Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 7 Episode 4

Rebecca Hendrix (about Stabler's father): He never helped you with your homework?
Elliot Stabler: Once, when I was in fifth grade. I had to make this diorama. Do you remember those things? The models you put in shoe boxes?
Rebecca Hendrix: Sure.
Elliot Stabler: It was about the Civil War. He told me where the put the cannons, the soldiers, the trees...
Rebecca Hendrix: Did you get a good grade?
Elliot Stabler: What?
Rebecca Hendrix: Did you get a good grade?
Elliot Stabler: What difference does that make?
Rebecca Hendrix: It's just a question.

Rebecca Hendrix: What was your relationship like with your dad? What did you used to do together?
Elliot Stabler: Watch TV, play ball, go fishing.
Rebecca Hendrix: Anything else?
Elliot Stabler: Like what?
Rebecca Hendrix: You tell me.
Elliot Stabler: He worked four to twelve, so I didn't spend a lot of time with him.

Rebecca Hendrix (about Stabler's father losing his pension): How did he take that?
Elliot Stabler: Like it was the end of the world. And I'm not him.
Rebecca Hendrix: I never said you were.
Elliot Stabler: Why all these questions?
Rebecca Hendrix: I have to know you to help you.

Rebecca Hendrix: Why wasn't your father proud?
Elliot Stabler: I never said that.
Rebecca Hendrix: You never answered the question.
Elliot Stabler: You're putting words in my mouth. Don't put words in my mouth. I don't like it.

Rebecca Hendrix (about Stabler's father): Did he want you to go into the family business?
Elliot Stabler: Kathy was pregnant. I needed the money.
Rebecca Hendrix: Is it what you wanted?
Elliot Stabler: I wanted to be a cop, yeah, all my life.

Rebecca Hendrix: Did your captain give you a clue before he cut you loose?
Elliot Stabler: Only about a million times. I just always blew it. What I can I tell you, I don't like being ordered around.
Rebecca Hendrix: You don't like being ordered around, why'd you become a cop?
Elliot Stabler: My father was on the job.
Rebecca Hendrix: He must be proud of you.
Elliot Stabler: He's dead.

Rebecca Hendrix (about his job): What do you love about it?
Elliot Stabler: Getting justice for the victims and the pervs off the street. And I'm not burned out.
Rebecca Hendrix: Were you burned out on your marriage?
Elliot Stabler: I told you, she bailed. Not me.

Rebecca Hendrix: How long have you been at SVU?
Elliot Stabler: Twelve years.
Rebecca Hendrix: The average tour is two.
Elliot Stabler: I love my job.

Rebecca Hendrix: How many times have you thought about eating your gun?
Elliot Stabler: Suicide is a sin.
Rebecca Hendrix: So is divorce.

Rebecca Hendrix (about Kathy): Why did she leave?
Elliot Stabler (laughing): She's tired of me being angry all the time.
Rebecca Hendrix: Did you ever talk about it?
Elliot Stabler: Yeah, I went to a priest for counseling. Next thing I know, she wanted out.

Rebecca Hendrix: You didn't go home.
Elliot Stabler: What's the point? No one's there. My wife left me last year. She took the kids with her.

Elliot Stabler: How did Pamela's blood end up on your shirt?
Luke Breslin: What? I don't know.
Elliot Stabler: She does.

Elliot Stabler: I've known Luke since he was a baby. Always a sweet kid.
Olivia Benson: Well, you haven't seen him since before he hit puberty. And he's not so sweet anymore.

Olivia Benson: (coming in after Elliot beats Pete to a bloody pulp) Elliot, what the he-- happened?
Elliot Stabler: (dazed) I don't know.

Elliot Stabler: I did everything I was supposed to do. I work hard. I got a good job. I never cheated on my wife... It wasn't supposed to happen this way.
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix: But it did.

Elliot Stabler: He said I was weak. He called me a failure. He called me that a lot.
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix: What did you see in that mirror today, Elliot?
Elliot Stabler: The guy my father always saw.

(After finding steroids in Luke's locker.)
Fin Tutuola: You running a juice bar here buster?
Gym Manager: That stuff'll give you pimples and shrink your balls. I swear, I don't know where it came from.