- Dr. Frederick Barrett: Your Honor, if I may?
- Arraignment Judge Elizabeth Mizener: And you are?
- Dr. Frederick Barrett: Mr. Myer's psychiatrist.
- Arraignment Judge Elizabeth Mizener: How about that? My grandson's pediatrician won't even make a house call.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: My ex-wife used to make me go to therapy.
- Detective Ed Green: Money well spent.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Twice a week I'd lay on the couch and tell him how the orphanage headmaster would beat me on the head with a shoe.
- Detective Ed Green: [laughs] Sounds like something out of Oliver Twist.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: It was.
- John David Myers: Dr Barrett told me to sing when I'm scared.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: He tell you to whistle when you stab naked girls?
- Jack McCoy: We're not gonna turn this into blaming the victim, are we?
- Dr. Emil Skoda: Think back to physics. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. From what I can gather from police reports, Carrie Gunderson was an intolerant, controlling personality, especially where men were concerned.
- Serena Southerlyn: Yeah, she insisted her old boyfriend buy new sheets after two dates.
- Dr. Emil Skoda: Exactly. She demanded that the world be seen through her particular window.
- Jack McCoy: And Myers didn't like the view.
- Dr. Emil Skoda: Most men wouldn't. The male of the species tends not to care whether he drinks his beer out of glass or a can.
- Serena Southerlyn: Oh, come on.
- Dr. Emil Skoda: Okay, all right. That's a trivial example, but you got to admit the American male has been...
- Serena Southerlyn: If you say "castrated", I'm leaving.
- Dr. Emil Skoda: Case in point. Male opinions can't be expressed. Their visceral behavior is no longer tolerated.
- Jack McCoy: [Serena gives him a weird stare] Don't look at me.
- Dr. Emil Skoda: Look around you, Serena. Society is telling men that they're in desperate need of remedy.
- Serena Southerlyn: I'm sorry, are you saying this was one small stab for man, one giant slice for mankind? That is absurd.
- Dr. Emil Skoda: What I really am saying is that it was a giant stab for Myers. He called Carrie Gunderson a pig. He also called dear old mom a pig.
- Jack McCoy: And it was really the latter he wanted on the end of his knife.
- Lisa Cutler: How dare you talk to my client's doctor without talking to me first.
- Jack McCoy: It doesn't feel right being sucker punched, does it, Lisa?
- Arthur Branch: The old check and raise. She set you up with a jab and knocked you out with a cross.
- Jack McCoy: Let's see just how many metaphors we can mix.
- Arthur Branch: Well, I got a ton of 'em. And if this Myers guy walks, you're gonna hear each and every one.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [to Myers, who is lying in shock in his bed] Mr Myers!
- [no response]
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Mr Myers!
- [again no response; long pause]
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: This could run longer than his last show.
- John David Myers: I got six Tonys, two Pulitzers, and a mom who killed my Dad. That's... some résumé.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [referring to Myers's mental state] Put it this way: his piano stool's missing a leg.
