Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Disappearing Acts (2002)

Ice-T: Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola

Quotes 

• Donald Cragen : [to Stabler]  How you holding up?

  Elliot Stabler : Denied my civil liberties, treated like some skell, suspected of conspiracy to commit murder, but, you know, I think I've hit bottom.

  John Munch : IAB was here digging for dirt.

  Elliot Stabler : I think I spoke too soon.

  Olivia Benson : How bad is it?

  Alexandra Cabot : US Attorneys get a lot of leeway to make their cases. The burden of proof rests mostly on the defendants.

  Olivia Benson : But we did nothing wrong!

  Alexandra Cabot : As law enforcement officers, you were well aware of the risks and you disregarded them for your own benefit. Claudia could argue that sensitive information was passed on to the criminal element.

  Elliot Stabler : Why would we do that? What's our motive?

  Alexandra Cabot : They don't need to prove motive. In your zeal to show up federal officers, a witness and a US Marshall are dead. That's all a jury needs to hear.

  Donald Cragen : If the Feds can't make a criminal case, you'll still have to face the brass. And they could boot you.

  Elliot Stabler : I'm not just handing over my tin without a fight.

  Donald Cragen : I don't expect you to.

  Elliot Stabler : [to Benson]  We gotta find out who killed Peter Sipes to clear our name.

  Olivia Benson : Munch, what do we have on your witness Michael Kerring? Did he talk to anybody at Rikers?

  John Munch : He made some calls.

  Elliot Stabler : To who?

  Donald Cragen : One to Brighton Beach.

  [to Munch and Fin] 

  Donald Cragen : Go sit him down. Shake him up if you have to.

  Odafin Tutuola : Don't sweat it. We've got your back.

• Michael Kerring : [to Fin and Munch]  What do you guys do here anyway?

  Odafin Tutuola : We catch rapists, pedophiles and murderers.

  Michael Kerring : Damn. Well, in that case, I can honestly say that whatever it is, I didn't do it. I am no short eyes, I have never touched a woman that I didn't have to pay for...

  Odafin Tutuola : Slow your roll, moron. We're just looking for some background.

  John Munch : We brought a guy in on a rape beef and we're told you were friends. Turns out he's got a couple of aliases we want to check.

  Michael Kerring : I don't know anybody like that.

  Odafin Tutuola : You saw him right out in the hallway. You called him Gregory.

  Michael Kerring : I was drunk. It couldn't have been him. He's been dead for years.

  John Munch : Who's dead?

  Michael Kerring : Gregory... Rossovitch. He used to run with some serious hitters, in way over his head.

  John Munch : Who'd he run with?

  Michael Kerring : Russians in West Hollywood. Pulling gas tax, medicaid fraud, shipping bootleg vodka, kidnapping, the whole nine.

  Odafin Tutuola : If he was that big, how'd you know him?

  Michael Kerring : I used to be a gas jockey. They put me in charge of pumping hijacked diesel.

  John Munch : How'd he die?

  Michael Kerring : Car bomb. Was that really him? Don't tell me. I don't want to know.

  Odafin Tutuola : What's the problem?

  Michael Kerring : They put a heavy contract out on Gregory. You open this up, you're asking for trouble.

  John Munch : Why'd they want him dead?

  Michael Kerring : I heard he was spilling his guts to the Feds. Bodies were dropping all over the place. Friends, business associates. They even killed his parents. That's when I moved East. Guess I didn't go far enough.