- Willard Tappan: You know, they're talking about privatizing the park. A subway token to enter or $30 a year. Trump thinks he can run it at a profit.
- Jack McCoy: That's fascinating. We're here to...
- Willard Tappan: You're here because you have a problem. I'm talking to you because I have a problem.
- Jack McCoy: We'll prove that you hid that money, Mr. Tappan. That'll prolong your study of institutional dining.
- Willard Tappan: Yes, that's my problem. Meanwhile, Mr. Curren, your murderer, will go free.
- Jack McCoy: If you hadn't stolen his money, that murder would never have taken place.
- Willard Tappan: I concede your point. If things were different, they wouldn't be the same. Look, I know that you've been asking about a conversation I may have had with Mr. Curren, a conversation I may not be able to recall.
- Jack McCoy: I saw your testimony to the House Banking Committee. You couldn't seem to recall the answers to more than 200 questions.
- Willard Tappan: My memory is dreadful. Especially when I'm anxious about the future.
- Jack McCoy: What do you want?
- Willard Tappan: No prosecution on fraud.
- Jack McCoy: We'll take your money.
- Willard Tappan: You'll take it anyway.
- Jack McCoy: You hoped Curren would kill him. To end the blackmail.
- Willard Tappan: Heavens to Betsy. What a dreadful idea.
- Lieutenant Anita Van Buren: [answering phone] Does one of you have a girlfriend in a nursing home?
- Detective Mike Logan: Oh -- that would be Lennie!
- Jack McCoy: [cross-examining] How many people have you swindled, Mr Tappan?
- Willard Tappan: None.
- Jack McCoy: How many people have you been **convicted** of swindling?
- Willard Tappan: Fourteen thousand.
- Jack McCoy: Fourteen thousand people, lied to when they bought bonds in North River Savings and Loan?
- Edward St. John: Objection: argumentative.
- Jack McCoy: Addresses credibility.
- Judge Herman Mooney: Overruled.
- Jack McCoy: Why should anyone believe anything you tell them now, since you've been convicted of lying fourteen thousand times?
- D.A. Adam Schiff: [discussing McCoy's cross-examination of Tappan] You didn't make this guy blink.
- Jack McCoy: It doesn't matter. Willard Tappan will be convicted.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: Right. After the judge reminds the jury that he's not on trial for anything he did in the past and orders them to put it out of their mind.
- Jack McCoy: Adam, you haven't been in a courtroom in a long time.
- D.A. Adam Schiff: What the hell is that supposed to mean?
- Jack McCoy: You didn't see their eyes. When they get into that jury room, the only thing they'll remember is the fourteen thousand lies.
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: [after Tappan has been convicted] Did you know we had it?
- Jack McCoy: Well, between Curren and Tappan, who's a jury gonna believe?
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: Who do **you** believe?
- [McCoy shrugs]
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: Me, too. Curren's story was awfully convenient.
- Jack McCoy: But under our original theory Tappan is still guilty of murder: he manipulated Curren.
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: Jack, we made it sound like he hired Curren. If you didn't believe that, but let it go on to strengthen our case...
- Jack McCoy: Heavens to Betsy, Claire, what a dreadful idea!
- [cut to closing credits]
- Judge Ian Feist: The victim is Arthur Kopinsky? I knew Kopinsky.
- Sally Bell: Perhaps Your Honor should recuse himself from setting bail in this case?
- Judge Ian Feist: If anything, Miss Bell, I'd be biased in favor of your client!
- Jack McCoy: Curren pulled the trigger. If he doesn't testify against Willard Tappan, Willard Tappan will testify against him
- Sally Bell: That's blackmail! You would go that low?
- Jack McCoy: Don't you know me by now, Sally?
- John Curren: I'll do it, to get Tappan.
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: [after the meeting] So what was that all about?
- Jack McCoy: What was what all about?
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: Don't you know me by now?
- Jack McCoy: Oh -- Sally!
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: Yeah, Sally. Miss Bell... our opposing counsel?
- Jack McCoy: [knowingly] She was my assistant.
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: Do you believe him?
- Lieutenant Anita Van Buren: No.
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: That's good enough for me.
- Lieutenant Anita Van Buren: [outside interrogation room] Curren didn't want a lawyer.
- Detective Mike Logan: Yeah, I guess after Kopinsky he had his fill.
- Willard Tappan: [referring to the victim] Kopinsky? You know, I had a racehorse named Prince **Korinsky** once. The government took him, along with everything else; I suppose Chelsea's riding him now.
- Jack McCoy: Tappan is responsible for that murder.
- A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: Morally, not legally. We can't arrest him.
- Jack McCoy: I'm a DA -- I can arrest anybody!
- Fred Dillon: When Willard Tappan's Savings and Loan went in the crapper, I represented its major creditors. We seized the corporate lodge in Aspen where Tappan took his friends and prostitutes, the corporate jet he used for his golf outings, the corporate apartments in Miami and London.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Sounds like quite a haul.
- Fred Dillon: Everything turned out to be mortgaged elsewhere, sometimes two or three times
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Did any of your clients ever hear from Arthur Kopinsky?
- Fred Dillon: Financial institutions. They lose a few million, it's not the end of the world. It's people who lost a few thousand, who only **had** a few thousand, who'd be vulnerable to that kind of thing.
- Edward St. John: You hate Willard Tappan, don't you?
- John Curren: Yes.
- Edward St. John: Wouldn't you lie to hurt him?
- John Curren: No,
- Edward St. John: Oh, really? You get off easy for a murder that you committed, and the man you hate goes to jail for the rest of his life. Isn't that perfect?
- John Curren: Perfect? Perfect would have been if I'd never heard of him, because, you see, then I would be living in a three-bedroom house in a nice neighborhood, and I would be able to watch my children riding their bicycles in the driveway!
- Edward St. John: But Mr. Tappan took all that away from you.
- John Curren: For him I guess it was just another zero on a list of numbers. For us, it was everything.
- Willard Tappan: [negotiating deal in exchange for his testimony] My memory is **dreadful**, especially when I'm anxious about the future!
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Listen, I've saved up some money for my retirement. I keep it split up between three banks and two different mutual funds. If you don't trust one that much, then nobody can hurt you.
- Detective Mike Logan: What's that -- financial advice or marriage counseling?
- Detective Mike Logan: Some guy loses his life savings to Tappan, then Kopinsky comes along and licks the plate. I'd wanna kill him, too!
- Lieutenant Anita Van Buren: [referring to Willard Tappan] Make my day -- nail that son of a bitch for murder!