Bernard quotes from Law & Order

American cheese and chocolate milk. Must be off the children's menu.

Pretty girl like this, I wonder whose menu she was on.

I didn't kill no gay dude!

It's beneath you. Straight guys never have a problem with two girls together, huh? It's kinda hot. But two guys... it's the ass thing, right?

Does that skeev you, Cedric? Imagining what two guys do together? The ins, the outs, what goes where?

[defensively] Doesn't bother me.

Oh, 'cause maybe he likes it. Is that it? Maybe that's why you were downtown. Lookin' for a little taste. Somethin' on the down-low.

You like a nice ass?

Shut up! You shut up! I ain't no fag!

Hi-Top isn't much of a housekeeper.

Well, you know, the single crackhead lifestyle...

Look at that. He was bleeding before he went down.

Bleeding like that from a stroke?

Not from a stroke. I've never seen anything like this before.

We have. It's called homicide-itis.

White people stealing blood?

Yeah, time to bring out the garlic and silver bullets.

Johnny's apartment was clean. No weapons. No trace of explosives. A "love to watcher". He's not a doer.

Lt. Van Buren

Then find the doer.

The car in the video was a silver Civic, any one of 5 model years. Tens of thousands in the state.

It's like fishing for a needle in the ocean. Old Chinese saying.

Lt. Van Buren

Just do it. Old American saying.

It's these damn cameras. They cause a lot of trouble.

Maybe. That's one way to look at it. Another is that cameras keep us accountable.

First time in twenty years people actually care about a Black man getting shot.

That's funny. If it was a joke. If not, you can save your speech for someone else, because I am not in the mood for politics right now.

Big tech has changed the world. Electric cars, artificial intelligence, virtual reality.

Hard to keep up.

Is that your way of saying that you're not happy with it?

Just because it's shiny doesn't mean it's good.

Looks like our D.O.A. was a judge.

Not the verdict he was looking for.

Judge's wife said he was preoccupied.

Nothing like a side piece to preoccupy someone. Also doubles the chances of you getting bludgeoned to death in a parking garage.

Forensics came back on the fire extinguisher. They recovered a hair. Didn't belong to the victim and it didn't match anyone in the system.

Well, that eliminates Weisman.

I sent to a private lab for geneology and disease analysis.

Pulling out all the stops, huh?

He was a judge, Kevin. C'mon, you know I wish we had the resources to go the extra mile for every unsolved, but we don't.

Funny how they always manage to find the cash when the victim's a white dude from the Upper East Side, but when it's a poor Black kid from East Flatbush? "Oh, I'm sorry, we don't have it in the budget."

I hear you...

Do you?

[about Hoyt] I heard he was running for Congress and the power brokers in the Democratic Party were making him out to be the best new thing. Like AOC with some brains. [chuckles] That was a joke. Sorry. Didn't mean to offend your left wing sensibilities.

You didn't offend us. It wasn't funny.

I run a media business. I give the people what they want. Real people. Real, honest, hard-working, middle class people who love this country, who can't relate to the rich, coastal elites who control the media and the political narrative. C'mon, you really think some roofer from Akron with a mortgage and three kids gives a rat's ass about somebody's pronoun?

So you don't really believe that liberals eat babies or that Black people's obsession with racism is destroying the country?

It doesn't matter what I believe. It matters what sells.

Who found the body?

[pointing to the witness] She was walking to work and saw the fancy trunk. Tried to wheel it off, realized there was something inside, opened it up. She wasn't expecting to find a bare-assed dead dude, that's for sure.

Mama always said you see something in the street, leave it be.