TMr. Talbert
Not only was it consensual, it wasn't very good.
[disgusted] You're a piece of work, Mr. Talbert.
S5 E8Virtue
McCoy: "Give me the keys to your house, or I'll charge you with murder. I'm the D.A. I can do it." "Give me $10,000, or I'll tell the Feds about that shipment of heroin I saw you pick up at J.F.K. I'm the D.A. They'll listen." What would you do? I can tell you what I'll be doing for the next ten years or so. I'll be in Attica because what I did is called extortion, and it's a felony. "Sleep with me, or I'll tell your boss that you're under indictment for fraud. It's not true, but do you really think you'll be working next week?" Sarah Maslin worked for eight years. She was the best, the most productive associate in her firm. She had clearly earned a partnership, but the only way that she could get it was to have sex with a man who had the power to make or break her career. Sarah Maslin laid down on that couch for Mr. Talbert. But can any of us say that she really had a choice?
S5 E9Scoundrels
Dead people. They're full of surprises.
S5 E10House Counsel
What is this, Bernie's Bargain Basement? "Cop to four murders, get only five years".
When I made the deal, I had no idea.
You had no idea because your blood was rushing downstream to somewhere south of the border.
Justice is a by-product of winning.
S5 E11Guardian
Nice lady, this Mrs. Blanchard. She was hosting cocktail parties while her daughter was living on the dole.
Right, she should have let the kid shoot the family fortune into her arm.
You'd throw your daughter out on the street?
My daughter could go through my fortune in about a day and a half.
PPollard
Well, I trust you're here to apologize, Lieutenant.
I do my repenting on Sunday.
S5 E12Progeny
Well-meaning people can disagree, especially about the most socially divisive issue to face our country this century. Drew Seeley has an opinion about abortion. He thinks that his opinion entitles him to kill people. Here's what he did. He hunted down a woman named Eileen Reid, he gave Randall Jenkins a gun and told him to shoot Eileen Reid. And he did. Drew Seeley is a self-appointed executioner. If you let him go, you better just pray that one day, someone like him doesn't find some fault with you.
SSeeley
150 years ago, you weren't considered a person. Or you. Or you. A man named John Brown thought that was wrong so he took violent action to liberate black American slaves. Well, he was caught and brought to trial and hanged because slavery was legal and the law said that slaves were not people deserving of protection. But you know what? John Brown was right. And the law was wrong. Now John Brown is considered a hero. Today, abortion is legal but I tell you, that law is wrong. Like John Brown, I follow a higher law. I ask you to do the same.
God calls you to organize murders. God calls you to take credit for murders. But God never calls on you to pull the trigger?
SSeeley
Each of us has a role.
You can't do it, can you? You can't bring yourself to shoot someone, even though you think God is telling you to do it, you can't do it.
SSeeley
I put the gun in Randall's hand! I told him where to point it!
You can't point a gun at another human being, even an abortion doctor, and pull the trigger, because in your soul, you know it's wrong!!
SSeeley
God says it's right!
You don't believe that!
SSeeley
I believe in the Lord, my God...!
Your defense is a lie!
SSeeley
No! What is a lie is the arrogant belief that what you're doing here furthers justice!
Answer my question, Mr. Seeley! You are unable to shoot doctors yourself, because in your soul, you know it's wrong.
MDr. Moran
[during her testimony] I was, in effect, committing murder.
In effect?
MDr. Moran
I was committing murder.
Fine. Would you please stand up?[the doctor stands up] Officer, arrest this woman.
JSJudge Scarletti
Mr. McCoy!
We've just heard a confession of murder, Your Honor. Officer?
JSJudge Scarletti
I'm not amused, Mr. McCoy!
How many counts of murder shall we charge you with, Dr. Moran?
JSJudge Scarletti
MR. MCCOY! May I remind you that abortion is legal?
[triumphantly] Thank you, your honor!
S5 E13Rage
Any chance you like any of the men you work with?
FSFemale stockbroker
Give me a break, Detective. There's only two kinds of men that work on Wall Street. Standard and poor. [gives Logan a speculative look] But I hear that peace officers are a whole different story.
[Stockbroker enters limo. Briscoe and Logan look at each other.]
[grins] You got your yardstick handy?
Oh, I got my tape measure.
It's weird. The guy's got more money than God, but he lives worse than I do.
Howard Hughes never clipped his toenails. Got any homicides we can pin on him?
[snatches a parking ticket from the windshield] Aww, what is this? They got no respect anymore, these meter maids.
Well, you got your $2,000 suits and you got your hotshot degrees but, from where I'm standing, you're no better than some punk who robs a 7-11 store and blows away the cashier to cover his tracks.
I graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, magna from Stanford Business. I have seveteen traders working for me, and I booked almost a billion dollars in trades over the last two years. Not only am I better than your punk at the 7-11, I'm a hell of a lot better than you, Detective Logan.
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