- Dominick Carisi, Jr.: [to Olivia] I didn't know you were a Unitarian, Sarge.
- Olivia Benson: Oh, I'm not. I am... actually, I didn't grow up with any religion. I just wanted Noah to have something that would ground him.
- Dominick Carisi, Jr.: Then rebel against when he's a teenager, am I right? I get it. I'm Catholic.
- Amanda Rollins: No kidding.
- Olivia Benson: So the lead detective was a guy named Ted McCormack and the ADA was O'Dwyer. None of them I've met.
- Dominick Carisi, Jr.: Before your time? Wow!
- Olivia Benson: You're missing Staten Island, Carisi?
- Bayard Ellis: It's hard enough to prove that someone is innocent of a crime, it's harder, still, to prove that that crime itself never occurred
- Donald Cragen: You know, I never thought I would say it, but turns out there's more to life than NYPD.
- Nick Amaro: Oh, yeah? Well, the place is falling apart without you
- Olivia Benson: Thanks, Nick.
- Derek Thompson: [On making a deal to set him free] No, it's the truth that's supposed to set you free, not a lie!
- Bayard Ellis: [to Olivia] Reverend Scott asked me to look into a case involving a congregant, Michelle Thompson. Her father, Derek, was convicted of raping her.
- Olivia Benson: Convicted of raping his own daughter? That's a tough case for Project Innocence to get behind.
- Bayard Ellis: It is, but this case was primarily made on Michelle's testimony. Now, she's saying that she was pressured by her mother to lie. She wants to recant.
- Olivia Benson: Seventeen years after the fact.
- Bayard Ellis: Oh, she tried once before as a teen. The original ADA and detective argued against reopening. Michelle went off the deep end after that, drugs, alcohol. She's recently found sobriety.
- Olivia Benson: Hold on, so her recant is part of a 12-step program? That's not the most reliable indicator of the truth.
- Bayard Ellis: Believe me. I've seen that pink cloud "I forgive everyone" effect too. That's why I need you to investigate.
- Olivia Benson: Any DNA, forensics, any corroboration?
- Bayard Ellis: No, only only her testimony and some inconclusive medical symptoms. Her mother, who has her own substance abuse history, made the initial 911 call.
- Olivia Benson: Did you talk to the father?
- Bayard Ellis: Oh, sure, up at Green Haven. He's a model prisoner. I found him credible. He's maintained his innocence for 17 years. It's hard enough to prove that someone is innocent of a crime. It's harder, still, to prove that that crime itself never occurred.
- Olivia Benson: So you thought of me.
- Bayard Ellis: Indeed, I did.
- Nick Amaro: Bayard Ellis wants us to reopen a twenty year old incest/rape? Let him do his own legwork.
- Olivia Benson: [after Michelle testifies in court] Michelle, you all right?
- Michelle Thompson: What happened to me up there?
- Olivia Benson: O'Dwyer kept going at you until you said what he wanted you to say, but Mr. Ellis is gonna make sure that the jury saw that for what it was.
- Michelle Thompson: If you say so. When I was up there, I started wondering am I doing all this for my father or for me? You have no idea what it's like having everyone think that my father did that to me. I used to say he was dead. I just want that part of my life to be over.
- Olivia Benson: It is. You made sure that the truth was heard this time.
- Michelle Thompson: Right, the truth. The truth is, I don't really remember.
- Olivia Benson: [Introducing the new ones to Cragen] And this is Carisi.
- Dominick Carisi, Jr.: Call me Sonny.
- Amanda Rollins: No one else does.
- Nick Amaro: Well, this is why I don't like reopening cases. It's tough enough to figure out at the time. All these years later? How are we ever gonna know?
- Olivia Benson: [about Derek Thompson] When a man refuses to plead guilty to get out of jail, that should tell you something.
- A.D.A. Kenneth O'Dwyer: It tells me he's a pathological narcissist. If he really cared about his children, his daughter, he wouldn't put her through this. He's not worried about her. He's worried about his name, his ego.
- Bayard Ellis: Ego. It's funny you should mention that.
- Olivia Benson: Bayard...
- A.D.A. Kenneth O'Dwyer: No, no, no. Let Mr. Ellis speak his mind. It's his favorite activity.
- A.D.A. Kenneth O'Dwyer: Derek Thompson raped his daughter. If he has regrets about that now, if his daughter has decided she suddenly misses him, that's a family tragedy, but it doesn't make him innocent.