- A.D.A. Kendra Gill: Yeah, I've gone two days without sleep... only thing I murdered at the end of it was my pillow.
- Detective Olivia Benson: I knew a cop who worked double homicide for 41 hours straight, went home and went to bed. He had an asthma attack and reached for his inhaler, but he grabbed his service revolver instead. He put it in his mouth and blew his brains out.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: What's with the rice? Did he make you eat down here too?
- Katrina Lychkoff: No, he had us kneel on it. It's not so bad at first, but after a while the grains dig into your skin and you start to bleed.
- [shows her knees with old rice grain indentions]
- Suzanne Banks: Jennifer, that's enough. I think we'd better go now.
- Jennifer Banks: Don't tell me what to do! Don't! Don't tell me what to do! I'm sick and tired of everyone always telling me what to do, what to say, how to think, how to act. I just wanted to talk to her. That's all. I just wanted to talk to her and then take the next ferry back, but she screamed at me. Why was I following her? She called me a loser. She said I was pathetic and dumb, and that I was only at Morewood because my family is rich. That I'd never be able to make it on brains alone like her. She tried walking away and so I grabbed her arm and she pushed me, so I jabbed her chest with my pen! And she pushed me again...
- Suzanne Banks: [in tears] Jennifer, stop!
- Jennifer Banks: And so I pulled her hair and I slammed her head into the railing over and over and over again!
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Did anybody see you fighting?
- Jennifer Banks: Everyone was inside because it was raining. She tried screaming for help, but no one could hear her because the ferry horn started to blow. That's when she fell down and I pushed her into the river.
- [to her mother]
- Jennifer Banks: I'm number one now, Mom. Aren't you happy for me?
- A.D.A. Kendra Gill: [at the end of the episode]
- [to the detectives]
- A.D.A. Kendra Gill: My next case: Fifteen, raped and murdered his six-year-old stepsister. No remorse, says he'd do it again. You want him out at 21, too?
- Detective Olivia Benson: [about the murder victim] She was beaten and tortured. She still believed in God.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You'd think he could have protected her just a little bit.
- Detective Olivia Benson: [to Jennifer] This isn't a vocabulary test, okay? Elsa was murdered.
- Jennifer Banks: Look, I don't have time for this, okay? They put me in a tournament next week, and I need to study Molnar-Nagy 1966. I'm in zugzwang, but if I can solve it, maybe it's H7 to J6...
- Detective Olivia Benson: Hey, the only way you're going to solve this is by talking to us.
- Alik: [about him prostituting young women] You make it seem so tragic. Their lives aren't terrible.
- Detective Olivia Benson: So what do you call daily beatings, rape, exposure to HIV? The good life?
- Odafin Tutuola: [about Elsa's father] Lychkoff got fired by Boeing after six months, then hired by Lockheed and they dumped his ass four months later.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Sounds like our genius is one dumb son of a bitch.
- A.D.A. Kendra Gill: [about Jennifer Banks] Your rich white girl has a 160 IQ and no history of abuse, addiction or mental illness. Don't tell me she didn't know what she did was wrong.
- Detective Olivia Benson: She's 14 years old. Are you the same person that you were back then?
- A.D.A. Kendra Gill: At 14, I wasn't a murderer.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: [about Jennifer's handwriting] This type of hypergraphia is common with Provigil abuse. The drug was developed to treat narcolepsy and other sleep disorders, then the government discovered its military value as a stimulant, gave it to the troops to keep them alert in the field.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Now kids are using it to cram for their exams.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: When used properly, it is an effective treatment for ADD.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Properly, yeah, right. Tell me those kids at Morewood popping pills all have attention deficit.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: I'll tip off a friend in the Health Department. See if we can stop the pill-pushing.
- Kim Greylek: [to Alik] Save the grin, ass-wipe. There's no deal unless the name checks out and your alibi holds up.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Danny Burke] Aren't you a little old to be rebelling against your high school?
- Danny Burke: Be the best. Great isn't good enough. Maximize your potential. They even feed their students a special diet to increase brain activity. Omega-3s and all that crap. That place is toxic.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Is that why you dropped out a month before graduating?
- Danny Burke: I couldn't take it anymore and neither could Elsa. She wanted to be a kid, not their effing robot.