Law & Order · Season 8
[McCoy is prosecuting a woman who allegedly paid a man to impregnate her comatose daughter]
What good will all this do?
Mr. Singer, your wife and Mr. Harding plunged into a moral quagmire that the law can only begin to address. Maybe they'll both drown in it.
God owed me a grandchild. God owed me!
Al Napoli, the Diaper Don!
[after a guilty verdict] Let's go inform the public of the good news. Happy faces, everyone...
Divorce lawyers: God's way of telling you to stay single.
Or married.
[after Atkins' allocution] You killed my wife to win a divorce case, and you're SORRY?!!
Some other people we talked to said May was shy, but everybody liked her. Fun, not wild, a little naïve. If she'd been a little more streetwise...
...maybe she would have been killed on the street.
I've always supported you, Adam. Every time you've come up for re-election, I've busted my hump for you, and I've never asked for anything in return. But if you don't back off on this one, I'll bury you.
Start digging.
[having heard of Briscoe's testimony] Where the hell do you get off pullin' a stunt like this?
They were gonna dismiss the charges.
So you lied to a judge?
I didn't lie.
I'm lookin' at the transcript, Lennie. You're an inch away from perjury!
More like a foot, foot and a half.
[slams the transcript on her desk] I am not laughing. How dare you go behind my back on somethin' like this.
We owe this girl something. We called her a liar, and we sent her straight into Lowery's arms. Well, I don't think she lied, and that's what I said.
And thanks to you, Lowery's gonna walk.
What the hell's that supposed to mean? I stopped him from walking.
What, for a couple of minutes? His lawyer just subpoenaed me to testify at the trial. For the defense!
Fine! So back me up.
One of my detectives lying under oath is more than enough! Thank you! That's it!
Did you lie?
Look, I felt sorry for her. I didn't think that she should get fired from her job.
Is that a yes? You lied?
Yes.
Are you lying now?
Anyway, how about a free large latte on the house?
[gestures to Curtis] Maybe for the kid here, but I'd like a regular coffee.
Okay, how would you like it?
Uh, regular?
You turning soft on me, Jack?
You know I'm a sucker for an execution. I'm just here for the tortellini.
Look what's happened to your beautiful family. Your wife is sleeping with some dance instructor, your daughter is one step away from living on the street, and you have no money, and it's all because of that kid!
You don't know me, if you knew me, you would see...
Oh, I know you. If you had the stones...
You don't know this man, Lennie. This isn't about money or adultery or anything like that, is it, Joe? My wife's got MS. I picture her life 10 years from now, and it kills me because it might not be a pretty picture. You picture your son. He used to be strong. Played soccer, yeah?
Yes.
My wife used to run 3 miles every morning. Did you imagine Michael at 20 years old, 40 years old, still in the same bedroom, still in the same tortured pain?
[choked up] Yeah.
Me, too. And you wanna know the worst part? I know why it's happening. It's my fault. God is punishing her for something I did.
No, you can't think that way!
I try to tell myself that. I try to think that. But every time I look at her, I feel the guilt. Every time I look at my daughters, and think about what they're going to lose... Someone you love is in pain. They have no hope. What can you do to help this person? How often have you asked yourself this question? Every time you bathe him?
[in tears] Every time I kiss him goodnight.
And you knew there was only one way out. You had to do it. You had to do it because you loved him. Let it go. It was an act of love, Joe.
[sobs] I love Michael! Maybe I... but I didn't do this. I didn't kill him.
Can I leave?
Not for another 30 years.
This case is not a debate about euthanasia. It's about a thrill-killing by a monster masquerading as an angel of mercy. Michael Sutter is dead. He was murdered. That's all that matters.
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