Law & Order (TV Series)

American Dream (1993)

Zeljko Ivanek: Phillip Swann

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Quotes 

• Ben Stone : I guess you just weren't clever enough.

  Phillip Swann : I got this far, Ben.

  Ben Stone : A lot of effort to wind up right back where you started. And in polite society, Sir, you don't call people by their first name unless they ask you to - I didn't do that. You're not a friend, and you're certainly not a colleague.

• Phillip Swann : About that deduction, Ben. You should have gotten yourself a better divorce attorney.

  Ben Stone : You little creep. This isn't a game.

  Phillip Swann : You don't like me, Ben?

  Ben Stone : You just waking up to that?

  Phillip Swann : Could that be the reason that you used perjured testimony to convict me in the first trial?

  Ben Stone : There's no proof that Russell Bobbitt...

  Phillip Swann : Think again, counselor. I was acquitted in the second trial. Therefore, a fortiori, Bobbitt must have been lying in the first. Ergo, you are collaterally estopped from trying to prove otherwise.

• [last lines] 

  Phillip Swann : So... who makes the first move?

  Ben Stone : I want a confession. Not only for the murder of Russell Bobbitt, but for the murder of Sid Cohen.

  Phillip Swann : [laughs in disbelief]  And give away my greatest victory?

  Ben Stone : [to corrections officers]  Take this man back to his cell.

  Phillip Swann : [confused, then angry]  You give up so easy? It doesn't make any sense, Ben, you're being totally *impractical*! That's not like you.

  Ben Stone : Obviously, you don't know me. You never did.

  [smirks]