Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Disappearing Acts (2002)

Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler

Quotes 

• U.S. Marshal #1 : [Opening Garage Door] 

  Gavin Sipes : Dad!

  U.S. Marshal #1 : Oh, my God.

  Gavin Sipes : Dad! No! Dad!

  FBI Agent #2 : [Seeing Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson running on the scene with their guns out. Pull's out his gun]  Drop it! Do it now!

  Elliot Stabler : [Gun drawn]  NYPD.

  U.S. Marshal #1 : [Aiming a shot gun at Elliot and Stabler]  Drop the gun!

  FBI Agent #2 : [Aiming his gun at Elliot and Stabler]  Drop it!

  U.S. Marshal #1 : [Aiming shotgun at Elliot and Stabler]  I said drop it.

  Olivia Benson : [Olivia's and Elliot's guns aimed at Marshall's]  Hold up. We're cops.

  U.S. Marshal #1 : [Shotgun aimed at Elliot and Olivia]  I don't give a damn. Drop it or I'll drop you.

  U.S. Marshal #1 : [Elliot and Olivia drop their weapons]  Both of you on the ground. Move! You too on the ground. Get their guns and cuff them.

• U.S. Marshal #2 : [In the U.S. Marshall Interrogation room]  How much do you make a year?

  Elliot Stabler : It depends on overtime, but why don't we say $68,940.

  U.S. Marshal #2 : Must be hard to make ends meet with a family of six.

  Elliot Stabler : I'm a cop.

  U.S. Marshal #2 : And the NYPD has a history of being squeaky clean.

  Elliot Stabler : I want my phone call.

  U.S. Marshal #2 : We can hold you for up to 72 hours without giving you one. Fallout from 9/11. Who else did you talk to?

  Elliot Stabler : I'm done talking. Charge me or let me go.

  U.S. Marshal #2 : Have a seat.

  Elliot Stabler : You know we had nothing to do with the hit. I'm not confessing, so why don't you just let me go? You think I don't use these tactics myself?

  U.S. Marshal #2 : I can make you sit down, Detective Stabler. Up to you.

• Elliot Stabler : [to Gavin Sipes]  Your mother betrayed you. Both your parents betrayed you.

  Gavin Sipes : No.

  Elliot Stabler : No? So why are you raping innocent women in some local mob boss's life?

  Gavin Sipes : Innocent?

  Elliot Stabler : Yeah.

  Gavin Sipes : Petra was a stripper, living off the proceeds of Sergei's victims, his sister, Tatiana decided where the illegals would work off their debts and Amanda was washing off the blood from their money. Those bitches lost their innocence way before I was even born.

• Elliot Stabler : [When Claudia Williams refuses to reveal the whereabouts of Peter Sipes]  You know, I don't care who that woman works for. We can't let her do that.

  Alexandra Cabot : Claudia Williams is doing her job. She has an obligation to protect her witnesses.

  Elliot Stabler : We have an obligation to protect innocent women, so whose side of the fence you gonna sit on?

  Alexandra Cabot : You seem awfully sure Peter Sipes is guilty.

  Olivia Benson : What are we supposed to think? It can't be easy losing your identity, starting over. These people cost him his past, they're threatening his survival.

  Alexandra Cabot : I'm just not so sure he would jeopardize his last line of defense against the very people who want him dead.

  Olivia Benson : What you're saying is then that organized crime takes precedence over rape.

  Alexandra Cabot : Arguments can be made for both.

  Elliot Stabler : Alex, we don't have that luxury. We're working with a serial rapist here and the next woman, I'm telling you, he's gonna kill her.

  Alexandra Cabot : I will file a habeas in the morning. If Claudia Williams cannot produce the body, the judge is going to find her in contempt.

• Asst. US Attorney Claudia Williams : [to Stabler and Benson]  You are officially under investigation by the FBI. Your police jackets and your financial records have been subpoenaed. New York Police Department has been duly notified.

  Elliot Stabler : This is a witch hunt and you know it. You lost a witness, so you need someone to blame.

  Asst. US Attorney Claudia Williams : Two men are dead. I told you to back off. You didn't, you pay.

• Gavin Sipes : What was I supposed to do? They were gonna kill me.

  Elliot Stabler : Yeah, and now we will. Murder of a law enforcement officer is an automatic needle.

• Elliot Stabler : [In the U.S. Marshall Interrogation room]  I already told you what happen.

  U.S. Marshal #2 : Tell it to me again. How'd you get the address?

  Elliot Stabler : Peter Sipes gave it to me.

  U.S. Marshal #2 : Then it's convenient for you he's dead since we can't corroborate your story.

  Elliot Stabler : Yeah, that's one way of looking at it.

  U.S. Marshal #2 : No, that's how it is.

  Elliot Stabler : Well, this is crazy, and I'm due a phone call.

  U.S. Marshal #2 : Who else did you talk to?

• Elliot Stabler : [after the detectives discover that Amanda Curry is not incarcerated anymore]  She's gone. Metropolitan Correctional claims they never even heard of her.

  Donald Cragen : I got a call from the US Attorney's office with assurances. As soon as we make an arrest, they will produce Amanda Curry for trial.

  Olivia Benson : How are we supposed to do that without the cooperation of our complaining witness?

• 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.

• Elliot Stabler : [about Peter's son, Gavin]  Peter, the mob's gonna wise up pretty soon if they haven't already. He's targeting their women. Now, what do you think they're gonna do to him?

  Peter Sipes : They're not gonna do anything. He's gonna hide. I cut him off. I'm broke. I can't pay his bills anymore.

  Elliot Stabler : Which means he's a dead man. He's got an addiction. He can't lay low for long.

  Olivia Benson : If you love him, turn him in.

• Elliot Stabler : [to Claudia Williams]  What's your next move?

  Asst. US Attorney Claudia Williams : That's just it, Detective. I don't have one.