- Amanda Rollins: Sounds like it's time for a sit-down with the Suffolk County D.A.
- Rafael Barba: [pulls open his jacket to reveal his suspenders] Open our kimono? I don't think so.
- Olivia Benson: So, Jessie, aside from Tommy, you were also in a relationship with Michael Provo?
- Jessie Sturgis: He's sort of there when Tommy isn't.
- Nick Amaro: And the black gunman in the town car, he's not real, is he?
- Jessie Sturgis: No, I'm sorry. I made him up. I didn't want Tommy to know.
- Nick Amaro: To know what? That you called Michael three times? That you got in a car with him? Jessie, you weren't raped, were you?
- Jessie Sturgis: I didn't make that part up. I was raped by Michael Provo. I begged him to stop.
- Rafael Barba: [about Jessie after she's arraigned for murder] We're in someone else's courthouse and it's not our case. She's their defendant.
- Olivia Benson: I know, but she's also our victim.
- Rafael Barba: [to Provo] You remember Carol McEwan. She made the second 911 call, reporting gunshots that nobody else heard moments before Jessie even got there.
- D.A. Pam James: This is my witness. She's on my list.
- Rafael Barba: She's on mine now. She's going to testify that she was blackmailed by Provo into making a false report.
- Michael Provo: That lying bitch.
- Olivia Benson: Your frame's collapsing, huh, Provo?
- Jessie Sturgis: It's over now? They can't hurt us anymore?
- Nick Amaro: Provo's going away for a very long time.
- Jessie Sturgis: What about the rest of the case? What Michael did to me?
- Nick Amaro: [to Jessie's son, Matthew] Hey, Matty, why don't you show me that missing tooth, huh?
- [walks off to the side with Matthew]
- Olivia Benson: Jessie, we had to withdraw charges.
- Jessie Sturgis: What? But he raped me. He beat me. He left me bleeding in the street.
- Olivia Benson: Barba had to make a deal to get you out right away. That was... that was the priority.
- Jessie Sturgis: And the rape never happened?
- Olivia Benson: Legally, no. Jessie, take Matthew home. You won.
- Nick Amaro: [about Jessie] Raped, put in jail, her kid taken away. I don't know how she held it together.
- Olivia Benson: She did it for her son.
- Odafin Tutuola: [to Olivia] Liv, when's the last time you heard from Jessie Sturgis?
- Olivia Benson: Jessie, the single mom who was raped in the Meatpacking District.
- Amanda Rollins: Yeah, that was Labor Day Weekend. That still hasn't gone to trial yet, right?
- Nick Amaro: The D.A'.s office hated that case. She was drunk and her story was a mess.
- Olivia Benson: But she was raped.
- Nick Amaro: I'm not arguing that.
- Olivia Benson: She knew her assailant, I remember. She was afraid that her boyfriend would find out.
- Odafin Tutuola: Okay, her boyfriend, Tommy, last night, Jessie was arrested for killing him. A.D.A. Barba wants to see us now.
- Olivia Benson: [while going over the case with Barba] Four months ago, Jessie Sturgis was raped by a Michael Provo.
- Nick Amaro: Provo's side, it was consensual sex and she lied 'cause she was afraid of her boyfriend.
- Rafael Barba: Tommy Bandolce. The guy that Jessie's accused of murdering last night?
- Nick Amaro: Right.
- Rafael Barba: That's why Ms. James wants to see your case. She wants background on Jessie. She's also worried Provo was falsely accused.
- Olivia Benson: Did she tell you that Michael Provo is a CI for their office, helped make her the DA? She's just looking to protect her own.
- Rafael Barba: Didn't come up. Either way, she wants us to open our kimono.
- Odafin Tutuola: Excuse me?
- Amanda Rollins: She wants to see all of our casework, all the D.A.'s files.
- Olivia Benson: So she can build a case against Jessie. I assume you told her no.
- Rafael Barba: Detective, there's a protocol among D.A.'s. I can't just say no.
- Michael Provo: [as he's being arrested] You really have to do that?
- Odafin Tutuola: You still think you're special. Get in the car.
- Rafael Barba: Ms. James, what brings you to town?
- D.A. Pam James: I was heading to the governor's fundraiser when I heard that your SVU minions arrested Mr. Provo in Islip.
- Rafael Barba: Yeah, they said traffic was terrible coming back.
- D.A. Pam James: [to Barba] You attack the integrity of my office, you're in for the fight of your life.
- Jessie Sturgis: [to Olivia and Amaro] So you can prove it? That Michael killed Tommy and set this whole thing up?
- Nick Amaro: Our D.A.'s adding conspiracy and murder to Provo's rape charge.
- Jessie Sturgis: Oh, thank God. Can I go home tonight? My boy's in foster care.
- Olivia Benson: See, Jessie, that's the bad news, is that the Suffolk County D.A. won't drop the charges.
- Jessie Sturgis: Why? That's impossible. Michael did it.
- Nick Amaro: We believe you were framed. They think you did it. It's two separate counties, two separate trials.
- Jessie Sturgis: This is insane. He raped me, killed Tommy, put me in here. You're telling me you can't get me out? What if they convict me?
- Olivia Benson: We're building your case, we're working with your defense team. The D.A. will not give up. I just... we just need you to hang in there a little longer, okay?
- Jessie Sturgis: Just hang in there? Get out. Leave.
- [yells]
- Jessie Sturgis: Get out!
- [Olivia and Amaro leave]
- Eddie Baker: [when Amaro and Olivia arrive to Carol's house] Who the hell are you?
- Nick Amaro: Looking for Carol McEwan.
- Eddie Baker: Yeah, what do you want with her?
- Olivia Benson: Carol, can we speak with you privately, please?
- Eddie Baker: No.
- Carol McEwan: We're married ten years. I'm more comfortable with my husband here.
- Nick Amaro: Okay, we're here...
- Carol McEwan: I know why you're here. My 911 call. The D.A. told me not to talk to anyone before I testify, not even cops.
- Nick Amaro: Okay, but, uh, you live a half hour from the crime scene. You just happened to be driving by that night?
- Carol McEwan: I was taking a shortcut to meet my husband. It was our anniversary.
- Eddie Baker: Okay? Good-bye. Go back to the city. She got nothing else to say to you.
- Olivia Benson: Carol, please.
- Carol McEwan: No, I'm sorry.
- Olivia Benson: If you're scared of Michael Provo...
- [Eddie shuts the door in their face]
- Eddie Baker: [to Olivia and Amaro] You got no reason to be busting my balls. I haven't broken recycling laws since I been out.
- Carol McEwan: [When Amaro and Olivia approach Carol] I'm not supposed to talk to you.
- Olivia Benson: Says who? Your husband or Michael Provo?
- Nick Amaro: You know you could be charged with perjury for lying in front of a jury?
- Carol McEwan: Who said I was going to lie?
- Nick Amaro: You told us you heard shots on the way to your anniversary dinner, but it turns out you two are common law.
- Carol McEwan: So what? I didn't say it was a wedding anniversary.
- Olivia Benson: No, it was another kind of anniversary. It's been a year since Eddie was paroled from prison.
- Nick Amaro: Where Michael Provo helped to send him.
- Carol McEwan: So you know we don't owe him anything.
- Nick Amaro: Except we checked and Eddie was supposed to do 15 years upstate. Instead, he does five in Queensboro Correctional in Long Island City. That's a lot closer to your house.
- Carol McEwan: He got time off for good behavior.
- Nick Amaro: Yeah, after Michael Provo got the D.A. to intercede on his behalf. See, we know Provo's M.O. He was having a relationship with you while your husband was away.
- Carol McEwan: You can't prove that.
- Olivia Benson: Carol, it's what he does. He takes advantage of women who are already in trouble.
- Carol McEwan: I love my husband.
- Nick Amaro: Did Provo threaten to tell Eddie about your affair?
- Carol McEwan: I'm Eddie's whole world. If he finds out, he'll kill me, then he'll kill himself.
- Olivia Benson: And we don't want to have to tell him, but there's an innocent woman who's looking at 25 to life.
- Carol McEwan: So you're gonna blackmail me into doing what's right? Who's taking advantage of who now?
- D.A. Pam James: Mr. Barba, you have to understand, these allegations come as a complete shock to me. You can be assured that my office will conduct a thorough investigation.
- Rafael Barba: I've no doubt you will.
- Amanda Rollins: And in the meantime, all your charges against Jessie can be dropped.
- D.A. Pam James: Due diligence first, Detective.
- Olivia Benson: Due diligence? I'd call it saving face. Jessie Sturgis is innocent. She has a child in foster care.
- Rafael Barba: More to the point, once I get Mr. Provo convicted of conspiracy, every one of your cases he was involved with will be under the microscope. So will your office. Think about what that means, Pam.
- D.A. Pam James: Don't threaten me. Either of you.
- Rafael Barba: Counselor, no threat was intended.
- Michael Provo: [to Pam James] You'd really sell me out, Pam? After everything I've done for you? You'd still be putting your tits on the table for traffic court judges if it wasn't for me!
- Jessie Sturgis: You're the one who talked me into pressing charges. Why haven't you arrested him yet?
- Olivia Benson: We just want to make sure that there aren't any surprises.
- Jessie Sturgis: Am I on trial or is he?
- D.A. Pam James: Mr. Barba, I am due in court in three minutes. Where's that case file?
- Rafael Barba: I've hit a couple of red flags. It turns out Michael Provo was accused of rape four years ago.
- D.A. Pam James: It's not an issue. Charges were never filed.
- Rafael Barba: You mean you never filed them. You were the prosecuting attorney on that case.
- D.A. Pam James: This isn't the city. We don't drag the wrongfully accused through the mud.