- A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: [referring to Alicia Milford] You can't seriously be considering "outing" her into a guilty plea!
- Jack McCoy: Well, don't we manipulate the system every day? Threaten to take children from parents? Embarrass spouses with their partners' infidelities?
- D.A. Nora Lewin: This is different, Jack.
- Jack McCoy: Why?
- D.A. Nora Lewin: Well, it plays into the notion that there really ***is*** something wrong with being gay. We run the risk of seeming like bigots.
- Jack McCoy: I don't see how we can abandon a viable negotiating tactic because it's politically incorrect.
- Lennie Briscoe: [about Denny] He told us he was out running, he just didn't mention it was from the crime scene.
- A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: Coming out's gotta be a pretty tough thing to do, no matter how understanding your parents are.
- Alicia Milford: [about Julie Cade's death] I just wanted to talk to her. To make her understand she couldn't press charges against Denny without ruining everything, but she wouldn't listen. She said she was going to the police that afternoon. Before meeting Julie, I never even thought about being So I told her, "You can't do this to me, you can't do this to me" and I pushed her, and she screamed, really mad. She slapped me, and I pushed her again hard, and she hit her head against the washing machine. So, I got on the floor with her. She wasn't breathing. She was just lying there with this soft look on her face. I remember thinking, "this must be the way she looks when she's asleep."