Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Rooftop (2001)

Ice-T: Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola

Quotes 

• Fin Tutuola : No matter what you say, Captain, you're not black and you're not from the hood.

• Malik Harris : [on the verge of a death sentence]  I want a deal.

  Fin Tutuola : Want a deal? How 'bout right before we execute you for killin' those girls, I bring you your last meal? How's that?

• Fin Tutuola : Spent a lot of time on my rooftop when I was a kid. It was safe back then.

  Elliot Stabler : Doing the wild thing with your girlfriend?

  Fin Tutuola : You know, when you live here you can't afford a vacation to Aruba, so you went to "Isle of Aroofa." Tar Beach. Plus the guys like to come up here 'cause this is where the girls would come hang out.

  Elliot Stabler : I grew up in Queens. All I ever wanted was the excitement of the city. Sounds like all you ever wanted was quiet. We should've traded places.

• Fin Tutuola : An East Side socialite disappears, we got 50 cops on it. Black girls start getting executed, we got 4 cops.

• Elliot Stabler : [to Fin]  You okay?

  Fin Tutuola : Yeah. I just don't like some guy making my home turf dangerous for young girls.

  Elliot Stabler : I thought you grew up in Brooklyn.

  Fin Tutuola : Nope. About 10 blocks from here. Ground Zero for the '68 riots.

  Elliot Stabler : What was that like?

  Fin Tutuola : I was six. My mother said the only way we're leaving our apartment was if somebody burned it down.

• Cleo Conrad : It was a setup.

  A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot : We arranged for your client to bite Rodney Thompson? I don't think so.

  Fin Tutuola : Bit yourself in the ass with your big mouth this time, King.

• Fin Tutuola : Problem is, even if the woman lies about her age, it's still the man's fault.

  John Munch : Ignorance is no defense.

  Olivia Benson : Nashika Morris is 14. She's not a woman; she's a girl.

  Fin Tutuola : What's the guy supposed to do? Check the girl's birth certificate? I'm just as opposed to rape as everybody else in this room, but if she wanted to have sex, that's her choice. She wasn't forced.

  Elliot Stabler : She's a minor. What she wants isn't relevant.

  A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot : [as she and Dr. Huang walk into the squad room]  Are we interrupting?

  John Munch : Friendly disagreement.

• Alva Tate : [to Stabler]  You happy now?

  Elliot Stabler : Mrs. Tate, I'm sorry about Leon.

  Alva Tate : Don't you dare say you're sorry. You're glad he's dead. He didn't kill those girls, but you killed him anyway. You murdered him.

  Fin Tutuola : Mrs. Tate, Detective Stabler was doing his job.

  Alva Tate : My son was innocent.

  Fin Tutuola : Your son was gonna kill somebody with his HIV. We had to stop him. We didn't put the needle in his arm.

  Alva Tate : You didn't, but you all stick together, don't you?

  [walks away] 

  Elliot Stabler : Fin, thanks for taking my back with Mrs. Tate.

  Fin Tutuola : Leon was scum. He was gonna kill some innocent girl if you didn't stop him.

• Fin Tutuola : [talking to an informant in a car]  I'm busy. This better be good.

  Benny : [slouched down in the backseat]  How 'bout a little respect? Time is money, and I'm losing it talking to you.

  Fin Tutuola : What the hell are you doing back there? Sit up like a man.

  Benny : Hey, I get seen with you, my customers go elsewhere for their merchandise.

  Fin Tutuola : You got something for me, Benny, or did you just come here to run your mouth?

  Benny : Word's out you're looking to jam up King.

  Fin Tutuola : Where'd you hear that?

  Benny : I got sources, just like you.

  Fin Tutuola : What do your sources know about him?

  Benny : King's a rap promoter wannabe. Manages a few unknowns, but doesn't have the goods to make it big. He uses the rap line mostly to pick up women.

  Fin Tutuola : So far, you're boring me.

  Benny : How about: he buys his coke and dope from one of my corner boys?

  Fin Tutuola : Now you're talking. Where's he get his cash?

  Benny : King's a kept man. Smooth-talks one of his ladies into paying for his lifestyle 'til they wise up...

  [imitates slashing his throat] 

  Benny : ... dump him.

  Fin Tutuola : What's in this for you, Benny?

  Benny : I don't like him. Consider it a freebie.