Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Birthright (2004)

Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler

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• Elliot Stabler : [summing up to Casey how it feels to be a parent]  I would die for my children and there's not a thing that would change that. Ever.

• Elliot Stabler : [Speaking to scared little girl who has to ID a perp]  I want to show you something. You see that window? It's magic. Cause anyone that's standing here, they can't see through it can they?

• Captain Donald Cragen : Three thousand dollars' worth of damage to the car?

  Elliot Stabler : What can I tell you? I zigged when I should've zagged.

• ADA Casey Novak : Michelle pled to custodial interference. Suspended sentence. Said she's moving out of state. It's too painful to be near Patty and not see her.

  Elliot Stabler : She did the motherly thing, loving her by letting her go.

• Elliot Stabler : Maybe it's buyer's remorse. Michelle did consent to donate her embryos and now she's sorry she did.

  Olivia Benson : That doctor pulled that story out of his ass. Come on, Elliot, he was making it up as he was telling it to us!

  ADA Casey Novak : So you think he's lying. Michelle Osborne hired private detectives to kidnap a child. Why do you believe her?

  Olivia Benson : Because Michelle Osborne has never lied to us about anything. Patty is her biological daughter.

  Elliot Stabler : So let Michelle and the Bransons sue Norton for malpractice.

  Olivia Benson : But if he intentionally put one woman's eggs into another without consent, we can't just let him get away with it.

  ADA Casey Novak : There's no law against that in New York State. And we can't charge him with larceny because stolen property has to have value and body parts don't.

  Olivia Benson : In vitro fertilization costs tens of thousands of dollars a pop. If Norton misrepresented what he did and put that "X" on this form, then we have him on fraud and forgery. If he did it once before, you can bet that he's done the same thing to other women.

  ADA Casey Novak : Now all we have to do is prove it.

  Olivia Benson : Right. This consent form is a copy. You get us a warrant for the original and we will.

• ADA Casey Novak : [about Dr. Norton]  That guy still thinks he did a favor for the Bransons. Sarah's medical records have a notation that none of her eggs fertilized.

  Elliot Stabler : So Norton just slipped her one of Michelle Osborne's embryos to keep up his batting average. What a guy.

• Elliot Stabler : 'And Solomon said "Bring me a sword, divide the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other."'

  ADA Casey Novak : But I can't split the child.

  Elliot Stabler : [looks at her]  Solomon didn't have to.