Law & Order: Special Victims Unit quotes

You can't let Popkov know I betrayed him. You gotta make this look right.

Stabler

You mean I have to make it look like I'm arresting a total scumbag who doesn't deserve to live? I can do that.

Fin

[about Velasco] So McGrath put a spy in the squad room?

Benson

Fin. Play nice. I checked around and rumor has it that he's good.

Fin

Rumor is he's the one who started that rumor.

A woman raped in front of her kid.

Fin

Her three-year-old.

What kind of sick animal does that?

Welcome to SVU.

I'm on my own. I should have known. [leaves]

She's not wrong.

Sonny

By which you mean she's right... and we're wrong.

I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry you were so upset.

You're not sorry that Tate and Liam raped me?

Well, those guys told me that everything that happened was consensual. I was even a little bit jealous, but I get it, you don't like me that way.

I didn't like them "that way", either.

They just assaulted me all over again, and the whole world was watching.

Benson

So the boys are backing each other up. That's not a surprise.

Sonny

No, it's not, but this is a "she said, then deleted what she said, and then backtracked what she said".

[about Haley] She was an artist. An athlete. She loved tennis. Roger Murray saw her potential.

Fin

What can you tell us about him?

After my husband's death, he saved me. He tutored Haley in the SATs, helped her college planning...

So they spent a lot of time together?

[pause] Is this about that writer and his podcast? I told him that I would never let my daughter's death be entertainment for people to listen to while they worked out!

Fin

We're only here as NYPD. We're just trying to give you some closure.

Closure? My husband and daughter are dead. I'll never see Haley walk down the aisle. I'll never bake cookies for my grandchildren.

We can't change what happened to Haley...

Hey, leave me alone! Ian confessed and Roger sends me a card every year on the anniversary of her death to let me know that I'm not mourning alone.

An old man dating a young woman always ends up playing the fool.

[after kissing Benson] Uh, sorry. That wasn't very gentlemanly.

Benson

[smiles] I didn't mind.

Benson

Thank you, Captain.

You're welcome... Captain. You don't know how proud it makes me to say that.

Some days the whole world smells like cat pee.

These women were butchered, Captain.

Benson

Yes, they were.

And then... then he laid them out like he's throwing some goddamn dinner party? [Benson says nothing] Make the case, okay? Make the case because this... this is evil.

[about the victims] I couldn't even look at them, but... I had to, y'know? What these women went through... Look, Captain, I know you've seen a lot...

Benson

Velasco, I've been doing this for over 20 years. I've never seen anything like this. And, honestly... honestly, you never get used to it. Any of it.

I killed all of them. They were my girls. They were mine, you understand me? You had no right to go in there and disturb 10 years - 10 years! - of my work!

Benson

Who was yours?

[going through the victims' pictures] Tania screamed for her sister. Okay? Beauty couldn't stop shaking. Dee? She pissed herself. And Meredith... She just kept saying "No, no, no, no, no"... I kept her alive for days. I killed them. All of them. You tell my mother that! You tell my mother what I did!