Law & Order · Season 19
Docket no. 36533, People vs. Jonah Applebaum, three counts of murder in the second degree.
Plea?
Your Honor, we're going to need a 730 exam.
I wanna plead not guilty.
I believe that may be what your attorney has in mind, sir.
No, not not guilty on account of I'm crazy, not guilty on account of I didn't do it.
Let's just call it not guilty and split hairs later.
Jonah Applebaum is the Boxcar Basher?
You just put an insane serial killer back on the street.
He doesn't know that we know that. We... we can still pick him up.
You damn well better. This could be Willie Horton all over again.
Willie Horton? You're not worried about the election, are you?
I'm worried about everything. About him killing someone else. About the way this office is run. A serial killer in our hands and then released. Am I being too picky?
[Cutter bends legal ethics to forcibly medicate Jonah so his testimony will be admissible]
Because of what I did, a sick man is getting medication he needs.
But that's not why you did it; you did it for your case.
[shrugs] Win-win.
I did a job for Halliwell, and then I decided to stay in town and enjoy the sights.
The sights? From where, Zagat's Guide to S&M Dungeons?
Seems like every day we hear about another corrupt civil servant. Corrupt banker, businessman, athlete. Seems that behind every success story of the last ten years, a scandal is exploding. We're facing a rising sea of corruption. And we wonder who will be the next to be drowned? Who will be saved? And what will become of our good works? When will it stop, Donald, and who will stop it?
If you expect me to implicate Rita and jeopardize my family...
Your family? They're campaign props you used to get elected. They mean as much to you as balloons and bumper stickers. Your whoring proves it!
Be careful, Jack. I'll attribute that to the stress of your campaign. I know you're in a dead heat with Joe Chappell. I also know a few things about Joe, maybe could swing them numbers your way.
You're trying to buy me off?
You're worried about your good works, Jack. How are you going to safeguard them if you're not in the game anymore?
What do you want?
Your resignation, Governor, with your reputation, such as it is, intact. Just say you're leaving office to support your wife and family in a time of personal crisis.
That wasn't the deal. McCoy said I'd stay in office.
I'm not Jack McCoy.
[raises a glass before the election] May we live to fight another day.
Hear, hear.
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