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- Arthur Branch: No surprise the jury hung.
- Jack McCoy: I'll try him again.
- Arthur Branch: Your problem was too many blue collar jurors. They identified with Kenneth Silva.
- Serena Southerlyn: How do you know who the holdouts were?
- Arthur Branch: The people who escape jury duty, same people who escape active duty.
- 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.
- Arthur Branch: You can't imagine the father reacting out of grief and anger, Jack? Why not drop it down to manslaughter?
- Jack McCoy: There's no extreme emotional defense here. Silva pursued Brian Teague, Arthur. He made it murder two when he walked out of that bar, a full twenty minutes after Brian Teague left.
- Arthur Branch: Well, still, a sleeper hold... way I understand it, it's meant to subdue someone, not necessarily to kill 'em. I mean, things backfired. A good man went too far.
- Jack McCoy: Believe me, I'm not thrilled at having to prosecute a decorated veteran.
- Arthur Branch: Well, Chiles will make murder two a tough sell to a jury.
- Jack McCoy: What are you worried about, Arthur? Man one will be included in the final charges, if the judge buys the EED.
- Arthur Branch: So it's win-win. And you're set on murder two?
- Jack McCoy: We have to draw the line somewhere.
- Arthur Branch: We do. Every time we indict someone.