Law & Order Season 19 quotes

McCoy

Shutting down a Christian charity. Maybe I can still get the Buddhist vote.

What, you're arresting me?

Yeah, we feel bad, believe me.

My lawyer says that anything I say under oath can be used against me by any of the 10,000 plaintiffs who will file lawsuits against me, and I won't open myself up to that kind of liability. [starts to leave]

McCoy

Sit down, Mr. Gardner. If you refuse to testify, you'll be held in contempt, and you won't get out of it by writing a check.

Put me on the stand. I'll take the Fifth.

McCoy

Take the Fifth, and I'll give you something other than a few lawsuits to worry about. I have a whole building full of broke prosecutors who'd love nothing more than to put you in their sights.

What do I get out of it?

McCoy

Have you ever done something for nothing? Here's your chance.

McCoy

We'll offer David Sutton a plea to Man-2. 6-12 years.

Cutter

For a first-degree murder?

McCoy

Have you looked at your evidence lately? 6-12, Mike. In an medium security prison. And make the offer tonight.

Cutter

You wanna tell me why we're carrying water for the Feds?

McCoy

It's called banking an IOU, which I can use in the Delacroix bank fraud case, where we'll need the Feds' help. I don't know how to break this to you, Mike, but yours is not the only case on my plate!

Cutter

Trade leniency for a murderer for help for a bank fraud case.

McCoy

A $2 billion bank fraud case, and your murderer still goes to prison. That's the kind of math I have to do in this job.

Cutter

Jack says the deal's off the table.

Connie

Well, that's good, seeing as that's what you already told David's lawyer.

Connie

What do you think? Catholic Children's Charitable Trust might have popped Decker and Prescott?

Cutter

American Poetry Foundation. That's a cutthroat bunch.

35 years ago, I won an Overseas Press Club Award for my coverage of the fall of Saigon. Now, I make happy talk with morons in low-cut dresses. My career has been dead for a long time, I just – I just haven't had the decency to bury it.

[about anti-immigration violence] I get it, the anger. Back in South Central L.A., young Black men can't get jobs because the bosses know illegals will work for four dollars an hour and no benefits, and that they're too scared to go to the police. So, yeah, round them up, treat them humanely, and send them back. And that fence? Dig deep and build it high.

There's a solution. It's called a Depression. Believe me, all those illegals are heading home now.

McCoy

Justice isn't a finite resource. Just because it's given to someone doesn't mean it'll be denied to someone else. But if it is denied to one, it will be denied to all.

Why would someone deliberately eat dog chow?

Dr. Rodgers

Well, unless he was starving to death or at my ex-sister-in-law's for Thanksgiving, he wouldn't.

Screw Cooper and the fire truck he married! All I wanted was for my son to come home in one piece! [tears up] Excuse me. [leaves]

Connie

"Fire truck"?

My guess, all the firemen rode her.

There's only one person responsible for Spence's death, and that's the owner of the auto parts business. He illegally subdivided his offices.

McCoy

And he's up next after we're done with Toshack.

If you're still in office by then. You actually think you can get elected without the support of the firefighters?

McCoy

I'll pretend I didn't hear that.

I'll pretend you did.

Do you think New York City would hire a mentally ill woman?

It would explain a few things about the tax code.

Connie

[to Teale] You're an infant. You think your life sucks now, Mr. Teale? Just wait and see where you wake up tomorrow. And unlike your sister's condition, this will be a nightmare of your own making.

[about three homeless murder victims] They could be hobos. There's a freight line right over there.

"Hobos"? What's this, 1933?