- Det. Ronnie Blair: [going to notify his partner's widow of his death] You ever done this before?
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: Yeah. Twice. Two times too many.
- Jack McCoy: [his closing argument] Jake Kearsey and Latiff Miller didn't go out on the morning in question to have a gun battle. One thing we'll never know for sure is what set off the explosion that left Detective Kearsey dead. The defendant has plausible explanations for everything that happened, but you also have the luxury of placing those explanations in context. Latiff Miller promoted cop killing thirty years ago. He admitted dishonesty in his job, and his claim of self defense is belied by his own actions. He ran from the crime scene, hid from the police; when he was captured, he proclaimed his innocence, and now that he's facing the death penalty, it's not "I didn't kill him", it's "I had to kill him". So... ask yourselves, if Detective Kearsey were here to give his side of the story, would it look anything like Latiff Miller's? The defense urges you to see the world through Latiff Miller's eyes. Do that, ladies and gentlemen, if you want to contaminate the truth with Mr. Miller's anger and racial mistrust. Acquit Mr. Miller if you think it's fit to allow him to avoid the moral consequences of his actions by portraying himself as the victim. The victim here is Detective Kearsey, who innocently went to the wrong apartment looking for a witness and wound up dead. I don't doubt that Mr. Miller has encountered racism in his life. But it's not a free pass to commit murder.
- [a cop has been murdered]
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: I just got the page.
- Detective Ed Green: [to the witnesses who called in the DB] Excuse me, fellas.
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: Any idea how it went down?
- Detective Ed Green: No, not yet.
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: Kearsey get any rounds off?
- Detective Ed Green: Yeah, two.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Hopefully one of them's in the killer.
- Detective Ed Green: Mr. Miller? Please don't make us disrespect your house of worship.
- Latiff Miller: You already have.
- Detective Ed Green: I need you to come with me.
- Latiff Miller: I want to go out the front.
- Detective Ed Green: The back is better.
- Latiff Miller: So you can shoot me?
- Detective Ed Green: If they shoot you, they're gonna have to shoot me, too.
- D.A. Nora Lewin: How's our case?
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: We've had better.
- Jack McCoy: The shot that killed Kearsey came from Miller's girlfriend's apartment. We can put Miller inside.
- D.A. Nora Lewin: Any witnesses? A gun?
- Jack McCoy: Neither one.
- D.A. Nora Lewin: Any chance for a deal?
- Jack McCoy: You make a deal for manslaughter, you break faith with every cop in the city.