Law & Order Season 18 quotes

Hey, there was another hooker rip-off two weeks ago at the McGarrick on 12th. It's almost enough to make a man swear off infidelity.

Green

[grinning] You losin' your nerve, Cormack?

I did say "almost".

Dr. Rodgers

Serial suicide artist.

Green

Try not to look so excited.

Cutter

Jack, you grew up with Woodward and Bernstein. I grew up with Geraldo.

Connie

So you were just the dumb muscle?

You can kiss my dumb muscle.

Just because the power is out doesn't mean we unplug the Constitution.

McCoy

[after learning a doctor was investigating a genetic marker for homosexuality] I hear Pandora's box creaking open.

McCoy

That's one area where science has been no help - how to keep decent people from making lousy decisions.

Green

Piece of cake. We just look for a black guy and a white guy together in New York City.

Well, there's us.

Four years overseas chasing terrorists, now I'm the pants police.

Lt. Van Buren

Jonas, both children were killed by the same gun, by the same man. Someone from the neighborhood. But no one's talking to my people.

Self-preservation. In case you haven't noticed, the neighborhood's turning white and rich. Families are being forced out.

Lt. Van Buren

My officers can't afford to live in the city anymore.

That's your community, Anita. My community's just trying to hold on to its own.

Lt. Van Buren

Well, if "don't snitch" is how you define your community, maybe it's not worth saving.

Cutter

My summation's ready. I can win this.

McCoy

Famous last words. I've even said them myself from time to time.

Cutter

This was a playground dispute between teenage boys over a $30 ball. We expect teenage boys to be impulsive and irresponsible. But teenage boys didn't turn this dispute into a tragedy. Their parents did. Gretchen Steel, who bullied her boys into going back to get their ball, who in defiance of common sense carpooled them to a street fight with baseball bats. Ray Manning, who, on impulse, ran out of his house with a loaded gun, who without warning, without thinking and with callous disregard, fired into a public street. Any reasonable adult would have kept their kids at home. Any reasonable adult would have found a way short of lethal force to get his son out of harm's way. You may think that this white woman and black man have nothing in common. But they share blood, the blood on their hands. Now you've watched them point the finger at each other, shirk responsibility, acting like children. No more, ladies and gentlemen. Make them take responsibility.

[after the verdicts are delivered] I understand the jury has a statement they'd like to read.

Yes, Your Honor. We, the jury, think this terrible event never would have occurred without both defendants causing it. And we recommend they should get the exact same sentence.

McCoy

[to Van Buren, sotto voce] Justice.

Lt. Van Buren

Who would have thought it?

I used to think law was exciting, but politics, campaigning... it's like holding the beating heart of America in your hand.

[Grins sheepishly] That must sound pretty terrible.

McCoy

Victor said something about more of the tape. But there was no more on the tape. Did you stop recording?

Primary's on Tuesday. Don't forget to vote.