Law & Order (TV Series)

Veteran's Day (2004)

Leslie Hendrix: ME Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers

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.