Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Home Invasions (2012)

Dann Florek: Captain Donald 'Don' Cragen

Quotes 

• [Rollins has admitted to being a gambling addict] 

  Captain Donald Cragen : I've been exactly where you are, I know how this job can weigh on you.

  Detective Amanda Rollins : What do you mean?

  Captain Donald Cragen : I used to drink. And I mean *drink*. Soon as I got off duty, I was at the bar pounding. And then I started having a few on the job. You know, just to get through. I thought nobody noticed. Now, my captain could've canned my ass. Should've. But he got me help instead.

  Detective Amanda Rollins : Wow.

  Captain Donald Cragen : You're a good detective, Amanda. I don't want to end your career.

  Detective Amanda Rollins : I don't want that, either.

  Captain Donald Cragen : So I'm gonna get you help. But you screw up again, you're gone.

• Captain Donald Cragen : [about Emmy being involved in her parents' death]  We need to find out if she had a hand in this, Liv.

  Olivia Benson : Well, even if she did, she's a 14-year-old girl who was the victim of sexual abuse in her own home.

  Captain Donald Cragen : And there were other ways she could've handled it. Look, I hope to God she's not involved, but we have to follow through on this.

• Nick Amaro : Lab report on Sidney Eckhouse's tissue samples from the autopsy. Father and daughter tested positive for the same strain of herpes.

  Captain Donald Cragen : Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Find out who else knew.

• Detective Amanda Rollins : [to Amaro]  All right, Chinese or Italian? I'll let you figure it out.

  Captain Donald Cragen : [to Amaro and Rollins]  Hey, guys, hold off on your dinner break. We got a shooting in Yorkville. Two fatalities confirmed.

  Detective Amanda Rollins : And that's SVU because...?

  Captain Donald Cragen : Well, the shooting took place at the home of Joan Eckhouse, chief counsel for the New York Gay Rights Coalition. I'll have Liv and Fin meet you there.