Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Know It All (2017)

Mariska Hargitay: Lieutenant Olivia Benson

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• [last lines] 

  Rafael Barba : Word is Willard's attorney's already scrambling to make a deal.

  Olivia Benson : Look, unless he pleads to murder, I say try the case.

  Rafael Barba : Me, too, but I have no input. I'm off the case.

  Olivia Benson : I'm so sorry about all of this, Rafael.

  Rafael Barba : What I did was wrong, but the truth is I'd do it again. Not everything done in the dark is shameful.

  Olivia Benson : So now what?

  Rafael Barba : I have a meeting with the D.A. in five minutes. He'll tell me what happens next. You know, I love this job. Oh, I really do, but sometimes...

  Olivia Benson : Oh, I know.

• Rafael Barba : Wait a minute. They're about to build a statue in your honor at 1PP for catching the serial killer/rapist that had the whole city on edge. Now you're telling me this guy didn't do it?

  Olivia Benson : He didn't do one.

  Rafael Barba : Right, because why? Because her boyfriend had sex with her before she was killed?

  Olivia Benson : Her controlling, emotionally abusive boyfriend whom she broke up with that night.

  Rafael Barba : So he killed her in her apartment and transported her to the construction site.

  Olivia Benson : Four blocks away. Completely doable.

  Rafael Barba : And then what? Then he left her there with her hands tied with a rope, hair shorn, using the exact M.O. as the Second Avenue Strangler? No, that information was private. Willard could not know those details.

  Olivia Benson : Unless... unless he hacked into NYPD's computer system. He's a technical genius. If anyone could do it, he could.

  Rafael Barba : Okay, so in your scenario, Willard, with his dead girlfriend in the room, hacked the NYPD, and then tied her with a rope.

  Olivia Benson : A rope that the Second Avenue Strangler never used before. A rope that Willard found in Jennifer's apartment.

  Rafael Barba : Which is your only actual piece of real evidence.

  Olivia Benson : Which is a damn good piece of evidence.

  Rafael Barba : True.

  Olivia Benson : If the rope matches...

  Rafael Barba : The crusading Lieutenant Benson gets her man. And upsets a very large apple cart in the process.

• Olivia Benson : [Fin's 'rope guy' claims to have made a mistake]  Are you buying this?

  Odafin Tutuola : I don't know. This guy is solid. He hasn't made a mistake in twenty years.

  Olivia Benson : Exactly.

  Odafin Tutuola : So why lie now? Why protect Willard?

  Olivia Benson : Maybe this is Willard protecting himself. Look, Laura thinks that he hacked her. We think that he hacked the NYPD; that's how he got the M.O. Maybe... maybe he hacked Bennett, as well.

  Odafin Tutuola : And found what?

  Olivia Benson : Who the hell knows, but... we need to find out.

• Amanda Rollins : Lieutenant, M.E. report came back. Looks like Jennifer's sister was right. There was no alcohol in her blood.

  Det. Marcus Perry : So?

  Amanda Rollins : Well, so, we also have semen that doesn't match our perp's DNA, and her cause of death blunt force trauma to the head, not asphyxiation. She was strangled postmortem.

  Det. Marcus Perry : So she had sex with somebody else before he got to her, and things got rough before he raped her. I mean, he got rough with all his vics. It happens. He confessed.

  Olivia Benson : Right, but it's possible that we have a copycat.

  Det. Marcus Perry : A copycat who knew our rapist ties his victim's hands behind their backs and cut their hair? Those details weren't released.

  Olivia Benson : Does it hurt to be sure?

  Det. Marcus Perry : Look, Lieutenant, you outrank me, but you don't make friends at 1PP by unsolving homicides. As far as I'm concerned, this case is closed.

  Olivia Benson : As far as I'm concerned, it's not.

• Odafin Tutuola : [discussing Lauren]  So she thinks Willard is watching her?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Willard did say she was paranoid.

  Amanda Rollins : Women should be paranoid. It's a survival skill.

  Olivia Benson : Look, maybe he's casting shade to cover himself.

  Odafin Tutuola : Willard did put himself with the victim in her apartment the night she was killed.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, so anything's possible. Have we checked her apartment?

  Odafin Tutuola : Homicide gave it the once-over. No sign of struggle. CSU hasn't touched it.

  Olivia Benson : So get 'em over there first thing in the morning, guys. We need to be sure.

• Olivia Benson : These three victims are the work of our pattern 23 rapist.

  Det. Marcus Perry : The ones the papers are calling the Second Avenue Strangler. His victims were all last seen near bars on Second Ave.

  Amanda Rollins : Witnesses report seeing a gold TLC car near two of the victims. Now, we checked with Uber, QuikRide, other services. It doesn't match any of their cars.

  Odafin Tutuola : So he could be a guy working off the books.

  Olivia Benson : No matter who he is, he's a serial rapist/murderer who has struck every two weeks for the last month. So for those of you who are just joining us now, this is going to be a joint investigation with Homicide and Detective Perry.

  Det. Marcus Perry : This started as an SVU case, but you all will be our feet on the ground. Detective?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Okay, the M.O.s are the same. The victims are all between twenty and thirty. They're long-haired brunettes. They had secondary trauma from the struggle. They were dropped off at a construction site. Now, the cause of death was asphyxiation.

  Amanda Rollins : All of his vics were found naked from the waist down. Their hands were tied with rope, and they all had a chunk of hair shaved from the back of their neck.

  Det. Marcus Perry : That's his trophy and his signature.

  Odafin Tutuola : Easy marks, drunk and walking home alone.

  Olivia Benson : Okay, so get this sketch out there. Be our eyes, be our ears. Go.

• Olivia Benson : Did you look under Jennifer's kitchen sink that night?

  David Willard : I'm sorry, under her sink? Is that some kind of a sexual metaphor?

  Olivia Benson : No. We found your fingerprints on the handle of the cabinet underneath the kitchen sink.

  David Willard : I... I have no idea what you're talking about.

  Olivia Benson : I'm sorry. I'm obviously not speaking clearly enough, so my bad. I'm talking about you killing Jennifer. I'm talking about you hacking into the NYPD so you could impersonate the pattern 23 rapist. I'm talking about you finding rope underneath the cabinet, tying her hands, and then dumping her body at some construction site. Is that better? Is that more clear?

  David Willard : Wow. You have a vivid imagination. It's impressive, no? But the truth is I'm far too smart to do something that stupid.

  Olivia Benson : Or far too stupid to do something that smart.

• Olivia Benson : [at a crime scene]  Rollins, is it?

  Amanda Rollins : It looks like it. Number four. Same victim profile. It's the same staging, same binding, same rope.

  Det. Marcus Perry : And he took his trophy. Shaved a chunk from the base of the neck.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, head trauma, no pool of blood. She wasn't killed here.

  Olivia Benson : If it follows pattern, there won't be any DNA. Let's check security cameras.

  [noticing a patrol cop talking to two construction workers] 

  Olivia Benson : Hold everybody back.

  Amanda Rollins : She deserves that much.

  [as she leaves] 

  Amanda Rollins : Let's go, guys.

  Det. Marcus Perry : This is our guy, and he's early.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, by over a week.

  Olivia Benson : He's accelerating, which means it's only gonna get worse from here.

• Det. Marcus Perry : They found her purse near the body, exactly like the others.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah, cash was gone, the rest intact.

  Olivia Benson : You get a name?

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Yeah. Jennifer Knowles. We got an ID from a company called Attention, Inc.

  Det. Marcus Perry : We can run the credit cards to get a timeline.

  Olivia Benson : Next of kin?

  Amanda Rollins : Laura Knowles, younger sister. I notified; she's gonna meet us at the morgue.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : We're gonna grab the video footage, canvass the neighborhood, double down on the community outreach. Anything else?

  Olivia Benson : Yeah, get all of that evidence to the lab. Our perp's gotta screw up sometime.

  [to Rollins as Carisi and Perry leave] 

  Olivia Benson : I need anything - anything - that can give us a lead.

• Odafin Tutuola : What's going on?

  Olivia Benson : Ugh, precinct just picked up a suspect. They think it's our guy.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Twenty-four hours and he's back out there already?

  Olivia Benson : I don't know. Let's go.

• Olivia Benson : This our serial?

  Det. Marcus Perry : Looks like.

  Olivia Benson : Where'd we get him?

  Det. Marcus Perry : The vic got into a fight with her boyfriend at a bar. She stumbles out drunk, breaks a heel, gypsy cab driver offers her a ride. Lucky for her, she's not as drunk as he thought. Recognizes him from the sketch; realizes she's in trouble, that he's got her locked in, so she texts a picture to the tip line.

  Amanda Rollins : Good for her.

  Det. Marcus Perry : Yeah, a precinct car pulled them over, searched the cab. His whole toolkit's here. Knife, rope, clippers, condoms.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Did you get any blood?

  [a CSU tech shows them blood stains under an ALS] 

  Amanda Rollins : Well, check for fibers, see if they match the ones on our vics.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Looks like we got our guy.

  Olivia Benson : I want this sewn up. Get him to the squad. I want to hear him say that he did it.

• Olivia Benson : You were right, David Willard was spying on your sister.

  Laura Knowles : I told you that, why didn't you believe me, because David told you I'm an alcoholic? I have eyes, I have ears.

• Olivia Benson : We're three days in, and we got a week and a half if he stays on pattern.

  Det. Marcus Perry : I can't afford another one. COMPSTAT counts these against Homicide. I got three unsolveds over my head.

  Olivia Benson : So we'll flood the streets. We're gonna flood social media, get this sketch out there. Make sure that everybody knows.

• Dominick Carisi Jr. : Attention? What do they pay attention to?

  Amanda Rollins : According to their website, everything. You know, you do a search for a flight to Chicago, you start getting ads for warm gloves and Cubs hats.

  Dominick Carisi Jr. : Oh, these are those bastards?

  Amanda Rollins : Yeah, they data mine your Internt usage and then they sell it to advertisers. "Truth through transparency" is their motto. They want the world to be able to see everything, no privacy.

  Olivia Benson : I'd think the police would like that. If nothing can be hidden, there can be no crime. Am I right?