Season Three
Season Three
Skin Deep
[Cragen gets on a roll:]
Cragen: "So, you're telling me: She makes a stop on 3rd Avenue, cries on his shoulder, *races* downtown, has sex with Decker, and then kills him?"
Cerreta: "Well, this was a hooker and her pimp. Maybe she wanted to change the deal. Maybe he wanted to change the deal."
Cragen: "And maybe she couldn't get over the slaughter in Yugoslavia."
Logan: "Well, first she said she was with her ex-husband. Then it turns out she was at the ad agency..."
Cragen: "She's breaking the law, Mike! What do you want her to say? 'Oh, that's right, officer--I was out turning tricks.' Now when did the husband say he was with her?"
Cerreta: "He *said* six to eight."
Cragen: [holding fingers to ear and mouth as if phone] "'Hello, dear. If you don't want your name in the paper, when the cops get there tell them we had dinner at 6, not 7.' So she's a liar--it doesn't mean she's a killer!" QDC
Conspiracy
Forgiveness
The Corporate Veil
Wedded Bliss
Helpless
"Maybe I can squeeze an apple and get orange juice. One has nothing to do with the other."
Self Defense
Prince of Darkness
Point of View
"Maybe by this time tomorrow you can come up with something better than ethnic slurs."
(to Logan): "It's not always love at first sight with you."
"I want to know how long my mother-in-law is going to live with us. I don't know, but I'm learning to enjoy her pot roast."
Consultation
"If this guy's a heroin smuggler, he better not quit his day job."
"If lying was an Olympic sport, Jesse Owens would be long forgotten."
Extended Family
Lennie: "The guy seems sincere enough."
Cragen: "Yeah, and Ted Bundy got a gold star for honesty."
"I smile a lot at Christmas and do everything I can to avoid answering the phone on Sundays, but I don't play Jack the Ripper."
Right to Counsel
Night and Fog
Promises to Keep
[Scene: Logan and Briscoe are talking, sort of ignoring Cragen who's standing nearby.]
Cragen: "Am I wearing the wrong cologne??" QDC
Mother Love
"Why don't you make a sign, 'Skate' in big letters, walk up and down First Avenue and see if anybody waves?"
Conduct Unbecoming
"A sailor gets whacked in Manhattan, it might as well have happened on the moon."
"Looks to me like we're still trying to catch flies with chopsticks."
"The flies are taking their vitamin B."
Animal Instinct
Jurisdiction
Virus
"Next time he calls, will you tell him to say 'hi' to Elvis?"
"Unless this guy was using mind control to kill people, I suggest you make your apologies in triplicate."
Securitate
"So with hot water and a shoe, we could make soup."
Manhood
Benevolence
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