"Law & Order" Skin Deep (TV Episode 1992) - Paul Sorvino as Sergeant Phil Cerreta

Gym Manager : Are you sure this is legal?

Phil Cerreta : We have your permission. That makes it legal.

Gym Manager : What if I didn't give permission?

Phil Cerreta : Then we've to go and get a warrant, come back tomorrow and close you down for a whole day, instead of just your locker room for an hour.
Mike Logan : Hey, Phil. You know the warrant you told that healthclub guy you'd get? Exactly what probable cause did you have in mind?

Phil Cerreta : A senile judge.
Betty Ann Carter : Sure he asked me to do it. $2,500 a week on my back instead of $500 on my feet.

Mike Logan : Well, it must've been tempting.

Betty Ann Carter : Maybe to you. But, honey, I don't think you'd survive. In my experience, cops just can't perform that often.

Phil Cerreta : So, you never turned a trick, huh?

Betty Ann Carter : Those beauty contests, some cracker judge would put his hands on my ass and offer me more money than I'd ever seen to be his date. I didn't do it then, I don't do it now. That doesn't mean I have any cause to look down on those who do.

Mike Logan : That's real democratic of you.

Betty Ann Carter : Well, it's a free country. At least I don't drink from the taxpayer's trough, like some people.

Phil Cerreta : Did Mr. Decker try to put pressure on you?

Betty Ann Carter : Oh, every time I was there. He'd be at his little computer, adding up the money the girls would bring. But I told him, "Honey, you can type till your fingers fall off. I work vertical or not at all."

Paul Sorvino: Sergeant Phil Cerreta