- Fin Tutuola: [to Elliot Stabler] 48 hours you solved twenty-one bank jobs, a murder, and a kidnap. What, you trying to make us look bad?
- Father Denis: [to Stabler about Tierney] His immortal soul is in danger.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Well, eternal damnation is not a police matter.
- A.D.A. Casey Novak: My hands are tied. Mike Mollinax committed murder.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I've got witness statements from six people including prison staff, all of them backing the claim of self-defense.
- A.D.A. Casey Novak: I don't have jurisdiction over crimes committed outside the city.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You could talk to the D.A. upstate.
- A.D.A. Casey Novak: I already did. He's backing the warden's decision.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: So Mollinax does thirty-four years for a murder he didn't commit, and now he's gonna do more time for a murder he never would've committed if he hadn't been locked up in the first place? Do you understand how crazy that is?
- Sheila Tierney: My life is none of your business.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: That's true, but your father doesn't have much time left.
- Sheila Tierney: Good. Come back when the old bastard's dead. I'll pop the champagne.
- Olivia Benson: What kind of father molests his daughter and then every year sends her a birthday card to remind her?
- Judson Tierney: I don't know what your dad did to you, sweetie. You need professional help.
- Sheila Tierney: My parents never hugged me. They never said they loved me.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Well, that was the old-school Irish way. My folks are the same.
- Sheila Tierney: Oh, no. It was not the same thing. That house was nothing but locked doors and silence.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: It doesn't mean they didn't love you.
- Sheila Tierney: My father made my mother raise his lover's child. Every day, I was there to remind them of his affair. It's no wonder my parents didn't touch me. My mother probably hated me.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Look, I'm sure that's not true.
- Sheila Tierney: Well, I'll never know now, will I?
- Dr. George Huang: It's her choice, Elliot. If Sheila doesn't want to see her father, you can't make her.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Yeah, and after he dies, you don't think she'll regret it?
- Dr. George Huang: Maybe, maybe not.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Oh, come on, all you shrinks talk about is closure.
- Dr. George Huang: "Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. Families are complicated.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Yeah, tell me about it. All right, so Tierney. How do we get him to talk?
- Dr. George Huang: You don't. He'll talk to you when he's ready.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: When he's ready? Look, this guy is running out of time and quite frankly, I'm running out of patience.
- Dr. George Huang: You can't rush Scheherazade.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: What's that?
- Dr. George Huang: You ever read 1,001 Arabian Nights?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Yeah, Ali Baba, the flying carpets.
- Dr. George Huang: Scheherazade is the narrator. She made up the stories for a king who married a new virgin every night and then cut off the head of last night's bride. When he married Scheherazade, she told him a story so gripping that he couldn't kill her until he heard the end of the story.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: But the story never finished. It just went on and on.
- Dr. George Huang: Tierney's trying to stave off death like Scheherazade with a story of bank robberies and illegitimate children.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: He's trying to hang on to make peace with his daughter.