- Dr. Faith Sutton: Our country is at war. I have skills that can help. Do you really expect me not to use them?
- Dr. Melinda Warner: You took an oath. You don't get to take a time-out because we're at war, because it's difficult to uphold. The oath was written for times like these.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: So much for 2500 years of "first do no harm".
- Dr. George Huang: That's a little black and white.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: I didn't realize the hypocratic oath was written in shades of grey.
- Casey Novak: I just think we're gonna have a tough time trying to bring Helios or Tomforde to trial.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: What about Sutton?
- Dr. George Huang: She didn't kill Kate or Abbas.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: Might as well have.
- Dr. George Huang: Melinda...
- Dr. Melinda Warner: That woman's interrogation methods led to Abbas's death and God knows how many others.
- Donald Cragen: We can't arrest Sutton for something that happened in Iraq.
- Olivia Benson: No, but Abbas died in New York. If a reasonable doctor could have foreseen that her methods would lead to heart failure, heart attack, death...
- Dr. Melinda Warner: There's a case for criminally negligent homicide.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: And you really think a jury will hold Sutton responsible?
- Olivia Benson: She taught a loose cannon like Tomforde how to torture a man to death. That not enough for you?
- Dr. Melinda Warner: Someone should be held responsible. It's what Kate Simes would have wanted and what Haroun Abbas deserves.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: [about Dr. Sutton] I guess she didn't take the same oath we did.
- Dr. George Huang: It doesn't sound like she was directly involved in any torture.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: Not directly involved? Why are you defending her?
- Dr. George Huang: Sutton is a respected psychiatrist. I've heard her speak on combat-related PTSD.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: Well, the problem is, she isn't treating it. She's causing it.
- Casey Novak: [to Dr. Sutton] You have no idea that a stress position could tear a rotator cuff? You had no clue that a long ice bath might lead to a coronary? A fifth of the detainees that died of natural causes in US custody died of heart attacks. Many of them young men with no history of heart disease. And yet, you, a successful medical professional had no suspicion that your methods might lead to death? Or didn't you care?
- Dr. Faith Sutton: Ms. Novak, let me ask you a question. How would you protect our country? I have a son in Iraq. How would you protect him?
- Casey Novak: Your Honor...
- Dr. Faith Sutton: No! You answer me! Intelligence gathering is one of the few weapons we have in the war on terror.
- Casey Novak: Your Honor...
- Dr. Faith Sutton: Maybe the only way to fight an enemy we can't see. You think asking nicely is gonna get them to tell us when they plan to fly the next set of planes into our buildings?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Judge Preston declared a mistrial. So much for the terrible swift sword.
- Olivia Benson: We've publicized the issue. Kate Simes got more ink than she ever could have imagined. She would have been pleased.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: A long happy life would have pleased her too.
- Jackie Solomon: What about my right to exercise free speech? That bitch tried to tank my college applications.
- Robert Soloman: Shut up, Jackie. If you hadn't made that damn video in the first place...
- Jackie Solomon: Did you know that the Koran says that men can verbally abuse their wives and beat them?
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Yeah and the Bible says men shouldn't let women teach or talk back to them.
- Robert Soloman: Believe me. We know all about it. The headmistress stuck us with mandatory evening classes at the New York Tolerance Center.
- Detective Chester Lake: You must be their star pupils.
- Jackie Solomon: [singing in video in underwear and a burqa] Come on, Mr. Terrorist, show me you're a man. Slap me around like your good book says you can. Well maybe you're just too much of a ditz. Is that why you blow yourself to bits? Come on, Mr. Terrorist, show me you're a man!
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Now THAT'S offensive.
- Detective Chester Lake: New York cabbies come from 80 odd countries and they hang with their own. The Bangladeshis chow at Mo's on Church and you'll find the Haitians in the coffee shops on Ave. C.
- Olivia Benson: And the Shiites hang in Morningside Heights.
- Detective Chester Lake: Exactly.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: What are you, the zagats of 24-hour diners?
- Detective Chester Lake: When you don't sleep, you gotta know where to find a good poached egg at 3:00 a.m.
- Dr. Faith Sutton: I have no idea what you're talking about.
- Olivia Benson: Well, I'm talking about you being compared to Josef Mengele on the front page of the New York Times.
- Dr. Faith Sutton: Mengele? Mengele was a monster. My work in Iraq was lawful, humane and vital to the intelligence efforts of the US government. I've got nothing to hide.
- Matthew Braden: [to Novak] It is amazing how well you handle those steps.
- Casey Novak: Excuse me?
- Matthew Braden: Yeah, on that high horse you're riding.
- Matthew Braden: [to Novak] Tell me what would you do if you had five minutes to stop a suicide bomber from killing 20 marines or 10 innocent civilians. Or one little girl?
- [shows her a photo of a young girl]
- Casey Novak: Who's this?
- Matthew Braden: Elizabeth Ross. Elizabeth was buried alive in a construction pit in Brooklyn back when I was a cop. We had a suspect. I knew in my gut the guy did it, but we went at him 48 hours, couldn't break him. I told my partner to leave. I broke the bastard's arm in three places. He confessed. When we found Elizabeth, she was dehydrated, she barely had a pulse, but she was alive.
- Casey Novak: That how you got bounced off the force?
- Matthew Braden: His confession was thrown out. The guy walked, but Elizabeth's going to law school now, wants to be a prosecutor. You're gonna tell me the ends don't justify the means?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Sutton's no hero.
- Matthew Braden: What, Detective? You don't approve? Your whole job is predicated on coercion. You're gonna tell me you never laid a hand on a prisoner?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I have. Nine times out of ten, it's counterproductive. I'm certainly not proud of it.