Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999

Detective Elliot Stabler:
[in a therapy session after Elliot beats up a cop who was beating up his teenage son; talking about Elliot's memories of his father] [Dr. Hendrix asks if Elliot's father ever helped him with his homework] Once, when I was in fifth grade. I had to make this diorama. Remember those things? The model you put in shoe boxes?

Dr. Rebecca Hendrix:
Sure.

Detective Elliot Stabler:
It was about the Civil War. And he told me where the put the cannons, and the soldiers, the trees... Nay, forget it.

Dr. Rebecca Hendrix:
Did you get a good grade?

Detective Elliot Stabler:
What?

Dr. Rebecca Hendrix:
Did you get a good grade?

Detective Elliot Stabler:
What difference does that make?

Dr. Rebecca Hendrix:
It's just a question.

Detective Elliot Stabler:
I don't understand what you want from me.

Dr. Rebecca Hendrix:
The truth. I want you to start talking... really talking. What grade did you get on the diorama?

Detective Elliot Stabler:
An F!

Dr. Rebecca Hendrix:
You failed.

Detective Elliot Stabler:
I didn't hand it in.

Dr. Rebecca Hendrix:
Why not?

Detective Elliot Stabler:
I moved one of the trees. And my father saw it as I was leaving for school. He took it out of my hands and he threw it on the ground and he stomped on it.

Dr. Rebecca Hendrix:
It must have really hurt when he did that.

Detective Elliot Stabler:
He took off his belt and he beat me with it... Because I cried... and only... pan... pansies cry... [he starts to cry] He said I was weak, and called me a failure. He called me that a lot.

Dr. Rebecca Hendrix:
What did you see in that mirror today, Elliot?

Detective Elliot Stabler:
The guy my father always saw.

Dr. Rebecca Hendrix:
You're not weak. You're so busy being strong, and helping everyone, you've got nothing left for yourself. It takes a lot more balls to talk about your problems, than beat the hell out of a ghost.