Steven Hill |
D.A. Adam Schiff |
Jerry Orbach |
Det. Lennie Briscoe |
S. Epatha Merkerson |
Lt. Anita Van Buren |
Sam Waterston |
Exec. A.D.A. Jack McCoy |
Benjamin Bratt |
Det. Reynaldo 'Rey' Curtis |
Jill Hennessy |
A.D.A. Claire Kincaid |
Denis O'Hare |
James Smith |
Guest Star |
Maryann Plunkett |
Joanne Ellis |
Guest Star |
Ann Dowd |
Patricia Smith |
Guest Star |
Shawn Elliott |
Judge Joseph Rivera |
Recurring Role |
Merwin Goldsmith |
Judge Ian Feist |
Recurring Role |
Gia Galeano |
Gia |
Recurring Role |
(James Smith reads his allocution.)
James Smith: A man came toward me and I became afraid. I stabbed him with a bayonet I had with me. This paper is full of needles. They cut me and I bleed. You hear those chariots? They stole them from me, they want me to sleep. They like that. That's why I killed her.
Patricia Smith: I begged him to take his pills, I told him he might hurt himself, or someone else, if he stopped.
Jack McCoy: What did he say?
Patricia Smith: He said people would just have to stay out of his way.
Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: Do you believe there's something wrong with you?
James Smith: (laughs sadly) Yes. I've seen the PET scans, and the MRIs. My brain doesn't look like yours, Doc.
James Smith: Have you ever been on an anti-psychotic drug?
Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: No.
James Smith: I'm using every ounce of strength I have just to talk to you. I feel like I'm pawing through a wool blanket. I feel stiff, and like I'm half a mile behind everyone else. I get so damned tired. It takes so much effort, holding on to reality.
Jack McCoy: Don't you care about the people you killed?
James Smith: I'm sorry for them, Mr. McCoy. But that wasn't me. I'm not that creature. And I'm not going to take the rap for what he did.
Jack McCoy: So why doesn't he plead insanity?
Adam Schiff: Because he's insane?
(Discussing James Smith's anti-psychotic medication.)
Pharmacy Clerk: He's supposed to take it every day, or, watch out.
Lennie Briscoe: What, his world and ours don't revolve around the same sun?
Pharmacy Clerk: Not even in the same galaxy.
Lennie Briscoe: (In the vintage clothing store.) I think I see one of my old bowling shirts.
When testifing about Smith's mental state, Dr. Olivet says that he has delusions of being a biblical warrior in danger of having a woman murder him in his sleep. This, along with a passage Smith quotes later in the episode, are references to the Song of Deborah (Judges 5) in the Old Testament. In it, the Canaanite general Sisera is killed by a woman named Jael, who drives a tent nail through his head while he sleeps.
The title of this episode, Pro Se, is a Latin adjective meaning 'for self', a term that is applied to a defendant who chooses to represent himself in court.
Jack McCoy: You can't leap tall buildings either.
From the famous Superman catch phrase: 'Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.'
Rey Curtis: We also heard you're a regular Dennis Rodman on the court.
Former NBA player Dennis Rodman was known for his bad behavior on the court. He once kicked a photographer in the groin. He was also known for constantly changing the color of his hair and sometimes cross-dressing; when his biography Bad As I Wanna Be was released, he showed up to promote it wearing a wedding dress and a blonde wig.
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