- Detective Nate Kendall: I don't like victims. They cling.
- Olivia Benson: Not after you bag the trash that assaulted them.
- Detective Nate Kendall: [after Mark Foster dies from falling out of the bathroom window at the precinct] I didn't touch the hump. I'll wait upstairs for lAB.
- [walks off]
- Olivia Benson: He did it.
- Elliot Stabler: Who gives a damn? At least Foster won't be able to rape again.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Stabler, he also can't testify in court now which leaves Victor Tate stuck in prison.
- Elliot Stabler: What are you talking about? We've got new evidence.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: No, it's hearsay.
- Elliot Stabler: We have Foster's confession on tape.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: A dead man's confession doesn't meet the rules of evidence or allow cross in front of a jury. It's inadmissible.
- Olivia Benson: What about early parole? We can appear on Tate's behalf.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: No, an inmate has to admit guilt before a parole board will let him go.
- Elliot Stabler: I just told an innocent man he's getting released.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Yeah, you jumped the gun.
- Elliot Stabler: I'm getting him out of there if I have to hire a lawyer myself.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: You can do that, but it's not gonna change anything. He's still gonna end up serving the whole bid.
- Olivia Benson: That's another 15 years, Sonya.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Look, I don't know what to say. I'm sorry.
- [starts to walk off, but Elliot pulls her back]
- Elliot Stabler: Tell me what to do.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Unless you know the governor, there's not a single thing you can do.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: [When Olivia and Elliot are interrogating Mark Foster] The suspect asked for his lawyer and you kept questioning him for 93 seconds. That's a violation of his right to counsel.
- Olivia Benson: We'll leave you to your client, Counselor.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: No, no, no, no. I may be wearing couture, but I don't represent scumbags.
- Beverly Neal: I'm a court reporter now. I've seen what goes on in rape trials.
- Olivia Benson: There are laws to shield victims.
- Beverly Neal: And tactics to get around them.
- Detective Nate Kendall: You just don't want anyone to know what you used to be.
- [Olivia and Beverly look shocked]
- Beverly Neal: You've got balls. I dropped that baggage long ago and now you expect me to pick it back up.
- Olivia Benson: What you used to be shouldn't have mattered. The way you were treated was wrong.
- Beverly Neal: And because you say so, I'm supposed to bend over. That's how pimps talk.
- Detective Nate Kendall: Women are being raped. Don't make me subpoena you.
- Beverly Neal: Fat chance.
- Detective Nate Kendall: You don't know cops if you think that's an empty threat.
- Beverly Neal: I am not a whore or a victim, Detective and I sure as hell won't let you treat me like one.
- Detective Nate Kendall: [to Rena West] The bastard who did you is out hunting his next mark. You gonna let her get screwed because you're fragile?
- Donald Cragen: Executive ADA Paxton got the first capital conviction when Pataki brought back the death penalty.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Yes, I did. So when I say, stop playing fast and loose with defendants' rights, that's what you'll do or you won't be working here.
- Donald Cragen: That is the Commissioner's decision, Sonya, not yours.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: That's where you're wrong, Don. There have been far too many overturned convictions, especially in the "He said, she said" unit, so Jack McCoy sent me here to clean house. Oh, and One PP thinks it's a really swell idea.
- Elliot Stabler: What if Tate is innocent?
- Odafin Tutuola: The man had a fair trial. If he's not the rapist, the entire system failed. Not just you.
- Olivia Benson: [When Mark Foster is released on bail] So he throws five grand at a bondsman and he's free to murder.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: You know what? Blame the Constitution, okay? You want to be a prosecutor? Go to law school. Or better yet, just do your jobs, guys.
- Olivia Benson: [to Kendall after he gets rough with a pimp] Hey, you don't get to knock heads even when it's about a kid.
- Detective Nate Kendall: It's no surprise we don't see eye to eye.
- Olivia Benson: It's more than that. You slapped a mother over her six-year-old. Now, you're threatening him over a girl recruit. What's the matter with you?
- Detective Nate Kendall: She reminded me of my daughter, Kelly.
- Olivia Benson: How old is she?
- Detective Nate Kendall: Ten. Only got to see her two weeks out of the year. Never enough time, but we always had a blast.
- Olivia Benson: She live out of state?
- Detective Nate Kendall: My ex ran to Seattle to get away and my kid ends up dead because... because I wasn't there.
- Olivia Benson: I'm sorry.
- Detective Nate Kendall: My ex, too. Got herself involved with a meth dealer. Blew them up cooking it.
- Elliot Stabler: [to Paxton] Well, no disrespect, but we do things a little differently down here in New York City.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Oh, really? I was trying homicides when you were fresh out of the Academy, walking a beat and trying not to piss yourself.
- Detective Nate Kendall: You SVU?
- Elliot Stabler: Stabler, Benson.
- Detective Nate Kendall: Nate Kendall, the 2-4. Your victim ran into my crime scene.
- Rena West: I knew he was gonna kill me. So when he went in the other room, I just got up, and I was out the door, running for blocks.
- Detective Nate Kendall: First smart thing you did.
- Olivia Benson: It's not your fault.
- Detective Nate Kendall: The hell it's not. Her gut was churning the second he approached her on the street.
- Elliot Stabler: You're in the way. Leave.
- Rena West: No, no. Nate's right. He--the--the guy was wearing a nice suit, and he was polite, but I knew--I knew that something was off.
- Detective Nate Kendall: Only a racist acts afraid of a black guy. That's what you told yourself. And he read you.
- Elliot Stabler: The guy who raped you will rape another woman, and another, and another.
- Rena West: I don't care. I'm alive. You said that that's all that matters. So just, just take me home.
- Detective Nate Kendall: You aren't going anywhere. The bastard who did you is out hunting his next mark. You're gonna let her get screwed because you're fragile? Park it.
- Rena West: I don't think I ca--can do this.
- Detective Nate Kendall: There's only one way to find out.
- Detective Nate Kendall: Average height, weight, and build. Round up the usual suspects.
- Elliot Stabler: If you knew how to talk to victims, you'd get more facts.
- Detective Nate Kendall: Here's one: Victims make lousy witnesses. Hope you catch your man.
- Donald Cragen: You're not done yet, detective. I need you to stay with Ms. West.
- Detective Nate Kendall: I am not a babysitter.
- Donald Cragen: You talk like you have a choice.
- Detective Nate Kendall: Sounds like you already boned me with my captain.
- Donald Cragen: You're mine until I don't need you anymore.
- Tom Conlon: Spencer? These are Detectives Benson and Stabler. They want to see your footage from yesterday.
- Spencer Conlon: I know you. You were in the store.
- Olivia Benson: Yes, I was. We just came from there.
- Spencer Conlon: Two years ago.
- Olivia Benson: Uh, it's possible, but I think I would remember.
- Tom Conlon: No, trust me, my brother never forgets a face.
- Elliot Stabler: You have an awful lot of surveillance equipment in here.
- Tom Conlon: Spencer's autistic, detective. Uh, loud noises and human contact unnerve him. This is his way of being social.
- Spencer Conlon: April 12, 2007, 5:28 a.m.
- Elliot Stabler: [looking at Olivia] Late night?
- Spencer Conlon: I did good, Tommy?
- Tom Conlon: You did great, buddy.
- Olivia Benson: Spencer, I, uh, I'd like to show you a sketch. Maybe you can help us find the man we're looking for.
- Spencer Conlon: It was 7:54 p.m. He was pretending to read the paper.
- [Spencer taps at his keyboard and zooms in to show the face of Mark Foster]
- Olivia Benson: Excessive force with a car. Are you out of your mind?
- Detective Nate Kendall: You I.D.'d yourself, he ran, period.
- Elliot Stabler: Your stunt could have damaged our case.
- Detective Nate Kendall: You don't have a case yet.
- Olivia Benson: Rena West picked Foster out of a photo array.
- Detective Nate Kendall: And it took her 15 minutes to do it. Memory recall is immediate.
- Elliot Stabler: Are you saying she's lying?
- Detective Nate Kendall: I'm saying Rena thinks it's true, so this whole mess will be over.
- Olivia Benson: Badly enough to pick out the wrong perp?
- Detective Nate Kendall: She's white. He's black. Cross-race identification isn't reliable.
- Elliot Stabler: You know, not all black people look alike.
- Odafin Tutuola: Thanks, but you're not a victim. Mistaken I.D.s happen all the time.
- [Benson and Stabler find Kendall berating and manhandling Mrs. Foster in her home]
- Elliot Stabler: What the hell are you doing here?
- Detective Nate Kendall: I came to get Foster's alibi. Stupid bitch is useless. She was sucking on that pipe when I got here. The kid's filthy. There's no food in the fridge.
- Elliot Stabler: That doesn't give you the right to rough her up.
- Detective Nate Kendall: She's lucky I didn't shoot her.
- Olivia Benson: If you need something to do, why don't you take the little girl to Social Services? Now.
- Detective Nate Kendall: [approaching and speaking softly to the girl] My little girl likes cheeseburgers. How about you?