Lt. Murphy quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Lt. Murphy

You can't be in charge of a man hunt when you are the target of the man you are hunting!

Lt. Murphy, what is the important thing you want the grand jury to hear?

Lt. Murphy

I know for a fact that Sergeant Benson's televised confession was not true. I know, because I ordered her to make the so-called confession. She did not commit police brutality, nor did she perjure herself. It was a gambit. A police tactic to lure the weasel out just enough so we could get him.

Thank you, Lt. Murphy.

Lt. Murphy

I don't even know why we're here! Sergeant Benson performed an act of extraordinary bravery. She singlehandedly confronted a career sociopath who raped and tortured elderly women, little girls. He killed cops and innocent civilians. You've heard days of testimony regarding the sergeant's actions, but has the prosecutor discussed Lewis' conduct at all?

Lt. Murphy!

Lt. Murphy

His history of barbarism? Lewis spent his entire life sadistically inflicting his power over people! Thanks to Sergeant Benson, he's where he should be! William Lewis will never hurt anyone ever again, unless you allow him to exert his power over you.

Lt. Murphy

It was the truth that will set you free.

Benson

That's not what I heard.

Lt. Murphy

Well, there are little truths, and there is the larger truth. I told the larger one.

Kathryn is just trying to get back at me for my decision to uncouple.

Lt. Murphy

Was that before or after she caught you in bed with her little sister?

Lt. Murphy

I hand the reins over to you, you gotta bollocks everything up?

Benson

I missed you too, Declan.

Benson

These kids, they're minors.

Yeah?

Benson

We can't put their photo out in the media even if we arrest them.

Well, they aren't even going to be arrested if we don't get their faces out there.

Murphy

Faces? All anyone will see is gang project thugs wilding.

So we can't go after hate crimes against Jews if Black kids commit them, is that it?

Okay, so we're missing a few pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. Either way, the city is on boil. So make some arrests and calm this down.

Benson

Chief, we can definitely do that, but I don't think we're missing a few pieces. I think what we're looking at is two different puzzles.

Murphy

And we don't have any pieces of the second one.

Murphy

[about Povic] Anyone who comes up to a cop on the street is either crazy, lonely, or guilty.

I think he's hittin' all three.

Murphy

I wish I could say we all get to go home.

Benson

But I fired my weapon and we have ten hours of paperwork ahead of us.

Murphy

Merry Christmas.