- Jack McCoy: I bought you dinner. I didn't know what you liked, so I got you salad, low-cal dressing...
- Abbie Carmichael: Low-cal?
- Jack McCoy: Excuse me?
- Abbie Carmichael: I burn it, I don't store it... What did you get?
- Jack McCoy: Ribs.
- Abbie Carmichael: Great.
- [takes the ribs]
- Abbie Carmichael: Looks good. I'll eat, you graze.
- Jack McCoy: Your first death sentence. You OK with it?
- Abbie Carmichael: There's only one thing bothering me: Ray Ray, the squeegee man. The cops told him which one was Fratelli.
- Jack McCoy: I know; I told them to. Perfectly legal. We were never going to use the identification at trial anyway.
- Abbie Carmichael: Legal or not...
- Jack McCoy: Major felonies, Abbie. Welcome to the bigs.
- Raymond 'Ray-Ray' Davis: I told you, but I ain't tellin' nobody else. I don't want no trouble with The Man.
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: Oh, you don't have to worry, Mr. Davis. In this house, I'm The Man.
- Borough Chief Commander Dietz: Let's not jump to conclusions. We don't know what kind of crime it is yet.
- Reverend Theodore Dempsey: A black man was beaten to a bloody pulp and dragged a quarter of a mile behind a vehicle over a dirt road. You call that a love crime?
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Two of New York's finest on Death Row. There's going to be fallout.
- Jack McCoy: You think we should have let the Feds take the heat?
- D.A. Adam Schiff: We'll know the next time one of us needs a cop.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: [after the US district court has ruled that federal plea bargains are illegal] Preposterous decision. Hogties every federal prosecutor in the country. And, thanks to you, we're part of it.
- Jack McCoy: The decision will be reversed on appeal. Six months from now. By then Dietrich and the other two will be on death row.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: ...or your letter of resignation will be on my desk.
- Abbie Carmichael: [pointing to wall of McCoy's office] My longhorn pennant will look good over there.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: For all you know, you don't know anything. Between Internal Affairs and you, the Red Sox couldn't have done a better job of botching it up.
- Detective Rey Curtis: [after Fratelli been picked out of a lineup and agreed to co-operate] He blinked.
- Abbie Carmichael: Yeah, thanks to Mr Davis.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Good ol' Ray Ray. The trick was giving him a number he couldn't forget: three. Rhymes with "squeegee"
- Abbie Carmichael: [referring to a possible federal plea bargain] By the time the Feds get done with Dietrich they'll be naming bird sanctuaries after him.
- Jack McCoy: [referring to his attempt to invalidate a federal plea bargain] This is my line in the sand.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: One phone call from me, this is dead in its tracks.
- Jack McCoy: You could do that. I'd refile it as a private citizen.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: It's nice to have choices.