Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Contagious (2005)
Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler
Quotes
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[the case of a sexually abused girl is getting on Detective Stabler's nerves]
Detective Olivia Benson : You know, running away's not gonna help.
Detective Elliot Stabler : I'm a little beat for the dime store shrink routine right now.
Detective Olivia Benson : Elliot, that little girl is counting on you. You quit on her, and you're just another man she can't trust. That's not who you are.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Kevin Wilcox] You're a child molester. You're the bottom of the food chain in prison. How long you think it's gonna take his fellow cons to find out he's a baby raper?
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Holly Purcell : [to Stabler] I don't like needles.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Here, hold on to my hand.
[Holly holds his hand]
Detective Elliot Stabler : Now, close your eyes and pretend that you're at the beach, building sand castles with your dad. Now, if it hurts, you squeeze my hand really hard, okay?
Holly Purcell : What do you do when something hurts?
Detective Elliot Stabler : I think of my kids.
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[during a search of a suspected child molestor's house]
Julie Dobbins : My husband would die before he hurt a child. He was never alone with any of those girls, I was here...
Detective Elliot Stabler : You were right here and you didn't do a damn thing about it? It was happening right under your roof, and you're telling me what a great guy your husband is? Lady, you're as sick as he is!
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Detective Olivia Benson : [about Holly's injuries] Happened two weeks ago. Holly fell on the right bike pedal, spikes caused an injury to her posterior fourchette.
Detective Elliot Stabler : We just had her poked and prodded for nothing.
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : Maybe not. The report doesn't mention the tear to the hymen and the tear hasn't healed. It probably happened within the last week.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Can you say that for sure?
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : No.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Well, you better be sure before we put this little girl through any more hell.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : The mothers are full of crap. They knew Holly had been molested and they badgered their daughters into saying they were, too. I've been chasing a bunch of lies.
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : We all have been. No one could've seen this one coming.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Try telling that to Dobbins. It's his life and reputation that have been shot to hell. He didn't do a damn thing.
Donald Cragen : Holly, Nicole and Danielle all named Dobbins. Their stories matched.
Detective Elliot Stabler : I bought into the hysteria.
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : Hysteria's like a disease. It's contagious.
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Mark Dobbins : [to Stabler] Chestnut Academy fired me. They said forging that letter damaged my integrity, set a bad example for the students. I'll never get another teaching job.
Julie Dobbins : We're selling the house and moving in with my parents upstate.
Detective Elliot Stabler : I'm sorry. I wish none of this had ever happened.
Mark Dobbins : Me, too.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : You're a busy guy, Mark. Teaching gym, coaching girls' soccer, gymnastics and you still find time to give private lessons, huh?
Mark Dobbins : Those lessons help pay my mortgage.
Detective Elliot Stabler : So seeing the little girls in leotards is just a bonus?