Law & Order quotes

It's not a bad thing, Jack

McCoy

What?

Having a heart.

Green

So, how is this compared to other factories?

So you wanna know if this is a sweatshop?

Green

Is it?

We have air conditioning, soda machines with ice, good heat in the winter and we get paid what everyone else gets paid for an 8-hour shift. How's that?

Green

You got any openings?

McCoy

Can I please finish a sentence here?

Why? I'm not listening to you anyway.

Lady Justice may be blind, but nobody ever said the old broad was fair.

McCoy

I think you had more choices than Alan Fisher did, don't you? He was held hostage to his own delusions, but you could control yourself. You could have looked for a job.

I had a job. I told you.

McCoy

And a house?

Yeah.

McCoy

And a car?

That's right.

McCoy

Friends, family, possessions.

And I lost them! I lost it all. You don't know what that feels like. To be a failure. To go to bed on a piece of wet cardboard every freakin' night, wondering, "How did this happen to me?"! I didn't want this. I didn't choose this life. This is something that happened to me, and it's like this thing in my chest that's killing me! [pounds chest] It gets me right here!

McCoy

Sounds human to me, Mr. Edgars.

Briscoe

You're in luck. It's opera week at Rikers. They're doing an all-male version of Carmen.

I think you're giving the Feds way too much credit. They ain't that clever.

McCoy

Still, lucky break for them. Now they roll up the whole crew, starting with Peter Righetti for the murder of his uncle...

Good riddance.

McCoy

Should Renee Bishop be able to adopt a child with her lover, get married and raise a family? That question is for another court on another day, Mr. Hobart.

That day is coming soon.

McCoy

Offer stands, she can shave 10 years off her sentence.

She won't go for it. She'll try anything to stay in in her daughter's life.

McCoy

You're banking on the hope that there's a gay person on that jury.

I'm banking there's a parent.

McCoy

[about gay people] I say let 'em marry. Why shouldn't they be as miserable as the rest of us?

Serena

Did anyone find any type of weapon in Peter Rubin's home?

Briscoe

Not unless you count the world's most boring record collection.

If all they think about is getting the conviction, nothing's to stop them from kicking in our doors in the middle of the night.

McCoy

That's not happening, Danielle, and you know it.

Yet.

Look, fellas, I'm in enough trouble already. I mean, vodka makes me a lot chattier than I oughtta be, you know?

Briscoe

Really. I thought it was our good looks and charming demeanor.

Your problem was too many blue-collar jurors. They identified with Kenneth Silva.

Serena

How do you know who the holdouts were?

The people who escape jury duty? Same people who escape active duty.

Briscoe

[comparing bike tracks] These don't look at all alike. How can you be sure they're from the same bike?

You know, I thought the same thing, too. But, after comparing mold offsets, site pattern and center ridge appearance...

Green

You passed out from boredom?