Law & Order quotes

Carmichael

Man-1 all around. I'll start working on the pre-sentencing reports. Any suggestions?

McCoy

You mean who should spend more time in prison? Kostov or the Connerys? Don't get me started.

Carmichael

We can always skip the report and take no position. Leave it to the judge.

McCoy

Let's do that for the sake of world peace.

Carmichael

The Warings filed a petition to get their son back. We have until the end of the week to file our objections.

McCoy

Can you and I agree that we're too busy?

Carmichael

[beat] Deal.

Briscoe

Good old Ray-Ray. The trick was giving him a number he couldn't forget. Three. Rhymes with "squeegee".

McCoy

Your first death sentence. You OK with it?

Carmichael

I only have one thing bothering me. Ray-Ray, the squeegee man? The cops told him which one was Fortelli.

McCoy

I know, I told them to. Perfectly legal. We were never going to use the identification at trial anyway.

Carmichael

Legal or not...

McCoy

Major felonies, Abbie. Welcome to the bigs.

Are you gonna take the word of a dope dealer over a cop?

Curtis

Wearing a badge doesn't make you a cop!

Curtis

[about Rivera] Guy protects his turf.

Briscoe

He probably pees a circle around his desk every morning.

Briscoe

Aaron Downing, you're under arrest for the murder of Ryan Downing. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you do say can and will be used against you. You have the right to an attorney. If you can't afford an attorney...

Curtis

Lennie, you can skip the next part, he's got a wad of cash, his passport, an airline ticket to the Fiji Islands.

Briscoe

This way, Robinson Crusoe.

McCoy

[about Downing] He's the man in the gray flannel suit.

Carmichael

With a syringe in the pocket.

This is just about the Downing boy.

Carmichael

Yeah, just one dead little boy. That help you sleep better?

McCoy

The New York County District Attorney's Office can't - no, won't - knowingly convict a man of the wrong crime. What are you thinking?

Carmichael

I'm just taking a page from the Jack McCoy playbook. Nobody gets to bend the rules but you?

McCoy

I've bent the rules to convict the right person of the right crime. This isn't bending. It's turning the law against itself.

Carmichael

You once hid a witness to get the result you wanted.

McCoy

And I was wrong then. You're wrong now. Don't wait until until you're facing a disciplinary committee to realize it.

Carmichael

A week from tomorrow, you'll be on a plane, sandwiched between 2 of Houston's finest.

[panicked] You can't do this!

Carmichael

You'll have a speedy trial. Your lawyer will file a couple of appeals. He'll lose. And before you know it, bang, there's that pesky needle.

[to McCoy] What are you doing? You're just sitting there. Make her shut up!

McCoy

Miss Carmichael...

Carmichael

I'm not done. I'm going to be there, and if they'd let me do it, I'd push one of the plungers, and pray it's the one that delivers the fatal dose.

Get her out of here! Get her out!

Carmichael

How does it feel, Mr. Bergstrom? You killed all those women, and now a woman is going to return the favor.

You won't...

Carmichael

Pretty damn ironic, isn't it?

You won't kill me, I won't let you.

Carmichael

Try and stop me.

I'll plead to one of the other ones. The one by the train tracks.

Hang on...

McCoy

Murder-1, life without parole.

Mr. Bergstrom...

Yeah, okay! She doesn't say what happens to me!

Carmichael

[pause] Fine. If you change your mind, I'll be waiting...

No, you sit! You listen to what I did to her. [with relish] I cut her, and she screamed. I burned her, and she screamed louder. I pushed my fist into her, and she passed out. I made her say she admired me. I had total control. Total.

Curtis

Who might have had a grudge against this place?

The Pope.

Briscoe

I thought my sex life was complicated when I had to wear a condom.

Why are they arguing about embryos when my wife is dead? Sarah was not a "potential" human being!

[seeing Skoda stand up] What are you doing?

I'm going to write my report.

You didn't even listen to me.

Oh, well. Trust me, I've heard it all before.

Carmichael

It's your wife or your mother, Denny. It doesn't get any simpler than that.