- Gretchen Goldsmith: [Gretchen has just caught her husband sneaking a drink on the front porch while looking at the newspaper] I thought you were buying the paper.
- Jeffrey Goldsmith: Just checking the ponies.
- Gretchen Goldsmith: [grabbing the bottle] Yeah? How did Johnnie Walker make out in the fifth?
- Jack McCoy: Of course Renee Bishop is Sophie Winslow's mother, in every sense of the word that matters. But so was Lisa Winslow. And what kind of parent kills her child's other parent? Mr. Hobart reminds you of the bond between Renee Bishop and Sophie Winslow, but he wants you to forget the bond between Sophie and Lisa; the woman who adopted her and loved her as much as Renee Bishop does. This case is not about who's the better mother, or about a law which may well be antiquated and unfair. It's not about what Renee Bishop suffered, but about what Renee Bishop did. And what she did was kill Lisa Winslow. And that law, which she violated, is as sure and certain as the evidence is conclusive. As much as you might empathize with her plight, you must return a verdict of guilty against Renee Bishop.
- Uniform Officer #1: White female, late thirties. People that live in the garden apartment found her first thing this morning. Guy's half in the bag.
- Lennie Briscoe: The early bird catches the hangover.
- Ed Green: Brody, what you got for us, man?
- Medical Examiner Brody: Quick drive by, blunt trauma smorgasboard. Broken pelvis, shattered lower extremities, lots of lacerations. Rib cage like a bag full of broken china.
- Lennie Briscoe: Yeah, jumping off a balcony'll do that.
- Ed Green: Hey, Reed, you got anything?
- CSU Technician Jessica Reed: Usable prints? I doubt it. But I did find this lying out here on the terrace.
- Lennie Briscoe: [she hands him an evidence baggie] Contact lens.
- CSU Technician Jessica Reed: Cutting edge RGP. Rigid Gas Permeable.
- Ed Green: Could have popped out during the struggle.
- CSU Technician Jessica Reed: Don't get your hopes up. It's extremely durable. It could have been lying out here for days, weeks, months.
- Lennie Briscoe: [handing the baggie back] I know it's hopeless, but get it to the lab anyway.
- CSU Technician Jessica Reed: [sarcastic] What a novel idea. I was gonna auction it off on eBay.
- Ed Green: What can you tell us about the upper floors? The ones with the balconies?
- Ian Wrightsman: Those are our executive suites.
- Lennie Briscoe: So much for the golden parachute.
- Ian Wrightsman: Lisa Winslow checked in yesterday afternoon around four o'clock. Reception gave her one room key.
- Ed Green: She certainly didn't mess up the room.
- Ian Wrightsman: Concierge said she just used it to freshen up before her speech at the Hoopla International Convention last night.
- Ed Green: Hoopla?
- Ian Wrightsman: Licensees for various pro basketball products and spin-offs. We have some of the top players here; Julius West, Jimmy Neil.
- Ed Green: What she talk about?
- Ian Wrightsman: I gather she was some kind of motivational speaker. Fire up the reps and sell more sneakers, that sort of thing.
- Ed Green: $500 a day dressing room?
- Lennie Briscoe: I guess she could afford it. Unless this purse is some kind of Canal Street knockoff.
- [finding the vic's ID]
- Lennie Briscoe: Well, she's our high-diver, all right. Lisa Winslow. No wonder she could afford to use the place just to powder her nose. She's a local. Black Stone Avenue, the Bronx.
- Ed Green: That's Riverdale. Trust me, this purse is real.
- Anita Van Buren: I have a problem.
- Lennie Briscoe: [sardonic laugh] Join the club. Shawn Beatty's alibi just got corroborated.
- Anita Van Buren: Lisa Winslow's parents are on their way here from New Hope. They want to know why they had to find out about their daughter's death from a news item on the radio.
- Ed Green: We told the sister. She didn't tell the family?
- Anita Van Buren: According to the parents, Lisa Winslow doesn't have a sister.
- Ed Green: What?
- Lennie Briscoe: Then who was the woman we met at Winslow's house?
- Anita Van Buren: We sent a patrol car by to have a word with her. Whoever she is, she's gone and she took the girl with her.
- Ed Green: Damn.
- Jack McCoy: [On the subject of Same Sex marriages] , Let them marry. Why shouldn't they be as miserable as the rest of us?