- Lt. Brian Torelli: [as he is being arrested] Lennie, you got this all wrong.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: I'm looking at what's wrong, Torelli.
- James Lee Pawl: [being arrested] Probable cause, you don't have any probable cause.
- Detective Mike Logan: You're under arrest because you're probably guilty.
- Marty Lake: He did her, and he did Davis, all by himself.
- Ben Stone: I could get the same story down the hall.
- Marty Lake: I'm not making this up.
- [Looks at Feldman, who nods]
- Marty Lake: He tried to sell me a ring. The kind with a face on it, like a cameo. He said for an extra $5, he'd give me the finger it came with. This is one whacked-out dude.
- Ben Stone: I need a name.
- Eddie Feldman: You'll get a name as soon as the charges pending against my client have been dismissed.
- Ben Stone: Brooklyn's out of my jurisdiction. I can talk to the Kings County DA...
- Eddie Feldman: Nah, no, no. We already knocked on that door, thank you.
- Ben Stone: The DA knows this?
- Marty Lake: Det. Torelli does. First thing out of my mouth after they booked me. But here I sit.
- Ben Stone: I want you to put Marty Lake back on the street.
- Jerry Silbo: What for? So he can resume his service to the community?
- Ben Stone: As bad as Lake's crimes are, they pale by comparison to these murders.
- Jerry Silbo: Ben, unless this advances my department's prosecutorial interests =
- Ben Stone: Jerry this is not about servicing anyone's body count.
- Jerry Silbo: Well, my obligation is to keep scum like Marty Lake off the street.
- Ben Stone: And to protect the innocent.
- Jerry Silbo: Do you have any idea of what kind of crap I'd get into if I went along with this?
- Ben Stone: You can always duck. I'll take the hit.
- Jerry Silbo: If you've got a bullet-proof vest, Ben, then I hope you plan to sleep in it.
- Detective Mike Logan: [taking pill bottles out of Pawl's coat] What is this?
- James Lee Pawl: For headaches.
- Detective Mike Logan: Lot of headaches for a pinhead.
- Detective Mike Logan: I have a little niece who's retarded, you ask her in the wrong tone to clear the table and she's Frisbeeing the plates.