- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [referring to Peterson] You didn't happen to overhear what he was talking about on his phone, did you?
- Gianni Agnelli: [sarcastically] Sure! I became the most popular restaurant in Soho by listening to my customers' conversations and telling the police.
- Sally Champlin: [referring to Peterson] I invited him back to my place for coffee.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: You invite all your interview subjects home, or just the rich ones?
- Sally Champlin: What do you think? Anyway, he passed.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [looks her up and down] Unbelievable!
- Sally Champlin: No kidding. 'Cause I make great coffee!
- Richard Peterson: I picked up the coins the day before
- Jack McCoy: And hid them in your sock drawer?
- Francis Dunlap: So, he'll plead to, uh, "unusual storage in the first degree".
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: You're the Contessa of Alto-Perugia?
- Paulette Walker: [strong southern US accent] That's right. "Alto" means upper.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: I take it you're from the southern part of the upper?
- Paulette Walker: South Carolina, actually. My late husband, the Count, was from Italy. We met at a golf tournament in Florida.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: He was a golfer?
- Paulette Walker: No, he sold cookware.
- Paulette Walker: [referring to Peterson] He's a friend of mine too.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Does he make you laugh?
- Paulette Walker: [flirtatiously] Detective, I believe you're trying to make me laugh!
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [searching Peterson's apartment] Nice suits, nice carpet. You could put a swimming pool in that closet.
- Detective Rey Curtis: Yeah Lennie, but is he happy?
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [laughing] I'd be ecstatic!
- D.A. Adam Schiff: And our Swiss banker friends...
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: ...who stole the coins in the first place.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Yeah. What refugees are they taking deposits from now, as they yodel their way to the bank?
- Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: Your father must have talked about his coins.
- Judith Sandler: [dismissively] Pieces of metal
- Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: They mattered to him.
- [pause]
- Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: Why do you think that was? After all he's been through, why were they so important?
- Judith Sandler: They weren't!
- Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: A few pieces of metal.
- Judith Sandler: [sobs] His family, his business, the house he grew up in, his dogs.
- [screaming]
- Judith Sandler: He wanted to get one thing back!
- Richard Peterson: [hands Briscoe a historic coin] Here, touch this. Feel that. Plato might have bought lettuce with that coin. Pericles may have had his sandals fixed, hired a prostitute, bought a slave...
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [hands coin to Curtis] ... bribed a cop?
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: How come rich guys always owe a billion dollars?
- Detective Rey Curtis: High finance, Lennie!
- Richard Peterson: Why would I kill my friend over three percent of my net worth?
- Detective Rey Curtis: Leverage, Peterson. It was collateral for part of one loan for the airline, that was part of your transportation holding company, which was financed up to your eyebrows. So, you pull out one brick from that wall, it comes crashing down, you gotta go back to collecting Lincoln pennies.
- Richard Peterson: [dismissively] Rey, Rey, Rey, Rey! Do me a favor: go to business school for a couple of years before you explain my financing to me, OK?
- Detective Rey Curtis: [to Van Buren, who has summoned him to leave the interrogation room] I can't talk right now: I have to go to business school.
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: Mrs Schoenberg, did you ever call a man named Richard Peterson about the coins?
- Ann Schoenberg: No.
- [grimaces]
- Ann Schoenberg: If they were at my feet, I wouldn't bend down to pick them up.
- Jack McCoy: We have laws here, Ms Sandler, we have rules.
- Judith Sandler: They had laws in Nazi Germany, too.
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: Latent came up empty on the murder weapon: the surface was bumpy.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: From now on, we'll have to issue smooth lead pipes to all the murderers.
- Detective Rey Curtis: Were you at the Campbell Gallery last week?
- Chad Markham: Yeah. Is this about that murder? Do you know who did it?
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Well, we're working on it.
- Chad Markham: If you're talking to me, you must be nowhere.