Max and Captain Cragen in “Prisoner of Love”

Max

Take me off this one.

Max, you know I can't...

Max

I'm burned out. This thing disgusts me. This guy's pictures? Porn. If that's art, Hugh Hefner's Michelangelo.

Max, a man is dead here. You're the one saying it's not a suicide.

Max

What do you want me to do, lie? There was someone else there. Chances are, living that life, he'll be dead in a couple of years anyway. As far as I'm concerned, he's going to the same place.

What-what are you talking about?

Max

I'm a Catholic. Call me old-fashioned, but I still believe in sin. Remember sin? Right and wrong? I don't know if it's harps or pearly gates, but whatever it is, these freaks are not going to the same place you and I are, okay?

Wow! I can see this leading to a whole new penological outlook -- we will only pursue homicides where the vic died in a state of grace!