Captain Cragen quotes from Law & Order

His own gun? I love this. So he killed the girl, killed himself, and threw the gun out the window?

[about a case] Mike, I've had week-old flounder that smelled better than this!

Max

Take me off this one.

Max, you know I can't...

Max

I'm burned out. This thing disgusts me. This guy's pictures? Porn. If that's art, Hugh Hefner's Michelangelo.

Max, a man is dead here. You're the one saying it's not a suicide.

Max

What do you want me to do, lie? There was someone else there. Chances are, living that life, he'll be dead in a couple of years anyway. As far as I'm concerned, he's going to the same place.

What-what are you talking about?

Max

I'm a Catholic. Call me old-fashioned, but I still believe in sin. Remember sin? Right and wrong? I don't know if it's harps or pearly gates, but whatever it is, these freaks are not going to the same place you and I are, okay?

Wow! I can see this leading to a whole new penological outlook -- we will only pursue homicides where the vic died in a state of grace!

So, you wanna send it to social services? It's your call.

Cerreta

The most we can get her for is endangering the welfare of a child.

Logan

No, no. What we get her for is manslaughter.

Whoa, Mike. Slow down. We don't get her for anything you don't prove she knew the kid was seriously ill.

Logan

All right. The housekeeper. What's her name? Uh, Amado. She knew damn well the kid was sick enough to get 2 cops.

Cerreta

Oh, that'll put the parents away for sure. She was fired. She'll say anything.

Logan

Getting fired? You think that's a reason to lie about the kid? [to the captain] You believe this?

Cerreta

Hey! What I think, what you think, what he thinks don't mean diddly-squat! Because in court, she's not a credible witness!

Logan

Credible?! The kid died!

Well, well, what's this? Honeymoon over?

What'd Conover say?

Logan

He told us to go to Hell.

Well, at least he's got a way with words.