- Judge Eric Caffey: Let me get this straight. You want me to undo a jury conviction?
- Jack McCoy: The jury was wrong.
- Judge Eric Caffey: Did someone commit perjury?
- Jack McCoy: No.
- Judge Eric Caffey: Was evidence wrongfully admitted?
- Jack McCoy: No.
- Judge Eric Caffey: Did I commit reversible error?
- Jack McCoy: No, your honor.
- Judge Eric Caffey: Twelve people sat in the jury box. They listened to the evidence which you so articulately presented over the course of eight days. After that they decided in their heart of hearts that Hank Chappel deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. Who are we to argue?
- Jack McCoy: The problem is that Hank Chappel is innocent.
- Judge Eric Caffey: The problem is that you changed your mind. But you're the prosecutor, not the jury, so what you think doesn't count.
- Jack McCoy: This is absurd!
- Judge Eric Caffey: This is the American system of justice, and I believe in it. Don't you?
- Claire Kincaid: Palley's lawyer called. He wants to talk deal.
- Jack McCoy: The hell with him. He can do 25 to life.
- Adam Schiff: So you got the wrong man, then you got the right one.
- Jack McCoy: One for two. My batting average should be better than that.
- Adam Schiff: You make big decisions in a hurry. Then you press to hard. It's part of the job.
- Jack McCoy: With the fringe benefit that from time to time we convict someone who's innocent?
- Adam Schiff: It could be worse. We could have the death penalty.
- Mike Logan: C'mon, Hank. We talked to your bartender. You told the whole world that your wife was sharpening someone else's pencil.
- Lopez: This is preliminary, but that explosion was no accident. Nitroglycerine, sodium nitrate, ammonium oxalate.
- Lennie Briscoe: Straight dynamite.
- Lopez: Yes.
- Mike Logan: What, are you taking Chemistry courses in your spare time?
- Lennie Briscoe: What spare time? I had a case once, back before you were born. Guy tried to bomb his wife, he wound up blowing up the cat.