep this a secret?

  Megan Carlisle : I have nothing to hide.

  Detective Dani Beck : Then let us do the test and we'll go away.

  Megan Carlisle : No.

  Detective Dani Beck : Megan, I know you're scared, but what you're doing is not the answer.

  Megan Carlisle : You don't know that this baby is his! You don't know that!

  Detective Dani Beck : Then find out. Whether it's today or six months from now, we'll know who fathered your baby.

  Megan Carlisle : We'll be long gone by then.

  Detective Dani Beck : Then your rapist goes free and a bench warrant goes out for your arrest. Is that really what you want?

  [Megan breaks down into tears] 

• Luke Dixon : You don't get it. Birth defects, genetic diseases and sub-intelligence are now considered normal. We're overrun by mediocrity. Good enough has suddenly become acceptable. We've compromised ourselves out of science and technology through the guise of political correctness. These are fields that we used to dominate and that has to change. We have to stop letting any rutting dog procreate. You put the right genes in the right womb, nurtured by the right people.

  Detective Dani Beck : You're not even original. Master race, master plan?