D.A. Adam Schiff quotes from Law & Order

He's not your typical killer.

Schiff

He is. He killed somebody.

Schiff

After twenty years in this office, you'd think you'd have a sense of reality.

Reality? The reality is that no one is willing to draw a line in the sand. Nobody is willing to say that the law is the law. And if you break it, you will be prosecuted: win, lose or draw.

Arnette Fenady applied for custody of Wendy Sylvester.

Schiff

She must be crazier than we thought.

No way a court grants her application.

Schiff

No way she was supposed to be acquitted, either.

What kind of mother could she possibly be?

For Wendy's sake, I hope a good one.

Schiff

I never thought I'd get a letter of resignation from you. Thought you'd be here long after I was gone.

It's not entirely about you.

Schiff

That's kind of you, thank you. Steven Green is filing an appeal.

Based on what?

Schiff

Coercion of a witness. Anne Madsen.

Considering the witness is dead, the appeals court should be amused. I brought Claire up to speed on my open cases.

Schiff

She'll be fine. And you?

I'm clear as a bell.

Schiff

What is the matter with this girl?

She's obviously in love, desperately.

McCoy

As much as she is in denial.

Can you blame her? Every aspect of her life was controlled by her mother, almost to the point of cruelty. Martell was her window to the outside world.

McCoy

Not to mention that sleeping with him was a wonderful way of saying "Happy Mother's Day".

Schiff

You spend years trying to protect your children, and then a distinguished citizen like Martell comes along.

McCoy

He didn't just come along. He was invited in.

Schiff

Nice to meet a man who says "'Til death do us part" and means it.

McCoy

If those were my children, I'd want that woman in prison.

Schiff

With a 50% chance that she's innocent? I wouldn't tell that to the next Mrs. McCoy.

She's asked that her sentence to be delayed until she gave birth. She said she didn't want her child to be born in prison.

McCoy

Probably the safest place for the child.

Schiff

By the time she gets out of prison, the kid should be able to defend itself.

Schiff

What is this, Bernie's Bargain Basement? "Cop to four murders, get only five years".

McCoy

When I made the deal, I had no idea.

Schiff

You had no idea because your blood was rushing downstream to somewhere south of the border.

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.

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.

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

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.

Schiff

Danielle Melnick. She ought to have you on retainer. Dig up this other crime, it strengthens her case.

McCoy

I get it. I was supposed to ignore the fact that Leslie Harlan shot up a liquor store.

Schiff

It answers the unanswered question of why the girl didn't try to escape.

If it really was because Trapp forced her to act like a criminal, why didn't Leslie tell us about it?

Schiff

Because she knew that you'd try to use it against her. Now, look what you tried to do with it.

McCoy

Look at what her lawyer did do with it.

Schiff

She's not as smart as her lawyer. You are.