Rey: "You listen to me you piece of crap. That body in the morgue could be me. So when I see you sitting there with that smirk on your face, I don't feel like waiting for the state to put that needle in your arm."
Van Buren: "This is getting out of hand."
"I'm no Donna Karan, but I know the right fashion for solemn occasions."
"Ah, twenty first century police work."
"It'd be nicer if Ken Burns was here making a documentary."
Rey: "I think what Lennie means is we don't have any witnesses, we don't have any evidence."
Anita: "Oh, what a relief. For a minute there, I thought he didn't give a damn."
"You read Langston Hughes on a men's room wall?"
Lennie: "Watch out Lieutenant, this kid's gunning for your job."
Anita: "Yeah, well, it doesn't get him any overtime."
"We make decisions that affect people's lives. The only cure: Don't talk about it."
"You know, Claire, if I thought I could get some kind of
divine guidance by watching them run poison through that bum's veins, I
woulda made the trip."
"First day here, I was so nervous. Lennie comes in my office,
and I can see on his face I am not what he expected, but he never said
anything ... So he gives me the whys and the wherefores of some case. I
tell him what to do, and he does it. Girl, I looked in the mirror and
said Anita, you have arrived."
"A crowd of people stood and cheered when he raped her. They
were supposedly good people, and they did absolutely nothing. Then he
beat her to death with a tire iron, and today, the State of New York got
its revenge. It's not enough, and it's too much."
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