Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Wrong Is Right (2000)

Geoffrey Ewing: Ralph Noble

Quotes 

• Det. John Munch : [to Ralph Noble]  You don't talk much, do you? Not much fight left in the old soldier?

  Ralph Noble : Don't you question my patriotism, mister.

  Det. John Munch : That's Mister Detective to you. Take a little bit of tarnish off that Medal of Honor.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : [to Noble]  We can find our own way out, thanks.

  [Noble leaves; to Munch] 

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Why are you provoking him?

  Det. John Munch : Guy's a war hero. Put his life on the line for principle. He's gotta be gagging stonewalling Croft's pedophilia to protect Radial Velocity.

  Detective Elliot Stabler : Assuming he still has principles. The war was a long time ago, John.

  Det. John Munch : Principles die harder than people. I want a shot at what's left of his.

• Det. John Munch : [to Ralph Noble]  At what point did courage and integrity buckle to income?

  Ralph Noble : Don't ever get in my face about money. If I cared about money, I wouldn't have been in the service.

  Det. John Munch : What do you care about? Protecting the reputation of a dead pedophile part of national security now?

  Ralph Noble : I'm not protecting Croft's reputation.

  Det. John Munch : What are you protecting?

  Ralph Noble : Croft's missile guidance expertise was critical in the Gulf War.

  Det. John Munch : You erase sodomy convictions for national security?

  Ralph Noble : We didn't erase his convictions.

  Det. John Munch : What? Is there another way to say it?

  Ralph Noble : Croft's felony record red-flagged him every time he crossed a border. A day's delay was a lifetime in a war moving that fast.

  Det. John Munch : So Radial Velocity erased his past.

  Ralph Noble : We were depleting our arsenal of smart bombs at more than $1 million a minute. At that price, the Pentagon wanted pin-point precision. A complaint was filed in the State Department. A firewall was built around Croft so Immigration wouldn't red-flag him. When the war ended, the wall should've come down. I can't tell you why it didn't. I just don't know!

  Det. John Munch : Meanwhile, a convicted child molester applies for guardianship of an 8-year-old and...?

  Ralph Noble : No red flags. I'm sorry.