Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Wrong Is Right (2000)
Richard Belzer: Detective John Munch
Quotes
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[seeing Stabler walk into SVU in khaki shorts and a loud Hawaiian shirt]
Det. John Munch : Jimmy Buffett in town?
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Alex Cabot : You want me to secure a search warrant for the offices of a defense contractor to search classified, national security files for evidence in a sexually motivated homicide?
Det. John Munch : Yes, you got a problem with that?
Alex Cabot : [dials the phone] Judge Hermann, please. Alex Cabot with the DA's office.
[pauses]
Alex Cabot : Uncle Bill... look, I need a favor.
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Det. John Munch : [to the uncooperative boss of a suspect] What are the odds that you have a picture of Senator Joseph McCarthy tattooed on your ass?
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Craig Prince : [being handcuffed] You're hurting me!
Det. John Munch : Not our concern.
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Detective Olivia Benson : [after seeing Skoda] Hey, how'd it go?
Detective Elliot Stabler : I talked too much... again. Where's Jeffries?
Det. John Munch : Perching on a couch. But while you were probing your inner child, we did some probing of our own, sent Croft's prints at CIC.
Detective Elliot Stabler : You printed the corpse? So? And?
Det. John Munch : Nothing.
Detective Elliot Stabler : So?
Det. John Munch : No, I mean nothing, nada, bupkus.
Detective Olivia Benson : Zip. No parking tickets, no birth records.
Det. John Munch : Nothing to prove he even existed before 1991.
Detective Olivia Benson : The year he went to work for Radial Velocity.
Det. John Munch : So we're going through the stuff we got from the search warrant, we find this passport issued ten years ago from San Diego, we call the local PD, ask them to run - bang! We get a hit.
Detective Olivia Benson : But not to Andrew Croft.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Then who?
Det. John Munch : George Kazinsky, a convicted sexual predator.
Detective Olivia Benson : Andrew Croft. AKA, George Kazinsky. Little George liked little boys.
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Det. John Munch : We're looking for a murderer and the victim's missing kid and Craig Prince is giving us, "Here's your hat, what's your hurry?"
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Det. John Munch : [to Ralph Noble] You don't talk much, do you? Not much fight left in the old soldier?
Ralph Noble : Don't you question my patriotism, mister.
Det. John Munch : That's Mister Detective to you. Take a little bit of tarnish off that Medal of Honor.
Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Noble] We can find our own way out, thanks.
[Noble leaves; to Munch]
Detective Elliot Stabler : Why are you provoking him?
Det. John Munch : Guy's a war hero. Put his life on the line for principle. He's gotta be gagging stonewalling Croft's pedophilia to protect Radial Velocity.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Assuming he still has principles. The war was a long time ago, John.
Det. John Munch : Principles die harder than people. I want a shot at what's left of his.
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Det. John Munch : [to Ralph Noble] At what point did courage and integrity buckle to income?
Ralph Noble : Don't ever get in my face about money. If I cared about money, I wouldn't have been in the service.
Det. John Munch : What do you care about? Protecting the reputation of a dead pedophile part of national security now?
Ralph Noble : I'm not protecting Croft's reputation.
Det. John Munch : What are you protecting?
Ralph Noble : Croft's missile guidance expertise was critical in the Gulf War.
Det. John Munch : You erase sodomy convictions for national security?
Ralph Noble : We didn't erase his convictions.
Det. John Munch : What? Is there another way to say it?
Ralph Noble : Croft's felony record red-flagged him every time he crossed a border. A day's delay was a lifetime in a war moving that fast.
Det. John Munch : So Radial Velocity erased his past.
Ralph Noble : We were depleting our arsenal of smart bombs at more than $1 million a minute. At that price, the Pentagon wanted pin-point precision. A complaint was filed in the State Department. A firewall was built around Croft so Immigration wouldn't red-flag him. When the war ended, the wall should've come down. I can't tell you why it didn't. I just don't know!
Det. John Munch : Meanwhile, a convicted child molester applies for guardianship of an 8-year-old and...?
Ralph Noble : No red flags. I'm sorry.
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Munch's Informant : How did Croft buy it, Munch?
Det. John Munch : Bullet to the head, bunsen to the crotch.
Munch's Informant : Ouch!