Season Four

Season Four Season Four

Sweeps

"Half the country wants to name him Father of the Year"

"Let him wrap himself in the American flag. He's not Tom Brokaw."

"Want a deal? Take a number. You, too, can get a piece of the movie rights!"

"I wouldn't eat that canary just yet."

Volunteers

"Oh, I'm in for a chorus of Amazing Grace.

Discord

Ben: "She told him to stop, Adam."
Adam: "Yeah, and I tell my grandson 'Your mother doesn't want you eating any candy,' then I leave him alone in the room with a jar full of M&Ms."

Profile

"Don't worry about his motivation, worry that he could win."

"You've got to convict or every crime victim in the city launches himself as Captain Vengeance."

"The goal, Miss Kincaid, is to keep Tunney off them streets, not improve our batting average."

Black Tie

"You've got five judges, Miss Kincaid, two of which have to look to their right to see Thurgood Marshall."

Pride and Joy

Ben: "She never did anything before. Why should she start now?"
Adam: "Before her father was just bruised, now he's buried."

Apocrypha

"Of course, you convinced the grand jury, Ben--your�s is the only voice they heard."

"I know how to scramble eggs, doesn't mean I made breakfast."

"That's why you're going to withdraw the indictments unless you can connect the dots with something more than a #2 pencil."

"He looks like Clarence Darrow, we look like the Spanish Inquisition."

"Religion and choice--strange bedfellows for 2000 years."

"Next time I want to see you pull the tablecloth and leave the glasses standing. No way you should have won this case."

American Dream

Ben: "I could have made my case without Bobbitt's testimony."
Adam: "Yeah, but you didn't."

"You're left with one witness who may be a perjurer and the other who has the moral backbone of a pretzel."

"Get a warrant and a pair of tweezers."

"Make sure your experts speak English. Don't give your jury volcano this and stone age that."

"First day of law school: 'Known perjurers do not make good witnesses!'" SHTP, QAS

"When he gets acquitted, I might offer him a job."

"Call Judge Callahan and tell him you'll be offering your concession speech instead of a summation."

"I'm surprised he didn't throw a ticker tape parade."

Ben: "There are some things I can't live without."
Adam: "Your ego."

Born Bad

"When I was 14 years old, I had a fight with Joe Dworkin. I pushed him. He retaliated by throwing my Spalding down the sewer."

"You want them to start naming churches after you, you're in the wrong profession."

The Pursuit of Happiness

Ben: "You think he's bluffing?"
Adam: "Tom Morrison? He couldn't bluff if he was holding an ace-high straight flush."

"Trial lesson number twelve: The perfect witness always has dirt under his nails."

"That jury hears any more about that dead Mr. Cooper, they'll wish they killed him."

"Quick! Lock the door! Someone might walk in with a case we can win." SHTP, QAS

"I wouldn't count your chickens: your omelet just hit the fan."

Ben: "I think they'll convict Nunez."
Adam: "And Miss Moscow will be out winning beauty contests."

Golden Years

"Two years ago, I bought a cemetery plot. I wake up one morning depressed--I skip lunch--you gonna lock me in a closet and starve me?"

"So the two of you want to pressure the girl to plead to a lesser offense she might not be guilty of because she's about to be convicted of a more serious offense she might be guilty of. Does that make sense to you?"

"I'd do two years in Attica happily if I walked out 25."

Adam: "Penal law 260.25--'It's only illegal to neglect an old person if the victim's incompetent because of mental disease or defect.' Curiosity of the law."
Claire: "So we argue hunger and thirst affected Mrs. Bauer's mind before she died."
Adam: "It's only a misdemeanor. Greater curiosity of the law."
Ben: "Murder by starvation--I think that's enough to move a jury."
Schiff: "Be sure you get one with gray hair. The young get impatient with old people. Especially cantankerous ones."
Stone: "Oh yeah? Speaking from personal experience?"
Schiff: "I'm a sweetheart. And I'm middle aged." SHTP, QAS

Snatched

"It wouldn't be the first time that you give the grand jury a dog and pony show without the pony."

"I don't care if you have to juggle bowling balls, I want you to get an indictment!"

"Ah, $200,000 bail, might as well drive 'em to the airport."

Breeder

"If Olivet felt sorry for her, imagine what twenty four crying eyes will do to our case."

"Unfortunately, inhumanity is not against the law."

"Why shouldn't she [take pleasure out of manipulating people]? It made her a lot of money."

Censure

"I don't care who picked his face out of a precinct family album."

"Who do we pay around here to keep things quiet?"

"Psycho-gibberish--always the best refuse for a weak prosecution." SHTP

"You fumble the ball. Arthur Gold takes it for a touchdown."

Kids

"We have one boy dead, another paralyzed, and a 16-year-old who thinks he's Wyatt Earp and you want to deal him because he's a nice kid and his father's a cop?"

"I love a case where a homicidal gun dealer's our best witness."

"She gets overturned anymore, she'll be walking upside down."

"Dumb, stupid, and idiotic."

Big Bang

Adam: "What's the theory?"
Claire: "That protons eventually fall apart."
Adam: "Is this something to worry about?"

"Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends."

Stone: "He's not your typical killer."
Adam: "Sure he is. He killed someone." SHTP, QAS

Mayhem

"Toss him a fish."

Ben: "I'm not convinced he's guilty of anything except for being in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Adam: "I heard the same excuse from a man in Dallas thirty years ago. The next thing you're going to tell me is that Hexter's claiming he was set up by the CIA."

"A grotesque mistake would be allowing Scott Hexter to shoot another person in the head."

Wager

"A gambler who forgets who he bets on. I'd like to be his bookie."

Ben: "We got to ask for a continuance."
Adam: "So you can find another incompetent witness?"

"Oh, that's great. And so we let a suspected killer walk because a ballplayer didn't go straight home after a couple of beers."

"Dismissed? What have you been sprinkling on your breakfast cereal?" SHTP

Sanctuary

"I want to be cleaner than Caesar�s wife."

"There are twelve people in the room, not twelve computers."

Nurture

"Even psychos can act normal when it serves their purpose."

Doubles

"You think she was going to knock off the top 100 players in the game so she gets placed in the open?"

"Someone ought to tell her that revenge is one of your four major food groups."

Adam: "Most people work a lifetime to get to the top of their profession."
Ben: "Korey Burke got there before her twentieth birthday."
Adam: "Well, she's fortunate. Now she can get on with the rest of her life."

Old Friends

Adam: "Now we have him."
Ben: "We have his hitman."
Adam: "And we're going to roll him against him until he does somersaults."

"The Russians? The make the Colombians look like the Van Trapp family."

"Twist him like a corkscrew, make it work."

"And I can put my barber together with half the hitmen in this city. One of them slits someone's throat, you can't prove the barber ordered the hit." SHTP

"Never ask a jury to think."

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