You want to take me on, little girl? Well, let me tell you something: you better be packing more than a dirty mouth.
S8 E21Bad Girl
AAnderton
Remember what LBJ said when they were hammering him about Vietnam? "Felt like a hitch-hiker on a highway in a Texas hailstorm, can't run, can't hide, can't make it stop." I'm putting you on that highway, Adam.
S8 E22Damaged
Does the defense wish to make a motion?
PPainter
CPL 290.10. The defense moves to set aside the jury's verdict.
Objection! The prosecution proved its case!
What case, Mr. McCoy? Have we gone so far down the road of political correctness that sex between willing partners is now called rape?! The girl said yes!
She has the mind of a child!
Well, she's mature enough to be plenty intrigued by her own sexuality. Face it, counselor. She had the time of her life. Case dismissed.
Now, Valerie, Hayden called you a retard, and you told him you weren't. Is that right?
VValerie
Yes, sir.
And after that, did he keep on calling you a retard?
VValerie
No.
Did you like what the boys did to you?
VValerie
I did what I wanted.
PPainter
Your honor, the defense requests you deny the state's motion to reverse your prior ruling.
Granted.
You set aside the jury's verdict, because you unfairly held the state responsible for proving the boys' prior knowledge. The state has now done so, and you STILL refuse?!!
Mr. McCoy, it's over! There is no case here. There never was!
How would you know?! You made up your mind before you heard the first word of testimony!
You're on thin ice, counselor! The defense request is granted! The state's motion is denied! You want to appeal?! Be my guest!
[after seeing Cathy's dead body]
She was my baby, Rey! What am I gonna do?
Come home with me, partner.
S8 E23Tabloid
McCoy: Of course, people should be protected against gross invasions of their privacy. There should be limits. But there must also be constraints on what a man can do when his privacy has been invaded. Even when his family's privacy has been invaded. Now, you may like Mr. Abbott and sympathize with him. And you may not like Mr. Marco. From what I know of Mr. Marco, I don't much like him, and I don't much like what he was going to do, but that cannot be a justification for what happened to him. We may not like tabloid journalism and the cult of celebrity that it feeds. The hunger for fame over virtue, for gossip over integrity. To us it may seem an unpleasant, miserable, disgusting game with which we would prefer to have nothing to do. But Mr. Abbott participated in it willingly. It was only when it turned against him that he took out his gun and shot Mr. Marco. We may not want a world in which celebrity and gossip are all mixed up with news. It's messy. But our society can survive the mess. What it cannot survive without is the free and easy exchange of information, all kinds of information, even if it's unpleasant. Even if it's irrelevant. Even if it's just gossip. We sort it out, and we blunder on, but we blunder on free. The only alternative is a world in which people (if they're smart enough, rich enough, powerful enough, likable enough) can stop the truth from being told. Warren Abbott shot Philip Marco to shut him up! With premeditation. In cold blood. Because he didn't like what Mr. Marco was going to write.
I see Abbot isn't trying to keep the press from doing its job today.
Today, it's news.
S8 E24Monster
Are you all so petty that you'd endanger the lives of the people we're supposed to protect?
CDCommander Dietz
Petty? The department has better ways to spend its resources than defending itself against petty lawsuits.
I was within my rights. The department promoted a white woman with less seniority. Maybe you all forgot, but we can sit at the lunch counter now!
Doctor, you'll probably get a call from an attorney named Considine. He represents Jesse Castillo. He'll ask about Malika's condition. I'd like you to tell him that Malika has become aware of her surroundings, and the chances of her recovery are good. I know what I'm asking you to do.
CDr. Charters
Good. Then you know why I can't.
You know more than anyone what was done to that little girl.
CDr. Charters
Yes, but I have an ethical duty...
So do I. Mine is stopping monsters like Jesse Castillo, and yours is keeping more Malika Richardsons from turning up in your emergency room.
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