- Detective Lennie Briscoe: How do you tell someone somebody wants them dead?
- Detective Ed Green: Quickly?
- Detective Ed Green: "Crooked cops: exception or the rule?". Is this typical of your work?
- Kate Pierce: I'm an investigative journalist.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Pissed anybody off lately?
- Kate Pierce: If I'm doing my job right.
- Kate Pierce: I'm not a hero, Miss Carmichael. But when you take a job like this, it comes with certain risks. Things a journalist has to put above her own safety.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Who wanted the reporter dead, Marty, and why?
- Marty Blatt: I want protection in the joint.
- Detective Ed Green: We'll take care of the Caputos.
- Marty Blatt: Caputos? What've they got to do with this?
- Detective Ed Green: This isn't about the windows?
- Marty Blatt: What kind of windows? The guy that gave me the button said it had to do with an election.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: What election?
- Marty Blatt: [Scoffs] I don't vote.
- Abbie Carmichael: The irony is, Bonatto and Blatt end up serving 15 to life. Anne Benton gets a second term.
- Nora Lewin: Well, they can always ask Benton to help them apply for a pardon.