Kincaid quotes from Law & Order

McCoy

[to the waiter] Send it back.

You can't forgive anyone, can you?

McCoy

No, I can't. Besides, that was bourbon. I'm drinking scotch.

They voted 11 to 1 to convict.

McCoy

One juror.

Schiff

So what else is new? Next case.

We're obligated to turn this over to the defense.

Schiff

And give this 3-time rapist a chance to bluff the jury?

That can't be a consideration.

Schiff

It sure as Hell can!

Marks just held a press conference. She actually thinks she righted a 30-year-old wrong.

McCoy

And I bet she hopes to be the centerfold of next month's Bar Journal.

Christopher's horse-trading records are insanely complicated. He covered his tracks. He wasn't so cautious about his mating rituals.

McCoy

Should I be taking notes?

[smiles] If you want to go broke.

So because of the bigots, any Black criminal has a ready-made excuse?

Paul Robinette

Not an excuse. A mitigating factor.

What do a sperm cell and a lawyer have in common?

They both have a one in a million chance of becoming a human being. There's a law: You pass the bar, you have to stop telling lawyer jokes.

Schiff

This kid falls in love with a girl he has no chance in the world to get.

McCoy

And in a stupid, hopeless attempt to impress her, he shows her a million dollars worth of cocaine.

Schiff

Yeah, I guess etchings don't work anymore.

And as a result he ends up having to kill her.

Schiff

A story for Sophocles.

McCoy

Or Larry, Moe and Curley.

Schiff

Yeah. I always loved those guys.

Schiff

Ruthie Miller? Who's paying her bills?

The British Consulate.

Schiff

Go to tea. Offer her a crumpet.

I never did like chasing my tail.

McCoy

But it's a lot of fun when you catch it.

Briscoe

You know, it wouldn't be so terrible.

What's that?

Briscoe

If you were my kid.

I guess I should take that as a compliment.

Briscoe

Hey, you're smart, you're pretty, you got a good job, and you don't hate my guts.

Lennie, I doubt your daughter hates you.

Briscoe

Oh, you don't know her, you don't know her. [laughs ruefully] I don't even know her. I never will.