Captain Cragen quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

$3,000 worth of damage to the car?

Stabler

What can I tell you? I zigged when I should have zagged.

Benson

Now, those women out there might be brainwashed, but you're not. You know exactly what he is: A murderer and a child rapist.

That's not true!

Benson

You knew who he was and you let this happen! You let all those children die!

It was God's will!

Benson

No, Sarah! It was your will! You can blame God, and you can blame Abraham, but we all know the truth! You did this! You sat there, and you watched as a man raped one of your children and then murdered the other! You might has well have killed him YOURSELF!!

Olivia!

Benson

[calmly] He has one of your children and he has your unborn grandchild.

This is a test. I won't be tempted.

In 12 years, there has never been a complaint against this man.

Men change, especially when their wives file for legal separation. My investigator found the court documents. He also found out that she took the kids and moved in with her mother.

Stabler

[angry but controlled] You have no right to use my personal life to make your case.

I don't give a damn about your personal life unless it effects my client, and it does. Stay away from her! I want Detective Stabler off this case, and I want SVU to do its job.

Benson

Elliott, hey, stop! What's going on?

Stabler

I touched her in an inappropriate manner, didn't you hear?

Benson

I don't believe that. Forget that. What's going on at home?

Stabler

Nothing.

Benson

Hey, would you talk to me?

Stabler

Kathy left me.

Chief Muldrew

Captain Cragen, how's Detective Tutuola?

He's still in surgery, Chief.

Chief Muldrew

Those damn reporters. They're more interested in the gun than a cop fightin' for his life.

Munch

The vultures wanna crucify him,... sir.

Benson

Until she started hooking up with half of Queens. After that it's no big deal to have sex for designer clothes or prostitute yourself at a hotel.

She winds up as Trudy Strutz, Porn Star.

Stabler

She winds up dead on a roof.

What the hell are you people doing?

Agent Hammond, most people knock first.

You should've called me before your detectives arrested Liam Connors for the murder of Alex Cabot.

Connors blew up one of your agents. I didn't expect flowers, but I thought you'd be pleased.

If Connors goes to trial, I'm called to testify, what am I supposed to do?

Do your job.

That's exactly what I'm gonna do. I just came to tell you that you're on your own. I'm not gonna ruin my career by committing perjury. Do we understand each other, Captain?

She's alive. You son of a bitch! You stashed Alex in witness protection.

You didn't know.

So, Elliot screams at him for a few hours, and what's the plan after that?

Fin

Don't know. That was the end of the plan.

Benson

You saw how she humiliated Carrie in front of the entire squad. I don't like her.

Well, she has a right to be upset.

Benson

She's upset, because she thinks Carrie's gonna end up just like her-- Pregnant without a man.

Denise Eldridge believes a crime was committed against her daughter.

Benson

Denise Eldridge is a fruitcake.

Stabler

Well, dessert is served. [shows Denise in the squad room]

Olivia, my office! [they both enter his office] Why is Denise Eldridge screaming to One PP that you talked her daughter out of a rape kit?

Benson

Carrie didn't want it.

Now that's exactly what Simone Bryce told Carrie's mother. That's funny how a children's rights attorney just happened to show up at the ER.

Novak

[holds a newspaper] Take a look at this.

Yeah, we've seen it.

Novak

So has Arthur Branch, meaning I'll be a special kind of pain in your ass until this is sufficiently explained.

Benson

[about Maria] Nobody would invent the nightmare that she has been through! Why are you trying to poke holes in her story rather than trying to find her, because Munch found some spook toy?!

Whoever's doing this likes spook toys. He's already using at least one device.

Nobody in my department cuts corners or goes for an easy close.

Fin

And that's your opinion, Captain?

And for your son's sake, you better be grateful it's the only thing that matters.

Olivia, what's up?

Benson

I want a new partner.

No wonder your partner dumped you.

Stabler

What'd you just say to me?

You screwed her, and now you're tryin' to screw me. [Stabler punches him, and both detectives get into a fight] GET OFF ME!!

Fin

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! C'mon, guys! Easy! Easy!

[released from Stabler's grasp] Get off me! Get off me!!

THAT'S ENOUGH!!! Blaine, my office. Now! [to his other detectives] Everybody, back to work! Fun's over! [walks up to Stabler] What've you got to say, Elliot?

Stabler

Either you get rid of him, or I quit!

You get changed, and get in my office.

[about Beck] What time did she get here?

Fin

She never left.

Munch

Some people should not be allowed to drink coffee.