- Sergeant John Munch: [watching a tape of Gordon Garrison] Do we have to watch the collapse of western civilization?
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Son of a bitch!
- Sergeant John Munch: Well, screw you too.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: I wasn't talking to you.
- Sergeant John Munch: What, you got an imaginary friend over there with you now?
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: We gave out about a hundred flyers. TV news could reach thousands.
- Olivia Benson: You know, when I was dating that guy at The Ledger, I got to know this woman on the crime desk. Her name was Nicole Gleason.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: One PP said no press.
- Olivia Benson: She's cute. I could introduce you.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: I don't need help hooking up.
- Olivia Benson: No, but you are going to need an alibi if somebody sees you having a drink with a journalist.
- Alexandra Cabot: [to Joe Thaggard] So, you hated immigrants before you ever watched "Flashpoint". You weren't brainwashed by Garrison. You've always been a homegrown American racist.
- Olivia Benson: Fin, you've worked cases like this before. What is it about these kids?
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Everything. Their skin color. The fact people just don't seem to care.
- Joe Thagard: I didn't do nothing to that boy.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Only 'cause I got there first.
- Joe Thagard: I drank some beers earlier. I accidentally went into the wrong apartment.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Then you cold-cocked the dad, tied up the mother. What, were you going to read the kid a bedtime story?
- Gordon Garrison: Folks, I'm just a social thermometer, taking the temperature of the people.
- Alexandra Cabot: Rectally?
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: How the hell did this happen, Alex?
- Alexandra Cabot: I was hoping you could tell me.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: I'd like to wipe that smile off Thagard's face with a belt sander.
- Alexandra Cabot: It's my fault, Fin. I underestimated Carver. He gave Thagard one hell of a makeover.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: From child killer to pathetic punk with a hard-knock life.
- Alexandra Cabot: Juries love a weepy mea culpa.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: And Garrison looked like the real psycho.
- Alexandra Cabot: Especially after his freaky fans went nuts.
- [Randall Carver is staging a demonstration outside SVU]
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: [handing Munch a stack of correspondence] Hold this. Gonna go see how far I can kick that bullhorn up his ass.
- Sergeant John Munch: Don't dirty your shoe, Fin.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: [while reading the t-shirt of a murdered young girl] Jesus loves me. Somebody else sure didn't.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: How does a Catholic schoolgirl end up dead on a hooker stroll?
- Dr. Melinda Warner: Isn't that a question for Homicide? It's not a sex crime, Fin.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: She looks like a special victim to me.
- Donald Cragen: [to Fin] Ruby Brown is not our case.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Captain, she was just a little kid.
- Donald Cragen: Her death was not sexually motivated and there was no child abuse. So, type up what you've done and get the file over to Homicide.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Where it will just sit. No witnesses, no leads. The case will die.
- Donald Cragen: All the more reason to turf it. I'm getting killed on our closure rate as it is.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: So our stats are more important than a little girl's life?
- Donald Cragen: [to Fin] When the Chief of D's gives an order, we follow it.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Unless Liv or Elliot bends the rules. Then you're out on a limb with them.
- Donald Cragen: You disobeyed a direct order from your commanding officer.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Only thing I'm sorry about is I didn't get the front page. Three inches and no photos. If our victim looked like Elizabeth Smart, we'd have a task force and a million-dollar reward.
- Donald Cragen: This isn't about race.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Sure. You keep telling yourself that.
- Alexandra Cabot: We better watch out, Your Honor. I hear listening to NPR will turn us all into zombies.
- Sergeant John Munch: Before the lnternet and the 24-hour news cycle, kooks could xerox pamphlets. Now any crackpot can get on television and get millions of lemmings to jump off any cliff they tell them to.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: [to Randall Carver] I don't get why you're defending this wacko.
- Randall Carver: Thagard's a symptom, not the disease.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: That symptom killed three kids.
- Randall Carver: Garrison, Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, all of them. They're like a cancer spreading ignorance and hate. I mean, they've convinced folks that immigrants are the problem. Not corporations that fail to pay a living wage, or a broken health-care system.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Save the soapbox, Randy. The cameras aren't even running.
- Randall Carver: I ain't doing this for the attention. I get enough of that already.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Then why are you wasting your time on this loser?
- Randall Carver: My daddy was a Klansman. Told me stories about lynchings. When I asked him why, he just said, "Son, some men need killing."
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Daddy issues, huh? You get Thagard off, him and all those knucklehead Kluckers will be real proud of you. Might even give you your own pointed hood.
- Randall Carver: Listen to me. I hate the Klan and everything they stand for, but they did teach me that a good man can be swept up by evil forces. The problem is bigger than Joe Thagard. Those kids would still be alive if Garrison hadn't driven him to kill.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Munch!
- Sergeant John Munch: [wakes up] What?
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Let's get back on this hate mail.
- Randall Carver: [on TV] How many more of these children have to die before this so-called Special Victims Unit takes these murders seriously?
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: We just took on the case, you idiot!
- Sergeant John Munch: See, now, you're yelling at the TV.
- Nicole Gleason: [to Fin] Giving Randall Carver another 15 minutes of fame doesn't interest me.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Then what are you doing here?
- Nicole Gleason: I want to help.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: By writing another little story that gets buried on Page 17?
- Nicole Gleason: I wanted that story on the front page. I did, but my boss...
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Yeah, my boss is not too happy with me right now because of you.
- Nicole Gleason: You came to me, remember?
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: So?
- Nicole Gleason: So, I heard you got a lead out of it.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: What I got was a waste of time chasing delivery boys while the real killer iced Scotty Wu.
- Nicole Gleason: So that little boy's death is on me.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: No, it's my fault. I'm going nowhere on this case and innocent kids are being killed.
- Nicole Gleason: It's a heavy, heavy load, Fin, but you don't have to carry it alone.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Yeah? You going to solve this case for me?
- Nicole Gleason: Enjoy the pity party, Odafin.
- [walks away]
- Olivia Benson: [as Fin is looking at the photos of the three murdered children] Smiles like that ought to live forever. The kids always get to me, too, Fin.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: If you came to give me a pep talk, save it.
- Olivia Benson: Actually, I came to give you these.
- [hands him a pile of papers]
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Seriously? Are you kidding me? Paperwork?
- [throws the papers on the floor]
- Olivia Benson: They're employee files. For every vendor who does business with the Center of lmmigrant Services From the company that does their payroll to the one that cleans their toilet. I figured that one of the people that goes in and out of there on a daily basis might be your bad guy.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: You stuck your neck out running down leads for me.
- Olivia Benson: And this is the thanks I get?
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: I've been putting my foot in it with every woman that crossed my path today.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: [to Joe Thagard] Better grow wings or I'm going to blow your brains all over the street down there.
- Randall Carver: What Thagart whispered to me after they announced the verdict. He said, "Thanks. Now I can go kill more of those kids."
- Donald Cragen: Tell me something good, Munch.
- Sergeant John Munch: Oh, it's all good here at Xenophobe Manor.
- Gordon Garrison: Alex here doesn't have to agree with me. Just like Voltaire said, she may disapprove of what I have to say, but she'll defend to the death my right to say it.
- Alexandra Cabot: That wasn't Voltaire.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Looks like he'll be cycling off into the sunset.
- Sergeant John Munch: I've already signed him up for the Future Perv of New York Club.