Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Protection (2002)

Elpidia Carrillo: Maria Ramos

Quotes 

• Maria Ramos : [to Stabler]  I never should have gone to those cops or talked to you. We could have disappeared and Miguel would still be alive. I killed my own son because I didn't know what to do.

  Elliot Stabler : Let us help you.

  Maria Ramos : You can't help me. He could be one of Fredo's people, or him or them or anybody. You can't stop them.

  Elliot Stabler : If you just work with us, we can protect you.

  Maria Ramos : That's what the other cops said and look what happened. I'm not testifying against Fredo.

  Elliot Stabler : Listen to me, as long as you're out there, you're a threat to Fredo. He can't afford to leave you alive. He'll never leave you alone. Now, you refuse to testify, we'll subpoena you. If you still refuse to testify, you go to jail and you lose Luis to a foster home.

  Maria Ramos : Then take him! Put him in someplace where they can never find him. We can't live like this anymore.

• Olivia Benson : Maria, Luis is going to a shelter until we can place him in a foster home.

  Maria Ramos : You can't take him away from me. He's my son.

  Olivia Benson : So was Miguel, but where were you when he needed you?

• Fredo Garcia : [after Maria shoots him]  It's killing me!

  Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : It's *just* a knee.

  [walks him out] 

  Olivia Benson : Maria, where'd you get the gun?

  Maria Ramos : On the street, I bought it.