- Fin Tutuola: What's this guy's game?
- Dr. Melinda Warner: I don't know, but the hell this woman went through, death was a blessing.
- Donald Cragen: Detective Hawkins has a lot of experience with Berry. He's been temporarily reassigned here.
- Elliot Stabler: Oh, so, now I need a babysitter?
- Donald Cragen: This is no reflection on you.
- Elliot Stabler: This isn't right, Captain.
- Donald Cragen: It's how it is.
- Elliot Stabler: Yeah.
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: I took 18 years from an innocent man. God knows how many women died because of it. You can't make something like that right.
- Elliot Stabler: Okay, so, what are you gonna do? Quit? You wanna drink yourself to death? I can't stop you, but what are you gonna tell the parents of those girls? You made a promise to them. If you're the man that I think you are, you'll keep it.
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: [about Olivia] Your partner always so friendly?
- Elliot Stabler: Well, she just doesn't like you.
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: Wait 'til she gets to know me.
- Dr. George Huang: Violence is actually soothing to him.
- John Munch: The more he maims, the better he feels.
- Elliot Stabler: [on the scene of a particularly brutal rape/homicide, quietly] And I thought my day couldn't get any worse.
- Elliot Stabler: Sometimes finesse goes a long way.
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: Finesse is for fairies.
- Elliot Stabler: Look, I don't care how many strings you pulled to get here, but you're working my case. My case. So, from now on, we do it my way, you got that?
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: [to Stabler] You wanna talk about that bug up your ass or just let it fester?
- Elliot Stabler: I just don't like grandstanders.
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: I thought you were gonna say grandfathers. That was a tough one to lose.
- Elliot Stabler: That jury sent him home to rape that kid all over again.
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: You make your case?
- Elliot Stabler: I had him nailed.
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: Then you did your job.
- Elliot Stabler: Well, that's not good enough anymore.
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: Well, it has to be because that's all there is.
- Elliot Stabler: I told that little girl everything was gonna be okay.
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: And I told the parents of Roger's victims he'd rot in prison.
- Elliot Stabler: Well, at least you put him away for 18.
- Elliot Stabler: Yeah, well, at least you gave that little girl a few days' peace. We never win this war, Elliot.
- Elliot Stabler: Just so tired of losing.
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: Then what're you gonna do? Huh? Quit?
- Elliot Stabler: I don't know.
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: All that's required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: [about Roger Berry] You give me some time alone with him, and I'll have him singing a different tune by lunch.
- Donald Cragen: Nobody's talking to Roger alone. His mother reached out to Legal Aid. He's lawyered up.
- Alexandra Cabot: And with no DNA, we've got no grounds for arrest.
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: Well, while you all sit around with your thumb up your ass, I'll take Roger's mug out to recanvas. You remember, police work.
- Detective John 'Hawk' Hawkins: I know how difficult this must be for you, Mrs. Johnston.
- Phyllis Johnston: No, you don't.