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- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: White female, 5'7", early thirties.
- Ed Green: Any prints?
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: If she had fingertips.
- Ed Green: You got anything?
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: Yeah, water in her lungs. She was alive when she went in.
- Lennie Briscoe: We were hoping for something more definitive, like maybe a bullet?
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: Sorry.
- Ed Green: What are we talking about here? Homicide, suicide, accident? What?
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: Look, what can I tell you? It's your classic CUPPI. Case unde...
- Lennie Briscoe: Case undetermined pending police investigation, right.
- Ed Green: Damn, I hate floaters. They creep me out.
- Lennie Briscoe: Oh, at least we're outdoors. Could be worse. Locked room, week-old body, middle of July, no AC.
- Ed Green: All right, all right. It could be worse.
- Anita Van Buren: The office. Isn't that where most men screw around?
- Ed Green: Why are you looking at us?
- Lennie Briscoe: Hey, Ed, as far as women are concerned, all men are guilty until proven innocent.
- Ed Green: That sounds like gender profiling.
- Anita Van Buren: Uh-uh. Fact of life.Men are dogs. So why don't you all go sniffing around his office and see who's in heat?
- Ed Green: Hey, what you got?
- CSU Technician: Female. Other than that...
- Ed Green: Age? Race?
- CSU Technician: I'm barely sure it's human, Detective, body's so decomp. Add in your fish and your crabs...
- Lennie Briscoe: Is it young, old?
- CSU Technician: Like I said. See for yourself.
- [she opens a body bag and Ed groans in disgust]
- Ed Green: Ugh... how long has she been in the water?
- CSU Technician: A while.
- Lennie Briscoe: You care to narrow that down a little?
- CSU Technician: I would if I could, but...
- Lennie Briscoe: Anything obvious? Uh, bullet holes, stab wounds?
- CSU Technician: Did I mention the eels?
- Ed Green: All right, all right. We get it. Thank you.
- [as the tech leaves]
- Ed Green: We'll be lucky if we get an ID.
- Lennie Briscoe: If we were lucky, we wouldn't have caught this case.
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: Look, I'm not ruling anything out yet. I still need to do more x-rays, a tox screen. But don't hold your breath.
- Ed Green: That's all I've been doing.
- Lennie Briscoe: So how long was she in the water?
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: More than a month, less than two. I'm sorry I can't be more definitive. However, you see this?
- [showing them an x-ray]
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: It's a hairline fracture. Right cheekbone and eye socket.
- Ed Green: Somebody punched her in the face.
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: Yeah, probably broke her nose. At the very least, a hell of a shiner the next day.
- Lennie Briscoe: Tough to swim with a broken nose. No wonder she drowned.
- Ed Green: You sure she didn't get that taking a header into the Hudson?
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: No, this is a blow, not a fall. And a recent one. It hadn't started to heal.
- Lennie Briscoe: Well, until we hear different, we're gonna think of this as a homicide.
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: Can't hurt.
- Fisherman #2: That ain't no sturgeon
- [Fisherman #1 has hooked a body]
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: White female, 5'7", early thirties.
- Ed Green: Any prints?
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: If she had fingertips.
- Ed Green: You got anything?
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: Yeah, water in her lungs. She was alive when she went in.
- Lennie Briscoe: We were hoping for something more definitive, like maybe a bullet?
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: Sorry.
- Ed Green: What are we talking about here? Homicide, suicide, accident? What?
- Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: Look, what can I tell you? It's your classic CUPPI. Case unde...
- Lennie Briscoe: Case undetermined pending police investigation, right.
- Judge Ruth Alexander: I think I can defend every decision from the bench that I have ever made. I'm sure you can.
- Jack McCoy: People can justify just about anything.
- Judge Ruth Alexander: I've never been overturned on appeal. Not once. Do you know how much money I make?
- Jack McCoy: About 100,000.
- Judge Ruth Alexander: Ninety-five... before taxes.
- Jack McCoy: That's more than most people. More than me. It's a lot of money.
- Judge Ruth Alexander: In New York? And do you know what I pay my worthless jerk of an ex-husband every month? Between that and the taxes, I'm in the red before I even get out of bed in the morning.
- Jack McCoy: We know how much money you have You're a rich woman.
- Judge Ruth Alexander: No, I'm not. Not like I should have been.He ruined my life. I wish to God I'd never met him. Took me years to get back to where I started. Then I have to sit here every day... and listen to these spoiled rich people... arguing about $50,000 a month clothing allowances, horseback riding lessons and Tuscan villas
- Judge Ruth Alexander: Why shouldn't I be compensated, having to listen to all that greed and spite and stupidity?
- Jack McCoy: "The best interests of the child." Doesn't that phrase mean anything to you?
- Judge Ruth Alexander: Of course it does. I never made any ruling that harmed a child, ever.
- Jack McCoy: You decided custody cases for money. People at their most vulnerable and desperate. You sold your judgment on the most precious thing in their lives.
- Jack McCoy: That kind of corruption... is unspeakable.
- Judge Ruth Alexander: I never decided any custody case except on its own merits.
- Jack McCoy: You took Lena Marchetti's mother from her. What about that child?
- Judge Ruth Alexander: Lena Marchetti? What... I didn't... Am I... What are you saying?
- Jack McCoy: Patel says he set up the meeting with Arianna the night before, per your instructions.
- Judge Ruth Alexander: I may have talked to him that night. I don't remember. I'm sure you have the records, but let me remind you that Ravi Patel will say anything to save his own skin.
- Jack McCoy: We have forensic evidence. Hair, fingerprints. We can put Arianna Marchetti in your car.
- Judge Ruth Alexander: It was an accident. It was an unfortunate, unlucky accident.
- Jack McCoy: You just wanted to talk to her. You never meant for that to happen, to harm her in anyway.
- Judge Ruth Alexander: No. No, I didn't. I'm s-so sorry... I can't tell you. I never intended to - I mean, I just wanted to talk to her. I just wanted to reason with her. I just wanted her to see what was best for everyone. But Arianna was just... She was fixated. She just would not let it go. She wouldn't think it through, see the consequences. She was just... so obsessed with sticking it to her husband.