Law & Order (TV Series)

Showtime (1997)

Sam Waterston: Executive ADA Jack McCoy

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• EADA Jack McCoy : [cross-examining Newman]  Eight years ago, you won an honorable mention from the New York Film Festival; isn't that right?

  Eddie Newman : Yes, for my film "Crooked Street".

  EADA Jack McCoy : The critics said your "daring foray into a new American neorealism" marked you as "one of the most promising artists of the American cinema".

  Eddie Newman : That's right.

  EADA Jack McCoy : What's your current movie about, Mr Newman?

  [pause] 

  EADA Jack McCoy : Talking bears?

  Eddie Newman : Yes.

  EADA Jack McCoy : A daring neorealist foray into Jellystone Park?

• Adam Schiff : Started with a murder, ends with an execution. You got what you wanted. Take the rest of the week off.

  Jack McCoy : It's Friday, Adam.

  Adam Schiff : So it is. See you on Monday.

• Jack McCoy : Your grief might be a little more convincing, sir if you hadn't just admitted you cut off your wife's head.

• A.D.A. Jamie Ross : [after Curtis has had an altercation with McCoy outside the courtroom]  What was that about?

  Jack McCoy : He's just a little upset his wife's about to find out he had an affair on the evening news.

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : [to Curtis]  I'm told you you should have gone to bed with her. You're getting the grief, you should have had the gravy.

• Jack McCoy : [discussing media coverage of the case, in Schiff's office]  How things look to some general audience is not relevant in the courtroom.

  Adam Schiff : Oh, will you wake him up, Miss Ross? We're approaching the 21st century. It matters, Jack! When are you going to buy a new tie?

  A.D.A. Jamie Ross : [cut to Ross and McCoy approaching the courthouse]  You can't just turn off all the cameras and the microphones.

  Jack McCoy : What's next? Timeouts for commercials? We go into court with soft drink logos on our backs?

• Jack McCoy : [aside to Ross, after Newman's huge defense team has been seated in the courtroom]  You and me, Jamie.

• Neil Gorton : [while talking to the judge just before beginning of trial]  We need to keep a place for Dr. Duval, Mr Newman's psychiatrist.

  Jack McCoy : Are we going to be doing therapy in the courtroom?

• Jack McCoy : [to press reporters]  This is a trial, not a soap opera. I wish you people would remember that!

• Jack McCoy : [to Ross]  You know Gorton better than anyone.

  A.D.A. Jamie Ross : Jack...

  Jack McCoy : He's doing everything you loathe to win and he's getting away with it because he scammed you.

• Jack McCoy : [to Jamie Ross]  The first week I met you, you told me you believe in monsters and things that go bump in the night, and that they should all rot in hell, along with their lawyers. Eddie Newman is a monster. I can't send him to hell without you.

• Eddie Newman : [about Heidi]  She gave me a choice. The bears or a picture about a dog who's granted three wishes. I couldn't believe it!

  Jack McCoy : You couldn't believe what, Mr. Newman?

  Eddie Newman : I had an actress, a bankable actress, who was attached to "Bovary", but Heidi gives her $12,000,000 to do an asteroid movie instead because our marriage didn't work out!

  [jumps out of his seat and raises his sword] 

  Eddie Newman : That vindictive bitch! I could've made something!

  [Everyone in the courtroom looks at him, causing Eddie to sit back down in his seat and face-palm] 

• TV Commentator #1 : But I think Jack McCoy definitely lost some points today.

  TV Commentator #2 : Jerry, it's part of his job to prepare his witnesses. I did it myself when I was a prosecutor.

  TV Commentator #1 : And I did it when I was a defense attorney, but come on, Ben, it looked like McCoy spoon-fed that guy his answers.

  TV Commentator #2 : Mr. McCoy didn't do anything wrong or even unusual. The defense just made it seem devious and sleazy.

  TV Commentator #1 : Yeah.

  A.D.A. Jamie Ross : [switches TV off]  Wasn't it great? Who needs a jury? We have commentators. Next time, try the cartoon channel.

  Jack McCoy : That was the cartoon channel!