Law & Order: Criminal Intent · Season 1
[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.
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.
[about the murder victim] He embraced good causes.
He also embraced any woman who got close enough for a smell test.
Once again, Detective Goren has an irritating way of being right.
[Nichols discovers a booby-trap for the police and has warned everyone away.]
[walking back to the car with Nichols] Did you just save all our lives?
You can buy breakfast.
Is this someone you've been watching?
No, we have data-miners crawling through credit card transactions.
Whose credit card transactions?
Uh, I think she means everybody's.
You didn't hear that from me.
Thank you, Dick Cheney...
[to Nichols, who is acting like Goren] You're starting to remind me of someone.
This one's taller.
So he died covering for your little covert operation?
Look, no one regrets more than we do that...
Oh come on, with the regrets! You can't keep us from him! We do what our boss tells us, and you're not our boss, [points to Ross' body] our boss is over there. You're not gonna stop us!
[about Dekker] I see a little boy in a soldier suit. A narcissist. Desperate, craving self-aggrandizement.
You puff him up.
No problem. I'm a Hemingway fan.
You think he's the money trail?
I am going to try and find out.
I really feel I should try to talk you out of this.
But that's always been a wasted effort.
Yeah. [pause] Right.
[to Nichols] Making deals that are painful, doing things we hate... sometimes it's part of our job.
[Nichols is forced to make a deal with the FBI to let Hassan go]
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.
[to Galloway] You wanna make it to City Hall? Let me give you a tip. Don't ever look reluctant to help me investigate a cop killing.
[Nichols has turned Moira and Dooley against each other]
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.
[Nichols and Stevens arrive to arrest Atwater]
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.
Sometimes we hate the innocent and like the guilty.
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