Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
A Final Call at Forlini's Bar (2022)
Raúl Esparza: Defense Attorney Rafael Barba
Quotes
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Rafael Barba : Hello, Liv.
Olivia Benson : Hello.
Rafael Barba : You and I spent a lot of time in this place. It's a shame they're closing, huh?
Olivia Benson : Everything comes to an end. Um... I wanted to thank you, for representing Delia.
Rafael Barba : Rollins asked for the favor. How many lawyers you call first?
Olivia Benson : Three. You think you can get an acquittal?
Rafael Barba : I'll do my best. Cabernet?
Olivia Benson : I can't stay.
Rafael Barba : It's possible, to sit with someone, and have a drink, and not say a single word to each other. I miss you, Liv.
Olivia Benson : I gotta go.
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Rafael Barba : [to Benson as she walks into Forlini's] You showed up.
Olivia Benson : Last call at Forlini's. Thank you, for what you did for Delia.
Rafael Barba : How is she?
Olivia Benson : Her social worker is putting a team together: PT, therapy, cognitive rehab. And, turns out that Ty had a settlement from a construction site accident which is now hers, so all things considered, she's in a better place.
Rafael Barba : Unlike the two of us.
[Benson nods]
Rafael Barba : You're still holding onto this?
Olivia Benson : I asked you not to defend Wheatley.
Rafael Barba : And now he's dead. We've been over this. I was trying to protect you...
Olivia Benson : I didn't ask you to.
Rafael Barba : No. I guess you didn't. I hear you.
Olivia Benson : Thank you.
Rafael Barba : What I don't get... Why you feel more anger at me, than you ever let yourself feel toward Stabler.
Olivia Benson : You don't know anything about my feelings for Elliot, and, you don't know him.
Rafael Barba : I got a glimpse.
Olivia Benson : I've known him for 23 years, and, he's always had my back.
Rafael Barba : And you grew up without a father to protect you, I know how much that means.
Olivia Benson : Please don't. Please don't.
Rafael Barba : I grew up in a home, in a neighborhood where I got bullied. We're gonna see him through different prisms.
Olivia Benson : This isn't about him. This is about you and me, and how you betrayed me. I asked you not to defend Wheatley and you did anyway.
Rafael Barba : We're going around in circles. You're denying, you're deflecting. You defend him. It's all right. I get it. That's what you do when you love somebody, unconditionally.
Olivia Benson : Please don't tell me how I feel.
Rafael Barba : In this case I can, because I do know what it means to love someone unconditionally. When you're ready to stop feeling betrayed by me, I'll be here.
[Barba gets up to leave]
Olivia Benson : Rafa.
Rafael Barba : What?
Olivia Benson : I miss you too.
[Barba lingers for a moment and nods silently, then exits the bar and leaves Benson alone]
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Rafael Barba : I miss you, Liv.