Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Personal Fouls (2011)

Dann Florek: Captain Donald 'Don' Cragen

Quotes 

• Olivia Benson : [to Cragen]  We're hiring another detective?

  Donald Cragen : Well, we're short-staffed. He's a good guy, out of warrants. He starts tomorrow. You have a problem with that?

  Olivia Benson : Well, it's hard enough showing one rookie the ropes and now we have two. I mean, what is this, a day care center?

  Donald Cragen : Elliot's not coming back, Liv.

  Olivia Benson : It takes me twice as long to explain the job to somebody else as it does to do it myself. Captain...

  Donald Cragen : It's not your call. Now you want to be here, you're gonna have to start working with other detectives. All right? Let him go. And you can start by packing up his desk. We can't keep it as a shrine.

• Donald Cragen : Folks, this is Detective Second Grade Nick Amaro. He just transferred in.

  Amanda Rollins : Second Grader already, huh? You must have caught some big fish.

  Nick Amaro : Nah, just kissed a lot of ass.

  Donald Cragen : Detective Amaro is being modest. Two years under in Narcotics, Warrants. He took down the MS-13 case.

  Olivia Benson : Well, this is a whole different world, Serpico. Not everybody has the stomach for it.