Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Shaken (2003)

Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler

Quotes 

• Detective Elliot Stabler : I think the D.A.'s office should fight to turn off life support.

  Arthur Branch : And what makes you think Judge Preston would grant such a motion?

  Detective Elliot Stabler : I read the papers. A similar request was made in California successfully when a father shook his son.

  Arthur Branch : And it was unsuccessful in Florida. Parents are winning the fight to keep their comatose daughter alive despite legal precedent.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Lucy's doctor says she'll never recover.

  Arthur Branch : What's this really about, Detective? You fighting for Lucy or bringing Evelyn Prichard to justice?

  Detective Elliot Stabler : I don't know if she's a grieving mother who can't let go, or if she's she's just trying to beat a murder rap. What I do know is a little girl is in constant pain and there is no hope of her ever getting better.

• Detective Elliot Stabler : I've worked enough battered child cases to know that giving birth doesn't make you a mother, but juries will hear whatever they need to hear.

• Detective Elliot Stabler : That woman is a murderer.

  Casey Novak : Not as long as Lucy is *technically* alive.

• [learning a suspected pedophile works at a camera film development shop] 

  Detective Elliot Stabler : You don't need a digital camera when you can print your own porn.

• Casey Novak : Why'd you go over my head?

  Detective Elliot Stabler : I'm trying to do what's right for that child.

  Casey Novak : So am I. But it's my case now, and it's my choice, not yours, okay? You should have come to me first.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : I apologize. You're right. You have every right to be pissed at me. Now, you tell me, you think it's wrong to stop life support?

  Casey Novak : I'm not a mother. I don't know what I'd do if she were my child.

  Donald Cragen : Welcome to Special Victims. It's not always black and white.