Law & Order (TV Series)

Pro Se (1996)

Denis O'Hare: James Smith

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Quotes 

• James Smith : I am a captain in Jabin's army!

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : Really? I was a corporal in Uncle Sam's.

  James Smith : I fought at the Kishon River.

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : Oh, you did? So, when you killed Linda Bowers and those other people, you were following orders, right?

  James Smith : The chattering people across the street. They're with the CIA too, aren't they?

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : This isn't the CIA, Jim, this is the 27th precinct of the New York City Police Department. You understand that?

  James Smith : [laughing]  It's a hell of a system. It's a hell of a system. They drive touch-tone dialing to work and they're still hungry.

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : Right.

  [pause] 

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : I give up.

  [exits interrogation room: to Van Buren and Kincaid] 

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : I think I need whatever he's supposed to be taking.

• James Smith : Have you ever been on an anti-psychotic drug?

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : No.

  James Smith : I'm using every ounce of strength I have just to talk to you. I feel like I'm pawing through a wool blanket. I feel stiff, and like I'm half a mile behind everyone else. I get so damned tired. It takes so much effort, holding on to reality.

• [reading his allocution in court] 

  James Smith : A man came toward me and I became afraid. I stabbed him with a bayonet I had with me. This paper is full of needles. They cut me and I bleed. You hear those chariots? They stole them from me, they want me to sleep. They like that. That's why I killed her.

• Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : Do you believe there's something wrong with you?

  James Smith : [laughs sadly]  Yes. I've seen the PET scans, and the MRIs. My brain doesn't look like yours, Doc.

• Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy : Don't you care about the people you killed?

  James Smith : I'm sorry for them, Mr. McCoy. But that wasn't me. I'm not that creature. And I'm not going to take the rap for what he did.

• James Smith : [to Kincaid, at arraignment]  Hey, dark eyes! I remember you!