- Hotel Manager: Excuse me, have you any idea when you'll be done in here? The hotel is fully committed.
- Detective Joe Fontana: This is a crime scene. It... it says so right there on the tape.
- Hotel Manager: Yes, but that doesn't tell me when I get the room back.
- Detective Joe Fontana: Can I see you just for a sec?
- [he leads the manager a couple feet into the room]
- Detective Joe Fontana: It's gonna take however long it takes, do you understand me? And if you get in our way, or don't cooperate with us, we're gonna turn this whole hotel into a crime scene. And that's gonna be really bad for business. Now, excuse us.
- Detective Joe Fontana: So are you a Cubs fan or a White Sox fan?
- Angela Gusmarino: How'd you know?
- Detective Joe Fontana: You're kidding me, right? You sound just like my cousin Rose.
- Angela Gusmarino: Cubs, of course.
- Detective Joe Fontana: Me, too. What neighborhood you from?
- Angela Gusmarino: The Patch.
- Detective Joe Fontana: I'm from Little Sicily. I went to St. Michael's.
- Angela Gusmarino: No kidding. My little brother went to St. Mike's.
- Detective Joe Fontana: What's your last name?
- Angela Gusmarino: Gusmarino.
- Detective Joe Fontana: Are you related to Nick Gusmarino?
- Angela Gusmarino: He's my uncle.
- Detective Joe Fontana: I'll be damned. It's a small world, isn't it?
- Detective Joe Fontana: I had a conversation last night with Angela Gusmarino's uncle.
- Jack McCoy: Yes?
- Detective Joe Fontana: And he heard a rumor that Angela and Dr. Lawrence had an affair; that the affair ended badly, and that's why Angela's testifying against him.
- Jack McCoy: Any proof of that?
- Detective Joe Fontana: I talked to some of the women in the office; no one knew anything about it. But I thought I'd tell you about it. In case the defense heard the same rumor, you wouldn't get caught in the switches.
- Jack McCoy: What do you think?
- Detective Joe Fontana: I think Angela Gusmarino is a straight shooter.
- Jack McCoy: Maybe the defense started the rumor, got cold feet.
- Detective Joe Fontana: Could be. In any case, I hope you nail the son of a bitch to the wall.
- D.A. Arthur Branch: Cosmetic surgery. It's an epidemic in this country. Whatever happened to aging gracefully?
- A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: Only a man would say that without a trace of irony. Men age gracefully, Arthur. Women just age.