Law & Order Season 7 quotes

Oh girl, you are as dumb as a sack of hair.

McCoy

This isn't a referendum on prostitution. It isn't a referendum on rape. You're here to render a verdict on her client's credibility. She says she was raped. What's her evidence? "Keene was a bully. My husband believes me. So should you." In the meantime, she suffered no injuries, she destroyed evidence, she lied to the police. It was only when she was backed into a corner that she cried rape, that she wrapped herself in the right of self-defense. But she wasn't defending her virtue. She didn't shoot Gilbert Keene to keep from performing an act that she had willingly performed on dozens of other men. She killed him to protect a secret. You've all seen what lengths she went to, to avoid Mac Bernum, to hide her identity. Who can blame her? She didn't want to lose her husband, her family, her comfortable home. Those things, she would kill for. But those things do not justify the taking of a life! The threat of deadly physical force does, or rape does, or kidnapping, or robbery. But none of those things happened in that car. What happened in that car was a cold and calculated thing. A woman killed her blackmailer, not her rapist. That's who Gilbert Keene was. That's how he got sex. He didn't rape those other women. He blackmailed them. I don't want you to convict her because she's a prostitute. I'm asking you to convict her because her story is a lie.

Ross

Lanie Stieglitz filed her appeal.

Schiff

She's hoping they'll erect a statue for her on 12th Avenue.

McCoy

Even prostitutes deserve a patron saint.

Ross

It makes me wonder if they convicted her because we made our case or because she's a prostitute.

McCoy

They convicted her. I don't care why.

Who told you she had breast implants?

Briscoe

We're the police. We know everything.

Briscoe

[to Dr. Levine] This isn't the planet of the Barbie dolls, Doc. Your average citizen knows these ladies have pumped-up ta-tas! What we have is a decapitated body and a killer walkin' around.

Curtis

See what you got me into?

Briscoe

Yeah, I got you a date with a good looking woman. I'm a real son of a bitch.

McCoy

:[after a California rules to nullify an extradition order] Speak up, Your Honor. There are some people in the Bronx who didn't hear you.

Schiff

I want you to kick the livin' daylights outta Neal Gorton. You can dig up Thomas Dewey to help ya! You're gonna win this case. Whatever you have to do, I want a conviction!

Ross

I shouldn't have been away from Katie this long. I'm due in family court in three days.

McCoy

We have to go back to Judge Callahan in twelve hours.

Ross

I'm sorry!

McCoy

Where are your priorities?! If Gorton gets ahold of this stuff, he'll come up with some cockamamie alternate theory of the crime. A murderer could walk free!

Ross

And I could lose my daughter! You know what, Jack?! That's an easy decision!

McCoy

Not for an Assistant District Attorney.

McCoy

What's your current movie about, Mr. Newman? Talking bears?

Yes.

McCoy

A daring Neorealist foray into Jellystone Park? Does that fulfill your promise as an artist?

No!

McCoy

Heidi Ellison was keeping you from fulfilling that promise, wasn't she?

Not just her. Do you know what kinda crap they wanted me to make?

McCoy

But especially her. She could've let you make Madame Bovary, couldn't she?

Yes!

McCoy

But she didn't, did she?

She gave me a choice. The bears or a picture about a dog who's granted three wishes. I couldn't believe it!

McCoy

You couldn't believe what, Mr. Newman?

I had an actress, a bankable actress, who was attached to Bovary. But Heidi gives her $12,000,000 to do an asteroid movie instead, because our marriage didn't work out! [jumps out of his seat and raises his sword] That vindictive bitch! I could've made something!

McCoy

Everyone likes a good story. Eddie Newman has made a career putting stories on film. And the defense in this case has told you a very good story about a sleazy psychiatrist and a man who believed he'd committed a murder, but recently realized that he didn't. What actually happened here is less complicated and far more sordid. A bitter, angry man viciously killed his ex-wife, dismembered her while she was still alive, and then lied about it. There's no clever twist to the plot. It's just the messy, ugly truth. Mr. Gorton has appealed to what he calls reasonable doubt. But reasonable doubt is not any doubt. God has given you all the gift of common sense. Use it. [picks up Newman's sword] Eddie Newman used this weapon to hack to death not the woman he claimed he loved, but the woman he calls a vindictive bitch. Find him guilty of murder.

Schiff

You got what you wanted. Take the rest of the week off.

McCoy

It's Friday, Adam.

Schiff

So it is. See you Monday.

Schiff

[about McCoy's prosecution strategy] It's legally brilliant! Sure to be a hit with the public. And you have no business trying it.

[about his stash of violent pornography] Hey, some people like vanilla, I like Rocky Road.

Curtis

So he walks for killing a cop, but we nail him for killing the cop killer?

McCoy

An irony he gets to reflect upon over the next forty years in Attica.