Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Slaves (2000)

Dann Florek: Captain Donald 'Don' Cragen

Quotes 

• Donald Cragen : [to Dr. Jackson]  This is ridiculous. Why don't you just ask me?

  Dr. Audrey Jackson : Ask you?

  Donald Cragen : The question you're tap-dancing around. Do I get the urge to drink? See, that's the problem with you people. You ask about golfing or jogging or whether a person was breast-fed or not. Why don't you just ask me about my alcoholism? That's what this has been about, hasn't it?

  Dr. Audrey Jackson : Do you want to talk about it?

  Donald Cragen : No, I don't, but I will. Yes. I get the urge to drink. Every day. I see horrific acts of degradation, of brutality, of human evil. They make me angry. They make me sick. They get inside my head and I wanna shut them up. I know if I crawl inside of a bottle, they will stop.

  Dr. Audrey Jackson : Do you think you will?

  Donald Cragen : Ask me tomorrow.

• Donald Cragen : [to Dr. Jackson]  How goes the witch hunt?

  Dr. Audrey Jackson : Well, I've seen everybody.

  Donald Cragen : You find any bed-wetters or cross-dressers?

  Dr. Audrey Jackson : No. No, I've found a commensurate level of stress and neurosis that one would expect in this work. For the most part.

  Donald Cragen : For the most part.

  Dr. Audrey Jackson : The purpose of this program is to identify detectives that are close to meltdown. It's to protect the public from them as well as themselves.

  Donald Cragen : You're saying you found someone in my unit?

  Dr. Audrey Jackson : I did. I'm afraid I have to recommend that they be removed from duty. Immediately.

  Donald Cragen : [looks at his detectives]  Who?

• Donald Cragen : Okay, let me see if I got this straight. Some girl is being sexually abused by some guy, somewhere in Manhattan?

  Elliot Stabler : Something like that.