- Detective Joe Fontana: Boy, would I like to do this the old-fashioned way. 15 minutes with Jacobs, I guarantee you, we'd have that kid.
- Detective Ed Green: If it comes to that, you're gonna have to get in line behind me.
- Judge Deidre Hellstrom: Mr. Jacobs, this negotiated arrangement with the People is something I find contrary to the interests of justice. A child taken by you against her will, returned by you to her lawful custodian in exchange for your freedom is an agreement against public policy. Therefore, I find that mandating enforcement of an agreement reached under these circumstances would be a perversion, not a fulfillment, of jurisprudence. I will not honor it. Your sentence is my discretion, Mr. Jacobs. I'm imposing the maximum time allowed by law.
- Margot Bell: Your honor, my client withdraws his guilty plea.
- Judge Deidre Hellstrom: That's certainly his right. He wants a trial, we'll conference tomorrow afternoon to set a date.
- Dwight Jacobs: What are you talking about? We had a deal! You can't do this.
- Judge Deidre Hellstrom: You had no deal with me, Mr. Jacobs.
- Dwight Jacobs: What? No, no, no, no. We had a deal!
- [charges at McCoy]
- Dwight Jacobs: We had a deal, you son of a bitch!
- Judge Deidre Hellstrom: That's enough! Officers, remove the defendant from the courtroom!
- Dwight Jacobs: [to McCoy as he's taken out of the courtroom] You made a deal, you son of a bitch! Son of a bitch! We had a deal! We had a deal!
- Jimmy Clark: I didn't do nothing!
- Detective Ed Green: You run pretty fast for someone who didn't do nothing.
- Jack McCoy: If you want to fire me, Arthur, go ahead. I'm not going to apologize for what I did.
- Arthur Branch: Well, then, you just don't get it, Jack. You know, you're a great prosecutor, but you'll never be a district attorney.