Tamara Tunie credited as playing...
ME Dr. Melinda Warner
- 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.
- 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.