Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Runaway (2001)

Stephanie March: ADA Alexandra 'Alex' Cabot

Quotes 

• A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot : [about Lance Kanick]  I'm not putting that animal back on the streets. He killed with a tire iron, with a gun. No remorse. He gets out in 20 years, he'll be killing with something else. Murdering someone else.

  Donald Cragen : Alex, we can save a life today, not prevent some hypothetical murder 20 years down the road. There's a girl out there that needs our help now!

• A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot : [about Lance Kanick]  It'll take eight years to exhaust his appeals. He'll spend all of that time alone in a cell half the size of this room. A call will be made to the Governor's home an hour before the execution. Some bleeding heart with a desperate plea for his life. I intend to answer that call.

• Donald Cragen : This is a cop's child. What else matters? The D.A.'s office has made worse deals. We see murderers out on the street in less time for reasons with a lot less validity every day. We have to stomach that every day. It's not just the people in this room, Alex. Everybody in blue knows about the Foster case. This is in the family.

  A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot : Kanick will murder again.

  Det. Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : So you're murdering now. How's that supposed to settle with the grunts?

  A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot : What are you saying?

  Det. John Munch : What he's saying is, it's harder to do our jobs if we've lost faith in the D.A.'s office.

  A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot : Are you threatening me?

  Det. John Munch : It's a blanket statement.

• [Alex enters the interrogation room, where Lorna is waiting, and sits down] 

  A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot : I'm Alex Cabot, DA's office.

  [Lorna, who is obviously on some sort of drugs, walks to Alex before sitting] 

  Lorna Frankel : I want my phone call. It's been 12 hours.

  A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot : Right...

• Lance Kanick : [to Cabot]  Man one, fifteen. You get Bolger and that girl you're looking for.

  A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot : No deal.

  Lance Kanick : No girl.

  A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot : Lethal injection.

  Lance Kanick : Heroin addiction.

  A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot : There is one offer on the table. That's it.

  Lance Kanick : A cop's kid, too. I thought you all went the extra mile for one of your own.

  A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot : It's my deal or the death penalty.

• A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot : [to Lorna Frankel]  I think Bolger's more than a lawyer. I think he's a partner. You make that connection stick, you'll be out of jail before menopause.