Nichols quotes from Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Wheeler

Sorry!

What for?

Wheeler

I'm late.

That's understandable.

Wheeler

What's that supposed to mean? Being pregnant is not an excuse!

[placating] You're right, it's not understandable.

[looking at Grace's keepsake photo] Grace kept this on her pillow, like it was a dream - some place to get away from all this.

Eames

I heard you got away for a few years. You feeling some kind of kindred spirit?

Nah, I try to avoid transferrential relationships with dead people - it's always so one-sided.

Eames

[walking back to the car with Nichols] Did you just save all our lives?

You can buy breakfast.

Capt. Ross

Is this someone you've been watching?

No, we have data-miners crawling through credit card transactions.

Eames

Whose credit card transactions?

Uh, I think she means everybody's.

You didn't hear that from me.

Capt. Ross

Thank you, Dick Cheney...

[about Dekker] I see a little boy in a soldier suit. A narcissist. Desperate, craving self-aggrandizement.

Goren

You puff him up.

No problem. I'm a Hemingway fan.

You've been told.

Your evidence is flawed. I'm to be released.

Yeah, you've skated on this. So, someday, I'm gonna be watching CNN or pick up a paper, and there you'll be.

Being praised for the wisdom of my rule.

More likely because somebody you've trusted, as your father trusted you, will have done to you as you did to your father. Will it come as a gunshot fired by a loyal chauffeur? Poison from your favorite wife? Hanged in a basement like Saddam Hussein? It's hard to say. But you know it's coming. You just don't know when.

Listen, I don't know what she knows, but I imagine it's a lot. Jackie, you're gonna get in there right now and give me a deposition incriminating Atwater, because if you don't, I'm going to keep you in a jail cell or a courtroom for the rest of your life because, you know what, I don't think she loves ya anymore.

[smiles] Well played, sir. Old Captain Ross would be proud of you today.

There's something I've wanted to say to you since I met you.

What are you doing?

You have the right to remain silent... sport.

Stevens

You don't spend much time online.

Only work-related.

Stevens

No kids to help with their homework.

Fortunately... for their sake.

I have proven that selfless behavior is a myth. None of us has a choice.

[to Stevens] Tell him about his choices.

Stevens

[handcuffing Hazard] You may choose to remain silent.

There's an old saying in my family: A man only cries when his mother or his dog dies, but for sure over the dog.

Tough family.

Just Greek.

[of her victims] They liked me. I saw the trust in their eyes. It was like the deer.

When it was over, did you whisper in their ear the words that your father that your father told you to say?

[with relish] "Now you know who killed you!"

I'm gonna go with the statistics and say that if this wasn't a robbery it was probably family.

Stevens

I doubt it was the wife. The guy topped 200 pounds. He was an athlete. Plus, he had facial bruises consistent with an actual brawl.

Also, there seems to be no indication that she gained from his death financially.

It's a marriage. Maybe she just got sick of him. [leaves]

What goes on in her house?

My father read Inset. I remember there was this picture of Ursula Andress. She had a brassiere that shot bullets.

Stevens

[wryly] Your father read it?

It was, uh, shared. We fought over the crossword puzzles.

Stevens

You should have been a shrink, like your father wanted.

Serena, I don't care about complaining husbands and cheating wives, and treating people with nervous acne. But I am driven to understand why some people are so different they disrupt our sense of all behavior and logic.