Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Confrontation (2006)
Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler
Quotes
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Detective Dani Beck : These phone calls just started coming in from Attica.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Someone you collared?
Detective Dani Beck : One of my husband's killers.
Detective Elliot Stabler : I didn't know your husband, but I heard he was a straight shooter.
Detective Dani Beck : Two 15-year-olds got pulled over in a stolen car. One of them had a bench warrant, so he was on the run. I was sitting in our favorite restaurant, waiting and fuming. They shot Mike in the head. By the time I got home, I was ready to light him up, but then I... uh... saw the brass at the door. He was dead, shot by two morons who didn't even have the sense to ditch the gun.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Did they get life?
Detective Dani Beck : The shooter just died in a prison fight.
Detective Elliot Stabler : So you won't talk to him on the phone, but you'll drive up to Attica and have a face-to-face with him?
Detective Dani Beck : I went to see the cop killer's dead body.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Dani, I understand you need closure, but that's not the way to get it.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : You're an office manager. You were fired from being a scientist.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [about a rape victim who called him before her murder] All she said was she wanted her life back.
Dr. Melinda Warner : She didn't want to be a victim anymore.
Detective Elliot Stabler : [pause] Who does?
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [after a female rape victim is found dead after fighting back against her rapist] Elizabeth Hassenback, 30-year-old white female, raped 17 days ago. Rape kit came up negative for semen.
Dr. Melinda Warner : The rapist came back for more?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Yeah, and then some. The bruising around her neck matches the impact baton. That's what happens when civilians take matters into their own hands.
Dr. Melinda Warner : Blaming the victim's not usually your style, Elliot.
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Megan Carlisle : [while being questioned about her rapist] I'm pregnant, fat, and unattractive. I'm sure it turned him off.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Rape isn't about sex. It's about power and rage.
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Detective Dani Beck : [to Stabler] You have something to say?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Like what?
Detective Dani Beck : The usual. I'm too hard on the victims. I lack social grace.
Detective Elliot Stabler : True, but no. Megan Carlisle was lying in there. Even money says that baby is not her husband's.
Detective Dani Beck : She's deluded or she wants a baby so badly, she's willing to protect the perp.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Right, well, either way, it's a delicate situation.
Detective Dani Beck : Having a baby by a rapist isn't something you hide from your husband. Tell me that's not twisted.
Detective Elliot Stabler : My old partner's a child of rape.
Detective Dani Beck : Different era. There's no abortions, no options.
Detective Elliot Stabler : You're saying it was easy for Olivia's mom?
Detective Dani Beck : I'm saying decisions are simple when you have no choice.
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Detective Geiger : [to Cragen] How many rape collars you handle a year?
Donald Cragen : Several hundred.
Detective Geiger : How many of them attack the same woman twice?
[No one answers him]
Detective Geiger : That's what I thought.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Well, I've got a victim in the morgue who was raped twice by the same guy. Gina Maylor was attacked not twice, but three times, and didn't report it because she knew you wouldn't believe her.
Detective Geiger : I got a mother who cooked her baby in the microwave. A five-year-old whose uncle can't keep his hands to himself. An 18-year-old college-bound student who tried to break up with her boyfriend. She got acid burned and sodomized in retaliation. I got real victims to hand-hold and walk through the system. You buy Maylor's story, you're welcome to the file, but don't ever tell me how to do my job!
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Gina Maylor : [to Stabler and Beck] What if he's watching now? If you don't catch him, what do you think he'll do to me after you're gone?
Detective Elliot Stabler : We have plainclothes officers doing a sweep and you'll be at a safe house. Now, I can't guarantee that we'll catch him, but you'll have protection.
Gina Maylor : For how long?
Detective Dani Beck : Until you take your life back.
Gina Maylor : That's easy for you to say. I have every right to be afraid. He's raped me three times.
Detective Dani Beck : And we're trying to stop him from doing it again. Or have you given up?
Gina Maylor : You think I like it?
Detective Dani Beck : I think you can't sit in this apartment waiting for the other shoe to drop. I think you need to remember what kind of woman you are and get pissed off. Or you're gonna be a victim for the rest of your life.
Gina Maylor : I guess I better go pack a few things.
[leaves the room to go pack her things]
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Dani] When are you gonna get it?
Detective Dani Beck : I didn't say anything she didn't need to hear.
Detective Elliot Stabler : You're not qualified to be her counselor and I'll tell you another thing, you don't belong in this unit.
Detective Dani Beck : Yeah, well, maybe you've been in this unit a little too long.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Really?
Detective Dani Beck : Yeah, really. These victims don't need your broad shoulders to cry on. They need information. Once raped, a woman is seven times more likely to be raped again. Could that have something to do with their behavior?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Right now, you're proving my point by blaming the victim.
Detective Dani Beck : I am not blaming them. All I'm saying is, women need to be better prepared. Be aware of their surroundings, watch where they park and look at any strange guy's approach with caution and suspicion.
Detective Elliot Stabler : That's fear.
Detective Dani Beck : No, that's survival. Predators use psychology just like you and me. And last time I checked, they outnumbered us.