- [first lines]
- Amanda Rollins: Look, thank you so much for meeting me for lunch. I have been going stir crazy on maternity leave.
- Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi, Jr.: How's being a mom?
- Amanda Rollins: You were right. It's... it's the greatest thing ever.
- Odafin Tutuola: Hot for teacher. Happens everywhere.
- Olivia Benson: Right, but when the teacher follows through...
- A.D.A. Kenneth O'Dwyer: That is rape.
- Olivia Benson: [to Dodds] Performance reviews? Okay.
- Mike Dodds: It's just part of my duties as sergeant. We've been running up overtime. I think we can work more efficiently.
- Olivia Benson: And you have some ideas about that?
- Mike Dodds: Yeah. Take Carisi. He's studying for the bar, trailing Barba. I'm not so sure his focus is here.
- Olivia Benson: He's learning the law. He's becoming a better cop.
- Mike Dodds: And Rollins... is she really coming back? I mean, we both saw her with her baby. Seems like motherhood is her priority.
- Olivia Benson: You can be a good mother and good at your job, too, Dodds.
- Odafin Tutuola: You know how it goes. When a boy goes through something like this, they never tell anyone.
- A.D.A. Kenneth O'Dwyer: [SPOILER]
- [after Nat Phelps confesses to murdering Coach Basinski]
- A.D.A. Kenneth O'Dwyer: [to Olivia] Do you usually encourage your suspects to get a lawyer?
- Olivia Benson: This is on us. We pushed this kid to testify.
- A.D.A. Kenneth O'Dwyer: That's not what he did.
- Olivia Benson: He was trying to get a confession. He was molested by the man that he killed.
- A.D.A. Kenneth O'Dwyer: He planned this. He tortured that man. He left him to die and was glad to hear that he bled out in pain. It was premeditated.
- Mike Dodds: You're gonna charge him with first-degree murder? That's 25 years.
- A.D.A. Kenneth O'Dwyer: His lawyer can plead for leniency at sentencing.
- Olivia Benson: His life will be over.
- A.D.A. Kenneth O'Dwyer: Lieutenant, his life was over at 15.