- Elliot Stabler: [to Kim Hoffman] Listen to me. Your ex-husband is about to be acquitted. If you don't help Tommy, he goes back to that house. You have to risk your pain to save his life.
- Olivia Benson: You've got an answer for everything, don't you. I'm not buying your "loving father" act. Tommy's terrified of you.
- Dan Hoffman: My son is everything to me, I would die for my son.
- Olivia Benson: Tommy almost died for you. You killed Jill and then you left him alone in that apartment. And had firefighters not responded so fast, you'd be burying him along with your dead wife.
- Dan Hoffman: You wouldn't dare talk to me like that if you didn't have that badge and gun.
- ADA Alexandra Cabot: Dan Hoffman's attorney called. She's threatening to sue for the emotional distress of withholding information on Tommy's whereabouts.
- Elliot Stabler: Distress, my ass. Hoffman didn't even file a missing persons report and he's trying to jack us up?
- Olivia Benson: We only delayed notification by a couple of hours.
- ADA Alexandra Cabot: That's not the point. You were playing fast and loose, and you got caught.
- ADA Alexandra Cabot: [about Dan Hoffman] His father-of-the-year act has everybody fooled. He's handsome, charismatic and he plays the grieving widower very well.
- ADA Alexandra Cabot: [about Tommy] What about his biological mother? She has rights to talk to him.
- Elliot Stabler: Kim Hoffman? Yeah, well, either she fell into a black hole or he murdered her, too. Now guess where I'm placing my money on that one?
- Dawn Trent: [to Stabler] It's the same old story, Detective. Your husband's the nicest guy in town, pals with everybody, including the cops, but every night when he comes home, he beats you, he degrades you, he terrorizes you. Who's gonna believe that the "Man of the Year" is a batterer? And you can't leave him. There's nowhere to go. He'll find you. He always does. There's nowhere to hide in a small town. The only way is to get far away and start over.
- Elliot Stabler: You know, you break parole, you run from creditors, you change your name. You change your kid's name, you're hiding from something bigger.
- Priscilla Chaney: My client is eager to prove his innocence, an opportunity the A.D.A. denied him in the grand jury.
- ADA Alexandra Cabot: The district attorney is under no obligation to inform him...
- Judge Alan Ridenour: I know the law, Ms. Cabot, I also know your reputation for bending it.