AAmato
I did a job for Halliwell, and then I decided to stay in town and enjoy the sights.
The sights? From where, Zagat's Guide to S&M Dungeons?
S19 E22The Drowned and the Saved
Seems like every day we hear about another corrupt civil servant. Corrupt banker, businessman, athlete. Seems that behind every success story of the last ten years, a scandal is exploding. We're facing a rising sea of corruption. And we wonder who will be the next to be drowned? Who will be saved? And what will become of our good works? When will it stop, Donald, and who will stop it?
If you expect me to implicate Rita and jeopardize my family...
Your family? They're campaign props you used to get elected. They mean as much to you as balloons and bumper stickers. Your whoring proves it!
Be careful, Jack. I'll attribute that to the stress of your campaign. I know you're in a dead heat with Joe Chappell. I also know a few things about Joe, maybe could swing them numbers your way.
You're trying to buy me off?
You're worried about your good works, Jack. How are you going to safeguard them if you're not in the game anymore?
What do you want?
Your resignation, Governor, with your reputation, such as it is, intact. Just say you're leaving office to support your wife and family in a time of personal crisis.
That wasn't the deal. McCoy said I'd stay in office.
I'm not Jack McCoy.
[raises a glass before the election] May we live to fight another day.
Hear, hear.
S20 E1Memo From the Dark Side
FFranklin
I didn't invent the right of sovereigns, Mr. Cutter. I simply defined it.
The right to do what they want with unlawful combatants.
FFranklin
Yes.
Unlawful combatants like the American militia after King George declared them rebels?
FFranklin
Yes, like that.
So, you would defend the brutal treatment of American prisoners by the British during the Revolutionary War?
FFranklin
From a legal standpoint, yes.
Mr. Franklin, what is it about this country that you don't get?
You know, that day, 8 years ago, we could see the towers burn from Adam's window.
I remember.
Part of me says, "I don't care what you do to these detainees. I don't want to know. Just protect us."
The problem is, now we do know.
Yeah. I'm not sure that makes a difference.
S20 E2Just a Girl in the World
LLupo
We're impounding your car for unpaid parking tickets. You know what? We're impounding your sandals, too.
Little Orphan Annie doesn't have anything on you, Miss Kim.
S20 E3Great Satan
SSpeight
[of the charges against her clients] It's a daisy chain, your honor. They're going to end up connecting my clients to Kevin Bacon.
SSameer
I lied because I want to stay here, because this is the place I love. But when I became a citizen, I took an oath. I will support and defend the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And that's what I'm doing now, even if it means I will stop being a citizen, and be sent away, and America will go on without me.
S20 E4Reality Bites
So, when do I get to see my detectives on TV?
Lupo didn't wanna be on camera.
LLupo
Bad beard day.
[smiling] I wasn't gonna say anything.
[Connie is being followed by a camera crew]
You having fun?
I am gonna kill you and then I’m gonna kill McCoy.
On camera?
I don’t…I don’t care! I’d be better off in prison! Where are you?
Uh, I’m in the courthouse. [watches her across the street] You almost here?
Yeah. Uh-huh. [angry] Except first I have to tell my friend the CAMERA what’s going on!
What are you gonna say?
[exasperated sigh] Don’t worry, just the party line.
S20 E5Dignity
I grew up thinking Roe v. Wade was gospel and that a woman's right to privacy was inviolated. But after hearing that woman on the stand talking about her baby dying in her arms ... I don't know. I don't, I don't know where my privacy ends and another person's dignity begins.
Cutter: [after uncharacteristically pausing while delivering his closing argument] I can't. I can't do this. There's ... There's been too much heartbreaking testimony. Just too much. We're dealing with an issue here that goes to the very mystery of our existence. What is life? When does it begin? At conception, at viability, at birth? And in good faith, we seek guidance from our moral leaders. From scientists. You know, we want so much to do the right thing. You know, the, the just thing. We want reason and empathy to lead us to an answer. And... and we struggle so much to find that answer. Why? Because, because despite all our differences, we are joined in one belief. That every life is special and unique and imbued with inalienable rights. And that belief compels us to reject the violence and the unreasoned chaos that Wayne Grogan's act represents.
S20 E6Human Flesh Search Engine
BBonnie
[while being interviewed about the victim] That son of a bitch. He pulled my top off at a photo shoot at the St. Patrick's Day parade. No warning, just "oops, you're naked".
And that was more than what you bargained for.
BBonnie
My job description didn't say, "Get raped by leprechauns".
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