Law & Order
Thursdays 8:00 PM on NBCLaw & Order Season 21 Episode 9: "The Great Pretender" Quotes
Don't let his looks fool you. Charles Ackman is nothing more than a drug trafficker. The only difference is the type of narcotic he sells. Oh, and the way he's treated by society. Heroin dealers get life. Oxy dealers get stock options.
Price
Price: He's a drug trafficker, Jack. He's knowingly marketing and selling a highly addictive and lethal product. If he were a heroin dealer we wouldn't think twice.
McCoy: But he's not. He's a CEO of a publically traded company, and the highly addictive product he sells is legal. We're not the FDA, Nolan. It's not our job to evaluate drugs.
Price: But it's our job to prosecute a CEO who has been defrauding the public.
Lawyer: My client has an opioid addiction.
Judge: Let's cut to the chase. You're asking me to send him to rehab?
Lawyer: Yes, in-patient rehab so he can get treatment.
Maroun: He can detox in Rikers' like everyone else.
Wyatt: I loved Ella! Why would I kill her?
Bernard: Because you found out her name was Mary and she was broke.
Cosgrove: That bartender Dooley called and told you she was a fraud. She played you like a punk!
Wyatt: I'm not saying another word. I want a lawyer.
Cosgrove: Lawyer? You're gonna need a priest.
Dixon: So the photo was a fake.
Bernard: Yeah, it's Photoshop.
Dixon: So she was living a fake life.
Cosgrove: But her death was real.
Lawyer: She was the hardest working heiress I ever met.
Cosgrove: Heiress?
Lawyer: She came from old money.
