Mike Logan quotes from Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Logan

Look, there's more to life than just one case. Higher ups have an agenda. You want 30 years in? Deal with it.

Hey! People told me you were a hothead; guys like Hoyle you'd eat for breakfast. What happened?

Logan

[pulling out press clipping of the case that got him transferred out of homicide] After 10 years on Staten Island, you learn to pick your battles.

Logan

You don't drag a senior ADA into the station house.

You do if he's stonewalling!

Capt. Ross

Which is what happens when people throw stones.

[examining Traci Kwon's body at the crime scene] She still has her jewelry.

Logan

But no purse [looks up the stairs] and the apartment was ransacked. Kind of a mixed message, huh?

Who would do something like this?

Logan

I don't know. But I can promise you this: whoever did do this, we're gonna get them.

Thank you, detective.

Why promise something like that?

Logan

Because the scum who did this, if I can't get 'em, just give me the gold watch.

Logan

Gay sex?

No, call girls. Think Spitzer, not McGreevey.

Where's your warrant? Where's your probable cause?

Logan

[points to a warrant in his hand] Here's your warrant. [points to a gun a cop found] And there's your probable cause.

Logan

Should we hold on to him, let him sweat?

Capt. Ross

The beauty of a material witness.

Don't shoot, don't shoot! I'm a lawyer!

Logan

Don't tempt me.

Wheeler

Got a receipt here from Max's Kansas City.

Logan

That used to be a happenin' place. [Wheeler gives him a withering look] Happenin'... it's an expression.

Wheeler

[rolls her eyes] Groovy.

Logan

Let me tell you about you, Kovac - you're a bully. You didn't train him, you broke him down.

I broke him down to build him back up. You and Gabriel took the fight out of him. That's why he couldn't close.

Logan

You are truly out of your mind.

You took away his killer instinct. I gave it back to him.

Logan

My interest is piqued.

Wheeler

"Piqued"?

Logan

It's my new word for the week.

Logan

You know, one of the first cases I ever caught, guy was lying on the kitchen floor with his throat cut. There was a trail of blood out the door, all the way down the hall to the next apartment. So I go, knock on the door, a guy answers with a machete, covered in blood.

Capt. Ross

Yeah? What did he say?

Logan

"It was an accident."

Capt. Ross

This job. It's either tragic or stupid. Usually stupid.

Logan

Yeah, but even when it's stupid, they usually have some kind of a reason.

Capt. Ross

But this kid. Just for the thrill of it.

Logan

But that's the thing. He didn't even enjoy it.

Logan

The only person who could possibly know that a priest talked to us is in the Queen's DA's office - Terri Driver.

Capt. Ross

You're telling me a top ADA is ratting out a prison priest to a con?

Logan

She's running for Attorney General. Who knows what she'd do to protect her reputation?

Capt. Ross

For now, it's a coincidence.

Logan

Coincidence? Do you believe in the Easter Bunny too?

Capt. Ross

What's the matter, do you miss Staten Island?

Take care of yourself, detective, and may God watch over you.

Logan

[Chris Noth's last line on the series] That ought to keep Him busy.