- Judge Elizabeth Donnelly: [to Novak] The D.A. is declining to re-file charges against Thomas Crane.
- Casey Novak: He raped and murdered Alisa Hernandez and he gets to keep his badge?
- Judge Elizabeth Donnelly: Because of your actions, Counselor.
- Casey Novak: With all due respect, ma'am, this doesn't concern you.
- Judge Elizabeth Donnelly: It does now.
- [hands Novak a piece of paper]
- Casey Novak: I'm being called before the bar.
- Judge Elizabeth Donnelly: At my insistence.
- Casey Novak: Why?
- Judge Elizabeth Donnelly: Because you lost perspective. And because I sit on the peer review board, and I cannot allow you to commit a Brady violation and lie to the court without consequence.
- Casey Novak: The reports weren't finished, Your Honor. I sent them back.
- Judge Elizabeth Donnelly: You lied to Petrovsky and now you are lying to me. The lab reports were dated and stamped. We are civil servants, Casey. No one is falling on their sword for you. What I want to know is why.
- Casey Novak: Because the bad guys can't always win and he deserved to pay.
- Judge Elizabeth Donnelly: And so do you.
- Casey Novak: How much trouble am I in?
- Judge Elizabeth Donnelly: Censure. Possible suspension.
- Casey Novak: For how long?
- Judge Elizabeth Donnelly: A year. Maybe more.
- Casey Novak: What should I do?
- Judge Elizabeth Donnelly: Something else.
- Elliot Stabler: Look, all the evidence pointed to his guilty.
- Olivia Benson: Which means that we should've taken a hard look at Lake, not Fin.
- Elliot Stabler: Oh, so I shouldn't have dumped his phones?
- Olivia Benson: Fin's a straight shooter, Elliot. All you had to do was ask him. I think you need to make this right.
- Elliot Stabler: [to Fin] Look, the situation got a little heated and I want to say I'm sorry about that.
- Odafin Tutuola: You're a bulldog, Stabler. Quick to assume, slow to admit when you're wrong. Makes for a good cop, but a lousy human being
- Olivia Benson: Fin, hear him out.
- Odafin Tutuola: Stay out of it, Liv. That being said, I know what it cost you.
- Elliot Stabler: Appreciate that.
- Odafin Tutuola: I'm not done. The problem is you will still be the same rat bastard tomorrow and nothing you say will ever change that.
- Chester Lake: I'm not used to sitting to take a leak.
- Odafin Tutuola: That's the price of turning a vacant lot into OK Corral.
- Donna Emmett: DNA is the rock on which the People built their case. They don't have a credible witness.
- Casey Novak: Cecelia Cruz's immigrant status has nothing to do with her eyewitness testimony.
- Donna Emmett: And yet they've placed more emphasis on biological evidence, which I discovered was compromised.
- Judge Lena Petrovsky: Is that true, Miss Novak?
- Casey Novak: No, the evidence was tested by lab protocol.
- Judge Lena Petrovsky: Then where are the reports? Because I don't have them.
- Casey Novak: Incomplete. They're not finished.
- Donna Emmett: And the dog ate my homework.
- Casey Novak: I will turn everything over as soon as it is done.
- Judge Lena Petrovsky: See that you do.
- [to Ms. Emmett]
- Judge Lena Petrovsky: And the conspiracy?
- Donna Emmett: Detective Lake perjured himself. He was told that the sample was too degraded for testing by the evidence intake officer.
- Casey Novak: Who's not a DNA expert. If it's so degraded, how did we find two separate profiles?
- Donna Emmett: I think you want to win so badly, you'd plant the evidence and frame my client.
- Casey Novak: Oh, the O.J. defense. That's original. Good for you.
- Casey Novak: What are you selling, Brett?
- Brett Smith: Criminal Defense.
- Casey Novak: Yeah, hard to imagine.
- Brett Smith: You've worked sex crimes longer than most and you're still passionate, we need you.
- Casey Novak: Yeah, well, it's harder to care when your clients are guilty.
- Brett Smith: Ours are accused of SEC violations, not diddling some 4-year-old on the playground.
- Casey Novak: [after getting a call] Look, I'm sorry. I have to go.
- Brett Smith: No more late night calls, no more rape victims and dead kids. How do you sleep at night?
- Casey Novak: I don't.
- Odafin Tutuola: [to Elliot] Do you know everything about Olivia?
- Elliot Stabler: No, but I'd notice if she disappeared once a month.
- Casey Novak: [to Dr. Warner] The jury's looking at my witness like she did something wrong.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: People feel strongly about immigration on both sides.
- Casey Novak: That's why your forensic testimony needs to be solid. Is this partial profile enough to say he's a match?
- Dr. Melinda Warner: Yes, but it leaves you wide open on rebuttal.
- Casey Novak: Okay, why?
- Dr. Melinda Warner: All human cells except platelets have 13 loci. The semen the lab tested presented only nine which means it was significantly degraded.
- Casey Novak: I'll need probabilities as to the DNA match for Crane.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: I can't give them with what we have.
- Casey Novak: Okay, without it, he walks. Thomas Crane raped and murdered a young girl and we gave him the badge to hide behind while he did it.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: I know what you want me to say, but the science doesn't support it.
- Casey Novak: When the defense gets these lab reports, they might have enough for reasonable doubt. Can you live with that?
- Dr. Melinda Warner: If I have to. Because I sure as hell won't risk my reputation for a verdict we didn't earn.
- Elliot Stabler: [to Thomas Crane as he attempts to shoot Lake] Squeeze that trigger, you'll be dead before the slug leaves the pipe.
- Donna Emmett: [to Lake] You call the lab to move the evidence. What were you told by the desk officer?
- Chester Lake: That I needed a boss to request it.
- Donna Emmett: Was that all you were told?
- Chester Lake: I don't recall.
- Donna Emmett: You weren't told that the evidence was too degraded and contaminated for testing?
- Chester Lake: No.
- Donna Emmett: Objection. Your Honor, I call for an immediate mistrial. There's a serious cover-up going on here and I have proof that this witness perjured himself and the prosecution violated Brady.
- Casey Novak: Your Honor, that's ridiculous. No one lied. Counsel is accusing my office of conspiracy in front of the jury just to score points.
- Judge Lena Petrovsky: Enough! In my chambers now.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: [while at the crime scene] I see the circus is in town.
- Elliot Stabler: What do you expect? When cops shoot each other, clowns come out. It's entertainment.
- Casey Novak: [to Stabler] You think you could manage to read Detective Lake his rights?
- Elliot Stabler: I miss something?
- Casey Novak: I specifically told you not to question him. He's under the 48-hour rule and shielded from interrogation.
- Elliot Stabler: Don't worry. He didn't say anything.
- Casey Novak: Yeah, and lucky for you. Because if he talked, it would've been inadmissible and under immunity.
- Elliot Stabler: Okay, so how are we supposed to put this down when most crimes are solved within the first 48?
- Casey Novak: You know what? That's not my problem. So you either follow orders or just stay out of the way.
- Donald Cragen: Lake is not our problem anymore. The Fugitive Apprehension Team will take it from here.
- Odafin Tutuola: All those guys do is workout and shoot guns. They're gonna kill Lake.
- Donald Cragen: Well, that's not how F.A.T. works, Detective.
- Odafin Tutuola: Kralik's got a lot of friends on the street that'd like to see Lake dead. You gotta at least let me look.
- Elliot Stabler: Where you gonna start? You don't even know the guy.
- Odafin Tutuola: I know he didn't do it.
- Elliot Stabler: Three bullet holes in the victim's back say different.
- Odafin Tutuola: You ever think the force behind the first two spun Kralik? We're trained to keep firing till the subject is down.
- Donna Emmett: [to Cecelia] When did you become a U.S. citizen, Miss Cruz?
- Casey Novak: Objection. Irrelevant.
- Donna Emmett: Witness veracity, Your Honor.
- Judge Lena Petrovsky: [to Cecelia] Answer the question.
- Cecelia Cruz: You don't understand. We didn't have the money for amnesty then, but I've been trying ever since.
- Donna Emmett: In other words, you're here illegally. You went to school here, you saw doctors here, made money here, but you paid no taxes here.
- Casey Novak: Is there a question or is Counsel just going to pontificate?
- Odafin Tutuola: News reports are saying Lake took a hostage. Who gave them that?
- Elliot Stabler: How about your partner after he took Cecelia Cruz with a warrant on his ass?
- Odafin Tutuola: Dumping my phones was a bitch move, Stabler.
- Elliot Stabler: Yeah, I called him. I didn't think he'd run.
- Odafin Tutuola: You should've stayed out of it.
- Olivia Benson: Take it easy.
- Odafin Tutuola: He's my partner.
- Elliot Stabler: Who you helped evade arrest.
- Donald Cragen: Dial it down or you're both going on report.