Law & Order: Special Victims Unit quotes

Fin

All this is about the family?

You're damn right it's about the family! Every last one of you is gonna have to be in that courtroom. You're gonna have to testify. Your lives out in the open for everyone to judge, same way you all been doing to me since day one. [to Fin] They gonna know what kinda cop you are, and what kind of husband and father you weren't. They gonna know all about my brother's sexual habits and his collusion. And I guarantee once that comes out, everybody's gonna wonder why he's not being charged too. They gonna think his cop father has friends in your office, Ms. Novak. And I hope you have a damn good explanation, 'cause cover-up makes for a nice headline. Never mind a no-good mother is dead and her poor baby is missing, even though the baby is better off. So yeah, I'm going to prison, but not for as long as you think. 'Cause once Theresa Rendall takes that stand and has to tell the truth, that festering bitch is gonna have to claim me for the first time in her miserable life. And let's see her shake me after that. So you wanna bury me? You go right ahead, 'cause I'm taking you all down with me when you do.

Stabler

Why didn't you shoot Gitano?

Benson

He was using the child as a shield.

Stabler

How could you let him get so close to you?

Benson

There were innocent civilians around. I couldn't get a shot.

Stabler

Well, you got close, and Ryan's dead.

Benson

So this is my fault?

Stabler

I can't do this anymore. I can't be looking over my shoulder making sure you're okay!

Benson

You son-of-a-bitch, you know that's not true!

Stabler

I need to know you can do your job and not wait for me to come to the rescue!

Dr. Warner

[about Stabler] Sometimes all that brooding intensity is just annoying.

Men like Gitano were the reason I left the prisons.

Huang

These kinds of sex offenders have the worst kind of pathology, because they make you believe that you can help them.

You can't help a sociopath. This whole debate about whether or not sex offenders can be cured... Can I cure you of needing oxygen?

Stabler

If that sniper hadn't beaten you to it... I know you would have taken that shot, Olivia.

Benson

No, I wouldn't have. Did you really expect me to? Did you really expect me to cause your death? What about your kids?

Stabler

I don't know. I just couldn't get that boy out of my head.

Benson

What about me?

Stabler

Look, we both chose each other over the job. We can never let that happen again. Otherwise... we can't be partners.

Benson

I can't believe you're saying that.

Stabler

Look, you and this job are about the only things that I've got anymore. I don't want to wreck that. I couldn't take it.

Olivia, what's up?

Benson

I want a new partner.

Pervert. What, you get turned on by little children?

What are you saying?

I'm sayin' the little whore came in here and stole your tobacco license, so you wanted to pay her back.

Okay! She got me angry. She called me names. She laugh at me. But I swear, I didn't touch her!

Stabler

Blaine.

So, that's why you took her outside and hit her over the head?!

Stabler

Blaine!

WHAT?!

Stabler

Nice shoes. Are those Quattros?

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.

Hey! Hey! You! Hey, I'm talkin' to you. 'Member me? [points his gun at Tommy]

He's got a gun!!

Stabler

Drop it! Drop it!!

Somebody call a bus!!

Did-- Did I kill him?

Fin

4 packs of coolers and a pack of condoms. What, do you plan on getting frisky with the Hamburglar?

Benson

I wasn't planning on coming back.

Stabler

It's in your blood.

Benson

That's the problem.

Psychiatry is a corrupt instrument of social control. And no offense, Ms. Novak, but you're a lawyer.

Novak

And you're a rock star. So you'll understand if I don't defer to your expertise on the subject.

Munch

When I was a kid, girls who had sex were afraid of being called sluts. Now they’re auditioning for the title.

They strap you down to a special table that flips over. So that you don't choke on your own vomit. Then they inject you with a muscle relaxant. Then they tape electrodes to your forehead and then turn up the juice. When your toes starts twitching, that means you're having a major convulsion, which is what they want. It's what they call "healing".

Novak

Why did they do this procedure?

Because...they said I was psychotic depressive.

Novak

And, in fact, didn't you attempt suicide three weeks prior to your parents committing you?

It was a mistake.

Novak

You took enough pills to cause permanent brain damage.

And the cure for that was for them to pass huge amounts of electric current through my brain. ECT fried my memory. Huge chunks of my childhood gone! It was painful, dehumanizing torture. I'll never know how much damage they did to me.

Novak

That sounds like a terrible ordeal. But tell me, after you got out of the hospital, did you ever attempt suicide again?

No.

Novak

And now you're a rich, successful musician with millions of fans. Isn't it possible that psychiatry didn't ruin your life...it saved it?

Stabler

You are a jinx.

Agent Lewis

Who? Me?

Stabler

The last year at the courthouse, when I got shot, you were there. You are bad luck. Every time you show up, I nearly get killed.

Agent Lewis

You are still above ground, hon. Maybe I'm your good luck charm.