Thrill
Jamie: "He doesn't identify himself as a priest on the sign in sheet."
Lawyer: " Well now you know. He's been Joey's spiritual advisor since his First Communion."
Jamie: "Well it hasn't been a screaming success."
"Jack! I just realized! We are better off with two trials!"
Denial
"So they found the books last instead of first. Was there a special recipe they were supposed to follow?"
"The jury bought his Romeo of the Dairyland routine."
Navy Blues
"Excuse me, now I have to ask permission to join the conversation?"
"Oh, so now it's he said, she said, you said."
"It's like finding out Amelia Earhart flew to Bakersfield and hid out for fifty years."
Harvest
Harmon: "You never call, you never write, but when you want a favor..."
Jamie: "You sound like my mother."
"Put yourself in the jury's shoes. Camacho blew a woman's brains out. That's an easy concept to grasp. The rest of it-brain death, apnea tests-I get a headache just thinking about it."
(after Jack says that he doesn't believe the prosecution of Cosgrove will cause a shortage of organs): "Especially livers. G'night, Jack!"
Nullification
Judge: "I don't like this. My daughter just had a baby...a girl, two weeks ago. I want her to have the same freedoms I've had."
Jamie: "And if she becomes an armored car guard?"
Jamie: "The New Sons of Liberty membership list. Twenty in all."
Jack: "Nice round number."
Jamie: "Not enough to start a revolution, more than enough to rob an armored car."
Baby, It's You (Part One)
"It would be easier trying to talk to Saddam Hussein."
Baby, It's You (Part Two, Homicide, Life on the Streets)
Jamie: "Danvers will argue that it's a felony murder, that the underlying felony took place in Baltimore."
Jack: "That's the obvious argument."
Jamie: "And it's a winner--unless you redraw the map of New York City to include Baltimore."
"You might win a consolation prize for most creative entry."
Blood
Jack: "I was not obsessing."
Jamie: "Don't worry. For some reason she'd like to see you again."
"I've been breathing six year old dust, reliving the mother of all divorces. Burdett V. Burdett. It went all 15 rounds."
"I gave myself asthma for nothing!"
"The next jury won't buy your Mary, Mother of God routine."
Shadow
"This is a murder trial, not some ten dollar hand-to-hand. You don't blow it on semantics."
Charlie: "I tried to make a decent life."
Jamie: "By killing somebody?"
Charlie: "Try to understand, Jamie...."
Jamie: "It's not in the job description."
Burned
Jack (looking at year book): "He look pretty harmless in a suit and tie."
Jamie: "You all do."
"He's rich, he powerful. Maybe we should let Robin Leach try the case."
Ritual
Jamie: "From what you've told me so far, you can't even charge a misdemeanor."
Anita: "Disorderly conduct."
Jamie: (Pointing at Briscoe and Curtis) "These two are the ones who created a scene!"
"A felonious hotel checkout? Come on!"
Consulate: "You have heard of diplomatic immunity?"
Jamie: "You have it....your car doesn't. We can have it towed....and towed....and towed...."
"While you're wrestling with Eric Martin, I'm going to see what I can do for his daughter."
Lawyer: "And isn't it true Mrs. Martin, you have a family history of Parkinson's disease?"
Mrs. Martin: "Yes. I don't have it."
Lawyer: "But you might."
Jamie: "Your Honor, she might get hit by a bus. It's irrelevant!"
Hamida: "What gives you the right to tell us how to live?"
Jamie: "What gives you the right to ignore the law?"
Hamida: "We were trying to save Alison."
Jamie: "By mutilating her?"
Under The Influence
Billings: "A million bucks. He must like the cut of your skirt."
Jamie: "From what I hear, he'd prefer yours."
"First Feldman, now Adam. The bandwagon's getting crowded."
"She told us he drank enough booze to float the Queen Mary."
"Are you just playing chicken, Jack? Because it looks like you and Feldman are tag-teaming to commit legal murder."
Expert
Jack: "The question is very simple. At the time she fired the gun, did Lindsay Carson appreciate the consequences of her actions and did she know it was wrong?"
Skoda: "Yes."
Maher: "No."
Jamie: "Terrific."
"We say she was cold-blooded, they say she was in a trance. Tomato, To-mah-to."
Castoff
"It�s kind of amazing, Chandler�s compulsion to come on to everyone in the room. A kind of pathological charm."
Grief
"Kick butt!"
Faccia a Faccia
"How smart do you have to be to shoot an unarmed man?"
Dobbs: "He neither understands the charges, nor can he assist in his own defense!"
Jamie: "Their medical records can't be taken at face value! This one diagnosed Mr. Napoli as borderline retarded with an I.Q. of sixty-one. This one diagnosed him with an onset of Alzheimer's."
"This is gonna be fun."
Jamie: "I've been reading Lagrassa and Hall's masterpiece."
Jack: [pause] "I'll wait for the movie."
Jamie: "You don't wanna wait that long."
Divorce
Redfield: "I've seen Sheila Atkins at it for ten years. That woman ought to have her license pulled."
Jamie: "She has nice things to say about you too."
Witness: "I believe he's innocent."
Jamie: "That's not a ringing endorsement."
Jamie: "I used to think my divorce was rough."
Jack: "Look where you could have ended up."
Jamie: "My murder fantasies don't include getting caught."
Jack: (opening mail) "From the Bar Association Ethics Committee."
Jamie: "Dues check bounce?"
Woman: "Tell you what else you can do for me: give up a Saturday to work with my high school mock trial team at St. Joseph's."
Jamie: "Sure. I'll teach them to spell quid pro quo."
"She didn't call the ethics committee for cooking tips."
Jack: "She's using us to grind Redfield's face into the ground."
Jamie: "If he committed fraud, it wouldn't be a waste of our time."
Jack: (looking at a motorcycle magazine): "I'm thinking of buying it. It's an antique."
Jamie: "Aren't motorcycle's supposed to have wheels and an engine?"
"It's the adversarial system on steroids."
Adam: "Where on earth do these people learn their ethics?"
Jamie: "Law school!"
Carrier
"Mr. Stark has no constitutional right to infect others."
"This thing's political poison for him."
Jack: "Who else could she have gotten it from?"
Jamie: "Reasonable doubt. I've got reasonable doubt."
Stalker
Ross: "You may change your mind when you�re facing charges of obstruction of justice."
Homebody Rep: "If you think you can make that stick."
Ross: "I don�t think I can. But I do know how this will play on the six o�clock news. I like talking to reporters. They�re so eager."
"Who makes the best workers? Murderers? Rapists? Child molesters?"
Disappeared
Burden
Bad Girl
"What value do you find do compelling--the woman part or the Christian part?"
"Do I detect a chink in the armor?"
Damaged
"Briscoe says the adults are so enlightened they make his teeth hurt."
"What rock we going to turn over to find new evidence?"
"I wasn't thinking of going to trial."
Tabloid
"So what if he calls himself a journalist? That doesn't give him a first
amendment right to chase a woman into traffic."
Monster
"Lucky for everyone Malika was raped just in time for the election."
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