Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Wrong Is Right (2000)

Dann Florek: Captain Donald 'Don' Cragen

Quotes 

• Donald Cragen : [to Jeffries]  You told the psychologist you slept with a suspect?

  Det. Monique Jefferies : What? No, that-that's not what I said.

  Donald Cragen : Well, that's how they interpreted it. I'm gonna limit your field time.

  Det. Monique Jefferies : You're giving me desk duty?

  Donald Cragen : You need time to prepare a formal response for the Morris Commission.

  Det. Monique Jefferies : I am not explaining my sex life to the Morris Commission!

  Donald Cragen : That's enough! I don't like it either, Monique, but yelling at me is not gonna solve anything.

• 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.

• Donald Cragen : [as he shows photos of victims to the Morris Commission]  This little boy's mother stuck his hands on a frying pan until his fingers burned off. This rape victim required twelve hours of surgery to have a steel plate put into her head after her attacker pummeled her with a claw hammer. This one didn't make it. Is there anybody on this panel who doesn't share Detective Stabler's anger for the perpetrators? This man is a good cop. As his commanding officer, I stand with him and every good cop who faces these horrors day after day and has the strength to keep their impulses in check. Now if you can look at these pictures and not understand that the problem here isn't Elliot Stabler, is it?

• 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.