Chicago Justice Season 1 Episode 2: "Uncertainty Principle" Quotes
Robinette: Have you ever been arrested?
Stone: Objection. Relevance.
Robinette: Goes to credibility, your Honor.
Judge: I'll allow it.
Witness: No, I have never been arrested.
Robinette: Has anyone in your family ever been arrested?
Stone: Objection!
Judge: Overruled.
Witness: Yes. My brother James. He was on the El.
Robinette: What was your brother James doing on the El?
Witness: They said he was disturbing the peace. His teacher had given him a ticket to United to see the Bulls. I guess a black man sitting on the El disturbed some people.
Atwater: You want me to say it's okay, you tried your best, Antonio? Nothing makes this okay. I got a badge, I'm guilty. Simple as that.
Antonio: You don't know that.
Atwater: I saw a black woman get up and testify against me today, looking at me like I turned my back on my people. My people whose history includes fire hoses being turned against them, being shut out of restaurants and schools, being lynched. This isn't what I became a cop for.
He's just a guy, you know? Worse than some, better than most. So tell me, what kind of prick goes out of his way to ruin a good person's life like that?
Antonio
Valdez: Grand jury just indicted Kevin Atwater on one count of first degree murder.
Stone: What about the others involved?
Valdez: Nothing.
Jeffries: I want an arrest warrant issued for Kevin Atwater within the hour.
Stone: I'm sure Atwater will surrender himself.
Jeffries: That's not your problem. Your problem is figuring out what to do about the reasonable doubt you just handed Paul Robinette.
If Atwater killed Wilkes, then Wilkes needed killing.
Voight
Laura: You know what would be nice? If my partner and I were on the same page.
Antonio: I worked with Kevin Atwater. He was my partner.
Laura: I'm your partner now.
Stone: It's Voight's unit. They aren't exactly shrinking violets.
Antonio: That's bull.
Stone: I get no pleasure out of going after a cop, especially Kevin Atwater.
Antonio: Then drop it.
Stone: My obligation is to the victim and their family. I can't just drop him.
Frick: Cell phone videos of Justin Wilkes' arrest from people who otherwise would not have come forward.
Jeffries: I suppose we should be glad they haven't been posted on the Internet.
Frick: These are good people. They don't want to get involved with the cops.
Jeffries: Meaning cops aren't good people?
Frick: These videos give definite evidence, Mark. Justin Wilkes was murdered.
Carerra: When I was in the cell with Wilkes, he might have said a cop hit him.
Valdez: Might have?
Carerra: Depends on what you got for me.
Antonio: No one's saying you did anything wrong, Atwater.
Atwater: No, but it seems like you're working me over. Ask, 'Officer Atwater, did you kill Justin Wilkes?' No, investigator, I didn't. See how easy that is?
Laura: Was the suspect properly restrained?
Atwater: The suspect was resisting arrest, so I used reasonable physical force to subdue him. End of story.
We're a busy hospital. Sometimes we have to triage, and passed out drunks aren't on the top of our list.
Nurse
Laura: You went to the lake with the kid still in the ambulance?
Paramedic: He puked all over himself and reeked of booze and cigarettes. He wasn't going anywhere.
Laura: Remind me not to get sick.
Antonio: Remind me not to be a black male.
