Tamin quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Look, you gotta be straight with me, Val. Looking back, did you ever see anything not right between Romeo and Esperanza?

Trainers play head games with their boxers all the time. Whatever he did or didn't do, doesn't matter. No one's ever gonna look at us without thinking about that. Men make the mess, women get stuck cleaning it up.

[holding a sex toy] That's pretty.

Says here that goes up your...

[makes a face and puts it down] Eeew!

You here to talk to me about Dehlia? Poor kid.

You knew what was happening?

Honey, everybody knows.

And no one says anything?

It's a straight male world - we just dance in it.

[about Mitchell] He's a risk analyst in Midtown. Never married, boring-ass Facebook...

Fin

He's a loser. No wonder he needs an app to get a date.

Fin, not everyone is as magnetic as you.

Fin

It used to be so simple. Just take down the bad guy. Now the lines are blurred. Half the city are looking at us like we're the bad guys.

It was an impossible summer. Things are gonna calm down.

I don't see that happening. The way the NYPD handled those demonstrators...

We were under attack. What do you want us to do, sit there and take it?

You're supposed to de-escalate. Assess the situation, be aware of our biases. We're not supposed to overreact.

Fin

You mean like shoot a man in front of his son?

Fin...

Fin

Look, growing up in the 'hood, the way the cops treated us, I never trusted 'em. That's why I joined the force, to make a change. Then I worked my way over to SVU because there's no gray area when you're taking down rapists and pedophiles. The last thing I wanted to be is another trigger-happy cop who kills a Black man. And here I am.

Okay, leaks to the press, Brad turning on her after she slept with him. This is officially a witch hunt.

I just hate the double standard. They all slept together and she's the only one getting slut shamed.

Zoey is worried the jury will see her as a crazy slut who tricked him.

Sonny

We always knew this was a risk.

She's a good person, just trying to pay her bills. He's the crazy one.

Sonny

I know that. My job is to make sure the jury knows it.

The whole point of camming is that the woman controls the narrative. No physical contact, no STDs, no violence. It's supposed to be empowering.

Benson

But it doesn't make it safe.

When you say that, it sounds like you're victim blaming.

Benson

Kat, it's not victim blaming. It's just...

Fin

Listen, from what Captain and I have seen, sex work is far more dangerous than people wanna believe.

Aren't you supposed to protect the victim?

Sonny

Actually, my job is to uphold the law. Is there a reason that you don't like me?

I just can't believe that you were ever a cop.

Vic still in the apartment?

She didn't want to leave. I didn't argue. That's your job.

Could we stop using the expression, "He said/She said"? It sounds like, "There's no evidence, and there's nothing we can do". And why is the "he" always first?

Sonny

Kat, a jury understands "no means no." They have a harder time with, "Yes, but I want you to slow down" and "Even though you didn't stop, I'll still have a nightcap with you afterwards."

Every time you say a jury is going to have a hard time, I think you mean you.

Fin, you okay?

Fin

No. I assumed Lonnie was guilty 'cause he was in that rat trap.

You weren't alone in thinking that, and Lonnie wasn't straight with you, and he was made to look guilty.

Fin

No, I was on him from the jump. I checked his single-bust record, and I made him for dirty, and I should know more than anyone how many good kids that look like him get done wrong.

Ceranda was an innocent girl, and you were trying to catch her killer.

Fin

And because of me, another innocent kid gets lynched for it.

Fin, that is not on you.

Fin

Yes, it is. Now I gotta tell Lonnie's family why they don't have a son anymore.

Are you going to tell me where we're going?

Fin

It's a surprise.

Where's Phoebe?

Fin

She'll meet us there. [pause] Listen, if you're gonna be a detective, you have to learn to ask better questions.

[stunned] Wait, what?

Fin

Congratulations. You're getting promoted. Liv and Phoebe are meeting us to celebrate. Just act surprised and tell the Captain how much you learned from her.

From all of you!

Fin

Yeah, but let's polish that apple.

I know the job isn't supposed to be easy, but today was the first time it felt... wrong. Y'know?

That's part of the job, too. You've gotta get past that.