Gunshow

"Judge Wright--thirty years I've watched him eat the same pork chop for lunch at Forlini's."

Jack: "I'm filing an appeal."
Adam: "Man of La Mancha?"

Jack: "Rolf makes a product that any clever twelve year old can turn into a weapon of mass destruction."
Adam: "I'm appalled. Write them a letter."

"He has set the bar higher than you can jump on a pogo stick."

Killerz

DNR

Merger

"Can we stop playing musical suspects?"

"I turn on the faucet and someone he plays golf with falls out."

Justice

(referring to Jamie): "I knew there was a reason I hired that young lady!"

(to Jack): "Lit your own petard, my boy."

"So a fellow judge decides Judge Wolinsky's fate. Is that what you meant by folding?"

Marathon

Abbie: "Briscoe and Green went through hell to get this guy."
Adam: "That's their job."

Patsy

Blood Money

"I'll need a calculator or two to figure out the sentence."

"Your day of reckoning isn't today."

Sundown

Loco Parentis

"This teenager committed the perfect crime."

"Kid gets off. Father buys his son a bazooka."

Abbie: "Nobody's ever tried it."
Adam: "Did that ever stop you two before?"

"He gave his son a sword, sent him out to practice neck chops."

Jack: "Maybe you should try the case."
Adam (chuckles): "Do I have to do all the work around here?"

Collision

"See if you can get one [statement] without killing him."

Mother's Milk

Jack: "A woman will be presiding over Amy Beltran's trial, a woman will be prosecuting her and you can bet a woman will be defending her."
Adam: "Well, I guess there's nothing left for us to do but take our cigars and brandy, and retire to the smoking room."

"Talk about a throwaway child."

Panic

"J. Edgar Hoover would be proud." "Time was, marriage falls apart, you cry in your bourbon at the neighborhood saloon."

"I guess we'll have to wait for P.K. Todd's next novel to get the story."

Entitled (Crossover with Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit)

Entitled

"Three cases going down the tubes. Glad I stopped by."

Jack: "Fish stinks in the head."
Adam: "She'll eat you and your fish for breakfast."

Adam: "Regina's favorite joke--the difference between lace curtain Irish and shanty Irish--"
Jack: "Lace curtain Irish move the dishes before they piss in the kitchen sink."
Adam: "Yeah, she's shanty Irish and proud of it."

Jack: "The Mulroney legacy lives on...at least until the next catastrophe."
Adam: "It's the catastrophes that keep you going."

Fools For Love

Adam: "Has the girl lied to you?"
Jack: "Not to prove. She forgets this, doesn't remember that..."
Adam: "Can't prove she's lying, you have no basis to rescind the deal."
Jack: "If we can't find a basis in three years, she'll be out on the street, looking for a new soul mate. She's a monster."
Skoda: "Not necessarily. Could have been a one shot thing."
Adam: "You ever give a straight answer? Might as well consult a phrenologist. Bottom-line it."
Abbie: "'Bottom-line it?' Hell, our backs are to the wall, help us find a way out."
Adam: "Another country heard from."
Jack: "We can't convict him without her."
Adam: "Then stick with the deal, no matter how much it turns your stomach--and mine."

Trade This

"I'm surprised that Dantoni isn't asking us to take a blood oath."

"We end up performing our first hit for the mob."

Abbie: "We've never drawn a distinction between crime victims before."
Adam: "Crime victims...what do they want for all these little tidbits of information?"
Abbie: "Consideration for Joey, Jr. on the stock scheme..."
Adam: "Crime victims, my elbow!"

Jack: "I still have to call the family."
Adam: "Which one?"

Black, White, and Blue

"Your deal is throwing gas on a fire."

(to Jack): "The city is bigger than your word."

"Last time an Albany jury convicted a cop, I had a full head of black hair."

Jack: "A melting pot? It's more like a recipe for a conviction. Half the city hates the cops, the other half has never been north of 96th Street."
Adam: "Moonlighting for the PBA?"

Jack: "The case is off the front page."
Adam: "Yeah--till the next one."

Mega

Adam: "Well, a million dollars is worth killing over. Ask the Graces is they agree."
Abbie: "I tried. Five calls, no returns."
Adam: "Well, embrace them with a subpoena."

"Lost her money, lost her husband, lost herself."

Surrender Dorothy

"In other words, you're saying the M.E. doesn't know the difference between a strangulation and a hanging?"
Abbie: "A woman's body is recovered from the trunk of her car under the circumstances of a robbery. What other conclusion would you have the draw?"
Adam: "The right one."

"She's the one who tied the noose."

Abbie: "False confessions, double jeopardy--this guy thought he could control the entire system."
Jack: "He underestimated twelve people no one could control."
Adam: "Maybe, but you're forgetting one little item. If he really did kill her, he just bought himself one hell of a plea bargain. Three years for murder."

Untitled

"Can't you see the little picture for a change?"

Narcosis

High & Low

Stiff

"It's cases like this that make me take a long hard look at my pension plan."

Vaya Con Dios

(to a federal judge): "If it's off the hook you want, you should have stayed in municipal court."

(reading headlines): "This is my favorite! 'Jury fries the Colonel.'"

"You couldn't let sleeping dogs lie."

"Murder is murder--wherever."

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