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S8 E20Burden

Look what's happened to your beautiful family. Your wife is sleeping with some dance instructor, your daughter is one step away from living on the street, and you have no money, and it's all because of that kid!

JJoe

You don't know me, if you knew me, you would see...

Oh, I know you. If you had the stones...

You don't know this man, Lennie. This isn't about money or adultery or anything like that, is it, Joe? My wife's got MS. I picture her life 10 years from now, and it kills me because it might not be a pretty picture. You picture your son. He used to be strong. Played soccer, yeah?

JJoe

Yes.

My wife used to run 3 miles every morning. Did you imagine Michael at 20 years old, 40 years old, still in the same bedroom, still in the same tortured pain?

JJoe

[choked up] Yeah.

Me, too. And you wanna know the worst part? I know why it's happening. It's my fault. God is punishing her for something I did.

JJoe

No, you can't think that way!

I try to tell myself that. I try to think that. But every time I look at her, I feel the guilt. Every time I look at my daughters, and think about what they're going to lose... Someone you love is in pain. They have no hope. What can you do to help this person? How often have you asked yourself this question? Every time you bathe him?

JJoe

[in tears] Every time I kiss him goodnight.

And you knew there was only one way out. You had to do it. You had to do it because you loved him. Let it go. It was an act of love, Joe.

JJoe

[sobs] I love Michael! Maybe I... but I didn't do this. I didn't kill him.

JJoe

Can I leave?

Not for another 30 years.

This case is not a debate about euthanasia. It's about a thrill-killing by a monster masquerading as an angel of mercy. Michael Sutter is dead. He was murdered. That's all that matters.

S8 E21Bad Girl

You want to take me on, little girl? Well, let me tell you something: you better be packing more than a dirty mouth.

AAnderton

Remember what LBJ said when they were hammering him about Vietnam? "Felt like a hitch-hiker on a highway in a Texas hailstorm, can't run, can't hide, can't make it stop." I'm putting you on that highway, Adam.

S8 E22Damaged

Does the defense wish to make a motion?

PPainter

CPL 290.10. The defense moves to set aside the jury's verdict.

Objection! The prosecution proved its case!

What case, Mr. McCoy? Have we gone so far down the road of political correctness that sex between willing partners is now called rape?! The girl said yes!

She has the mind of a child!

Well, she's mature enough to be plenty intrigued by her own sexuality. Face it, counselor. She had the time of her life. Case dismissed.

Now, Valerie, Hayden called you a retard, and you told him you weren't. Is that right?

VValerie

Yes, sir.

And after that, did he keep on calling you a retard?

VValerie

No.

Did you like what the boys did to you?

VValerie

I did what I wanted.

PPainter

Your honor, the defense requests you deny the state's motion to reverse your prior ruling.

Granted.

You set aside the jury's verdict, because you unfairly held the state responsible for proving the boys' prior knowledge. The state has now done so, and you STILL refuse?!!

Mr. McCoy, it's over! There is no case here. There never was!

How would you know?! You made up your mind before you heard the first word of testimony!

You're on thin ice, counselor! The defense request is granted! The state's motion is denied! You want to appeal?! Be my guest!

[after seeing Cathy's dead body]

She was my baby, Rey! What am I gonna do?

Come home with me, partner.

S8 E23Tabloid

McCoy: Of course, people should be protected against gross invasions of their privacy. There should be limits. But there must also be constraints on what a man can do when his privacy has been invaded. Even when his family's privacy has been invaded. Now, you may like Mr. Abbott and sympathize with him. And you may not like Mr. Marco. From what I know of Mr. Marco, I don't much like him, and I don't much like what he was going to do, but that cannot be a justification for what happened to him. We may not like tabloid journalism and the cult of celebrity that it feeds. The hunger for fame over virtue, for gossip over integrity. To us it may seem an unpleasant, miserable, disgusting game with which we would prefer to have nothing to do. But Mr. Abbott participated in it willingly. It was only when it turned against him that he took out his gun and shot Mr. Marco. We may not want a world in which celebrity and gossip are all mixed up with news. It's messy. But our society can survive the mess. What it cannot survive without is the free and easy exchange of information, all kinds of information, even if it's unpleasant. Even if it's irrelevant. Even if it's just gossip. We sort it out, and we blunder on, but we blunder on free. The only alternative is a world in which people (if they're smart enough, rich enough, powerful enough, likable enough) can stop the truth from being told. Warren Abbott shot Philip Marco to shut him up! With premeditation. In cold blood. Because he didn't like what Mr. Marco was going to write.

I see Abbot isn't trying to keep the press from doing its job today.

Today, it's news.

S8 E24Monster

Are you all so petty that you'd endanger the lives of the people we're supposed to protect?

CDCommander Dietz

Petty? The department has better ways to spend its resources than defending itself against petty lawsuits.

I was within my rights. The department promoted a white woman with less seniority. Maybe you all forgot, but we can sit at the lunch counter now!

Doctor, you'll probably get a call from an attorney named Considine. He represents Jesse Castillo. He'll ask about Malika's condition. I'd like you to tell him that Malika has become aware of her surroundings, and the chances of her recovery are good. I know what I'm asking you to do.

CDr. Charters

Good. Then you know why I can't.

You know more than anyone what was done to that little girl.

CDr. Charters

Yes, but I have an ethical duty...

So do I. Mine is stopping monsters like Jesse Castillo, and yours is keeping more Malika Richardsons from turning up in your emergency room.

S9 E1Cherished

[after Abbie Carmichael has a seven-year-old boy arrested without consulting McCoy] I hear you're adding a children's wing to Death Row.

I could probably get an indictment for manslaughter.

Manslaughter?! They never gave that baby a chance. They faked an identity for her. They never told anyone she needed medical attention.

I don't see any intent here to kill this baby.

It's depraved indifference. Murder-2. They knew the baby was going to die. They didn't care one way or the other.

Assumption. Charge them with Man-one.

We send a message that it's sort of okay to kill a baby? This isn't a couple of teenagers who killed their newborn because they were scared. These are two adults who went to a lot of trouble to dump a dying child and to cover their tracks. I may be the new kid here, but to me this sounds like murder.

They'll be pariahs for the rest of their lives.

They lose a few friends. That's your idea of justice?

3-6 years in a state prison is not a cake walk. How many drug dealers got a free pass from you?

The ones who could give me someone bigger in return. All the Connerys have to offer is their plea-bargained remorse. She's still trying to blame it on Kostov. Did you see her husband cut her off?

She's the least culpable of the 3.

[exasperated] Oh, gentlemen, please! That sorry excuse for a woman has a hole in her soul.

That's enough.

I can take care of myself, Adam.

Then remain objective. It was Edward Connery's actions that directly caused the little girl's death, and he's an attorney. He knew what he was doing.

The Connerys will never do this again. Kostov has and will, over and over again.

Are Kostov's children better off in the new homes?

All but Marianna. [beat] I have a solution that will make us all happy.

What's that?

No deals for anybody. Let's hang 'em all.

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