Lupo quotes from Law & Order

Four years overseas chasing terrorists, now I'm the pants police.

Is it customary to shoot your partner, or does that fall under "going the extra mile"?

We're impounding your car for unpaid parking tickets. You know what? We're impounding your sandals, too.

[about the killer's motive] It's either personal, professional, or mineral.

Green

Piece of cake. We just look for a black guy and a white guy together in New York City.

Well, there's us.

You learn that in law school?

Cutter

Right out of law school. Nothing but drug cases for five years. Would you feel better if I offered her a lollipop?

I'd feel better if you hadn't roughed her up.

Cutter

How do you think her mother got her to lie? I'm playing to win, detective, and winning means Katherine Waxman in jail.

Is this some kind of sport to you?

Cutter

[pause] Stick with your law books, detective. On the page, the law is a much purer thing.

I hate dogs.

Oh yeah? Why's that?

A stupid nickname I had in Catholic school.

Saint Bernard. [Bernard glares at him] Lucky guess.

Dr. Landry, you're under arrest.

Arrest? For what?

Let's start with steaming a kid like a hot dog and work from there.

Lt. Van Buren

[about Landry's self-help book] How did I get through life without reading this?

Well, I couldn't get through it without aspirin.

I'm innocent! I'm innocent! I'm innocent!

We heard you the first time, Ted.

I didn't steal those. I got them at a flea market.

A flea market. Wow. My dog has fleas that are smarter than you if you think that's going to hold up.

Sara Shipley, 24 years old, and according to her B Friends page, is an aspiring performance artist.

According to a bellboy we talked to at the hotel, she services clients for Excalibur Exclusives.

Lt. Van Buren

Excalibur Exclusives?

Mmm-hmm. It's an escort service for guys with really big swords.

Lt. Van Buren

They wish.

Fresh haircut, his nails are clean... he's too well-groomed to be living out on the street. He even tucked his shirt in.

He buttoned his top button.

Did you walk around like that when you were his age?

Not unless my mother made me.

[while looking at financial records] "Who needs math?", I told my teachers, "I'm gonna be a cop."

Don't feel bad. I said the same thing about biology. Now I spend half my life looking at autopsies.

Faxes from the city inspector approving the night shifts, the heavier loads.

Check this out. The number that this was faxed from doesn't match the number on the cover sheet.

631 area code. A city inspector faxing from the Hamptons on a weekday afternoon.

Nice work if you can get it.