Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Secrets Exhumed (2013)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

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• Odafin Tutuola : I don't wanna move.

  Detective Olivia Benson : It's 6 feet, Fin.

  Donald Cragen : You're all still too complacent. I've said before, I'll say it again. It's a new year, I wanna shake things up.

  Odafin Tutuola : I like my old desk.

  Detective Nick Amaro : Well, we can get you a grief counselor.

• Detective Olivia Benson : South Florida. I gotta say, it's overrated.

  Detective Nick Amaro : What, the sun, the coffee, people?

  Detective Olivia Benson : The heat, the bugs.

  Detective Nick Amaro : Really? That Cuban sandwich?

  Detective Olivia Benson : Not so much.

  Detective Nick Amaro : I didn't hear you complain about the Bahamas.

• Detective Olivia Benson : [to Amaro about Agent Lewis's involvement in Kira Stanger's death]  Nick, listen to me. Dana is not involved. She's as dedicated a law enforcement officer as I am.

• Detective Olivia Benson : FBI Agent Lewis, this is my partner, Detective Nick Amaro.

  FBI Agent Dana Lewis : Nice to meet you, sunshine.

  Detective Nick Amaro : You, too. Hey, can I ask what the FBI's interest is in a New York cold case?

  FBI Agent Dana Lewis : We think he's a serial. He's our prime suspect in three other rape/murders - Sacramento, Philadelphia, Washington, besides two in New York.

  Detective Nick Amaro : But the DNA matched a Manhattan case, makes it ours. And these aren't federal crimes.

  FBI Agent Dana Lewis : How about we work together on this?

  Detective Olivia Benson : Just so you know, Nick, when she asks, it's not really a question.

  Detective Nick Amaro : Yeah, I'm getting that.

• Detective Olivia Benson : [to Brian Traymor]  Brian, let me ask you something. That bus that hit you broke your spinal cord. It didn't just cripple you. It made you impotent. You've had 25 years to think about that accident. You ever think it was karma?

• Detective Olivia Benson : [to Agent Lewis]  No wonder you spent so much time undercover, because you were running away from yourself, Dana, from what you had done. It must've been so hard to keep that horrible secret locked up inside of you. It's time now. You gotta let it go. You're right, I do know you and I know that you didn't go over there planning to do this. Just let that go.

  FBI Agent Dana Lewis : I we... I went over. I just wanted... I just wanted to tell her that he wasn't any more in love with her than he was with me, that he was using both of us. She said sh... she felt sorry for me, but that they were meant to be, and that when she told him that she was pregnant, that he got down on his knees and asked her to marry him and that he looked so happy! That's how you found out. And I-I don't even know what happened next. I mean, I came to I looked down, there was a body lying right in front of me, and she looked so pretty. And I remember thinking, God, until that one moment, I bet that little girl never had anything go wrong in her whole life.

  Detective Nick Amaro : But she was gone, and the only life worth saving was your own, so you staged the crime scene.

  FBI Agent Dana Lewis : I guess I did. I don't remember. I was just so familiar with all Brian's patterns. I guess I was just on autopilot. I'm sorry. Olivia, I'm sorry.