- Detective Mac Taylor: Are you bathophobic?
- Detective Danny Messer: I'm not anything-phobic. There are just a few things that shake me up. 700 feet of granite between me and daylight is one of them.
- Tom Zito: You know how a Sandhog measures progress? A man a mile. 'Cause that's the death rate down there. Electrocutions, cave-ins, decapitations. Every mile of rock we move, we lose one of our own.
- Detective Don Flack: If a guy works up top, answer me one question: what was Pete Riggs doing down there? 'Cause he wasn't working.
- Detective Danny Messer: Isn't this OSHA's thing, workplace fatality?
- Detective Mac Taylor: It would be, if Pete Riggs worked down in the tunnel. He worked up top, loading and unloading. And he had no protective gear. That makes this our scene.
- Detective Danny Messer: So, you're still a Sandhog if you work above ground?
- Detective Mac Taylor: A Sandhog is anyone who helps build one of these tunnels. Just because you're not seven hundred feet down there doesn't mean you're not one of them.
- Detective Danny Messer: [to Tom Zito] I guess that dent in your head only affects the things you WANT to forget.
- Tom Zito: [a "sandhog", being interviewed at the site] If it's deeper than a grave and it's in New York City, the sandhogs built it. Commuter tunnels, subway tunnels, water tunnels. Without us, there's no New York City.
- [Danny and Mac are following the coroners to the elevator and see the DA waiting for them on it]
- Detective Mac Taylor: [clears his throat] Personal visit from the DA's office?
- Detective Danny Messer: What happened? You got lost on your way to a press conference? Or are you just checking up on us?
- [at private Chase School for Girls, which the victim attended]
- Melissa Wesley: When you go to a school like this...
- Detective Aiden Burn: I went to a school like this.
- [later, after the students leave]
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Last time I checked, you didn't go to a school like this.
- Detective Aiden Burn: Cuts through a whole layer of attitude if they think you're one of them.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Your sister ever bring Hannah here?
- Matt Paulson: No. She was underage.
- Detective Aiden Burn: That'd make you the first club owner in the history of New York City who didn't stock his place with teenage girls.
- Murder suspect: There's no feeling in the world like watching the life drain out of an animal's eyes.