Wentworth Miller credited as playing...
Detective Nate Kendall
- Detective Nate Kendall: I don't like victims. They cling.
- Olivia Benson: Not after you bag the trash that assaulted them.
- Detective Nate Kendall: [after Mark Foster dies from falling out of the bathroom window at the precinct] I didn't touch the hump. I'll wait upstairs for lAB.
- [walks off]
- Olivia Benson: He did it.
- Elliot Stabler: Who gives a damn? At least Foster won't be able to rape again.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Stabler, he also can't testify in court now which leaves Victor Tate stuck in prison.
- Elliot Stabler: What are you talking about? We've got new evidence.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: No, it's hearsay.
- Elliot Stabler: We have Foster's confession on tape.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: A dead man's confession doesn't meet the rules of evidence or allow cross in front of a jury. It's inadmissible.
- Olivia Benson: What about early parole? We can appear on Tate's behalf.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: No, an inmate has to admit guilt before a parole board will let him go.
- Elliot Stabler: I just told an innocent man he's getting released.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Yeah, you jumped the gun.
- Elliot Stabler: I'm getting him out of there if I have to hire a lawyer myself.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: You can do that, but it's not gonna change anything. He's still gonna end up serving the whole bid.
- Olivia Benson: That's another 15 years, Sonya.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Look, I don't know what to say. I'm sorry.
- [starts to walk off, but Elliot pulls her back]
- Elliot Stabler: Tell me what to do.
- Executive A.D.A. Sonya Paxton: Unless you know the governor, there's not a single thing you can do.
- Beverly Neal: I'm a court reporter now. I've seen what goes on in rape trials.
- Olivia Benson: There are laws to shield victims.
- Beverly Neal: And tactics to get around them.
- Detective Nate Kendall: You just don't want anyone to know what you used to be.
- [Olivia and Beverly look shocked]
- Beverly Neal: You've got balls. I dropped that baggage long ago and now you expect me to pick it back up.
- Olivia Benson: What you used to be shouldn't have mattered. The way you were treated was wrong.
- Beverly Neal: And because you say so, I'm supposed to bend over. That's how pimps talk.
- Detective Nate Kendall: Women are being raped. Don't make me subpoena you.
- Beverly Neal: Fat chance.
- Detective Nate Kendall: You don't know cops if you think that's an empty threat.
- Beverly Neal: I am not a whore or a victim, Detective and I sure as hell won't let you treat me like one.
- Detective Nate Kendall: [to Rena West] The bastard who did you is out hunting his next mark. You gonna let her get screwed because you're fragile?
- Olivia Benson: [to Kendall after he gets rough with a pimp] Hey, you don't get to knock heads even when it's about a kid.
- Detective Nate Kendall: It's no surprise we don't see eye to eye.
- Olivia Benson: It's more than that. You slapped a mother over her six-year-old. Now, you're threatening him over a girl recruit. What's the matter with you?
- Detective Nate Kendall: She reminded me of my daughter, Kelly.
- Olivia Benson: How old is she?
- Detective Nate Kendall: Ten. Only got to see her two weeks out of the year. Never enough time, but we always had a blast.
- Olivia Benson: She live out of state?
- Detective Nate Kendall: My ex ran to Seattle to get away and my kid ends up dead because... because I wasn't there.
- Olivia Benson: I'm sorry.
- Detective Nate Kendall: My ex, too. Got herself involved with a meth dealer. Blew them up cooking it.
- Detective Nate Kendall: You SVU?
- Elliot Stabler: Stabler, Benson.
- Detective Nate Kendall: Nate Kendall, the 2-4. Your victim ran into my crime scene.
- Rena West: I knew he was gonna kill me. So when he went in the other room, I just got up, and I was out the door, running for blocks.
- Detective Nate Kendall: First smart thing you did.
- Olivia Benson: It's not your fault.
- Detective Nate Kendall: The hell it's not. Her gut was churning the second he approached her on the street.
- Elliot Stabler: You're in the way. Leave.
- Rena West: No, no. Nate's right. He--the--the guy was wearing a nice suit, and he was polite, but I knew--I knew that something was off.
- Detective Nate Kendall: Only a racist acts afraid of a black guy. That's what you told yourself. And he read you.
- Elliot Stabler: The guy who raped you will rape another woman, and another, and another.
- Rena West: I don't care. I'm alive. You said that that's all that matters. So just, just take me home.
- Detective Nate Kendall: You aren't going anywhere. The bastard who did you is out hunting his next mark. You're gonna let her get screwed because you're fragile? Park it.
- Rena West: I don't think I ca--can do this.
- Detective Nate Kendall: There's only one way to find out.
- Detective Nate Kendall: Average height, weight, and build. Round up the usual suspects.
- Elliot Stabler: If you knew how to talk to victims, you'd get more facts.
- Detective Nate Kendall: Here's one: Victims make lousy witnesses. Hope you catch your man.
- Donald Cragen: You're not done yet, detective. I need you to stay with Ms. West.
- Detective Nate Kendall: I am not a babysitter.
- Donald Cragen: You talk like you have a choice.
- Detective Nate Kendall: Sounds like you already boned me with my captain.
- Donald Cragen: You're mine until I don't need you anymore.
- Olivia Benson: Excessive force with a car. Are you out of your mind?
- Detective Nate Kendall: You I.D.'d yourself, he ran, period.
- Elliot Stabler: Your stunt could have damaged our case.
- Detective Nate Kendall: You don't have a case yet.
- Olivia Benson: Rena West picked Foster out of a photo array.
- Detective Nate Kendall: And it took her 15 minutes to do it. Memory recall is immediate.
- Elliot Stabler: Are you saying she's lying?
- Detective Nate Kendall: I'm saying Rena thinks it's true, so this whole mess will be over.
- Olivia Benson: Badly enough to pick out the wrong perp?
- Detective Nate Kendall: She's white. He's black. Cross-race identification isn't reliable.
- Elliot Stabler: You know, not all black people look alike.
- Odafin Tutuola: Thanks, but you're not a victim. Mistaken I.D.s happen all the time.
- [Benson and Stabler find Kendall berating and manhandling Mrs. Foster in her home]
- Elliot Stabler: What the hell are you doing here?
- Detective Nate Kendall: I came to get Foster's alibi. Stupid bitch is useless. She was sucking on that pipe when I got here. The kid's filthy. There's no food in the fridge.
- Elliot Stabler: That doesn't give you the right to rough her up.
- Detective Nate Kendall: She's lucky I didn't shoot her.
- Olivia Benson: If you need something to do, why don't you take the little girl to Social Services? Now.
- Detective Nate Kendall: [approaching and speaking softly to the girl] My little girl likes cheeseburgers. How about you?