Law & Order · Season 9
Your Honor, the defendant was identified by the witness and can be linked to the weapon. It's a matter of luck he's not here facing a murder charge. The People request half a million dollars bail.
Something more reasonable, Your Honor?
150, cash or bond. [to the stenographer] That's thousands, Arthur. May 15th. Next.
It's Jonestown without the Kool-Aid.
I'd hate to have somebody track me by what I read.
You read, Lennie?
The line between charming someone out of $1,000,000 and being perceived as a charity whore sometimes gets blurred.
You don't get it, Curtis. One hundred years from now, we're all ashes and dust, and no one will remember who slept with whom, or who was naughty and who was nice. They'll look up at that incredible piece of steel and concrete and know that I was a part of it.
The first public building named after a convicted murderer.
Hardly the first. The Parthenon, the Temple of the Vestals. They have names of emperors on them. And talk about murderers.
Pro bono publico?
Relax, detective. The empire isn't going to fall tonight. Go on. Go home to your wife.
Can you guys make it quick? I gotta cram for my psych exam before the happy hour crunch!
Wouldn't you do better in a library?
Hey, I'm covering my tuition and fulfilling a public service.
Oh, which one's that?
Read the literature. Clubs like this, they boost a man's testosterone level. He leaves here feeling confident. More productive...
...and broke.
Then everybody's happy!
You recognize this girl?
She an actress?
She moonlights at a hooter bar when she's not playing Lady Macbeth.
Any indication it's Clemente?
The cops asked him for a DNA sample, he refused.
Did he have a reason?
Outrage. He says the suspicion of him is racist.
Only Hispanic professor on a white campus. Could be he's right.
Could be he did it.
Let's make sure we're not trashing this man's reputation just because he's uncooperative.
But let's not let it go just because he's screaming racism!
Peter Kelly's been expelled.
What does he care? Probably go into the family business.
As long as it doesn't require a conscience.
Tell Mr. Margolis he can stuff his motion to dismiss.
Malenkov's gotta be making a quarter of a million a month by massaging sore muscles.
Ain't America grand?
You've gotta hand it to him, though. He's been here 6 years, he's working the system like a slot machine. I'm still trying to figure out alternate side of the street parking.
You think because we have an accent, we're stupid? When I was 14, at a state school in Moscow, I was reading Anderson, Faulkner, Hemingway. I was studying John Keynes, Milton Friedman...
[impatiently] Mr. Maletkov, I...!
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah. I made a lot of money in Russia. You think that's easy? You try it. So, when I come here... [scoffs; snaps fingers] America's like a big baby. We're taking candy out of your hand. Out of your mouth. So... [speaks Russian] Save your deals for the pipe heads in Harlem. I have appointment to play chess. Okay?
I wanna know how this disaster happened.
Best guess, Ricci was followed from work.
Why wasn't a police officer stationed in the apartment?!
In a one-bedroom? That would've been cozy. We tried putting someone downstairs in the vestibule, but the tenants complained!
Lieutenant, I don't have to tell you...!
No. You don't. We're treating this like Ricci was one of our own. What are you gonna do about this retrial?
I don't know.
[Briscoe and Curtis enter the apartment of two sisters concerning Gabriel]
I don't know where Gabriel is. He's driving a cab.
That's why we need to talk to him. He ever lend it to anybody?
No! I don't know. Look, I don't got time to talk to you!
[shows Louisa photos] Hey, did you ever see him with either of these 2 people?
She don't hardly see Gabriel, except to make another stupid baby!
Cállate!
[both sisters argue in Spanish]
Hey! Hey! Hey! Did Gabriel mess with you? Is that why you don't like him?
I take care of myself. I don't like him, but she lets him beat her when she's all pregnant like that.
Well, you show us where he is, we make sure he doesn't mess with your sister again. All right?
[after he and his fellow mobsters have been sentenced] Go ahead. Try and kill me. I'm not afraid. I'm tough. I'll survive.
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