Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Doubt (2004)

Dann Florek: Captain Donald 'Don' Cragen

Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.