- [investigators can't explain why a victim was home]
- Catherine Willows: Hey, if you can explain the behavior of teenagers, more power to you.
- Catherine Willows: We're going to need urine samples so we can test for nicotine in your systems.
- Jessica Abernathy: My house is burned down. My daughter is dead. And you want me to pee into a cup. Sure. Why not?
- Sara Sidle: It's always encouraging when public bathrooms are out of soap.
- [later]
- Sara Sidle: Asphyxiated and head bashed in. No soap was the least of his problems.
- Viva Charles: There's a difference between a pyromaniac and an arsonist, you know?
- Nick Stokes: What is the difference?
- Catherine Willows: [to Jessica Abernathy] Do you know anyone who might want to set fire to your home?
- Jessica Abernathy: I go to work. I take care of my kids and my mother, and that's my life.
- Viva Charles: I go home, I rip open my junk mail and I put it in the fireplace. It's an impulse control disorder, but it's private. I don't burn down houses and kill children.
- Nick Stokes: Maybe not on purpose, but accidents do happen.
- Nick Stokes: I collected these matchbooks from the pyromaniac's house who was... kind of hot, actually.
- Greg Sanders: Really? You dig chicks who dig fire?
- Nick Stokes: [while reading a newspaper] McKinley High School Gazette. This is tomorrow's edition with the lead story by editor-in-chief Sabrina Abernathy, entitled "Varsity Hazing Ritual." Now listen to this: "The question is not whether the so-called student athletes should be expelled, but whether or not they should be arrested."
- Warrick Brown: Why, what'd they do?
- Nick Stokes: Apparently, something with several hookers and a lot of testosterone.
- Greg Sanders: Whatever happened to toilet paper and trees?
- Rick Chilson: Cody's in bed every night at 10:00. He gets up at 5:00 to go running.
- Nick Stokes: Except for the nights he's with the team pulling a train on a hooker.
- Greg Sanders: Everyone except for the little guy was getting high and getting by. The girl's on uppers, mom's on downers and grandma sucks on the cancer stick.
- Catherine Willows: Ritalin, valium and Grandma's a liar.
- Greg Sanders: Pants on fire.
- Catherine Willows: Mrs. Abernathy, did your daughter have attention deficit disorder?
- Jessica Abernathy: Sabrina? No. That girl had the focus like you can't believe.
- Catherine Willows: Well, we found Ritalin in her system, and as I'm sure you're aware, ritalin is used to treat kids with ADD, but acts as a stimulant in older kids and adults. Teens use it as an upper.
- Jessica Abernathy: So, Sabrina was taking drugs?
- Catherine Willows: As were you. Valium.
- Jessica Abernathy: Fair enough. You know, Sabrina used to scream at me, "I can't wait till I'm old enough to move out of here." And I would scream back, "Yeah, me either." What kind of mother says that to her kid?
- Catherine Willows: One with a teenage daughter.
- Jessica Abernathy: You know what I pictured for this part of my life? Saturday night, leave the kids with grandma, date night with my husband. Instead, I'm stuck home alone with two kids and a 70-year-old infant.
- Nick Stokes: Well, Rick Chilson did call Sabrina a bitch when we were talking.
- Catherine Willows: Charming.
- Nick Stokes: Yeah, he's an ass, but his alibi checks out. Surveillance at the Mirage has him playing poker the night of the fire.
- Catherine Willows: What about Cody?
- Nick Stokes: He was right there with him, but I don't think that kid takes a breath without Daddy's nod of approval.
- Warrick Brown: You know, Sam. That word that you wrote on the floor, you know, that's a really bad word.
- Sam Abernathy: I hear it all the time. My grandma says it.
- [strikes a match and puts in the mug]
- Sam Abernathy: My mom says it.
- [strikes another match and puts it in the mug]
- Sam Abernathy: And my sister says it.
- [strikes another match]
- Sam Abernathy: Well, she used to say it.
- [blows the match out and watches the smoke rise from it, then drops in the mug]