- Service Manager: [discussing suspect's car] She told me somebody smashed the window when it was parked someplace.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: She didn't get any more specific?
- Service Manager: You want the truth, I stopped listening, I was picturing how she'd look in leather.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: You come to any conclusions?
- Headwaiter: [referring to victim and suspect] Oh, yes, I remember them. I wanted to go, "Ditch the date, honey, and come with me"
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Yeah, she is a head-turner.
- Headwaiter: Not her -- him! You got his phone number in your little book?
- Detective Rey Curtis: They don't have phones where he is. Did you happen to overhear any of their conversation?
- Headwaiter: Hmmm... Not really. My impression was that she was upset. He was very masterful -- dominating.
- Detective Rey Curtis: What time did they leave?
- Headwaiter: About 9:30, 9:45. I offered to hail him a cab, but he said he had a car across the street.
- [to Curtis]
- Headwaiter: Do they have phones where **you** live?
- Detective Rey Curtis: Yeah, if you want to talk to my wife.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [after meeting, to Curtis] Hey, he's a fun guy. You could do worse!
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Where's your partner?
- Officer Oliver: Lincoln Hospital. The paramedics couldn't pry the dog from his butt.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: What kind of dog?
- Officer Oliver: Chihuahua.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Let me know how they word the commendation.
- Ruth Miller: [in opening statement at murder trial] Lieutenant Blair made two mistakes. She fell in love with a cad, and she broke the Navy's antediluvian rules regarding romantic involvements. She knew the Navy applies those rules capriciously: different spanks for different ranks. A slap on the wrist for adulterous admirals; imprisonment for philandering lieutenants.
- William T. Ottenberg: I was landing signal officer on the Minnesota. I was there when Blair trained for night landings. If they'd left it up to me, I wouldn't have qualified her.
- ADA Jamie Ross: Why not?
- William T. Ottenberg: She had five downs.
- Jack McCoy: Downs?
- William T. Ottenberg: Major mistakes. Everybody else, it's two downs and you're out.
- Jack McCoy: Two? They don't give you much leeway, do they?
- William T. Ottenberg: No, sir. You don't want a pilot who can't land the damn plane.
- Jack McCoy: Why'd they make an exception for Blair?
- William T. Ottenberg: They were under orders to qualify some female pilots ASAP. This stuff burns me up.
- ADA Jamie Ross: What? Qualifying female pilots?
- William T. Ottenberg: No, ma'am, qualifying bad pilots
- ADA Jamie Ross: She's that bad?
- William T. Ottenberg: She got better, but she's never gonna be an F-14 pilot. You think I'm wrong, listen to this.
- [presents a tape of communications between him and Blair during training]
- William T. Ottenberg: I kept it to cover my ass, and I'm glad I did.