Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Rage (2005)
Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler
Quotes
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Detective Elliot Stabler : Did you think I froze? Is that why you fired first?
Detective Olivia Benson : I fired first, because you would've killed him.
Detective Elliot Stabler : He deserves to die.
Detective Olivia Benson : Maybe he does. But he wanted you to kill him. He wanted you to always remember that you took his life. Not 'cause you had to, but because you were angry.
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Gordon Rickett : What do you know about controlling anything?
Detective Elliot Stabler : I don't murder people.
Gordon Rickett : Give it time. You say you see something in me? Well, I see something in you, too. You think you control. You can't. You're controlled. By your boss, by your job, by your wife, your kids. What would you be if all those controls went away?
Detective Elliot Stabler : I'd be you.
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Donald Cragen : Elliot, we're almost five hours into this.
Detective Elliot Stabler : I can still get to him.
Donald Cragen : We've gotta start thinking about a different tactic than getting creative with takeout.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Listen to that last thing Rickett said about kids. They're greedy. They're out of control. They're stupid. Now, for Rickett, that is the worst insult he can give.
Donald Cragen : This guy is never gonna confess.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Captain, I know this guy. He's like an addict. He's hooked on the rage. Not expressing it, controlling it. He gets off on denying himself an outlet for his anger. And it builds and it builds till he finds a girl and he takes it out on her.
Donald Cragen : Rickett was playing you in there. He was perfectly in control. Were you? Rickett thinks he's in charge. You make sure he knows he's not. Just keep pushing his buttons. See which one lights him up.
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Gordon Rickett : I'm gonna show them.
Detective Elliot Stabler : You're gonna show them, aren't you?
Gordon Rickett : Yeah.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Who?
Gordon Rickett : Everybody.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Yeah, 'cause no one's innocent. Your bosses...
Gordon Rickett : That's right.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Your girlfriends...
Gordon Rickett : Yeah.
Detective Elliot Stabler : The kids.
Gordon Rickett : Even the kids!
Detective Elliot Stabler : What are you going to do to them?
Gordon Rickett : I'm going to hurt the kids! Hurt your kids, Stabler!
Detective Elliot Stabler : We're talking about Kerry Lynn Palmer...
Gordon Rickett : I'm going to kill all the kids! What are you going to do about it, huh?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Tell me how you killed her.
Gordon Rickett : Then I'm going to kill their puppies and I'm going to kill their kitties! I'm a psycho killer! What are you going to do about it? Huh? Come on! Come on! I'm a psycho killer! What are you going to do about it, huh? What are you going to do? Come on! Come on!
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Rickett] I don't need a PhD to know what kind of person you are. You're a loser, but you had a tough childhood, that makes you special? That makes you a victim? You're nothing. You contribute nothing. The reason your life sucks is because you've done nothing.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Rickett] You know, working in SVU, I learned the difference between a pedophile and a man who rapes children. You don't care about the kids. You hate the kids. It's not about attraction, or power, or dominance. It's about annihilation. You defile and destroy her because she has what you'll never have. Hope. Trust. Potential.
Gordon Rickett : Is that why I do it?
Detective Elliot Stabler : That's part of it. The other part, the part that I've been trying to get at all night, is the rage. You're very good at hiding it. It's unbelievable, but I know it's there. I mean, I can see it, even when you're sitting still like now. Gordon, you're kidding yourself if you think you're controlling it. It's controlling you. Every lie you tell to cover your inadequacies, every perceived insult you think you're getting, just feeds it.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Rickett] I should do to you what you do to those little girls. I should put you in pigtails, you little bitch. Come on, you little bitch. I want you to cry for me. Come on! Tell me!
[spits on him]
Detective Elliot Stabler : Come on! Cry for me!
Fin Tutuola : Elliot!
Detective Elliot Stabler : [pushes Fin away] Get out!
[to Rickett]
Detective Elliot Stabler : Come on, man! Come on! Come on, you little bitch!