“Unfinished Business” quotes from Criminal Minds

Munch

Counselor Ellis.

Ellis

Have we met?

Munch

Sergeant John Munch. I admire your second act.

Ellis

Um, I'm not sure I get the joke.

Munch

I'm not joking. You can be NYPD and still believe in "innocent until proven guilty".

Ellis

Well, I'm about to put that to the test.

Benson

You proud of yourself? You brought up every stereotype, you shamed that girl about her sexuality, you said that if a white girl in that neighborhood cries rape, she must have wanted it. Nice work.

Ellis

And your case? The ID, the gun your partner "heard" slide under the couch? No DNA? If Michael were white, this never would have gone to trial.

Benson

Oh, wow. You're still playing the race card, huh?

Ellis

84 percent of the young men in jail are black and Latino.

Benson

He raped her!

Ellis

So she says. We don't know. Neither one of us was there. The only thing we can do is believe our people. And we do it, without question.

Benson

So that's it. You're a true believer.

Ellis

I am, and so are you.

Now, I did a lot of undercover work when I was in Narcotics. I know Fin did, too. The key to undercover work...

... is to choose an identity as close to your own as possible. I know the drill, detectives.

Right. Sorry, Captain, I just didn't know they had, y'know, tape recorders when you graduated the Academy.

Fin

At least we didn't have to inflate his bank account because he hasn't spent a dollar of his captain's pay on his wardrobe.

Thank you very much for your help, fellas, but I gotta prepare for my "cyber-date".

Fin

Knock it out, killa.

I heard that.

[to Cragen] You worry about children, you worry about your staff; who worries about you?

Benson

Gia, George Zane is going to prison. He will never touch you again.

You can't promise me that. In the real world, he's sane and I'm not.

A guy like that... raping a girl in his own family, over and over... You think I wanted to talk to him? I wanted to tear his head off.

Benson

My old partner, he, uh... There were a few times he came pretty close.

How do you handle it?

Benson

You do everything you can to make sure he never sees the light of day again.

You want a deal? Your client tells us what we wanna know, and he does time.

And how much is up to you.

What? The Ledger would love nothing more than to have a test case involving First Amendment and NYPD. Please, go ahead. Try us.

You three are playing this while there's a missing kid out there?

Yeah, let's cut to the chase, Mr. Exley.

Okay. Griscomb gives you everything he has on the missing boy's phone records, he gets full immunity from prosecution.

No, this is how it works: Wiretapping is federal. It's out of our hands. He give us something we can use, we'll mis-D the felony eavesdropping. Take a minute to think about it. And by a minute, I mean 59 seconds.

How 'bout a heads up?

How 'bout you keep up?

I didn't know it was a ladies' room.

You were aware there was a woman in there.

Well yeah, but I wasn't paying any attention to that. It was so dark in there I could hardly see anything. I told you all that when you arrested me.

Me? You mean Detective Tutuola?

Yeah, all you guys look a lot alike.

Ellis

[about Stanton] I'd ask that he be released of his own recognizance, but I'm not sure he'd be able to find his way home.

Can I ask you something? How long have you been at SVU?

Benson

Don't ask.

I mean, how do you handle dating with the things you see day in and day out? How can you trust any man?

Benson

I trusted my partner.

Yeah, well...

Benson

I haven't given up. There are good guys still out there.

Do you know what I had to do to get that audition? Down on my knees with that pig, and Crane, and all those guys? I'm so tired of being the ugly duckling, and just once, I wanted you to know what it felt like to feel dirty, to want to give up!

I thought you were my friend! You had someone rape me!

It's about time something bad happened in your life, don't you think?

Just ask yourself something, counselor: Is this the battle you want? Because war is my business. And business is good.

Look, I have a daughter myself, Mr. O'Keefe. I understand how you feel.

Really. Does your daughter flinch when you try to hug her? Does your daughter wake up screaming in the night? Was your daughter raped so brutally that she'll never be able to have children?

We're gonna get these guys.

Prove it.

[finding a bottle of pills in Sandow's desk] Erection meds.

Munch

Maybe he needed help with his "artistic process".