Raúl Esparza: ADA Rafael Barba

Gone Baby Gone

ADA Rafael Barba

Rafael Barba: Hey. How you doing?
Olivia Benson: You know, I honestly don't know how to answer that. I stay up all night watching him. If I hear a sound, I'm up. We went to the, uh, corner fruit stand and this woman said that Noah was cute, and I practically bit her head off. But you didn't come over to, uh, listen to me talk about that.
Rafael Barba: I came here to talk to my friend about whatever she wants to talk about. She gonna ask me in?
Olivia Benson: [stepping aside] Of course.

Olivia Benson: I should have seen this coming. As a cop, as a mother, should have seen this coming.
Rafael Barba: Well, you...
Olivia Benson: What?
Rafael Barba: Nothing.
Olivia Benson: You can't punch me harder than I've already punched myself, believe me.
Rafael Barba: Maybe you wanted this Sheila thing to work out too much. Look, maybe all you just wanted was a family.
Olivia Benson: Yeah. What was I thinking?
Rafael Barba: That's... why I shouldn't have said anything.

Susan Janet: You don't think I actually abetted...
Rafael Barba: Of course not. What I need is the name of the investigator who referred Sheila to you.
Susan Janet: Well, that's privileged communication.
Rafael Barba: Come on, Susan, we both know how this is gonna go.
Susan Janet: Yeah. I could be disbarred.
Rafael Barba: I'm gonna file a motion to disclose. The judge is going to give us a primer on the crime, fraud, and/or continuing criminal act exception.
Susan Janet: This is neither.
Rafael Barba: The fact is I'm going walk out of there with an order to disclose, because no judge wants a missing kid on his head. But you can help me now.

Olivia Benson: Do you know how many times I've told parents to stay calm? You don't know how ridiculous that is until it happens to you.
Rafael Barba: I don't know what to do. Um... do you want some coffee? Do you...
Olivia Benson: [breaking down sobbing] I just want my son!
Rafael Barba: [holding her to comfort her] Okay. Hey, hey, hey.
Olivia Benson: All I can think of is tonight is spaghetti night. Noah loves spaghetti night.
Rafael Barba: [handing her a handkerchief] Come here. Here.
Olivia Benson: They tossed his jacket, and they put a different sweatshirt on him, one that fit. They planned this, Rafa. It wasn't some random freak. Somebody specifically targeted my son.

Rafael Barba: Liv.
Olivia Benson: [passing by] Please don't tell me that it's gonna be okay.
Rafael Barba: Could this have anything to do with the job?
Amanda Rollins: The question's not if there are threats. It's... it's which ones to take seriously, and her time on this job... it's a lot of grudges.
Rafael Barba: Jesus.

Rafael Barba: Okay, did Sheila mention anybody? Friends, family, in New York?
Olivia Benson: Don't you think that I've already racked my brain? She knew me and she knew Noah. That's it.
[a thought strikes her]
Olivia Benson: Except for her... her lawyer. Her lawyer. What was her name? Uh... uh, Janet. Susan Janet.
Rafael Barba: Yeah, Susan Janet. Yeah, I doubt that Sheila told her attorney that she was gonna kidnap your son.
Olivia Benson: But, I mean, she's from New Hampshire. I doubt she knew any New York lawyers. She testified that... that a private investigator found Noah. Maybe he recommended Janet.
Rafael Barba: Wait, are you thinking that the PI's the guy in the hoodie?
Olivia Benson: What else have we got?
Rafael Barba: [standing to leave] You stay here.

Susan Janet: Really don't have time for this, Rafael.
Rafael Barba: Give me what I need and you'll be free of me.
Susan Janet: You know I can't talk about anything a client tells me in confidence unless there's a damn good reason.
Rafael Barba: Noah Benson was kidnapped by Sheila Porter. How's that?
Susan Janet: Do you have proof of that?
Rafael Barba: I do.

Olivia Benson: I screwed up, Rafael.
Rafael Barba: No. This was coordinated, planned, well-executed. Look, there's no way you could have seen this coming, Liv.
Olivia Benson: You know what the problem is with this job? What good do we really do? I mean, we come in after the fact with a broom and a mop and we clean up the mess. What would really matter, or would... really be special is if, just one time, we could prevent it from hitting the floor.
Rafael Barba: We prevent the next mess.