Sonny quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Sonny

Well, when it rains. We got another rape in a convalescent home.

Fin

Wow, weirdos. There's a lot of that going around.

My dad and I talk and stuff...

Sonny

Oh, yeah. What about?

Umm...

Sonny

See, that's why I figured they invented sports. To give dads something to talk about with their sons.

Sonny

It wasn't your dad's fault. It wasn't your brother's fault. That only leaves one person, Sam. This is all on you, but maybe you're right. Go ahead. Kill yourself. It's probably easier than facing your father in the state he's in right now, Sam.

What? You talked to him?

Sonny

Yeah, I talked to him. He's worried, he's worried sick about you. But maybe you're right. Just shoot yourself. That'll show him how much you hate him.

No, no. I don't hate him, I love him.

Sonny

So maybe you want to tell him that, and maybe he wants to tell you that too. Because that's the thing about dads, no matter how much you screw up, they still love you.

Fin

How'd the babysitting go?

Sonny

Played 19 games of checkers, and I learned to read Green Eggs and Ham in Spanish.

Sonny

Riley, do you know the difference between consecutive and concurrent sentences?

One means your ass is ours. The other means your ass is ours forever.

Fin, cards on the table: did he do it?

Fin

[hesitantly] She definitely believes he did something.

Sonny

Of course she does, but he's our friend, and he said it absolutely did not happen. No chance!

Okay, we all realize that this sucks...

Sonny

You know what sucks, Rollins? This is what sucks: A busload of nuns could swear Peter Stone was in Albuquerque at the time of this rape, but somewhere in the back of my mind, every time I see him, I'm gonna wonder, "Did he?" That's what sucks.

Sonny

Look, Rollins, I know our job is to believe survivors, that we start from there. But on this one, I believe him.

You're allowed to feel that way.

Sonny

I don't think I am.

Sonny

[holding up Heath's handcuffs] Whatever happened to champagne and candles?

Fin

You don't really want me to answer that, do you?

Benson

[about Heath and Sadie] They got an answer for everything.

Sonny

So did Ted Bundy, until he didn't.

You deal with kids all the time. I don't know how you do it.

Sonny

Sometimes I don't either.

Sonny

This is wrong.

Don't go all Liv on us, all right? The woman shot her husband because he didn't like her dinner.

Fin

Life should be so easy.

Come on, not you, too.

Fin

I don't judge. Is it hot in here?

Sonny

Hell always is.

[gestures to Sonny] Yeah, he is. He's going full Liv.

Fin

Somebody has to.

Yeah, and that somebody interrogated Annabeth. I wonder who that could be?

Sonny

What if she doesn't show?

Fin

Look, man, we can only do our job.

Sonny

What, that's all this is to you?

Fin

Yeah. I get up in the morning and I get dressed. I come to the office. After that, I go home. At the end of the week, I get a check and the check clears. That's called a job.

Okay, you know what? It's not all on us, though, Carisi. We do our part, but the rest is up to a judge and jury.

Fin

The short and sweet is fine with me.

Sonny

Oh, please, give me a break. This from the guy who flew to Cuba on his own nickel to catch a fugitive rapist. [to Rollins] And you, with that Labott girl...

[severely] Enough.

Fin

Carisi, have a donut.

Sonny

Are you telling me that you never even think about this? I mean, the the responsibility? The... the power that we have? I mean, I could get up on that stand and I could lie. I could say, yeah, Annabeth told me she planned on killing Thomas for the past six months. Now, I do that, she is done. No question. Or I could say I don't recall. I don't recall to anything that Stone asks me, and maybe she gets to live a nice, peaceful, safe life in a Chelsea apartment.

Or door number three, you tell the truth.

Sonny

All I'm saying is It's a lot of power. And who the hell are we?

Sonny

Lieu, I'm sorry. I'm not feeling okay about this case, okay? Maybe I feel like SOBs like Tommy Pearl get exactly what they deserve.

When a cop gets killed, it's an itch I can't scratch.

Sonny

He's a cop who abused his wife!

With his words. Annabeth didn't have to listen.

Benson

Look, guys, stop. Stop. And law without empathy doesn't help anyone, Rollins.

I... I'm all about empathy. Come on, it's... it's coming out of my ears. For eight years, I'm drowning in it.

Look at this craftmanship - the stitching, the leather. Of course it's mine.

Fin

So you can tell us who bought them?

Not on your life.

Sonny

People pay thousands for these. You tellin' me you don't keep records?

Of course I keep records. They pay thousands because they expect privacy.

Fin

The person who bought that shoe may have killed a woman. I don't know anything about cobbler-client confidentiality.

I protected all of them.

Benson

Protected them? How?

Like they were my own daughters. Lisa White, Fela Bashear, Brett Baker, Anya Beck Skobler - she was 18. They were all dead already.

Sonny

What are you talking about?

Their souls were dead. The minute they walked into my courtroom. Junkies, thieves, stealing their own lives, their own futures from their parents who loved them, who were helpless. I kept their daughters safe. I made sure they only had good, clean doses. No OD's. Kept them alive.

That's enough, Edward.

It is not enough! It's never enough! They were dead inside, their eyes are dead. But if they are still breathing, if their hearts are still beating, then they still have a chance! If I'd given Delia that chance, then maybe... [chokes up]

Sonny

Delia?

She was 16 when she overdosed. It did not have to end that way. Her body in the ground. Cold. Alone. My little girl.

Let me tell you something: you're either a wolf in this life, or a lamb. My father was a lamb. He ran a shop, and every week the wolves in my neighborhood would come and pick the shelves clean. And when there was nothing left to steal, they took my sister in the back room. And my father did nothing. You know what I learned? I'd rather run with the wolves.

Sonny

[cuffing him] If I were you, I'd shut up.

I'll be out of these cuffs in an hour.

Benson

I wouldn't be so sure. Once word gets out that you've been arrested, your friends are gonna turn on you. And nobody helps the wolf when he's bleeding.