Law & Order: Special Victims Unit quotes

Stabler

You look just like him.

Who?

Stabler

[shows pictures of the baby] Your son.

I don't have a son.

Stabler

Carried him 9 months. You didn't want him. You had legal options. You have a problem with abortion? That's your choice. I understand that. There's adoption. [Ella shakes her head] You chose to give birth!

You have the wrong person.

Stabler

You chose to walk 6 blocks with him, right past a firehouse! A hospital where, under safe haven laws, you could've just left him anonymously!

Why are you yelling at me?

Stabler

Because you tossed him in the trash like the garbage you are!! All those choices... How is that even an option?!

How do you plead?

Not guilty.

I'll hear the People on bail.

Novak

Well, a million has a nice ring to it.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Novak

The defendant is a flight risk.

To where? Jersey? She's a U.S. citizen.

Novak

Given the severity of her crimes, and the fact that she killed a baby once before...

My client was never charged with that crime. In fact, there was no crime. That fetus was stillborn.

Mr. Berger!

Your honor, this poor girl lost a child. How dare the People twist that tragic incident to suit their own needs.

Novak

You have got to be kidding.

No! You are. My client doesn't have as much as a parking ticket!

Novak

I'm sure if she did, she'd just throw it in the trash along with her babies.

Oh, all right. That's enough out of both of you. As I believe the defendant is not a threat to anyone but her own offspring, the court is requesting that in exchange for a lower bail amount, she does not get pregnant again before trial.

That's unconstitutional!

I'm not ordering that she be sterilized, Mr. Berger. [to Ella] But if you do become pregnant again, young lady, you will be found in contempt of this court, and bail will be rescinded.

Your honor has no right to legislate procreation.

You think you could manage to comply with that order, Miss Christensen?

I don't know.

Bail is set at 2,000,000, cash or bond. 10-minute recess. [bangs gavel]

Are you familiar with Kendall's study of postpartum women, which showed: "Psychiatric hospital admissions increase 7 times in the first 3 postpartum months compared to pre-pregnancy, and represent the peak prevalence for psychiatric disorders for women."?

Dr. Huang

I'm aware of the biologically vulnerable state of women following childbirth.

So, their brain chemistry can be altered. Their hormones go crazy. Uh, sorry. I'm gonna anticipate an objection to that one. Lemme rephrase. [pauses] Their hormones... go kooky.

Fin

Hey, Tim. I hear you got a great wiener.

Stabler

A man's DNA doesn't just pop up inside a woman without his participation.

Benson

What do PMCs do?

Munch

Profit from the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Fin

Don't get him started on Dick Cheney again.

Munch

I miss the day when revenge just meant shooting someone.

Dr. Warner

And I miss the days when I never had to say I ran more DNA tests on that semen.

I'd prefer shrimp cocktail for an appetizer.

Novak

This is the entree.

[takes a seat next to her; to the waiter] Club soda, lime. [to Novak] That liquid lunch isn't going to change what happened.

Novak

Yeah, but it'll help me forget.

You played the hand you were dealt.

Novak

I had to look Jennifer Durning's parents in the eye and tell them that their daughter would never get justice, because I let Nick Pratt and Doug Waverly get away with murder.

Well, that wasn't your fault. But it will be if you let them get away with another one and don't try to stop it.

Novak

We haven't found Jennifer, so what makes you think Jason's gonna be any different?

Because whoever planted that bug in my office knows what happened to him. And you are going to find that person if you have to interrogate everyone who works in that courthouse. Trial's over, Casey. Put the gloves on for round 2.

Stabler

[after arresting Nick and Doug for Jason's murder] You like sea bass? You'll just love what we pulled out of the river.

Novak

I waited tables in law school and served my classmates. It sucked, but it didn’t make me kill anyone.

My name is Vegas.

I've never done this before.

Don't worry baby. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

Fin

All the gin joints in this city, we had to walk into yours.

Fin

Prisons are full of innocent people and we both know what color most of them are.

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.

You and I need to talk.

Fin

Talk or yell?

That's up to you.