Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series)

Loyalty: Part 2 (2010)

Jeff Goldblum: Detective Zack Nichols

Quotes 

• Detective Alexandra Eames : I mean, don't ask me to buy into an idea that Goren...

  Zack Nichols : We. You, me, we follow up on Goren because it's our job.

  [Under his breath] 

  Zack Nichols : And because we don't want them putting anybody else on it.

  Serena Stevens : Is this private, or can anyone participate?

  Detective Alexandra Eames : Oh, join in. It's Betray Your Partner Day.

  Zack Nichols : That's not what I'm saying. Let Goren know that.

  [to Stevens] 

  Zack Nichols : See, it is fun here.

• Zack Nichols : Hassan kills Danny Ross, goes free, and is set up as a despot. And that validates the death of our friend? I don't accept that.

  Detective Robert Goren : Yeah, I-I think because he was our friend, it's why we need to do it.

  Zack Nichols : Releasing a multiple murderer is not justice. Hassan might find the GPS devices and disarm then.

  Detective Robert Goren : Hassan hired a technical expert to sweep and find them. But the expert was an FBI undercover. This is what needs to happen. Hassan needs to smuggle that shipment of weapons into Putland, right? He needs to barter for power to warlords, to terrorists.

  Detective Alexandra Eames : They can be located and wiped out. Zack, making deals that are painful, doing things we hate, sometimes it's part of our job.

  Detective Robert Goren : It's what our captain believed in. I don't think we should undercut that.

  Zack Nichols : [to Eames]  And you're buying this?

  Detective Alexandra Eames : I'm listening.

• Zack Nichols : You've been told.

  Hassan : Your evidence is flawed. I'm to be released.

  Zack Nichols : Yeah, you've skated on this. So some day, I'm gonna be watching CNN or pick up a paper, and there you'll be.

  Hassan : Being praised for the wisdom of my rule.

  Zack Nichols : More likely because somebody that you've trusted, as your rather trusted you, will have done to you as you did to your father. Will it come as a gunshot fired by a loyal chauffeur? Poison from your favorite wife? Hanged in a basement like Saddam Hussein? It's hard to say. But you know it's coming. You just don't know when.

• Zack Nichols : [Referring Eames to Stevens]  She's new.

  Detective Alexandra Eames : Oh, it's fun here.