- Dr. Melinda Warner: [during Mehcad Carter's autopsy] Kids can survive incredible trauma, but when they crump, they crump quick.
- Rafael Barba: Crump?
- Amanda Rollins: All the vitals go south all at once.
- Odafin Tutuola: So we're looking at a homicide?
- Dr. Melinda Warner: If getting shot what killed him? Yeah.
- Olivia Benson: Jolene said that she fired in self-defense.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: I can't speak to that, but there was no fouling or stippling on his body. He wasn't that close to her.
- Rafael Barba: Is it possible the stippling disappeared during surgery?
- Dr. Melinda Warner: It can't. Stippling burns into skin.
- Amanda Rollins: What about on the clothing?
- Dr. Melinda Warner: You mean after EMS, the evidence mangling service cut his clothes off through the bullet hole? I will hunt them down and kill them.
- Odafin Tutuola: Melinda.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: Sorry.
- Olivia Benson: [while in her therapy session] Guys says stuff like that to me all the time and I just I went off on him? I'm a New York City cop. I can't go around beating people up.
- Dr. Peter Lindstrom: Remember what we talked about last session?
- Olivia Benson: Yes, how I was upset that Lewis got the drop on me, how I should've reached for my gun, but this is different. This wasn't Lewis.
- Dr. Peter Lindstrom: No, I hear you beating yourself up: first for under-reacting to Lewis, now for overreacting to this guy.
- Olivia Benson: I can't get anything right. I'm all over the place.
- Dr. Peter Lindstrom: All over the place. If a crime victim said that to detective Olivia Benson, less than three months after an assault, what would you say to her?
- Olivia Benson: I'd say that survivors can experience a wide range of reactions, from stress to fear to numbness.
- Dr. Peter Lindstrom: Depression, anger, flashbacks?
- Olivia Benson: All of the above.
- Dr. Peter Lindstrom: Have you ever known someone to take a self-defense course or to obtain a gun or resolve never to be a victim again?
- Olivia Benson: Of course.
- Dr. Peter Lindstrom: So you might see this kind of overreaction to be emotionally triggered and you might tell her that over time, she'll recognize those triggers and temper her responses.
- Olivia Benson: [after having flashbacks of William Lewis] And what if she doesn't believe me?
- Dr. Peter Lindstrom: Well, then you might ask her to forgive herself and remember she's going through a process and that healing takes time.
- Rafael Barba: [to the jury] Mehcad Carter was a 16-year-old honor student enjoying his summer. Singing in the church choir, watching cooking shows on tv, playing basketball with his friends. And then he forgot his MetroCard and was embarrassed to tell his parents. So he chose to walk home. That's what Mehcad was doing on the night he was killed. He was heading home to his parents, but he never made it. Because Jolene Castille didn't like the way he walked, she didn't like the way he dressed, she didn't like the way he looked. The defendant claims that Mehcad was stalking her, that he was going to rape her, but how can we believe her when she has lied about every other detail on this case? About his having a gun, about what he said to her. She even claimed that Mehcad lunged at her, but you heard the M.E. testify that Mehcad had to have been at least five feet away from her when she murdered him. In a system where it is all of our rights to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, Jolene presumed Mehcad guilty And became his judge, his jury, and his executioner. She got to go home to her brownstone that night. Mehcad will never go home again.
- Jolene Castille: [to Rollins] Where are you from, honey? Georgia? How'd they put you up to this charade?
- Amanda Rollins: Excuse me?
- Jolene Castille: We both know if we were down home, I'd be getting a medal.
- Amanda Rollins: Their attacker is young, black, male, 6 foot, wears a hoodie and a baseball cap.
- John Munch: Well, that narrows it down.
- Rafael Barba: [to Jolene] On the night you saw Mehcad Carter, did you see a field hand, a jungle animal or just a boy trying to make his way home?
- Ben Cohen: Objection.
- Jolene Castille: No, I want to answer that. I saw a hooded man following me. I told him to back off, and he came through my gate.
- Rafael Barba: So if it had been a white man who was walking behind you, would you have told him to get back? Would you have pulled your gun?
- Ben Cohen: Objection.
- Jolene Castille: If it was a white boy, I wouldn't have been afraid.
- Rafael Barba: So, let's be clear. Mehcad Carter didn't have to do anything. He didn't have to say anything. He just had to be a black boy standing on your sidewalk and that gave you the right to shoot him?
- Jolene Castille: That's not what I said.
- Rafael Barba: Isn't it? Nothing further.
- Press: [after Jolene is acquitted of murdering Mehcad Carter] Do you think there will there be rioting tonight?
- Cory Carter: If there are protests, we ask that they be peaceful. There's been enough senseless violence already.
- Lisa Carter: Please, for Mehcad's sake, for all our sons' sake, let this end now.
- Jolene Castille: [to Olivia] I was afraid for my life.
- Olivia Benson: He was 16.
- Jolene Castille: He was 6-foot tall and he was coming after me. You're a cop. You've known what it's like to be a woman, alone, vulnerable.
- Olivia Benson: He wasn't a rapist. He was just a boy.
- Jolene Castille: I know, I know. I don't have any children. My restaurants are my babies. God, the look in his parents' eyes... That boy is dead and there's not anything I can do about it. I'm sorry.
- Nick Amaro: [holds a bagged gun up to Willie's head] What do we got here, Willie? You use this gun to rape anyone else?
- Willie: I didn't rape nobody. They wanted it.
- [turns to Olivia]
- Willie: Yeah. You do too.
- [chuckles]
- Willie: Don't you, bitch?
- Olivia Benson: Shut up.
- [knees Willie in the groin]
- Willie: Oh!
- [groans]
- Olivia Benson: Let's go.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: Fin, before you go to Chez Jolene, you might want to use our men's room.
- Odafin Tutuola: Come again?
- Dr. Melinda Warner: My ex's nephew worked there. When the kitchen toilet broke, she wouldn't let "the help" use the customer restroom. They had to use a diner across the street.
- Odafin Tutuola: Thanks.
- Rafael Barba: Ms. Castille, you just said you love your black employees.
- Jolene Castille: I love all my employees. I have a gay Japanese assistant.
- Rafael Barba: Good for you.