Law & Order (TV Series)

Remand (1996)

Anita Gillette: Cookie Costello

Quotes 

• Cookie Costello : I don't remember anything, after I got out of my car. After thirty years, nothing. The - the doctor said it was the shock; I say it was God's way of healing.

  Detective Rey Curtis : Well, that's a - that's a good way of looking at it.

• Cookie Costello : My father was there when they brought me in. The doctors told him about the baby. He asked them if they could keep it secret, for my sake. Never even told my mother...

• Cookie Costello : I - I gambled. And sometimes I worked for my bookie, to - to pay off my debts. It was very foolish. I - I wasn't a career woman. The way I grew up, family is everything. That's impossible now - because of him.

• Teri Marks : You threatened to tell his wife, unless he gave you money for an abortion.

  Cookie Costello : That's not true! I - I am a good Catholic; I would never do a thing like that!

  Teri Marks : You mean the kind of good Catholic who gets arrested for bookmaking? Who commits adultery with felons?

  Executive ADA Jack McCoy : Objection!

  Trial Judge Harold Rockwell : Sustained. Tone it down, Miss Marks.

• Cookie Costello : I was 22; I liked the excitement. I used to have a crush on Sandy Koufax; I - I used to bet the Dodgers when he pitched. I bet the Giants, but sometimes I got jammed up, and so I took bets at the bar, for the bookies - to work it off. I got caught.

  Detective Rey Curtis : And that's it? You never had any trouble with Bobby Farina?

  Cookie Costello : You think I brought this on myself?

  Costello : Look at it - it's the dress she was wearing. Every time that animal comes up for parole, I'm there with this! He laughs at me in the court - and you think it's not him? You're damn fools!