Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Scheherazade (2007)
Christopher Meloni: Detective Elliot Stabler
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Quotes
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Father Denis : [to Stabler about Tierney] His immortal soul is in danger.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Well, eternal damnation is not a police matter.
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A.D.A. Casey Novak : My hands are tied. Mike Mollinax committed murder.
Detective Elliot Stabler : I've got witness statements from six people including prison staff, all of them backing the claim of self-defense.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : I don't have jurisdiction over crimes committed outside the city.
Detective Elliot Stabler : You could talk to the D.A. upstate.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : I already did. He's backing the warden's decision.
Detective Elliot Stabler : So Mollinax does thirty-four years for a murder he didn't commit, and now he's gonna do more time for a murder he never would've committed if he hadn't been locked up in the first place? Do you understand how crazy that is?
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Sheila Tierney : My life is none of your business.
Detective Elliot Stabler : That's true, but your father doesn't have much time left.
Sheila Tierney : Good. Come back when the old bastard's dead. I'll pop the champagne.
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Sheila Tierney : My parents never hugged me. They never said they loved me.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Well, that was the old-school Irish way. My folks are the same.
Sheila Tierney : Oh, no. It was not the same thing. That house was nothing but locked doors and silence.
Detective Elliot Stabler : It doesn't mean they didn't love you.
Sheila Tierney : My father made my mother raise his lover's child. Every day, I was there to remind them of his affair. It's no wonder my parents didn't touch me. My mother probably hated me.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Look, I'm sure that's not true.
Sheila Tierney : Well, I'll never know now, will I?
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Dr. George Huang : It's her choice, Elliot. If Sheila doesn't want to see her father, you can't make her.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Yeah, and after he dies, you don't think she'll regret it?
Dr. George Huang : Maybe, maybe not.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Oh, come on, all you shrinks talk about is closure.
Dr. George Huang : "Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. Families are complicated.
Detective Elliot Stabler : Yeah, tell me about it. All right, so Tierney. How do we get him to talk?
Dr. George Huang : You don't. He'll talk to you when he's ready.
Detective Elliot Stabler : When he's ready? Look, this guy is running out of time and quite frankly, I'm running out of patience.
Dr. George Huang : You can't rush Scheherazade.
Detective Elliot Stabler : What's that?
Dr. George Huang : You ever read 1,001 Arabian Nights?
Detective Elliot Stabler : Yeah, Ali Baba, the flying carpets.
Dr. George Huang : Scheherazade is the narrator. She made up the stories for a king who married a new virgin every night and then cut off the head of last night's bride. When he married Scheherazade, she told him a story so gripping that he couldn't kill her until he heard the end of the story.
Detective Elliot Stabler : But the story never finished. It just went on and on.
Dr. George Huang : Tierney's trying to stave off death like Scheherazade with a story of bank robberies and illegitimate children.
Detective Elliot Stabler : He's trying to hang on to make peace with his daughter.