One of the perps was a 6-foot tall white man. Makes you a viable suspect.
SSeth
This is bull!
No, that's racial profiling. Sucks, don’t it?
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You’re good. You got your own mother to alibi you, and, to tell you the truth, we believed her.
She’s a bigger sociopath than you.
MMitch
Everyone assumes she did something awful to me, but she didn’t.
You’re a liar.
MMitch
She never abused me once.
You’re a liar.
MMitch
Not physically, not psychologically...
You’re a liar! That woman did something terrible to you, boy.
MMitch
I wish. Poor old thing. She got hate mail, death threats. People spit on her in the street. But she stuck it out there, just to see me. Now that’s love.
No, that’s denial. You think that your mother can't be broken? You think you're in total control of her? You just watch me!
MMitch
Bring it on, bitch!
If she dies because you're holding out on us, I will personally stick that needle in your arm myself, you little prick.
Benson [to a suspect covering for her lover]: "Stand By Your Man" sounds much better when Tammy Wynette sings it.
I've got a psychic who says she can channel Annika for the right price.
Let me guess. She's in a cold, dark place near a body of water.
It's a fact that Aptril causes anxiety and insomnia.
AAlex
I suffer from anxiety and insomnia. I don't go around and shoot people.
AAlex
I need your advice.
Lie down on the couch.
AAlex
Not that sort of advice.
JJavier
I didn't want to let her in.
Why did you?
JJavier
She sounded desperate. [pause] Okay, she gave me 40 bucks.
Lady, I've got 4 kids. If I ever talked to one of them like that, I'd arrest myself.
Dr. Greta Heints My God! If I'd have known that I never would have taken him down that path.
Okay, you live like a monk, how come somebody wouldn't have any pictures or nick-nacs around?
Some of us appreciate simplicity, others of us lost the nick-nacs in the divorce settlement.
Look, we had a good run. Conviction rates are up. We had to get screwed sometime.
Cesar Velez can probably do more damage to Zapata now than the justice system ever could.
AAlex
It just-- It never seems like enough, you know. The Feds'll get Zapata for killing Donovan. But what about Livia Sandoval? She dies without any justice, and we're supposed to be happy about it? We tell ourselves that we speak for the victims, but we don't. We can close cases. But the victims, even if they survive, their lives are ruined. I just get so sick of it.
Alex, we can't always win.
AAlex
But that's just it. Even when we win, we don't.
I wanted straight homicide. No living victims, all the glory.
Lesson #1: Nobody is prepared to handle the children.
Got a minute?
When you save a young girl's life, you get 2. Have a seat.
I can't do this.
Sure you can. Just bend your knees and let gravity take over.
[after Kevin has confessed]
It's not coercion.
You pushed Kevin into a psychotic break so I would drug him so you could coerce his confession.
I did what I had to do to save that boy.
Great. What are you gonna do next? Bash in people's skulls to make 'em talk?
You know, your way, Adam wouldn't have been found until he was starved to death.
All right, that's enough, both of you. Did the medication hurt Kevin?
No.
Then what's the harm?
Unless a court forces him to, it's Kevin's choice whether to take it. We don't have the right to make that decision for him.
Do me a favor. Stop treatin' this perp like he's your patient.
He became my patient the second I gave him that injection!
Then do me a favor. Start thinkin' about the victims here. The kid he kidnapped. The 2 people he stabbed. They're your victims, Doc! Not Kevin!
You made Kevin a victim, and I'm gonna testify on his behalf if this goes to trial, which Kevin will win since you handed the defense its case!
How'd I do that?
They're gonna make you say that he wasn't rational until he was medicated, which means he's not responsible for his actions before then. You get it now?!
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