Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

True Believers (2011)

Linus Roache: Bureau Chief ADA Michael Cutter

Quotes 

• Nick Amaro : [about Ellis]  You think a guy like that really found religion?

  Sergeant John Munch : There's not a lot of money in rape or the Fourth Amendment.

  Michael Cutter : Speaking of which, tell me about the gun bust.

  Nick Amaro : It's clean. I've worked Narcotics, Warrants. Done hundreds of these.

  Michael Cutter : And I've seen hundreds of dropsy cases get thrown out.

  Nick Amaro : What are you trying to say something, Counselor?

  Michael Cutter : I'm asking the question. I don't know you.

  Nick Amaro : Detective Second Grade Nicholas Amaro. He threw the gun under the couch. I retrieved it. Now, I'm not sure if the girl was raped, but I do know there was a gun.

  Sergeant John Munch : Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We're all on the same team here. Put 'em away.

  Michael Cutter : It's not personal, Detective. Ellis wins this case, it's not just open season on my office, but also NYPD, okay?

  [Amaro nods yes] 

• Michael Cutter : [during his closing argument in court]  Ladies and gentlemen, this isn't 1970. It's 2011. And yet you wouldn't know it from the way the defense is putting the victim's personal life on trial. It's the defendant's actions that matter here. Now, he admits to being in the building but claims he was only there to deliver pot. He admits entering Miss Walsh's apartment, but claims he just had a beer. But what he won't admit is the horrible truth: that in less than an hour, at gunpoint, he irrevocably changed a young woman's life.