Price quotes from Law & Order

I still think he's lying.

McCoy

My old boss, he used to say that lawyers who need to be right lose more cases than those who don't.

You can't prove what actually happened. You can only guess. That's the issue. We don't know what happened. And in this political climate, there's no way a jury is going to convict a woman for murder one based on these facts.

You mean there's no way they're ever going to convict a Black woman for shooting a white cop. That's what you're really saying, isn't it? Because if Kendra Daniels was white...

But she's not. She's Black. There's a certain reality to that fact that if you don't understand that, or you can't appreciate that, that's on you. I'm doing the best I can with the facts and the evidence I have. I'm sorry you don't approve, but don't you dare question my integrity.

Or what?

Hey! That's enough. The man's just doing his job.

His job is to prosecute Kendra Daniels to the fullest extent of the law, not make excuses for her just because she's Black.

That woman shot and killed Jimmy Doyle, Kev. And she knew he was a police officer. That's it. That's all that matters.

That's what you believe, Frank? Hmm? You believe it's that simple? A Black woman and a white cop? Hmm? [Cosgrove walks off]

Hey, Price.

Yeah.

Frank is a good man. Says what he feels, and right now he's feeling a lot of pain. And for the record... I respect what you're doing. Takes a lot of guts to stare down NYPD on a case like this.

What about the bombing? Was that Rublev's idea? Did he tell Serenko to do that?

I don't know. Look, I wasn't in the loop on any of that. I knew Serenko was onto something big, but I just try to mind my own business.

Hold on. People who mind their own business don't get good deals, they go to jail for a very long time. Now.

I can't tell you something I don't know.

You're under arrest.

You know what you did. You baited the hook with Serenko to chase a headline. Senior Russian official gets convicted of murder and domestic terror. Does that make you and the frat boys in DC feel all warm and fuzzy?

Slow down, detective. You don't know me. But that doesn't change the reality of the situation, which is that we are following orders. You understand that? Orders that are coming from the Attorney General of the United States.

Here's the reality. This case cost the life of my undercover, so tell all this to his mother. His name was Vincent, by the way, in case you forgot.

What about the bombing of the Dunlap Hotel? Did Rublev order you to do that?

Yes.

Did you have a choice in the matter?

Well, yeah. I could say yes and live, or no, and have two Russian assassins put two shiny bullets in the back of my head. So I said yes.

The U.S. Attorney wants to take over this prosecution.

What?

I can't say I appreciate their approach, but their interest in the case is understandable.

That doesn't mean...

I agree. The NYPD investigated this case. They put in the sweat. They consoled the victims' families. They took the heat from the press. This happened in our city, New York. Hell, I was there. I saw what this man did. There's no way I'm letting this case go.

I'm on board, but there's a few more people you need to convince.

Thank you.

For what?

Winning the trial. If it weren't for you, Castillo would have walked out of here a free man yet again.

If it weren't for me, Perry Sutton would still be alive.

If you didn't consent to the recording, I can go back in there and ask the judge to suppress it. [Pollard shakes her head] Well, he's not allowed to play the entire tape. It'll be limited in scope...

I am half-naked, Mr. Price, asking a man, asking that man, to take charge of my body. Do you understand how that looks?

It looks like a woman engaged in a consensual act, making a choice.

It will be my undoing.

The jury will see right through his charade.

I've seen thousands of women torn to shreds on the stand. It always comes down to one thing: sex. You can do this.

You've made a career out of encouraging women to stand up for themselves. Now that it's your turn, what, you're just going to try to look the other way? You can do this.

You were right. Alexander Lockett tried to protect his men, but chose to follow the chain of command, and he ended up dying for it.

He was a soldier, and he was following orders.

Still not sure that makes it right.

No one ever said it did.

Booker never intended to kill anybody. He and Foster were fighting to gain control of the gun. The actual bullet wound wasn't even life-threatening. The CO ultimately died of a secondary infection.

McCoy

Irrelevant.

Legally, yes, but morally, ethically ... shouldn't we at least consider Man 1?

McCoy

We can't reward Booker because he tried to escape, regardless of his innocence. He should have waited for the process to play itself out.

I get it, but...

McCoy

But what?

The system failed him, over and over again. So why on Earth should we punish him for not believing in something that he had no credible basis to believe in?

McCoy

You did nothing wrong, Nolan. The truth would have come out eventually.

You're right, but "eventually" took too damn long, and now Randall Foster is dead.

McCoy

I understand. Elements of this case are highly unusual, and troubling. We act on the facts as presented, and Randall Foster is dead because the defendant tried to escape. That's felony murder, all day long. So make peace with the past, and get your head into the game, understand?

You know, I thought I could help people by going to law school, fight the system that way. It didn't work out for me the way I thought. So I joined the Police Academy. I thought I could do more good on the streets, have more of a direct impact. I became a cop to keep innocent Black men out of prison, not put them in there.

No matter how hard we all try, every once in a while we get it wrong. It's just the way it is.

That's a hell of a speech, unless your name is Troy Booker.