- Detective Mike Logan: If it was me, I'd just have the operation.
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: Oh really? You got anything you'd think twice about having cut off? 7th grade, what was the first thing that made you notice little Susie sitting across the aisle?
- Detective Mike Logan: Come on, I was 13 years old.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Oh, and everything's changed since then?
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: That was the first thing that made little Susie feel like a woman, and trust me, it never goes away.
- Detective Mike Logan: So what're you saying, Lieutenant? If you got the big C you'd just curl up with a bowl of chicken soup and a rabbit's foot under your pillow?
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: What I wouldn't do, Mike, is be sitting around here eating cold pizza with you guys. No offense but in my last days I'm going to spend it with my husband and my kids.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [after a nurse faints due to noxious fumes emanating from a corpse's mouth] Didn't this happen in California?
- Dr. Alfredo Salinas: Yeah, they called it the smell of death.
- [camera pans to men in bio-hazard suits wheeling out the dead body in a plastic bag]
- Gwen Young: [trying to talk down from a murder 2 charge] Man 1.
- Jack McCoy: What do you think, Claire?
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: She does it all.
- Jack McCoy: Why are you defending her, Claire? She's not a real doctor!
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: And neither was Louis Pasteur.
- Jack McCoy: Let me ask you a question, Claire, these names without check marks by them, why didn't you talk to any of them? A lot of them are dead?
- [Claire doesn't answer]
- Jack McCoy: They're *all* dead?
- Dr. Nancy Haas: I'm still looking for a cure.
- Jack McCoy: You should've told your patients that instead of letting them think you already had it.
- Leonard Hurst: Maybe I don't have a sex life, that's my problem, but you know what? What I do have is better than hugging a gravestone.
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: You're alive.
- Abigail Hurst: And with the reconstructive surgery I'm good as new... but my husband has never touched me since.
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: [to Jack] Read a book, go to a movie, open a magazine, and maybe you'll see why women aren't eager to get a breast lopped off.
- Jack McCoy: 15 years in Bedford, she'll be selling her fellow inmates a cure for the common cold made from bread and water.
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: She'll need it. With all the civil suits she'll have when she comes out of prison, she won't have anything left.
- Jack McCoy: I don't think there'll be any civil suits.
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: You don't think all the widowers...
- Jack McCoy: The same thing that drove them to Dr. Haas will keep them off the stand.
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: Fear?
- Jack McCoy: Denial.
- Gwen Young: Would Ann Bennett have been in considerable pain if she'd taken traditional cancer treatments?
- Dr. Alan Friedlan: It *is* major surgery.
- Gwen Young: Followed by chemotherapy and radiation. Isn't it true that with that comes the side effects of hair loss, weight gain and excessive vomiting?
- Dr. Alan Friedlan: It's controllable, and it's not fatal.
- Gwen Young: Oh, yes it is, to the dignity. Thank you.
- Jack McCoy: Mr. Bennett, if it were my wife I'd march into the D.A.'s office and say 'She killed my wife, I want her put in jail! Tell me what I have to say to put her there!'
- Nicholas Bennett: But she wasn't *your* wife!
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: It *is* odd, Mr. Bennett, we're more interested in convicting her than you are.
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: Jack, millions of people believe in holistic and homeopathic treatments, are they all wrong? Are they all stupid?
- Jack McCoy: Those who die needlessly, yes.
- Nicholas Bennett: You want to talk suffer. Try looking your 14 year old daughter in the eyes and telling her she won't die of breast cancer too.
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: You had the surgery.
- Abigail Hurst: Oh, and what fun that was. First they lay you down on a slab, naked, completely exposed, and the doctors start taking pictures. And we're just getting started, Miss Kincaid, there's a TV camera with a monitor outside for everyone to see. And then, just when you're ready to say 'To hell with it' and run screaming for your life, a man says 'Don't worry dear, everything will be okay'. Everything is *not* okay.
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: The fumes made a nurse pass out on the floor.
- Detective Mike Logan: Well the woman had regurgitated on herself.
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: I think an ER nurse would be able to handle *that*.