- Elliot Stabler: Liv, I'm sorry.
- Olivia Benson: Elliot, we don't have to do this.
- [seeing the pain in his eyes]
- Olivia Benson: Okay. I guess... you wanna do this now. You're sorry for leaving? Or are you sorry for walking... for not giving me the courtesy of telling me?
- Elliot Stabler: Both. I think I thought if I talked to you about how...
- Olivia Benson: You walked away. 'Cause that's what you did, Elliot. I had to find out from Cragen.
- Elliot Stabler: Olivia.
- Olivia Benson: Elliot. You were the most... single most important person in my life...
- Elliot Stabler: Olivia.
- Olivia Benson: And you just... disappeared.
- Elliot Stabler: I know. I was afraid... if I heard your voice, I wouldn't have been able to leave.
- Kathy Stabler: I'm sorry I ruined your big award ceremony.
- Olivia Benson: Oh, did me a favor. I hate making speeches. Kathy... can we... can we go back to last night?
- Kathy Stabler: I don't even remember starting the car.
- Olivia Benson: Did you see anything or hear anything? It could... it could be the smallest detail.
- Kathy Stabler: Elliot was on the phone. It was dark. I... I didn't see anything. Sorry.
- Olivia Benson: It's okay.
- Elliot Stabler: You're fine. It's fine.
- Kathy Stabler: It's like the old days. The two of you together. Always so in sync. You really didn't talk for ten years?
- Olivia Benson: I didn't even know that he was back on the job.
- Kathy Stabler: That's what Elliot told me. I didn't believe him.
- Olivia Benson: What happened here?
- Uni #1: Car bomb. We're taking the vic to Mercy. Doesn't look good.
- Olivia Benson: [recognizing the victim] Kathy? Kathy. Kathy?
- Elliot Stabler: Liv!
- Olivia Benson: Elliot. Oh, my god.
- Elliot Stabler: They tried to kill her. They tried to kill Kathy.
- Dickie Stabler: What the hell happened?
- Elliot Stabler: Um, we're not sure right now. Um, she's alive, and she's in surgery, and that's what we know, so let's go upstairs. Come on.
- Kathleen Stabler: Olivia, you're here.
- Olivia Benson: Of course. I-I'm just here to help. Whatever you need.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: I heard what happened. How's the victim?
- Olivia Benson: Seriously injured, but hanging on. So you know, the victim is the wife of my former partner, Detective Elliot Stabler.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: So I was told. I thought he left the force.
- Olivia Benson: He did, but apparently he's NYPD's man in Rome now.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: Any idea why he's in town?
- Olivia Benson: Department meetings, I don't know.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: Local precinct on the scene?
- Olivia Benson: They are, and they're doing everything they can, but you know there was a riot tonight.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: I'm aware. Cops were targeted. Uh, were the Stablers driving an NYPD vehicle?
- Olivia Benson: It was a rental, and, um... I'm close with the family. I was hoping that we could take the lead on this.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: Family. He's got kids?
- Olivia Benson: Five. I've known them all since they were in diapers.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: I'll put a call in to 1PP.
- Olivia Benson: Thank you.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: To be clear, you're running the investigation, not him.
- Olivia Benson: Of course.
- Odafin Tutuola: Maybe you saw something. This car. The woman may not survive.
- Jacob Peters: That blast, yeah, I heard it. I was half a block away.
- Amanda Rollins: So you were nearby?
- Elliot Stabler: [Benson blocks his path to the door] Let me talk to him.
- Olivia Benson: I can't.
- Elliot Stabler: He just put himself a half block away, close enough to see her get into the car.
- Olivia Benson: And set off the bomb remotely? Yes, it's possible.
- Elliot Stabler: It's an opening. Let's work it.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Detective, all due respect, but you shouldn't even be in the squad room right now.
- Elliot Stabler: Said the lawyer to the cop. Look, guys like this, whatever their stripes, basically, they're terrorists. I've worked plenty of these cases over the last few years. I need to talk to him.
- Olivia Benson: You need to be at the hospital.
- Elliot Stabler: Liv, I give you my word I'll behave.
- Elliot Stabler: Okay, Jacob, we got two options here. Either you saw who did this or you did it.
- Olivia Benson: Detective, do you need a break?
- Jacob Peters: I don't think it'll help. He's a black-and-white thinker. Instead of asking who, you should be asking yourself why.
- Elliot Stabler: Okay. You think this is a game?
- Jacob Peters: No, I don't. This is as real as it gets.
- Elliot Stabler: [rolling up his sleeves] Well, you're god damn right about that. Did you do this, yes or no?
- Olivia Benson: Detective.
- Jacob Peters: Look at you all bowed up. What? You gonna take me out? There'll be a hundred more just like me tomorrow.
- Elliot Stabler: Yes or no?
- Olivia Benson: [firmly] Okay, we are done!
- Jacob Peters: [Stabler backs down] Sorry for your loss, but there's a war going on, and your wife bleeding out on the sidewalk, she's just another casualty.
- Olivia Benson: [stopping the fight before it starts] Detective Stabler, get out now. Get out. Now.
- Olivia Benson: I'm Captain Benson. This is Detective Stabler.
- Elliot Stabler: Terrorism Task Force.
- Jacob Peters: You think I'm a terrorist now?
- Elliot Stabler: Didn't say that. Tell me about yourself.
- Jacob Peters: Just fighting for our freedom like I told those two detectives.
- Olivia Benson: Well, I heard you tell those two detectives that you were half a block away when this car went up.
- Jacob Peters: Yeah, about that, uh, yeah, I don't know. I guess.
- Elliot Stabler: No. No "about", "I don't know", "I guess". Yes or no, Jacob? Can you tell us what you saw? Anyone running from the scene?
- Jacob Peters: When the police arrested me, I heard them saying the woman in the car was a cop's wife.
- Elliot Stabler: That's right.
- Jacob Peters: I could hear her moaning. Oh, you... you know the vic? She wasn't your wife, was she?
- Elliot Stabler: Is. She is my wife.
- Elliot Stabler: Uni at the hospital said you picked up a suspect.
- Olivia Benson: Elliot.
- Elliot Stabler: This him?
- Olivia Benson: Uh, we just started talking to him.
- Jacob Peters: [Stabler turns on the intercom] Doesn't matter what I say. You're just gonna railroad me.
- Amanda Rollins: No, that's not... that's not what we're doing. Look, I know what you're talking about when you say we're losing our rights.
- Jacob Peters: I know. So you understand. If we don't bring things to a head fast, you'll lose your guns, too.
- Elliot Stabler: [turning the intercom off] What's his deal? He's targeting cops to protect cops?
- Katriona Tamin: Yeah, there's a lot of that lately. These guys have been enabled for the last four years, so they're not backing down now.
- Elliot Stabler: Hi, I'm Elliot Stabler. Who are you?
- Katriona Tamin: I'm Officer Katriona Tamin.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: ADA Dominick Carisi.
- Elliot Stabler: So the ADA is here. You like him for this?
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Well, we know he's good for two other firebombs on cop cars tonight.
- Olivia Benson: He has a record. He's been escalating.
- Elliot Stabler: How would he make me or Kathy out as cops?
- Olivia Benson: You had a... you had a placard in your windshield.
- Olivia Benson: How's Kathy?
- Elliot Stabler: Uh, they're still working on her; burns, concussion, fractured pelvis. What do we know?
- Odafin Tutuola: Local precincts are canvassing, and our explosion guys are tearing that car apart. Captain, if you don't mind, can I get back to the scene?
- Olivia Benson: Go, go, go, go.
- Elliot Stabler: Shouldn't have even been driving. I got a call. I slipped away. I gave her the keys. She was worried we were gonna be late for your award. I meant to give you a call... .
- Olivia Benson: It's okay.
- Elliot Stabler: ...that we were coming.
- Olivia Benson: Elliot, please, no.
- Elliot Stabler: Tell me she's gonna be okay.
- Olivia Benson: Kathy's a fighter. You know that.
- Odafin Tutuola: You okay?
- Olivia Benson: I followed Elliot here. I... I barely talked to him. Kathy just went into surgery. How did this happen? Why?
- Odafin Tutuola: Rollins is at the scene. A uni told her it was a rental car parked on the street. Kathy went to get in, and the bomb went off. Arson thinks it misfired and threw her clear.
- Olivia Benson: A rental car? Where... where are they in from?
- Odafin Tutuola: They've been living in Italy. Elliot had to come in for some type of a task force meeting, and he and Kathy decided to make it a trip. He just called me out of nowhere and told me he was coming. I may have spoken about your award. I thought enough time had gone down between you two.
- Olivia Benson: Okay, a task force, what... who's he working for?
- Odafin Tutuola: NYPD. He's the international liaison in Rome.
- Olivia Benson: Since when?
- Odafin Tutuola: Look, this is all I know. You're gonna have to ask him.
- Elliot Stabler: [approaching] Fin.
- Odafin Tutuola: Hey. I'm here for whatever you need, man.
- Elliot Stabler: Appreciate it.
- Amanda Rollins: Hey, how's Kathy?
- Odafin Tutuola: Touch and go.
- Amanda Rollins: Arson said she's lucky to be alive. The blast went... went up and back, throwing her out before the fireball.
- Odafin Tutuola: Any witnesses?
- Amanda Rollins: No, it's a quiet block. All the action was on Center Street, but there was an NYPD placard in the windshield, so local detectives are asking if any of the protestors, you know, knew about the award ceremony.
- Odafin Tutuola: [his phone rings] Sergeant Tutuola. Okay.
- [hanging up]
- Odafin Tutuola: Intelligence picked up a guy who threw a Molotov cocktail into an empty NYPD van three blocks south from here. They're bringing him in.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: Your former partner always this aggressive? He shouldn't have even been in the precinct.
- Olivia Benson: This is on me.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: It is. My sense from his affect and his record, this is a cop who's used to taking things over the line and getting away with it.
- Olivia Benson: You went through his record?
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: Multiple firearm discharges, six fatal shootings, and I'm still going through the IAB logs. Disposition on multiple charges, oh, and referred for counseling.
- Olivia Benson: We were both referred.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: Why did he resign from the force? There's no official reason.
- Olivia Benson: His last shooting was a 16-year-old girl who brought a gun into the stationhouse, and, you know, my guess... my guess is that, uh, he just didn't want to go through the hoops; IAB interviews, counseling. He was done.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: Guess? Come on, he didn't tell you?
- Olivia Benson: We never spoke after he left. Look, he got too rough back in the day... but it wasn't just testosterone. It was because he cared so much.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: And he was your first partner, the one who had your back. You were his junior when there weren't that many female detectives. I get it.
- Olivia Benson: Chief, I'm not making excuses for him, and I'm not apologizing for him, but I believe that he changed.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: I hope so. Forgive me if I have my doubts. A grunt former marine, a night college degree, and a CPI like this? He goes off the grid for six years, and somehow the old boy network got him back on the force.
- Olivia Benson: Because he's a good detective.
- Deputy Chief Christian Garland: And lucky. It wouldn't happen today. Look, we can agree to disagree about his evolution, but to be clear again, I will not have this behavior in one of my captain's squad rooms.
- Olivia Benson: Jacob Peters, unemployed, five arrests in the past year all for protests, including D.C. January 6, for arson, vandalism, brandishing a gun, and punching reporters.
- Katriona Tamin: Well, he wasn't wrong about Big Brother. I was able to pull his Google search history, and he has been going down a rabbit hole of YouTube conspiracy videos for 10 to 12 hours a day for the last five years.
- Olivia Benson: Oh, yeah. He believes that COVID is a hoax, the election was rigged. I mean, he shows up at these rallies in paramilitia garb and just tears it up.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: And he thinks he's a patriot. He hasn't asked for a lawyer?
- Olivia Benson: Not yet.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Good. Better, anything put him near Kathy Stabler's blast?
- Katriona Tamin: No, but he was IDed by multiple UCs tonight as an instigator, and they found explosives, zip ties, and a taser in his backpack.
- Olivia Benson: I should have never let you in that room.
- Elliot Stabler: I knew what I was doing.
- Olivia Benson: Yeah? So did he. He was baiting you, Elliot. Look, you're raw. I get it. Your wife is in a hospital bed, but you have been long gone, and we don't do...
- Elliot Stabler: Don't tell me that we don't do it that way anymore, please. I've been living in Europe, not under a rock.
- Olivia Benson: Okay, hey, even if he is good for it, a victim's spouse in interrogation?
- Elliot Stabler: Yep, yep, yep.
- Olivia Benson: Whatever confession we elicit...
- Elliot Stabler: Gets thrown out, I know!
- Olivia Benson: Yeah? Do you also know that the cameras are always on in interrogation?
- Elliot Stabler: Brave new world, I got it. So what do we do now? You write me up a rip there, Captain?
- Olivia Benson: You know what, Elliot...
- Dickie Stabler: Dad. Dad, do you answer your phone?
- Elliot Stabler: What is it? What's the matter?
- Dickie Stabler: She's awake, dad. Mom's awake. Let's go.
- Jacob Peters: The government's using the pandemic as an excuse to deprive us of our liberty. If my brothers and I don't fight back now, we'll lose all our rights.
- Amanda Rollins: Fight back? By bombing police cars?
- Odafin Tutuola: [dropping a tablet on the table] You do this?
- Jacob Peters: That's Antifa.
- Odafin Tutuola: That's you.
- Jacob Peters: Proves my point. Big Brother's everywhere. Cell phone monitoring, facial recognition.
- Amanda Rollins: So it is you?
- Jacob Peters: This isn't real. Someone Photoshopped me into this. I'm being set up.
- Olivia Benson: Anything yet?
- Katriona Tamin: Nothing. Car was parked under the bridge. No witnesses.
- Olivia Benson: Traffic cams?
- Katriona Tamin: Still going through footage. Also, this may be unrelated, but there was a curfew protest just south on Center Street. Bunch of guys in pickup trucks and flags met by counter-protestors. Someone started targeting police officers, and they lit two police vans on fire on Madison Street.
- Olivia Benson: That's two blocks from where the car blew up. Any arrests?
- Katriona Tamin: Hmm, dozen or so.
- Olivia Benson: Talk to all of them.
- Olivia Benson: Fin, I'm sorry.
- Odafin Tutuola: Where are you?
- Olivia Benson: Something's come up.
- Odafin Tutuola: Well, you're the guest of honor. Everybody's waiting on you. What's going on?
- Olivia Benson: I'm not quite sure yet. I got a 10-13, a vic near Center Street, so I'll be there as soon as I can, okay? Thank you.
- Elliot Stabler: He's saying all three were Antifa. We know he's good for two of 'em.
- Olivia Benson: Right, Molotov cocktails. Look, he's not going anywhere, Elliot, okay? We're searching his apartment, his truck.
- Elliot Stabler: The size of that blast. Where's Arson with all this?
- Olivia Benson: Well, they're working on it, but they have three different explosions to look into. Is Kathy lucid enough to tell us what she remembers?
- Odafin Tutuola: How'd that go?
- Olivia Benson: Well, the good news is that Kathy Stabler is conscious.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Can she make a statement?
- Olivia Benson: Stabler's on the way to the hospital.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: If she can tell us anything, another detective needs to be in that room.
- Odafin Tutuola: Carisi, he's not gonna blow the case. End of the day, he's a good cop.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Stop. Look, I know you guys have history, but he can't be anywhere near this, and Jacob here, now he's claiming that he was just following some Antifa thug who threw a Molotov cocktail into Kathy's car.
- Olivia Benson: It wasn't a Molotov cocktail.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: And he doesn't know that. If I had to guess, he's good for the first two, but not Kathy Stabler.