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A Single Life

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"A Single Life"
SVU, Episode 1.02
Production number: E0903
First aired: 27 September 1999
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Written By
Dawn DeNoon & Lisa Marie Petersen

Directed By
Lesli Linka Glatter

Benson and Stabler investigate the death of Gretchen Quinn, and uncover a long kept secret.

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[edit] Plot

When the body of Gretchen Quinn is found wearing only a red slip after having gone through an upper-story window, Benson and Stabler soon find out that 'Gretchen Quinn' has never existed.

[edit] Cast

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[edit] References

Gretchen Quinn; Susan Sidarsky; Marge Cragen

[edit] Quotes

Elliot Stabler: You want me to bust him in the grill? I mean we're not getting anywhere in there.
Olivia Benson: It's not we. It's me.
Elliot Stabler: What's that mean?
Olivia Benson: That pompous jerk will never condescend to deal with a woman. You go in there.
Elliot Stabler: We good?
Olivia Benson: We're good.


Detective Mourad: Looks like maybe they did more than kiss.
Olivia Benson: Yeah, he read her a little Walt Whitman, they made hot passionate love, then right before he rolled over and fell asleep, he heaved her out the window - excuse me - through the window.


John Munch: You could toss a hundred pounds without breaking a sweat.
Monique Jeffries: Toss you, you skinny-ass geek.


Olivia Benson: Oh. Now Queens is a suburb. Since when?
Elliot Stabler: Since we got a little space, some trees, grass to mow.
Olivia Benson: Yeah. I got a regular eight-by-ten of you out there mowing the lawn.
Elliot Stabler: Well. I do. Sometimes.
Olivia Benson: Admit it. Kathy does all the housework. 'Cause you're never there.
Elliot Stabler: Okay. I admit it. Kathy's the man of the house.
Olivia Benson: Exactly.


Olivia Benson: 'It will swim right into a man's penis and lodge itself there by erecting sharp spines.' Ow.
Elliot Stabler: Erecting sharp spines. That's a fish with a sense of irony. (to Cragen) How'd you know that?
Donald Cragen: In the jungle they always taught you 'Don't hold your nose. Hold your stones.'


(Elliot and Kathy have turned on the disposal after fixing it}
Dickie Stabler: (enters) Mommy have you see my turtle? I left him in the sink.
Elliot Stabler: (looks down at the now working disposal) ...


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