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Cragen: This is ridiculous. Why don't you just come right out and ask me?
Shrink: Ask you...?
Cragen: The question you've been tap-dancing around. Do I get the urge to drink? See? That's the problem with you people. You ask about golfing, or jogging, or uh, whether a person was breast fed or not. Everything else under the sun. Why don't you just come right out and ask me about my alcoholism? That's what this has all been about, hasn't it?
Shrink: ...do you wanna talk about it?
Cragen: No I don't. But I will. Yes, I get the urge to drink. Every day. I see horrific acts of degradation, of brutality, of human evil. They make me angry. They make me sick. They get inside my head and I wanna shut them up and I KNOW if I crawl inside of a bottle they will stop.
Shrink: ...do you think you will?
Cragen: Ask me tomorrow.
Yeah. I feel you. One hundred and fifty million percent. Except I'd rather shoot heroin or smoke crack to shut the voices up. But I hear you. And man...I love this show.