Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Wrong Is Right (2000)
Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler
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Quotes
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Maureen] What are you doing up?
Maureen Stabler : Couldn't sleep.
Detective Elliot Stabler : What's the matter? You got nightmares?
Maureen Stabler : You have to sleep to have nightmares.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Right. What was I thinking?
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[about the murder Stabler is investigating]
Dr. Emil Skoda : You let this one get under your skin. Why?
Detective Elliot Stabler : This one my daughter saw.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Maureen] What is it with you kids?
Maureen Stabler : It's hard to talk to adults.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Why?
Maureen Stabler : You're always judging us. You expect us to be like you and you get mad if we're not. It's just easier to talk to our friends.
Detective Elliot Stabler : What if you don't have any friends?
Maureen Stabler : Everybody's got friends.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Yeah? Well, who do you talk to?
Maureen Stabler : Dad...
Detective Elliot Stabler : You talk to Ryan Witherspoon?
Maureen Stabler : More than you talk to Mom.
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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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Detective Olivia Benson : [to Stabler] Okay, what the hell's going on?
Detective Elliot Stabler : The psych evaluation?
Detective Olivia Benson : Yeah?
Detective Elliot Stabler : I said I felt like killing child molesters.
Detective Olivia Benson : Okay, so how can they have a problem with that? The Commission's all cops.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Yeah, well. When was the last time one of them stood in a room like this?
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Cabot] You're protecting your win-loss ratio.
Donald Cragen : Elliot...
Alex Cabot : It's okay, Captain. Detective Stabler's judgment is clouded by the stress of the Morris Commission's review and the fact that Michael did what he fantasizes about: kill a perpetrator.
Donald Cragen : It's not my fantasy, and I stand with Detective Stabler on this.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Danny] You think Michael liked it?
Danny Burrell : You tell me. The guy's 6'2, benches what, 220 pounds? He could've kicked his ass if he didn't like him doing him.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Michael was only eight when he started doing him. Eight year olds can't fight back. Now you tell me where a sixteen-year-old's going to turn to when his best friend turns on him.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Maureen as he looks at her arm] Is that a tattoo?
Maureen Stabler : No.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Where'd you get it?
Maureen Stabler : Well, you've got tattoos.
Detective Elliot Stabler : I was eighteen and in the Service.
Maureen Stabler : It's henna. It washes off.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Why didn't you just tell me that?
Maureen Stabler : I just did. You're such a cop.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Yeah, wait till you have kids. All the little Witherspoons.
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Donald Cragen : [to Stabler] What possessed you to tell the shrink in your psych evaluation that you fantasized about killing suspects?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Wait a minute, wait a minute. I said perps, not suspects.
Donald Cragen : Well, the Morris Commission doesn't see a distinction. They're inquiring.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Inquiring into what? My private thoughts? They're supposed to be house-cleaning the department of rogue cops.
Detective Elliot Stabler : [silence]
Detective Elliot Stabler : My job at risk?
Donald Cragen : Yeah.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Dr. Skoda] I'm not talking to you.
Dr. Emil Skoda : Fine. I'll just sit here.
Detective Elliot Stabler : You know, I may lose my job because of the last shrink I talked to.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Dr. Skoda] Are we really gonna do this dance again? I mean, what do you want me to say? That I fantasized about killing the perp?
Dr. Emil Skoda : Did you?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Yeah, you're damn right I did and this time I fed him my gun and I pulled that trigger until I caught him and then, there he is, he's just... he's a kid. He's a good kid. He tutors Down syndrome children, he's a straight "A" student, he's a star athlete he's Millbrook Township's favorite son. Now how that jives with cold-blooded murder?
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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.