Abbie Carmichael quotes from Law & Order

Carmichael

It's your wife or your mother, Denny. It doesn't get any simpler than that.

Carmichael

"Nice" for Stephanie seems to mean she hasn't killed you yet.

Carmichael

[annoyed that McCoy is willing to plea out a murder suspect in return for secret police files] For God's sake, Jack, why don't you just start your own country? No cops, no bad guys, just sweetness and light as far as the eye can see!

Carmichael

Doctors. I can't believe my mother wanted me to marry one.

Carmichael

[dealing with a defendant who makes wild changes to his story] It's a suicide, it's an accident, it's a breath mint! This guy gives me a headache!

Carmichael

I love litigating in the dark.

Carmichael

Gentlemen, if we could just lower the amount of testosterone a little bit.

McCoy

I could probably get an indictment for manslaughter.

Carmichael

Manslaughter?! They never gave that baby a chance. They faked an identity for her. They never told anyone she needed medical attention.

Schiff

I don't see any intent here to kill this baby.

Carmichael

It's depraved indifference. Murder-2. They knew the baby was going to die. They didn't care one way or the other.

Schiff

Assumption. Charge them with Man-one.

Carmichael

We send a message that it's sort of okay to kill a baby? This isn't a couple of teenagers who killed their newborn because they were scared. These are two adults who went to a lot of trouble to dump a dying child and to cover their tracks. I may be the new kid here, but to me this sounds like murder.

McCoy

They'll be pariahs for the rest of their lives.

Carmichael

They lose a few friends. That's your idea of justice?

McCoy

3-6 years in a state prison is not a cake walk. How many drug dealers got a free pass from you?

Carmichael

The ones who could give me someone bigger in return. All the Connerys have to offer is their plea-bargained remorse. She's still trying to blame it on Kostov. Did you see her husband cut her off?

McCoy

She's the least culpable of the 3.

Carmichael

[exasperated] Oh, gentlemen, please! That sorry excuse for a woman has a hole in her soul.

Schiff

That's enough.

McCoy

I can take care of myself, Adam.

Schiff

Then remain objective. It was Edward Connery's actions that directly caused the little girl's death, and he's an attorney. He knew what he was doing.

McCoy

The Connerys will never do this again. Kostov has and will, over and over again.

Schiff

Are Kostov's children better off in the new homes?

Carmichael

All but Marianna. [beat] I have a solution that will make us all happy.

McCoy

What's that?

Carmichael

No deals for anybody. Let's hang 'em all.

Carmichael

Man-1 all around. I'll start working on the pre-sentencing reports. Any suggestions?

McCoy

You mean who should spend more time in prison? Kostov or the Connerys? Don't get me started.

Carmichael

We can always skip the report and take no position. Leave it to the judge.

McCoy

Let's do that for the sake of world peace.

Carmichael

The Warings filed a petition to get their son back. We have until the end of the week to file our objections.

McCoy

Can you and I agree that we're too busy?

Carmichael

[beat] Deal.

McCoy

Your first death sentence. You OK with it?

Carmichael

I only have one thing bothering me. Ray-Ray, the squeegee man? The cops told him which one was Fortelli.

McCoy

I know, I told them to. Perfectly legal. We were never going to use the identification at trial anyway.

Carmichael

Legal or not...

McCoy

Major felonies, Abbie. Welcome to the bigs.

McCoy

[about Downing] He's the man in the gray flannel suit.

Carmichael

With a syringe in the pocket.

This is just about the Downing boy.

Carmichael

Yeah, just one dead little boy. That help you sleep better?

McCoy

The New York County District Attorney's Office can't - no, won't - knowingly convict a man of the wrong crime. What are you thinking?

Carmichael

I'm just taking a page from the Jack McCoy playbook. Nobody gets to bend the rules but you?

McCoy

I've bent the rules to convict the right person of the right crime. This isn't bending. It's turning the law against itself.

Carmichael

You once hid a witness to get the result you wanted.

McCoy

And I was wrong then. You're wrong now. Don't wait until until you're facing a disciplinary committee to realize it.

Carmichael

A week from tomorrow, you'll be on a plane, sandwiched between 2 of Houston's finest.

[panicked] You can't do this!

Carmichael

You'll have a speedy trial. Your lawyer will file a couple of appeals. He'll lose. And before you know it, bang, there's that pesky needle.

[to McCoy] What are you doing? You're just sitting there. Make her shut up!

McCoy

Miss Carmichael...

Carmichael

I'm not done. I'm going to be there, and if they'd let me do it, I'd push one of the plungers, and pray it's the one that delivers the fatal dose.

Get her out of here! Get her out!

Carmichael

How does it feel, Mr. Bergstrom? You killed all those women, and now a woman is going to return the favor.

You won't...

Carmichael

Pretty damn ironic, isn't it?

You won't kill me, I won't let you.

Carmichael

Try and stop me.

I'll plead to one of the other ones. The one by the train tracks.

Hang on...

McCoy

Murder-1, life without parole.

Mr. Bergstrom...

Yeah, okay! She doesn't say what happens to me!

Carmichael

[pause] Fine. If you change your mind, I'll be waiting...

No, you sit! You listen to what I did to her. [with relish] I cut her, and she screamed. I burned her, and she screamed louder. I pushed my fist into her, and she passed out. I made her say she admired me. I had total control. Total.