Law & Order (TV Series)
Prince of Darkness (1992)
Richard Brooks: ADA Paul Robinette
Quotes
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Adam Schiff : The gun dealer was in the yard at Riker's; had his throat cut. Buenaventura was strangled in the kitchen at Dannemora. And Manuel Ortega's mother fell out of a window.
A.D.A. Paul Robinette : What about the little girl?
Adam Schiff : She was picked up at school by her uncle.
Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone : She doesn't have an uncle!
[cut to Schiff's horrified expression before the credits roll]
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A.D.A. Paul Robinette : Cristobal's son, 19, police report says Gaitan put three bullets in the back of his head. Maybe Frank Hoover has a point.
Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone : Terrific. You don't like the system, go get a gun. We can paint the courthouse steps red.
Adam Schiff : A lot of people would rather give him a medal than a sentence. Frank Hoover has a case for extreme emotional disturbance.
Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone : I'm not hard hearted, but I don't get this one. It's premeditated, it's wrong.
Adam Schiff : I'm not up on my Catholic theology, but is self-righteousness a mortal or a venial sin?
A.D.A. Paul Robinette : You killed a man who killed your son, to a jury it doesn't matter how premeditated it was.
Adam Schiff : Let him do four to 12.
Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone : OK, just as long as you take the press conference.
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Adam Schiff : Twenty people in that restaurant. No ID. We say he's Gaitan, they say Esteban. Without fingerprints, they can say he's Peter Pan.
A.D.A. Paul Robinette : The State Department buys dictators over breakfast, they can't get prints from the Colombians?
Adam Schiff : Billions of dollars, the cartel is an underground nation. They kill judges down there for sport!
Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone : Adam, is there an agenda here?
Adam Schiff : The US Attorney's office did call. They say that Gaitan can make federal cases into the next century.
A.D.A. Paul Robinette : He'll get six months, testify in three cases, and go home.
Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone : Adam, that is nuts. We convict, the feds get leverage, and I think facing 25 years, he'd sell out anybody.
Adam Schiff : The feds would like us to talk to Gaitan. You'll do it.