- Sebastian Ballentine: Look, I have worked with many other police departments on missing persons cases. My name is Sebastian Ballentine.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: The Sebastian Ballentine?
- Sebastian Ballentine: Oh, you've heard of me.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: No.
- [turns away to take a phone call]
- Sebastian Ballentine: I know what you're thinking.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [skeptical] Of course you do. You're psychic.
- Sebastian Ballentine: You think I'm mentally ill.
- Capt. Donald Cragen: He's good.
- Det. Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: [Fin and TARU are going through a "psychic's" computer that Stabler despises and discover that he ran a search on Detective Benson] You telling me one click and he knows anybody's business, even a cop?
- Ben Suarato: If he pays for it. Search before hers, Elliot Stabler.
- Det. Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Oh, he's gonna kill Ballentine.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Ballentine] What is it about this virgin compulsion? Afraid you're not gonna measure up to other men?
- Sebastian Ballentine: No, no, no. I'm more than adequate in bed. The expression on a girl's face her first time is incomparable.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: These girls weren't having sex. They were being raped.
- Sebastian Ballentine: Their faces were palettes. Shock, confusion, panic, fear and always just a soupçon of pain.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Why'd you come here? You know, if you hadn't, you might've gotten away with it.
- Sebastian Ballentine: Well, I had to see what I had set into motion. Your expressions were priceless. This place was like a beehive that I poked with a stick and also I just I like to help.
- Carlene Ballentine: I don't understand.
- Olivia Benson: Well, it's simple math, Carlene. Your 10th wedding anniversary is coming up next month, but your husband has only been out of prison for eight years. You had a jailhouse wedding, so you had to know what he was in for. Didn't that bother you?
- Carlene Ballentine: You don't know him. Henry's the smartest, sweetest, most charming man I've ever met.
- Olivia Benson: He was doing time for sexual assault. How did you two meet?
- Carlene Ballentine: Through a pen pal program.
- Olivia Benson: With inmates?
- Carlene Ballentine: Can you imagine anyone more in need of a friend? Poor things are completely cut off from society.
- Olivia Benson: Yes, that's the point of putting them behind bars.
- Carlene Ballentine: You think that will make them better?
- Olivia Benson: Sweetie, did you think that you could?
- Det. Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: They being cooperative?
- Capt. Donald Cragen: No, it's not looking good. Sebastian's too sharp to slip and Carlene is almost too dim to exist.
- Sebastian Ballentine: [to Sister Peg] And you're a madam?
- Sister Peg: No, I'm a nun. What are you?
- Sebastian Ballentine: I'm a psychic.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Ballentine] You're still here.
- Sebastian Ballentine: Of course. I feel like a bad piece of furniture. No matter where they move me, I seem to be in the way.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You're saying you've been here all night?
- Sebastian Ballentine: You asked me to wait for you, didn't you?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You never left this building.
- Sebastian Ballentine: Does astral projection count?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [after Sister Peg goes missing and Ballentine is suspected of abducting her] Why would he go after Sister Peg?
- Olivia Benson: Kaley was selling her virginity on the Internet. Sister Peg's a nun. In his sick mind, that means she's a virgin.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Just like Kaley.
- Casey Novak: [after Stabler and Fin break down the door of Ballentine's apartment to search for him and Fin calls to get a warrant from Novak] Has he lost his mind? You tell them to get out of there now.
- Olivia Benson: But you can get us a search warrant, right?
- Casey Novak: No.
- Olivia Benson: Fin, let me call you back.
- [hangs up her phone]
- Olivia Benson: Casey, please. This is Sister Peg. He could be assaulting her right now.
- Casey Novak: Do not make me the bad guy on this. I'm not the one who just violated someone's constitutional rights.
- Olivia Benson: This is Sister Peg. She testified for you in the Hector Ramirez case.
- Casey Novak: And I would do anything to help her, but no judge in his right mind is gonna sign off on a search warrant without probable cause.
- Olivia Benson: I was there when he met her. Fireworks went off when he found out that she was nun.
- Casey Novak: Liv, he was in your precinct the entire time.
- Olivia Benson: Which means that he has to be working with a partner. They killed Kaley. The same thing is gonna happen to Sister Peg.
- Casey Novak: So you're psychic now, too?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [When Ballentine returns to the SVU squad room] Now, what part of "stay out of this" don't you understand?
- Sebastian Ballentine: Look, I just I feel that this is where I'm meant to be.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Then you are the world's worst psychic.
- Capt. Donald Cragen: You're free to go, Mr. Ballentine.
- Sebastian Ballentine: Are you sure? Don't really feel like I've convinced Detective Stabler yet. I hate to leave him with unresolved angst.
- Capt. Donald Cragen: Your wife and baby are waiting.
- Sebastian Ballentine: No, they aren't.
- Capt. Donald Cragen: Well, you finally missed one, Kreskin.
- Sebastian Ballentine: [last lines; to Stabler] Well, this was fun. Best sex I ever had.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You know they're looking to extradite your sorry ass back to Canada, but I'm gonna make damn sure you stay right here.
- Sebastian Ballentine: I believe you really mean that. I kinda grew on you, didn't I?
- Olivia Benson: [to Langan] We should be holding this press conference, not you.
- Trevor Langan: This isn't about who gets the most air time.
- Mrs. Sellers: Do you have any news?
- Olivia Benson: I'm sorry.
- Trevor Langan: There is really no other option than to appeal to the public for help.
- Olivia Benson: I agree with you, but we need to control which information gets released.
- Trevor Langan: And you just told Mrs. Sellers that you don't have, and given the 48-hour statistic...
- Mrs. Sellers: Well, what's that?
- Olivia Benson: It's a stat that he's confusing on the abduction of much younger children.
- Mrs. Sellers: You think he's gonna kill her.
- Olivia Benson: We don't know that, Mrs. Sellers.
- Mrs. Sellers: He's had her for at least 16 hours and you people haven't done anything.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Ballentine after he comes over to the Sellers house to do a psychic reading] What's your angle, you little vulture?
- Sebastian Ballentine: I was just trying to help.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: That woman is out of her mind with worry. She doesn't need your help.
- Sebastian Ballentine: I keep seeing a serial port and a computer cord. Does that mean anything to you?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Maybe he met her over the Internet.
- Sebastian Ballentine: Yes, I'm seeing that.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: No, you're not. Computer Crimes went over Kaley's computer. There are no suspicious e-mails. She never visited a chat room, you pathetic fraud.
- Mrs. Sellers: [to Olivia] Mr. Ballentine hasn't asked for a cent.
- Olivia Benson: Mrs. Sellers, I know that you're desperate to get your daughter back, but you need to understand that there are unscrupulous people out there.
- Mrs. Sellers: That's not Sebastian.
- Olivia Benson: Psychics come out of the woodwork in high profile cases for exposure. It gets them business.
- Mrs. Sellers: But he had a vision.
- Olivia Benson: And so did the 600 psychics who called in tips on the Elizabeth Smart case. Not to mention all the callers who had dreams about it. A psychic has never solved a case.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Cragen about Ballentine helping out] Look, Captain, Captain. He's completely snowed the mother. I just want him to stop bothering her and us again.
- Capt. Donald Cragen: This isn't a babysitting service.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: So we dump him in a room and leave him there until he figures it out.
- Capt. Donald Cragen: Tip line has received over 300 calls. All our rooms are full.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: So we stuff him in a urinal.
- Officer Kivlahan: [to Stabler] That Sebastian guy, I thought he was the real deal.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Kivlahan, I'm in no mood for jokes.
- Officer Kivlahan: No. He knew my mother's name and that she had passed and that she didn't get along with my wife.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: If you fell for that guy's load of bull, you're in the wrong line of work, pal.