- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Phone's registered in the name of Tracy Larson. It's 111 Birkenhoff Street.
- Odafin Tutuola: Meow Mix 2.0. You what this is, right?
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Pet store?
- Odafin Tutuola: Far from it.
- Odafin Tutuola: [to Nahla] Why can't she say whatever she wants?
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Well, she can say whatever she wants that's the First Amendment, but imagine she was saying these kinds of things about African Americans.
- Odafin Tutuola: I don't pay attention to ignorant people.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Well, that's you, Fin. The world doesn't work that way. I mean, words have consequences.
- Odafin Tutuola: So it's free speech until you piss somebody off, then it's hate speech.
- Nahla Nasar: Everybody in New York despises me or thinks I'm a liar. My family is gonna be in that courtroom. I could lose them, my job... I don't know if this is worth it.
- Olivia Benson: You were raped, Nahla, and you deserve justice, no matter how many mistakes you made along the way.
- Nahla Nasar: But people have lost faith in me.
- Olivia Benson: Because they don't know you. And this is your chance to tell them who you are, to tell them your truth. You can do this and I'm gonna be right behind you.
- Naomi Zeigler: You wear a red baseball cap, civilized society assumes you're a racist, a bigot of the worst order. A teenager runs out of a synagogue, we assume he's an anti-Semite reliving the bliss of Kristallnacht. A Muslim woman is brutally attacked. We have no choice but to assume the animal was an Islamophobe, but, in this case the teenager was running because he was scared. The brutal attacker was not Jewish. Clearly, each and every one of those assumptions were dead wrong. So if you're tempted to assume Ms. Nasar was raped by her former husband because it was mandated by some medieval Koranic code, shame on you.
- William Dodds: She was set up by Jews?
- Olivia Benson: That's what she told my detectives.
- William Dodds: Jesus.
- Olivia Benson: And an eyewitness saw two boys fleeing the scene, one wearing a MAGA hat.
- William Dodds: [dryly] It gets better and better.
- William Dodds: Fasten your seat belts. We haven't even discussed Rob Miller yet. You heard?
- Olivia Benson: That he's out on bail? Yes, and I... I would've appreciated a heads-up.
- William Dodds: I only saw it on the news myself.
- Michael Schwartz: I didn't do anything!
- Odafin Tutuola: No, you didn't. You didn't do a thing to save a woman bleeding on the floor.
- Devora Schwartz: That doesn't make him guilty of rape.
- Odafin Tutuola: Makes him guilty of something.
- Olivia Benson: So what are we looking at?
- Amanda Rollins: Well, we have motive. We have opportunity. Their social media pages are filled with anti-Nahla Nasar posts.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: None advocating violence. They're straight-A students. They got no records.
- Olivia Benson: Okay, is there any other evidence?
- Amanda Rollins: Nothing on security cams. No DNA recovered from Nahla's kit.
- Olivia Benson: [seeing Fin in the doorway] Where are you in all this?
- Odafin Tutuola: I see racism all around.
- Olivia Benson: So Ari and Michael were protesting outside of Nahla's office that afternoon and neglected to mention it?
- Odafin Tutuola: They said they thought it'd make them look guilty.
- Olivia Benson: It does.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Put those back, put your hands where I can see 'em, and get out from behind that counter.
- Amanda Rollins: Let's go.
- Masud Faraj: Why?
- Amanda Rollins: [handcuffing him] Why? Because you are being arrested for rape.
- Masud Faraj: Nahla accused me?
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: What, are you surprised?
- Masud Faraj: Not in the least.
- [they lead him out]
- Masud Faraj: She hates men.
- Amanda Rollins: I don't know about that, but I'm pretty sure she hates you.
- Noah Porter-Benson: I want spaghetti.
- Olivia Benson: You always want spaghetti.
- Noah Porter-Benson: I like spaghetti.
- [Benson sighs]
- Noah Porter-Benson: Should I order something else?
- Olivia Benson: No, honey, you have whatever makes you happy.
- Naomi Zeigler: Isn't it true that this whole charade is a hoax intended to raise your political profile, to gain sympathy...
- Peter Stone: Objection!
- Judge Karyn Blake: Sustained.
- Nahla Nasar: I thought I had to hide that part of my life. I was afraid...
- Naomi Zeigler: Nothing further.
- Nahla Nasar: I am here at risk of losing my family's love, my career, everything. But I am not afraid anymore.
- Olivia Benson: Rob Miller's attorney served me with a subpoena last night. At home.
- William Dodds: He's trying to intimidate you.
- Olivia Benson: Trying? He's already had a state trooper pull me over with Noah in the car. Nikki Staines is terrified. She won't testify. He raped her and he's gonna get away with it.
- William Dodds: Let me worry about Rob Miller. Right now, the mayor needs to know we're making progress with Nahla Nasar.
- Olivia Benson: We're working on it.
- William Dodds: Work faster.
- Amanda Rollins: [about Nahla] So she's gay and an observant Muslim.
- Olivia Benson: Why can't she be both?
- Amanda Rollins: Fine. Just don't run for office and lie about who you are.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Well, this is not just political. Growing up unconventional in a devout family, that's gonna be tough in any religion.
- Odafin Tutuola: If we were in Iraq, they'd throw her off a roof.
- Aida Galanis: Nahla is passionate about her beliefs. She's exercising her right to criticize Israel. She's not anti-Semitic.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: My understanding is that people got offended by her choice of words.
- Amanda Rollins: Okay, well, all that aside, we need to figure out why she was at that synagogue.
- Aida Galanis: I don't know.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: You're her chief of staff.
- Aida Galanis: She can be a very private person. I respect her boundaries.
- Amanda Rollins: All right, but has she received any threats lately? Our office is besieged by protesters.
- Aida Galanis: We get dozens of hate-spewing calls a day.
- Amanda Rollins: Okay, but any specific threats? I mean, maybe sexual violence, for example.
- Aida Galanis: No one said they want to rape her.
- Amanda Rollins: Listen, we're gonna need phone and email records and any threats made on social media.
- Aida Galanis: I hope you need the overtime. Look, I'm sick about what happened to Nahla. The only upside, maybe everyone will realize that she's the true victim here.
- Olivia Benson: [to Nahla] Okay, you told my detectives that you were set up. Why were you in the synagogue?
- Nahla Nasar: I was lured there.
- Olivia Benson: By who?
- Nahla Nasar: By a man pretending to want peace. I was lied to by a Zionist.
- Stephen Kaplan: [to Carisi] Detective, I have no great love for Ms. Nasar, but my son didn't rape her, he's a good boy.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Who left a passed-out woman bleeding on the temple floor. I'm not sure that God would agree with you.
- Ari Kaplan: What was she even doing in there? It's like she was deliberately trying to...
- Stephen Kaplan: Ari...
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Oh, no, no. He can finish. He's a big boy.
- [to Ari]
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Deliberately trying to what?
- Ari Kaplan: To provoke us.
- Nahla Nasar: I think I see where this is going. Are you suggesting that I am lying about my sexual assault?
- Olivia Benson: Absolutely not.
- Peter Stone: You couldn't describe your attacker. Your rape kit was inconclusive.
- Nahla Nasar: This is an outrageous accusation. I'm wondering if my headscarf has something to do with it.
- Olivia Benson: Okay, let's... let's not go there, because that's just not true. Now, what would help clear this up is if you would give our techs access to your phone records.
- Nahla Nasar: I will do no such thing. I thought the days of police calling rape victims liars were over. I guess I was mistaken.
- Amanda Rollins: Are we looking at a sexual assault?
- Chris Usmani: Yeah, maybe a hate crime, too. Her hijab was torn off.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: She's Muslim? Attacked in a synagogue?
- Amanda Rollins: Do we have an ID?
- Chris Usmani: According to the driver's license, it's Nahla Nasar.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: The city councilwoman?
- Chris Usmani: Yeah, I guess.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: All right, we got this.
- Olivia Benson: How is Ms. Nasar?
- Amanda Rollins: She's being treated for a concussion, and they're doing a rape kit.
- William Dodds: Do we have any idea why she was in that synagogue?
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: No, not yet, but her chief of staff just got here. Her name is Aida Galanis.
- Olivia Benson: Okay, so find out what she knows.
- William Dodds: And ask her not to make any statements to the press. We don't need this to blow up any more than it already has.
- Amanda Rollins: Look, we're gonna need phone and e-mail records, and any threats made on social media.
- Aida Galanis: I hope you need the overtime.
- Carter Anderson: I don't know how I can help you, Detectives. I don't know who raped Nahla Nasar.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: No? Your newsfeed reported that we arrested two Jewish teenagers.
- Carter Anderson: So?
- Odafin Tutuola: So, it wasn't true. Who told you that?
- Carter Anderson: I can't give up my sources.
- Odafin Tutuola: Your sources are lying.
- Carter Anderson: Look, I get it. You guys are pissed. The NYPD likes to control the narrative.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Yeah, especially when somebody's deliberately trying to manipulate that narrative.
- Carter Anderson: Not my problem.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: You're a news organization. You're supposed to be interested in the truth, or at least pretend that you are.
- Peter Stone: You follow Sharia law, Mr. Faraj?
- Masud Faraj: Yes.
- Peter Stone: Sharia law states that homosexuality is immoral. "If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four reliable witnesses from amongst them, and if they testify, confine them to houses until..." what? Mr. Faraj, I know you know the answer.
- Naomi Zeigler: Objection, Your Honor.
- Peter Stone: Mr. Faraj, until what? What is the answer?
- Masud Faraj: "Until death do claim them." I should have killed her.
- Peter Stone: Instead of just asssaulting and raping her? Why didn't you kill her?
- Masud Faraj: Because she is my wife!
- Peter Stone: Nothing further.
- Peter Stone: What Ms. Ziegler just lambasted weren't assumptions. They were hate-filled stereotypes. So what do we know? We know that Nahla Nasar is a lesbian. We know that her former husband knew it too. We know that his religion tells him that homosexuality is immoral and punishable by death. We know he was at the scene of the crime at the time the crime was committed, and we know that Ms. Nasar ID'd him as her rapist. We know that. Those are the facts. That's what we know. Now, what do we do? We look at those facts, and we assume he raped her. It's okay. That's the way our system works.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: How'd you get MetroBuzz to give you the whole tape? Didn't they argue First Amendment?
- Peter Stone: They did, but the judge agreed with me. He said it was a staged publicity stunt and not a protected act of journalism.
- Nahla Nasar: Please don't out me. If you do, my professional life is pretty much over.
- Odafin Tutuola: So this whole hijab Muslim thing is just for show?
- Nahla Nasar: It didn't start out that way, but then I met Tracy and everything changed. We've been together for a year.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: So this is where you go, huh?
- Nahla Nasar: The women here, I trust them. Promise me you'll do the same. If my parents were to ever find out...
- Odafin Tutuola: Your sexual orientation is none of our business.
- Dominick Carisi Jr.: Unless it affects your case.
- Nahla Nasar: I swear to you, it doesn't.
- Peter Stone: Shari'a Law recognizes any divorce initiated by woman or man. The Qur'anic verse is not lewdness, but adultery and there must be 4 WITNESSES to the act itself, not 3, 2 or 1. 4. Which is impossible. Neither are punishable by death. The only death penalty in the Qur'an is for treason. The punishment for treason in America, is death.