Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Outcry (2004)
Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler
Quotes
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Elliot Stabler : [to Jamie Barrigan about the press hounding Tandi] The poor kid has been through enough already. Why do you have to make her life more miserable?
Jamie Barrigan : Because she's news.
Elliot Stabler : Tens of thousands go missing every year. What makes Tandi big news?
Jamie Barrigan : Same reason Chandra Levy and Elizabeth Smart were big news. They're young, cute and white.
Elliot Stabler : Whatever it takes to sell your paper.
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Detective Olivia Benson : Tandi is too young and too traumatized to think for herself right now.
Elliot Stabler : So you're thinking for her, is that it?
Detective Olivia Benson : What else could I do?
[Elliot says nothing]
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Elliot Stabler : [to Olivia] Social Services Law? What was that crap?
Detective Olivia Benson : If Tandi goes home, we lose our evidence. Bastard gets away with it and he rapes another kid.
Elliot Stabler : Liv, you crossed the line.
Detective Olivia Benson : That girl is too young and too scared to think for herself.
Elliot Stabler : So you're gonna think for her now, huh?
Detective Olivia Benson : What else could I do?
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Donald Cragen : Tandi McCain was always news, Elliot.
Elliot Stabler : Well, I made her bigger news the second I talked to that journalist. We're trying to catch the bad guys, they're trying to make headlines.
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Detective Olivia Benson : [after hearing Tandi has been arrested for filing a false police report] You arrested a rape victim?
Donald Cragen : She said she wasn't raped. Tandi McCain has done nothing but lie and she nearly got an innocent kid killed in the process. We have to send a message.
Detective Olivia Benson : What, by dragging a teenager out of her home?
Elliot Stabler : Look, Liv, every false allegation of rape just makes it harder for the real victims to be believed.
Detective Olivia Benson : Look, the girl obviously didn't know what she was doing.
Donald Cragen : She seemed clear enough when she recanted on national TV.
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Elliot Stabler : Ya know Tandi's face was on the TV and newspaper all weekend long. How come you didn't report seeing her?
Lawrence Ulman : I guess I just didn't put two and two together.
Elliot Stabler : Yeah, I could see where that would be a problem for you.
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Detective Olivia Benson : Elliot, don't beat yourself up over this.
Elliot Stabler : The bastards put that kid in a coma, they out Tandi as a rape victim, I helped them do it.
Detective Olivia Benson : The press says that Tandi's a public figure. That makes her fair game. There's nothing that you can do about it.
Elliot Stabler : Oh, yeah?