Law & Order quotes

With any luck, we'll be able to strap him to a gurney before he's 21. God help us all.

My dealings with the police have been a joke.

Lt. Van Buren

You haven't dealt with me, Miss Powers.

Lt. Van Buren

What kind of idiot arranges a pickup for ransom money?

Briscoe

The kind of idiot whose license plates read "HOSE MONKEY".

So you found my radio, huh? Great. If you happen to see a few wheels and an engine, let me know. My car was stolen four months ago.

Green

Four months ago?

Yeah, some cops raided a chop shop up in the Bronx back in November. They showed up here with one of my front doors. Now you guys bring me my radio. At this rate, I figure I should have the whole car back in about seven years.

McCoy

This is no champion, ladies and gentlemen. This is no favorite son. This is a man who got by on his talent, had others willing to lie for him because of it, had others do his bidding in order to profit from it. A child taken from his dying mother's womb will have to struggle to survive without her. Dina Meredith's mother will have to make it without her daughter. It's time to stop cheering for this man and for his ability to play ball. It's time to stop fretting about the opportunities supposedly taken from him, and to start thinking about the opportunities and the lives stolen by him.

You can't arrest us, we have a show to finish.

Briscoe

Consider yourselves cancelled.

Briscoe

How long are you gonna stick with that story, Gavin? 'Cause I'm just trying to plan my day here.

McCoy

Two murders, Nora. We're supposed to let him off easy?

I said make a deal. I didn't say pony up the courthouse.

Richardson stays in jail.

McCoy

He can hire an attorney, file for a writ of habeas corpus.

With what, his mother's public assistance?

McCoy

He can file pro se, like any other prisoner... or I can do the writ.

Aren't you worried about the precedent it sets?

McCoy

I can file it as a private citizen, if you think it's more appropriate.

I don't think the public will see the distinction.

McCoy

I think the only distinction they see is between right and wrong.

[smiling] Make sure my name is on the writ.

Briscoe

So what's the story? Girl meets bridge?

Girl meets bullet, then girl meets river.

Briscoe

I love a happy ending.

You know, this may come as a big surprise to everyone, but I loved Karen.

Carmichael

Killing someone is a pretty sick way of saying "I love you".

Briscoe

Let's get some burgers.

Green

What you got against that Indian place?

Briscoe

You ever seen one Indian in there?

McCoy

[to Vercal's attorney] Here's his choice, Miss Mancelli: He can get cut a deal with us now, or he can go back to Colombia.

They have no evidence against him there.

McCoy

His associates know he was arrested. Ask your client how long he's stay alive if we sent him back.

That's blackmail!

McCoy

I prefer to call it plea bargaining.

Green

[to a suspect complaining of a "radiating" pain] Yeah, that's good, now "radiate" your ass up against the wall!

McCoy

The bottom line is this: Hector Santiago is dead because these men paid him $200 to get into a cheap car and cross his fingers, and hold on tight.