- Captain Donald Cragen: So either Gorman was snipped by a homeless guy or had a voluntary penectomy. Not a word I get to use every day.
- Uniform Officer Marvin Bryson: Still haven't found the package.
- Detective Olivia Benson: What package?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Uh, Mr. Gorman's. His penis and testicles were cut off. And they're still missing.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Maybe Mr. Gorman didn't want to be a man anymore?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You think he wanted his johnson wacked off?
- Detective Olivia Benson: I can't believe that Granger's making me a suspect.
- Casey Novak: You went to the hotel alone. You were found with the body. He's trying to create reasonable doubt.
- Detective Olivia Benson: So what the hell do I do?
- Casey Novak: Fall on your sword.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Meaning what?
- Casey Novak: You'll admit that you screwed up four years ago and that you went to the hotel room alone. Then you'll deny you murdered Gorman.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Casey, I...
- Casey Novak: I gotta talk to my boss. See if I can fix this mess.
- [leaves the room]
- Detective Olivia Benson: She didn't even ask me if I did it.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: She can't. Look, if she did, and you admitted killing Gorman, she couldn't put you on the stand without suborning perjury.
- Detective Olivia Benson: You didn't ask me either.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I know you didn't. You'd have shot the bastard.
- John Munch: [to Dr. Dudayev] You're an allergist.
- Dr. Amos Dudayev: I'm still a doctor.
- Odafin Tutuola: That doesn't give you license to relieve men of their peckers.
- Dr. Amos Dudayev: You ask me to beat you and I do, have I committed a crime? No. Someone wants me to excise their testicles or penis. It's the same thing.
- John Munch: Is this one of your volunteers?
- Dr. Amos Dudayev: Never seen him, but I'd be happy to take a referral.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [after Olivia is found in a hotel room with Mr. Gorman's dead body]
- [to Olivia]
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Are you protecting her?
- Detective Olivia Benson: You think that I'm covering for Hilary?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Where'd you drop her off?
- Detective Olivia Benson: At her mother's.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: They're estranged, remember?
- Detective Olivia Benson: Hilary wanted to talk to her.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: When'd you leave her there?
- Detective Olivia Benson: A couple of hours ago, and I don't need you interrogating me.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Why didn't you come back to the squad?
- Detective Olivia Benson: Because I had a hunch. I checked out five hotels, and this one was number six.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Without backup! What the hell's the matter with you?
- Detective Olivia Benson: Elliot, don't start with me.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You're out of control.
- Detective Olivia Benson: I never had control of this one, remember? I lost my judgment.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Everyone makes mistakes. Get over it.
- John Munch: [about Mr. Gorman] He could've been a member of some cult. You know, in ancient Rome, priests of the goddess Cybele would castrate themselves to achieve divine status.
- Odafin Tutuola: How the hell you know that?
- John Munch: The Internet.
- Captain Donald Cragen: [to Olivia] What's going on?
- Detective Olivia Benson: I can't do this anymore.
- Captain Donald Cragen: It's not your fault.
- Detective Olivia Benson: One of those victims must have killed Gorman and the worst part is none of this would've happened if I would've just believed Hilary.
- Captain Donald Cragen: These are vulnerable women no one would believe. You can't control what other people do. There'll be perps and victims.
- Detective Olivia Benson: You think you need to tell me that? The reason I'm standing here is because my mother let herself get raped.
- Captain Donald Cragen: Let herself? Since when do you blame the victim?
- Detective Olivia Benson: My mother was drunk and so was Hilary, and that's why I didn't believe her. Now these women are paying for it.
- Captain Donald Cragen: Okay, quit. Quit. Throw away the good you've done and the good you'll do over one mistake.
- Casey Novak: [during her opening statement] Horace Gorman was an evil man who committed unspeakable acts of violence, depravity, and cruelty. Nothing would have pleased me more than to convict him and send him to jail for the rest of his life, but I can't. I can't because this woman took the law into her own hands and executed Horace Gorman. Now some of you may be thinking, "Hey, good for her" or you'd do the same to anyone who hurt your child. We all understand the impulse to take revenge, but that doesn't mean we should do it. No one is above the law. Murder is murder, no matter who commits it or why.
- Lionel Granger: [during his opening statement] Ms. Novak's arguments make sense to me, and I hope to you. Murder is murder, no matter who commits it, but, ladies and gentlemen, we don't know who killed Mr. Gorman. Sure, the DA indicted my client, but an indictment isn't evidence. Juliet Barclay may have had a motive to kill Horace Gorman, but motive isn't evidence. And if it was, Juliet Barclay is only one of any number of women with the same motive. There's one woman with more than just a motive to kill Horace Gorman. She also had the means and the opportunity. A woman who knew exactly where Horace Gorman was hiding and went there alone to take her revenge. A woman with a desperate desire to see Mr. Gorman pay for his sins and atone for her own. That woman is Detective Olivia Benson.
- Casey Novak: Objection, Your Honor!
- Detective Olivia Benson: [to Hillary] Venti whole milk latte. That's what you ordered at the coffee shop when your mother murdered Gorman. We saw you on their surveillance tape.
- Hilary Barclay: Are you going to arrest her?
- Detective Olivia Benson: We can't. Double jeopardy.
- Hilary Barclay: I don't mind going to jail.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Because you castrated him?
- Hilary Barclay: I followed him for days, waiting for the right moment to kill him. He saw me on the subway platform. I said, "I know who you are," and that I was going to tell his dirty secret. He laughed and said, "Go ahead. No one's going to believe a whoring junkie." He turned, and I hit him on the back of the head, and I dragged him to the end of the platform. And he was lying there, and I had the perfect chance to kill him, but then I realized that castrating him would make him suffer even more.
- Detective Olivia Benson: And you told your mother what you'd done? When did you find out that your mother murdered him?
- Hilary Barclay: Not until after you came to arrest me. She did it for me. She wanted to keep me safe. I couldn't let her go to jail.
- Casey Novak: She belongs there. Now, what happened to you is horrible, and I am sorry, but nothing gives you the right to lie, or your mother the right to murder.
- Hilary Barclay: Well, he'll never torture another woman again, will he?
- Juliet Barclay: [about her daughter, Hillary] She's brought me nothing but grief. She's a junkie. When she wasn't in and out of rehab or psych wards, she was stealing from my store, wrecking my marriages, telling outrageous lies. My pregnancy ended my modeling career.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Sounds like you never wanted her.
- Juliet Barclay: Women didn't have a choice back then. So whatever she's done now, it is her problem.
- Lionel Granger: [to Novak] Ready to talk plea?
- Casey Novak: Not on your life.
- Lionel Granger: You don't have anything.
- Casey Novak: I have the spontaneous admission in the apartment. Juliet said, and I quote, "I did it." What more do I need?
- Lionel Granger: [to Olivia] Explain why, after finding the body, you didn't radio your partner?
- Detective Olivia Benson: I was about to when he arrived.
- Lionel Granger: Really? The desk clerk said there was a ten-minute interval between your arrival and that of your colleagues, and no one else went to the room.
- Detective Olivia Benson: The desk clerk was too busy playing cards to notice who arrived.
- Lionel Granger: Answer the question, Detective Benson. Why didn't you call when you found the body?
- Detective Olivia Benson: 'Cause I was stunned.
- Lionel Granger: Murder can have that effect on people. Well, you know that. You've murdered twice before, haven't you?
- Detective Olivia Benson: I shot two suspects who were armed and about to commit murder.
- Lionel Granger: Two killings and no charges. I guess the third time's the charm.