- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: Cutting open babies puts me in a bad mood.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: How would we be able to tell?
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: [considering a new angle for the murder] I never did like chasing my tail.
- Jack McCoy: But it's a lot of fun when you catch it.
- Jack McCoy: You killed your brother because your father forgot?
- Ben Karmel: He forgot everything. You know, I'm supposed to be his son too.
- Lila Crenshaw: [referring to an earlier incident with Evan Karmel] It was an accident. He was crying so much from teething, I just wanted to quiet him.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: And if the brandy didn't work, what next? Cigars?
- Lila Crenshaw: My mother used to give my baby brother a little brandy. I didn't see the harm: we do things differently in England.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [sarcastically] Right. like poisoning babies; that's very English. Here, we smother them with pillows!
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: [referring to the Karmels] He's 48; she's 27?
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: My hero!
- Detective Rey Curtis: [referring to Evan Karmel] How could you not check on him?
- Lila Crenshaw: I came here to be an art student, not a bloody wet nurse!
- [pleading]
- Lila Crenshaw: Look, I did the best I could. I swear I did!
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [back at the station] There's one British nanny who won't be singing "Chim Chim Cher-ee"
- Ruth Miller: Can we discuss a plea deal?
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: What happened to your client being innocent?
- Ruth Miller: Went out with the bathwater.
- [turns around]
- Ruth Miller: I guess that's not funny.
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: [after Lila Crenshaw's first trial has resulted in a hung jury, following the defence's accusation that Mrs Karmel put her career ahead of her son] On retrial, we'll pick a more enlightened jury.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Yeah - find me twelve citizens who think a woman's place is closing billion-dollar deals in Chicago.