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- Ashlee Walker: I would never hurt my daughter. I'm a good mom.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Good mom?
- Ashlee Walker: Yes.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Your FaceSpace tells a different story.
- [goes through the pictures on Ashlee's FaceSpace]
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Here you are, drunk and partying it up in Cabo. Gonna crown you mother of the year?
- Ashlee Walker: You have no right to judge me.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Here you are down at the shore, grabbing some guy's crotch while Sierra stays at home. And that's you in a nightclub in A.C. You know when that was taken? Right after you killed your daughter.
- Ashlee Walker: I didn't kill her! She means everything to me!
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Then why didn't I find one single photo online of this child that you love so much?
- Ashlee Walker: Since when does having a kid make it illegal to party? I'm young. I'm allowed to have fun.
- [first lines; Stabler is at his desk]
- Detective Elliot Stabler: That's it. I'm done.
- Detective Olivia Benson: What do you mean, done?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Paperwork. It's like the first time in, like, five years.
- Detective Olivia Benson: So we're actually gonna get out of here early?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Yeah. Move slowly so nobody notices.
- Alexandra Cabot: If Ashlee makes a full confession, we will reduce the murder charge to negligent homicide.
- Sophie Devere: What's wrong, Alex? Don't you have enough evidence for the full monty?
- Ashlee Walker: Will I have to stay in jail?
- Alexandra Cabot: Not if you confess to what you did.
- Sophie Devere: Where's the catch?
- Alexandra Cabot: Ashlee does 500 hours of community service, weekly therapy and she enrolls in an alcohol treatment program.
- Sophie Devere: We'll take it.
- Ashlee Walker: Last Thursday, Sierra had a fever and this terrible rash, too. She wouldn't stop crying and I just couldn't take it anymore. It was all night long. So, I spanked her. Then, she got quiet. I just went back to sleep and the next morning when I woke up, she was just... she was cold.
- Alexandra Cabot: What happened next?
- Ashlee Walker: She was dead and I just panicked and I buried her. If my mom had've found out...
- Alexandra Cabot: You were only thinking of yourself, Ashlee. You were afraid you would be blamed.
- Ashlee Walker: No. I killed her. Oh, my God. I must have hit her so hard, I killed my baby.
- Alexandra Cabot: No, you didn't.
- Ashlee Walker: I don't understand.
- Alexandra Cabot: Sierra died from measles.
- Sophie Devere: What?
- Alexandra Cabot: [to Devere] I'll expect your client to be at her first therapy session tomorrow morning.
- Ashlee Walker: She tricked me?
- Sophie Devere: For heaven's sake, Alex. She could have walked.
- Alexandra Cabot: Yeah, but I'm giving her the chance to grow up.
- Alexandra Cabot: [to Stabler about Ashlee] Well then, get back in there and wring a confession out of her before she remembers her favorite episode of "Judge Judy" and lawyers up.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to O'Halloran] You're thinking Sierra was buried somewhere near a gas station?
- CSU Tech Dale Stuckey: Yeah, can you imagine? Going to a gas station to fill up, buy some smokes, you know, not that I smoke because that's nasty, but like, there's a mom there burying her kid? I go, "Holy crap!"
- Forensics Tech Ryan O'Halloran: Hey, Dale. Be a real help and bring these files next door.
- CSU Tech Dale Stuckey: I'm on it. Hey, bing, bang, bong.
- [leaves]
- Forensics Tech Ryan O'Halloran: [to Stabler] Now you know what I have to deal with.
- Ralph Walker: [to Stabler] I don't know if I'm allowed to say anything. Ms. Devere says I shouldn't even speak to you.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Do you know what Ms. Devere's job is? To win court cases. My job is to find Sierra no matter where she might be. Now, which one of us do you want to help?
- Alexandra Cabot: Ms. Stewart, what is your medical degree in?
- Monica Stewart: I don't have one.
- Alexandra Cabot: But you were making medical choices on behalf of your child.
- Monica Stewart: Just because I don't have a degree doesn't mean I can't be an informed parent.
- Alexandra Cabot: You chose your informed opinion over that of people who do in fact, have a medical degree and understand the science behind vaccinations and recommend that all kids be vaccinated.
- Monica Stewart: I know what's best for my child.
- Alexandra Cabot: Well, if you know what's best and the doctors are of a different opinion, then it stands to reason that they don't have your child's best interest at heart.
- Monica Stewart: Their science is just another opinion.
- Alexandra Cabot: Your opinion killed a little girl.
- Trevor Langan: Your Honor...
- Alexandra Cabot: I'm just trying to show that if Ms. Stewart had vaccinated her child, Sierra Walker would be alive today.
- Monica Stewart: I'm not sure that's true.
- Alexandra Cabot: You're not?
- Monica Stewart: That woman was a horrible mother. It was just a matter of time until something tragic happened.
- Alexandra Cabot: You're the one on trial, Ms. Stewart.
- Monica Stewart: Exactly. And how fair is that? I'm the good mother. I make sure my child eats well, is taken care of. She buried her daughter in a shallow grave.
- Alexandra Cabot: Yes. She buried the child that you murdered.
- Sophie Devere: [to Cabot] You're full of surprises today.
- Alexandra Cabot: And you're full of the usual.
- Alexandra Cabot: I've got to say. This one hurt.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Look, it wasn't even your case. It was a personality contest. The jury liked the defendant more than they liked the victim.
- Alexandra Cabot: Tell me about it. I talked to them after the verdict. They all thought Monica should have vaccinated her child, but they did not think Sierra's death was her fault.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: They passed the buck.
- Detective Olivia Benson: It's a tragedy all around. Both mothers' lives are ruined.
- Alexandra Cabot: Thanks to Ruth. She screwed up Ashlee and now she's filed a civil suit against Monica.
- Detective Olivia Benson: She's doing everything but support her daughter.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Yeah, Ruth will get around to bonding with Ashlee over a case of beer.
- Maria Fernandez: [about her "baby" doll] Don't wake him up.
- John Munch: Lady, unless this is Pinocchio, he's not waking up.
- Alexandra Cabot: [during her opening statement] This case boils down to one simple word: Choice. Not whether a parent has the choice to vaccinate their own child, but whether or not another parent can make that choice for your child. This case isn't about her. It's about you and you, and all of the people you love. Because any one of you could have been in the park the day that Monica Stewart decided to bring her un-immunized, sick child to play, thereby endangering each and every one of you. And because of her choice, this little girl is dead. Make no mistake. Sierra Walker would be alive today were it not for Monica Stewart's choice.
- Detective Olivia Benson: I think Monica has a point. Ashlee was a bad mother who did everything wrong while Monica was trying to do everything right.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Monica exposed innocent children to a dangerous disease.
- Detective Olivia Benson: She didn't know that her kid was sick. He didn't have any symptoms when she took him to the park.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: But that's the problem with measles. That you're infectious before you even get the spots. Now, Monica wants to take her kid and live in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, fine, but the minute she walks out that door, she's got to play by society's rules.
- Alexandra Cabot: Or somebody truly innocent ends up paying the price.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [about Monica Stewart] That lady is a lunatic. What she's doing is a danger to society.
- John Munch: Yeah, but not illegal.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You're defending her?
- Detective Olivia Benson: Maybe he's right, El. I mean, sometimes parents know what's best for their kids.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Right, and we decided to vaccinate our kids so they'd be safe.
- John Munch: Well, that was your choice. Telling parents how to raise their kids? That's a quick slide down the slippery slope of government tyranny.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Monica Stewart's son got the measles and nothing happened to him. I mean, it's not so black and white.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Wait a minute, wait a minute. Sierra got the measles from Monica's son and died. Now, all of a sudden, my little boy's at risk because of some nutcase mom?
- John Munch: Well, she's not the only nutcase mom. Ashlee takes that prize.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: But her kid was too young to be immunized. Every child under a year old is at risk. It's just stupid not to vaccinate your children.
- Monica Stewart: I won't put my son at risk because Big Pharma and their lackeys in the media try and jam vaccination down our throats.
- Ashlee Walker: I would never hurt my daughter. I'm a good mom.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Good mom?
- Ashlee Walker: Yes.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Your FaceSpace tells a different story.
- [goes through the pictures on Ashlee's FaceSpace]
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Here you are, drunk and partying it up in Cabo. Gonna crown you mother of the year?
- Ashlee Walker: You have no right to judge me.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Here you are down at the shore, grabbing some guy's crotch while Sierra stays at home. And that's you in a nightclub in A.C. You know when that was taken? Right after you killed your daughter.
- Ashlee Walker: I didn't kill her! She means everything to me!
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Then why didn't I find one single photo online of this child that you love so much?
- Ashlee Walker: Since when does having a kid make it illegal to party? I'm young. I'm allowed to have fun.
- Judge Arthur Cohen: [while Cabot is texting her cell phone in court] Uh, Ms. Cabot, are we keeping you from some important business?
- Alexandra Cabot: I'm sorry, Your Honor. The People request remand.
- Sophie Devere: What?
- Alexandra Cabot: The defendant has established a pattern of theft and obfuscation. We consider her an extreme flight risk.
- Sophie Devere: Ms. Walker has no criminal record. To keep her locked up over these two charges is ridiculous.
- Judge Arthur Cohen: Uh, that sounds a little extreme. Even for you, Ms. Cabot, and if you don't put that phone down, I'm going to hold you in contempt!