- Ben Stone: Adam, if you were a defense attorney, and a prosecutor came to you with evidence that tended to prove that your client was innocent, what would you do?
- Adam Schiff: I'd celebrate up and down Center Street, and then move to set aside the plea.
- Ben Stone: Until we withdrew the charges, there wasn't a peep out of Miss Knight.
- Adam Schiff: If we took the license of every incompetent lawyer in the city, we wouldn't have to recycle the New York Times.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: If Barbara Spiegelman was anything like my ex's mother...
- Captain Donald Cragen: Hey, Marge's mother and I aren't exactly hugs and kisses. I smile a lot at Christmas and do everything I can not to answer the phone on Sundays but I don't play Jack the Ripper with a steak knife.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Marge's mother isn't dangling $20 mil in front of your nose.
- Captain Donald Cragen: Okay. Talk to them.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: A first year law student could punch more holes in your case than Con Ed has in Third Avenue.
- Arraignment Judge Phillip Franks: Do we have a plea?
- Steven Gregg: Not guilty, your Honor.
- Arraignment Judge Phillip Franks: Paul?
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: The defendant savagely murdered an elderly woman, your Honor.
- Arraignment Judge Phillip Franks: Wait, wait, wait, wait: it says here now that Mrs. Spiegleman was 61.
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: That's correct your honor.
- Arraignment Judge Phillip Franks: My 61st birthday, you were cramming for a torts exam. I'd advise you to choose your adjectives a little more courteously. Counsel?
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: The People request bail at 500,000.
- Sally Knight: My client can hardly afford cab fare to Brooklyn your Honor. Why not make it a million?
- Arraignment Judge Phillip Franks: Why not?
- [pauses and smiles]
- Arraignment Judge Phillip Franks: And they say the elderly lose their sense of humor.
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: [grins wryly]
- Arraignment Judge Phillip Franks: Bail is set at 250 cash or bond. Next.