Law & Order · Season 2
[Mike Logan and Phil Cerreta listen to 911 call recordings, describing what they hear.]
Grandmother fell down the stairs... Daddy's beating up mommy...
An accident... boiler room explosion...
Want to move to a small town in New Jersey? I know one with a nice police chief.
So, you wanna send it to social services? It's your call.
The most we can get her for is endangering the welfare of a child.
No, no. What we get her for is manslaughter.
Whoa, Mike. Slow down. We don't get her for anything you don't prove she knew the kid was seriously ill.
All right. The housekeeper. What's her name? Uh, Amado. She knew damn well the kid was sick enough to get 2 cops.
Oh, that'll put the parents away for sure. She was fired. She'll say anything.
Getting fired? You think that's a reason to lie about the kid? [to the captain] You believe this?
Hey! What I think, what you think, what he thinks don't mean diddly-squat! Because in court, she's not a credible witness!
Credible?! The kid died!
Well, well, what's this? Honeymoon over?
[Logan and Cerreta jokingly discuss the alibi of a cab driver]
It's not bulletproof. I used to drive a cab- I'd some nights park outside of Susan Dennis' house, take care of business, and pay the fare myself.
[chuckles] So that would have been what, three or four minutes?
[grins] More like a trip to the airport.
You want a jury to ignore the evidence.
No, Chris and Amy want the jury to look at the law. I’ll get the jury to look at Chris and Amy.
The law’s supposed to be a shield, not a sword. They’re despicable, yes. But by letter of the law they’re not guilty.
The legislature could never have conceived of anything like this, but wrong should not win by technicalities. You know that yourself.
Get these bastards off the street.
What'd Conover say?
He told us to go to Hell.
Well, at least he's got a way with words.
We have an obligation to investigate.
At the expense of my client’s reputation? This man has led an exemplary life.
Or he hasn’t, and nobody caught him.
This is blackmail!
No, it's your meeting.
Spare his daughter further suffering. We'll take a plea, with a sealed record.
Well, I'm sure Mr. Messimer knows all about sealed records.
Don't force this, Ben. I'll demolish that woman on the stand.
Oh, I get it. He cares about her, but you'll demolish her.
Criminally negligent homicide. He does no time.
No time for killing a child? Who's blackmailing whom?
My father was waiting for me in front of my building last night. He begged me not to say anything. He said it would be better for me. Not for him, for me. All those years, I wondered what was wrong with me.
There's nothing as powerful as the unspoken.
Girls are constantly bombarded with images of who they should be to attract boys; movies...magazines...television...Madonna...
If you think that a woman doesn't know when she's being raped, then I hope you never find out how wrong you are.
Did you get any read on her?
After 15 minutes? How about some top-of-the-line inadmissible, subjective impressions?
[sarcastically] Just as long as you don't go out on a limb.
Is it just me, detective, or is it all women with triple digit IQs?
[grins] Oh, well, you're the only one I know, doc.
We have a deal, Stone.
Wrong tense, counselor. In my office, two half-truths do not equal a whole, and you better pray that your client here is snowing you, too.
Are you threatening me?
As a matter of fact, yes, I am.
Education. It’s a wonderful thing.
"Anything worth knowing cannot be taught in a classroom."
Oscar Wilde?
Sister Mary Frances. She wielded a hell of a paddle.
[The suspicious burning of a Latino nightclub, 'El Cielo', leads to the deaths of 53 people, and is quickly determined to be arson. ]
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