Politics has 2 choices: do nothing or do something. Nothing has fewer risks.
S3 E5Wedded Bliss
Bar Association dinner next week, Adam's getting an award. I bought a new tuxedo. I have to wonder who made it.
S3 E6Helpless
Liz. Is she all right?
She's a psychologist. If anybody's trained to handle it, she is.
Nobody trains you to be a victim.
Okay, Ben, what do you want?
In a perfect world, I'd like to see your client locked in a room for a week with these women. But I'll settle for seeing him spend the rest of his life in jail.
S3 E7Self Defense
FFortas
In Greece, they got weapons laws up the ying-yang.
Nice to know we live in a civilized country.
If we let him walk, we’re endorsing an armed populace that metes out justice as they see fit.
If we try him and lose, it’s the same message. With our credibility as an appetizer.
S3 E8Prince of Darkness
[In an undercover job, Cerreta has been shot by a gun dealer]
Thirty years...I never even...fired...
[The murderer of the hitman the DA's office was prosecuting has fled to Columbia, and they are discussing the case. The phone rings.]
Yes? [Listens] Uh-huh? [Continues] Not an accident? [Continues] Thank you. [Hangs up] The gun dealer was in the yard at Rikers; had his throat cut. The victim's mother was thrown out a third-storey window.
What about the little girl?
She was picked up after school by her uncle.
She doesn't have an uncle.
[Schiff looks horrified.]
S3 E9Point of View
[Logan, frustrated with Briscoe, asks Cragen when Cerreta will be back]
I mean, I'm thinking back to when Phil came on. It's not always love at first sight with you.
Look, I can handle it. I just wanna know how long?
I wanna know how long is my mother-in-law gonna live with us. I don't know, but I'm learning to enjoy her pot roast.
Briscoe and Logan are arresting a suspect who's on the phone.
[Takes the phone] He'll call you back in 25 years.
[Briscoe has just accepted a free meal from a snitch]
Look, he thinks I'm corrupt, so he trusts me, all right?
[trying to get a description of the killer] What did she look like?
VValerie
Look, guys, I really wasn't paying that much attention.
Yeah, just like I don't remember whether the guy I caught in the shower with my first wife was a natural redhead.
[Briscoe and Logan enter Scanlon's office; Scanlon is on the phone]
SScanlon
I just haven't seen any real money yet. [to the detectives] Hey, hey, guys, come on, now. I'm busy here!
[takes the phone] He'll call you back in 25 years. [hangs up]
SScanlon
What is this?!
You wanna put your hands behind you, sir?
SScanlon
What are you doin'?!
[Logan slaps the cuffs on him]
James Scanlon, you're under arrest for the murder of Thomas Duff.
SScanlon
[to his secretary] Call the lawyers!
Good move. You're gonna need one.
Yeah, and don't tell his wife to keep dinner warm for him. All right?
And she shouldn't wait up to tuck him in, either.
S3 E10"Consultation"
Right around the corner from here is the first place I ever saw Mose Allison.
Who?
I keep forgetting when you were born.
[Stone's Nigerian suspect has left the US before sentencing, and he confronts the Nigerian Consul to which the consul retorts.]
IBSir Idris Balewa
Our culture is not as "enlightened" as yours. Nwaka thought nothing about purchasing people's lives. He should be made to pay for his own.
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