- Judge Bernard: Miss Dunlop, you claimed you had no custodial rights over Emma when she was arrested, but now you want to invoke them. You can't have it both ways!
- Odafin Tutuola: But she wanted to make a point. Take the school to court. Win one for the cause.
- John Munch: Somebody's gotta fight the fight.
- Odafin Tutuola: But it shouldn't be an eight-year-old. Emma's so messed up, she has to see a shrink twice a week.
- Casey Novak: Your Honor, Mr. Decker clearly coached his clients into manipulating an abuse allegation out of Emma. That's not just outrageous, it's criminal.
- James Decker: I offered advice on how to talk to an abused child. That's all.
- Casey Novak: Mr. and Mrs. Boyd never would have accused Zoe of molesting Emma had it not been for Mr. Decker.
- Judge Taten: That's enough! Counsel, approach.
- James Decker: Your Honor, Miss Novak has no absolutely basis for these allegations.
- Casey Novak: And Mr. Decker has a history of representing straight clients fighting custody battles with their gay exes.
- James Decker: So I get slandered for choosing who I want to represent?
- Casey Novak: You fed your clients anti-gay material before custody was even an issue because you were gearing up for a fight. That means you conspired to keep Emma away from Zoe which means you committed a hate crime.
- James Decker: That's ridiculous! Not to mention you can't prove any of it.
- Judge Taten: Mr. Decker, at the very least, this is a serious breach of ethical conduct.
- James Decker: Your Honor...
- Judge Taten: I have no choice but to remove you as counsel and declare a mistrial.
- Olivia Benson: Here's your proof that Sean's a bully. "I wanna teach you a game after school. It might hurt, but it'll cure you from being a queer." Does that sound like a sweet kid? And that's not the worst of 'em. You know that I have to share this with the Defense. The minute that I do, Sean's credibility goes right out the window and so does yours.
- A.D.A. Garrett Gillespie: Your Honor, The People request a half hour recess.
- Emma Boyd: Lying's a sin. A vanilla sin, not the mortal kind. But all sins are bad, so you have to never do them no matter what.
- Emma Boyd: I didn't do anything.
- Olivia Benson: Emma, even if it was an accident, you need to tell us. We know that school's been tough lately and kids can be really cruel.
- Elliot Stabler: Is that what happened with you and Sean? Did he say something mean?
- Emma Boyd: He said I was a freak, and I was gonna go to hell.
- Elliot Stabler: Why?
- Emma Boyd: Because I have two moms instead of a mom and a dad.
- Zoe Dunlop: Sweetie, we talked about this, didn't we? What did we say?
- Emma Boyd: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words may never hurt me.
- Olivia Benson: Emma, Charlie lied to us. We know that he drove Sean to the hospital. Now, if you don't tell us the truth, he's gonna get in a lot of trouble.
- Emma Boyd: I am telling you the truth!
- Zoe Dunlop: Detective, Emma didn't hurt Sean, just like she's never hurt any of the other kids who are mean to her at school.
- Elliot Stabler: Emma would've been much better off if Zoe had just gone along with Kate's lie to the school.
- Olivia Benson: You think Zoe should stay in the closet just to make a bunch of homophobes happy?
- Elliot Stabler: You don't send your kid to military school if you're a pacifist. Not without expecting some friction.
- Olivia Benson: So you agree with the school.
- Elliot Stabler: I'm just saying it's complicated. Being Catholic means believing in certain things.
- Sean Hamill: Well, I only bother Emma because she's so weird.
- Elliot Stabler: She is, huh? Why is she weird?
- Sean Hamill: Her mom's a lesbian. It's just wrong. The Bible says homosexuality is a sin.
- Elliot Stabler: I don't remember seeing that in the Bible.
- Sean Hamill: Corinthians says gay people are going to hell. That's in the new testament. The old testament is way harsher. It says gays should be put to death.
- Elliot Stabler: All right. And so that makes it okay for you to cut off Emma's hair. Why'd you do it, Sean?
- Sean Hamill: I didn't hurt her. It was just a joke!
- Elliot Stabler: You went after a little girl with a pair of scissors.
- Sean Hamill: All I did was cut her hair. She stabbed me in the back and now I can't walk. It's not fair.
- Olivia Benson: [to Emma] We know what Sean really did to you.
- Zoe Dunlop: What did he do? Emma, what happened? You've been lying to Mommy Zoe?
- Emma Boyd: [in tears] Yes, I'm sorry. I didn't... I didn't mean to hurt Sean. It's just, he kept yelling, saying, "You're a dyke! You're a dyke!" And I told him I'm not. And he said, "prove it." And then he went to kiss me, so I pushed him away. And then he grabbed me and cut off my hair. And said, "Yes, you're a dyke and now you look like one." I was so mad. I was so ugly. I grabbed the scissors, and I hurt him in the back with them. He fell down and hit his head.
- Elliot Stabler: [to Father Justin] Still, you knew Sean was tormenting Emma, and you kept quiet to save your own neck.
- Father Justin Miller: I like being a priest and I am this close to having the church remove my faculties. I didn't want the school to get any bad press.
- Elliot Stabler: So spin control's more important than keeping two kids from ruining their lives.
- Edgar Hamill: [about Emma] Did that girl stab Sean?
- Elliot Stabler: Yeah.
- Edgar Hamill: Then I don't care if he called her a fag dyke whore bitch from hell. Arrest her!
- Dr. George Huang: Emma, do you think that it's wrong that your mommies sleep in the same bed together?
- Emma Boyd: God says it's against nature. Women are supposed to be with men, otherwise they go to hell.
- Dr. George Huang: Is that what you learned in school?
- Emma Boyd: My grandmom told me. She said Mommy Zoe was gonna go to hell for what she did.
- James Decker: Detectives, sorry to catch you so late. You need to remove Emma from Zoe Dunlop's custody.
- Donald Cragen: Mr. Decker, custody matters belong in family court. Unless there's been a crime, it's out of our hands.
- James Decker: Zoe Dunlop has been sexually abusing Emma ever since Kate got sick.
- Elliot Stabler: We're gonna have to hear that from Emma.
- James Decker: You will. She's at the hospital with her mother right now. You can't let her go home with Zoe.
- Olivia Benson: We've never heard any allegations before. It's a pretty big coincidence that this comes out just after Zoe gets custody.
- James Decker: Emma showed this to her grandparents.
- [shows the detectives photographs]
- James Decker: Why does a grown woman take pictures of herself in bed with a naked 8-year-old girl?
- Elliot Stabler: [to Zoe about the photographs of Emma] You got an 8-year-old lying naked in the bed.
- Zoe Dunlop: Emma has always been shy. Kate and I wanted her to have a positive body image, so I took these to show her how beautiful she is.
- Elliot Stabler: Well, giving her self-esteem is one thing, but you got her vamped for the camera like she's a Playboy mode
- Zoe Dunlop: If you think these are sexy, you're the one with the problem. She looks like an angel.
- Zoe Dunlop: You think because I'm gay, I'm molesting my own daughter? If I were straight, would this even be an issue?
- Elliot Stabler: This is not about who you are. It's about what that girl said you did to her.