Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Loophole (2007)
Dann Florek: Captain Donald 'Don' Cragen
Quotes
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [after Elliot gets injured by a man in a PCP rage at the precinct and ends up in the hospital]
[to Cragen]
Detective Elliot Stabler : You're gonna put me on the DL with our caseload?
Donald Cragen : Elliot, I'd rather lose you for a few weeks than go to your retirement party.
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Donald Cragen : I don't buy some burglar risking prison time to be a good samaritan.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : It explains why he made sure we wouldn't find any prints or DNA on the envelope or pictures.
Donald Cragen : Who reported the break-in?
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Anonymous caller; payphone four blocks away. Perp probably stopped to eyeball the take he got from Milstead's apartment and saw the pictures.
Donald Cragen : Right, and instead of dumping them into the nearest garbage can, he called the cops.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Well, just because a guy makes a living breaking into people's apartments doesn't mean he likes kiddie porn.
Donald Cragen : Okay, so he pays a kid to deliver the evidence. Why report the crime he committed?
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Because he wanted to make sure we'd track those pictures back to Milstead.
Donald Cragen : Well, maybe he should've given us a little bit more to work with, right? Like the address? 'Cause it was just dumb luck we found it. There's no way he could've known those doors were on the memory card.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Why take these pictures to begin with?
Detective Olivia Benson : To prove to the city that the work was done. They were installed to save the landlord from a whopping fine.
Donald Cragen : For what?
Detective Olivia Benson : Safety violations. Before last week, there were no doors on the front of the building. There were ten burglaries in the last year.
Donald Cragen : So other than letting the building fall apart, does Milstead have a record?
Detective Olivia Benson : No. No nothing, no priors.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Just means nobody caught him taking his naughty pictures.
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Donald Cragen : [picking up a discarded package] Anybody belong to this?
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : The kid that Cupid knocked down was carryin' that.
Donald Cragen : It's addressed to the Special Victims Unit.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : What is it?
Donald Cragen : [going through the contents] Kiddie porn... memory card from a camera.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : It's a little late for Christmas. Who's playing Santa Claus?
Donald Cragen : Well, it's a secret. Note just says "Please put this sick bastard away."
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Donald Cragen : How you feeling?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Like a million bucks.
Detective Olivia Benson : That's what happens when you get hit by a bus.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Yeah, speaking of which, uh, where's lover boy?
Donald Cragen : He's in the prison ward in steel restraints. Is he gonna be okay?
Doctor Singh : The glass came close to severing his radial nerve. He's lucky.
Detective Elliot Stabler : I'll be ready for work.
Doctor Singh : Not until you regain full feeling in your arm and hands.
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Detective Olivia Benson : The bill was too beat up for the lab to lift any prints.
Donald Cragen : What about the envelope?
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Three sets of prints; mine, Munch's, and the delivery boy. No DNA on the glue.
Donald Cragen : Then the informant was smart enough not to lick the flap.
Detective Olivia Benson : Yeah. The only other prints we got came from the photos themselves. The prints are not in the system, but I have a feeling that our anonymous tipster's are.
Donald Cragen : It would explain why he went to so much trouble to stay under the radar. But why not give us the perp's name?
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Maybe somebody afraid of the perv doesn't want him to come back on him, like a previous victim.
Detective Olivia Benson : Or the victim is being abused by a family member, somebody else in the family finds the photos, turns them in anonymously to avoid retaliation.
Donald Cragen : After editing out the really nasty ones. There's not one shot of that kid naked or performing a sex act.
Detective Olivia Benson : Maybe that's why he included the memory card. He thought there'd be more pictures on it.
Donald Cragen : TARU called. Nothing more hardcore than these.
Detective Olivia Benson : Well, when I was in Computer Crimes, we used digital image recovery software to restore deleted files. Bet that would work on the memory card.
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Donald Cragen : John, does this kid live in the building?
Detective John Munch : Apartment A6. His name is Diego Benitez.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Oh, you're late 'cause you were doing something useful.
Detective John Munch : Yeah, I was showing his picture to the local elementary school principal. Emergency contact is his mother, who's probably serving lunch as we speak.
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Cupid : I want her now!
Detective Elliot Stabler : Well, you raped her, so I don't think that's gonna happen.
Cupid : She's mine!
[fighting them, he knocks an innocent bystander down]
Cupid : I'm Eros. I loved her.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Somebody help this kid.
Detective John Munch : Why don't we just shoot him?
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Much, help the kid!
Cupid : Let me go!
Detective John Munch : [checking on him] He's unconscious. Somebody call EMS.
Cupid : [breaking free] Get off of me!
[he throws a patrol cop aside and picks up a bench]
Donald Cragen : [pulling two other patrol cops back] Watch out. He's high on PCP.
Cupid : [throwing the bench] I'm coming for you, Barbie!
[Stabler hits him on the head with a fire extinguisher]
Cupid : How dare you hit the erotic god of love.