Law & Order (TV Series)

Savior (1996)

Jill Hennessy: ADA Claire Kincaid

Quotes 

• Margot Bell : What do a sperm cell and a lawyer have in common?

  Claire Kincaid : Both have a one-in-a-million chance of becoming a human being. There's a law: you pass the bar, you gotta stop telling lawyer jokes.

  Margot Bell : Why? Who better knows the truth?

  Claire Kincaid : Yeah, we're contentious, arrogant, too smart for our own goods, anal, expensive, theoretical, knee deep in minutiae. Not exactly the life we thought we were getting into.

  Margot Bell : You ever think about quitting?

  Claire Kincaid : Yeah, right. We'll open a flower shop.

  Margot Bell : Why not? You don't have to lie to suspects, and I don't have to represent guys like Weber.

  Claire Kincaid : I'm allergic, and neither one of us knows how to read a balance sheet.

• Jack McCoy : Do you think Weber is innocent? Or do you think we're just gonna have a tougher time proving that he's guilty?

  Claire Kincaid : I'm impressed. I never thought you distinguished between the two.

• Jack McCoy : I owe you.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : Well, maybe not...

  Jack McCoy : Were we sitting in the same courtroom? He sure as hell looked guilty to me.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : To me too, and that's the problem. You were all over him, Jack. He should've broken down.

  Claire Kincaid : He did.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : No, I mean he should've confessed under that much pressure. That's the typical response for a family annihilator.

  Jack McCoy : Why the hell didn't you tell me this before?

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : Because you told me he would never take the stand.

  Claire Kincaid : So you're changing your opinion?

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : I'm not saying he's innocent, I'm just qualifying my opinion. Look, Jack, I told you I was on shaky ground at the start of this.