Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Payback (1999)
Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler
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Quotes
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Elliot Stabler : [after being asked why he joined SVU] I think sex should be one of the best experiences in life, not one of the worst.
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Detective Olivia Benson : [Stabler returns from testifying against a 'weenie wagger'] Hey, how'd it go?
Detective Elliot Stabler : He's in Bellevue.
Detective Olivia Benson : The jury came back that fast?
Detective Elliot Stabler : He waved his flag at 'em before they got the chance. Nobody saluted.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : Ok, so it's not robbery, but stabbings aren't necessarily sexual. You know sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Is there a specific reason you called us out?
Bremmer : Whoever did this sliced off his cigar and took it with him. Is that specific enough?
Detective Olivia Benson : Works for me.
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Detective Brian Cassidy : What's that?
Elliot Stabler : [handing a report to Cragen] Take a look at that. Fingerprint check on Pancek. I'd say that gives us a whole different kind of motive.
Captain Donald Cragen : [glancing at the report] See if any of the victims are in the New York area. Your partner may not like this.
Elliot Stabler : Why? It's a murder investigation.
Captain Donald Cragen : Yeah. Yeah, it is. Just don't let her forget we don't get to pick the vic.
[Much and Cassidy exchange confused glances]
Detective John Munch : Are we missing some key piece of information here?
Elliot Stabler , Captain Donald Cragen : Shut up, John.
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Gallery Owner : My wife's bisexual, but she prefers women.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Oh, lucky for her.
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Detective John Munch : What about your erstwhile partner?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Oh, I'd love to John, but my presence is required in court this morning.
Detective Brian Cassidy : I read about it in the news. City councilman right?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Weenie wagger.
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Captain Donald Cragen : Okay, Olivia, let's just say the vic had the misfortune of buying the wrong hack license. Spicer's the target. Who wanted him dead?
Detective John Munch : Whoever called the dispatcher.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Wow.
Detective Olivia Benson : Nice. Good stuff. Keep that.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Thanks, thanks a lot.
Detective John Munch : It never stops.
Detective John Munch : [to Cragen about donuts] You know they have more varieties than that.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : That was the M.E. The stab wounds... 37 of them. This still reads gay to me.
Captain Donald Cragen : Panacek's prints are clean here, right?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Yes.
Captain Donald Cragen : So do this by the numbers. He's illegal, send a set to Interpol too.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Forensics report...
Captain Donald Cragen : What?
Detective Elliot Stabler : They found part of a fingernail in the front seat of the cab with red nail polish on it.
Detective Olivia Benson : Dispatcher said that he thought it might have been a woman who called about Spicer.
Captain Donald Cragen : Kind of undercuts your gay theory, huh?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Could be a he/she?
Captain Donald Cragen : Didn't two of Spicer's married johns take a bust?
Detective Olivia Benson : Yeah, about six months ago vice was targeting the piers.
Captain Donald Cragen : I'm sure their wives must have been thrilled.
Captain Donald Cragen : [Munch chuckles] What are you doing?
Detective John Munch : Eavesdropping.
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[offers a bucket of licorice]
Captain Donald Cragen : You can't trust the computers. They get backed up and don't input the releases.
Detective Olivia Benson : That's why I talked to the watch captain and had then check personally to see if Spicer's still there.
Captain Donald Cragen : Well, why is this ours?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Doer sliced off the vic's unit.
[spits out licorice]
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Det. Olivia Benson : I went down to the hack bureau. Our dead guy, Victor Spicer? His licence was suspened when he got 11 months for assault.
Elliot Stabler : And?
Det. Olivia Benson : He's still in Rikers.
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Elliot Stabler : How do you know Stefan Tanzer?
Anya Rugova : He murdered my husband and my grandson with a hatchet, why?
Detective Olivia Benson : He was murdered sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
Anya Rugova : Good.