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.
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