- Detective Elliot Stabler: I think the D.A.'s office should fight to turn off life support.
- Arthur Branch: And what makes you think Judge Preston would grant such a motion?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I read the papers. A similar request was made in California successfully when a father shook his son.
- Arthur Branch: And it was unsuccessful in Florida. Parents are winning the fight to keep their comatose daughter alive despite legal precedent.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Lucy's doctor says she'll never recover.
- Arthur Branch: What's this really about, Detective? You fighting for Lucy or bringing Evelyn Prichard to justice?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I don't know if she's a grieving mother who can't let go, or if she's she's just trying to beat a murder rap. What I do know is a little girl is in constant pain and there is no hope of her ever getting better.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I've worked enough battered child cases to know that giving birth doesn't make you a mother, but juries will hear whatever they need to hear.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: That woman is a murderer.
- Casey Novak: Not as long as Lucy is *technically* alive.
- [learning a suspected pedophile works at a camera film development shop]
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You don't need a digital camera when you can print your own porn.
- Casey Novak: Why'd you go over my head?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I'm trying to do what's right for that child.
- Casey Novak: So am I. But it's my case now, and it's my choice, not yours, okay? You should have come to me first.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I apologize. You're right. You have every right to be pissed at me. Now, you tell me, you think it's wrong to stop life support?
- Casey Novak: I'm not a mother. I don't know what I'd do if she were my child.
- Donald Cragen: Welcome to Special Victims. It's not always black and white.