Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Goliath (2005)

Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler

Quotes 

• D.A. Arthur Branch : [to Novak]  Conference room. Now!

  Det. Elliot Stabler : What was that about?

  ADA Casey Novak : That's probably just about another subpoena I sent out.

  Det. Elliot Stabler : For what?

  ADA Casey Novak : Donald Rumsfeld.

• Det. Elliot Stabler : [to Novak about Wes Myers]  He didn't have a choice. You give up everything for them. You leave your family for them because you believe. It's your duty to the Corps and to your country. And when you come back home, you think it's going to be like it was before, but everyone's moved on with their lives. You're never getting that year back. Wes Myers has already sacrificed his family once, when he left them for Afghanistan. He doesn't even have a family now. He doesn't deserve that.

• Sherm Hempell : [about his source]  And if you think I'm giving you a name, you're on crack.

  Det. Elliot Stabler : I'm on what?

• Det. Elliot Stabler : Our shrink ruled out PTSD. Both men were hallucinating, violent, suicidal.

  Dr. Trainer : Any other symptoms?

  Detective Olivia Benson : Vivid dreams, paranoia...

  Det. Elliot Stabler : Not to mention, they both attacked their wives.

  Dr. Trainer : [smiles, shakes his head and shrugs]  There's really nothing I can do to help you.

  [walks outside] 

  Det. Elliot Stabler : [as he follows Dr. Trainer]  Sir? Sir, I was in the Marines, so I understand the need for discretion, but we've got a pattern here.

  Dr. Trainer : You'll have to take it up with the Pentagon, Detectives. I'm sorry.

  [goes down steps and walks away while Olivia and Elliot look at each other in question] 

• ADA Casey Novak : Tommy Callahan and Wes Myers are criminally liable for rape and murder, respectively. No criminal liability for either Lifshin Forner Pharmaceuticals or the U.S. Army, although the jury believes that the matter deserves further inquiry.

  Sherm Hempell : Well, at least that's something.

  ADA Casey Novak : Not really. At least Branch let me cut a deal with Myers, so he'll be in a mental health facility for at least a year and then we'll see.

  Detective Olivia Benson : No telling how long the effects will last.

  Det. Elliot Stabler : [as everyone looks at the footage on TV of the U.S. troops coming home]  Or who else is next.

• 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.

• Dr. George Huang : I don't think it's PTSD.

  Det. Elliot Stabler : Why not?

  Dr. George Huang : Callahan reports no change in his sleep patterns or eating habits. He exhibits no exaggerated startle reflex. His nightmares are vivid and bizarre, more like hallucinations, and he experiences paranoia and suicidal ideation.

  Detective Olivia Benson : So if it's not PTSD, what is causing all this?

  Dr. George Huang : Well, if this were an isolated case, I'd say that he might have developed schizoaffective disorder or it could be organic, a brain tumor for instance.

  Det. Elliot Stabler : But it's not isolated, it's two different guys. What are the odds they'd both come down with the same disorder?

  Dr. George Huang : It's next to impossible which leaves us with an environmental cause. Both soldiers affected by the same toxin.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Gulf War Syndrome has been blamed on everything from chemical weapons to depleted uranium bullets.

  Det. Elliot Stabler : Yeah, the Marines gave me a physical when I finished my tour. I'll bet the Army does the same thing.

• Dr. Trainer : Actually, DOD says post-deployment physicals are optional for soldiers now.

  Detective Olivia Benson : Did Wes Myers or Tom Callahan opt to take one?

  Dr. Trainer : No, ma'am. Just filled out the required health questionnaire.

  Det. Elliot Stabler : Either man report any problems?

  Dr. Trainer : [as he looks down at a survey]  Not a thing.

  Det. Elliot Stabler : Could we take a look at the surveys?

  Dr. Trainer : I can't make that call for you, Detective. Have to take it up with the unit commander.

• Det. Elliot Stabler : [about Tommy Callahan]  How does someone on a lock-down psych ward commit suicide?

  Dr. Melinda Warner : Run into a wall, head first.

  [shows two bloodsmears on the wall] 

  Dr. Melinda Warner : He did it twice. Second time broke his neck.

  Det. Elliot Stabler : You really got to want to die to do it that way.

  Dr. Melinda Warner : No one in their right mind wants this. Whoever this guy used to be, he wasn't that man anymore.