- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [reading Aaron Downing his rights] You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one...
- Detective Rey Curtis: [searching trunk of Downing's car] Skip the next part, Lennie. Mr Downing's got a wad of cash, passport, airline ticket - Fiji islands, open return.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Come on, Robinson Crusoe!
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Downing sniffed out the arrest and took off. He's been spotted in New Jersey.
- Jack McCoy: The airport?
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: At the Eden Motel in Secaucus. Curtis wants us to meet him there.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Route 3, west of the Turnpike.
- [Jack and Abbie look surprised that he knows where the motel is]
- D.A. Adam Schiff: You can see it from the highway.
- Jack McCoy: Allgen dodged the bullet.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Let it go. Companies make business decisions everyday that kill people. Spend a few bucks more on a brake assembly, save a hundred lives.
- Jack McCoy: A car is not a deadly weapon.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Do we prosecute the gun manufacturers for shooting deaths?
- Jack McCoy: Well, maybe we should. Hiding behind a corporate logo doesn't absolve these people of responsibility.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Where does it end? The paper mill that makes the boxes that hold the bullets... Lock up the criminals. Let the legislators and the civil juries worry about the other nonsense.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [seeing Downing's dead body hanging from the ceiling of a New Jersey motel room] Well it ain't Fiji.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: This man hurt his boy because he was depressed?
- Jack McCoy: He's the man in the gray flannel suit, Adam...
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: ...with a syringe in his pocket.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: When I'm in the dumps I have a scotch and put on Louis Armstrong.
- Theresa Copeland: Aaron needed me. He said there was something missing until I came along.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Yeah: a different bed to jump into!
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Hey, I've been there, pal. You make a few promises under the sheets, the lady gets expectations.
- Jack McCoy: We'll plead down to negligent homicide
- Attorney Axtell: Mr. Buckner?
- Mr. Buckner: You'd make a good businessman, Mr McCoy.
- Detective Rey Curtis: [referring to Aaron Downing] Killing his kid? I don't believe it.
- Jack McCoy: You don't have to believe it; just prove it!