Mariska Hargitay credited as playing...
Detective Olivia Benson
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Olivia] You know, you'd make a great mom.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Oh, my God. I'm not having this conversation.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You're great with kids.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Yeah, I know.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Look, maybe you should start thinking about having kids and any way you want to do it, I'll support you.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Elliot, do me a favor.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Yeah?
- Detective Olivia Benson: Shut up and drive.
- Eva Sintzel: [to Olivia] Do you have kids?
- Detective Olivia Benson: Uh, no. No.
- Eva Sintzel: Don't you want them?
- Detective Olivia Benson: I... yes, I do. Very much.
- Eva Sintzel: Then what are you waiting for?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Olivia] You gotta know I didn't say anything to the guys about you wanting a baby. I mean, that was Munch being Munch.
- Detective Olivia Benson: El...
- Detective Elliot Stabler: No, I understand. Your biological clock's ticking. I'm gonna shut up.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Elliot, a few months ago I looked into adoption.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: That's great.
- Detective Olivia Benson: They turned me down.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: What are you talking about?
- Detective Olivia Benson: Well, I'm single, I don't have an extended family support system, I work all hours. They didn't see me as prime parent material.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: They're wrong.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Well, it's not like somebody stole their hubcaps, Elliot. Do you know what they went through to get those embryos?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You know, I don't. I had kids the old-fashioned way.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Well, some people aren't as blessed as you are.
- Detective Olivia Benson: These people believe that if an embryo screens positive for some devastating fatal disease, like Tay-Sachs, it should still be implanted.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Yeah.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Knowing full well that the baby that comes out will never know anything but pain and suffering.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Look, it's tough.
- Detective Olivia Benson: No, it's not. You give your kid a fighting chance.
- Detective Olivia Benson: [about the parents of a brain damaged child] They're trapping her in a child's body forever.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Parents have to make hard choices. Now, this last pregnancy, Kathy was over 40. It It makes for much higher risk. Things like Down Syndrome and...
- Detective Olivia Benson: You know what? Eli turned out perfect, so spare me the perils of women over 40 having babies.