- Det. John Munch: [after an INS bureaucrat complains about immigrants coming to America] It's almost as though there's a sign that says "Give us your tired and poor."
- [to the defense's neurologist]
- ADA Alexandra Cabot: Thank you. You've offered a provocative theory. What it lacks in substance, it makes up for in pretty colors.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: There's blood on the boot, maybe it's the perp's.
- Detective Olivia Benson: I'll get an evidence bag.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [unzips boot] Liv! The blood isn't the perp's it's our victim's...
- Detective Olivia Benson: [to the canvas cops] Guys, anybody find a severed foot?
- Detective Olivia Benson: [to Paulie about the couch that he stole] You don't strike me as a floral, shabby-chic kind of guy.
- Paulie Obregano: I'm not. That's why I sold it. It belonged to my ex.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Now why would she leave a catch like you?
- Paulie Obregano: Cause she's a whore and she found a fatter wallet.
- Laurie Schneider: I had to ride home in my stocking feet.
- Det. John Munch: At least you got to keep both of yours. The next woman wasn't so lucky.
- ADA Alexandra Cabot: Gina, you and I both know any affirmative defense you come up with is going to be a load of crap.
- Gina Bernardo: Dr. Shelton, what exactly does the brain's frontal lobe do?
- Dr. Shelton: It controls emotions, urges, knowledge of right and wrong. Basically, it's our impulse control center.
- Gina Bernardo: So say I had the urge to call opposing counsel an uptight, self-righteous, little bitch, my frontal lobe knows that means sanctions and it keeps my mouth shut?
- Odafin Tutuola: [about the murder victim's injuries] Restraints, painful game of shock the kitty. Smacks of S&M to me.
- Captain Donald Cragen: I know one woman's pain can be another man's pleasure, but this girl was not spanked to death.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I'm not buying it. Kathy didn't come home all night, I'd be out looking for her.
- Detective Olivia Benson: That's you.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: That's everybody.
- Detective Olivia Benson: That's bull. How many times have we been working on a case and Kathy doesn't hear from you?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: That's different. I'm on the job.
- Detective Olivia Benson: [to Preston Bennett] Kunsong screaming bloody murder in the middle of the night on a regular basis.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: How's that open to interpretation?
- Preston Bennett: She had nightmares! She tried everything, even sleeping upright in a chair. Still, she'd wake up thinking she was back in Tibet. The nightmares were so real, even with me holding her, she couldn't stop screaming.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Well, someone shut her up with a wire across her vocal chords.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Jerry, your mother's used to taking out her frustrations on somebody. Now who's that person gonna be when you're out of the house?
- Mrs. Krug: [about Jerry] I didn't make him the way that he is. There's always something wrong with him. I did everything I could to fix it.
- Detective Olivia Benson: With blows to the head?
- Mrs. Krug: Nothing else worked! You don't know what he put me through! Oh, don't look at me like that. I am not the one that's sick.
- [to her customers as she is being arrested]
- Mrs. Krug: You know me. You know that I'm a good mother. You tell them that I'm a good mother! Tell them!