Season Twelve
Season Twelve
Who Let the Dogs Out?
"The dog man of Attica isn't talking."
Armed Forces
For Love or Money
"It still sounds to me like you're half a story short in each case. You've got a murder without a motive and a motive without a murder."
Soldier of Fortune
"Wonder if my mother had any idea how many lives were lost bringing these [her earrings] up from the earth."
Possession
Formerly Famous
Myth of Fingerprints
The Fire This Time
"No movement was ever stopped by making martyrs of the foot soldiers."
"What makes us so stupid when we're 20?"
"Two Coyotes turned into sacrificial lambs."
3 Dawg Night
"This is an eight alarm migraine."
Prejudice
"You can't let fear dictate your decisions about criminal justice."
"I wonder if Burrows will still have a problem with minorities once he gets to prison and finds out he is one."
The Collar
"Unfortunately, it's our job to split hairs."
Undercovered
"You know, World Trade Center or not, people today want to hear about cooperation and sacrifice. They don't want to hear about greed and corporate bottom line."
"You're describing corporate euthanasia."
DR 1-102
"A lie of omission is still a lie."
Jack: "If no one ever pushed the limits, the rest of us wouldn't know what they are."
Nora: "It's that kind of thinking that's gotten YOU hauled before the disciplinary committee."
Nora: "I'm glad I've made my living on the other side of the witness box."
Jack: "I thought you handled yourself pretty well."
Mora: "I only hope I get to return the compliment someday."
"You know, if you wanted to save people, you should have become a doctor."
Missing (a.k.a. Interned)
Nora: "I heard your own history with your assistants came up."
Jack: "I married her, Nora."
Nora: "Yeah, it wasn't just the one though, was it, Jack?"
"It's one thing for a woman to know. It's another to be publicly humiliated."
Access Nation
Serena: "I think we can get a jury to add two plus two."
Nora: "And a good defense attorney can get them to say it's 17."
Jack: "If people have to choose, they'll trade privacy for safety every time."
Nora: "That's the problem, though -- you trade one for the other, you could end up losing both."
Born Again
Girl Most Likely
Equal Rights
Nora: "Jack, I thought I made it pretty clear I wanted this one to go away."
Jack: "I didn't think that meant you wanted me to give away the courthouse."
Nora: "Better to give away the courthouse than to have some defense attorney take it."
Nora: "Her psychiatrist claims she feared for her life."
Jack: "She paid for that opinion."
Nora: "Well, the opinion we're paying for has told you that there's no way to determine whether or not her actions are reasonable."
Serena: "If someone hit me, I would leave, and I couldn't, I'd hit them back."
Nora: "Not everyone takes tae bo."
Slaughter
Nora: "I eat at Big Bill's."
Jack: "You do?"
Nora: "They have the best fries."
Jack: "And how do you plan to show causation?"
Nora: "I don't. That's your job."
Serena: "Why�d you let him plead guilty in chambers?"
Nora: "Boardrooms have great acoustics. Believe me, the people I was talking to heard us loud and clear."
"Now he'll find out what it's like at the bottom of the food chain."
Dazzled
Foul Play
Attorney Client
Oxymoron
"Why do I have the feeling I'm about to have both my arms twisted?"
Patriot
Jack: "He's making up the law as he goes along."
Nora: "The legal combatants, military tribunals, a war on terrorism . . . we're all making it up as we go along."
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