Connie Rubirosa quotes from Law & Order

Connie

I used to think this was about an immigrant chasing the dollar, but maybe it's just good old-fashioned American greed.

Connie

[to Cutter, concerning Talley] You know, if she she weren't such a lying slut and a disgrace to her profession and, y'know, an accessory to murder... you two might have really hit it off.

Connie

[to Teale] You're an infant. You think your life sucks now, Mr. Teale? Just wait and see where you wake up tomorrow. And unlike your sister's condition, this will be a nightmare of your own making.

Connie

I grew up thinking Roe v. Wade was gospel and that a woman's right to privacy was inviolated. But after hearing that woman on the stand talking about her baby dying in her arms ... I don't know. I don't, I don't know where my privacy ends and another person's dignity begins.

McCoy

[about Goodwyn] That's why I'll never get married again.

Connie

Whoa, she was your...

McCoy

Second wife's attorney.

Docket #48215. People v. Leon Wayne Vorgitch. Charges are 8 counts of murder in the first degree, escape in the first degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.

How does the defendant plead, Mr....

Kiss my ass! That's how I plead.

Control your client, counselor.

I'll do my best, your honor. He pleads not guilty.

And since he's already serving three life sentences for mass murder, bail's not an issue.

Connie

But which cell he's returned to is, your honor. The defendant obtained the tools for his escape while incarcerated at Green Haven. People ask that corrections place him in a federal super-max facility pending trial.

Mr. Edlund?

No objection, your honor.

So ordered. [bangs gavel]

[as the court officers escort him out] You can lock me up wherever you want, bitch.

We're done! Get him out of here!

You can lock me up wherever you want, 'cause that's all you can do. And next time I get out, I'm comin' straight for you, bitch! [to the court officers] Get your hands off me.

I did exactly what you were trying to do. Everyone agreed he should die.

McCoy

I was seeking to have Vorgitch legally executed.

And I executed him. How can you come after me for that?

McCoy

Because New York doesn't have a do-it-yourself death penalty, Mr. Purcell.

I don't care what the law says.

Connie

That's hardly a defense.

McCoy

Ask me how I sleep at night.

Connie

How do you sleep at night?

McCoy

Like a baby.

Connie

So, adopting a baby was just a publicity stunt?

I was giving Christopher a better life, and I was drawing attention to a region of the world that is buckling under an AIDS pandemic.

McCoy

Save that for the press, Mrs. Archer.

Was he going to be raised by the nanny? Yes, but so is my daughter, and so are the children of a lot of working women.

McCoy

Not to the extent that their children are unrecognizable to them.

Connie

[over a scotch with McCoy] I wanna have kids, you know? I wanna wake up with them in the morning, make them breakfast, see them off to school, and tuck them in at night. I just can't imagine seeing them as a burden.

McCoy

Some people are wired wrong. Ugliest part of our work.

Connie

Babies... babies as fashion... pour me another.

Why would I kill her?

Connie

To protect your profit center in illegal workers. Over half of your employees are underpaid, undocumented aliens.

Look, maybe I cut a few corners. But it's still my word against the word of this illegal Spanish kid.

Connie

And who do you think the jury's gonna believe? A kid who busts his ass sixty hours a week to send $75 to his mother, or a man who flouts the law and parlays his desperation into a small fortune?

McCoy

If you're convicted of staging Erin Garrett's suicide, I promise, you'll do forty to life. I'm offering you fifteen.

I have a family. A wife and kids.

Connie

So did Erin Garrett.

Connie

You're a one-man border patrol, Jack.

McCoy

You give me way too much credit.

Connie

I don't think so. You cleaned house.

McCoy

Not really. You're forgetting Erin Garrett had a Jamaican nanny.

McCoy

Maybe Blair's right. Maybe it is always a black and white thing.

Connie

He did have an attitude.

McCoy

Maybe he's got a right.

Connie

He would get a fair trial here.

Yes, well, Guantanamo detention camps can lead one to think otherwise.

Connie

We're getting our ass kicked.

McCoy

Thanks for sugar-coating it. Any suggestions?