The dummies wanna be famous so bad, they're doin' our job for us.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
JJasmine
What are you? Puerto Rican? Dominican? Some kind of mix?
What does that matter?
JJasmine
Just didn't think you'd fall for that white girl magic, that's all. But I guess everyone does.
[about Tori] To charge her with three counts of murder when she's cooperating with us, that seems like...
The law.
Technically, yes, but the circumstances...
Let me give you some circumstances. G, rather, Gutter18's video has garnered a million hits in two days.
BBaptiste
That's a lot of eyes on this case.
I understand that, but...
I cannot have this office charge a Black man with triple murder and cut a deal with the white woman who set the whole crime in motion.
But it's not as black and white as you make it sound. You gotta hear her story.
BBaptiste
I'm sure it's tragic. But the jails are chock full of sad stories - and nobody gives a damn.
[Sonny has just harshly cross-examined Tori]
I guess your boss is pretty proud of you.
Hey, don't start with me, Rollins. I already feel sick.
I never saw you as a bully.
I'm sorry. I don't get to pick and choose when I do my job. What, are you mad at me about that?
No, I'm not mad at you. I'm sad at you.
Sometimes justice is about compassion. And, all due respect, the question should really be: What kind of office do you wanna run?
The last nine months have been a blur. Until Wheatley goes to trial, there's no closure.
Carisi says that Wheatley's out of postponements. The clock is ticking.
Make it tick faster.
Whoever said crime doesn't pay wasn't a lawyer.
[while cross-examining Bell] By the way, isn't your wife's family currently suing the NYPD for the use of excessive force against your nephew?
Objection! Relevance?
JEJudge Ellery
Mr. Barba?
I'm not sure there is any, your Honor. I just appreciate the irony.
WWheatley
Poor Ange. She's a shell of her former self. She hasn't been the same since her son died.
Hmm. That's not my experience with Angela. She was as if grief was a powerful aphrodisiac.
WWheatley
She was playing you.
Yes, she was... over and over.
WWheatley
Look at you, all puffed out with your Bayside High bravura. When this is over, she'll be right by my side.
Yeah, maybe so. But she'll be thinking of me.
What the hell is wrong with people?
Don't get me started.
These kids, they're minors.
Yeah?
We can't put their photo out in the media even if we arrest them.
Well, they aren't even going to be arrested if we don't get their faces out there.
Faces? All anyone will see is gang project thugs wilding.
So we can't go after hate crimes against Jews if Black kids commit them, is that it?
Okay, so we're missing a few pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. Either way, the city is on boil. So make some arrests and calm this down.
Chief, we can definitely do that, but I don't think we're missing a few pieces. I think what we're looking at is two different puzzles.
And we don't have any pieces of the second one.
[about Povic] Anyone who comes up to a cop on the street is either crazy, lonely, or guilty.
I think he's hittin' all three.
I wish I could say we all get to go home.
But I fired my weapon and we have ten hours of paperwork ahead of us.
Merry Christmas.
MMurtaugh
[to Sonny] Look, you chose this job. Don't be mad because you actually have to do it.
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