Law & Order · Season 16
You know, my firm has been talking about expanding. Have you ever considered going into private practice?
Considered it and rejected it. A long time ago, I learned to accept my place in the world.
I suppose that's a virtue. Though personally, I can't see it.
You know, it's amazing. You gave this kid a life, somebody stole it, and you just don't give a damn. You're as dead as he is.
He tormented his family, he battered his girlfriend. Danny Ashburn wasn't a victim, he was an argument for birth control.
He's not the one on trial here.
You oughtta put his pregnant girlfriend on the stand. The jury will admire the mother for not killing him sooner.
Justice beyond the law is above my pay grade.
I won't be bullied into jail by a bunch of second-rate lawyers threatening me with the testimony of a confused 14-year-old girl.
She's your daughter, Ms. Keener.
She's your witness now. Put her on the stand. That's exactly how we'll treat her.
Andrew Keener's attorney has been trying to reach you all day.
I got his messages.
He wants to avoid the humiliation of a trial.
What's he offering, a seat on his board?
He says he wants to spare his granddaughter from having to testify.
I hope you told him what to do with that.
I did.
Good. No more deals.
Damn it, can you people not take a hint?
Here's a hint for you, Johnny. You can either answer our questions here, or downtown chained to a wall.
You're in checkmate, Jack. We're not going back three moves for a do-over.
Let's not forget that we have a Constitution. Call me a stickler, but I think we should at least pretend to follow it.
And I think that the Constitution should be used less as a shield for the guilty, and more as a sword for their innocent victims.
Suppose Lowell wasn't the one who was tortured. Suppose Fontana got him to talk by dunking his wife, or his mother, or his poodle in the toilet. Are we fine with that one, too? [McCoy says nothing] Yeah, I don't know either.
How many people have you watched wither away and die, Mr. McCoy?
You didn't want to suffer her fate, so you pushed her treatment until it was lethal. Isn't that true, doctor?
How many nights have you sat by a dying child's bedside, praying that a treatment might work?
But for the child, doctor? Or for yourself?
I did what I thought was right to save a young girl from a wasting hell. Did I hope it might help my chances? Yes, I did. For Emily, for me, for thousands of others. Yes, Mr. McCoy, I admit that.
They wouldn't convict a dying man.
Maybe they figured if Emily had survived, Dr. Copelan would have won a Nobel Prize. Maybe they're right.
Maybe they figured a vaccine that could save their own lives was more important than the life of a kid who was dying anyway.
Just who the hell do you think you are, McCoy? Who do you think you're dealing with?
Someone who sends other people to do his dirty work for him.
Democracy is still the worst form of government, except for all the others.
When Moses was asked to part the waters, he didn't ask questions. There are those who doubt, and those who do.
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