- Detective Don Flack: Mitch Barrett? NYPD.
- Mitch Barrett: Who?
- Detective Don Flack: NYPD. We need to talk to Mitch Barrett.
- Mitch Barrett: You got a warrant?
- Detective Don Flack: If I had a warrant, you would be face down on the ground in handcuffs sucking in dust balls, and we wouldn't be having this conversation through the door.
- Mitch Barrett: How'd you know I killed Marcella?
- Detective Don Flack: Be honest with you? We were a little iffy until you started shooting at us through the door.
- Jo Danville: Why would a fourteen year old boy want to kill his mother?
- Jay Carver: Why? I'll show you why.
- [Jay turns around and takes his shirt off, revealing scars all down his back]
- Jo Danville: Oh, dear Lord.
- Jo Danville: I'm so sorry that had to happen to you.
- Jay Carver: It's okay. I know it sounds crazy, but I sort of got used to it.
- Jo Danville: Did she do the same thing to your brother and sister?
- Jay Carver: For a long time, it was just me. But then they started getting older, and I would come home from school, and I would see the... I would see the welts, and the burns and the bruises on their bodies. I thought the only chance they had to make it stop was me. Because there was nobody else there to protect them. I didn't see any other way out. I was really afraid that one day she would kill us. We had nobody.
- Chief Ted Carver: [watching from the observation room with Mac] I knew what a monster she was, what those kids were living with. I should have been there.
- Detective Mac Taylor: There's no use looking back. You can't change what is.
- Chief Ted Carver: Mac, I put that knife in Jay's hand. It was just... sitting up in my locker. He liked to carve things.
- Detective Mac Taylor: That knife didn't stab your sister. Jay did. If it wasn't that knife, it would have been another.
- Chief Ted Carver: None of this had to happen. I could have stopped it.
- Detective Mac Taylor: You did. Taking those kids in, adopting them? You turned their life around.