- Michael Cutter: The First Amendment is not a license to be reckless.
- D.A. Jack McCoy: But it is the First Amendment. The next time you decide to charge a member of the press with a felony, call me.
- Ed Green: It fits. The bank said he borrowed against his business to pay off his mortgage.
- Anita Van Buren: He put his affairs in order. I'm so sorry, detective. All right, let's change the classification on the blue to suspected suicide.
- Cyrus Lupo: Lieutenant, if you do that, you know this goes to the bottom of a pile. Maybe my brother suicided, but he wouldn't know where to get these drugs. Somebody helped him. Maybe that woman.
- Ed Green: We'll look for her, but real, man. We got open murder cases here. And all due respect, your brother was...
- Cyrus Lupo: You don't know anything about my brother, all right? If... if this woman had tried to help him instead of handing him a loaded syringe...
- Ed Green: Look, I will give this the time it deserves, but maybe your brother had good reasons to take a shortcut to the exit. Maybe if you called him back and talked to him, you'd know why.
- Ed Green: [seeing Lupo outside Van Buren's office] He's been wearing down the linoleum for the last couple hours.
- Anita Van Buren: [shutting the door] Now, I talked to his boss at Intel; Lupo broke some big cases in some very unfriendly corners of the world, and he did it with no backup, no warrants, no weapon.
- Ed Green: You makin' a sales pitch?
- Anita Van Buren: We got a second assisted sucide with a victim he's not related to. It wouldn't be policy violation for him to work that case.
- Michael Cutter: Look, sacred cows are for barbecuing, Jack. You may have had Woodward and Bernstein, but I grew up with Geraldo and then Judith Miller. I mean, reporters, they're just more clowns to the circus now.
- D.A. Jack McCoy: A fine sentiment. I hope you have an actual legal theory to back it up, because simple negligence won't get you there unless you can prove malice.
- Michael Cutter: [his phone chirps] Jack, it's Rubirosa. Nolan just filed for a motion to dismiss. What do you want me to do?
- D.A. Jack McCoy: Duffy. Look that one up in your gadget.