CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips quotes from Law & Order: UK

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

Book an ambulance James, because George is SO going to have an aneurysm.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

You know when I was growing up? I saw girls like you. Hanging around the dealers and their shiny BMWs. Getting pregnant before you left school. All of you, thinking “he’s my baby father, he’ll treat me right.” [laughs] Men like Jackson Marshall don’t give a damn about girls like you. They don’t give a damn about their own kids. All they care about is money. Now if you don’t have the guts to stand up, speak out, he’s gonna keep getting away with it, and every time he cocks his gun—every single time some poor kid O.D.s on his drugs that death is on your hands too. That’s three years you’ve missed. Do you want to miss the next twenty? [points to a picture of Tamika’s daughter.] Because unless you’re there to protect her, one day she’s going to be one of those girls, walking through the estate when some dealer swings by in his big shiny car.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

She's as sane as any one of us and you know it.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

And you'd remember if your social worker came round on the night that your kid died.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

See this? Pretty face. Me, more than.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

You can build as big a smokescreen as you like, but the fact remains: Your client shot Matt Devlin for one reason only, because he's a police officer - was a police officer.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

She's not saying he's insane. She's running non-insane automatism, an involuntary act committed while not conscious of actions taken. Most of Jono's blood relatives are in prison. Her defence is that Jono is genetically predisposed to violent behaviour.

CPS Prosecutor James Steel

[scoffs] Oh, she can't run that. It's outrageous. We'd have every criminal in the country making the same case. What's she playing at?

CPS Director George Castle

"Don't blame me, blame my genes." It's bold, I'll give her that. But let's not panic. No sane judge would let that get beyond a hearing. So, who did we draw?

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

Uh, Judge DeMarco.

CPS Director George Castle

Oh God, let's panic.

I'm sorry Sir, the club room is only open to members.

CPS Prosecutor James Steel

I am a member, James Steel.

I do apologise sir, but you'll be aware of our rules governing...

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

Blacks?

Girls.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

I think you mean women.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

[about a gynecologist who sexually abuses and rapes his patients] He'll do it again. He won't stop and what if he goes further next time?

CPS Prosecutor James Steel

Alesha...

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

What if he already has?

CPS Prosecutor James Steel

If no one speaks out...

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

James, I spoke out!

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

How hard did you try, James?

CPS Prosecutor James Steel

I'm sorry?

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

Well, you didn't push him, did you? He gave you the answer you wanted. You wanted him on trial all along.

CPS Prosecutor James Steel

Uh, I did what George sent me to do. Am I happy to be prosecuting Jimmy Valentine? Yeah, he's a policeman who shot a civilian.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

So we make an example of him, rather than let police gain crucial intelligence on a major drug baron?

CPS Prosecutor James Steel

The police want corruption held to account. You ask Matt and Ronnie. They want Valentine in court. I'm doing this for them.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

What if we lose? Valentine walks free, and we've gained nothing.

CPS Prosecutor James Steel

I won't lose. It's time. Are you with me?

CPS Prosecutor James Steel

As long as he takes his pills, his mind works just fine. Which means when he decided to stop taking them, he knew what he was doing.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

Yeah, but it's not like he went out and got high, though. That's his natural state.

CPS Prosecutor James Steel

Well, I'm naturally bad-tempered. It doesn't mean I can punch you whenever you annoy me, which you're doing now, by the way.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

[mock outrage] I'd like to see you try.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

You ok?

DS Matt Devlin

Yeah.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

Thanks for doing this, Matt. [Alesha squeezes his hand]

DS Matt Devlin

Damaged goods? Well if I'd known that, I'd have told you years about about the day Eamon, my goldfish, died.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

You'll be alright.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

Another satisfied member of the James Steel fan club. What do you that winds these people up?

CPS Prosecutor James Steel

Oh you know... breathe.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

What happened to the other one?

DS Matt Devlin

Larry, yeah? He got out. His solicitor managed to get the sexual assault charges dismissed.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

So he's back spreading the love.

DS Matt Devlin

I guess so. I can introduce you if you like.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

Yeah, I think I'll pass. Actually Matt, I need to get a copy of your report.

DS Matt Devlin

You want to check my homework?

CPS Prosecutor James Steel

You should have told me what you were doing.

CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips

You'd only have tried to talk me out of it