Law & Order Season 15 quotes

We believe in God's laws, not man's

Is that a threat?

Why, no, Mr. Arlen, that's not a threat. A threat would be more like ... If you mouth off to us one more time, I'm gonna break your jaw. And when you're on the ground, I'm gonna kick you in your ribs until you spit blood, you cheap shyster. That would be a threat. This is more like a request.

The guy literally invented the 80s-style hostile takeover.

Good guy?

Sure. If you like hypocritical, narcissistic, cold-blooded frauds.

McCoy

Are you alright?

I'm thinking, Mr. McCoy. Just thinking.

I'm just trying to resolve a difficult case in the fairest way possible.

McCoy

Fair? There was nothing fair about what happened to Jackie Ogden.

[after McCoy tells him to be careful] You work your side of the street, Mr. McCoy, and I'll work mine.

The porn world is gonna be in mourning tonight.

I wonder what they fly at half-mast.

Van Buren

Now, this may come as a surprise, but I know all about Samantha Savage.

Why, Lieutenant.

Van Buren

Please. I've got two teenage boys. She's huge on the web. A top-tier adult video star. Her autobiography came out a couple of months back, bestseller.

Next thing you're gonna tell me, she's on Oprah's Book Club.

Samantha Savage was a home video hooker who couldn't write a sentence if you spotted her the noun and the verb. I came up with the idea for the book, found the ghostwriter, edited the manuscript, chose the cover art. I took that silicone-stuffed bimbo and turned her into a best-selling author. How does she repay me? By taking her follow-up how-to sex manual to Knopf.

So you made her a success, and she runs off to the competition?

In a nutshell.

That would have made me mad as hell.

Oh, you have no idea.

Life? Are you retarded?

[about Verick] In addition to a life sentence, I'd like to see this guy hauled out in stocks in Foley Square.

[after Verick is found murdered] How many people did this guy screw over at his company?

300. Throw in the family and friends of Oscar Salazar, that's a lot of suspects.

And a lot of justice.

Forgiveness is a Christian ideal.

McCoy

And if you don't believe in Christ, well, then you'll just have to serve your time?

McCoy

I don't care if he comes to court with a hair shirt and a scourge. Murder is murder.

McCoy

Is Ms. Weiss serious? If you really, really, really turn to God, you can murder someone and walk away with a clean slate? That doesn't put Mr. Elwin in line with any higher moral authority I'm aware of. It places him above the law. We can all acknowledge the existence of a higher moral authority. We see it in action when our collective conscience compels us to reject unjust or immoral laws. But while our actions may be guided by our faith, we deliberately don't conduct them under the guise of religion. Our founders left "God" out of the Constitution, not for lack of faith among them, but because of what they knew about the toxic combination of state and religious power. So, if Mr. Elwin regards his prosecution for a hate murder as unjust or immoral, let him present his arguments without the cloak of religion. To that, the People say the defendant's virtuous conduct after Justin Lennard's murder should be a factor in his sentencing. But to dismiss this case outright would be a miscarriage of justice that contradicts more than 200 years of American jurisprudence. If you kill someone, Mr. Elwin, you have to answer to the State first. And to Justin Lennard, and his family. And then, hopefully, someday, to your Maker.