- Mrs. Vilardi: [about her son] Mr. McCoy! You're made them close the clinic. Why?
- Jack McCoy: Mrs. Vilardi...
- Mrs. Vilardi: They sent him home. I can't take care of him. I don't know what I'm going to do with him. You took away the only place he had. Do you want him, Mr. McCoy? Can he go home with you now? I didn't think so.
- Anita Van Buren: What would you do if you thought someone was abusing your kid?
- Detective Mike Logan: This is America, I'd sue the bastard.
- Jack McCoy: You made sure Kevin Jeffries' life could never be fixed.
- Dr. Alan Colter: Can you honestly tell me he's not better off?
- Jack McCoy: I hope that's not your closing argument.
- Detective Mike Logan: [Going through the victim's clothes] Is this his stuff?
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Yeah, here. Watch out for lice.
- Detective Mike Logan: No lice, lots of lint. Kid was travelling light.
- Jack McCoy: You beat a dog often enough, it'll stop barking. He might even do tricks for you, but I wouldn't call that humane.
- Detective Tony Profaci: Looks like Mike's off the hook.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Yeah, maybe now we can string someone else on it.
- Professor Norman Rothenberg: Next you'll lock up my allergist for giving me shots twice a year.
- Jack McCoy: If he hooked up electrodes to your chest and back and gave you electric shocks every 10 minutes, I *might* consider it.
- Claire Kincaid: We just got a judge to tell a mother that she's been talking to herself for 5 months, I don't exactly feel like jumping up and down.
- Dr. Ira Chaikin: I've worked with autistic children for the past 20 years. I've read all the studies done on facilitated communication, and I've seen it used in the field. I haven't seen anything I consider sufficient to say it's valid.
- Jack McCoy: You don't think it works, Dr. Chaikin?
- Dr. Ira Chaikin: There's no proof of its reliability with autistic children. In my opinion, the messages reflect the facilitator's coaching.
- Jack McCoy: Are you saying that there's deception involved?
- Dr. Ira Chaikin: No. More like wishful thinking. For parents, there's nothing better in the world than to have your child say, "I love you," and have a true sense of it. Autistic children can't do that. So, when something comes along that promises meaningful communication, parents and people who work with autistic children believe in it.
- Jack McCoy: Thank you. No more questions.
- Professor Norman Rothenberg: Dr. Chaikin, does facilitated communication have its proponents?
- Dr. Ira Chaikin: Yes. So do Ouija boards.
- Jack McCoy: I don't know whether you're a sadist or a conman, or just a fanatic. Whatever your motive, it's murder.