Jack McCoy quotes from Law & Order

McCoy

Not coincidentally, he's the one who assured us of the school's full cooperation.

Instead, the school circled the limos to keep the Barclay name out of it.

Schiff

I'm shocked.

McCoy

This isn't stink bombs in the boy's room, Adam. They hindered prosecution of an A felony.

Schiff

Now I'm very shocked.

I guarantee you, it was Harrigan that put him up to it. He and his father, they're all alike, with their Irish temper, they lose control, and the next thing you know, you have a murder...

McCoy

Oh, so Harrigan did it because he's a Mick? Detective Logan is a Mick. I'm a Mick, sir. And if you don't shut up, I'll lose control and throw you out of the room!

You don't scare me. You can't lay a hand on us.

McCoy

I don't see anyone here to stop them. [Police Officers] This isn't a music video, son, this is reality. A man is dead, and our patience is wearing thin.

Schiff

Palley's girlfriend is married?

The police didn't tell us.

Schiff

Don't you work here too?

McCoy

If I were Palley, I'd want to give the jury an alternate theory of the crime.

Blame the husband, blame the Mafia, blame the bogeyman.

Schiff

Sometimes the bogeyman is guilty.

McCoy

I'm sorry about the cross-examination, detective, I just had to rule Palley out as a suspect.

Briscoe

Hey, no problem. They pay me plenty to look like an idiot.

Mr. McCoy! You're made them close the clinic. Why?

McCoy

Mrs. Vilardi...

They sent him home. I can't take care of him. I don't know what I'm going to do with him. You took away the only place he had. Do you want him, Mr. McCoy? Can he go home with you now? [McCoy says nothing] I didn't think so.

Schiff

Maybe Mr. Krolinsky's been behaving himself all these years.

McCoy

He just hasn't been caught. I've prosecuted pedophiles before, Adam. They defy rehabilitation.

Schiff

Even golfers retire.

McCoy

Your client is facing conviction on 19 counts of Aggravated Sex Abuse 1. Tack them together, they'll be growing tomatoes on Mars by the time he gets out.

For God's sake, Mr. McCoy, I have a family.

McCoy

I feel sorry for them.

No, listen, I wanna get help. I'm a sick man, I wanna get help-

McCoy

You're an adult! Your victims are children. There's nothing you could say that would make me feel sorry for you.

McCoy

Two in five Americans think homosexuality is a sin.

Schiff

Don't worry about two in five. Worry about one in twelve.

McCoy

If we don't come down hard on Karen Gaines, somebody else'll get the idea that it's okay to turn another courtroom into the O.K. Corral.

Schiff

And if she gets acquitted, what message does that send? I'm not takin' that chance. You're talkin' to her lawyer.

McCoy

Your son was convicted of committing violent crimes, isn't that right?

He wasn't a saint. I didn't say he was. And if he had anything to do with that little girl, then he should've paid by the law! Now, I could live with that, but not with this. [to Karen, furiously] What gave you the right to shoot him like a dog?!

How can you think for a minute that I would let my own child die? What kind of mother do you think I am?! You don't know what I did for her. For ten years, I stayed in a nightmare marriage just so she could have a real home. I fought for custody for her, but he had more money, more lawyers. He turned me into an addict, and then used it against me! That bastard, he stole her away from me. He told her lies about me. He made her afraid of me. I loved her.

McCoy

But you hated your husband more.

You want my testimony? You drop the laundering charges completely, and I get blanket immunity for anything that I say that might tend to incriminate me.

That's ridic-

McCoy

You got it.

[to his attorney] You should be payin' me.

Tuna fish? Is that how you celebrate a victory?

McCoy

It's chicken salad. It's not over 'til after the sentencing hearing. Then it's tuna fish.

Well, I wouldn't go planning my menu just yet. [hands the EADA a notice] My motion for a declaratory judgment with Judge Boucher's decision.

McCoy

Denying it.

Yes. Well, and my appeal and my brief. [hands McCoy her appeal and brief] The way I see it, the New York death penalty statute doesn't even come close to passing constitutional muster.

I was so ashamed of what I did to that detective. Do you know why I kept the gun? I was gonna kill myself.

McCoy

So why didn't you?

Because I don't wanna die. I'm sorry, okay? Please ... [sobs] I don't wanna die!