Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Goliath (2005)

Richard Belzer: Detective John Munch

Quotes 

• Detective John Munch : Well, Elliot, there's marital problems, and there's stabbing your wife 70 times and setting her on fire.

• Koehler : I'd like to cooperate, detectives, but I'm not authorized to release any medical records.

  Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : We could get both men to waive their privacy rights.

  Koehler : Not really the issue. You'd have to talk to the local general.

  Detective John Munch : Ah, the wonderful world of military bureaucracy.

  Koehler : I hear you, Detective. I wish I could be more help. Callahan and Myers were both good soldiers.

  Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Well, maybe you could tell us why Wes Myers only served four months in Afghanistan.

  Koehler : Unfortunately, I can't do that either and that is to protect Myers' privacy.

  Detective John Munch : [sighs]  I think we're going about this in the wrong way. Now why don't you tell us what you can share with us.

  Koehler : Well, frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if this weren't some sort of combat stress situation. A lot of men have a tough time readjusting to civilian life.

• Det. Elliot Stabler : Why would the military poison their own troops?

  Detective John Munch : Excellent question. I wondered the same thing a couple years ago when the military forced soldiers to take an experimental anthrax vaccine. Even after people died, they only stopped when a federal court ordered them to.

• ADA Casey Novak : Mr. Hempell, I'm going to be straight up with you. I like the First Amendment. I'm a big fan, but I'm a bigger fan of preventing the unnecessary deaths of U.S. soldiers.

  Detective John Munch : Imagine A.D.A. Novak dragging you in front of a judge and uttering words like "patriot," "security," "homeland."