- Peter Stone: Your certitude is a good thing, Liv. Hell, it may even be noble. Unfortunately, the law...
- Olivia Benson: Can you stop? Please, just stop. I've, uh... I've heard the lecture before.
- Peter Stone: Maybe, then, you should listen.
- Olivia Benson: Maybe you should listen. Lourdes was raped. Her entire being - her past, her present, and most importantly, her future - negated.
- Peter Stone: That doesn't entitle her to seek revenge.
- Olivia Benson: But it does entitle her to reclaim what was once hers. And if revenge is part of that, then... then so be it.
- Peter Stone: You don't believe that.
- Olivia Benson: I believe that the wrong person is on trial.
- Diego Diaz: Nice bar. You know, where I'm from, we only have two types of vodka: cheap and cheaper. I'm here for a funeral. My brother.
- Peter Stone: I'm sorry.
- Diego Diaz: I loved Jorge. As much as you love your sister, I'm sure. Pamela, if I'm not mistaken.
- Peter Stone: You do realize I'm an Assistant District Attorney?
- Diego Diaz: That's why we're talking, Mr. Stone.
- [he downs his drink and grimaces]
- Diego Diaz: Mm. And that's why you're gonna drop this case. Lourdes will get deported, and then... our justice system will take over.
- Olivia Benson: I believe Lourdes.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: I know, but she can't just take an NYPD lieutenant, hold her hostage, and walk away.
- Olivia Benson: What happened to her was a thousand times worse.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: If we can prove it.
- Olivia Benson: Carisi, I was there. I saw the scars. I heard her story.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Lieutenant, I am not saying that she wasn't trafficked. I'm not saying she wasn't abused. But was it Miguel? Is... is it not possible that he just looked like a coyote?
- Olivia Benson: Miguel Lopez is a trafficker.
- Peter Stone: Do you have any evidence of that, other than Lourdes' word?
- Olivia Benson: Not yet, but I will.
- Peter Stone: Until then, my hands are tied.
- Olivia Benson: All I'm saying is that I... I won't make a very good witness.
- Peter Stone: Did Lourdes Vega point a gun at you?
- Olivia Benson: Yes, but she also...
- Peter Stone: Did she prevent you from leaving that apartment?
- Olivia Benson: Yes.
- Peter Stone: You will do fine.
- Olivia Benson: And what happens when Rojas asks me what went on between Lourdes and Miguel?
- Peter Stone: Legally, it's irrelevant.
- Olivia Benson: And what about morally?
- Peter Stone: What does that even mean?
- Olivia Benson: Maybe it means that whoever's less guilty wins.
- Peter Stone: You're right to have ambivalent feelings about this case.
- Olivia Benson: No, no, you're wrong. There's nothing abivalent about this.
- Peter Stone: What if Miguel wasn't the coyote who raped her?
- Olivia Benson: He's the guy!
- Peter Stone: Were you there? Do you have any evidence that he is the trafficker?
- Olivia Benson: [biting her tongue] I don't know how to get through to you.
- Olivia Benson: So Miguel walks, and you're putting his victim on trial.
- Peter Stone: I offered a deal. It was refused.
- Olivia Benson: So drop the charges.
- Peter Stone: Not for murder. Even if I could, she would be deported. Is that what you want?
- Olivia Benson: No, it's not. But if she agrees to testify in a trafficking case, she will be granted asylum and go into witness protection. An inmate at Rikers threatened to skin her alive. That has to come from the cartels.
- Peter Stone: We can get her into protective custody. At least until the trial is over. But I have to drop the charges against Miguel.
- Olivia Benson: So he can run back to Mexico.
- Peter Stone: We don't know he's gonna do that. We don't know he's anything other than what he says he is: a website designer.
- Olivia Benson: With business associates who use hidden cameras to transmit on the dark net. They are hiding something.
- Peter Stone: Then find me a reason to charge Miguel or turn him over to the feds or the Mexican federales or all of the above.
- Santino Rojas: What kind of protection is she going to have?
- Amanda Rollins: Plainclothes officer, 24/7.
- Santino Rojas: One officer.
- Amanda Rollins: We don't have unlimited resources.
- Santino Rojas: She's a potential federal witness.
- Amanda Rollins: Not until we have a case, she isn't.