Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

We Dream of Machine Elves (2019)

Beth Malone: Doctor

Quotes 

• Doctor : Kathleen Bell Adler. Admitted in '97. She was a brilliant clinician until she was found naked in the middle of Harvard Square.

  Olivia Benson : What was her diagnosis?

  Doctor : Hallucinogenic-induced psychosis with underlying paranoid schizophrenia.

  Amanda Rollins : Can she communicate?

  Doctor : Intermittently. This week, she's been having agitated conversations with someone who's not there, about her daughter.

  Olivia Benson : Her daughter doesn't know that her mother is even alive.

  Doctor : Anais? Kathleen's worried about her.

  Amanda Rollins : Does her husband, Dr. Adler, visit?

  Doctor : No one's ever visited her.

  Amanda Rollins : Ever?

  Doctor : At least not since I've been on staff. That's going on 15 years now.

  Amanda Rollins : What's her prognosis?

  Doctor : After all this time here? No one re-integrates from that.

• Anais Adler : Will she know who I am?

  Doctor : She's been here 20 years. You can't expect too much.

  Anais Adler : I didn't even know she was alive.

  Amanda Rollins : The doctor understands.

  Olivia Benson : And if-if... if you're not up for this, we can turn around right now.

  Anais Adler : She's my mother.

• Doctor : Kathleen?

  Anais Adler : Mom? It's me. Anais.

  Kathleen Adler : Yes.

  Anais Adler : Do you mind if I sit?

  [Kathleen gives a non-committal shrug] 

  Kathleen Adler : Are you okay?

  Anais Adler : Am I? I don't know.

  Kathleen Adler : Your father and I were just talking about you.