- Dr. Sid Hammerback: You miss us? The ME's life?
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: Yeah, but I like being in the field. In here, all I ever saw was the victim, out there... I see the crime.
- Dr. Sid Hammerback: I like it in here.
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: Why is that?
- Dr. Sid Hammerback: It's quiet.
- [wondering why their suspect entered an apartment building with a steering wheel lock, but left without it]
- Detective Danny Messer: Well, a knife is just a knife until you stab somebody with it.
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: [about the vic's stomach contents] Some vegetables, some seafood, lobster of some kind, probably in a soup.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Lobster. There's no sign of strangulation on our vic, yet he died from asphyxiation. Allergic reaction?
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: Exactly what I was thinking. He only ate about ten minutes before he died.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Hmm. I thought you only got to choose your last meal on death row.
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: Guy didn't know it was his last meal.
- [victim was accompanied in elevator by mystery woman who left bloody shoe prints]
- Mac Taylor: [checking victim] Belt's undone.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Our woman in heels either knew him or was about to.
- [Detectives Messer and Monroe question waitress about her much older "hookup"]
- Waitress: I went back to his place. I was with him all night... And let me tell you, he didn't go anywhere. Wait, this is in confidence, right? His wife knows my mother.