Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Pique (2001)

Stephanie March: ADA Alexandra 'Alex' Cabot

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• ADA Alexandra Cabot : Your client belongs in a pine box, but I'll settle for an 8x10 cell where he can rot and die.

• Milton Schoenfeld : [During Jason Mayberry's arraignment]  The Mayberrys are an old, upstanding family in New Jersey. My client is not a flight risk. His mother, Grace Mayberry will produce him for trial.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Because of his trust as well as his mother's wealth, he has means and opportunity to flee. The defendant is charged with heinous crimes. The murder victim was 7 weeks pregnant

  Milton Schoenfeld : Objection!

  Judge Margaret Barry : [bangs her gavel]  That was a nice try, Counselor. Don't do it again.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : My apologies.

• Elliot Stabler : [about Jason Mayberry's confession after it's thrown out]  He wasn't under arrest.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : I specifically cautioned you about the custodial issue.

  Donald Cragen : No, you said that he was to be free to go at any time. My detective persuaded him otherwise. He did a hell of a job getting that confession.

  Elliot Stabler : Whose side you on?

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Mine. You know the trial closure rate for sex crimes cases is four percent. Four percent. There are a lot of factors responsible for that, but I never...

  Elliot Stabler : I did my job, Counselor. Don't blame me if you didn't do yours. I stayed in that room and pushed him to the edge. You lost him on a technicality.

  Donald Cragen : All right. That's enough, both of you.

• Donald Cragen : [to Cabot]  How about a search warrant, Counselor?

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Based on what? Your gut or Dr. Huang's supposition?

• ADA Alexandra Cabot : [about Jason Mayberry]  I've shown you all my cards, Malcolm. What's it going to be?

  Malcolm Sanderson : No judge is going to sign a warrant based on what you've got, Alex.

  Olivia Benson : Credit card receipts from area stores and witness statements which put him in his mother's house after each attack. What more could you possibly need?

  Malcolm Sanderson : That isn't enough to prove that he stashed a murder weapon in his mother's home.

  Elliot Stabler : What has to happen before you get off your collective asses and do your jobs?

  Malcolm Sanderson : Look, I know you're upset, Detective, but the law doesn't allow...

  Elliot Stabler : Just tell me what you need? You need a New Jersey victim to do something? He admitted to everything...

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Detective!

  Elliot Stabler : We got his confession on tape. We just couldn't hold him.

  Malcolm Sanderson : You don't make a lot of friends, do you?

  Elliot Stabler : Yeah, well.