Law & Order: Special Victims Unit quotes

Anybody use a heavy bag in the weight room? I brought my gloves.

Fin

You box?

Yeah. The Golden Gloves, some Pro Am. You?

Fin

[grins] I don't wanna hurt you.

How about, as an act of good faith, you release the kids?

How about I don't shoot them right this second, huh? There's your good faith!

They made Chris look like Harry Potter.

Benson

We've seen this before. The nerd defense.

[to Abby] Do you understand that you're ruining my son's life?

Benson

Hey, you need to stop talking.

A woman cop like you, you always take the girl's side, don't you?

Benson

That's not what's happening here.

Yeah, well, I've seen it. The sweet little girl becomes the victim and then the boy is made out to be a brute. And do you why that is? Because teenage girls are better liars!

Benson

The world is changing. We need new rules.

You need my client's testimony. According to the Daily News, no one in the victim's apartment saw anything.

Okay, so which is it: He was there but didn't participate, or he wasn't there? What about his friends? Won't they have sob stories too?

I gave you an opportunity to wrap this up, but if the guilty need to walk for my client to walk, so be it.

[about Doug] I'm not even sure that putting this guy on the stand is a great idea.

Sonny

What, you got a better one?

He's worse than all the others, and that's no easy task.

Benson

Barba...

Benson

At least they admitted that they were there.

Sonny

Okay, look, we're here now. He was there that night. He's the only person close enough to see their faces, to see what they did to her.

And the jury believes him because...?

Sonny

Because I went over his story, backwards and forwards, alright? He never varied. He had a spot-on description of each suspect. Now, maybe he's a coward, yeah. But he's credible.

So, good memory, no morality. Fantastic.

In the criminal justice system some killers are so depraved that it takes multiple police agencies to bring them to justice. This is one of those investigations.

People say life is short, but in fact, life is, mostly of course, very long. You want to stay in your best shape.

I hate being coddled. I mean what, I have a baby and all of a sudden I can't talk to serial killers anymore.

[about Rudnick and Yates] How bad are these guys?

Think Robert Durst and Ted Bundy on the run together.

Stay in this job long enough, all your heroes die.

Benson

An attaboy from Hank Abraham?

Cue the apocalypse.

I married him. I slept with him for 12 years. I didn't know he was sick. No radar went off. How blind am I? How stupid?

Does this ever stop getting worse?

Benson

No. Not until your husband accepts where he is.