Stephanie March credited as playing...
Alexandra 'Alex' Cabot
- Olivia Benson: You can't break the law, Alex.
- Alexandra Cabot: Why the hell not?
- Olivia Benson: Because it makes you a criminal, that's why.
- Alexandra Cabot: Betty Bluestone. It was a case I had about five years ago. Her husband, Mitch, used her face like a leg of lamb in a "Rocky" movie. I filed charges, and Betty fell apart on the stand.
- Olivia Benson: Case dismissed?
- Alexandra Cabot: So the happy couple goes home, and he blows her brains out on the bathroom tile. I did my job, and in the end, all I did for Betty was delay the inevitable.
- Olivia Benson: So you decided to take matters into your own hands.
- Alexandra Cabot: So I started volunteering at a women's shelter, and it grew from there.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: How many women have you disappeared?
- Alexandra Cabot: Hundreds. It's not just me. You wouldn't believe how deep and far this network goes.
- Olivia Benson: Alex, this is cruel. These women, their... their families, their friends think that they've been murdered.
- Alexandra Cabot: No, no, every case is different. In Jules' case, death was the only way Nick Hunter was ever gonna let her leave.
- Alexandra Cabot: You could have lied, Liv!
- Olivia Benson: No, I couldn't have. I was under oath.
- Alexandra Cabot: And what? You thought God would smite you? It is a fiction, Olivia. This entire "tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth" is a load of crap that we tell people so that they think the criminal justice system gives a damn about them. Who did what, who did what to whom...
- Olivia Benson: What happened to you?
- Alexandra Cabot: I opened my eyes. I opened them wide, and I saw that for 12 years, I was a cog in a holier-than-thou wheel, and the wheel just keeps spinning and tossing off bodies as it goes. Some remain standing, some fall. Nobody cares. Nobody gives a damn, as long as the wheel keeps turning.
- Olivia Benson: I thought you moved to Florida, like the rest of the retired ADAs.
- Alexandra Cabot: Florida makes my hair frizzy.
- Olivia Benson: Yeah, well, who wants a kidnapper with frizzy hair?
- Alexandra Cabot: No one's being kidnapped. I only help people who want to be helped.
- Olivia Benson: Yeah, like Jules and Ruby Hunter? Ruby is four years old, Alex. At the very minimum, you're an accomplice to kidnapping.
- Alexandra Cabot: I'm helping them start an extended vacation.
- Olivia Benson: You faked their deaths. You planted evidence.
- Alexandra Cabot: Technically, the cops misread the facts.
- Olivia Benson: Don't play games with me, Alex, please.
- Alexandra Cabot: They were abused. I do what I have to do.
- Olivia Benson: Jesus. Alex, Nick Hunter is sitting at Rikers, charged with murdering his wife and his daughter.
- Alexandra Cabot: It's not like he doesn't deserve it.
- Olivia Benson: How many husbands are are sitting in prison because you decided to take the law into your own hands?
- Olivia Benson: [to Cabot] You know, today, on the I was on the subway platform, and I saw these two cockroaches, and they were pulling at different ends of a crust of bread. And then the bread tore, and it fell onto the tracks, and and neither bug got their dinner.
- Alexandra Cabot: Are you proposing we work together?
- Olivia Benson: I could never do what you do, Alex.
- Jules Hunter: I just needed him to believe I was dead. I don't want him to go to jail.
- Olivia Benson: But he hurt you.
- Jules Hunter: Yes, but then he'd apologize.
- Olivia Benson: And swear that he'd never do it again.
- Alexandra Cabot: Tell her about dinner at the Four Seasons.
- Jules Hunter: Um, it was my birthday. We had the Chateaubriand for two and a fancy bottle of Margaux. He was so sweet.
- Alexandra Cabot: Until...
- Jules Hunter: While we were waiting for dessert, I went to the ladies' room. Uh, when I got back to the table, I realized I forgot my purse, so I went back to get it. Nicholas thought I went back to flirt with the waiter. We skipped dessert. When we were outside, he... slammed me against the hood of the car.
- Alexandra Cabot: She got a concussion.
- Olivia Benson: Okay, did you go to the hospital?
- Ruby Hunter: [entering] Mommy, I wanna go home.
- Jules Hunter: Mommy's talking. Go watch TV.
- [Ruby leaves]
- Jules Hunter: I went to St. Vincent's.
- Alexandra Cabot: She told them that she hit her head while she was cleaning her kitchen cabinets.
- Jules Hunter: Once, I brought up divorce, but Nick threw a glass at me.
- Alexandra Cabot: [about Jules Hunter] We never should've brought her back!
- Olivia Benson: For God's sake, Alex, I followed the law.
- Alexandra Cabot: And it got her killed!
- Olivia Benson: You cannot be serious.
- Alexandra Cabot: That man belonged in prison.
- Olivia Benson: This is America, Alex. You can't lock someone up without proof.