Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Desperate (2003)

Stephanie March: ADA Alexandra 'Alex' Cabot

Quotes 

• ADA Alexandra Cabot : Well, he wouldn't be a single parent if he hadn't killed his wife.

• ADA Alexandra Cabot : Dan Hoffman's attorney called. She's threatening to sue for the emotional distress of withholding information on Tommy's whereabouts.

  Elliot Stabler : Distress, my ass. Hoffman didn't even file a missing persons report and he's trying to jack us up?

  Olivia Benson : We only delayed notification by a couple of hours.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : That's not the point. You were playing fast and loose, and you got caught.

• ADA Alexandra Cabot : [about Dan Hoffman]  His father-of-the-year act has everybody fooled. He's handsome, charismatic and he plays the grieving widower very well.

• ADA Alexandra Cabot : [about Tommy]  What about his biological mother? She has rights to talk to him.

  Elliot Stabler : Kim Hoffman? Yeah, well, either she fell into a black hole or he murdered her, too. Now guess where I'm placing my money on that one?

• Priscilla Chaney : My client is eager to prove his innocence, an opportunity the A.D.A. denied him in the grand jury.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : The district attorney is under no obligation to inform him...

  Judge Alan Ridenour : I know the law, Ms. Cabot, I also know your reputation for bending it.