Mike Logan quotes from Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Barek

We're not far from the Pekonic Indian reservation.

Logan

Talk about feeling like a stranger in your own country.

Barek

Them or us?

Barek

That's just what they need. An addiction-driven economy.

Logan

Hey, it's better than no economy at all.

You're going to let that run wild in my opera house?

Logan

Don't worry. Dexter's housebroken.

Logan

Guy's already got a reputation. Lawsuit might have cost him big time.

So he killed her. Guy's seen too many operas.

If I'd known I would be grilled by some Visigoth --

Logan

A what?

Barek

It's a barbarian tribe that invaded Rome.

Logan

Oh.

Barek

I remember that from the one history class I didn't cut.

I'm sure you were a very charming street urchin.

You think I need inducements to get what I want? On any night, I can point my baton at any woman in the audience and she's mine.

Logan

Well, whatever little stick that you pointed at her, we think you swatted it down with the threat of a lawsuit.

Logan

Waterproof to cover a wound? Maybe it's not for nothing he's wearing a turtleneck.

Barek

We need to find someone who's seen him without his shirt on. Unless you want to take a schwitz with him.

Logan

They don't pay me enough.

Logan

These girls have boyfriends?

Super says no. They were nice, quiet girls.

Logan

Well, they are now.

Barek

Her area of research is death?

It's how people use magical thinking to deal with the uncertainties of death.

Barek

Magical thinking. So you can control events with your thoughts.

Or with ritualistic behavior.

Logan

Like crossing yourself when you pass a hearse.

Barek

She's got that one here along with getting your throat blessed so you don't choke on a fish bone.

Logan

That doesn't work?

Barek

There is ash on their forehead.

Rodgers

Frankincense. And almond oil on their lips.

Barek

Some kind of Last Rites?

Rodgers

A killer worried about their afterlife?

Logan

He should've worried about his own.

Logan

Hi.

Hi.

Logan

I just thought you should know you've got seeds falling out of your pocket.

Oh!

Logan

Don't worry. I won't tell anyone. What you got in there?

Logan

A parakeet!

I saw him at the pet shop on the way here. And there was something so familiar about him.

Logan

Familiar?

I think it's my late husband.

Oh, it's a young bird and doesn't know how to talk yet, so I don't know for sure.

Logan

She keeps taking money out every week until December. And the same thing happens. She stops paying, she gets sicker.

Barek

Here again, in February, when she starts paying again, she gets better.

Someone's playing her health like a yo-yo to get money out of her.

Logan

Must be a trick you learn in nursing school.

Logan

Barek. What's with you and the voodoo stuff?

Barek

I respect it. Same as any religion. They have a supreme God, and spirits that they can negotiate with. It's like my mother praying to the Virgin Mary for a girl, or my father praying to Saint Joseph for a job.

Logan

I didn't say I believe in that either.

Barek

Yeah, but still, my mother had me, and my father put three kids through school.

Logan

But voodoo?

Barek

If white people believed in voodoo, it wouldn't have the stigma it has.

Rodgers

You alright, detective?

Logan

Hm? Yeah. I got a rash.

Rodgers

You mind if I look?

Logan

Go ahead.

Rodgers

It might be impetigo.

Rodgers

You feel feverish. You want, I could examine you.

Logan

Yeah, well, maybe when I'm dead.

Logan

God....

Barek

You seen a doctor yet?

Logan

Yeah, those jokers at the HMO. They tossed a coin, heads it was Lyme disease, tails it was shingles.

Barek

It started right after we saw Lydia. She warned you.

Logan

Ooooh. A spell. Listen. What I don't believe, won't hurt me.