- Detective Elliot Stabler: [grabs a CO after being locked in solitary confinement] You son of a bitch! I said three days, not a week!
- Corrections Officer Kravitz: It was three days, I swear. It's Sunday night when you told me to let you out.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Paxton] You know something? You have had a hard-on for me since the day you walked into this squad.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: No, hon, not at all. I've got problems with anybody who doesn't play by the rules.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: No, your rules. You act like the law is holy scripture. You don't give a damn about the law. You want control.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: You don't know me. Okay, you know me?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I know you. I see perps like you walk in here every day of the week. They've got to have control or the whole world falls apart, but inside they're scared, weak, damaged...
- [Paxton slaps him]
- Callum Donovan: Detective Stabler, you'll never know what it's like to be truly alone, to go through endless days without seeing a face or hearing a voice. You can't imagine it unless you wind up there yourself.
- [Sonya has ordered the SVU detectives to leave Donovan alone]
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Lady, I've had one hell of a bad day, and I'm in no mood to be told what to do.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: [after Elliot is pushed off a building by Cal Donovan and ends up in the hospital]
- [to Olivia]
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Does he do this often?
- Olivia Benson: What? Almost die in the line of duty?
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Take a nap halfway through his tour.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I'm still alive. I can hear you, ladies.
- Callum Donovan: [after he is caught by Olivia and Fin] I'm a dangerous man. A rapist, kidnapper. Take me off the streets. You'll get a medal for it.
- Olivia Benson: Lily lied. Elliot was coming to apologize to you.
- Callum Donovan: Apologize?
- Olivia Benson: If you'd waited a moment longer, you'd be a free man.
- Olivia Benson: When I was in prison undercover, the worst part was never being alone. No private time, no quiet time, even on the toilet. I would have killed to do a stint in the hole.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Cal Donovan] NYPD. This is my partner, Detective Benson. I'm...
- Callum Donovan: Detective Stabler. And they say lightning never strikes twice.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Do I know you?
- Callum Donovan: How could you forget? The last time we met, you put me in jail for 19 years.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: [to Elliot] Where the hell have you been?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: The hole. I want to drop the charges.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Don't be a wuss, Stabler. You took a bad trip in your own head, and now what, you feel sorry for Donovan? Well, that's your problem. Mine is convicting a would-be cop killer, who thinks doing a little time gives him the right to whack the first cop who looks at him cross-eyed.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: It's not that simple.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Actually, it is. If Donovan walks, it's open season on law enforcement for any perp who did a day in the hole.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Look, you don't have to set a precedent. Just cut him a deal.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: If I plea-bargain Donovan, he's out in five years. And then what? Does he run down the cop who pulls him over for speeding? I won't take that chance.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: If I report you for assault, the D.A. will suspend you.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Go ahead.
- [Elliot doesn't do anything]
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Thought so. You may have lost your balls in lock-up, but I've still got mine.
- Callum Donovan: [about Lily] I didn't touch the girl. Sure, she was a pain in the ass...
- [the door opens]
- Petra Gilmartin: And so are you, Cal. What happened? Freedom get boring? You want Detective Stabler to lock you up again?
- Lily Milton: Does being the victim of a crime give you guys the right to hack through my e-mails?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: No, but you're not a victim either, are you?
- Lily Milton: I was abducted.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: No, you weren't. You were not assaulted. You weren't kidnapped or tossed into the river. You were online at CopyQwik scoring drugs.
- Lily Milton: No, you... you don't understand.
- Olivia Benson: Okay. So make us understand, Lily.
- Lily Milton: I almost died.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Hey, what do you... you want pity from us? You were willing to send an innocent man to prison to cover your ass?
- Veronique St. John: I don't ask my clients questions.
- Odafin Tutuola: You a hooker?
- Veronique St. John: The hell I am.