Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Responsible (2007)

Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson

Quotes 

• Lillian Rice : I want my lawyer now.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Of course you do. Okay. Well, while you're waiting for him, I'm gonna go talk to Becca.

  Lillian Rice : She a minor, you can't talk to her without my permission.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Oh, really? See, that would be true if she was a suspect, but she's not. She's a witness. I can talk to her all I want.

• Detective Olivia Benson : Can't have a kegger without the keg.

• Detective Olivia Benson : [to Lillian after finding her in bed with Jordan]  You're sleeping with a teenage boy.

  Lillian Rice : Jordan's a man. He's 17, it's not a crime.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Oh, it oughta be. You're old enough to be his mother.

  Lillian Rice : Barely. When I was his age, I was pregnant with Becca.

  Detective Olivia Benson : So you're reliving your lost childhood? Is that it?

  Lillian Rice : You don't get it. When was the last time a man your age asked you out?

  Detective Olivia Benson : Oh, we're not talking about me. I'm not the one who's sleeping with a teenager.

  Lillian Rice : It's been awhile since you had a date, hasn't it? That partner of yours is cute, but I bet he likes them younger. My ex sure did. I wasted ten good years on Wally before I found out he was schtupping his secretary. When he ran out on us, I was angry at first. But then I realized, if he could have a younger woman, I could have a younger man.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Your husband leaving you hardly justifies you sleeping with a high school student.

  Lillian Rice : Why are you so bitter? Did someone leave you? Or maybe you had a chance once. Someone wanted to marry you, you thought you wanted something more?

  Detective Olivia Benson : And your "something more" is a teenage boy?

• Detective Olivia Benson : [to Lillian]  So do you sleep with all of Becca's friends or just Jordan?

  Lillian Rice : Go to hell.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Just calling it like I see them. Got an eye full tonight. So did Becca.

  Lillian Rice : Leave my daughter out of this.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Oh, you're the one who put her in the middle when you started screwing her friend.

  Lillian Rice : I told him we had to be careful.

  Detective Olivia Benson : So hold on, let me just get this straight. Out of all the men out there, you picked the one boy that your daughter has a crush on. You know, that looks like you're competing with her.

  Lillian Rice : No, no. It just happened. I never meant for Becca to find out. I wouldn't hurt her in a million years.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Well, then you shouldn't have banged her friend!

• Luke Young : I know the judge said we shouldn't drink, but you don't get into the Ivy league every day.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Well, guess what, you're underage and the law doesn't make exception for special occasions.

• Detective Olivia Benson : You have every right to be upset, Becca. I can't imagine how devastating it is to see what you saw.

  Becca Rice : If you had just left us alone, none of this would have happened.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Becca, you know that's not true. They've been sleeping together for months. You would've found out sooner or later.

  Becca Rice : Just leave me alone.

  [heads towards the elevator] 

  Detective Olivia Benson : Honey, what your mother did was wrong. She hurt you.

  Becca Rice : You don't understand her.

  Detective Olivia Benson : She slept with the boy you like.

  Becca Rice : She didn't mean for it to happen. Jordan, he took advantage of her and she she was just trying to help me make friends.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Becca, why are you defending her?

  Becca Rice : She's my best friend and you're trying to put her in jail. You're ruining our lives.