Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Cold (2008)

Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler

Quotes 

• Elliot Stabler : Look, all the evidence pointed to his guilty.

  Olivia Benson : Which means that we should've taken a hard look at Lake, not Fin.

  Elliot Stabler : Oh, so I shouldn't have dumped his phones?

  Olivia Benson : Fin's a straight shooter, Elliot. All you had to do was ask him. I think you need to make this right.

• Elliot Stabler : [to Fin]  Look, the situation got a little heated and I want to say I'm sorry about that.

  Odafin Tutuola : You're a bulldog, Stabler. Quick to assume, slow to admit when you're wrong. Makes for a good cop, but a lousy human being

  Olivia Benson : Fin, hear him out.

  Odafin Tutuola : Stay out of it, Liv. That being said, I know what it cost you.

  Elliot Stabler : Appreciate that.

  Odafin Tutuola : I'm not done. The problem is you will still be the same rat bastard tomorrow and nothing you say will ever change that.

• Odafin Tutuola : [to Elliot]  Do you know everything about Olivia?

  Elliot Stabler : No, but I'd notice if she disappeared once a month.

• Elliot Stabler : [to Thomas Crane as he attempts to shoot Lake]  Squeeze that trigger, you'll be dead before the slug leaves the pipe.

• Dr. Melinda Warner : [while at the crime scene]  I see the circus is in town.

  Elliot Stabler : What do you expect? When cops shoot each other, clowns come out. It's entertainment.

• Casey Novak : [to Stabler]  You think you could manage to read Detective Lake his rights?

  Elliot Stabler : I miss something?

  Casey Novak : I specifically told you not to question him. He's under the 48-hour rule and shielded from interrogation.

  Elliot Stabler : Don't worry. He didn't say anything.

  Casey Novak : Yeah, and lucky for you. Because if he talked, it would've been inadmissible and under immunity.

  Elliot Stabler : Okay, so how are we supposed to put this down when most crimes are solved within the first 48?

  Casey Novak : You know what? That's not my problem. So you either follow orders or just stay out of the way.

• Donald Cragen : Lake is not our problem anymore. The Fugitive Apprehension Team will take it from here.

  Odafin Tutuola : All those guys do is workout and shoot guns. They're gonna kill Lake.

  Donald Cragen : Well, that's not how F.A.T. works, Detective.

  Odafin Tutuola : Kralik's got a lot of friends on the street that'd like to see Lake dead. You gotta at least let me look.

  Elliot Stabler : Where you gonna start? You don't even know the guy.

  Odafin Tutuola : I know he didn't do it.

  Elliot Stabler : Three bullet holes in the victim's back say different.

  Odafin Tutuola : You ever think the force behind the first two spun Kralik? We're trained to keep firing till the subject is down.

• Odafin Tutuola : News reports are saying Lake took a hostage. Who gave them that?

  Elliot Stabler : How about your partner after he took Cecelia Cruz with a warrant on his ass?

• Odafin Tutuola : Dumping my phones was a bitch move, Stabler.

  Elliot Stabler : Yeah, I called him. I didn't think he'd run.

  Odafin Tutuola : You should've stayed out of it.

  Olivia Benson : Take it easy.

  Odafin Tutuola : He's my partner.

  Elliot Stabler : Who you helped evade arrest.

  Donald Cragen : Dial it down or you're both going on report.