Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Criminal (2004)

James McDaniel: Javier Vega

Quotes 

• Donald Cragen : I remember you, Vega. When I collared you after we found that poor woman's stinking corpse, you cried like a baby. You denied it then, but we had your prints all over that oil drum. You lied then like you're lying now.

  Javier Vega : I will never forget what I did to Joanna Lewis. Her face will haunt me until the day I die, but my past is my past. I'm a different man now, just like you. Yeah. Yeah, I remember you. You were drunk. The stench of booze was all over you. But you changed, didn't you, Captain? You think you're the only one who can?

• Casey Novak : This is a fragment of a condom that was found inside Rebecca's body, it's the same brand you use. This is a fiber, police matched it to your coat, it was found in Rebecca's throat. This is the letter she wrote demanding that the college fire you.

  Javier Vega : Rebecca didn't write that note.

  Casey Novak : Her prints are on it, so if she didn't write it, who did?

  Javier Vega : Why don't you ask the police?

  Casey Novak : Are you implying that the police planted the evidence?

  Javier Vega : It wouldn't be the first time.

  Casey Novak : The police know your brand of condom and put one inside of Rebecca, then they took a thread from your coat and shoved it down her throat. You're a smart man, Professor, isn't the most logical answer that you murdered Rebecca?

• Kyle Luhrmann : [when Professor Vega has him held hostage at gunpoint]  You gotta help me! He's crazy! He's gonna kill me!

  Donald Cragen : I don't blame him! But let him go, Vega!

  Javier Vega : He killed Rebecca!

  Kyle Luhrmann : I didn't do anything to her! I swear!

  Javier Vega : Tell 'em what you did or I'll blow your head off!

  Kyle Luhrmann : I killed her!

  Javier Vega : Why? What she do to you?

  Kyle Luhrmann : I loved her, but she told me she was marrying you. I went to her apartment and gave her one last chance. She blew it.

  Javier Vega : You're dead.

  Donald Cragen : Put the gun down. You got your confession. You shoot him, you're dead. You kill him, you lose your daughter, too.

  Javier Vega : Gabrielle's better off without me!

  Donald Cragen : She came to see me. She begged me to bring you home.

  Javier Vega : The only way I'm leaving here is in a body bag!

  Donald Cragen : Not if you let him live. He confessed to murder. He's finished. Let me help you.

  Javier Vega : Nobody can help me.

  Donald Cragen : You're still thinking like a junkie. Fine. Go ahead, kill him. Show me you're still a murderer, too.

  [Vega releases Luhrmann, sobs and drops his gun]