Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 1 quotes

But, he's not finished. When can I reschedule?

Stabler

About 25 years.

You're just going to let them arrest me?

Oh, yes, and shake their hands when they're finished.

All I ever heard about was how Mike Cutter was a crusader for justice. What happened to you?

If we press a case that we can't win, we just tell the next victim that she's better off staying silent.

If we let DiStasio walk, we send a message to the rest of the world, that in New York, the law doesn't apply to the rich and the powerful. We are here to even those scales, not cut and run.

Elliot put his papers in. There was nothing I could do.

Benson

[pause] He's earned it.

And then some. You wanna talk?

Benson

No.

Wanna take a day?

Benson

I'm fine.

Liv, I'm sorry.

Folks, this is Detective Second Grade Nick Amaro. He just transferred in.

Second grade already, huh? You must have caught some pretty big fish.

Nah, just kissed a lotta ass.

[to Fin] Hey man, you got your 20 years yet? Once you put your papers in, why don't you come work for me? I take real good care of my soldiers.

Benson

No job for me, Supreme?

[grins] I don't know, sweetheart. Can you dance?

Benson

There's no florist-client privilege.

My husband is a diplomat. He wants everyone to like him. I don't. If you use this girl's lies to hurt my son, you are going down hard.

Munch

Somebody please take over for me - I'm gonna go chew some glass.

Munch

[to Amaro] Back when I got my shield, all we had to go on was blood type and fingerprints. We went with our gut. You know what, kid? I miss those days.

Apartment 1A. Arnold Savatsky. A level-2 offender.

Fin

Trick or treatǃ

[behind door] I'm not supposed to open the doorǃ

Fin

[knocks again] Policeǃ

Bein' a good boy.

Happy Halloween, Arnold. You plannin' on handin' out any candy today?

Come on. Every year the same thing? I know the drill. Stay inside, no costumes, no kids.

That's right, Arnold.

Fin

See you next year.

[knocks on another apartment door] Trick or treatǃ

Who wants a treat?ǃ

Fin

NYPD. What the hell you doin', Bozo? [the clown tries to shut the door, but Rollins stops him; Fin grabs the clown] Didn't your parole officer tell you not to open up the door on Halloween?ǃ

Munch

Counselor Ellis.

Ellis

Have we met?

Munch

Sergeant John Munch. I admire your second act.

Ellis

Um, I'm not sure I get the joke.

Munch

I'm not joking. You can be NYPD and still believe in "innocent until proven guilty".

Ellis

Well, I'm about to put that to the test.

Benson

You proud of yourself? You brought up every stereotype, you shamed that girl about her sexuality, you said that if a white girl in that neighborhood cries rape, she must have wanted it. Nice work.

Ellis

And your case? The ID, the gun your partner "heard" slide under the couch? No DNA? If Michael were white, this never would have gone to trial.

Benson

Oh, wow. You're still playing the race card, huh?

Ellis

84 percent of the young men in jail are black and Latino.

Benson

He raped her!

Ellis

So she says. We don't know. Neither one of us was there. The only thing we can do is believe our people. And we do it, without question.

Benson

So that's it. You're a true believer.

Ellis

I am, and so are you.

Now, I did a lot of undercover work when I was in Narcotics. I know Fin did, too. The key to undercover work...

... is to choose an identity as close to your own as possible. I know the drill, detectives.

Right. Sorry, Captain, I just didn't know they had, y'know, tape recorders when you graduated the Academy.

Fin

At least we didn't have to inflate his bank account because he hasn't spent a dollar of his captain's pay on his wardrobe.

Thank you very much for your help, fellas, but I gotta prepare for my "cyber-date".

Fin

Knock it out, killa.

I heard that.