Law & Order (TV Series)

Veteran's Day (2004)

Jerry Orbach: Detective Lennie Briscoe

Quotes 

• Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Your garden variety two-handed choke hold severely compresses the neck; it prevents oxygen from reaching the lungs.

  Ed Green : Right. If you can't breathe, you can't swallow.

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : [indicating the vic]  Right, but this one... applies just enough pressure to block venous outflow from the brain. Meanwhile, the carotids are still pumping blood in. You keep that up for four or five seconds, blood floods the brain, the capillaries start exploding like popcorn.

  Ed Green : Four or five seconds?

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Correct.

  Lennie Briscoe : Somebody knew what he was doing.

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Eh, you could pick up this move a lot of places. Martial arts training, the military.

  Ed Green : Mm-hm. Law enforcement.

  Lennie Briscoe : Back in the day, we called it the Sleeper Hold; used it to restrain suspects. Trouble is it put some of them to sleep for good.

• Anita Van Buren : Tell me we have an ID.

  Ed Green : Mm-hmm. The vic's name is Brian Teague. VCI had his prints on file.

  Anita Van Buren : I love it when their fingers do the talking.

  Ed Green : Well, in Teague's case, they couldn't shut up. Four collars for disturbing the peace, one for assault, another one for resisting arrest.

  Anita Van Buren : Well, maybe he just mouthed off once too often.

  Lennie Briscoe : It doesn't feel like a street fight to me. He didn't have any other injuries.

  Ed Green : His wallet's missing. Somebody could have jumped him.

  Lennie Briscoe : Hey, the lab's examining that button. They told us not to hold our breath unless we get 'em a suspect and the shirt off his back.

  Ed Green : Okay, so where does that leave us?

  Anita Van Buren : With the last known address.