Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Desperate (2003)

Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler

Quotes 

• Elliot Stabler : [to Kim Hoffman]  Listen to me. Your ex-husband is about to be acquitted. If you don't help Tommy, he goes back to that house. You have to risk your pain to save his life.

• ADA Alexandra Cabot : Dan Hoffman's attorney called. She's threatening to sue for the emotional distress of withholding information on Tommy's whereabouts.

  Elliot Stabler : Distress, my ass. Hoffman didn't even file a missing persons report and he's trying to jack us up?

  Olivia Benson : We only delayed notification by a couple of hours.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : That's not the point. You were playing fast and loose, and you got caught.

• ADA Alexandra Cabot : [about Tommy]  What about his biological mother? She has rights to talk to him.

  Elliot Stabler : Kim Hoffman? Yeah, well, either she fell into a black hole or he murdered her, too. Now guess where I'm placing my money on that one?

• Elliot Stabler : You know, you break parole, you run from creditors, you change your name. You change your kid's name, you're hiding from something bigger.