Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Dependent (2007)

Robert John Burke: IAB Sergeant Ed Tucker

Quotes 

• Ed Tucker : [to Stabler]  You know you can have your union delegate or attorney present.

  Elliot Stabler : I don't need them. I didn't do anything wrong.

  Ed Tucker : Then why is a 19-year-old boy dead?

• Ed Tucker : [to Stabler]  Ten people saw you beat Ryan. I think you chased him. I think your adrenaline was pumping. He started throwing punches at you and you lost control.

  Elliot Stabler : You're wrong.

  Ed Tucker : You really should control your temper, Detective.

  Elliot Stabler : What I did, I did in self-defense. I chased a perp. He attacked me. I knocked him down. I cuffed him.

  Ed Tucker : Save it, Detective. I can't risk having a cop with your anger issues out on the street. As of right now, you're on suspension.

  Elliot Stabler : I'm not a killer.

  Ed Tucker : We'll let the medical examiner be the judge of that.

• Ed Tucker : [to Olivia]  How long have you worked with Detective Stabler?

  Olivia Benson : Eight years.

  Ed Tucker : During your relationship, you've seen Detective Stabler in dangerous and stressful situations.

  Olivia Benson : Yes.

  Ed Tucker : How would you characterize his behavior?

  Olivia Benson : Always professional.

  Ed Tucker : So you support his actions and you defend his decisions?

  Olivia Benson : Yes.

  Ed Tucker : Even when he shot an unarmed suspect during a chase?

  Olivia Benson : The suspect waved an unloaded weapon. That was suicide by cop.

  Ed Tucker : Well, how about when he tricked Dr. Huang into administering Haldol to a suspect?

  Olivia Benson : It was the only way to find a kidnapped child.

  Ed Tucker : Detective Stabler once held a man underwater and nearly drowned him, didn't he?

  Olivia Benson : He was trying to save a little girl from a pedophile.

  Ed Tucker : And so that justifies attempted murder?

  Olivia Benson : We work special victims. Molested kids, rape victims, the elderly. We do what we have to do to nail the perp.

  Ed Tucker : Like impersonating a pedophile, kidnapping a girl, then almost killing the suspect?

  Olivia Benson : He's saved countless girls by getting a violent predator off the streets.

  Ed Tucker : Well, who was he saving when he almost beat his ex-partner to death in a bathroom?

  Olivia Benson : He saved that cop's son from committing suicide and Elliot went into counseling after that.

  Ed Tucker : Detective Stabler has a long history of violent behavior. You sure you want to keep defending his actions?

  Olivia Benson : My partner is not a killer.