- IAB Det. Santiago: [to Cragen] You call this finesse? I've had calls from the brass wanting to know did I orchestrate an undercover operation with SVU and the press has already gotten a whiff of it. What kind of Mickey Mouse Club is this?
- Donald Cragen: See, actually I hate that little black rodent. Now, Dick Tracy, that was a club. You got this great decoder ring and a really cool watch.
- Olivia Benson: Along with making the brass very happy, the guy's also a rapist.
- Detective John Munch: Alleged rapist, thank you.
- Olivia Benson: Ever hear of "no"?
- Detective John Munch: You ever hear of contractual abandonment? The only reason to forsake all others is so you don't have to hear no.
- Elliot Stabler: I've been married 16 years. I hear it all the time.
- Olivia Benson: Okay, Munch, let me clue you in. A wife as property went out in 1984 when the law finally realized that even a married woman is allowed to say no.
- Donald Cragen: [to Tatum] You have business here?
- Detective Danny Tatum: Yeah, Captain, I do. Is my sergeant pinched?
- Donald Cragen: That doesn't concern you.
- Detective Danny Tatum: I don't know who you work for, but in my department, we watch out for each other. Maybe riding the desk, you forget.
- Donald Cragen: Well, I enforce the law and the only thing I ride is any hump who breaks it.
- Detective Danny Tatum: [sees Stabler] Feeling wood for my buddy?
- Elliot Stabler: I am now, cheap shot.
- Donald Cragen: [to Jeffries] Regardless of your personal feelings, I want you on my team, but only for as long as you want to be here.
- Monique Jefferies: It's nice to be wanted.
- Olivia Benson: So you look the other way no matter what? Is that in your cop manual? Because it sure as hell ain't in mine.
- Elliot Stabler: [about Lloyd Andrews] Maybe the guy was telling me what I wanted to hear, but he seemed pretty genuine to me.
- Olivia Benson: Was this before or after his goon kicked your ass?
- Detective John Munch: [to Patricia] My soon-to-be ex calls me often with requests for money and updates on the status of our uncoupling.
- Patricia Andrews: You hate her.
- Detective John Munch: That would make it too easy. We're not together anymore, but we still fight. Only now, I'm not there for the tantrums.
- Patricia Andrews: So you bust my chops because I remind you of her.
- Detective John Munch: No, I just don't like you.
- Sam Tiffany: Deal, Alex. At least concede that these two people should never be married especially not to each other.
- Alexandra Cabot: That's not my concern.
- Sam Tiffany: Well, it should be. Hell of a railroad job on what he said in the heat of the moment. Got me thinking about the fights with my wife. What people might say. Sometimes I want to kill her.
- Alexandra Cabot: If she dies, then you've got a problem.
- Alexandra Cabot: [to the IAB detectives] Charging Andrews prior to his making a formal statement is premature. Am I sweeping it under the rug as you would prefer? No. And I strongly advise you to discontinue obstructing this unit from doing its job or I will have be more than happy to file charges naming you and your partner as co-conspirators.
- IAB Det. Santiago: IAB is here strictly in a supervisory capacity.
- Alexandra Cabot: Not anymore. You may consider yourselves officially updated.
- Alexandra Cabot: [to Patricia about not pressing charges against her husband] Did your husband or any of his friends on the force threaten you, Mrs. Andrews?
- Patricia Andrews: No. I just don't want to go through with it anymore is all.
- Alexandra Cabot: What made you change your mind?
- Patricia Andrews: My husband could go to jail over a misunderstanding a petty marital spat. I can't live with that.
- Detective John Munch: Just seems strange you would change your tune so easily after singing the "he-raped-me" song to anybody who would listen.
- Detective John Munch: [to Patricia about her husband] He admits it and you respond by trying to recant. That's not love, that's psycho.
- Patricia Andrews: Think whatever you want. I'm not crazy enough to lose my husband just 'cause you want to believe me now.
- Sergeant Lloyd Andrews: [about his wife] That heifer told me that she was going to torch me! What the hell was I supposed to say?
- Alexandra Cabot: That heifer is supposed to be the woman you love?
- Detective John Munch: [to Patricia Andrews] Think of your body as part of the crime scene. Time and body fluids erode evidence. The procedure is we head to the hospital, and then I'll take your statement.
- Patricia Andrews: So basically the bastard rapes me and you waste time. That's the procedure?
- Detective John Munch: Ma'am...
- Patricia Andrews: Look here, Officer...
- Detective John Munch: Detective Munch. Perhaps you'd be more comfortable with a female detective.
- Patricia Andrews: I'd be happy to talk to anyone with a brain.
- Patricia Andrews: A chokehold is not foreplay for me, Detective.
- Detective John Munch: And a pot to the head turns him on?
- Alexandra Cabot: Your Honor, this is a heinous crime. The People are not prepared to send the message that officers of the law get a free ride.
- Judge Lena Petrovsky: You are not a messenger, Ms. Cabot, so save your button-pushing for the trial.
- Sam Tiffany: Come on, Alex, don't be a sore loser. Drop the charges and send the kiddies to counseling where they belong.
- Alexandra Cabot: No.
- Sam Tiffany: [hands Alex a tissue] For the egg on your face.
- [Alex walks away]
- Detective Danny Tatum: [to Stabler] Sex crimes. I hear that's a tough gig. I hear they rotate you guys out every two years. Is it really that rough?
- Elliot Stabler: Well, Homicide's no picnic, either, right?