- Jack McCoy: All those impressionable young minds that you molded over the years. Minds that went on to Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and law school, medical school, or Wall Street. And they got to pay twenty thousand dollars a year to send their kids to kindergarten. Don't you think it's ironic that they owe it all to a man who couldn't even afford to purchase his own apartment? Maybe there were just too busy winking and nodding and shaking the hands of friends of friends to worry about the man behind the men. Or, on the other hand, perhaps they just looked at you as someone who worked for them, the way you looked at Deborah Landon.
- Wyatt Scofield: That school would be nothing without me.
- Jack McCoy: And they owe you.
- Wyatt Scofield: [shouting] Yes!
- [quietly, after long pause]
- Wyatt Scofield: Yes.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Legacies! I wish I had a legacy.
- Detective Ed Green: It's like affirmative action for white folks. Ain't that how George W got into Yale - 'cause his daddy went there?
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Now come to think of it I do have a legacy: my old man went to PS 21 and so did I.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Where were you Sunday evening, Mr Scofield?
- Wyatt Scofield: At home.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Alone?
- Wyatt Scofield: Just me and Dante.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Dante?
- Wyatt Scofield: ...Alighieri.
- [pause]
- Wyatt Scofield: "Purgatorio"?
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Isn't that a strip club in Queen's?
- Detective Ed Green: [referring to Briscoe] I get to spend all day with him!
- Jack McCoy: Scofield has been standing over the oven for twenty-five years. He thought it was about time he got a taste of the pie.
- A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: Now Scofield's out and Anchin's in: that's going to be a hard pill for the parents of the Knowles School to swallow.
- D.A. Arthur Branch: Oh, they'll get over it, once they forget about where his money came from.
- Jack McCoy: It's the American way: yesterday's robber baron is tomorrow's philanthropist.
- A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: What you're really trying to say is cash trumps merit every time...
- D.A. Arthur Branch: ...and twice on Sundays!
- Detective Ed Green: Mrs Wagner, we need to know where you were on Sunday night.
- Clarissa Wagner: Uh, my husband and I were looking for a house in Greenwich. Well, no point in staying in the city humiliated.
- Detective Ed Green: Humiliated?
- Clarissa Wagner: Now everybody knows that Chloe didn't get into Knowles, so we have to go someplace else and start over. It's a shame, because we'd just finished putting Botticelli's Primavera on our bedroom ceiling.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Were you home all evening, Mr Scofield?
- Wyatt Scofield: Except for my constitutional, which I take every evening religiously at 8 o'clock.
- Detective Ed Green: Your "constitutional"?
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: You should watch more "Masterpiece Theatre", Ed.
- Wyatt Scofield: Admissions makes teaching kindergarten look like a day at the beach. The parents can be... Rather zealous, can we say, in pursuit of their goals.
- Clarissa Wagner: For months we worked like maniacs to get Chloe into Knowles. Extra tutors, the interviews, the tests...
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Sounds like a lot of stress.
- Clarissa Wagner: Valium helps.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Not on you; on your daughter.
- Clarissa Wagner: Well, you're never too young to learn how to cope.
- Detective Ed Green: It's only kindergarten.
- Clarissa Wagner: It's not just kindergarten - it's the rest of her life. The right prep school leads to the right college, the right job, the right career, the right husband. It's a carefully calibrated ladder. And if you miss a step - excuse me, that's the caterer, I'll be right back.
- Detective Ed Green: [about Wyatt Scofield] Waters is right, he is a condescending bastard. I wanted to kill him myself.