- [last lines]
- Det. Monique Jefferies: Monique Jefferies. Maybe I can help.
- Det. Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Fin Tutuola. I've been reassigned.
- Det. Monique Jefferies: You're here for my job.
- Det. Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Oh, this is awkward.
- Det. Monique Jefferies: Well, try my side of the moment.
- Alex Cabot: You want me to secure a search warrant for the offices of a defense contractor to search classified, national security files for evidence in a sexually motivated homicide?
- Det. John Munch: Yes, you got a problem with that?
- Alex Cabot: [dials the phone] Judge Hermann, please. Alex Cabot with the DA's office.
- [pauses]
- Alex Cabot: Uncle Bill... look, I need a favor.
- [seeing Stabler walk into SVU in khaki shorts and a loud Hawaiian shirt]
- Det. John Munch: Jimmy Buffett in town?
- Det. John Munch: [to the uncooperative boss of a suspect] What are the odds that you have a picture of Senator Joseph McCarthy tattooed on your ass?
- [about the murder Stabler is investigating]
- Dr. Emil Skoda: You let this one get under your skin. Why?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: This one my daughter saw.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Maureen] What are you doing up?
- Maureen Stabler: Couldn't sleep.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: What's the matter? You got nightmares?
- Maureen Stabler: You have to sleep to have nightmares.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Right. What was I thinking?
- Detective Olivia Benson: [after seeing Skoda] Hey, how'd it go?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I talked too much... again. Where's Jeffries?
- Det. John Munch: Perching on a couch. But while you were probing your inner child, we did some probing of our own, sent Croft's prints at CIC.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You printed the corpse? So? And?
- Det. John Munch: Nothing.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: So?
- Det. John Munch: No, I mean nothing, nada, bupkus.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Zip. No parking tickets, no birth records.
- Det. John Munch: Nothing to prove he even existed before 1991.
- Detective Olivia Benson: The year he went to work for Radial Velocity.
- Det. John Munch: So we're going through the stuff we got from the search warrant, we find this passport issued ten years ago from San Diego, we call the local PD, ask them to run - bang! We get a hit.
- Detective Olivia Benson: But not to Andrew Croft.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Then who?
- Det. John Munch: George Kazinsky, a convicted sexual predator.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Andrew Croft. AKA, George Kazinsky. Little George liked little boys.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Maureen] What is it with you kids?
- Maureen Stabler: It's hard to talk to adults.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Why?
- Maureen Stabler: You're always judging us. You expect us to be like you and you get mad if we're not. It's just easier to talk to our friends.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: What if you don't have any friends?
- Maureen Stabler: Everybody's got friends.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Yeah? Well, who do you talk to?
- Maureen Stabler: Dad...
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You talk to Ryan Witherspoon?
- Maureen Stabler: More than you talk to Mom.
- Donald Cragen: [to Jeffries] You told the psychologist you slept with a suspect?
- Det. Monique Jefferies: What? No, that-that's not what I said.
- Donald Cragen: Well, that's how they interpreted it. I'm gonna limit your field time.
- Det. Monique Jefferies: You're giving me desk duty?
- Donald Cragen: You need time to prepare a formal response for the Morris Commission.
- Det. Monique Jefferies: I am not explaining my sex life to the Morris Commission!
- Donald Cragen: That's enough! I don't like it either, Monique, but yelling at me is not gonna solve anything.
- Detective Olivia Benson: [to Stabler] Okay, what the hell's going on?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: The psych evaluation?
- Detective Olivia Benson: Yeah?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I said I felt like killing child molesters.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Okay, so how can they have a problem with that? The Commission's all cops.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Yeah, well. When was the last time one of them stood in a room like this?
- Alex Cabot: [to Michael] A child molester only has power as long as his secret is kept. You tell the truth, his power is gone.
- Donald Cragen: [as he shows photos of victims to the Morris Commission] This little boy's mother stuck his hands on a frying pan until his fingers burned off. This rape victim required twelve hours of surgery to have a steel plate put into her head after her attacker pummeled her with a claw hammer. This one didn't make it. Is there anybody on this panel who doesn't share Detective Stabler's anger for the perpetrators? This man is a good cop. As his commanding officer, I stand with him and every good cop who faces these horrors day after day and has the strength to keep their impulses in check. Now if you can look at these pictures and not understand that the problem here isn't Elliot Stabler, is it?
- Donald Cragen: [to Stabler] What possessed you to tell the shrink in your psych evaluation that you fantasized about killing suspects?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Wait a minute, wait a minute. I said perps, not suspects.
- Donald Cragen: Well, the Morris Commission doesn't see a distinction. They're inquiring.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Inquiring into what? My private thoughts? They're supposed to be house-cleaning the department of rogue cops.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [silence]
- Detective Elliot Stabler: My job at risk?
- Donald Cragen: Yeah.
- Det. John Munch: We're looking for a murderer and the victim's missing kid and Craig Prince is giving us, "Here's your hat, what's your hurry?"
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Dr. Skoda] I'm not talking to you.
- Dr. Emil Skoda: Fine. I'll just sit here.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You know, I may lose my job because of the last shrink I talked to.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Maureen as he looks at her arm] Is that a tattoo?
- Maureen Stabler: No.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Where'd you get it?
- Maureen Stabler: Well, you've got tattoos.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I was eighteen and in the Service.
- Maureen Stabler: It's henna. It washes off.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Why didn't you just tell me that?
- Maureen Stabler: I just did. You're such a cop.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Yeah, wait till you have kids. All the little Witherspoons.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Dr. Skoda] Are we really gonna do this dance again? I mean, what do you want me to say? That I fantasized about killing the perp?
- Dr. Emil Skoda: Did you?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Yeah, you're damn right I did and this time I fed him my gun and I pulled that trigger until I caught him and then, there he is, he's just... he's a kid. He's a good kid. He tutors Down syndrome children, he's a straight "A" student, he's a star athlete he's Millbrook Township's favorite son. Now how that jives with cold-blooded murder?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Cabot] You're protecting your win-loss ratio.
- Donald Cragen: Elliot...
- Alex Cabot: It's okay, Captain. Detective Stabler's judgment is clouded by the stress of the Morris Commission's review and the fact that Michael did what he fantasizes about: kill a perpetrator.
- Donald Cragen: It's not my fantasy, and I stand with Detective Stabler on this.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Danny] You think Michael liked it?
- Danny Burrell: You tell me. The guy's 6'2, benches what, 220 pounds? He could've kicked his ass if he didn't like him doing him.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Michael was only eight when he started doing him. Eight year olds can't fight back. Now you tell me where a sixteen-year-old's going to turn to when his best friend turns on him.
- Det. John Munch: [to Ralph Noble] You don't talk much, do you? Not much fight left in the old soldier?
- Ralph Noble: Don't you question my patriotism, mister.
- Det. John Munch: That's Mister Detective to you. Take a little bit of tarnish off that Medal of Honor.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Noble] We can find our own way out, thanks.
- [Noble leaves; to Munch]
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Why are you provoking him?
- Det. John Munch: Guy's a war hero. Put his life on the line for principle. He's gotta be gagging stonewalling Croft's pedophilia to protect Radial Velocity.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Assuming he still has principles. The war was a long time ago, John.
- Det. John Munch: Principles die harder than people. I want a shot at what's left of his.
- Det. John Munch: [to Ralph Noble] At what point did courage and integrity buckle to income?
- Ralph Noble: Don't ever get in my face about money. If I cared about money, I wouldn't have been in the service.
- Det. John Munch: What do you care about? Protecting the reputation of a dead pedophile part of national security now?
- Ralph Noble: I'm not protecting Croft's reputation.
- Det. John Munch: What are you protecting?
- Ralph Noble: Croft's missile guidance expertise was critical in the Gulf War.
- Det. John Munch: You erase sodomy convictions for national security?
- Ralph Noble: We didn't erase his convictions.
- Det. John Munch: What? Is there another way to say it?
- Ralph Noble: Croft's felony record red-flagged him every time he crossed a border. A day's delay was a lifetime in a war moving that fast.
- Det. John Munch: So Radial Velocity erased his past.
- Ralph Noble: We were depleting our arsenal of smart bombs at more than $1 million a minute. At that price, the Pentagon wanted pin-point precision. A complaint was filed in the State Department. A firewall was built around Croft so Immigration wouldn't red-flag him. When the war ended, the wall should've come down. I can't tell you why it didn't. I just don't know!
- Det. John Munch: Meanwhile, a convicted child molester applies for guardianship of an 8-year-old and...?
- Ralph Noble: No red flags. I'm sorry.
- Munch's Informant: How did Croft buy it, Munch?
- Det. John Munch: Bullet to the head, bunsen to the crotch.
- Munch's Informant: Ouch!
- [Detective Munch enters a crime scene, a victim's bedroom with blood spattered all over the bed and wall.]
- Det. John Munch: Serious feng shui problem.