- Eileen Willick: I'm not a good mother.
- Lennie Briscoe: Why do you say that?
- Eileen Willick: My babies cry all the time. Other people's babies don't cry.
- Lennie Briscoe: What did you do when your babies cried?
- Eileen Willick: I want to go to the bathroom.
- Eileen Willick: Nobody appreciates what it's like. After you give birth, they all come and visit you. They're all so proud of you. But after a while, they stop coming.
- Executive ADA Jack McCoy: Emily Willick was suffocated with a pillow. Did her mother hold the pillow, or did her father? It doesn't really matter. Because the one who watched, who didn't rip the pillow away - who didn't fight tooth and nail for Emily's life - is equally guilty.
- DA Adam Schiff: Always nice to find a fella who says, 'Til death do us part,' and means it.
- Executive ADA Jack McCoy: If those were my children, I'd want that woman in prison.
- DA Adam Schiff: On a 50% chance that she's innocent? Wouldn't tell that to the next Mrs. McCoy.
- Executive ADA Jack McCoy: I'm trying to stop a serial killer. If you think I'm wasting the resources of this office...
- DA Adam Schiff: If you believe that you have a serial killer, go to trial. But don't expect it to be a walk in the summer rain.
- [last lines]
- ADA Claire Kincaid: She tried to delay her sentence until after she gave birth; she didn't want her baby being born in prison.
- Executive ADA Jack McCoy: Probably the safest place for the child.
- DA Adam Schiff: By the time Mom gets out of Bedford, the kid should be able to defend itself.
- ADA Claire Kincaid: Once you open the door to state interference in a person's body, everyone from anti-abortionists to advocates of sterilizing the retarded will come marching through!
- Executive ADA Jack McCoy: Don't kid yourself - the state already interferes with your body! You can't legally inject heroin into your veins; you can't legally commit suicide. And the state has the right to put your body in a uniform, and send you off to war. Twelve states already have compulsory sterilization laws! I'm not breaking any new ground here.
- ADA Claire Kincaid: It's morally repugnant.
- Executive ADA Jack McCoy: It's a medical procedure; it's morally neutral. If it's used to wipe out a race of people, it's evil. If it prevents a killer from creating new victims for herself, it serves a moral good... I know it's not the popular thing - but it may be the only thing that'll stop her.
- Dr. Charles Webb: She's a sympathy junkie; she needs to play the grieving mother.
- ADA Claire Kincaid: And once the grieving's over?
- Dr. Charles Webb: The world goes back to normal, and everyone forgets about poor Eileen... until the next baby dies.
- Executive ADA Jack McCoy: Alright - I didn't want it to come to this... I'll agree to a plea, on one condition: That she agrees to a tubal ligation.
- DA Adam Schiff: You're riding your motorcycle without a helmet. You want to have her sterilized?
- ADA Claire Kincaid: I heard it was a popular procedure in Germany, fifty years ago.
- Executive ADA Jack McCoy: Now, hold on. I'm not goose-stepping anybody into the operating room, first of all. Second, as long as she can have babies, this woman's killing spree is going to continue.
- ADA Claire Kincaid: If your crystal ball is that good, I'll tell the mayor we don't need the police anymore.
- Trial Judge Manuel Leon: If I were you, I'd take another look at your scales. We don't punish people for crimes they haven't committed *yet*.
- Anita Van Buren: Look, I don't care if this child was beamed up by E.T. Let's just find her before she's old enough to go to kindergarten.
- Asst. M.E.: The baby was clean, well-fed and wearing a new diaper. Everything Dr. Spock says you should do for a baby.
- Lennie Briscoe: Yeah. I guess I skipped the part about stuffing them in a cooler.
- Eileen Willick: [about her babies' deaths] I didn't kill them. Can't you see how this all hurts me? All of my babies die and nobody understands me!
- Marty Willick: You don't understand about Eileen - she's always felt lonely. She told me how her parents never gave her any love. These babies were important to her. She'd dress them up, she'd show them off; she had so much love for them... Eileen can't be alone; she needs me. I'll be there for her, Mr. McCoy - no matter what.