- Phil: Mr Dow isn't here. A couple of other detectives picked him up an hour ago.
- Detective Rey Curtis: That would be "detectives" Granada and Difka?
- Phil: You work with them?
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: We're members of a mutual admiration society.
- Jack McCoy: No crime, no coverup. Three people dead, and no one's accountable.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Justice on a budget. What did you end up charging them with?
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Tampering with evidence. An "E" felony.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Oh.
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: We arraigned them. They posted bail: 2000 dollars. And they walk away from three murders.
- Jack McCoy: We can always hope they jump bail.
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Correctional Assistance Services filed a federal habeas corpus petition in district court. They want to take Sheridan back to Georgia.
- Jack McCoy: First their bounty hunters treat our city like a shooting gallery; now they want to take home the kewpie doll.
- Spellman: Mr. McCoy, I'll say this again. This is nonsense. I'm filing a motion to have all charges dismissed.
- Jack McCoy: On what basis?
- Spellman: Why would my clients cover up something that wasn't a crime?
- Mark Branson: For better or worse, the bounty hunter may use force, including deadly force, to effectuate a just recapture. Doug Bender's shooting was lamentable, not criminal. Ron Difka's zealousness just doesn't rise to the level of homicide
- Jack McCoy: A shooting in anger? Covering it up by killing unarmed women?
- Mark Branson: Mr. McCoy is using the first shooting as evidence of a criminal motive for the other two. Yet the first shooting was in no way criminal.
- Jack McCoy: Mr. Branson's position would give these men unfettered discretion.
- Mark Branson: They're bail agents. The Supreme court gives them just that discretion.
- Jack McCoy: Taylor and its progeny are nearly 100 years old.
- Mark Branson: And they've never been overruled. Your honor, the bail bondsman and his agent serve a legitimate societal need. Without the bail bondsman, most criminal defendants could not post bail. And without the bail agent, the bail-jumper would threaten the existence of the entire system.
- Jack McCoy: A properly trained and regulated bail agent may be a necessity, but as it stands there are no regulations. A society that tolerates or turns a blind eye to this kind of behavior is one step from barbarity.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: That's it? Two dead and one shot, and they walk?
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Sheridan could have surrendered. It was his choice how this was going to play out, not Granada and Difka's.
- Detective Rey Curtis: They had to go in with shotguns?
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Against an armed felon who killed his brother-in-law, who was ready to kill them. How much firepower would you have walked in with, Rey?
- Jack McCoy: I don't know what I find scarier, Abbie: clowns like these having a free pass to break the law, or one of our own ADAs taking their side.
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Max Sheridan is the bad guy here.
- Jack McCoy: He's alive. His sister and the babysitter are dead.
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: It's overkill. But Max Sheridan is a cold-blooded murderer. Like it or not, Granada and Difka did us a service by catching him.
- Jack McCoy: A service? They're outlaws!
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: If you, or Mr. Granada, or Mr. Difka, interfere with this investigation again, I'll have you all held for obstruction of justice.
- Al Festov: Do it. We'll file suit for false arrest against your department, the DAs office, and each one of you personally. We're done here.
- Jack McCoy: They're outlaws! I'm going to check on their weapon permits. I don't care if they forgot the period after their middle initial; I'm having their permits yanked.