- Captain Donald Cragen: I've been sober over twenty years. But I struggle with it every day. It's not something you ever get over.
- Olivia Benson: Please, people do bad things because they're bad people. Getting drunk to do it is just an excuse.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Olivia, finally, we agree on something.
- Captain Donald Cragen: Liv, if there had been a cure a decade ago, your mom might still be alive.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: [to Olivia] Wait, Mommy liked her cocktail or...?
- Olivia Benson: My mother was a falling-down drunk. She died going down a flight of stairs.
- [walks away]
- [Stabler accidentally let a murder suspect escape from custody]
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Good morning, detectives.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Just when I thought my day couldn't get any worse.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Has anyone seen my missing defendant?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Well, we could try and find him, unless you wanna just waste our time busting my balls.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Oh, I'd never kick a man when he's down. I'm sure you feel like a grade "A" moron as it is.
- John Munch: [to Dalton] If I had a nickel for every dead prostitute...
- Dalton Rindell: I never woke up with I've never used a prostitute.
- John Munch: Sorry, without gallows humor to cope with what we see every day, I'd go stark raving mad.
- Odafin Tutuola: What do you mean, go?
- Odafin Tutuola: Nayyar, how much longer you going to keep this bathroom tied up? You're worse than my ex-wife.
- Media Tech Anu Nayyar: Someone let a sweet talker like you go?
- Captain Donald Cragen: [to Olivia and Elliot] Now, what part of taking a killer rapist on a field trip sounded like a bright idea?
- John Munch: Dalton wasn't technically under...
- Captain Donald Cragen: Zip it, John. They are perfectly capable of making their own half-assed excuses.
- Dalton Rindell: [about Sonya after she arrives in court late and dishelved] She's drunk.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Excuse me?
- Dalton Rindell: She's drunk.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Excuse me, Dalton? Are you... did you say something to me?
- Dalton Rindell: Trust me. I would know.
- Roger Kressler: Your Honor, this is outrageous.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: [to Kressler] Oh, what's your problem, you tiny little man?
- Olivia Benson: [when Sonya refuses to take a breathalyzer in court] Sonya, your eyes are bloodshot and watery, your speech is slurred and you stink of booze. Now blow.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: I thought you were my friend.
- Olivia Benson: Just do it.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Don't do this to me, Olivia. Please don't do this to me.
- Olivia Benson: You did this to yourself, Sonya.
- Rita: Life begins at conception.
- Olivia Benson: What if my life is at risk?
- Rita: It's in God's hands, not yours.
- Olivia Benson: And what if I told you I was raped?
- Rita: Well, the Lord wouldn't have brought a child into this world if he didn't have great plans for it.
- Olivia Benson: Even though she'll be a constant reminder? You have no idea the toll that takes on a woman.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: [about Dalton's alcoholism] What a load of crap. It's not that he couldn't stop. He just didn't want to.
- Captain Donald Cragen: It's not that cut and dry, Sonya. Alcoholism is a recognized addiction.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: That millions of people have successfully overcome.
- Captain Donald Cragen: I've been sober over 20 years, but I struggle with it every day. It's not something you ever overcome.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: But you're not drinking, are you? Proving my point. Alcohol is just a crutch for weak-willed, pathetic losers.
- Captain Donald Cragen: How many coffees and cigarettes you have today, Sonya?
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: [scoffs] Oh, please. I can quit anytime I want and if I committed a felony, I wouldn't trot them out like the old Twinkie defense.
- Captain Donald Cragen: [about Sonya] SVU was too much for her. The pressure must have triggered her drinking.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Explains why she was such a control freak. White-knuckle drunk just hanging on by a thread.
- Olivia Benson: What a hypocrite.
- Captain Donald Cragen: She was a good lawyer with a bad problem.
- Olivia Benson: I definitely saw a lot of my mother in her.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Well, her career's over. There's no way she's coming back from this. I mean, she's a walking cluster...
- [Sonya walks in the room]
- Bill Tattenger: Dalton was dripping flop sweat. You have no idea how crucial it was to instill the investors with confidence.
- Captain Donald Cragen: Of course I do. That's step number one in "The Idiot's Guide to Flimflamming."
- Bill Tattenger: I didn't do anything illegal.
- Olivia Benson: No, not by frat boy standards. You want to have your way with them? Get them nice and drunk.