- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: Almost a record! They convicted him in an hour and a half.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: How's the wife doing?
- Jack McCoy: Shaky, but she served him with divorce papers on his way out of the courtroom.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Gotta be tough finding out you married your stalker.
- Shrier: The bullet went in behind his ear at a shallow angle, hit the inside of his skull, and skidded around to the other ear.
- Lennie Briscoe: Boy, that'll clear out the wax real good.
- Shrier: If you don't mind loud noises. The striations on the damaged side of the bullet don't match anything in our files.
- Lennie Briscoe: Yeah, except the inside of his skull.
- Shrier: Which I can't mount on my microscope.
- Estelle Muller: [referring to Jim Shepard] He's sitting in that hospital room, drinking milkshakes.
- Lennie Briscoe: [disguised as hitman] I can take care of that: no more frozen treats!
- Estelle Muller: But there's a policeman outside the door. That's why the other man wouldn't try again.
- Lennie Briscoe: Hey, you know how bored that cop's got to be by now? Won't be that hard to distract him.
- Estelle Muller: You're not afraid of policemen?
- Lennie Briscoe: They're underpaid, and, as a group, they're stupid.
- Estelle Muller: [admiringly] What are you going to do?
- Lennie Briscoe: [heard by Curtis and Ross eavesdropping over wire] I don't ask you your secrets, do I?
- Detective Rey Curtis: [amused] He has a way with mature women.
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: [chuckling] It's a gift, Detective!
- Jack McCoy: [debriefing hitman] James Shepard.
- Howard Philips: What can I say? I guess the guy's number wasn't up.
- Jack McCoy: It was your intention to kill him?
- Howard Philips: That's what I do.
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: You and your dog.
- Howard Philips: Pumpkin takes care of her business; I take care of mine.
- Jack McCoy: And Estelle Muller hired you?
- Howard Philips: Yep. Takes all kinds, doesn't it?
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: [at arraignment] This is a case of attempted murder for hire, Your Honor. Defendant Muller hired defendant Philips, a professional hit man...
- Arraignment Judge Morris Torledsky: Professional, eh? Well, Mrs. Muller can use her refund to post bond!
- Bronson: [being questioned about Estelle Muller's dead husband] Yeah, the guy got me and Morelli off. That means we were acquitted. As in innocent. As in take a hike!
- Detective Rey Curtis: You think we give a crap about some old extortion beef, Bronson?
- Bronson: [sarcastically] Oh no! You just came by to play oldies on the jukebox.
- Detective Rey Curtis: No, we're looking at an attempted murder. Guy named Jim Shepard, gunned down on the street.
- Bronson: Never heard of him, and I don't own a gun. You want to search me? Don't tickle.
- Jack McCoy: [referring to Estelle Muller] Blood is thicker.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Yeah -- maybe Estelle Muller's blood is a little too thick for the arteries going to her brain. She's willing to plead -- go figure that one out!
- Jack McCoy: If we follow her orders about whom to prosecute.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Good luck to her. I have trouble making you follow mine.
- Lennie Briscoe: So what kind of a job rates a private office in the NYPD?
- Detective Rossi: [bragging] Liaison between the community relations officers and the deputy chief of administration.
- Lennie Briscoe: Yeah, well, since you're obviously too busy to pursue this old murder case, maybe you could at least tell us where we could find Morelli?
- Detective Rossi: Try Hell. He's dead.
- Detective Rey Curtis: [referring to attempted murder victm] So I talked to some of James Shepard's associates about his T-shirt company. No bad debts, no bad habits.
- Lieutenant Anita Van Buren: Our shooter, on the other hand, drinks bourbon, smokes Avo Pyramids, and eats lemon meringue pie.
- Lieutenant Anita Van Buren: [referring to hitman] Anything on his phone tap?
- Detective Rey Curtis: His wife making arrangements for their daughter's ballet lessons
- Lieutenant Anita Van Buren: So Mom takes care of the kids, and Dad goes off to work and kills people.