Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Ripped (2005)
Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler
Quotes
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Detective Elliot Stabler : [in a therapy session after Elliot beats up a cop who was beating up his teenage son; talking about Elliot's memories of his father]
[Dr. Hendrix asks if Elliot's father ever helped him with his homework]
Detective Elliot Stabler : Once, when I was in fifth grade. I had to make this diorama. Remember those things? The model you put in shoe boxes?
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : Sure.
Detective Elliot Stabler : It was about the Civil War. And he told me where the put the cannons, and the soldiers, the trees... Nay, forget it.
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : Did you get a good grade?
Detective Elliot Stabler : What?
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : Did you get a good grade?
Detective Elliot Stabler : What difference does that make?
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : It's just a question.
Detective Elliot Stabler : I don't understand what you want from me.
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : The truth. I want you to start talking... really talking. What grade did you get on the diorama?
Detective Elliot Stabler : An F!
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : You failed.
Detective Elliot Stabler : I didn't hand it in.
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : Why not?
Detective Elliot Stabler : I moved one of the trees. And my father saw it as I was leaving for school. He took it out of my hands and he threw it on the ground and he stomped on it.
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : It must have really hurt when he did that.
Detective Elliot Stabler : He took off his belt and he beat me with it... Because I cried... and only... pan... pansies cry...
[he starts to cry]
Detective Elliot Stabler : He said I was weak, and called me a failure. He called me that a lot.
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : What did you see in that mirror today, Elliot?
Detective Elliot Stabler : The guy my father always saw.
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : You're not weak. You're so busy being strong, and helping everyone, you've got nothing left for yourself. It takes a lot more balls to talk about your problems, than beat the hell out of a ghost.
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Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : [Elliot starts to walk out on his session] Where are you going? How many times have you thought about eating your gun?
Detective Elliot Stabler : [indignant] Suicide's a sin.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : I left a message for Huang. He's gonna come in and talk to him.
Olivia Benson : Since when do we call the shrink before we make the collar?
Detective Elliot Stabler : I just think there's another explanation.
Olivia Benson : It may not be worth it to make Pamela relive what happened? Who are you kidding? You're trying to make this go away.
Detective Elliot Stabler : I've known Luke since he was a baby. Always a sweet kid.
Olivia Benson : Elliot, you haven't seen him since before he hit puberty and he's not so sweet anymore.
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Donald Cragen : [to Stabler] What are you doing? You told the Sawyers that Pamela's better off not making a complaint.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Olivia tell you that?
Donald Cragen : No, Pamela's parents. This is worse than breaking the rules this time. You put the entire squad's credibility on the line.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Captain...
Donald Cragen : You did everything you could to get your ex-partner's kid a pass.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Captain...
Donald Cragen : As of right this minute, you are on vacation. Just get your ass out of my sight before I do something we both regret.
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Detective Elliot Stabler : I, uh, don't like being ordered around.
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix : You don't like being ordered around? Why'd you become a cop?