Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Coerced (2003)

Dann Florek: Captain Donald 'Don' Cragen

Quotes 

• Casey Novak : [to Cragen]  I don't know your detectives and I don't know you.

  Donald Cragen : When you worked felonies, you had a different cop every case, right?

  Casey Novak : Yeah, so?

  Donald Cragen : Special Victims, it's just us. We gotta trust each other.

  Casey Novak : You're asking for a hell of a lot of trust.

  Donald Cragen : Either way, Kevin Walker goes someplace where he can't hurt anybody. You take him to trial, a good detective loses his credibility as a cop. He'll never be able to testify in court again. His only choices will be to quit or finish his career in the property clerk's office.

• Elliot Stabler : It's not coercion.

  Dr. George Huang : You pushed Kevin into a psychotic rage so I would drug him and you could coerce his confession.

  Elliot Stabler : I did what I had to do to save that boy.

  Dr. George Huang : Great. What are you gonna do next? Bash in people's skulls to make 'em talk?

  Elliot Stabler : Your way Adam wouldn't have been found until he starved to death.

  Donald Cragen : All right, that's enough, both of you.

  [to Huang] 

  Donald Cragen : Did the medication hurt Kevin?

  Dr. George Huang : No.

  Donald Cragen : Then what's the harm?

  Dr. George Huang : Unless a court forces him to, it's Kevin's choice whether to take it. We don't have the right to make that decision for him.

  Elliot Stabler : Do me a favor. Stop treating this perp like a patient.

  Dr. George Huang : He became my patient the second I gave him that injection.

  Elliot Stabler : Do me a favor. Start thinking about the victims here: the kid he kidnapped, the two people he stabbed. They're your victims, Doc. Not Kevin.

  Dr. George Huang : You made Kevin a victim and I'm gonna testify on his behalf if this goes to trial which Kevin will win since you handed the defense its case.

  Elliot Stabler : How did I do that?

  Dr. George Huang : They're gonna make you say that he wasn't rational until he was medicated which means he's not responsible for his actions before then. You get it now?

• Donald Cragen : [to Stabler]  Kevin goes to trial, you testify what you did to him goes on the record. Every perp you collar from then on, their lawyer's gonna make you tell the jury how you coerced a confession from Kevin Walker.