Law & Order Season 20 quotes

Connie

Tell the judge we need more time. We can reach him.

Cutter

He's already been reached.

[about the killer's motive] It's either personal, professional, or mineral.

McCoy

Brenda Sawyer was gathering data about your miracle drug until she was killed by a rogue employee. But why am I telling you something you already know?

I don't know what Marshall did or didn't do, but I do know that Lextenda is an effective product.

McCoy

Brenda Sawyer thought otherwise. That you were selling false hope to desperate people at 1,000 bucks a day. Doing it by co-opting doctors with timeshares and tropical vacations, that it's a rigged game.

Don't get self-righteous on me, Jack. If corporations didn't make profits, where would politicians like you be?

McCoy

You're right, and it stinks. There are too many officeholders in the health industry's pockets. It's one of the reasons we can't pass a decent health care bill in this country. And, oh, by the way ... [hands him a check] It's a certified check reimbursing your campaign contribution.

What do you want me to do?

McCoy

Grow a conscience.

[eyes Connie as she leaves] You, too, Mike?

Cutter

Me, what?

Come on, she is still hot as hell.

Cutter

What are you talking about?

Just do it. I did.

Cutter

Woll claims that he and Connie had... a sexual relationship. He did everything but show me the dirty pictures.

McCoy

Did you ask her?

Cutter

No. Even that would be crossing the line. I don’t have sex with people that I work with, and I don’t ask them about their sex lives. We’re supposed to be smarter than that here, aren’t we? I mean, who’d put themselves in a situation like that?

McCoy

You mean besides me?

Cutter

It is worse for a woman, Jack. Sleeping with the teacher, sleeping with the boss, it demeans them and calls into question everything they have accomplished.

McCoy

So, she deserves extra credit for stepping forward, doesn't she? I assume you still find her competent?

Cutter

Of course I do. We're colleagues, we're not lovers... [McCoy looks surprised with this "confession"] ... and that is the way it's supposed to be.

Well, the cards weren't going my way. Guy with hole aces sitting on the nuts burned me for eight grand. Duane fronted me a loan.

He was playing loan shark?

He was working for one. Got me $8,000. The vig was one point a week. I paid him back a few days before he got killed. Dudes, I swear, I'm just a guy who really sucks at poker.

Lt. Van Buren

"Have a nice day." I'll have a nice day when I'm cured.

McCoy

Since when is it liberal bias to stand up for human dignity and human life, for fairness under the law? You should reexamine your own values, Mr. Pewls, before you start questioning mine.

Looks like you got what you wanted.

I didn't want it, not like this. It just fell in my lap.

But I know you felt bad about it, and you had a chance to come clean. You didn't.

What do you know about anything? Talk to me in 40 years.

Cutter

We can't kick Gans, but we still can't charge him.

Lt. Van Buren

Well, pardon my detectives for doing their job. And by the way, we already have two murder suspects. Good ones.

Cutter

Not good enough.

Lt. Van Buren

Exactly what do you want from us?

Cutter

Clarity.

Lt. Van Buren

Clarity. Mr. Cutter, exactly how long have you been an ADA? Since when do you get evidentiary clarity in a murder case handed to you on a silver platter? [opens her office door and gestures for him to leave] I think we're done here for today.

McCoy

I have to attend a panel on violent crime. It would be nice if we were solving it instead of just talking about it.

[about Carville] You ever watch her show?

Sure, when I'm not knitting booties for my cat.

What kind of blackmailer asks for payment by check?

Cutter

A dumb one.

Lt. Van Buren

Without the beards, you guys look 5 years younger.

[to Lupo] Which makes you about 12.

Go screw yourself, okay? Screw the police! Screw the Morgans! Screw all 53 states!