- Ben Stone: I guess you just weren't clever enough.
- Phillip Swann: I got this far, Ben.
- Ben Stone: A lot of effort to wind up right back where you started. And in polite society, Sir, you don't call people by their first name unless they ask you to - I didn't do that. You're not a friend, and you're certainly not a colleague.
- Lennie Briscoe: We're gonna need a list of your customers who got blue blazers made with these buttons.
- Harry Schuman: I'm afraid that's confidential.
- Mike Logan: What are you, a doctor of haberdashery?
- Ben Stone: Well, he's certainly going for the jugular. Tax returns for the last 10 years. Puts my life on the dissecting table, and he drools over it.
- Claire Kincaid: He is good. I don't know many lawyers who can recite chapter and verse on collateral estoppel.
- Ben Stone: [Animated] What did he say right after that?
- Claire Kincaid: "It's not like this is my first case."
- Ben Stone: Waiter, check please.
- Adam Schiff: You may be right about Swann.
- Claire Kincaid: The papers are turning him into a folk hero.
- Adam Schiff: When he gets acquitted, I might offer him a job. You try dealing with him?
- Ben Stone: Adam, if you want me to plead him, you take me off the case.
- Adam Schiff: Don't tempt me.
- Phillip Swann: About that deduction, Ben. You should have gotten yourself a better divorce attorney.
- Ben Stone: You little creep. This isn't a game.
- Phillip Swann: You don't like me, Ben?
- Ben Stone: You just waking up to that?
- Phillip Swann: Could that be the reason that you used perjured testimony to convict me in the first trial?
- Ben Stone: There's no proof that Russell Bobbitt...
- Phillip Swann: Think again, counselor. I was acquitted in the second trial. Therefore, a fortiori, Bobbitt must have been lying in the first. Ergo, you are collaterally estopped from trying to prove otherwise.
- Adam Schiff: You lose, you ruin me and this office.
- Ben Stone: I can live without this job, sir. There are some things I can't live without.
- Adam Schiff: Your ego.
- Ben Stone: Mr. Schiff, if a man who lies can go pro se and win and a man who tells the truth can't, then I don't want to be in this anymore.
- Lennie Briscoe: Five years ago this was Benny Gonzaga's sweatshop. Beautiful views and fifty cents an hour.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [about human remains dug up] Got a name?
- Detective Mike Logan: How about Uncle Fester?
- Detective Mike Logan: Missing Persons has a database of 640 people, none of them hunchbacks with toupees.
- [last lines]
- Phillip Swann: So... who makes the first move?
- Ben Stone: I want a confession. Not only for the murder of Russell Bobbitt, but for the murder of Sid Cohen.
- Phillip Swann: [laughs in disbelief] And give away my greatest victory?
- Ben Stone: [to corrections officers] Take this man back to his cell.
- Phillip Swann: [confused, then angry] You give up so easy? It doesn't make any sense, Ben, you're being totally *impractical*! That's not like you.
- Ben Stone: Obviously, you don't know me. You never did.
- [smirks]