Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 2 Episode 1

Alexandra Cabot: Who is this man?
Michael Goran: No, he'll kill me.
Alexandra Cabot: He can't hurt you.
Michael Goran: You don't know his powers.
Alexandra Cabot: Michael, you are in the custody of the city of New York, he can't get to you.
Michael Goran: He can get to anybody, and he will to protect the secret.
Alexandra Cabot: A Child molester only has power as long as his secret is kept. You tell the truth, his power is gone. What's his name Michael?

Elliot Stabler: What are you doing up?
Maureen Stabler: I couldn't sleep.
Elliot Stabler: What's the matter? You got nightmares?
Maureen Stabler: You have to sleep to have nightmares.
Elliot Stabler: Right. What was I thinking? You want something to drink?
Maureen Stabler: No. Dad. What that boy Michael did to that man...
Elliot Stabler: That man was supposed to take care of Michael. And instead he molested him. He abused him physically, he betrayed his trust and I think Michael...just had enough.
Maureen Stabler: So what happens now?
Elliot Stabler: He's probably gonna go to prison. All he's gotta do is tell the truth. What is it with you kids?
Maureen Stabler: It's hard to talk to adults.
Elliot Stabler: Why?
Maureen Stabler: You're always judging us. You expect us to be like you and get mad if we're not. It's just easier to talk to our friends.
Elliot Stabler: What if you don't have any friends?
Maureen Stabler: Everybody's got friends.

Emil Skoda: How long have you been on the force?
Elliot Stabler: 14 years.
Emil Skoda: In all those years, how many murders have actually made sense?
Elliot Stabler: None. But ... some I understood.
Emil Skoda: But this one ... you let get under your skin. Why?
Elliot Stabler: This one, my daughter saw.

John Munch: Reevaluation stinks.
Monique Jeffries: Truly. Best crime stats in thirty years and they're reevaluating?
John Munch: It's how it works. We get rid of the criminals they fear, they start fearing us. Public hates tough cops 'til they need one.

(After talking with Cragen about the hearing about if he could keep his job.)
Kathy Stabler: So?
Elliot Stabler: The Morris Commission cleared me.

(Talking to the Morris Commission and showing them pictures of victims.)
Donald Cragen: This little boy's mother stuck his hands on a frying pan until his fingers burned off ... this rape victim required twelve hours of surgery to have a steel plate put into her head after her attacker pummeled her with a claw hammer ... this one didn't make it ... is there anybody on this panel who doesn't share Detective Stabler's anger for the perpetrators? This man is a good cop. As his commanding officer, I stand with him and every good cop who faces these horrors day after day and has the strength to keep his impulses in check. Now if you can look at these pictures and not understand that, the problem here isn't Elliot Stabler, is it?

Alex Cabot: (to Michael Goren) A child molester only has power as long as his secret is kept. You tell the truth, his power is gone.

Elliot Stabler: You're protecting your win-loss ratio.
Donald Cragen: Elliot.
Alex Cabot: It's okay, Captain. Detective Stabler's judgment is clouded by the stress of the Morris Commission's review and the fact that Michael did what he fantasizes about -- kill a perpetrator.
Donald Cragen: It's not my fantasy and I stand with Detective Stabler on this.

Olivia Benson: Hey. How'd it go?
Elliot Stabler: I talked too much. Again.

Alex Cabot: (very fast) You want me to secure a search warrant for the offices of a defense contractor to search classified, national security files for evidence in a sexually motivated homicide?
John Munch: Yes, you got a problem with that?
(Alex dials the phone.)
Alex Cabot: Judge Hermann, please. (pauses) Uncle Bill ... look, I need a little favor.
(Next scene; Munch slaps the warrant down on the desk at Radial Velocity.)
Craig Prince: You've got to be kidding me.
John Munch: You said we should try.