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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, season 17
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Devil's Dissections [17.01]
Barba: Rollins, all due respect...
Rollins: Don't start a sentence that way.
Barba: Yates wants to touch his fiancee Susie Frain? Hasn't he "touched" enough women already?
Benson: Look, they've been together 20 years.…
Read the full quoteCriminal Pathology [17.02]
Hencamp: So, you got a cross-dressing rapist murderer in your M.E.'s office. You guys down in New York City sure are progressive.
Dr. Rudnick: A young man like yourself, working at SVU... it has to be depressing.
Sonny…
Read the full quoteTransgender Bridge [17.03]
Sonny: Is she conscious?
Officer: In and out. And she's not a she.
Rollins: Transgender?
Officer: Boy dressed as a girl? That makes him... her a special victim, right?…
Read the full quoteInstitutional Fail [17.04]
Fin: Manuela Azuna?
Manuela: What you got?
Fin: We got your kids. Get up!
Manuela: What do you mean? They're my kids! I'm their mother!…
Read the full quoteCommunity Policing [17.05]
Barba: I have to convene a grand jury. The DA says it's my last chance to work my way back into the good graces of City Hall.
Benson: So they're hanging you out to dry.
Barba: Politicians want an indictment, DA wants an…
Read the full quoteMaternal Instincts [17.06]
Rollins: My sister. The gift that keeps on giving.
Rollins: Mom, you gotta talk to Kim. She is making a mistake.
Beth Anne: She is? You're the one who had her arrested. You used me to set up my own daughter! If you…
Read the full quotePatrimonial Burden [17.07]
Eldon: On the advice of counsel, the Bakers won't be speaking to you anymore. They've gone back upstate.
Fin: That's OK, Pastor - we want you.
Eldon: Oh?
Dodds: In July, when Lane was on her mission trip, you were with…
Read the full quoteMelancholy Pursuit [17.08]
Benson: [about Gary] He lawyer up yet?
Fin: Not yet, but we don't need his statement.
Sonny: We know it's him. We got the DNA, Lily's blood, fibers from the moving blankets, ratchet straps in the van...
Dodds: Yeah, but…
Read the full quoteDepravity Standard [17.09]
Sonny: Lisa Hassler. Wow. Her old man is a legend.
Barba: Yeah. She's still trying to impress him. He's been dead for 11 years.
Barba: [to Benson] Lewis Hodda may walk if Hassler can make it look like your emotions are…
Read the full quoteCatfishing Teacher [17.10]
Rollins: Look, thank you so much for meeting me for lunch. I have been going stir crazy on maternity leave.
Sonny: How's being a mom?
Rollins: You were right. It's... it's the greatest thing ever.
O'Dwyer: Do you usually…
Read the full quoteTownhouse Incident [17.11]
Dodds: Anybody use a heavy bag in the weight room? I brought my gloves.
Fin: You box?
Dodds: Yeah. The Golden Gloves, some Pro Am. You?
Fin: [grins] I don't wanna hurt you.…
Read the full quoteA Misunderstanding [17.12]
Dodds: They made Chris look like Harry Potter.
Benson: We've seen this before. The nerd defense.
Ellen: [to Abby] Do you understand that you're ruining my son's life?
Benson: Hey, you need to stop talking.…
Read the full quoteForty-One Witnesses [17.13]
Henderson: You need my client's testimony. According to the Daily News, no one in the victim's apartment saw anything.
Barba: Okay, so which is it: He was there but didn't participate, or he wasn't there? What about his…
Read the full quoteNationwide Manhunt [17.14]
Dr. Rudnick: People say life is short, but in fact, life is, mostly of course, very long. You want to stay in your best shape.
Rollins: I hate being coddled. I mean what, I have a baby and all of a sudden I can't talk to…
Read the full quoteCollateral Damages [17.15]
Rollins: Stay in this job long enough, all your heroes die.
Benson: An attaboy from Hank Abraham?
Barba: Cue the apocalypse.
Pippa: I married him. I slept with him for 12 years. I didn't know he was sick. No radar went…
Read the full quoteStar-Struck Victims [17.16]
D'Amico: All I know is that when I was there, it was totally consensual.
Dodds: The video shows Noel stayed a few minutes after you left.
D'Amico: I'm sure that whatever he did, she wanted him to do.
Benson: Okay, so…
Read the full quoteManhattan Transfer [17.17]
Barba: Monsignor Mulregan's visit was not a social call. He has made some very serious allegations.
Benson: Yeah. Against Father Eugene.
Barba: No. Against Tucker.
Benson: Allegations against Tucker? What did the…
Read the full quoteUnholiest Alliance [17.18]
Father Eugene: You can't imagine... [choking up] You can't imagine how many times I have knelt, and prayed to be relieved of this weakness!
Sonny: Yes, I can, and I'm sure you prayed more when the Monsignor used that…
Read the full quoteSheltered Outcasts [17.19]
Benson: This is Mr. Zimmerman. He represents one of our visitors.
Zimmerman: Two of them, actually. Greg Searle is one of mine. And if you think he's your rape suspect, you're wrong. It's not his profile. He's an…
Read the full quoteFashionable Crimes [17.20]
Fin: [about Alvin's work] Is this art or porn?
Dodds: Depends on how much you pay for it.
Barba: He was shot once in the chest, once in the groin?
Benson: Well, the M.E. thought that the shot in the groin was first.…
Read the full quoteAssaulting Reality [17.21]
Barba: This girl didn't realize she was raped until she saw it on live TV?
Benson: I know, I know.
Barba: I get the "she said". What's the "he said"?
Melanie: I don't know what I'm gonna do when I get home. I feel lost.…
Read the full quoteIntersecting Lives [17.22]
Charisse: Until today, Gary just... would make me go down on him, but I said I didn't want to do that anymore; I was back with my boyfriend. He got mad. He hit me. And then he raped me.
Benson: How many times did this…
Read the full quoteHeartfelt Passages [17.23]
Dodds: Lisa Munson. Is she all right?
Deputy Chief Dodds: She is, thanks to you.
Dodds: [grunts in pain] Ow. I blew it, dad.
Deputy Chief Dodds: No, no, no, you didn't.…
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