If people have to choose, they'll trade safety for privacy every time.
That's the problem, though. If you trade one for the other, you could end up losing both.
S12 E15Access Nation
S12 E16Born Again
DLDoug Lurie
These are good kids.
So were Leopold and Loeb.
Janet Weston: [after being exposed as the murderer] Do you have any idea what it's like to come home and have your little girl say, "Go away"? For everything to be such a struggle? To never get any sleep? I spent every penny I had on private schools and doctors. They all had advice, but none of them understood. I thought that I'd have a little girl who'd love her mom. I'm 42 years old! I was entitled to a life.
McCoy: She was eleven. What was she entitled to?
S12 E17Girl Most Likely
He told us he was out running, he just didn't mention it was from the crime scene.
AAlicia
I got on the floor with her. She wasn't breathing. She was just lying there with this soft look on her face, and I remember thinking, 'This must be the way she looks when she's asleep...'
S12 E18Equal Rights
What choices does a woman in that situation really have?
If someone hit me, I would leave, and if I couldn't, I'd hit them back.
Well, not everyone takes Tae Bo.
You were tired of being his punching bag.
LLeslie
Yes. Anybody would be.
And the way to get all that to stop was to stay. To stay, and get him. [Leslie says nothing] Only that's not self-defense, is it?
S12 E19Slaughter
[while handcuffing a murder suspect] Just once, I'd like to make one of you bastards break the news to the parents!
TTalbot
I run a business, Mr. McCoy. Everyone loves a perfect product, but if it's too expensive or inconvenient, no one buys it. The airlines could hand-search every passenger on every flight, but the delays would put them out of business. Cars could be made as safe as tanks, but how many people could afford a car that costs as much as a house? Risk-return analysis isn't reckless. It's responsible business.
So is keeping your customers alive.
S12 E20Dazzled
That's the trouble with you AA types. You see an alcoholic behind every bush.
Which is where they are.
Home alone's a movie, not an alibi.
S12 E21Foul Play
:[meeting Jack at a basketball court where he is playing with other attorneys] What's the score?
Legal Aid's up by six. All free-throws. You know defense attorneys. They like to complain they've been fouled every chance they get.
S12 E22Attorney Client
I want a lawyer.
All right. Just try not to shoot this one.
[while interrogating Jensen] We'd offer call a lawyer for you, except that you are one.
S12 E23Oxymoron
You were dealing out of the same club, and you were seen arguing about money. In our neck of the woods, that's called a drug deal gone bad.
SSheila
That's insane!
Uh, if I were you, that defense never works.
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