- Detective Elliot Stabler: [to Olivia] I know you're working off some nervous energy, but you don't have to read every one of them out loud.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Aren't we in a mood?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: You know, it's the middle of the night and I'm sitting here realizing I spend more time with you than I do with my own family.
- Honey the Hooker: Since when do cops care about what happens to us?
- Detective John Munch: Hey we just spend $17 on coffee and donuts for you, if that's not showing respect then I don't know what is.
- Dr. George Huang: [about the killer] He comes out at night and focuses his rage at prostitutes and women that he believes to be prostitutes.
- Detective John Munch: Just like London, 1888.
- Odafin Tutuola: Not Jack the Ripper again.
- Detective John Munch: Ripperologists are convinced that his Royal Highness, Prince Albert Victor committed the deeds.
- Donald Cragen: And I understand the royal family is still smarting over that, but could we please continue?
- Detective Olivia Benson: What the hell's wrong with this guy?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: He thinks he's Jack the Ripper.
- Dr. George Huang: [about the killer] The publicity's just gonna excite him more.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: I think he's awful excited right now without publicity.
- Dr. Melinda Warner: [to Munch] We found only the victim's blood at the arcade, but take a look at these. You know Locard's theory?
- Detective John Munch: Transfer evidence. Everywhere you go, you pick something up and leave something behind. Seven years in Homicide, I better know it.
- Detective Olivia Benson: [to Stabler who's handling phone calls] How's it going?
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Five hundred calls since 11:00. More sightings than Elvis.
- Detective Olivia Benson: [about Daniel Varney] Paula Varney got an answer from All-Atlantic Life. They knew that he had syphilis.
- Donald Cragen: Bastards never informed him.
- Detective Elliot Stabler: Communicable, sexually transmitted disease. Company's required to report that to the Health Department.
- Donald Cragen: And the Health Department would have notified Varney if they'd known.
- Dr. George Huang: One shot of penicillin back then could have cured him.
- Alexandra Cabot: And these four victims would still be alive.
- Detective Olivia Benson: Yeah, if the insurance company had told them! I want their ass.
- Alexandra Cabot: [to Dr. Huang] Do you know how much pressure I am under to convict this man? He butchers four innocent people. He scares the hell out of the city. The public wants justice.
- Alexandra Cabot: We checked with the Health Department. You never reported Daniel Varney's syphilis as required by law.
- Malcolm Hunt: It must have slipped through the cracks.
- Sam: It's the applicant's responsibility to ask why he was rejected.
- Alexandra Cabot: Who's responsible for the four people he murdered because you didn't tell him?
- Sam: We reject thousands of applicants every year. HIV, heart disease...
- Alexandra Cabot: All poor risks.
- Malcolm Hunt: Miss Cabot, we run a business. We answer to our stockholders. Providing explanations to every applicant we turn down would require hiring more staff premiums would go through the roof, and fewer people could afford life insurance.
- Alexandra Cabot: A $1.50 worth of penicillin would have cured Daniel Varney and prevented the carnage he caused. You should have told him.
- Sam: The Court of Appeals just ruled that we are under no obligation to inform the...
- Alexandra Cabot: The applicant? You still have to notify the appropriate health department. If we audit your records and find a pattern of similar cases that have "slipped through the cracks" with no effort on the part of your company to rectify the situation, not only will we charge Mr. Hunt with reckless endangerment we will move to seize the profits of your company as assets to the crime. See how your stockholders like that.
- Malcolm Hunt: You can't do that...
- Alexandra Cabot: And Mr. Hunt can sit in prison for seven years and think about it.
- Malcolm Hunt: What do you want, Miss Cabot?
- Alexandra Cabot: I want your company to begin reporting all cases of communicable diseases and when the families of the murder victims and Daniel Varney's wife sue, you'll settle.
- Sam: That's extortion. It would cost the company millions.
- Alexandra Cabot: It'll cost a lot less than going bankrupt because of the publicity. In the court of public opinion, you're already guilty. Do you want to take your chances in a real court?
- Daniel Varney: Why didn't you shoot me?
- Detective Olivia Benson: Because I didn't want to hurt you.
- Daniel Varney: But you must.
- Detective Olivia Benson: I must what, Daniel? I don't understand.
- Daniel Varney: Kill me, please. Please, I can't take any more pain.
- Daniel Varney: You are my messenger. The unclean must be cleansed, or I shall serve my wrath upon you.
- Dr. George Huang: But the Bible says thou shalt not kill.
- Daniel Varney: He said, I must eliminate the evil.