- Detective Stella Bonasera: Steering column's intact. Wasn't hotwired. Definitely started the old-fashioned way, with a key. Hey, Danny, I'm waiting for your "boom."
- Detective Danny Messer: Ah, no more booms. Lindsay made me promise. She's afraid it's going to be Lucy's first word.
- Mac Taylor: That's the victim, but who's the other guy?
- Detective Stella Bonasera: They're both James Manning. The moment I saw him, I knew there was something familiar about him and then when I saw that scar on his hand. I ran him through CARS for past collars and came up with this booking photo.
- Mac Taylor: It's hard to believe they're the same person.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Put some meat on his bones and a shave and he looks like a completely different guy.
- Mac Taylor: It's never a good thing when you look better in the autopsy photo than you do when you're alive.
- Joe Ross: I wasn't in no alley and I didn't torch nobody, man.
- Detective Danny Messer: Your DNA was on a cigarette butt that ignited the fire.
- Joe Ross: I ain't capable of that kind of violence.
- Don Flack: Robbery. Burglary. Assault. You got a resume for that kind of violence.
- Detective Danny Messer: This is a step up for you.
- Lisa Williams: Is this the part where I look at the bloody crime scene photo, break down in tears and confess to murder?
- Don Flack: Only if you did it.
- Mac Taylor: I'm going to go get Grace Chandler. Stella, you go get Sam Baker, get him out of lockup and bring him down to Interrogation. You two pick up Debbie Fallon, get her over to the precinct.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: What's going on?
- Mac Taylor: We got ourselves a triangle except it doesn't involve love. It involves murder.
- Grace Chandler: Two years living in a Park Avenue apartment building. Wearing the best designer clothes and expensive jewelry. We gave them things, things they never could have imagined. Having a life they were never supposed to live. We gave them two more years. Two years they would have never had.
- Don Flack: And the payment for that was their lives?
- Mac Taylor: [to Grace] You chose people who were vulnerable and broken. People you knew had nobody to question your motives. What's it like to live without a conscience?
- Grace Chandler: It's like being rich. Something you probably know nothing about.
- Mac Taylor: Putting people like you away for the rest of your life, doing good... that makes me rich. Something you probably know nothing about.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: When I was a little girl, there was a sign hanging above the desk where I did my homework. And it said that "Temptation will lean on the doorbell, but opportunity may knock only once."
- Sam Baker: As ironic as it might seem, Debbie provided me with a second chance and I plan to make the most of it.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Good.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Manning fights his way back from the streets and seems to have a great life ahead of him.
- Mac Taylor: So, how does he end up in that alley right back where she found him?
- Grace Chandler: [to Mac] I know you think I had something to do with this.
- Mac Taylor: Most of the people who sit in this chair, they lie. Each time that happens, we get a little bit better at knowing who's telling the truth and who's not.
- Grace Chandler: And how about me, Detective. Am I a liar?
- Mac Taylor: I'll let you know.
- Don Flack: Well, let's hope that Eli can spin a better story than Sam. 'Cause the one he's telling in there just isn't holding water.
- Debbie Fallon: You're so wrong. He isn't capable of murder.
- Don Flack: Anyone's capable of murder, Miss Fallon.
- Don Flack: Debbie, before you make a complete ass of yourself, do me a favor: take a look right here.
- Debbie Fallon: They're a cancer. Living in the street like dogs. Begging for change.
- Grace Chandler: Leaving their feces and stench in boxes in doorways.
- Debbie Fallon: How long do you think they would have lasted before you or some other cop found them dead? We took them off the street. We gave them two more good years.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Sam, you were next.
- Sam Baker: What?
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Your life was insured for over $5 million dollars. In order to become a legitimate beneficiary, Debbie called herself your fiance in all of the paperwork.
- Sam Baker: I can't believe this is happening. I was living on the streets. She helped me get a place.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: This was all part of the plan. Debbie and Grace waited two years, enough time for the policies to mature and pay out at maximum benefits, no matter what the manner of death. Most likely, Sam, in a week, you'd have been dead.