- Lt. Anita Van Buren: We can hold them both for now, but Sal's right about one thing: we've got no motive.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: You believe him?
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: Well, I didn't say that. But what do we have? The testimony of a mentally questionable co-conspirator; that's it.
- Detective Ed Green: Well, if Eddie's telling the truth, Sal either had reasons of his own to get rid of Caplan - what they are, we don't know - or he was doing it for somebody else; who that is, we don't know.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Yeah, what he said.
- D.A. Nora Lewin: If the case depends on the jury believing a career criminal who's cut a deal, I'd say we're in trouble.
- Jack McCoy: We have a defendant who left the country rather than stand trial.
- D.A. Nora Lewin: Which the defense will attribute to a combination of panic and religious fervor.
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Well, we could also establish that he was stealing from the business.
- D.A. Nora Lewin: A business his father half owned.
- Jack McCoy: Are you suggesting that we offer him a deal?
- D.A. Nora Lewin: After what we went through to get him back here? Not on your life.
- Jack McCoy: He pleads to murder two. No special circumstances, no death penalty. Twenty to life, and he serves it in an Israeli prison.
- Nathan Becker: He must be under the impression they're winning.
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: That's a pretty high-stakes gamble if we are.
- Brad Feldman: Twenty to life isn't exactly a generous offer.
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Considering this is a murder for hire, I think it's exceedingly generous.