Season Three
Season Three

Skin Deep

"Who said hookers were dumb?"

Ben: "It's not a walk in the park."
Adam: "Yes it is. You're gonna get mugged." SHTP

"Stuff envelopes for the county leader, you too can ascend the bench."

"When did we turn this office over to the Marx Brothers? First nobody checked out the husband's custody suit, and now it turns out nobody checked to see whose bloomers were whose. You going for a record??" SHTP, QAS

Conspiracy

Ben: "Kobien's parents are probably coughing up 400 an hour."
Adam: "Pays for a lot of pro bono."

"His politics matured from rocks to bullets."

"I don't want Gary Lowenthal tap dancing his way into an acquittal and a 'soon to be a major motion picture.'"

"Every black pseudo politico with people in Brighton Beach is screaming for my head."

Ben: "At least the weapons charge..."
Adam: "It's a thorn in his paw. He'll be out in less than a week."

"Before we start blue-penciling the sixth amendment, maybe we ought to hit the rewind button first."

"So they'll never make eagle scout. Got to have proof for a conviction. You try them, we lose, they'll hang my picture next to David Duke's."

"Hell, blame it on the CIA. They haven't been fingered in years."

Forgiveness

Ben: "Cy Weaver just fired his first round. Motion to suppress the bag and the confession."
Adam: "Well at least he didn't nominate the boy for a good citizen's medal." SHTP

The Corporate Veil

"If I had a cover like that, I'd never catch cold."

"So people are walking around with time bombs in their chests."

"The lawyer is gonna tell the jury that the kid is a rat in a pack looking for a scapegoat."

Wedded Bliss

"I woke up this morning--I thought it was the twentieth century!"

"In politics, two choices: do nothing, do something. Nothing has fewer risks."

"Compared to what he could do, you're threatening to take away her hairdresser."

"When you go to trial, invite a couple law students to provide the laughter."

Helpless

"The honorable Keith Silver wrote the book on rights of the accused. He thinks Miranda is five pages too short."

"You telling the world we don't have a case only feeds his ego."

Self Defense

"Every news director from here to Albany ran it last night--forwards, backwards, slow motion. Costas is getting more play than Zapruder."

"Before it's over, they'll make him king for a day."

Ben: "If we let him walk, we're endorsing an armed populace that meets out justice as they see fit."
Adam: "We try him and lose, the same message--with our credibility as an appetizer."

"You think you have a smoking gun till the smoke blows in your face."

"You play it [the tape] once, it's shocking; ten times, interesting; 100 times, and your precious tape becomes whatever the jury reads into it."

Prince of Darkness

"We say he's Gaitan, they say he's Esteban. Without fingerprints, they can say he's Peter Pan."

"I'm not up on my Catholic theology. Is self-righteousness a mortal or venial sin?"

Point of View

Ben: "You want me to drop it?"
Adam: "They gave Thelma & Louise an Oscar. Without more, I'd call it a day."

"What are we running here, the '62 Mets?"

"Yep, you've got snap, crackle, but no pop."

Consultation

"We've got Larry, Moe, and Curly (as witnesses)."

"It's the Supreme Court of the State of New York, not the Romper Room."

"You have an accomplice--that'll get you into the theater, but won't let you see the show."

Extended Family

"She makes Joan of Arc look modest."

"Schreiber thinks the admissibility rules were made in heaven, not Albany."

"The wife and what's her name--Stark--they tied your hands behind your back and asked you to swim."

Right to Counsel

Ben: "He lied to the police. Motive, fingerprints... When you add it all up--"
Adam: "When you add it all up you get a basket of goose eggs." SHTP

"A first year law student could punch more holes in your case than con ed has on Third Avenue."

"Unless he prances in here with a confession, you're going to play Santa, you're going to deal his down to man one."

"If we took the license of every incompetent lawyer in this city, we wouldn't have to recycle the New York Times.

"Lawyers killing their clients for money--they left that one out of the cannons of ethics."

Night and Fog

"We're not in the evil business, we're in the crime business."

"Trying to reconstruct reality is worse than any nightmare."

Promises to Keep

"Psychiatrists have better lobbyists than oil companies."

Paul: "Olivet will be good on the stand."
Adam: "Yeah, put me on the stand, I'll be good too."

"I read your memos like holy writ."

"Is this about facts? There are no facts. You want to believe she's reckless? Define reckless."

"Emotions plus logic. Let's hope they put them together the way you do."

Mother Love

"Who cares if he doesn't want a deal? We've got a case with balloons, bells, and whistles!"

Ben: "He knows this is a slam dunk, Adam. Why doesn't he plead?"
Adam: "Because he's stupid, arrogant, suffers from brain damage from his drugs."

"I only like surprises at parties."

The Bronx D.A., Brooklyn, Queens--anyone wants this prosecuted has laryngitis."

"We live in a two choice world--one or the other."

Jurisdiction

"Unless you want a real fight on your hands, stay out of camera range."

"You don't have jurisdiction over the Brooklyn murder. You can't offer Paul so much as a breath mint."

"Marty Lake is a choirboy. You plead out a monster like Jimmy Paul, you might run into a few baseball bats yourself."

"Don't think that Davy Zifrin will be instantly carried to freedom on the wings of angels."

Conduct Unbecoming

"Circling the wagons. A time-honored military maneuver."

"You need more than spider webs to hang him with."

Robinette: "Bunker spent 30 years defending the Constitution. I wonder if he ever read it."
Adam: "He probably never got past the Declaration of Independence. All men are created equal."

Animal Instinct

"Judge Bertram, huh? Just took his name off Judge Rehnquist's gift list."

Adam: "Prep the girl again."
Ben: "Adam, we've been over it a dozen times."
Adam: "With Burke, thirteen's a charm."

"Burke dangled the carrot, she bit if off and left you hanging."

Adam: "'The truth is ugly, so we put our prophets in prison.'"
Ben: "Oscar Wilde?"
Adam: "Charles Manson."

Virus

"The crying towels are down the hall."

"With a leap like that, they'll put you in a Nike commercial."

"Rock 'n' Roll gives me a headache, doesn't mean I was part of a conspiracy to kill John Lennon."

Securitate

"Juries deal in equities, not statutes. This guy killed thousands. Shapiro will talk the jury into thinking the killing was a public service."

"Since when do we take the word of a known felon as Gospel?"

Manhood

"O'Hara's a well-liked cop. He's been decorated more times than my living room."

"Yeah, congratulations. You have flour and water, get an oven, you can make bread."

Ben: "She could have let it [the memo] in."
Adam: "Judge Larkin? Her politics aren't with you when the law's against you."

"The last defense of the guilty: We did it, but it's all right."

Benevolence

"Fine. Indict Gordon Bryce. If he doesn't work out, there's always the nun in Calcutta."

"You wanna play Kind of the Mountain with Arthur Gold, do it on your own time. When he offers you a plea, sit down and discuss it with him."

"You'll need more than open, sesame to get her to talk."

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