- Arthur Branch: I guess you won't be joining us for the bar association gala tonight.
- Jack McCoy: I'm hoping for a verdict.
- Arthur Branch: You said that two days ago.
- Jack McCoy: Olson called. They're willing to plead to murder two.
- Arthur Branch: Yeah, well, tell him he's got a better chance of catching a bat in a fly trap.
- Jack McCoy: We might have a hung jury, Arthur.
- Arthur Branch: The man made a cynical and heartless decision to murder his wife for money. And the fact that he tried to exploit racial divisions makes it even more heinous.
- Jack McCoy: I agree.
- Arthur Branch: I have faith in this jury. And the good sense of New Yorkers.
- Lennie Briscoe: Hold it right there! Hold it.
- Ed Green: Taking a little trip somewhere?
- Bobby Ito: Going to visit my cousin in L.A.
- Ed Green: Oh, yeah? You got a taxi waiting for you down at the bottom of the fire escape?
- Lennie Briscoe: Hey, Ed. Look at this. A .22.
- Bobby Ito: That's not mine. You guys planted that.
- Lennie Briscoe: Yeah, that's really original. I never heard that before.
- [last lines]
- Serena Southerlyn: Seems kind of fitting after trashing this country, Mr. Yoshida will probably get to spend the rest of his life here.
- Jack McCoy: We got the right guy, but Arthur was playing with fire.
- Serena Southerlyn: When we arrested Yoshida, the truth came out.
- Jack McCoy: You know how newspaper retractions are always on an inside page in small print? You ever wonder how many people see the front page story and miss the follow-up correction?
- Uniform Officer: Couple of Japanese tourists got shot and robbed. Wife took one in the face, husband tried to wrestle with the guy for the gun, got blasted in the arm.
- Ed Green: You get a description of the perp?
- Uniform Officer: Black male, between twenty and thirty.
- Lennie Briscoe: That's it? Height, weight?
- Uniform Officer: He was rambling in Japanese. He's in shock.
- Lennie Briscoe: Yeah, I would be, too.
- Ed Green: What'd the shooter make off with?
- Uniform Officer: Wife's purse, cash and jewelry.
- Ed Green: Where'd it go down?
- Uniform Officer: Over there.
- Lennie Briscoe: CSU on the way?
- Uniform Officer: Should be here any minute. I found a couple of casings.
- Ed Green: Looks like a .22.
- Lennie Briscoe: Yeah, if we get lucky, maybe we'll find the slugs.
- Uniform Officer: Well, we might find the one that winged the husband. The other's still in the wife's skull. No exit wound.
- Lennie Briscoe: That'll wreck your vacation.
- Dr. Nelson: The bullet entered her right cheek at point-blank range, just below the eye, then ricocheted around the brain.
- Lennie Briscoe: Is she gonna make it?
- Dr. Nelson: The damage is extensive. We'll know more in the next few days.
- Ed Green: What about her husband's condition?
- Dr. Nelson: Bullet went through his right upper arm; just missed the brachial artery. He should be okay. Lucky guy.
- Lennie Briscoe: Any chance we can speak to him?
- Dr. Nelson: Keep it brief. I'll get you the room number.
- Ed Green: You'll contact us if Mrs. Yoshida comes out of it?
- Dr. Nelson: Frankly, that's a big "if".
- Lennie Briscoe: The husband's a club owner in Tokyo. Wife's a model. Apparently, they're fairly well-known over there. Celebrities.
- Anita Van Buren: They here on business?
- Ed Green: Mm-mm. Vacation. It was the wife's first time.
- Lennie Briscoe: They decided to pay a visit to Ground Zero, got lost on the way back to the hotel.
- Anita Van Buren: Welcome to the Big Apple.
- Ed Green: We're pulling files on similar M.O.s with that general description.
- Anita Van Buren: What about that red van? Any make or model?
- Lennie Briscoe: No specifics.
- Anita Van Buren: And there were no other witnesses?
- Ed Green: It's a commercial district downtown on a Sunday. The place ain't exactly hopping.
- Anita Van Buren: Makes you wonder what the perp was doing there.
- Lennie Briscoe: Why? You thinking he followed them?
- Anita Van Buren: Innocent tourists gunned down in the street. It's shades of Miami in the '90s.
- Ed Green: I remember that. What, like, uh... twelve tourists got killed in a single year?
- Lennie Briscoe: Yeah, let's hope the press doesn't run with that bull.
- Stephen Olson: Your Honor, my client cannot possibly receive a fair trial in any of the five boroughs. Public opinion is clearly against him.
- Jack McCoy: Mr. Yoshida stages a murder, fabricates a story, blames the city, inflames public opinion, and now he raises the possible backlash as a basis for change of venue?
- Stephen Olson: The point is my jury pool is made up of the very people he badmouthed.
- Judge Thomas Everton: Mr. Olson, where would you propose I move this case, were I so inclined?
- Stephen Olson: Any location other than New York City. Upstate someplace.
- Jack McCoy: Where they share Mr. Yoshida's low opinion of New York City.
- Judge Thomas Everton: Counselor, relax. It was just a hypothetical. Change of venue is reserved for cases that present a bias so pervasive that it cannot be overcome in the normal process of jury selection.
- Stephen Olson: Your Honor, my client is presumed innocent. And as such, is entitled to an unbiased jury.
- Judge Thomas Everton: That's what voir dire is for.