- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: So, let's suppose that it's true what Defense Attorney Schell implies that each of you, all of you, sympathize with the defendants, trapped as they are in their fears; that, in fact, more people hate homosexuals than are willing to admit, then I venture to say that somewhere in your family history, someone somewhere hates you or your relatives for no other reason than that they are black or white, Slovak instead of Czech, Protestant instead of Catholic, left-wing not right. And are you going to let officers of the law determine which of you they will help based on who and what you are? If so, then don't dial 9-1-1, even if you think you're one of them because you may end up being Officer Newhouse. These defendants let a man die and, for all of us, you must hold them responsible.
- Captain Donald Cragen: Did Oswald kill Kennedy? If he didn't, it's the greatest conspiracy in history and nobody said a word. 140 officers in that precinct. Nobody knew?
- Detective Mike Logan: You stick your head out, it gets cut off. You gonna risk that for a gay cop?
- Captain Donald Cragen: All right, I'll call Internal Affairs.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: They'll run into a wall so big, a jackhammer won't get through it.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: "Ministers of God..." Unbelievable. But this isn't motive.
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: It establishes intent and state of mind.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Congratulations. You have flour and water. Get an oven, you can make bread. What connects state of mind to the crime?
- D.A. Adam Schiff: I used to ask myself how a man could put on a bedsheet and lynch another man. The answer is most of the time he can't, by himself.
- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: But you get enough people together... 4 cops stood by and let him die.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: And 12 civilians just did it again.
- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: And they voted their indifference.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: You remember foot patrol.
- Detective Mike Logan: Yeah, what I remember most is I never thought I'd get shot.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: No, only your most crucial evidence...
- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: Half the precinct knows who wrote that memo. How can I prove it? She could've let it in.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Judge Larkin? Her politics aren't with you when the law is against you.
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: We have to connect the memo to Rhodes.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: What about the kid that brought it in? The partner?
- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: He says he didn't know.
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: Tell me you believe him.
- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: I put him on the stand, he'll lie. He's scared of what the other cops will think.
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: Is that what he's scared of?
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Next time you wanna get some bones broken, try falling down a flight of stairs.
- Detective Mike Logan: Next time I want advice, I'll write Dear Abby.
- Sergeant Henry Rhodes: You have no idea what it's about.
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: We think we do, you're gay too.
- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: We need you to testify.
- Sergeant Henry Rhodes: My parents have no idea, this would be a hell of a way for them to find out.
- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: If you let these men walk, then next time you can die in an alley, alone, just like Newman.
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: [after telling the defense attorney they are going to arraign the suspect and wait for additional evidence] Five days... From here to eternity.
- Captain Donald Cragen: Maybe a little closer.
- [holds up a folder]
- Captain Donald Cragen: Call to 911. Somebody heard the shots. Maybe they saw a face.
- Detective Mike Logan: Yes!
- Captain Donald Cragen: No... First you have to find him. He didn't leave a name.