Raúl Esparza credited as playing...
ADA Rafael Barba
- [last lines]
- Rafael Barba: Word is Willard's attorney's already scrambling to make a deal.
- Olivia Benson: Look, unless he pleads to murder, I say try the case.
- Rafael Barba: Me, too, but I have no input. I'm off the case.
- Olivia Benson: I'm so sorry about all of this, Rafael.
- Rafael Barba: What I did was wrong, but the truth is I'd do it again. Not everything done in the dark is shameful.
- Olivia Benson: So now what?
- Rafael Barba: I have a meeting with the D.A. in five minutes. He'll tell me what happens next. You know, I love this job. Oh, I really do, but sometimes...
- Olivia Benson: Oh, I know.
- Rafael Barba: Wait a minute. They're about to build a statue in your honor at 1PP for catching the serial killer/rapist that had the whole city on edge. Now you're telling me this guy didn't do it?
- Olivia Benson: He didn't do one.
- Rafael Barba: Right, because why? Because her boyfriend had sex with her before she was killed?
- Olivia Benson: Her controlling, emotionally abusive boyfriend whom she broke up with that night.
- Rafael Barba: So he killed her in her apartment and transported her to the construction site.
- Olivia Benson: Four blocks away. Completely doable.
- Rafael Barba: And then what? Then he left her there with her hands tied with a rope, hair shorn, using the exact M.O. as the Second Avenue Strangler? No, that information was private. Willard could not know those details.
- Olivia Benson: Unless... unless he hacked into NYPD's computer system. He's a technical genius. If anyone could do it, he could.
- Rafael Barba: Okay, so in your scenario, Willard, with his dead girlfriend in the room, hacked the NYPD, and then tied her with a rope.
- Olivia Benson: A rope that the Second Avenue Strangler never used before. A rope that Willard found in Jennifer's apartment.
- Rafael Barba: Which is your only actual piece of real evidence.
- Olivia Benson: Which is a damn good piece of evidence.
- Rafael Barba: True.
- Olivia Benson: If the rope matches...
- Rafael Barba: The crusading Lieutenant Benson gets her man. And upsets a very large apple cart in the process.