Law & Order (TV Series)
Cherished (1998)
Sam Waterston: Executive ADA Jack McCoy
Quotes
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Abbie Carmichael : I have a solution that will make us all happy.
ADA Jack McCoy : What's that?
Abbie Carmichael : No deals for anybody. Let's hang 'em all.
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ADA Jack McCoy : Arresting a seven year old kid for murder? A kid with a laundry list of psychological problems? What was Carmichael thinking?
D.A. Adam Schiff : Why don't you ask her?
ADA Jack McCoy : I will. And I don't like the way she got the parents removed as guardians.
D.A. Adam Schiff : Sounds like you're sorry you didn't think of it first.
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ADA Jack McCoy : [his first words to Abbie] I understand you're opening a children's wing on death row.
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[after Jack offers a plea deal to the defendants in exchange for testifying against the other, with no takers]
Abbie Carmichael : So... who do you want to put on trial?
ADA Jack McCoy : All of them.
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ADA Jack McCoy : [discussing Abbie] Her tactics are high-handed, and she doesn't have enough experience for major felonies. Four years in Special Narcotics is nothing.
D.A. Adam Schiff : A 95% conviction rate isn't nothing. She's earned her stripes. Work with her.
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Abbie Carmichael : This report says the child was 2 and a half years old, Marian was 13 months. They autopsied the wrong kid, send it back.
ADA Jack McCoy : Why don't you take yourself down and get acquainted with the medical examiner?
[cut to]
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : It's the same kid, bone age doesn't lie.
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ADA Jack McCoy : [after being told every Russian baby sent to America gets the doctor $20,000 which he claims goes to the kids at the orphanage] Doesn't it say that the orphanage only gets $2,000 per child? Where does that other $18,000 go? To your Jaguar, your summer home, that $1500 suit you're wearing now?
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Abbie Carmichael : We have til the end of the week to file our objections.
ADA Jack McCoy : [holds out his hand] Can you and I agree we're too busy?
Abbie Carmichael : [turns his hand up and smacks it] Deal.
