Stephanie March credited as playing...
ADA Alexandra 'Alex' Cabot
- Alexandra Cabot: [to Cragen] What the hell was that?
- Donald Cragen: Well, you weren't getting him to talk, so I had to give it a shot.
- Alexandra Cabot: What? With the macho cop routine? I could have used the kidnapping charge as leverage if you'd just given me the chance.
- Donald Cragen: I gave you your chance.
- Alexandra Cabot: You lost your cool. You are too emotionally invested in this case.
- Donald Cragen: Damn right.
- Donald Cragen: [to Cabot] We can't play Solomon and split the child.
- Alexandra Cabot: I can't get him into a foster home until tomorrow morning. I hate to do it, but I think Tyler's gonna have to spend the night at the Laight Street Shelter.
- Donald Cragen: Why put him in that hellhole when his grandparents have right of natural guardianship?
- Alexandra Cabot: I don't like it any more than you do, but the law doesn't give grandparents automatic custody...
- Donald Cragen: Just forget the law and just for one minute, think about what's in the best interests of this child!
- Alexandra Cabot: Don't you think I am? Right now, everybody wants a piece of Tyler. Maybe the best place for him is somewhere neutral.
- Donald Cragen: [when Tyler's maternal grandparents arrive] Why don't you tell that to his grandparents?
- Alexandra Cabot: [to Cragen] Got a minute?
- Donald Cragen: Only if you promise not to tell me you told me so.
- Alexandra Cabot: You were just doing your job. Following the lead of a 12-year-old crime.
- Donald Cragen: And now Tyler Blake's the victim and I don't know how to fix it.
- Alexandra Cabot: Then let me help.
- Donald Cragen: You have any suggestions, I'm all ears.
- Alexandra Cabot: Tyler's going to need a law guardian for the adoption hearing. There's a three-week backlog on court-appointed attorneys, so I'll volunteer.
- Donald Cragen: Well, that's a hell of a gesture, Alex, but the law favors the biological parent.
- Alexandra Cabot: The law also says that Tyler is old enough and mature enough to know who he wants to live with. If I'm his attorney, I have to fight for what he wants, and he wants to live with the Blakes.