Season Eight
Season Eight

Thrill

Jack: "I want them both convicted."
Adam: "Of firing the same bullet? You familiar with the laws of physics?"

Jack: "I'm playing legal tiddlywinks with these punks. What I'd really like to do is take them out to Battery Park and hang them by the scrotum."
Adam: "Understandable sentiment, but stick to tiddlywinks."

Denial

"The case was weak, now it's weaker."

Jamie: "A dead baby and no one's responsible."
Adam: "No one was responsible when it was alive either."

Navy Blues

Jamie: "Got our indictment."
Adam: "Good, now go arm wrestle the Navy for jurisdiction."

"Facts don't make sentences!"

"Don't you people have a murder trial starting in eleven hours? And remember it is a murder trial, not a debate between Gloria Steinman and George Beck." SHTP

Jack: "I'm just swatting at an image."
Adam: "Swat harder."

Harvest

"Sounds like he was arranging for a job transplant."

"If either conviction survives an appeal, I'll buy a new hat."

Jack: "He got arrogant."
Adam: "An occupational hazard of people with the power of life and death."
Jack: "Like doctors."
Adam: "And prosecutors."

Nullification

"Who was this guard they killed, a redcoat?"

"In the world of public relations, a hung jury is as good as an acquittal."

Baby, It's You (HLOTS Crossover, Part One)

"Nice to know someone still reads the newspapers."

Jack: "I got a call from Ed Danvers in the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office."
Adam: "Funny, I got a call from his boss."

"When they get here, just make sure our detectives play nice."

Blood

"Back then, they used lynch mobs and bullwhips; now, they use toilet plungers. Progress."

Jamie: "I can just imagine what he was afraid of."
Adam: "Don't imagine it, prove it."

"We're in the wrong business."

[Jack, Jamie, and Adam are discussing the case over lunch. Jamie's info hurts their case.] "Why do you always give me bad news while I'm digesting?" SHTP

"You win their minds, she wins their hearts."

"You have nothing better to do than prosecute this woman?"

Shadow

I won't go down like the Titanic."

Burned

Ritual

"You make one heck of a meter maid!"

"Self defense? The dead man imported cotton. What'd he attack him with, cotton balls?"

"You looked a 3000 year old abomination in the face and beat it back."

Under The Influence

Expert

Jack: "Still a mystery why she chose to wreak her vengeance on Mayer. In my book, her father's lawyer would have been a better candidate."
Adam: "Better a doctor than a fellow attorney."

(after Jamie informs them Carson is using her father's defense): "Maybe it's genetic."

Castoff

(after seeing the addition of a Congressman to the witness list): "I'd say you'd just been bit."

(to the Congressman): "Pressman's no clown...he's a ringmaster and you're his star attraction."

Grief

"The 20th Century is passing me by."

"Two snakes eating each other's tails. Pry one of them lose."

Faccia a Faccia

Divorce

Adam: "Did the police ask Mr. Kilpatrick where he was the night of the murder?"
Jamie: "No, they didn't consider him a suspect."
Adam: "Well, we do."

Jack: "We're supposed to let her off with three years and help her gauge her husband for alimony?"
Adam: "You'll get over it."

Carrier

"Nobody has said he's gay."

"I don't make decision a on which cases to prosecute based on what the newspapers will say."

"Oh, I see, I'm an old fuddy-duddy."

Stalker

"What you've got is two cops making us look like morons."

Disappeared

"This office doesn't play patty-cake with serial killers."

Burden

"This father kills his kid and the world still loves him."

Bad Girl

(after Jack and Jamie turn down a plea offer): "You got a problem saying no?"

"She gets executed; what's the downside?"

Damaged

"Any adults at that school?"

"He hasn't had a thought since the Carter administration."

Tabloid

"Motive and evidence straight from the tabloids. How about means and opportunity, you getting that from the comics?"

Monster

"Home run, just try for a base hit."

"Don't get weepy on me. I'm not Nixon and you're not Ehrlichman."

(to Anderton): "Couldn't you at least wait till I've finished dinner?"

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