BMr. Babcock
Why don't you stick to police work, detective?
Why don't you stop trying to cover your ass, Mr. Babcock?
Mike, Mike. Take it easy. [to Babcock] He never recovered from the nuns.
“Indifference” · Season 1, Episode 9
In this episode: Benjamin Stone (4), Mike Logan (4), Max Greevey (3), D.A. Adam Schiff (2), Shambala Green (1)
I didn't hear you knock.
That's because I didn't. If I'd have knocked, you would have heard me.
EREugenia Rawlings
[about Logan] Are you in charge of this ape?
My cross to bear.
[of his mother] She was a bottomless pit. Always 'give me your undivided attention'. And when my old man couldn't take it anymore and whacked her, she'd turn around and whack me. She got this look in her eye... I knew it was coming. And that cold witch in there... she's got that same look.
What does your gut tell you?
Put 'em in a dungeon, put 'em on a wheel, and annihilate 'em.
Everything's a mirror to her. She holds a dying kid up to it, and all she can see is herself and how it affects her. Now you give her sympathy, she's gonna want to fight. You give her a fight, she's gonna want a kiss. You give her a kiss and I swear to God she'll bite your tongue out.
JLJacob Lowenstein
Please. That was therapy.
For her or for you?
JLJacob Lowenstein
For her! In Reichian therapy, the patient has to--
Really get to know the therapist, hmmm?
BSBen Stone
:[talking to the DA about the Lowenstein's twisted family life] I feel like I'm floating face down, and there's about a mile of dark water between me and any sense of this.
BSBen Stone
One way or another, that woman hit her child. That's not what bothers me.
What does bothers you?
BSBen Stone
Well...my own rage
JJudge
[To Jacob Lowenstein] You, sir, are beneath contempt.
Logan: [regarding Carla Lowenstein] Everything’s a mirror to her. She holds a dying kid up to it, and all she can see is herself and how it affects her. Now you give her sympathy, she’s gonna want to fight. You give her a fight, she’s gonna want a kiss. You give her a kiss and I swear to God she’ll bite your tongue out.
Max: You, uh, saw this on Oprah, or what?
Logan: My mother. Yeah. She always said she was cut out for something greater than being the wife of a cop from the Lower East side. God, she was a bottomless pit. Everything was, "Give me your undivided attention." When the old man couldn't take it anymore, he'd give her a whack, and then she'd turn around and whack me. She always got this look in her eye, y'know, and I saw it coming. Now, that witch in there, she's got that same look.
Judge Milton Erdheim: As eloquent as your counsel was on your behalf, you are not the victim here, Mrs. Lowenstein. The victim was an innocent six-year-old girl who couldn't defend herself. On the count of manslaughter in the first degree, the court sentences you to seven to ten years in a women's correctional facility. As for you, sir ... From this seat, I thought I had witnessed every degradation, every monstrosity possible. But you, Doctor, are beyond contempt. You have helped a woman destroy herself. You engineered the tragedy of a little girl's death. But you took pretty good care of yourself, didn't you?
Dr. Jacob Lowenstein: Your Honor, I've lost my family.
Judge Milton Erdheim: Yes, you have. Jacob Lowenstein, having been found guilty of murder in the second degree by depraved indifference to human life, this court sentences you to twenty-five years to life in a state penitentiary.
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