- A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: The theory is that Bradley Hagen killed Kelly Sommers uptown on the night of September 10th, then awoke to find that the terrorists had given him the perfect out.
- Jack McCoy: Because she threatened to expose their affair?
- A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: Well, she implied it in her e-mail.
- Arthur Branch: Arresting a Hagen in New York is like arresting a Kennedy in Cambridge. We'll need more than implication.
- Jack McCoy: Is that cigar smoke from the old boys' club I smell, Arthur?
- Arthur Branch: No, it's a healthy whiff of old-fashioned pragmatism.
- Jack McCoy: But the press will run with cronyism. It's no secret the Hagens supported your election.
- Arthur Branch: The press doesn't know that some nitwit in a black robe might toss the e-mail as a violation of Bradley Hagen's privacy.
- A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: Don't you think...
- Arthur Branch: I think interleague play disrupted the moral fiber of this nation. I think Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided. And I think if you indict someone named Hagen on my watch, you damn well better convict them.
- A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: So we turn the other cheek because of who he is?
- Arthur Branch: As a matter of fact, yes. Unless you come up with something more than a chunk of chocolate cake and an epistle from cyberspace.
- Arthur Branch: Let me ask you something, Serena. When I said what I did about Roe V. Wade being wrong, what did you think?
- A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: No holds barred?
- Arthur Branch: Pull no punches.
- A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: That you let your religious beliefs cloud your legal judgment.
- Arthur Branch: The reason I disagree with Roe V. Wade has nothing to do with going to church on Sunday, and it's a bad decision because it's based on a legal fiction, better known as the right to privacy. Now, you go ahead and show me where the framers mentioned the word 'privacy'. You can't because it's not in there.
- Jack McCoy: The Burger Court said that...
- Arthur Branch: Yeah, the penumbra of the 14th Amendment. Judicial hocus pocus, acting like politicians instead of justices.
- A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: People ask that the suspect be remanded without bail, Your Honor.
- Judge Janice Goldberg: What are we having today, a special on chutzpah? Bail is set at $500,000. Do you have that on you, Mr. Hagen, or do you need a few minutes?