Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Doubt (2004)

Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler

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• Olivia Benson : What happened between you and Kathy?

  Elliot Stabler : [shrugs]  Uhh, the job. Makes me kind of hard to live with.

  Olivia Benson : She should try working with you.

• Olivia Benson : So Warner says that the other DNA sample on Myra's teddy is indeed Justin Wexler's.

  Casey Novak : Good, I don't think that's going to hurt us with the jury too much.

  Elliot Stabler : The fact she wore sexy silk underwear to Polikoff's sure will.

  Olivia Benson : That's not an invitation for rape.

  Elliot Stabler : Maybe she didn't even see it as rape until he told her to leave.

  Olivia Benson : Elliot...

  Casey Novak : Guys, I can't prosecute this until you agree. Call me when you get on the same page.

• Elliot Stabler : What's your name, sir?

  Ron Polikoff : Ron Polikoff. I know Myra. Is she okay?

  Elliot Stabler : She says she was raped. Know anything about that, Mr. Polikoff?

  Ron Polikoff : She's going to say I did it.

• Olivia Benson : [to Stabler]  What is your problem with Myra?

  Elliot Stabler : She's neurotic. Look, she chased after a guy whose life is falling apart.

  Olivia Benson : So that gives him the right to force her to have sex?

  Elliot Stabler : She was the one who wanted to have sex.

  Olivia Benson : Really? Did she want to be strangled, too?

  Elliot Stabler : A lot of people do.

  Olivia Benson : Elliot, what's wrong with you?

  Elliot Stabler : What's wrong with me? Myra hasn't told a consistent story yet! She lied about when he looked at her portfolio!

  Olivia Benson : Right, maybe he lied! It's her word against his!

  Elliot Stabler : Yeah, but her words can put him in prison for 10 years! She hails a cab instead of calling the cops? She doesn't even mention rape until she's about to be arrested!

  Olivia Benson : Elliot, rape victims are in shock. They're in denial. You know that!, you've seen it.

  Elliot Stabler : I've also seen liars.

• Donald Cragen : [to Lorna Scarry about Stabler]  That's enough, Counselor. In 12 years, there has never been a complaint against this man.

  Lorna Scarry : Men change especially when their wives file for legal separation. My investigator checked the court documents. He also found out that your wife took the kids and moved in with her mother.

  Elliot Stabler : You have no right to use my personal life to make your case.

• Olivia Benson : Elliot, stop! Hey! What's going on?

  Elliot Stabler : I touched her in an inappropriate manner. Didn't you hear?

  Olivia Benson : I don't believe that. Forget that. What's going on at home?

  Elliot Stabler : Nothing.

  Olivia Benson : Hey, would you talk to me?

  Elliot Stabler : Kathy left me.

• Elliot Stabler : [to Ron about Myra]  You're her professor, you call the shots, but you were helpless?

  Ron Polikoff : Look, my wife left me nine months ago and I was lonely and I wasn't thinking straight. And this Myra, she came at me like a Like a bird hits your windshield. You know? And I just went off the road, I crashed. Haven't you felt that way? You think you're in control, but you're not?

• Donald Cragen : [to Stabler about Myra's allegation of sexual harassment]  Why did you get into a car alone with a female victim?

  Elliot Stabler : It was 3:00 in the morning, the sector car was going to be an hour late.

  Donald Cragen : Why not just drop her at her building? Why go inside?

  Elliot Stabler : Captain, that girl was dead on her feet. She lives in a fifth-floor walk-up.

  Donald Cragen : That it?

  Elliot Stabler : No, I wanted to size her up.

  Donald Cragen : You should've done that in the precinct.

  Elliot Stabler : You really think that lawyer's going to file a complaint?

  Donald Cragen : I think Scarry's just trying to bully us. We arrest Polikoff, this will all go away.

  Elliot Stabler : I thought we decide who we arrest.

  Donald Cragen : We do, and you are done with Myra Denning.

• Elliot Stabler : [about Ron Polikoff]  Isn't he smart? He comes forward, he says, "I did it" and we all think he's a stand-up guy.

  Donald Cragen : Maybe that's what he is.

  Elliot Stabler : He just manipulated the hell out of his daughter and he's manipulating us. The first time that I saw him, he walked right up to me and he said, "She's going to say I raped her." This guy's good.

  Olivia Benson : So now you don't believe him.