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Olivia: Where is everybody?

Elliot: Kathy took the kids to La Boheme. [I] passed.

Olivia: So on your one night as a bachelor you go to the grocery store? That's pretty pathetic.

Elliot: Grocery store with strippers. Liv, you gotta let it go. You put a rapist on trial. You did your job.

Olivia: I think I made it worse.

Elliot: Hey, you know that's not true.

Olivia: I made Carrie relive the worst thing that's ever happened to her. I screwed any number of victims who might've saught counseling from Bethany Taylor. And a few less rapes may be reported because of it.

Elliot: And if Michael Gardner is convicted he'll never rape another woman.

Olivia: It's not worth it. It's not worth the cost.

Elliot: To you or them?

Olivia: I'm not talking about me.

Elliot: Yeah you are. For as long as I have known you, you've always identified with the victims. Now maybe that's because you're a woman... I don't know. But I do know it's one of the things that makes you a great cop. It's also one of the things that makes this job torture sometimes. You can never go back and change things that have already happened, Olivia. You can't.

Olivia: You kill yourself, to make something happen. Or you do nothing and it doesn't matter. There's always another child molester. There's always another rapist. And it's like you have to sell a little piece of yourself to get the job done. So what the h-ll's the point?

Elliot: I don't know, maybe there isn't a point. Maybe the cost is too high. Olivia, no one's making you do this. The difference between you and all the victims is you can walk away.

Olivia: No I can't. -"Futility"

Erin Russ: How did my client get hurt between his home and here?

Alex: I don't know. How?

Erin Russ: Bull.

Alex: The only injuries I see are your client's torn knuckles from punching Detective Benson in the face. So unless you want to add assault of a police officer to the tab, I say we move on. -"Futility"

Olivia: Once the fingerprint came back we apprehended the defendent outside of his home. I advised him of his miranda rights, detectives Stabler and Tutuola questioned him, with his attorney present, and Carrie Huitt positively identified him as the man who had raped her the night before.

Alex: Thank you, Detective.

Michael Gardner: Why didn't you question me, Detective Benson?

Olivia: I was preparing your victim for the lineup.

Michael: Oh. So it wasn't because I punched you earlier that night?

Alex: Objection! Relevance?

Michael: I'm trying to ascertain whether or not the detective has a personal stake in my rest in prosecution.

Judge: I'll allow it.

Olivia: I have no personal stake in you.

Michael: You're not mad at me? Or, uh, embarrassed that I eluded your grasp in front of your colleagues?

Olivia: It's not uncommon for a perpetrator to lose control of himself. And I have certainly been hit much harder. -"Futility"

Olivia: Can't blame her for being angry. Our job is to protect her and we can't even do that. -"Futility"

Michael Gardner: Why are you harrassing me? I didn't do anything.

Elliot: Violating an order of protection you moron! You just bought yourself a cell in Rikers. -"Futility"

Fin: You don't know a person 'til you work with 'em. -"Counterfeit"

Fin: Alright! Nice dress!

Olivia: Yeah, well, it was a nice date. Where's Munch?

Fin: He rang in sick.

Olivia: He's such a hypochondriac. How many times has he had anthrax this week?!

Cragen: Nice dress.

Olivia: Don't start. -"Counterfeit"

(Munch walks by on crutches)

Fin: I can't wait to hear this.

Munch: Your sympathy is overwhelming.

Olivia: What happened to you?

Munch: Skydiving, hard landing.

Elliot: He wiped out riding his friend's Harley.

Cragen: Now the only thing he'll be riding is a desk. -"Counterfeit"

Olivia: This is crap, Alex.

Alex: Yeah? Cause it looks to me like Michael Gardner making a really good case for tainted identification. I wish you'd told me about this, Olivia!

Olivia: Hold on! That lineup was not tainted!

Alex: How do you know?!

Olivia: What could a rape counselor possibly gain from helping a victim make a false ID?

Alex: It doesn't matter what happens. Only what appears to have happened. If the judge tosses this ID , this case is screwed! -"Futility"

Olivia: Gardner didn't attack Karen Leighton near her home. He got her address from the order of protection. I mean, we try to protect them and then we end up giving the guy a map to find his victims. I mean next time we should just drive him there.

Fin: The judge granted the bastard bail. Orders of protection were the best we could do. -"Futility"

Olivia: Orders of protection are real helpful when you can't enforce them. -"Futility"

Elliot: So he slugs Olivia because she took that power away from him. -"Futility"

Elliot: I could've stopped him. I should've known what Ray was gonna do.

Elliot: I would have done the same thing.

Olivia: No, you wouldn't.

Elliot: Well, wait 'til you're a parent.

Olivia: Don't throw that crap at me, Elliot. You made a mistake.

Olivia: You let Ray in.

Elliot: You're right, I did. He got to me. And now I'm responsible. -"Grief"

Cheryl Avery: NO! Don't do this! You can't put me in that place! Please. Help me. Please! Somebody! You can't put me in that place! -"Fallacy"

Olivia: Hey. I'm headin' out. You wanna grab a drink?

Alex: Thank you. But you know, I am just not in the mood.

Olivia: Well, neither am I, but I don't feel much like goin' home.

Alex: Do you think I pushed Cheryl too hard?

Olivia: You did your job.

Alex: Then why do I feel so lousy?

Olivia: Because you look at Cheryl, and you can't imagine what it's like to feel that your own body is a mistake.

[Alex nods, Olivia's cell phone rings]

Olivia: [on phone] Benson. We'll be right there.

Alex: What's up?

Olivia: I gotta go to Bellevue. You should come with me.

Olivia: Special Victims Unit, you called about a rape victim?

Nurse: They're taking him up to surgery now.

Alex: [looking at Cheryl on the gurney] What happened?

Nurse: Cheryl Avery was gang raped at Rikers. -"Fallacy"

Elliot: That year you're doing on your head...add 25 more and choke on it.