Alex quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

[to Michael] A child molester only has power as long as his secret is kept. You tell the truth, his power is gone.

A man stands up and takes responsibility. A man isn't afraid to face the consequences of his actions.

If you are looking for someone to denigrate Captain Cragen or the unit, find someone else.

[about a suspect with diplomatic immunity] He could run me down, leave skidmarks, and we still couldn't give him a speeding ticket.

Andrea Brown ground up a lethal dose of antidepressants and fed it to her baby. The defense doesn't dispute these facts, but they argue Mrs. Brown acted out of the noblest of motives. Let's examine these motives. Andrea Brown had an extramarital affair and got pregnant. When she found out the baby wasn't her husband's, did she tell him? No. Did she tell Steve Kellerman that he was the father? No. Did she tell Dr. Platner when pressuring him for a prescription, an act she knew could land him in prison? No. From the start, Andrea Brown's primary concern was preserving her marriage, her image, and her lifestyle by hiding at all costs her affair. She knew that the longer Sarah was alive, the greater the chances someone would find out that Daniel Brown was not the father. So she killed her daughter, a helpless child who had not yet begun to suffer the effects of Tay Sachs. All of this to conceal the fact that she'd slept with another man. The defense would have you believe this was an act of mercy. It wasn't. This is a clear-cut case of murder.

Thank you. You've offered a provocative theory. What it lacks in substance, it makes up for in pretty colors.

[her closing argument] Some of you may believe that Perry Williams raped Vanessa Bevins in that alley. But Perry Williams is not on trial here. In fact, he never got his day in court at all. So, in the eyes of the law, he is innocent until proven guilty. Even if his guilt had been established, beyond a reasonable doubt, he could not have been executed for his crime. Ray Bevins executed Perry Williams. He shot a man who was on his knees, begging for his life. Now, some of you may think that he deserved to die. But you have to ask yourselves if he would execute a man whose guilt had not been proven. We have all felt the need for revenge at some point in our lives. We have all lashed out in pain and anger, and we have all thought that justice means an eye for an eye. But is that justice? Does Perry Williams' family now have the right to kill Ray Bevins? Does Ray Bevins' family then have the right to retaliate against Perry Williams? When would it stop? An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

I finally claw my way out of appeals, and you guys bring me this cluster.

Captain Cragen!

Miss Cabot?

Alex.

Yeah. Right. Of course.

Let's not start off on the wrong foot. My assignment to SVU preceded the "behavior problems" under you command.

Behavioral problems?

I'm trying to be polite.

Tip-toeing around the road kill?

Where there's smoke...

Who do you sleep with, Ms. Cabot? Are you so new at this that you haven't run into somebody you wanted skip due process with? I'll apprise you ASAP, if ASAP can be tomorrow. You understand, I have "behavioral problems".

You want me to secure a search warrant for the offices of a defense contractor to search classified, national security files for evidence in a sexually motivated homicide?

Munch

Is that a problem?

[sighs, picks up the phone and dials] Judge Hermann, please. [pause] This is Alex Cabot with the D.A's office. [pause] Uncle Bill... look, I need a favor.

Stabler

You're protecting your win-loss ratio.

Elliot.

It's okay, Captain. Detective Stabler's judgment is clouded by the stress of the Morris Commission's review and the fact that Michael did what he fantasizes about: kill a perpetrator.

It's not my fantasy and I stand with Detective Stabler on this.

Munch

All you've proven here today is that women are still chattel.

Only if they want to be.

We just looked on the Internet for a sex offender. I mean, they got a whole website with pictures and MOs. And I picked Ramsay, because he wasn't as gross as the others. And he didn't look dangerous, and he liked 'em young.

How did you go about seducing him?

Our cousin Kyle was the advance man. He followed him around a few days and got his schedule down, and then I just showed up at his bar. I gave him the duplicate room key that Kyle had made, and I told him when to be in my room.

Well, the plan hinged on Ramsay showing up. How could you be certain he would?

Well, he's an ex-con with a loser job who likes young girls. I mean, it's a no-brainer.

Still, something could've gone wrong.

I would've plan-B'd it.

What is plan B?

Honey, no man passes up free sex.

The law isn't always about justice.

Who let you in on our dirty little secret?

I need you to authorize this deal.

Counselor, I am a public servant, and the public at large does not want this boil on the butt of humanity living to a ripe old age.

Charlie, think of the mother.

I am. And I'm sure that she'd wanna see him to die.

Maybe. But she probably wants to know what happened to her daughter also.

And what about the mothers of all his other victims? They want him dead. The city wants him dead. Even protesters against the death penalty wanna see this guy dead.