Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Streetwise (2008)
Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler
Quotes
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Detective Olivia Benson : Where's Josie?
Cole Roderick : Haven't seen her for weeks.
Detective Elliot Stabler : What kind of father are you, don't even know where your children are?
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Captain Donald Cragen : That girl is starving.
Detective Elliot Stabler : You want us to bribe her with food?
Detective Olivia Benson : I think coercion is more like it.
Captain Donald Cragen : Interventions aren't always pretty.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : So what happened that night?
Josie : Cassidy heard the rich girl call my dad a name.
Detective Olivia Benson : And what name was that?
Josie : Stupid fag. That's a no-no. Time for S.O.S.
Detective Olivia Benson : S.O.S.?
Josie : Stomp On Sight.
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Cassidy Cornell : I went to the shelter to look for Josie. I didn't think Cole was gonna go there.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Where would he take her?
Cassidy Cornell : I don't know.
Detective Olivia Benson : Why should we believe you?
Cassidy Cornell : I wouldn't lie. My being here is putting all of my other kids at risk.
Detective Elliot Stabler : But they're not your kids.
Cassidy Cornell : I take care of them when they're sick, I listen to their problems, I tuck them in at night. I do all the things that a good mother would do, okay?
Detective Olivia Benson : A good mother doesn't let her kids rob and kill.
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Detective Olivia Benson : [to Cassidy about Cole's whereabouts] Where is he, Cassidy?
Cassidy Cornell : I don't know.
Detective Elliot Stabler : You keep telling us what a great mother you are.
[about Josie]
Detective Elliot Stabler : That's your daughter then! That's your daughter and that son of a bitch killed her.
Cassidy Cornell : I don't think you get it! Cole Roderick saved my life! Before I met him, my mom rented my body to her drug dealers for three years! It was hell!
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Detective Olivia Benson : [to Cassidy] Shelby must have seen you in the park that night. You freaked out. You knew that she was gonna blast your fantasy life to pieces.
Detective Elliot Stabler : She didn't call Cole a stupid fag, hmm? You just told him she did because you knew he'd fall for it.
Detective Olivia Benson : You had to stop her from running back to school and saying that she saw Helen wearing rags in Central Park. 'cause you knew your parents would come looking for you.
Cassidy Cornell : I didn't want to go back. My life was a living hell.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Hell? With a cook and a chauffeur?
Cassidy Cornell : You don't understand.
Detective Olivia Benson : No, I don't understand a girl who has everything lying about being raped.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : Doug's lying.
Detective Olivia Benson : Well, I like Anna for it, El. Girls can do crazy things when they're pushed.
Detective Elliot Stabler : And when a woman cheats on her man, he can blow a gasket.
Captain Donald Cragen : [entering] What about Tony wham-bam? His DNA come back?
Detective Olivia Benson : Yup. And it's a match.
Detective Elliot Stabler : But the manager at the Roxy alibied him.
Captain Donald Cragen : So Shelby wasn't raped. Fluids are from the quickie she had in the stairwell.
Detective Olivia Benson : Well, one of these two killed Shelby.
Captain Donald Cragen : Put the rats in the cage, let 'em fight it out.
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Detective Olivia Benson : Josie, if you talk to us, we can help you. But if you keep us the silent treatment, then there's nothing we can do. Now, we know that you pawned Shelby's earring. But I don't think that you killed her by yourself, so who helped you?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Was it Cole? Daddy's little girl help him do it?
Josie : [spitting on him] Don't talk about my dad.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Thanks for joining us.
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Josie : I won't rat the only person who cares about me.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Social worker at the shelter cares about you.
Josie : Paige isn't family. Dad's all I got.
Detective Olivia Benson : What about your real parents?
Josie : Those asswipes? When I told my mom her boyfriend was sneaking into my room at night, she blamed me and kicked me out. I was nine.
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Detective Olivia Benson : Cole got twenty-five years for each murder, consecutive.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Life without parole. Sounds about right.
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Cassidy Cornell : They never had any time for me except to boss me around. 'Don't slouch dear, eat your vegetables, call your tutor, get to your lessons, keep up your grades or you won't get into a good college!' They smothered me with their rules.
Detective Elliot Stabler : They acted like parents.
Cassidy Cornell : No! I'm a parent and I would NEVER act that way.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Right, and now six people are dead.
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Cole Roderick : I'm a provider. They come to me as refugees from Babylon.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Babylon?
Cole Roderick : Yeah, your world. Where drones work McJobs and have no idea what it is to really be free. Where adults prey on children for sex behind closed doors. I set them free.
Detective Elliot Stabler : You make them rob and murder for you.
Cole Roderick : Whatever they do, they do to support the only real father they have ever known.
Detective Elliot Stabler : You've got some set on you saying you're a real father.
Cole Roderick : My father was a violent bastard who used to pound on me for laughs, okay? It was run or die. I've been on the streets my whole life. I understand my kids because they're just like me.
Detective Elliot Stabler : They're your pawns. You're a sociopath.
Cole Roderick : [stands up] And you're a hypocrite!
Detective Elliot Stabler : Sit down.
Cole Roderick : You lock up your kids and you call that love. I give them real love. Freedom to be themselves, freedom from the abuse.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Yeah, and if they cross you, you kill them.
Cole Roderick : If someone threatened your family, wouldn't you kill to protect them?
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Chester Lake : Remember that robbery in Riverside Park a couple months back where the victim was knocked out and chained to a tree?
Detective Elliot Stabler : It was all over the papers. They never found the guy.
Chester Lake : Read the last paragraph.
Detective Olivia Benson : "While the crow slept, the boss lion chained her to a tree. That made it easy to pluck her feathers. The lion cubs said it was the perfect crime."
Chester Lake : I had Manhattan Robbery pull the file. The victim said she was knocked out with a chain.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Just like Paige and Shelby. Josie's writing about her family's crimes.
Chester Lake : This one worries me most. It describes a bloody battle between lions and crows. "Three crows are buried in graves throughout a kingdom."
Detective Olivia Benson : A group of lions is called a pride.
Chester Lake : And a group of crows is called a murder.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Josie can finger Cole for three more homicides.
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Cole Roderick : You're gonna break my wrist!
Detective Elliot Stabler : I'm Irish, but I'm not that lucky. Cole Roderick, you're under arrest for the murder of Shelby Crawford, Paige Beddles, and Josie Knox. You have the right to remain silent. If you give up that right, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
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Dr. Melinda Warner : Jane Doe's blood alcohol was elevated; .1.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Well, she must have been partying before she hit the park. CSU didn't find a bottle.
Dr. Melinda Warner : And I found paint residue in the head wound. I'm trying to match the color.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Could it have come from one of the paintballers?
Dr. Melinda Warner : [holding up a paintball pellet] These pellets are made of water, sorbitol, and wax. Residue in your victim's head wound is black latex wall paint mixed with rust flakes.
Detective Olivia Benson : Any luck with the players' DNA?
Dr. Melinda Warner : They're clear. No match to the semen in your victim's panties.
Detective Olivia Benson : So all we know is something black and rusty killed her.
Dr. Melinda Warner : Not quite. I saved the good news for last.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Rapist's in the system?
Dr. Melinda Warner : No. Your victim is. Her name's Shelby Crawford.
Detective Elliot Stabler : What was she collared for?
Dr. Melinda Warner : DUI. Wrapped her Saab around a lamppost.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : You recognize them?
Cole Roderick : Man, get this stuff away from me.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Matter, Cole? You don't like tripping down memory lane?
Cole Roderick : No, I don't like liars. You PhotoShopped all that.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Well, we sure as hell didn't fake these. Read 'em. They're crime stories. Read 'em. They're yours. Even after you killed Josie, she still helped us nail your ass to the wall.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : Just look at her. Eyes gouged out, her cheeks split from ear to ear.
Cassidy Cornell : Please, stop!
Detective Olivia Benson : Stop? I'll bet that's what Josie said, only Cole wouldn't listen. The Medical Examiner says she was tortured for over 12 hours.
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Doug Walshen : God, I can't believe Shelby's dead. I... I worshiped her.
Detective Elliot Stabler : She worship you back?
Doug Walshen : What are you talking about?
Detective Elliot Stabler : [showing him the picture he got from Shelby's parents] You know, I got this picture from last night, and she looks like she's about to have a root canal.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Cassidy] Everything out of your mouth has been a lie. Here's the truth: you stood around while Cole busted heads. You're not responsible? You're not an uptown girl, you're not a street kid, so who the hell are you?
Cassidy Cornell : Does it make you feel like a big, tough guy? Boss people around and flash your little badge like it actually means something? Well, guess what, man? It means nothing!
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Detective Elliot Stabler : What do we got?
Detective Olivia Benson : Jane Doe. Rape/homicide.
Dr. Melinda Warner : From the lividity, I'd put time of death around ten p.m. C.O.D. blunt force trauma to the head.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Perp hit her with a rock?
Detective Olivia Benson : If he did, he took it with him as a souvenir.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Beat her up pretty bad. Forensics?
Dr. Melinda Warner : Fluids in her underpants.
Detective Olivia Benson : A weekend warrior found her while they were playing paintball. All the players volunteered their DNA.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Her earlobes are torn. Perp take the earrings?
Dr. Melinda Warner : He left one behind. There's blood on the wire.
Detective Elliot Stabler : He dropped it when he fled.
Dr. Melinda Warner : It's an Engel. Very expensive.
[Stabler gives her a look wondering how she knows that]
Dr. Melinda Warner : My sister's a buyer at Saks.
Detective Olivia Benson : We'll send a notice to all the pawn shops in the tri-state.
Dr. Melinda Warner : He'll definitely hock it. One of these babies is worth five grand.
Detective Elliot Stabler : It sure as hell wasn't worth this.