Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 1 quotes

I know what it's like to have to face down your old man. Mine's dead 15 years, and my hand still curls into a fist whenever I think of him.

Sonny

Who wants to call the sergeant?

Fin

The new guy.

Sonny

Still?

[to Sonny] Boo-ya, Fordham Law.

A bunch of overgrown boys staring at a screen, pressing buttons. Isn't there a basketball game on or something?

Fin

You seen the Knicks lately?

Fin

They are not noobs.

Noobs?

Fin

Short for newbies.

Sonny

[rolling his eyes] Yeah, that's much shorter.

This security footage, it's like trying to find a geek in a geek-stack.

Lt. Murphy

I hand the reins over to you, you gotta bollocks everything up?

Benson

I missed you too, Declan.

Benson

If you kill her, you die too. Is she really worth it?

Rectal-probe electro-ejaculation? That sounds like a sex crime in and of itself.

Sonny

[to Barba] Am I right, Counselor?

Seldom.

Donna Marshall can't deny sex, so she admits consensual. Classic "she said he said", in reverse.

This isn't fair. They're making Tommy out to be the bad guy.

Sonny

Welcome to my life.

You don't know what it's like. You cops, you lock these animals up, and you never have to deal with them again.

Donna...

I'm supposed to rehabilitate them. I gave up my life, my marriage for this job. And then Tommy Sullivan comes in all buzzing about his pregnant girlfriend and his wonderful new life.

Benson

That doesn't give you the right to do what you did to him.

I tried to help him! I tried to help all of them! And then, you know what they do? They take your hand and they drag you down to their level! They don't want to change. They will never change.

[to Sonny] When's the last time a car-jacking victim was asked, "Are you sure you didn't want your car to get stolen?"

Benson

They thought this would be the case to change rape culture and it did. It set the clock back 30 years.