- Alexandra Cabot: Mr. Buchanan wants to talk about you being a criminal, Gladys, so let's just do that. How long were you under the control of your pimp?
- Gladys Dalton: Since I was 12, so ten years.
- Alexandra Cabot: And how many nights a week did he force you to work?
- Gladys Dalton: Five.
- Alexandra Cabot: And how many men did he force you to have sex with each night?
- Gladys Dalton: Like, at least six.
- Alexandra Cabot: And since you were 12, you couldn't consent. And because you were forced, you were raped. So would you estimate you were raped a total of 13,000 times over those 10 years?
- Gladys Dalton: Yeah.
- Alexandra Cabot: [to Buchanan] I hope I cleared things up for you, Counselor. That is a victim...
- [points to Skags]
- Alexandra Cabot: and that is a criminal.
- Billy Skags: [to Gladys] Satan has penetrated you 13,000 times, you whore. God demands your repentance now!
- Michael Gallagher: Look, I don't know what you're talking about.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Young hookers. You've got a thing for them.
- Michael Gallagher: Absolutely not. I'm a married man.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: How about that fourteen year old you were caught diddling?
- Michael Gallagher: I was a kid.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Mike, you were twenty-two.
- Michael Gallagher: She looked older. I prayed for forgiveness. I never made that mistake again.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Until you met Maggie Ortiz.
- Michael Gallagher: Never seen her before.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: No?
- Michael Gallagher: No.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: How about Abby Mannion?
- Michael Gallagher: I don't know her, either.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Your penis does. Your semen was found inside her.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Lynn] Why are you sweating?
- Lynn Drexel: Wouldn't you be if somebody just told you your best friend died?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: No, I'd probably be crying, not sweating.
- Billy Skags: God put me on this earth to fight Satan's grip on these girls' souls.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Did God tell you to put your death grip on these girls' necks?
- Olivia Benson: Gladys wants to use heroic measures to save her baby.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I don't blame her. Whatever happened to "First, do no harm"?
- Olivia Benson: What if keeping her alive does more harm than good?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: If you had kids, you wouldn't be asking that question.
- Olivia Benson: Oh, so just because I'm not a mother, I don't care about this baby?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: That's not what I meant.
- Olivia Benson: Elliot, what if little Eli was going to die? Or he was so disabled that he would have to have round-the-clock care for the rest of his life?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I wouldn't play God.
- Olivia Benson: Then don't play doctor, either.
- Alexandra Cabot: Listen, I need Gladys to testify.
- Olivia Benson: Alex, her baby is barely alive. I doubt she's going to leave the hospital.
- Alexandra Cabot: I'm not putting that psychopath back on the streets and neither are you.
- Olivia Benson: What do you expect me to do?
- Alexandra Cabot: Arrest her for prostitution.
- Olivia Benson: You're serious.
- Alexandra Cabot: Cuff her to the crib. Do whatever it takes to keep her from running. I'll cut her loose after the hearing.
- Olivia Benson: What if her little girl gets even sicker while she's in court? What if Gladys has to make a decision and she can't get back to the hospital?
- Alexandra Cabot: What if Gladys doesn't testify and Billy Skags murders another young girl?
- Gladys Dalton: Look, I may have made some stupid decisions, but I'm not blind.
- John Buchanan: These stupid decisions. Does that include dropping out of the eighth grade? Becoming a drug addict? Having anonymous street sex while you're 24 weeks pregnant?
- Gladys Dalton: Hey, that man over there tried to kill me. That happened. I'm not going to let him get away with that.
- John Buchanan: My client isn't getting away with anything because he's the victim of your vicious lies. You're the criminal here.
- Marmalade: [to Gladys] Cops don't give a damn about you, Sunshine. So shut your mouth!
- Olivia Benson: You need to shut yours before I put my fist through it.
- Marmalade: I like a feisty bitch.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Well, then you're going to like being one when I throw you in the slammer.
- John Buchanan: [to Gladys] Don't worry, young lady. I don't think they'll arrest you.
- Gladys Dalton: Why would they arrest me?
- John Buchanan: Well, you are a prostitute.
- Gladys Dalton: Is he telling the truth? Are you going to arrest me?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: No.
- Olivia Benson: No, Gladys, we just need you to identify the man that tried to kill you.
- John Buchanan: The police lie, Gladys, all the time.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: One more word, I'll collar you for intimidating a witness. One more word.
- Shawna Grant: [to Olivia and Elliot] You need to butt out of our family business. Who's going to feed this baby, buy the clothes, pay the doctor? You?
- [Elliot and Olivia don't answer her]
- Shawna Grant: I didn't think so. Now, get your do-goody asses out of here.
- Olivia Benson: Gladys, I need your help. I need you to testify against Billy Skags.
- Gladys Dalton: What? I'm not leaving my baby.
- Olivia Benson: Gladys, if you don't, I have to arrest you for prostitution.
- Gladys Dalton: I'm not going anywhere.
- Olivia Benson: Gladys, please don't make me do this.
- Gladys Dalton: Go to hell.
- Gladys Dalton: [to Olivia] Back there in court, everything that lawyer said about me is true.
- Olivia Benson: You've turned a page on that. That's behind you now.
- Gladys Dalton: It will never be behind me. What am I supposed to tell my baby when she grows up?
- Olivia Benson: Gladys, you love your little girl and that's all that matters. And if you make the right decision for her now, she'll understand.
- Olivia Benson: [to Gladys] There are recovery houses, and I could take you to one. You'll have a safe place to live, get counseling, get a GED. You could have a better life.
- Gladys Dalton: That's what he said.
- Olivia Benson: Marmalade? What, did he follow you home from school?
- Marmalade: [When Marmalade is questioned by the detectives for having an underaged prostitute] I don't know her and if you ask her, she's going to say she don't know me.
- Olivia Benson: Oh, one of them is going to talk and your sweet jelly is going to spread all over prison.
- Olivia Benson: [to Shawna about Gladys] Did you kick a pregnant girl out on the street?
- Shawna Grant: I gave her every chance at a normal life.
- Olivia Benson: You gave her a lousy sofa to sleep on as long as she could pay your rent.
- Shawna Grant: Look, I got two kids of my own, all right? And disability doesn't make ends meet. How am I supposed to pay for her and a baby?
- Olivia Benson: Not by abandoning her.
- Shawna Grant: Look, that girl makes her own decisions, all right? And she started when she got in that pimp's car.
- Olivia Benson: She was only 12 years old. Once she met him, that's the last decision she ever made on her own. Have you ever heard of breaking a bitch? That's what pimps do to young girls. Make them so dependent that they never have a chance. Shawna, Gladys has one now. Here with you, but only if you help her.
- Olivia Benson: [to Dr. Frantz] How is Gladys?
- Dr. Frantz: She had a grand mal seizure. Most likely brought on by pre-eclampsia with brain edema.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: In English, Doc?
- Dr. Frantz: Her blood pressure was dangerously high, so I had to do a crash C-section, but Gladys is going to be okay.
- Olivia Benson: What about the baby?
- Dr. Frantz: Four months early, barely weighs a pound. She has respiratory problems, necrotizing enterocolitis, intraventricular hemorrhaging. Bottom line, at the very least, she's going to need multiple surgeries and months of care in the NlCU.
- Olivia Benson: So what are her chances? Seriously.
- Dr. Frantz: Babies born any earlier, we usually place in the hospice. This one, I'd say anywhere between 17 and 40%.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Still worth it.
- Dr. Frantz: I don't know if l'd necessarily agree with you.
- Olivia Benson: You think heroic measures shouldn't be taken.
- Dr. Frantz: I think withholding treatment is an option.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: It's not an option. It's murder.
- Dr. Frantz: And pouring thousands, if not millions, of dollars into saving a baby who will be blind with cerebral palsy and severe mental retardation, you think that's what's best for her?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You cannot say for sure that this baby will not live a normal life.
- Dr. Frantz: No one can, but the odds are very small.
- John Buchanan: I was present, Your Honor. The witness never made a procedurally valid lD.
- Alexandra Cabot: Because of the freaky deacon's crazed rantings, she fled in terror.
- Olivia Benson: Gladys, you can't ignore the fact that you're pregnant.
- Gladys Dalton: I'm not ignoring it anymore. I have an appointment at the clinic tomorrow and I'm taking my vitamins. You know, I don't think I've ever been this excited about anything.
- Olivia Benson: But you understand that if you decide to keep the baby, you're going to have to make some big changes in your life.
- Gladys Dalton: What are you talking about? Of course, I'm keeping my baby.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Well, if you change your mind, there are organizations that can help with adoption.
- Gladys Dalton: I won't change my mind. Look, I want a new life and this is my way to get it.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Gladys, you're giving life to the baby. It's not the other way around.