- Malik Harris: [on the verge of a death sentence] I want a deal.
- Fin Tutuola: Want a deal? How 'bout right before we execute you for killin' those girls, I bring you your last meal? How's that?
- Fin Tutuola: Spent a lot of time on my rooftop when I was a kid. It was safe back then.
- Elliot Stabler: Doing the wild thing with your girlfriend?
- Fin Tutuola: You know, when you live here you can't afford a vacation to Aruba, so you went to "Isle of Aroofa." Tar Beach. Plus the guys like to come up here 'cause this is where the girls would come hang out.
- Elliot Stabler: I grew up in Queens. All I ever wanted was the excitement of the city. Sounds like all you ever wanted was quiet. We should've traded places.
- Fin Tutuola: An East Side socialite disappears, we got 50 cops on it. Black girls start getting executed, we got 4 cops.
- Elliot Stabler: [to Fin] You okay?
- Fin Tutuola: Yeah. I just don't like some guy making my home turf dangerous for young girls.
- Elliot Stabler: I thought you grew up in Brooklyn.
- Fin Tutuola: Nope. About 10 blocks from here. Ground Zero for the '68 riots.
- Elliot Stabler: What was that like?
- Fin Tutuola: I was six. My mother said the only way we're leaving our apartment was if somebody burned it down.
- Cleo Conrad: It was a setup.
- A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot: We arranged for your client to bite Rodney Thompson? I don't think so.
- Fin Tutuola: Bit yourself in the ass with your big mouth this time, King.
- Elliot Stabler: [Stabler is sitting across the table from Leon] So, how many little girls have you had sex with since you got out?
- Leon Tate: Hey, man, you ain't have no right to follow me.
- Elliot Stabler: Hey, hey, hey. Don't tell me how to do my job. Answer the question.
- Leon Tate: So you can put me away again for nothin'?
- Leon Tate: [shakes his head wordlessly]
- Leon Tate: Hey, man, listen, the young ladies feel me. It's not my fault.
- Elliot Stabler: It is if they're jailbait.
- Leon Tate: They wanna pleasure me, who am I to stop them?
- Elliot Stabler: If you infect them with your H.I.V., it's their problem, too, right?
- Leon Tate: Look, man, you-you-you-you ambushed us before I even had an opportunity to tell her. I have protection.
- Elliot Stabler: [leans forward] Her protection is me putting you back in your little cage.
- Leon Tate: W-w-w-why don't you just get off my case, man?
- Elliot Stabler: [shakes head slightly] 'Cause I don't like you.
- Leon Tate: [licks lips; shakes head] Alright, well, I don't have nothing else to say 'til my legal aid gets here.
- Elliot Stabler: [makes a face and gets up]
- Captain Donald Cragen: [to Stabler] I don't remember telling you to tail Leon Tate.
- Elliot Stabler: I heard he was out. Just keeping my eye on him.
- Captain Donald Cragen: Well, this squad doesn't have enough bodies for you and your partner to go freelancing.
- Elliot Stabler: I'd like to think that we saved a young girl's life tonight.
- Captain Donald Cragen: And we would need a new unit if we were to follow every perv that we thought might repeat. Leon Tate did his time and until somebody makes a complaint, he has rights.
- Elliot Stabler: This guy's penis is a deadly weapon and he's got a thing for young girls. They got rights, too.
- Captain Donald Cragen: Until Cabot gives us the word, you back off. Are we clear?
- Elliot Stabler: [to a teenage girl about Leon] You know Casanova here has HIV?
- Melissa: [to Leon] That the truth?
- Leon Tate: Yo, man, don't believe them.
- Melissa: No. Is it the truth?
- Leon Tate: Yo, I got protection.
- Melissa: I don't care if you got a bulletproof vest for that thing. You should have told me.
- [walks away]
- Fin Tutuola: Problem is, even if the woman lies about her age, it's still the man's fault.
- John Munch: Ignorance is no defense.
- Olivia Benson: Nashika Morris is 14. She's not a woman; she's a girl.
- Fin Tutuola: What's the guy supposed to do? Check the girl's birth certificate? I'm just as opposed to rape as everybody else in this room, but if she wanted to have sex, that's her choice. She wasn't forced.
- Elliot Stabler: She's a minor. What she wants isn't relevant.
- A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot: [as she and Dr. Huang walk into the squad room] Are we interrupting?
- John Munch: Friendly disagreement.
- Dr. George Huang: [about the murderer] Rape is about anger, but I'm not sure it's the women that set him off. I think following him might have made his anger boil over.
- Elliot Stabler: Oh, so Aisha Thompson's death is our fault?
- Elliot Stabler: [after another teenage girl is found murdered on a rooftop] Well, if it's Leon's work, he's improvising.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: Couldn't have been Leon Tate.
- Elliot Stabler: What are you talking about?
- Dr. Melinda Warner: The victim's still in rigor. Probably killed this morning. Tate was dead by last night.
- [Stabler looks shocked]
- Olivia Benson: Elliot...
- Elliot Stabler: I wanted it to be Leon.
- Olivia Benson: Everything fit.
- Elliot Stabler: We wasted time. Another girl's dead because I went down the wrong road.
- Alva Tate: [to Stabler] You happy now?
- Elliot Stabler: Mrs. Tate, I'm sorry about Leon.
- Alva Tate: Don't you dare say you're sorry. You're glad he's dead. He didn't kill those girls, but you killed him anyway. You murdered him.
- Fin Tutuola: Mrs. Tate, Detective Stabler was doing his job.
- Alva Tate: My son was innocent.
- Fin Tutuola: Your son was gonna kill somebody with his HIV. We had to stop him. We didn't put the needle in his arm.
- Alva Tate: You didn't, but you all stick together, don't you?
- [walks away]
- Elliot Stabler: Fin, thanks for taking my back with Mrs. Tate.
- Fin Tutuola: Leon was scum. He was gonna kill some innocent girl if you didn't stop him.
- Elliot Stabler: Well, my old man never approved of a single thing I ever did, I don't go around raping and killing young girls.
- Judge Marilyn Haynes: Miss Cabot, I have 40 more cases on the docket, and you're wasting my time with this frivolous garbage?
- A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot: Your Honor, it is The People's position that we...
- Judge Marilyn Haynes: That you screwed up your murder case and now you want me to do your dirty work for you. Not gonna happen.
- A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot: [about Leon Tate] I'm surprised he said as much as he did.
- Captain Donald Cragen: He has the personality of a repeater: he can do no wrong, nothing is his fault.
- Olivia Benson: [when the judge decides not to civily commit Leon Tate] Judge was afraid to stick her neck out.
- Elliot Stabler: Maybe she'll change her mind when we wheel a body into her chambers.
- John Munch: [about Leon Tate after he dies from a drug overdose] Guy OD's two weeks out of prison. Talk about bad karma.
- Fin Tutuola: [talking to an informant in a car] I'm busy. This better be good.
- Benny: [slouched down in the backseat] How 'bout a little respect? Time is money, and I'm losing it talking to you.
- Fin Tutuola: What the hell are you doing back there? Sit up like a man.
- Benny: Hey, I get seen with you, my customers go elsewhere for their merchandise.
- Fin Tutuola: You got something for me, Benny, or did you just come here to run your mouth?
- Benny: Word's out you're looking to jam up King.
- Fin Tutuola: Where'd you hear that?
- Benny: I got sources, just like you.
- Fin Tutuola: What do your sources know about him?
- Benny: King's a rap promoter wannabe. Manages a few unknowns, but doesn't have the goods to make it big. He uses the rap line mostly to pick up women.
- Fin Tutuola: So far, you're boring me.
- Benny: How about: he buys his coke and dope from one of my corner boys?
- Fin Tutuola: Now you're talking. Where's he get his cash?
- Benny: King's a kept man. Smooth-talks one of his ladies into paying for his lifestyle 'til they wise up...
- [imitates slashing his throat]
- Benny: ... dump him.
- Fin Tutuola: What's in this for you, Benny?
- Benny: I don't like him. Consider it a freebie.