- [first lines]
- Security Guard: [at Elmira Correctional Facility] Open the gate.
- [Ray walks through the gate to Dorsey waiting at the trunk of his car with a drink]
- William Dorsey: So they let 'cha out.
- William Dorsey: [from afar, walking] 21 years, 5 months, and 3 days, but who's countin'. Thanks for comin', Dorsey.
- William Dorsey: Wipe that smirk off your face, ya bastard.
- Ray Schenkel: All these years, you still hate me. Hanging onto anger is really unhealthy.
- [the men begin walking together]
- William Dorsey: Your act may have fooled the parole board, but not me.
- Ray Schenkel: You need to let go.
- William Dorsey: [looking at Ray] Not a chance. When you do it again, I'll be waiting.
- Ray Schenkel: [staring straight ahead] Follow me around all you want, but you're gonna get bored. I've been rehabilitated.
- [speeds up; sound of bus; passes up Dorsey]
- William Dorsey: [louder] You'll always be a rapist, Schenkel!
- [Ray finishes jogging to where the bus will stop and stops and looks to Dorsey]
- Ray Schenkel: I guess this is it, then. See ya, Dorsey.
- [gets on the Interstate bus lines bus]
- William Dorsey: Bet on it!
- [Ray, in the bus, gives his ticket to the driver and sees a teen girl]
- Ray Schenkel: You mind if I sit here?
- [she shrugs and removes backpack from the empty seat. After sitting, he looks out the window at Dorsey, who is standing outside the window. He puts his arm around her seat, hand at the back of the seat, and waves at Dorsey with his other hand, then removing his arm and sitting straight and facing forward. Dorsey resignedly sighs and follows the bus for a few yards]
- Olivia Benson: [off-screen, Stabler walking within a scene] Tell me what happened.
- Kelly Brown: [tearfully] I spent the weekend with my aunt in Pittsburgh. I took the bus back and was walking to the subway. And he grabbed me.
- [gasping cries]
- Kelly Brown: And he raped me.
- Olivia Benson: Okay, take a big deep breath, honey; it's okay.
- [to paramedic]
- Olivia Benson: We should get her to Mercy.
- [to Stabler]
- Olivia Benson: I'll ride with her and get her statement at the hospital.
- Elliot Stabler: I'll meet 'cha back at the house.
- [walks away]
- William Dorsey: [crosses police line, holding badge] Detective. William Dorsey, retired, out of the Six-Seven Squad.
- Elliot Stabler: Elliot Stabler, Special Victims. Y'see something?
- William Dorsey: I heard the call on my scanner. Got here as soon as I could. I can help.
- Elliot Stabler: Tell you what: We appreciate that, but we got everything under control; thank you.
- [starts walking away]
- William Dorsey: Stabler.
- [Elliot turns]
- William Dorsey: Give me the time of day, I'll give you the perp.
- [Elliot slowly, grimly begins walking toward him; begin credits]
- Elliot Stabler: Ray had a partner before, he needs one now. I'm it. I promise I'll stop him before he hits again.
- Donald Cragen: You're gonna stop him how? Today, you used the police entrance at Parole. Undercover, you're gonna through the metal detector like a perp. No gun, no shield.
- Elliot Stabler: [after Stabler gets pulled out from undercover to talk to Dr. Huang] I want to be pulled out, I'll ask to be pulled out. If I want to see you, I'll ask to see you.
- Dr. George Huang: I need to brief you.
- Elliot Stabler: I'll ask for a briefing if I think I need one.
- Dr. George Huang: Elliot, are you okay?
- Donald Cragen: I'm pulling Elliot out.
- Olivia Benson: Captain, trust his instincts.
- Donald Cragen: I did. He was wrong.
- Olivia Benson: Ray still could have raped the girl at the bus station and he could rape again.
- Donald Cragen: We dangled some beautiful bait in front of his nose and he walked away.
- Olivia Benson: He could have made Lucy as a cop.
- Donald Cragen: And maybe he's not a rapist anymore. If he has changed, baiting him is like putting a bottle of scotch in front of a guy with two weeks sobriety.
- Olivia Benson: Elliot isn't encouraging him to do it. Captain, recovery is the same for alcoholics or for sex offenders. Some people have the willpower to change, others don't.
- Donald Cragen: And that makes what we're doing okay?
- Olivia Benson: If Ray's been rehabilitated, I will be the first one to apologize. But if he's still a rapist, we have to stop him. You gotta leave Elliot in.
- Ray Schenkel: Girl gets raped and I'm on the radar?
- Olivia Benson: Who said anything about rape?
- Ray Schenkel: Well, I'm a convicted sex offender. Round up the usual suspects, right? I'm not making any excuses for what I did, but I've had a lot of time to confront my demons and become a better man.
- Odafin Tutuola: Or a lot of time for you sick fantasies to fester.
- Ray Schenkel: You the same guy you were 20 years ago?
- Odafin Tutuola: This ain't about me.
- Ray Schenkel: No, it's about Detective Dorsey. He got to you. He doesn't believed I've changed and neither do you. What kind of fool would rape a woman the day he gets out of prison?
- Olivia Benson: You, Ray, 'cause there's no cure for sex offenders.
- Ray Schenkel: [to Stabler] People think sex offenders are different. We're like aliens, drooling fiends lurking in the bushes, but we're just like everybody else. Why are pictures of young girls plastered all over billboards? Half naked, mouths open, legs spread. Peddling ass to sell clothes. If it didn't turn us on, they wouldn't do it.