- Lennie Briscoe: There's no way he's been lying here a week without somebody noticing.
- Ed Green: He was on ice somewhere.
- Lennie Briscoe: So that means the body was dumped here either late last night or early this morning.
- Ed Green: Damn, he took a beating.
- Assistant ME Erika Malchiodi: Of the vehicular variety. Safety glass, like from a windshield. And paint flakes. And he's got tib-fib breaks in both legs.
- Ed Green: Bumper fractures.
- Lennie Briscoe: And you thought you were feeling run down.
- [last lines]
- Serena Southerlyn: Twelve years in Ossining.
- Jack McCoy: At least he'll have plenty of food. Shelter.
- Serena Southerlyn: Careful, Jack. That almost sounded like sympathy.
- Jack McCoy: Don't get me wrong. He killed a man for an orange. He deserves to be in prison.
- Serena Southerlyn: But?
- Jack McCoy: We just moved him from one jungle to another.
- CSU Julian Beck: Uh, the paint's a shade of green. Uh, Pentland green, specifically. But I couldn't match it to an assembly line model.
- Lennie Briscoe: Must be a custom job.
- Ed Green: How about the glass?
- CSU Julian Beck: Uh, garden variety automotive. Non-unique to manufacture.
- Lennie Briscoe: Oh, thanks for bringing us all the way down here. It was a lovely trip.
- CSU Julian Beck: Now, the high-end auto makers user lasers to microscopically etch the VIN number on the windshield.
- Ed Green: [watching the computer simulation] How cool is that?
- CSU Julian Beck: Yeah. Now, this is just a partial, but it's enough for the DMV to ID the car that it came from as an Aston Martin V12 Vanquish.
- Lennie Briscoe: An Aston Martin who?
- Ed Green: Vanquish, man. James Bond's car. You know, in the last one, "Die Another Day"?
- Lennie Briscoe: Sorry. I haven't seen a Bond movie since Sean Connery hung up his rug.
- Arthur Branch: You got to admit, it's a brand new spin on the time honored defense strategy of beating up on the victim.
- Serena Southerlyn: Rems had a very compelling argument. He's a good lawyer, Jack.
- Jack McCoy: The best that money can buy.
- Arthur Branch: Poor victim, rich defendant?
- [Jack nods]
- Arthur Branch: Well, Lady Justice may be blind, but nobody ever said the old broad was fair.
- Lennie Briscoe: What, are you burning the midnight oil?
- Ed Green: Man, I was catching up on my DD5s. I didn't get home 'till almost two in the morning. Plus, I think I'm coming down with whatever's going around.
- Lennie Briscoe: Miss Malchiodi, to what do we owe the pleasure?
- Assistant ME Erika Malchiodi: Facial contusions, broken bones, two days' worth of decomp. Factor in the cold weather, I say he's been dead a week.
- Ed Green: How do you get a week?
- Assistant ME Erika Malchiodi: Bugs don't lie. Don't know how.
- [opening the victim's mouth]
- Assistant ME Erika Malchiodi: Check it out. Maggots, pupa, beetles. Who's on the buffet line when gives you approximate time of death. Plus fluid seepage...
- Lennie Briscoe: Yeah, yeah, we get the picture.
- Ed Green: It's definitely a hit and run. CSU confirmed that the glass and the paint are from a car.
- Lennie Briscoe: Beck's working on both. I've never seen him happier.
- Anita Van Buren: You know what would make me happy? A name to go with our victim.
- Lennie Briscoe: What, "John Doe" doesn't do it for you?
- Anita Van Buren: You ran his prints through VCI?
- Lennie Briscoe: First thing we did. No soap.
- Anita Van Buren: So no ID on the vic, no lead on the car, no witnesses.
- Lennie Briscoe: Well, they can't all be gimmes.
- Lennie Briscoe: Dead man walking. Just when you thought you'd seen everything.
- Anita Van Buren: We still have a victim in search of a suspect.
- Lennie Briscoe: Well, Salter's expert give us anything new to go on?
- Anita Van Buren: He says someone beat Fisher up about seven hours before Salter struck him with her car.
- Ed Green: So, two a.m.
- Lennie Briscoe: Which would mean he took a beating round seven o'clock the night before.
- Ed Green: Well, beyond that, we still got a grand total of zero leads.
- Anita Van Buren: So we start with square one.
- Lennie Briscoe: Yeah, Tompkins Square.
- Lennie Briscoe: This other guy have a name?
- Gerald: I'm sure his mama give him one, but I'll be damned if I know what it is.
- Lennie Briscoe: This other guy have a name?
- Erica Gardner: I'm sure his mama give him one, but I'll be damned if I know what it is.
- Arthur Branch: [as Serena bemoans people who shun the homeless] And when was the last time you ever picked up a ladle in a soup kitchen?
- Serena Southerlyn: [proudly] Every Thanksgiving as a matter of fact.
- Arthur Branch: *One* day a year, you and all the other limousine liberals so you can feel good about yourselves.