- Dr. Melinda Warner: [during the murder victim's autopsy] The scarring is from an improperly healed female circumcision.
- Elliot Stabler: She was mutilated.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: Along with 150 million other women in Africa, The Middle East and parts of Asia.
- Olivia Benson: Because men think cutting a woman to shreds will prevent her from being promiscuous.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: Done safely, they lose all sexual sensation, but too many die from infection.
- Chuckwei Bothame: Are you going to interrogate me In front of my dead wife?
- Olivia Benson: Your dead wife is a 15-year-old girl you mutilated.
- Chuckwei Bothame: The circumcision was her decision.
- Elliot Stabler: You didn't force her?
- Chuckwei Bothame: You don't know Nikki. You can't force her to do anything.
- Olivia Benson: Well, somebody forced her into the river.
- Courtney Williams: You didn't have to come all the way down here in person, Elliot.
- Elliot Stabler: We're in a bit of a rush. The body's less than eight hours old.
- Courtney Williams: AFIS is almost done with the scan. I'm surprised I hadn't heard from you.
- Elliot Stabler: I got back together with my wife.
- Courtney Williams: Oh, good for you. Thought that might happen.
- Mira Otame: Millions of girls have been circumcised for centuries.
- Elliot Stabler: Welcome to the 21st century. Mutilation is a Class E felony and a federal crime.
- Elliot Stabler: There's no evidence that Chuckwei had more than three wives.
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson: That's comforting.
- Olivia Benson: We've moved them to a motel, but the families expressed some concern about being seen coming or going.
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson: Chuckwei can't leave. The others shouldn't unless they have to.
- Olivia Benson: Well, there's seven people living in one room. I mean, Sara goes to work, the children go to school...
- Elliot Stabler: We'd like to station a car outside their motel.
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson: If I only had the money. This office has $1.2 million to protect thousands of witnesses for the entire fiscal year.
- Olivia Benson: I thought that convicting King was a top priority.
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson: It is. Which is why we're giving Chuckwei a pass on the polygamy.
- Olivia Benson: I'm not a fan, either, but the man Is putting his and his family's life on the line.
- Elliot Stabler: All for a trial that's already cost him his wife. I mean, what guy in his right mind would ever become a witness in this system?
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson: I wish I could do more, but every dollar I spend on Chuckwei, I'm taking away from another witness's safety. Every one of them wants more protection.
- Elliot Stabler: Okay, so what do we tell them?
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson: Next time, to witness a federal crime. They know how to treat their witnesses.
- Elliot Stabler: Chuckwei screwed us. We should lock him up for perjury, contempt and polygamy.
- Olivia Benson: Don't you think he's been through enough?
- Elliot Stabler: Since when did you become his defender?
- Olivia Benson: Well, you just said that he lied under oath to protect his family. Now, I can't imagine that's easy for a devout Christian.
- Odafin Tutuola: [to Almani as she is cleaning the house] Excuse me, ma'am. You can't do that 'til our people are done.
- Almani Bothame: I must. To honor Nikki. Her spirit walks the house until she's buried.
- Elliot Stabler: [to Chuckwei] You're under protective custody until the trial's over.
- Chuckwei Bothame: What about Almani and the children and Sara?
- Olivia Benson: Unfortunately, witness protection only extends to immediate family.
- Chuckwei Bothame: But they are my family.
- Elliot Stabler: In this country, immediate family means your wife and your children.
- Chuckwei Bothame: Almani, Sara and the children: they are my immediate family.
- Olivia Benson: Nikki was your wife.
- Chuckwei Bothame: Yes, and so are Almani and Sara.
- Elliot Stabler: [about Chuckwei] Maybe he'll take a plea. Poor guy could get one to three off each count.
- Olivia Benson: Poor guy? I find polygamy degrading. His third wife was a 15-year-old that he married over the phone.
- Elliot Stabler: Yeah, to save her from religious persecution in Africa.
- Olivia Benson: Only to mutilate her in America.
- Sarah Flint: In Northern Mozambique, women can have many husbands, so shouldn't it be my choice to decide what kind of marriage I want?
- Elliot Stabler: So if you want to marry a cat?
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson: Please tell the jury what happened.
- Chuckwei Bothame: I was walking home from work on 168th Street when I saw a man beat a boy with a metal pipe.
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson: [shows a photo of the victim] This is the victim, Damon Moore. Is he the boy you saw?
- Chuckwei Bothame: Yes.
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson: And the man who beat him to death, is he in this courtroom?
- [in a moment of silence, Chuckwei stares at King, who stares back; afterwards, Chuckwei points at him]
- Chuckwei Bothame: That is the man. There.
- Dennis King: He's a liar. The cops are makin' him lie!
- Matthew Braden: Dennis, shut up!
- Chuckwei Bothame: No! NO!
- [jumps out of his seat]
- Chuckwei Bothame: You murdered that boy in front of a crowd of people! And in front of GOD!
- Dennis King: [storms out of his seat, topples the table, and charges at Chuckwei] You're a dead man! You're a dead man! Ya hear me?
- [Stabler grabs King and pins him to the ground]
- Judge: Order! ORDER! Get the jury out of here! Court officers!
- [the court officers grab King]
- Dennis King: Get 'em off! Get off me!
- [to Chuckwei]
- Dennis King: You're dead! Your family's dead! Everything you love is dead! You're dead!
- Judge: Take the defendant to lockup!
- [Benson and Stabler walk up to Chuckwei]
- Olivia Benson: Are you okay?
- Chuckwei Bothame: Yes. I'm no longer afraid.
- Adam Clayton Powell: My shirts are a public protest against law enforcement's over reliance on these self-serving criminal informants.
- Odafin Tutuola: You're high.
- Adam Clayton Powell: No, I am clean, man and I am living the American dream.
- Sarah Flint: [about Chuckwei] The police jailed him and beat him until he lost the use of his left arm.
- Elliot Stabler: Well, Dennis King is gonna do a lot worse to him If he doesn't help us put King away.
- Dennis King: [to Danielson] Nice booty.
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson: Oh, yeah? Watch it kick your ass.
- Olivia Benson: Chuckwei is a polygamist. He's breaking the law.
- John Munch: Not in Nigeria.
- Elliot Stabler: If it's legal for a man to have three wives over there, what's he supposed to do when he moves here?
- John Munch: Well, in France, they make allowances for pre-existing multiple marriages for African immigrants.
- Olivia Benson: We're not in France. That's why we had to arrest him.
- Chuckwei Bothame: [after he discovers a threatening note] Tomorrow, Obie Bothame will be beaten to death in front of his mother, brothers and sisters. I won't risk my family's safety.
- Olivia Benson: We got the D.A.'s office to put security cameras at the motel.
- Sarah Flint: That's not enough to protect us. King knows where we are.
- Chuckwei Bothame: No, stop! Stop! No more police, no more investigating. It's over.
- Olivia Benson: We'll keep you safe. The D.A.'s office gave us these body alarms. They're a direct line to us.
- Chuckwei Bothame: And what about after the trial, huh? What if King is acquitted?
- Elliot Stabler: The only way he walks is if you let him.
- Chuckwei Bothame: I know men like King. In Nigeria, they kill thousands. They think they are above the law. I came to America because it is a land of dreams. I need it to stay that way.
- Elliot Stabler: Well, how can it if you don't talk? Now, you don't wanna go back to the motel. I understand that, fine. Go home. I'll stay with you.
- Chuckwei Bothame: You would do that for us?
- Elliot Stabler: Look, I need you safe. I need your testimony.
- Judge: [to Chuckwei when he recants his testimony] Mr. Bothame, Take a moment and think about what you really saw. Is there a reason you don't recall the events in question?
- Chuckwei Bothame: Your Honor, I make no excuse for the choices i have made, but I am sorry for wasting your time. I wanted to be a hero, but I am not. I didn't see anything.
- Elliot Stabler: [to Braden] How do you sleep at night?
- Matthew Braden: Sorry?
- Elliot Stabler: You can't win with the truth, so you let your client intimidate good people who stand up to him?
- Matthew Braden: If anyone's intimidating witnesses, it's the police and your D.A. You coerce, you plea bargain, you threaten them with criminal charges unless they testify.
- Olivia Benson: You know that's not true.