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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Det. Lennie Briscoe: I specifically asked for him to be put on suicide watch. Apparently here at Riker's that mean that they watch you commit suicide.
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Det. Lennie Briscoe: New Hampshire. I spent a year there one weekend.
Adam Schiff: For four murders, he gets five years?
Jack McCoy: When I made the deal, I had no idea...
Adam Schiff: You had no idea because your blood was rushing downstream to somewhere south of the border.
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Adam Schiff: Clarence Darrow had Leopold and Leob, and who do we have?
Jack McCoy: Beavis and Butthead.
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Adam Schiff: You and the girl's lawyer want to pressure her into pleading to a lesser charge that she might *not* be guilty of so she won't be convicted of a more serious charge that she *might* be guilty of? Does that make sense?
Ben Stone: With our system and imperfect knowledge? Yes.
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Det. Lennie Briscoe: I want to go to law school so I can learn how to turn gold into lead.
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Jack McCoy: Are you kidding? Shelly Cates could convince a jury that Jeffrey Dahmer had an eating disorder.
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Det. Lennie Briscoe: Love - a dangerous disease instantly cured by marriage.
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