Christopher Meloni credited as playing...
Detective Elliot Stabler
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Olivia] You had a kinship analysis done?
- Detective Olivia Benson: Yeah, it's for a cold case.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You're not working on any cold cases right now.
- [Olivia looks at the results of the kinship analysis]
- Detective Elliot Stabler: What is it? Liv, whose DNA did you have tested?
- Detective Olivia Benson: Mine. I have a brother.
- Donald Cragen: Ms. Marino must be here for the obligatory grieving-mother footage.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: There's nothing better than a parent's worst nightmare for must-see TV.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Dr. Warner] Why'd she kill him?
- Dr. Melinda Warner: Same old story. Abuse, shaken baby. Could've been an accident.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: One time, Dickie busted his head open on the corner of a coffee table. Okay, there was blood everywhere. I... I thought I was gonna lose him. Now that's an accident, but you don't dump a body and blame it on the other parent.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: People would rather believe a story like that than admit mothers can kill their own children.
- [last lines; Olivia had Warner do a kinship analysis]
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Whose DNA did you have tested?
- Detective Olivia Benson: [reading the test results] Mine. I have a brother.
- [after the suspected mother of a missing baby commits suicide]
- Cindy Marino: Stabler, did Laura leave a note? A confession? Is the Kendall case closed now that the prime suspect is dead?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You are the Devil. You know that?
- Laura Kozlowski: [when her house is being searched for evidence pertaining to her son's kidnapping] I don't understand what destroying my house has to do with bringing my son home!
- Detective Elliot Stabler: That's not the question you should be asking.
- Laura Kozlowski: Excuse me?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: A mother with a missing child asks what more she can do to help. She doesn't impede the investigation.
- Laura Kozlowski: I'll get out of your way.
- [leaves the room]
- Donald Cragen: What's your read?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Barely took the gloves off. She went ballistic.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: Kinship DNA isn't proof. Just an investigative tool.
- TARU Tech Ruben Morales: It's a violation of civil liberties. You go after me 'cause my dad's a perp? That's guilt by association.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Well, I'm more worried about a missing child than your civil liberties.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: If Paddy was abusive, why would Laura name her son after him?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: A batterer's control over his victim doesn't stop when the relationship ends.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: This is crap. Paddy was not getting back together with Laura. She was terrified of him. He kidnapped that baby and we got close, Mommy tipped him off and that kid was returned.