Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Spiraling Down (2011)

Stephanie March: ADA Alexandra 'Alex' Cabot

Quotes 

• Alexandra Cabot : [after Jake Stanton testifies in court]  Well, that was ugly.

  Olivia Benson : Ellis was just doing his job. Stanton is not competent. I tried to warn you.

  Alexandra Cabot : Warn me? You walked me right into it. You wanted a sting operation. You wanted to prosecute all the johns for rape.

  Olivia Benson : The guilty ones. Stanton...

  Alexandra Cabot : You don't get to cherry pick. What are we supposed to do, prosecute some of the Johns and not Stanton? What kind of message does that send? That the DA's office gives sports stars a free pass? You want justice for her, you want compassion for him. You can't have it both ways, Olivia. The world doesn't work that way.

  Olivia Benson : Alex...

  Alexandra Cabot : And I don't even want to know how Ellis showed up in your squad room.

• Detective Nick Amaro : [about Vicki Harris]  This girl's been turned out for two weeks, forced to have sex with dozens of men...

  Alexandra Cabot : Relax, we're not charging her and we've got the pimp. We've got enough to put him away on sex trafficking charges for 25 years.

  Olivia Benson : What about the johns? What about Tre's friends?

  Odafin Tutuola : She is underage, so every single one of them's a rapist under the law.

  Alexandra Cabot : Don't start that again.

• Odafin Tutuola : [while doing an undercover sting operation]  Is that Jake Stanton?

  Detective Nick Amaro : Jake Stanton? Oh, don't tell me he's knocking on her door.

  Alexandra Cabot : Sorry, who's Jake Stanton?

  Detective Nick Amaro : Are you serious?