Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Stranger (2009)
Mariska Hargitay: Detective Olivia Benson
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Quotes
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Detective Elliot Stabler : How did she manipulate you into getting her that tattoo?
Carl Vasko : It was my idea. She showed me a picture. I wanted her to have it for good luck.
Detective Olivia Benson : Well, it worked. She needed it to pass herself off as another person. She ran away to another family. Complete strangers are better than you, you disgusting piece of filth.
Carl Vasko : Where's Kristen? I'd like to see her.
Detective Olivia Benson : And I would like to see you castrated with a rusty steak knife. Neither are gonna happen, but we can both dream.
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Captain Donald Cragen : What, are you waiting for an invitation?
[Olivia and Elliot turn around to Cragen]
Detective Olivia Benson : Just thought we'd give Vasko a taste of his own medicine.
Captain Donald Cragen : I think he's familiar with the tactics of breaking someone. All you're giving him is time to lawyer up.
Detective Elliot Stabler : We're buying ourselves some.
[Melinda comes]
Detective Elliot Stabler : You got something?
Dr. Melinda Warner : It's too soon for DNA results, so I ran an individual specific auto-antibodies test on Mr. Vasko. It's not admissible in court yet but, uh, it only takes two hours.
Captain Donald Cragen : Well, how did we get a court order for his DNA already?
Detective Elliot Stabler : We didn't need one. Vasko ran, Fin clotheslined him, bloodied up his nose on Fin's sleeve.
Dr. Melinda Warner : And Fin was kind enough to pass it along to me. He's a match for the semen on your girl's dress.
Detective Olivia Benson : [smiles slightly] That's all we need.
[starts walking]
Dr. Melinda Warner : Hold on. I'm not finished. I did get the DNA results from your Jane Doe's rape kit. She's not Heather.
Detective Elliot Stabler : We figured that one out ourselves.
Dr. Melinda Warner : Did you know her name is Kirsten Vuscelik?
Captain Donald Cragen : What, she's in the system?
Dr. Melinda Warner : No, in CODIS. She was abducted in Ohio six years ago. Her mother Marcie was certain it as a parental kidnapping.
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Detective Olivia Benson : Heather, the man that was holding you, did her ever take you outside?
Heather Hallander : No, never. I've told you that.
Detective Olivia Benson : We have a chance to catch your abuser. That's why there's no reason for you to hold back any important details.
Heather Hallander : Like what?
Detective Olivia Benson : Like St. Francis Cathedral.
Heather Hallander : I don't know what you're talking about.
Detective Olivia Benson : Based on your reaction, I would say that you do. Somebody saw you there. They saw you with an older man.
Heather Hallander : They're lying.
Detective Olivia Benson : I really want to help you. But I can't unless you're honest with me.
Heather Hallander : I want you to go now.
Detective Olivia Benson : Heather, please, listen to...
Heather Hallander : Go! He raped me every day. He stole my childhood from me. And if you don't believe me, then get out!
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Detective Elliot Stabler : Doc, was she abducted or not?
Dr. George Huang : I wouldn't rule it out.
Captain Donald Cragen : Even with the lies about her field trips to church?
Dr. George Huang : After four years, he's established total domination over her. Heather's programmed to follow orders blindly and without question. The ultimate test of his power is taking her out in public.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Well, that doesn't bother me. I mean, he took her to a church. You got two hundred people there, it's a sanctuary. Why not scream, ask for help?
Dr. George Huang : Because his control over her was so complete she couldn't. I once worked a case in Rochester where the perp took a victim who he had kept for two years to a karaoke bar. They got up and they sang a song together. No one suspected.
Captain Donald Cragen : Heather is safe now. Why isn't she helping?
Dr. George Huang : Extreme Stockholm syndrome.
Detective Olivia Benson : She's bonded with her captor as a survival mechanism and now has this misguided need to protect him.
[her phone rings]
Detective Olivia Benson : Detective Benson. Where are they taking her? I'm on my way.
[hanging up]
Detective Olivia Benson : Heather slit her wrists.
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Captain Donald Cragen : That was a little too convincing.
Detective Olivia Benson : It was brilliant. Elliot's gonna sucker a full confession out of that idiot.
Captain Donald Cragen : While you do what?
Detective Olivia Benson : Kristen's seventy-two hour psych hold is up. I gotta get the Hallanders to drop the charges before she's transferred to the Tombs.
Captain Donald Cragen : Liv, I checked. Kristen's already on her way there.
Detective Olivia Benson : Well, I gotta get her out.
Captain Donald Cragen : Munch and Fin went to talk to the Hallanders.
Detective Olivia Benson : Where's Greylek?
Captain Donald Cragen : She's tracking down Judge Andrews at a black tie event.
Detective Olivia Benson : You didn't see that basement. I cannot let this girl sit in a cell all night.
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Heather Hallander : [offscreen as Olivia enters the hospital room] Hi, Olivia. My dad thinks I should go to college, so he dropped off these study guides to get me started.
Detective Olivia Benson : [unaffected] That's nice.
Heather Hallander : [looks down at Olivia's hands; more apprehensive] Is that my clarinet?
Detective Olivia Benson : It is. I thought, uh - thought you could play something for me.
[opens case]
Heather Hallander : I don't think I'd remember how.
Detective Olivia Benson : You were first chair; why don't you try putting it together and see what comes back?
Heather Hallander : I - I don't really feel like it right now.
Detective Olivia Benson : [pulls up a seat] Musta gotten that tattoo when you were young. What's the story?
Heather Hallander : There's no story. I - just got it.
Detective Olivia Benson : Where?
Heather Hallander : [pauses] Tattoo parlor.
Detective Olivia Benson : No, you didn't. The boy Nikki was dating bought a kit on eBay. They convinced Heather to let him give her a tattoo.
[Heather/Kristen looks up horrified]
Detective Olivia Benson : The Hallanders were furious. Nikki never saw the boy again. Heather was grounded for a month.
Heather Hallander : [nervous] I'm Heather. I - I'm Heather.
Detective Olivia Benson : When Heather went missing, the lab took DNA from her toothbrush. We're gonna run the DNA from your rape kit. In a few days, when the results come back, we're gonna compare the two.
[Heather/Kristen noticeably more agitated as Olivia speaks]
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Detective Olivia Benson : I don't understand how a mother wouldn't know her own child.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Yeah, but Mrs. Hallander didn't recognize this girl until sister Erica saw that tattoo on her wrist.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Munch, zoom in on the ink. Put 'em up side by side.
Detective Olivia Benson : Looks the same to me.
Sergeant John Munch : Except they're mirror images. On this one, the stem curved to the right; on this one, it curves to the left.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Girl's a con artist.
Detective Olivia Benson : Then why would she try to kill herself?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Maybe she knew the game was up.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Who's gonna break it to the Hallanders that their real daughter's still missing?
[walks away]
Detective Olivia Benson : Let me talk to Heather first.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Liv, she's not Heather.
[walks away behind Fin as Olivia still studies tattoo photos on the screen]
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Detective Olivia Benson : That was Heather's father. She's not feeling well; drive-along's off.
Detective Elliot Stabler : She saw the paper.
Detective Olivia Benson : They tried to keep it from her, but the sister Nikki slipped her a copy.
Sergeant John Munch : The brat sister isn't helping at all. You ask me, we bring Nikki in here for a sit-down.
Detective Elliot Stabler : What, are you a social worker now?
Sergeant John Munch : Hardly.
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Sergeant John Munch : The day Heather ran out after Nikki called her fat, mom sent the brat after her to apologize.
Detective Olivia Benson : Nikki never found Heather.
Sergeant John Munch : Yeah, so she claims.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Nikki was sixteen years old. What'd she do, sell her younger sister as a sex slave?
Sergeant John Munch : No, but maybe she saw her get in the van.
Detective Olivia Benson : And never said anything?
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Sergeant John Munch : Nikki admitted that she tormented her little sister. Maybe she was glad to see her go. Parents said that she's been on a downward spiral ever since. Sounds like guilt to me.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Or acting like a teenager.
[Munch heads to his desk]
Detective Elliot Stabler : Anything back from forensics?
Detective Olivia Benson : Scarring from long-term sexual abuse, but no DNA in the rape kit.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Well, Heather scrubbed herself clean. We kind of expected that.
Detective Olivia Benson : The lab found semen on the dress. They're working up a DNA profile now.
Detective Elliot Stabler : If we're lucky, the perp's already in the system.
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Heather Hallander : [hounded by the press as she returns home] Are they gonna print my photo?
Detective Olivia Benson : Not if he has a conscience.
Reporter Steve Harris : Heather, what was the lowest point of your four years in captivity?
Detective Elliot Stabler : You take a step in that building, I'll arrest you for trespassing.
[to Harris' photographer]
Detective Elliot Stabler : You, be a human being. Erase the photos.
Reporter Steve Harris : What world do you live in? Cute, middle-class white girl held as a sex slave. The story's huge.
Detective Elliot Stabler : [ignoring him, he turns to face the photographer again] I asked you nice once. Come on. I'm asking you nice.
Photographer : [retreating, he stumbles and falls, his camera breaking on the pavement] Son of a bitch!
Detective Elliot Stabler : [sarcastic] That's a shame. Looks expensive.