Law & Order

Phil Cerreta: Mr. Kemp, what do you say we call your lawyer? Frank Kemp: No reason to call a lawyer. I didn't do anything. Mike Logan: You had a semi-automatic with a fully loaded clip. Frank Kemp: So I had a piece. So I was a naughty boy. I'll pay the $2. Mike Logan: You know, I'm thinking it wasn't just a piece, Frank. I'm thinking it was a murder weapon. Frank Kemp: I'm happy for you. Okay if I smoke?

Larry Teasdale: So he called here, doesn't mean I talked to him. Maybe he's seeing my secretary. Phil Cerreta: Does your secretary happen to live in the Village? Larry Teasdale: Rockaways. Mike Logan: Mr. Kemp calls here the day before the key witness against your client disappears. The world is getting smaller every day, Mr. Teasdale.

Judge Jenklaw: Mr. Gold, I suggest you read the opinions of the Supreme Court on consensual searches, beginning with the latest sermon from the mount, 'Florida v. Bostwick.' If the police can randomly search passengers on a bus, then no possible stretch of logic can mandate the inadmissibility of a consensual search of a train. Arthur Gold: Your Honor, the case law in this circuit -- Judge Jenklaw: Highlights the frivolity of your motion. And, uh, Mr. Stone unless the Hammad case and its progeny have been overruled while I was napping, the tape is as dirty as last week's laundry.

Tony Profaci: Mike, labs you ordered. Mike Logan: And? Tony Profaci: Negative. The gun in his bag didn't kill our guys. Mike Logan: Oh, the bastard knew it all along. Tony Profaci: A different story on the knife, though. Minute traces of human blood of recent origin. Don Cragen: Wait a minute, I thought these guys were shot. Mike Logan: They were. Don Cragen: Oh great, that's great. So we got two stiffs with no murder weapon and a bloody knife with no victim. That's great.

Sharon Styger: My client would have surrendered, Mr. Stone. The humiliation of a public arrest was hardly called for. Ben Stone: I'm sorry I missed the Emily Post chapter on the etiquette of arrest.

Don Cragen: (Regarding McManus' nervousness in the interview room.) I hope she brought a change of underwear.