- Nick Amaro: I am sure.
- Olivia Benson: I don't know what to say.
- Nick Amaro: Well, I wasn't what your old partner was for you.
- Olivia Benson: No, you weren't. I grew more in my last four years with you than I did in the twelve years that I was with him. You know that relationship, whatever it was, didn't allow for anything else. But with you, with your support, I have a family.
- Nick Amaro: Yes, you do.
- Olivia Benson: You helped me grow.
- Nick Amaro: I appreciate you saying that.
- Olivia Benson: Wow, so, whatever happens, Nick Amaro, friends for life.
- Nick Amaro: Friends for life.
- Nick Amaro: [Olivia told Nick some bad news] I get it.
- Olivia Benson: I'm sorry.
- Nick Amaro: Don't be. What was it Munch said? "Don't fall in love with your job, kid. She'll never love you back."
- Dominick Carisi, Jr.: I think I get why the Feds kicked this case to Barba.
- Odafin Tutuola: 'Cause nobody wants to do any more work than they have to?
- Evan Braun: [Enters Barba's office, looks around] Nice digs. My tax dollars at work.
- Rafael Barba: Taxes? Don't most of your clients pay cash?
- Evan Braun: Ha, that's funny.
- Olivia Benson: Counselor, walk you out?
- Rafael Barba: Something you need to tell me?
- Olivia Benson: Just so you know, I've decided to name Johnny D as Noah's birth father on the adoption papers.
- Rafael Barba: No. We've talked about this. You are under no obligation to do that. It's not material to what he's being charged with.
- Olivia Benson: This isn't about the trial. The adoption paperwork lists Noah's birth father as unknown.
- Rafael Barba: So what's the problem?
- Olivia Benson: Lying doesn't work out well for me.
- Rafael Barba: Okay. Johnny D, family court. Separate universes. He'll never find out.
- Olivia Benson: Maybe not, but someday Noah might. Or the courts. I don't want my life with Noah to be built on a lie.
- Rafael Barba: Don't do this. Johnny D is a psychopath. Do not open this door.
- Rafael Barba: [to Olivia] Johnny D will relinquish all parental rights and waive visitation. Noah won't ever have to know he existed.
- Olivia Benson: He doesn't get to do this.
- Rafael Barba: As I was trying to say, they've offered a plea of three to five years for prostitution, which, I agree, is not enough.
- Olivia Benson: Not enough?
- Rafael Barba: But I think I can sell them on one count of trafficking, pleaded down. Braun indicated they might accept 10 years.
- Olivia Benson: Yes, because he knows that if this goes to trial that Johnny D will spend the rest of his life in prison. He sex-trafficked underaged girls. He raped them, he brutalized them. He does not get to plea this down because I want to make my life less complicated.
- Rafael Barba: Okay. There's something else you should know. Regardless of whether he is convicted or not, he can still appeal for his parental rights. He could request and has a good shot at getting court-ordered visitation. You could be taking your son to visit Johnny D in State Prison until Noah turns 18.
- Ariel Thornhill: Johnny D treated me, treated all of us, like we were nothing. Like we were worthless. Just a body to own, to beat, to rape, to kill so he could make money. I lived in fear. I cried every day until I couldn't cry anymore. Then I just became numb, like all of you. But we're free now and Johnny D doesn't control us. He doesn't own us. We don't have to be afraid anymore.
- Ed Tucker: [to Olivia about Amaro applying for the sergeant's exam] It doesn't matter if he gets a perfect score on the test. He's damaged goods.
- Olivia Benson: He's a solid cop. And lately, he's turned things around.
- Ed Tucker: He shot an unarmed 14-year-old kid, chased after three others with a baseball bat, beat an innocent suspect...
- Olivia Benson: Stop. In all of those cases, he was exonerated.
- Ed Tucker: Technically, yes, but realistically, the way One PP sees it, Amaro could cure cancer, they're still not gonna promote him. Listen, I know you like the guy, but this is never going to happen.
- Olivia Benson: Got it.