- Homeless Man: The children were sleeping all snug in their beds while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. What the hell is a sugar plum?
- [a young girl got her throat slashed, but the cold weather slowed her heart rate down]
- Detective Elliot Stabler: So nearly freezing to death saved her life. That's one hell of a lucky break.
- Dr. Kyle Beresford: When I asked who hurt her, she did draw this.
- [the doctor hands Fin a child's drawing]
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: The devil?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Welcome to hell.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to the homeless man] You're the guy who found the little girl, aren't you?
- Homeless Man: Me and Jake. We built that shrine for the little one.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Good Samaritans don't usually build shrines.
- Homeless Man: Well, you didn't see her lying there, slipping away.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Then why would you run away when EMS got here? Guilty conscience?
- Homeless Man: No, I called them. Jake just doesn't like crowds.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Why'd you write, "I shall not murder"?
- Homeless Man: That was Thomas.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Who's that? Another cat?
- Homeless Man: No, Dylan Thomas, the poet. Drank himself to death at the White Horse. That's not a confession, I just steal from the best.
- Storekeeper: I can spot a booster from a mile away, so I threw her out before she could steal anything. Checked her panda on the way out to make sure.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You did what? Her - panda?
- Storekeeper: Her backpack. You know, stuffed animal, the arms go around like a strap.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [after Elijah is shot to death by the police] Miriam, can you tell me what he said to you?
- Miriam Burdett: He had to die to make people see all the child soldiers.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: I don't see any ghosts.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You never went to Catholic school. I still got nightmares about Sister Mary Margaret and her mustache.
- Father Theo Burdett: [after a Molotov cocktail is thrown near the Burdetts' house] I'd expect a fire bombing in Africa, but on Staten Island? I never expected this to happen in America today.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You can't expect child soldiers to forget what they've been taught.
- Alexandra Cabot: Two thousand years later, we've sequenced the human genome, but we still can't find a way to keep our kids safe.