Law & Order: SVU
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Benson: This level of manipulation, it has to have happened before. Has there been no case before? What about Nadine and Ava?
Rollins: Nadine's willing to cooperate, but the father's against it.
Benson: She's probably afraid of losing custody. He certainly knows how to pick his victims.
Apparently I'm better at talking to psychopaths than teenage girls.
Rollins
At least he's consistent. Nick had a vision and Beth thinks he's the Second Coming.
Benson
Benson: Mrs. Lee. Claire. I need you to listen to me now. This man changed his name and joined your church because he was targeting Beth from the moment he saw her.
Claire: No. You're wrong.
Benson: I know this is a lot to take in -
Claire: He wasn't targeting her. He was targeting me. My husband can never know, but Luke and I are very much in love.
Cop: They just let some guy take their 14-year-old for the week?
Rollins: Yeah.
Cop: Wouldn't have happened in my house.
Fin: Fathers worry. She's been gone over a week. That's a long time.
Mr. Lee: Beth felt called to go. Her mother said yes. I was Zooming 10 hours a day. I didn't have time to pay attention. Oh God, what have I done?
She goes to school, she goes to work, she's a good girl.
Mr. Lee
Rollins: When was the last time you saw Nina?
Cora: About 5 years ago. She came around asking for money so she could put another hole in her arm. I told her not to come around here again. I had already lost one daughter and didn't want to lose the other.
Rollins: I'm so sorry.
Cora: Don't be. I ran out of tears for her a long time ago.
I wish I had more, but these bones have told me all they can tell me. The baton passes back to you to find out what happened to her.
ME
I couldn't keep her room the same, you know, a little girl's room. Grief wasn't meant to stay fixed.
Aretha's mother
Rollins: So after 9/11, the case was put on the back burner?
Cop: More like pushed off the stove. There were cases before and after, but during? There were so many tragedies that just got forgotten about.
We just got back from a week in Orlando. Made me long for the days of Com Stad meetings.
Garland