- CSU Captain Judith Siper: [Referring to a plastic wrapper] But this is definitely from a four-day-old sausage and egg sandwich.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: You can tell all that from those little bitty crumbs?
- CSU Captain Judith Siper: Nope, from the label.
- Elliot Stabler: [to Jamie Barrigan about the press hounding Tandi] The poor kid has been through enough already. Why do you have to make her life more miserable?
- Jamie Barrigan: Because she's news.
- Elliot Stabler: Tens of thousands go missing every year. What makes Tandi big news?
- Jamie Barrigan: Same reason Chandra Levy and Elizabeth Smart were big news. They're young, cute and white.
- Elliot Stabler: Whatever it takes to sell your paper.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Tandi is too young and too traumatized to think for herself right now.
- Elliot Stabler: So you're thinking for her, is that it?
- Detective Olivia Benson: What else could I do?
- [Elliot says nothing]
- Elliot Stabler: [to Olivia] Social Services Law? What was that crap?
- Detective Olivia Benson: If Tandi goes home, we lose our evidence. Bastard gets away with it and he rapes another kid.
- Elliot Stabler: Liv, you crossed the line.
- Detective Olivia Benson: That girl is too young and too scared to think for herself.
- Elliot Stabler: So you're gonna think for her now, huh?
- Detective Olivia Benson: What else could I do?
- Judge Joseph P. Terhune: [When a tape of Tandi dancing at the cadets' party is planned to be released on the news] Was the tape legally obtained?
- Attorney Lynne Riff: Yes, your Honor and Channel 3 believes the public has every right to see it.
- Casey Novak: That's the same self-serving spin a network put on airing the Andrew Luster tapes. They claimed that people had a right to see a rape victim being violated. It's salacious, not newsworthy.
- Tandi McCain: [about testifying in court] What should I do?
- Ronald McCain: I don't know, sweetheart.
- [to Olivia]
- Ronald McCain: What would you do?
- Detective Olivia Benson: I think that has to be Tandi's decision, but I've known many rape victims who've regretted not going to court and I've never met one who's regretted it.
- Ronald McCain: Win or lose?
- Detective Olivia Benson: Yeah.
- [to Tandi]
- Detective Olivia Benson: Even if you do lose, you've already faced your attacker and named him for what he is.
- John Munch: [after it's revealed that Luke Luke Delvecchio made a video of Tandi attending the cadets' party] Tandi McCain is 16, so we've got you for promoting the sexual performance of a child.
- Luke Delvecchio: What are you talking about?
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: That word too big for you? Try "child porn."
- Donald Cragen: Tandi McCain was always news, Elliot.
- Elliot Stabler: Well, I made her bigger news the second I talked to that journalist. We're trying to catch the bad guys, they're trying to make headlines.
- Detective Olivia Benson: [after hearing Tandi has been arrested for filing a false police report] You arrested a rape victim?
- Donald Cragen: She said she wasn't raped. Tandi McCain has done nothing but lie and she nearly got an innocent kid killed in the process. We have to send a message.
- Detective Olivia Benson: What, by dragging a teenager out of her home?
- Elliot Stabler: Look, Liv, every false allegation of rape just makes it harder for the real victims to be believed.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Look, the girl obviously didn't know what she was doing.
- Donald Cragen: She seemed clear enough when she recanted on national TV.
- Elliot Stabler: Ya know Tandi's face was on the TV and newspaper all weekend long. How come you didn't report seeing her?
- Lawrence Ulman: I guess I just didn't put two and two together.
- Elliot Stabler: Yeah, I could see where that would be a problem for you.
- Detective Olivia Benson: [to Tandi] You must feel like a giant weight was lifted off you since you went on TV and said that the rape didn't happen.
- Tandi McCain: It didn't! I made it up!
- Detective Olivia Benson: A lot of rape victims say that. They start down one road and then they realize how tough it is and they back off. It's easier to say that you made it all up.
- Tandi McCain: I told you nothing happened.
- Detective Olivia Benson: But that's not true, is it, Tandi?
- Tandi McCain: It is! Why don't you believe me?
- Detective Olivia Benson: Because I saw the evidence. Because I saw the blood and the bruises. You were raped, Tandi. You blocked it all out, but it's gonna come back and you have to face it.
- Tandi McCain: I don't want to face it.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Elliot, don't beat yourself up over this.
- Elliot Stabler: The bastards put that kid in a coma, they out Tandi as a rape victim, I helped them do it.
- Detective Olivia Benson: The press says that Tandi's a public figure. That makes her fair game. There's nothing that you can do about it.
- Elliot Stabler: Oh, yeah?