- Jack McCoy: Your Honor can't seriously entertain the notion that a defendant can benefit in one murder by killing the witness by committing another.
- Judge Donald Karan: I didn't draft the Constitution, Mr. McCoy.
- Jack McCoy: No, but you can interpret it. These two cases are inextricably linked. What's the good of proving that the defendant had an opportunity to kill Buck if I can't show the jury why?
- Judge Donald Karan: You raise a good point.
- Mr. Axtell: Your Honor, any mention of the Colbin murder would prejudice the jury irreparably.
- Judge Donald Karan: Which is why I won't allow these two homicides to be tried together.
- Jack McCoy: Your Honor...
- Judge Donald Karan: However, what I will do is allow the People to present evidence of Alan Colbin's murder, only insofar as it pertains to motive in the murder of Ronald Buck.
- [seeing McCoy and Axtell both don't like his decision]
- Judge Donald Karan: Ooh, I always know I'm right when neither party's happy.
- Detective Ed Green: Lennie. Found this under the front seat of her car.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Oh, a parking stub from A&N.
- Detective Ed Green: The lot where Ronnie Buck was killed.
- Lorraine Cobin: You didn't find that in my car. You put it there.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [sarcastically to Ed] I knew these fake parking stubs would come in handy someday.
- Detective Ed Green: Can you believe what a high-definition TV goes for? $10,000.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Instead of "high def", they ought to call it "outrageously high def".
- Serena Southerlyn: Mr. Dimmick, you're the only common link between Lorraine Cobin and Ronnie Buck.
- Ray Dimmick: I don't respond well to threats, Ms. Southerlyn, especially when they're empty.
- Serena Southerlyn: What about questions in front of a grand jury? How do you respond to those?
- Ray Dimmick: In this case, I'll invoke so many privileges you'll be on your second facelift by the time I'm through.
- Jack McCoy: [Back in McCoy's office] I'm suprirsed he didn't invoke attorney-client privilege the minute you walked in the room.
- Serena Southerlyn: Well, I guess I have a way with shysters.