Law & Order: SVU
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Jenna: Love is messy. Sometimes it means commitment to someone who can't take care of themselves.
Muncy: Yeah, commitment, not sexual assault.
Zoe: I didn't know it was her. I feel so stupid.
Benson: It's called willful blindness. I've had more than my share.
Jenna: I feel bad. I was the one who pushed Zoe to get back on the market. My marriage is pretty boring. I wanted to live vicariously through her.
Benson: Life is a strange mix of beauty and pain and we can't control how it unfolds for the people we love.
Muncy: Captain, I noticed that Velasco's motorcycle isn't parked outside for the third day in a row.
Benson: Great work, detective, but I told you that Velasco is taking a few days off.
He is the textbook definition of an unreliable witness.
Benson
I'd rather die in prison. The second the cell doors close, I won't remember why I was there. That boy will remember everything. Some memories are worse than prison.
Pence
Boy: Why did you let me win?
Girl: I've never heard you speak before.
Boy: It's better that way. You heard them laughing.
Girl: I read your story. The one on the wall. About the boy who lived on the moon so he didn't have to talk to anyone.
Boy: It's better that way. Trust me.
Fin: We all make mistakes, and even in the NYPD there is room for redemption.
Velasco: You think Benson sees it that way?
Fin: You didn't ask for my advice, but I'm gonna give it anyway. Show your loyalty to her, not to me, not to the NYPD, and certainly not to a man who's responsible for an unsolved murder.
Fin: You talked to McGrath?
Benson: Not yet.
Fin: Okay, this is where I remind you: you're the captain. As your Number 2, the greatest gift I can give you is plausible deniability.
Carisi: You never interviewed the delivery guy?
Detective: We had a confession.
Velasco: You recorded me? Why aren't you arresting her?
Churlish: For what?
Velasco: It's a felony in New York to record someone without their permission.
Fin: Good thing we're not in a courtroom, then.
Being a cop isn't some kind of penance. Putting away a friend for murder is.
Benson
