Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Return of the Prodigal Son (2021)
Mariska Hargitay: Captain Olivia Benson
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Elliot Stabler : Liv, I'm sorry.
Olivia Benson : Elliot, we don't have to do this.
[seeing the pain in his eyes]
Olivia Benson : Okay. I guess... you wanna do this now. You're sorry for leaving? Or are you sorry for walking... for not giving me the courtesy of telling me?
Elliot Stabler : Both. I think I thought if I talked to you about how...
Olivia Benson : You walked away. 'Cause that's what you did, Elliot. I had to find out from Cragen.
Elliot Stabler : Olivia.
Olivia Benson : Elliot. You were the most... single most important person in my life...
Elliot Stabler : Olivia.
Olivia Benson : And you just... disappeared.
Elliot Stabler : I know. I was afraid... if I heard your voice, I wouldn't have been able to leave.
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Kathy Stabler : I'm sorry I ruined your big award ceremony.
Olivia Benson : Oh, did me a favor. I hate making speeches. Kathy... can we... can we go back to last night?
Kathy Stabler : I don't even remember starting the car.
Olivia Benson : Did you see anything or hear anything? It could... it could be the smallest detail.
Kathy Stabler : Elliot was on the phone. It was dark. I... I didn't see anything. Sorry.
Olivia Benson : It's okay.
Elliot Stabler : You're fine. It's fine.
Kathy Stabler : It's like the old days. The two of you together. Always so in sync. You really didn't talk for ten years?
Olivia Benson : I didn't even know that he was back on the job.
Kathy Stabler : That's what Elliot told me. I didn't believe him.
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Olivia Benson : What happened here?
Uni #1 : Car bomb. We're taking the vic to Mercy. Doesn't look good.
Olivia Benson : [recognizing the victim] Kathy? Kathy. Kathy?
Elliot Stabler : Liv!
Olivia Benson : Elliot. Oh, my god.
Elliot Stabler : They tried to kill her. They tried to kill Kathy.
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Deputy Chief Christian Garland : I heard what happened. How's the victim?
Olivia Benson : Seriously injured, but hanging on. So you know, the victim is the wife of my former partner, Detective Elliot Stabler.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : So I was told. I thought he left the force.
Olivia Benson : He did, but apparently he's NYPD's man in Rome now.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Any idea why he's in town?
Olivia Benson : Department meetings, I don't know.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Local precinct on the scene?
Olivia Benson : They are, and they're doing everything they can, but you know there was a riot tonight.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : I'm aware. Cops were targeted. Uh, were the Stablers driving an NYPD vehicle?
Olivia Benson : It was a rental, and, um... I'm close with the family. I was hoping that we could take the lead on this.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Family. He's got kids?
Olivia Benson : Five. I've known them all since they were in diapers.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : I'll put a call in to 1PP.
Olivia Benson : Thank you.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : To be clear, you're running the investigation, not him.
Olivia Benson : Of course.
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Dickie Stabler : What the hell happened?
Elliot Stabler : Um, we're not sure right now. Um, she's alive, and she's in surgery, and that's what we know, so let's go upstairs. Come on.
Kathleen Stabler : Olivia, you're here.
Olivia Benson : Of course. I-I'm just here to help. Whatever you need.
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Odafin Tutuola : Maybe you saw something. This car. The woman may not survive.
Jacob Peters : That blast, yeah, I heard it. I was half a block away.
Amanda Rollins : So you were nearby?
Elliot Stabler : [Benson blocks his path to the door] Let me talk to him.
Olivia Benson : I can't.
Elliot Stabler : He just put himself a half block away, close enough to see her get into the car.
Olivia Benson : And set off the bomb remotely? Yes, it's possible.
Elliot Stabler : It's an opening. Let's work it.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Detective, all due respect, but you shouldn't even be in the squad room right now.
Elliot Stabler : Said the lawyer to the cop. Look, guys like this, whatever their stripes, basically, they're terrorists. I've worked plenty of these cases over the last few years. I need to talk to him.
Olivia Benson : You need to be at the hospital.
Elliot Stabler : Liv, I give you my word I'll behave.
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Elliot Stabler : Okay, Jacob, we got two options here. Either you saw who did this or you did it.
Olivia Benson : Detective, do you need a break?
Jacob Peters : I don't think it'll help. He's a black-and-white thinker. Instead of asking who, you should be asking yourself why.
Elliot Stabler : Okay. You think this is a game?
Jacob Peters : No, I don't. This is as real as it gets.
Elliot Stabler : [rolling up his sleeves] Well, you're god damn right about that. Did you do this, yes or no?
Olivia Benson : Detective.
Jacob Peters : Look at you all bowed up. What? You gonna take me out? There'll be a hundred more just like me tomorrow.
Elliot Stabler : Yes or no?
Olivia Benson : [firmly] Okay, we are done!
Jacob Peters : [Stabler backs down] Sorry for your loss, but there's a war going on, and your wife bleeding out on the sidewalk, she's just another casualty.
Olivia Benson : [stopping the fight before it starts] Detective Stabler, get out now. Get out. Now.
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Olivia Benson : I'm Captain Benson. This is Detective Stabler.
Elliot Stabler : Terrorism Task Force.
Jacob Peters : You think I'm a terrorist now?
Elliot Stabler : Didn't say that. Tell me about yourself.
Jacob Peters : Just fighting for our freedom like I told those two detectives.
Olivia Benson : Well, I heard you tell those two detectives that you were half a block away when this car went up.
Jacob Peters : Yeah, about that, uh, yeah, I don't know. I guess.
Elliot Stabler : No. No "about", "I don't know", "I guess". Yes or no, Jacob? Can you tell us what you saw? Anyone running from the scene?
Jacob Peters : When the police arrested me, I heard them saying the woman in the car was a cop's wife.
Elliot Stabler : That's right.
Jacob Peters : I could hear her moaning. Oh, you... you know the vic? She wasn't your wife, was she?
Elliot Stabler : Is. She is my wife.
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Elliot Stabler : Uni at the hospital said you picked up a suspect.
Olivia Benson : Elliot.
Elliot Stabler : This him?
Olivia Benson : Uh, we just started talking to him.
Jacob Peters : [Stabler turns on the intercom] Doesn't matter what I say. You're just gonna railroad me.
Amanda Rollins : No, that's not... that's not what we're doing. Look, I know what you're talking about when you say we're losing our rights.
Jacob Peters : I know. So you understand. If we don't bring things to a head fast, you'll lose your guns, too.
Elliot Stabler : [turning the intercom off] What's his deal? He's targeting cops to protect cops?
Katriona Tamin : Yeah, there's a lot of that lately. These guys have been enabled for the last four years, so they're not backing down now.
Elliot Stabler : Hi, I'm Elliot Stabler. Who are you?
Katriona Tamin : I'm Officer Katriona Tamin.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : ADA Dominick Carisi.
Elliot Stabler : So the ADA is here. You like him for this?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, we know he's good for two other firebombs on cop cars tonight.
Olivia Benson : He has a record. He's been escalating.
Elliot Stabler : How would he make me or Kathy out as cops?
Olivia Benson : You had a... you had a placard in your windshield.
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Olivia Benson : How's Kathy?
Elliot Stabler : Uh, they're still working on her; burns, concussion, fractured pelvis. What do we know?
Odafin Tutuola : Local precincts are canvassing, and our explosion guys are tearing that car apart. Captain, if you don't mind, can I get back to the scene?
Olivia Benson : Go, go, go, go.
Elliot Stabler : Shouldn't have even been driving. I got a call. I slipped away. I gave her the keys. She was worried we were gonna be late for your award. I meant to give you a call... .
Olivia Benson : It's okay.
Elliot Stabler : ...that we were coming.
Olivia Benson : Elliot, please, no.
Elliot Stabler : Tell me she's gonna be okay.
Olivia Benson : Kathy's a fighter. You know that.
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Odafin Tutuola : You okay?
Olivia Benson : I followed Elliot here. I... I barely talked to him. Kathy just went into surgery. How did this happen? Why?
Odafin Tutuola : Rollins is at the scene. A uni told her it was a rental car parked on the street. Kathy went to get in, and the bomb went off. Arson thinks it misfired and threw her clear.
Olivia Benson : A rental car? Where... where are they in from?
Odafin Tutuola : They've been living in Italy. Elliot had to come in for some type of a task force meeting, and he and Kathy decided to make it a trip. He just called me out of nowhere and told me he was coming. I may have spoken about your award. I thought enough time had gone down between you two.
Olivia Benson : Okay, a task force, what... who's he working for?
Odafin Tutuola : NYPD. He's the international liaison in Rome.
Olivia Benson : Since when?
Odafin Tutuola : Look, this is all I know. You're gonna have to ask him.
Elliot Stabler : [approaching] Fin.
Odafin Tutuola : Hey. I'm here for whatever you need, man.
Elliot Stabler : Appreciate it.
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Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Your former partner always this aggressive? He shouldn't have even been in the precinct.
Olivia Benson : This is on me.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : It is. My sense from his affect and his record, this is a cop who's used to taking things over the line and getting away with it.
Olivia Benson : You went through his record?
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Multiple firearm discharges, six fatal shootings, and I'm still going through the IAB logs. Disposition on multiple charges, oh, and referred for counseling.
Olivia Benson : We were both referred.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Why did he resign from the force? There's no official reason.
Olivia Benson : His last shooting was a 16-year-old girl who brought a gun into the stationhouse, and, you know, my guess... my guess is that, uh, he just didn't want to go through the hoops; IAB interviews, counseling. He was done.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : Guess? Come on, he didn't tell you?
Olivia Benson : We never spoke after he left. Look, he got too rough back in the day... but it wasn't just testosterone. It was because he cared so much.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : And he was your first partner, the one who had your back. You were his junior when there weren't that many female detectives. I get it.
Olivia Benson : Chief, I'm not making excuses for him, and I'm not apologizing for him, but I believe that he changed.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : I hope so. Forgive me if I have my doubts. A grunt former marine, a night college degree, and a CPI like this? He goes off the grid for six years, and somehow the old boy network got him back on the force.
Olivia Benson : Because he's a good detective.
Deputy Chief Christian Garland : And lucky. It wouldn't happen today. Look, we can agree to disagree about his evolution, but to be clear again, I will not have this behavior in one of my captain's squad rooms.
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Olivia Benson : Jacob Peters, unemployed, five arrests in the past year all for protests, including D.C. January 6, for arson, vandalism, brandishing a gun, and punching reporters.
Katriona Tamin : Well, he wasn't wrong about Big Brother. I was able to pull his Google search history, and he has been going down a rabbit hole of YouTube conspiracy videos for 10 to 12 hours a day for the last five years.
Olivia Benson : Oh, yeah. He believes that COVID is a hoax, the election was rigged. I mean, he shows up at these rallies in paramilitia garb and just tears it up.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : And he thinks he's a patriot. He hasn't asked for a lawyer?
Olivia Benson : Not yet.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Good. Better, anything put him near Kathy Stabler's blast?
Katriona Tamin : No, but he was IDed by multiple UCs tonight as an instigator, and they found explosives, zip ties, and a taser in his backpack.
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Olivia Benson : I should have never let you in that room.
Elliot Stabler : I knew what I was doing.
Olivia Benson : Yeah? So did he. He was baiting you, Elliot. Look, you're raw. I get it. Your wife is in a hospital bed, but you have been long gone, and we don't do...
Elliot Stabler : Don't tell me that we don't do it that way anymore, please. I've been living in Europe, not under a rock.
Olivia Benson : Okay, hey, even if he is good for it, a victim's spouse in interrogation?
Elliot Stabler : Yep, yep, yep.
Olivia Benson : Whatever confession we elicit...
Elliot Stabler : Gets thrown out, I know!
Olivia Benson : Yeah? Do you also know that the cameras are always on in interrogation?
Elliot Stabler : Brave new world, I got it. So what do we do now? You write me up a rip there, Captain?
Olivia Benson : You know what, Elliot...
Dickie Stabler : Dad. Dad, do you answer your phone?
Elliot Stabler : What is it? What's the matter?
Dickie Stabler : She's awake, dad. Mom's awake. Let's go.
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Olivia Benson : Anything yet?
Katriona Tamin : Nothing. Car was parked under the bridge. No witnesses.
Olivia Benson : Traffic cams?
Katriona Tamin : Still going through footage. Also, this may be unrelated, but there was a curfew protest just south on Center Street. Bunch of guys in pickup trucks and flags met by counter-protestors. Someone started targeting police officers, and they lit two police vans on fire on Madison Street.
Olivia Benson : That's two blocks from where the car blew up. Any arrests?
Katriona Tamin : Hmm, dozen or so.
Olivia Benson : Talk to all of them.
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Olivia Benson : Fin, I'm sorry.
Odafin Tutuola : Where are you?
Olivia Benson : Something's come up.
Odafin Tutuola : Well, you're the guest of honor. Everybody's waiting on you. What's going on?
Olivia Benson : I'm not quite sure yet. I got a 10-13, a vic near Center Street, so I'll be there as soon as I can, okay? Thank you.
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Elliot Stabler : He's saying all three were Antifa. We know he's good for two of 'em.
Olivia Benson : Right, Molotov cocktails. Look, he's not going anywhere, Elliot, okay? We're searching his apartment, his truck.
Elliot Stabler : The size of that blast. Where's Arson with all this?
Olivia Benson : Well, they're working on it, but they have three different explosions to look into. Is Kathy lucid enough to tell us what she remembers?
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Odafin Tutuola : How'd that go?
Olivia Benson : Well, the good news is that Kathy Stabler is conscious.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Can she make a statement?
Olivia Benson : Stabler's on the way to the hospital.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : If she can tell us anything, another detective needs to be in that room.
Odafin Tutuola : Carisi, he's not gonna blow the case. End of the day, he's a good cop.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Stop. Look, I know you guys have history, but he can't be anywhere near this, and Jacob here, now he's claiming that he was just following some Antifa thug who threw a Molotov cocktail into Kathy's car.
Olivia Benson : It wasn't a Molotov cocktail.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : And he doesn't know that. If I had to guess, he's good for the first two, but not Kathy Stabler.