"It's like watching Ted Bundy at the beginning of his career."
Carmichael: "I believe he's also killed a dog."
Judge: "You believe?"
Carmichael: "They had a dog, then they didn't."
"It's nothing for the disciplinary committee to sweat over."
"So we send a message it's sort of OK to kill a baby?"
"They lose a few friends. That's your idea of justice?"
"All the Connerys have to offer is their plea bargained remorse!"
"That sorry excuse for a woman has a hole in her soul!"
Abbie: "I have a solution that will make us all happy."
Jack: "What's that?"
Abbie: "No deals for anybody ... lets hang 'em all."
"In fact, as long as you could make her somebody else's problem, you just didn't give a damn, did you?"
Jack: "He was there."
Abbie: "And now he's got immunity."
"By the time the Feds are done with Diedtrich, they'll be naming bird sanctuaries after him."
Abbie: "Low-cal?"
Jack: "Excuse me?"
Abbie: "I burn it, I don't store it."
"I'll eat, you graze."
(on why Kevin didn't tell the truth earlier): "And he didn't want his parents to know he's a speed freak, it's very touching."
"Lucky for me, I bailed before the quicksand got past my knees."
Jack: "You okay?"
Abbie: "With that butcher looking at me like I'm some kind of carcass on a meat hook? Sure, I'm fine!"
Ashford: "She tells me to get rid of the competition and . . . make it look like some psycho did it."
Abbie: "Guess what. . . some psycho did do it."
"If we have to find him, we can just follow the trail of blood and bones."
"We can't have you plead to a crime you didn't commit, Mr. Bergstrom. That would be wrong."
(to Coral, who's trying to convince her that the embryos were murdered): "The embryologist, Sarah Purcell, was definitely murdered."
"Any woman with a brain ought to be able to figure out a better method of birth control!"
Abbie [to defense counsel, Metzler]: "What mental disease or defect?"
Abbie [re: incest]: "And it's still going on?"
"So it's a contest which of these two will nauseate the jury the least?"
(After Alice screams at her) "That went well."
"Your Honor, this woman has some sort of persecution complex."
"I was a freshman. He was a third year law student. We were on a date. I never told anybody. I blamed myself. And not anymore."
Jack: "They caved?"
Suspect: "First of all I'm not a drug dealer."
"That's nice. Are they going to send the Canadian army down here to help you carry your money and computers home?"
"You can close the bank down. Now."
"It [the tape] corroborates that Willis is a friendly guy."
"That's disgusting, what's your point?"
"I can quote Oliver Wendell Holmes too!"
"He's not worth gutting the first amendment over."
"For god's sake, Jack, why don't you just start your own country? No cops, no bad guys, just sweetness and light as far as the eye can see."
"What is this, affirmative action for murderers?"
Jack: "This case is an open wound. Two people doing the wrong thing for the right reasons."
Attorney: "You can't prove [the gun's] his."
Abbie: "So how'd the 9 mm get from Barak to Max Sheridan?"
"This is a limited time offer, good for ten seconds only. You've already used eight."
"You gotta love 'em."
"Oh, great. You made her cry."
Adam: "This girl died during a religious ritual?"
Jack: "Six years at St. Ignatius."
"Saint Michael made her do it."
Adam: "People see the devil as an allegory."
"I feel like I'm going to the prom with the stamp club geek."
"Those poor doctors might have to hock one of their Porsches!"
"She went in a healthy woman. She came out a corpse."
"You make excuses, I'll make the case."
"That patient's NAME was Maureen Gerard!"
"I think she'll just toss her hair back a few times and convince them she didn't."
"She could always give an interview to the Ledger."
Jack: "How'd the jury react?"
Mrs. Fallon: "Those girls are his whole life...and him theirs."
"Stahl and Wilder swam with the sharks. They got bit."
Jack: "Let's make sure we're not trashing this man's reputation just because he's uncooperative."
"Everyone else said he'd rip her a new eye socket."
Roommate: "Why do you think I would know anything about this?"
Michaels: "She needed comforting."
Abbie: "Peter Kelly's been expelled."
"He's been here six years. He's working the system like a slot machine. I'm still trying to figure out alternate side of the street parking."
"Along with toilet paper, they're having a shortage of hands?"
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Abbie: "Well, I'm just taking a page from the Jack McCoy Playbook. Nobody gets to bend the rules but you?"
Scrambled
"It's just not a motive I run into very much."
Venom
Adam: "Mother and son killing each other's spouses. What the heck kind of family is this?"
Abbie: "A dysfunctional one."
Metzler: "The disease is Lianne Crosby. She abused him, controlled him, pushed him over the edge."
Abbie: "So: Mommy made me do it? You expect to get that by a judge?"
Skoda: "Yeah."
Abbie [in typical Texas-multiple-syllabic-out-of-one-syllable-style]: "Yu-uck."
Punk
"She joined the Paganos in jail. They're an equal opportunity street gang."
True North
"Nice for Stephanie seems to mean she hasn't killed you yet."
Abbie: "Morals are morals. Money is money."
Abbie: "Right. You just collect rare cocaine."
Hate
"Detective Lamotte's getting good with the remote."
Ramparts
Cop: "The whole thing was stupid."
Abbie: "Stopping people from blowing things up is stupid?"
Haven
"Well, maybe he shopped where I shop."
Abbie: "Well, I hope this wasn't another one of those times."
Hunters
"Our interest trumps your interest."
Abbie: "Whose was it, the hotel maid's?"
Rey: "Maybe he sold it."
Lennie: "Maybe he lost it."
Abbie: "Maybe you ask him."
Sideshow (HLOTS Crossover, Part One)
"You don't like the Independent counsel because he's independent?"
Disciple
"Who is this alibi witness, the pope?"
Abbie: "A do-it-yourself exorcism."
Abbie: "Did they teach you how to do exorcisms, Jack?"
Jack: "I'm not so sure I do."
Abbie: "Horns and a pitchfork, Jack?"
Harm
"Doctors. I can't believe my mother wanted me to marry one."
Shield
"Careful you don't get carpet burns on your knuckles!"
Juvenile
Jack: "He just wants the investigation to be ours, not the media's,"
Abbie; "His idea of a quarterback sneak."
Tabula Rasa
Mrs. Fallon: "He wouldn't want us to be late."
Abbie: "So you're late? And what, he starts rearranging the teacups?"
Abbie: "Seven were stone-faced, three felt sorry for her and two thought you were being mean."
Abbie: "And where does that put you?"
Empire
"I hate to sell out the sisterhood, but maybe she does rely on more than brains to succeed in a man's world."
Ambitious
"Could you ask Mr. Sklar to get his finger out of my face?"
Admissions
"According to the cops, Dr. Clememte has a chip on his shoulder the size of a boxcar."
Abbie: "But let's not let it go just because he's screaming racism."
Abbie: "Because you're biting your lip so hard it's going to start bleeding soon."
Abbie: "And you comforted her by knocking her up?"
Jack: "What does he care? Probably goes into the family business."
Abbie: As long as it doesn't require a conscience."
Refuge (1)
"If we find one decimal point out of place, you're on a plane back to the cheese lines in Red Square."
Refuge (2)
"The Sunshine State. Have gun, will travel."
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