Law & Order Season 17 quotes

Don't they get it? Video is forever.

Green

So is anonymity and boredom if you're a teenager.

Docket #48215. People v. Leon Wayne Vorgitch. Charges are 8 counts of murder in the first degree, escape in the first degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.

How does the defendant plead, Mr....

Kiss my ass! That's how I plead.

Control your client, counselor.

I'll do my best, your honor. He pleads not guilty.

And since he's already serving three life sentences for mass murder, bail's not an issue.

Connie

But which cell he's returned to is, your honor. The defendant obtained the tools for his escape while incarcerated at Green Haven. People ask that corrections place him in a federal super-max facility pending trial.

Mr. Edlund?

No objection, your honor.

So ordered. [bangs gavel]

[as the court officers escort him out] You can lock me up wherever you want, bitch.

We're done! Get him out of here!

You can lock me up wherever you want, 'cause that's all you can do. And next time I get out, I'm comin' straight for you, bitch! [to the court officers] Get your hands off me.

McCoy

Murder-2 on all 8 charges.

Go to Hell, McCoy. Murder-1, 2, 3. What's the hell's that even mean? I want somethin' real. TV time. Conjugal visits.

McCoy

We're not here to offer perks, Mr. Vorgitch.

I want one of them flatscreens. That's my price. Take it or leave it.

McCoy

We'll leave it.

Fine, but every day I get on that bus and go to court is another day I don't have to spend in here. Another chance to escape.

I did exactly what you were trying to do. Everyone agreed he should die.

McCoy

I was seeking to have Vorgitch legally executed.

And I executed him. How can you come after me for that?

McCoy

Because New York doesn't have a do-it-yourself death penalty, Mr. Purcell.

I don't care what the law says.

Connie

That's hardly a defense.

McCoy

Vorgitch was a monster. No one disputes that the world is a better place without him, but this is not about who Robert Purcell murdered. It's about the simple fact that he is a murderer. Mr. Purcell is not insane. He does not believe himself to be a judge, a jury, or an executioner. And yet, by killing Leon Vorgitch, he chose to act as all 3. He may have felt morally justified, but still, he knew that what he did was wrong. So, the question before you is not: "Did Vorgitch deserve to die?". It's "Did Robert Purcell have the right to kill him?". And the answer is no. Leon Vorgitch was a danger to our society, but so is what the defense is asking of you today. They want you to look the other way. Even though Robert Purcell ignored our system of justice, took the law into his own hands, and committed murder in cold blood, they want you to give him a pass. If you let Robert Purcell get away with murder, just because you hate the man he shot, you're telling everyone out there that it's okay to kill, as long as the victim was a bad person. Judges, juries, who needs them? If you want to see insanity, let this murderer go.

You think I am guilty because I am a woman with power.

McCoy

No, I think you are guilty for the same reason you bugged your corporate headquarters. You're a person with power who couldn't bear to lose it.

McCoy

Ask me how I sleep at night.

Connie

How do you sleep at night?

McCoy

Like a baby.

Even the noblest crusaders aren't beyond a little hypocrisy and it usually involves money.

He expected me to save his legs, so I did!

McCoy

You saved his legs. You lost the patient!

And given the odds, I'd do it again.

McCoy

Which is why, Dr. Vaughn, your cure is worse than any disease.

Connie

So, adopting a baby was just a publicity stunt?

I was giving Christopher a better life, and I was drawing attention to a region of the world that is buckling under an AIDS pandemic.

McCoy

Save that for the press, Mrs. Archer.

Was he going to be raised by the nanny? Yes, but so is my daughter, and so are the children of a lot of working women.

McCoy

Not to the extent that their children are unrecognizable to them.

Connie

[over a scotch with McCoy] I wanna have kids, you know? I wanna wake up with them in the morning, make them breakfast, see them off to school, and tuck them in at night. I just can't imagine seeing them as a burden.

McCoy

Some people are wired wrong. Ugliest part of our work.

Connie

Babies... babies as fashion... pour me another.

Green

[about Barlow] No wonder they call her 'the most hated bitch in America.'

You mean woman, right?

Green

No, I mean bitch.

People love me.

I'm sure some people love spiders, too.

They eat flies, don't they?

And we know what flies eat.

Lt. Van Buren

[to Green about Reverend Sterling's arrest] Hey, Ed. Make this one public. I want that hypocritical preacher to feel some pain.

My husband is a minister! A man of God! I mean, do you really think he'd be involved in the murder of a homosexual prostitute? Look, why do you hate us so much? Well, is it because we have the courage to worship the Lord? Because we believe in the sanctity of marriage? Because we renounce homosexuality?