Dawn Sterling is a terrific liar.
Yeah. Too bad she's not our witness.
S17 E14Church
S17 E15Melting Pot
I used to think this was about an immigrant chasing the dollar, but maybe it's just good old-fashioned American greed.
Look, it's one thing to say you shoved someone. It's a big leap to say you strung 'em up.
Or your people didn't push Rodriguez hard enough.
So what? We should've broken out the waterboard? After all, Rodriguez is here illegally.
It was a sloppy interrogation!
My people worked Rodriguez appropriately! If you don't like it, call the Chief of D's.
EEaston
Why would I kill her?
To protect your profit center in illegal workers. Over half of your employees are underpaid, undocumented aliens.
EEaston
Look, maybe I cut a few corners. But it's still my word against the word of this illegal Spanish kid.
And who do you think the jury's gonna believe? A kid who busts his ass sixty hours a week to send $75 to his mother, or a man who flouts the law and parlays his desperation into a small fortune?
If you're convicted of staging Erin Garrett's suicide, I promise, you'll do forty to life. I'm offering you fifteen.
EEaston
I have a family. A wife and kids.
So did Erin Garrett.
[after Easton consults with Oscar about McCoy's plea offer]
OOscar
10 years. No property forfeiture.
The deal is 15 to life.
EEaston
If I didn't hire these people, what else were they gonna do?! How else are they gonna support their families?!
That might be a defense in a labor violation, not a murder. Fifteen years or a trial, Mr. Easton.
You're a one-man border patrol, Jack.
You give me way too much credit.
I don't think so. You cleaned house.
Not really. You're forgetting Erin Garrett had a Jamaican nanny.
S17 E16Murder Book
I think you oughtta figure out who to charge with this, and do it fast.
My bet's on Lange.
Okay. Reassure me that this is not colored by your history with him.
I want to convict him, Arthur. It happens to coincide nicely with the fact that he's guilty.
LLange
What do you wanna hear from me, McCoy? That I killed my wife? That I cut her throat? That I gutted her?
I read your book. I heard it already.
LLange
Yeah, and you're pissed off that you can't do anything about it.
Contrary to what your attorney says, Mr. Lange, that's not why you're on trial here.
LLange
I'm not gonna say I killed Serena, either.
CCarsley
An Alford plea is still justice served, Jack. It's win-win.
It's still 15 years too light. Forget it, we'll finish the trial.
[McCoy and Connie get up to leave]
CCarsley
You know all that talk in the press about a vendetta? It was just that, it was talk. But I wasn't far off the mark, was I?
Show yourselves out.
S17 E17Good Faith
Mind if I crash your little arm-twisting party?
RReese
I was just trying to protect my daughter.
By breaking the Fifth Commandment, Mr. Reese. You not only killed, you killed the wrong man.
S17 E18Bling
[about the victim who is a rapper] Too violent for me. Sex, guns and a nasty mouth.
Maybe Blair's right. Maybe it is always a black and white thing.
He did have an attitude.
Maybe he's got a right.
S17 E19Fallout
He would get a fair trial here.
KKarpovich
Yes, well, Guantanamo detention camps can lead one to think otherwise.
It's all in Russian. Can you make it out?
I'm actually not fluent. I just know enough to get a date.
S17 E20Captive
We're getting our ass kicked.
Thanks for sugar-coating it. Any suggestions?
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