- Jack McCoy: I thought he was gonna ask your favorite sexual positions next.
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: I grew up with four brothers. Marks is an amateur.
- Jack McCoy: You don't mind that kind of thing?
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: Would you rather he ruled against us?
- Jack McCoy: Guess I'll have to unlearn some of my sensitivity training. If we have another hearing, you'll model silk for him, again?
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: Trust me - he would have been just as big a fan of rayon.
- Judge Nathan Marks: [after Ross arrives late in court] Ah - Miss Ross! How nice of you to join us... I gather you stayed later than 8 am this morning. Was the gentleman more... impressive today?
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: [taken aback] Your honor, I've been very busy.
- Judge Nathan Marks: What I'm suggesting.
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: On a matter of business for this court.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Oh - and I thought our business was here. Whatever kind of romp you've been up to...
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: ...is relevant to this case, if you'd stop focusing on my sex life.
- Judge Nathan Marks: You're in contempt. I want a check for two hundred dollars.
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: [shouting] If you try to fine me...
- Jack McCoy: [cutting her off] Not now... Approach, your honor?
- Judge Nathan Marks: If she brings her checkbook.
- Jack McCoy: [quietly to Ross] ... Pretend he's your brother.
- Judge Nathan Marks: [commenting on Ross's clothing] Lovely blouse. Rare to see single-ply silk with that texture. Must feel very nice. Italian weave.
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: ...Chinese.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Ah! They're improving.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Miss Ross, when you leave a man's apartment at 8 o'clock in the morning, did you just drop in for a coffee and a sweet roll?
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: Am I a defense witness, judge?
- Judge Nathan Marks: You're an officer of the court, aiding in the search for the truth. You sample a man's hospitality once. Are you likely to return to sample it again soon?
- Jack McCoy: Your honor, this is not appropriate.
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: If I left at 8 am... I wasn't too impressed. I don't think I'd be rushing back.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Can't argue with that.
- Lucy Sullivan: My sister's life, Mr. McCoy? My sister lived in Terre Haute, Indiana. She stapled papers in an insurance office. My sister didn't have a life.
- Judge Nathan Marks: I'm letting him cool his heels for a while; it's for his own good.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: ...Nathan, I read the transcript.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Then you know he was in contempt.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: I read the *whole* transcript. What were you doing, may I ask?
- Judge Nathan Marks: Excuse me?
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Those remarks, about where Miss Ross was spending her mornings. Have you read the sexual harassment guidelines?
- Judge Nathan Marks: I wrote them. Remember? I was kidding with her.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: And your questions to McCoy's witnesses.
- Judge Nathan Marks: A judge of the Supreme Court of the state of New York is entitled to question witnesses.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: He's not entitled to sound like the defense attorney - or put words into witnesses' mouths.
- Judge Nathan Marks: ...Anything else, Adam?
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Yes. I'd like you to step down from the trial.
- Judge Nathan Marks: ...This entire meeting is an improper ex parte approach. If you leave in the next ten seconds, I won't find you in contempt.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: [visiting Jack in jail cell for contempt of court; Jack smiles at him] Nice.
- Jack McCoy: [introducing cellmates] Adam... Mr. Barton, Mr. Jasperson, Mr. Montoya, Mr. Schiff.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: We're in a good mood, aren't we?
- Jack McCoy: All except Mr. Jasperson; he was just convicted of murder.
- Jasperson: [approaches Adam and Jack] Man, that was bull; I'm gonna be gettin' out of here soon.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: [unruffled] Young man - sit down... I understand you *were* in contempt.
- Jack McCoy: Just a little. Are you gonna get the transcript to the chief administrative judge?
- D.A. Adam Schiff: I'm gonna see Judge Marks first, about bail.
- Jack McCoy: [shakes head] I'm OK... But if you go, wear silk.
- Stan Gillum: The police seized the evidence in question when they entered William Dunbar's apartment with an out-of-state arrest warrant.
- Jack McCoy: That had been properly lodged with a clerk of this court.
- Stan Gillum: At most, they had the right to ascertain whether or not William Dunbar was present. They had no right to search beyond that.
- Jack McCoy: One of the detectives opened a closet door. He saw the gun.
- Stan Gillum: On a shelf, two feet over his head.
- Judge Nathan Marks: The issue here is the plain-view exception?
- Jack McCoy: It is, your honor.
- Judge Nathan Marks: So we're going diagrams, and room layouts, and sight lines - what was where, who was standing on top of what.
- Stan Gillum: I can have 'em by tomorrow.
- Judge Nathan Marks: [pointing to McCoy] But he'll come in with different diagrams, and we'll all sit around with rulers, protractors... I've got a better idea. Let's go to the apartment.
- Stan Gillum: ...All of us?
- Judge Nathan Marks: Yes. We'll have a picnic.
- Lennie Briscoe: His proposition had nothing to do with gambling?
- Harry Shapiro, DDS: It was a sure thing. Government money. The Dairy Export Incentive Program. You buy butter at three grand a ton, sell it overseas for $2,500. Uncle Sam pays you the difference and then some.
- Lennie Briscoe: Keeps the farmers happy.
- Harry Shapiro, DDS: Johnson, or whatever his name is, had all the forms.
- Lennie Briscoe: Do you know where we can find him?
- Harry Shapiro, DDS: It just made me laugh, you know? Me, Harry Shapiro, buying butter from farmers and selling it to Arabs!
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: We have the facts. I think we'll convince Judge Marks.
- Jack McCoy: Nathan Marks?
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: Luck of the draw.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Make sure your airbags are working.
- Jack McCoy: With all due respect, your honor, when you change the rules of the game in the middle of a trial, there ought to be at least the appearance of impartiality.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Officer, place Mr. McCoy under arrest for contempt of this court!
- Jack McCoy: I move for an adjournment, so that the people may appeal your honor's ruling.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Denied! Cuff him!
- Jack Maslin: I do a lot of models... Their taxes! I got one from the Mason Agency, and she told her friends. Not a lot of CPAs know when mascara is allowable as a business expense.
- Jack McCoy: It's outrageous. Jamie won't play footsie with him; new facts disrupt his perfect trial. So he takes it out on us.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Right. Had nothing to do with the fact that all this time, you didn't know what you were talking about.
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: Dismissal of the charge was excessive.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Right. You know who's who now?
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: Yes.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: This is *Joanne* Sullivan you got there in Rikers?
- Jack McCoy: Who else could it be?
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Please don't ask.
- Chief Administrative Judge: The district attorney brought this matter to me with some reluctance.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Well-deserved. I'm trying to run a trial; I don't have time to...
- Chief Administrative Judge: Make some. I'm taking this seriously.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Because a young woman can't take a joke?
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: I'm not pressing any charge.
- Chief Administrative Judge: She could! You should thank her.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Fine; thanks. Goodbye.
- Chief Administrative Judge: I'm more concerned about the general tenor of this trial.
- Judge Nathan Marks: You know how I run a trial, George.
- Chief Administrative Judge: Yes - expeditiously. And usually, fairly.
- Judge Nathan Marks: *Always* fairly.
- Jack McCoy: You've been hostile to the people. Demeaning to their representatives, interfering with their witnesses...
- Judge Nathan Marks: You expect me to sit there like a lump, while he springs surprise witnesses? Half-baked appeals, revised indictments? To turn my courtroom inside out - to win a case he should have lost the first time!
- Chief Administrative Judge: Nathan - you're not supposed to care who wins, remember?
- D.A. Adam Schiff: ...Your honor, I'd like to request...
- Chief Administrative Judge: No need. Nathan, you just caught a bad case of the flu, and are unable to continue presiding over this trial. I'm assigning Judge Bryant.
- Judge Nathan Marks: George...
- Chief Administrative Judge: Would you rather be sick? Or be facing the commission on judicial conduct?
- Detective Rey Curtis: [to murder victim's sister] So what happened? She walked in on you with her husband?
- Lucy Sullivan: No!
- Detective Rey Curtis: Then how did she end up dead?
- Lennie Briscoe: Let me guess: Mom always liked her best
- Jack McCoy: This issue was decided! It was your own ruling!
- Stan Gillum: Yeah - he ruled the search was illegal.
- Jack McCoy: And that the evidence was nevertheless admissible against Miss Sullivan.
- Stan Gillum: Because she had no standing! That was before we knew she was married to William Dunbar. A wife certainly has an expectation of privacy in an apartment she shares with her husband.
- A.D.A. Jamie Ross: You had an opportunity to bring that fact to the court's attention then.
- Stan Gillum: Not without incriminating my client - which I certainly am not obliged to do.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Anything else, Miss Ross? Mr. McCoy? Fine. Objection sustained. There'll be no mention of anything found in that apartment. By the way, Mr. McCoy - I never had a chance to congratulate you on your victory in appellate court.
- Jack McCoy: A retrial is permitted if the ends of public justice would otherwise be defeated. The public is certainly entitled to retry a murderer, when a mistrial has resulted through no fault of the people.
- Judge John Sierra: The people aren't at fault when they proceed to trial misinformed?
- Jack McCoy: Misinformed by a professional confidence woman who committed perjury, and a fraud upon the court. It would be repugnant to reward her.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Now who's calling for a conclusion, Mr. Gillum? Miss Sullivan - stand up... . This the woman you saw, Mr. Wilkins?
- Mr. Wilkins: Yeah - uh, yes, sir.
- Judge Nathan Marks: That hair?
- Mr. Wilkins: Yes.
- Judge Nathan Marks: That body type?
- Mr. Wilkins: Yes.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Really? You're sure it was her - not, say, uh... Miss Ross? Miss Ross, would you stand up for me?
- [Ross stands up as McCoy, puzzled, watches uncomfortably]
- Judge Nathan Marks: Similar body type, wouldn't you say?
- Mr. Wilkins: Yeah, but, uh - it was the other one.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Good.
- [Marks pauses, looking Ross up and down]
- Lt. Jeffrey London: [as Ross looks over Dunbar's body on New Jersey shore] You may not want to get too close, miss - he's been in the river a while.
- Lennie Briscoe: Your bad luck he floated up this side.
- Lt. Jeffrey London: Yeah - I'll have to buy my own dinner, unless you're treatin'.
- [last lines]
- D.A. Adam Schiff: When Nathan Marks became a judge, most of his colleagues cared only about getting re-elected and getting Fridays off. Marks made himself a royal pain - he cared mostly about justice.
- Jack McCoy: It went to his head, Adam. He brought himself down.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Yeah... Pardon me if I don't celebrate.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: She has a knack for being in two places at once. Dunbar's apartment, and the tour bus. How do you think she pulled that off?
- Stan Gillum: I move for a dismissal. If the people don't even know who killed whom, I'd say reasonable doubt is manifest.
- Jack McCoy: On the contrary. The evidence against the defendant is even stronger now, if you will allow us to reopen the case.
- Judge Nathan Marks: It would be stronger - is that why you're trying to turn my courtroom into a hall of mirrors?
- Jack McCoy: I want to put the truth before the jury.
- Judge Nathan Marks: What you can have is a mistrial.
- Jack McCoy: Fine. With leave to re-present.
- Stan Gillum: Excuse me - jeopardy has attached. A defendant can't be re-tried unless there is a manifest necessity for a mistrial. The only necessity here is Mr. McCoy's ignorance of the facts of his own case.
- Jack McCoy: We were all ignorant of the facts, because the defendant withheld them!
- Stan Gillum: She is under no obligation to incriminate herself.
- Jack McCoy: By telling us her name?
- Stan Gillum: Which would have incriminated her - you just said it does.
- Judge Nathan Marks: You and your free-spirited associates have not done your homework, Mr. McCoy. You've wasted all of our time.
- Jack McCoy: Your honor...
- Judge Nathan Marks: Your motion is granted - I'm declaring a mistrial. Mr. Gillum's motion is granted also; the murder charge is dismissed.
- Judge Nathan Marks: Next time you see me, look at what's on my shoulders. It's a head, not a handle; I don't rubber stamp.