I want you to kick the livin' daylights outta Neal Gorton. You can dig up Thomas Dewey to help ya! You're gonna win this case. Whatever you have to do, I want a conviction!
S7 E16Turnaround
S7 E17Showtime
I shouldn't have been away from Katie this long. I'm due in family court in three days.
We have to go back to Judge Callahan in twelve hours.
I'm sorry!
Where are your priorities?! If Gorton gets ahold of this stuff, he'll come up with some cockamamie alternate theory of the crime. A murderer could walk free!
And I could lose my daughter! You know what, Jack?! That's an easy decision!
Not for an Assistant District Attorney.
What's your current movie about, Mr. Newman? Talking bears?
NNewman
Yes.
A daring Neorealist foray into Jellystone Park? Does that fulfill your promise as an artist?
NNewman
No!
Heidi Ellison was keeping you from fulfilling that promise, wasn't she?
NNewman
Not just her. Do you know what kinda crap they wanted me to make?
But especially her. She could've let you make Madame Bovary, couldn't she?
NNewman
Yes!
But she didn't, did she?
NNewman
She gave me a choice. The bears or a picture about a dog who's granted three wishes. I couldn't believe it!
You couldn't believe what, Mr. Newman?
NNewman
I had an actress, a bankable actress, who was attached to Bovary. But Heidi gives her $12,000,000 to do an asteroid movie instead, because our marriage didn't work out! [jumps out of his seat and raises his sword] That vindictive bitch! I could've made something!
Everyone likes a good story. Eddie Newman has made a career putting stories on film. And the defense in this case has told you a very good story about a sleazy psychiatrist and a man who believed he'd committed a murder, but recently realized that he didn't. What actually happened here is less complicated and far more sordid. A bitter, angry man viciously killed his ex-wife, dismembered her while she was still alive, and then lied about it. There's no clever twist to the plot. It's just the messy, ugly truth. Mr. Gorton has appealed to what he calls reasonable doubt. But reasonable doubt is not any doubt. God has given you all the gift of common sense. Use it. [picks up Newman's sword] Eddie Newman used this weapon to hack to death not the woman he claimed he loved, but the woman he calls a vindictive bitch. Find him guilty of murder.
You got what you wanted. Take the rest of the week off.
It's Friday, Adam.
So it is. See you Monday.
S7 E18Mad Dog
[about McCoy's prosecution strategy] It's legally brilliant! Sure to be a hit with the public. And you have no business trying it.
DDarnell
[about his stash of violent pornography] Hey, some people like vanilla, I like Rocky Road.
S7 E19Double Down
So he walks for killing a cop, but we nail him for killing the cop killer?
An irony he gets to reflect upon over the next forty years in Attica.
What if I had testified that you told us to shut up?
It would have hurt. At least you got to dodge the question by calling me an idiot.
Yeah, that helped.
S7 E20We Like Mike
DSDonut shop owner
How perfect is this? Cops talkin' to a donut guy.
Yeah. Tell us about the customer who came in just before the girl. The one who cleaned his hands?
DSDonut shop owner
Barely a customer. He takes about 50 napkins, and then he starts to leave. Well, after I call him on it, he orders a coffee, then thinks he's a big shot, because he tips be a quarter.[hands Briscoe his wastebasket] What I lost on napkins, I barely broke even!
[Briscoe extracts the dirty napkins Mike threw out from the wastebasket and hands them to another cop]
Take these down to the lab.
CCop
Right.
[to the shop owner] Did he mention his name or say where he was comin' from or goin' to?
DSDonut shop owner
Nothin', except "gimme a coffee", and how if he wasn't gettin' married next week, he'd be puttin' the moves on the girl, which I thought that was outta line. But I didn't say anything, because it's not my business. My business is sellin' donuts.
Thanks for clearin' that up.
There was another guy. I passed a guy halfway down the block from where I left the car. A Puerto Rican guy.
Yeah. That's how we solve homicides too. Nearest Puerto Rican did it.
RRicky
Can I say how I didn't mean to do it?
You mean how you only shot him 'cause he wouldn't give you his watch? Yeah, yeah. The DA'll like that.
S7 E21Passion
Listen, Jane, I could really use your help.
JJane
I told you, I never heard of this Joanie Timberman, and I just work for Miss Posner. We're not exactly girlfriends.
Yeah, but you see her every day. You know what's going on. I gotta say, you strike me as a very perceptive person.
JJane
It's a good thing you're good-looking, honey, if that's the best line you can come up wth.
Sadly, it is.
It doesn't look like we're going to get a confession.
Why should he confess? You'll probably be arresting someone else tomorrow.
S7 E22Past Imperfect
BBurke
Women in their 40s, they're like money - you change 'em for 2 20s.
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