Christopher Meloni credited as playing...
Detective Elliot Stabler
- Captain Donald Cragen: [about Sonya] SVU was too much for her. The pressure must have triggered her drinking.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Explains why she was such a control freak. White-knuckle drunk just hanging on by a thread.
- Olivia Benson: What a hypocrite.
- Captain Donald Cragen: She was a good lawyer with a bad problem.
- Olivia Benson: I definitely saw a lot of my mother in her.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Well, her career's over. There's no way she's coming back from this. I mean, she's a walking cluster...
- [Sonya walks in the room]
- [Stabler accidentally let a murder suspect escape from custody]
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Good morning, detectives.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Just when I thought my day couldn't get any worse.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Has anyone seen my missing defendant?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Well, we could try and find him, unless you wanna just waste our time busting my balls.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Oh, I'd never kick a man when he's down. I'm sure you feel like a grade "A" moron as it is.