Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Anchor (2009)
Ice-T: Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
Quotes
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Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Son of a bitch!
Sergeant John Munch : Well, screw you too.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : I wasn't talking to you.
Sergeant John Munch : What, you got an imaginary friend over there with you now?
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Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : We gave out about a hundred flyers. TV news could reach thousands.
Olivia Benson : You know, when I was dating that guy at The Ledger, I got to know this woman on the crime desk. Her name was Nicole Gleason.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : One PP said no press.
Olivia Benson : She's cute. I could introduce you.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : I don't need help hooking up.
Olivia Benson : No, but you are going to need an alibi if somebody sees you having a drink with a journalist.
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Olivia Benson : Fin, you've worked cases like this before. What is it about these kids?
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Everything. Their skin color. The fact people just don't seem to care.
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Joe Thagard : I didn't do nothing to that boy.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Only 'cause I got there first.
Joe Thagard : I drank some beers earlier. I accidentally went into the wrong apartment.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Then you cold-cocked the dad, tied up the mother. What, were you going to read the kid a bedtime story?
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Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : How the hell did this happen, Alex?
Alexandra Cabot : I was hoping you could tell me.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : I'd like to wipe that smile off Thagard's face with a belt sander.
Alexandra Cabot : It's my fault, Fin. I underestimated Carver. He gave Thagard one hell of a makeover.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : From child killer to pathetic punk with a hard-knock life.
Alexandra Cabot : Juries love a weepy mea culpa.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : And Garrison looked like the real psycho.
Alexandra Cabot : Especially after his freaky fans went nuts.
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[Randall Carver is staging a demonstration outside SVU]
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : [handing Munch a stack of correspondence] Hold this. Gonna go see how far I can kick that bullhorn up his ass.
Sergeant John Munch : Don't dirty your shoe, Fin.
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Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : [while reading the t-shirt of a murdered young girl] Jesus loves me. Somebody else sure didn't.
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Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : How does a Catholic schoolgirl end up dead on a hooker stroll?
Dr. Melinda Warner : Isn't that a question for Homicide? It's not a sex crime, Fin.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : She looks like a special victim to me.
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Donald Cragen : [to Fin] Ruby Brown is not our case.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Captain, she was just a little kid.
Donald Cragen : Her death was not sexually motivated and there was no child abuse. So, type up what you've done and get the file over to Homicide.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Where it will just sit. No witnesses, no leads. The case will die.
Donald Cragen : All the more reason to turf it. I'm getting killed on our closure rate as it is.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : So our stats are more important than a little girl's life?
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Donald Cragen : [to Fin] When the Chief of D's gives an order, we follow it.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Unless Liv or Elliot bends the rules. Then you're out on a limb with them.
Donald Cragen : You disobeyed a direct order from your commanding officer.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Only thing I'm sorry about is I didn't get the front page. Three inches and no photos. If our victim looked like Elizabeth Smart, we'd have a task force and a million-dollar reward.
Donald Cragen : This isn't about race.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Sure. You keep telling yourself that.
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Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : [to Randall Carver] I don't get why you're defending this wacko.
Randall Carver : Thagard's a symptom, not the disease.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : That symptom killed three kids.
Randall Carver : Garrison, Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, all of them. They're like a cancer spreading ignorance and hate. I mean, they've convinced folks that immigrants are the problem. Not corporations that fail to pay a living wage, or a broken health-care system.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Save the soapbox, Randy. The cameras aren't even running.
Randall Carver : I ain't doing this for the attention. I get enough of that already.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Then why are you wasting your time on this loser?
Randall Carver : My daddy was a Klansman. Told me stories about lynchings. When I asked him why, he just said, "Son, some men need killing."
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Daddy issues, huh? You get Thagard off, him and all those knucklehead Kluckers will be real proud of you. Might even give you your own pointed hood.
Randall Carver : Listen to me. I hate the Klan and everything they stand for, but they did teach me that a good man can be swept up by evil forces. The problem is bigger than Joe Thagard. Those kids would still be alive if Garrison hadn't driven him to kill.
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Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Munch!
Sergeant John Munch : [wakes up] What?
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Let's get back on this hate mail.
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Randall Carver : [on TV] How many more of these children have to die before this so-called Special Victims Unit takes these murders seriously?
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : We just took on the case, you idiot!
Sergeant John Munch : See, now, you're yelling at the TV.
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Nicole Gleason : [to Fin] Giving Randall Carver another 15 minutes of fame doesn't interest me.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Then what are you doing here?
Nicole Gleason : I want to help.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : By writing another little story that gets buried on Page 17?
Nicole Gleason : I wanted that story on the front page. I did, but my boss...
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Yeah, my boss is not too happy with me right now because of you.
Nicole Gleason : You came to me, remember?
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : So?
Nicole Gleason : So, I heard you got a lead out of it.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : What I got was a waste of time chasing delivery boys while the real killer iced Scotty Wu.
Nicole Gleason : So that little boy's death is on me.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : No, it's my fault. I'm going nowhere on this case and innocent kids are being killed.
Nicole Gleason : It's a heavy, heavy load, Fin, but you don't have to carry it alone.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Yeah? You going to solve this case for me?
Nicole Gleason : Enjoy the pity party, Odafin.
[walks away]
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Olivia Benson : [as Fin is looking at the photos of the three murdered children] Smiles like that ought to live forever. The kids always get to me, too, Fin.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : If you came to give me a pep talk, save it.
Olivia Benson : Actually, I came to give you these.
[hands him a pile of papers]
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Seriously? Are you kidding me? Paperwork?
[throws the papers on the floor]
Olivia Benson : They're employee files. For every vendor who does business with the Center of lmmigrant Services From the company that does their payroll to the one that cleans their toilet. I figured that one of the people that goes in and out of there on a daily basis might be your bad guy.
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : You stuck your neck out running down leads for me.
Olivia Benson : And this is the thanks I get?
Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : I've been putting my foot in it with every woman that crossed my path today.
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Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : [to Joe Thagard] Better grow wings or I'm going to blow your brains all over the street down there.
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Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola : Looks like he'll be cycling off into the sunset.
Sergeant John Munch : I've already signed him up for the Future Perv of New York Club.