Law & Order
Thursdays 8:00 PM on NBCLaw & Order Season 21 Episode 6: "Wicked Game" Quotes
McCoy: They can't track him down? In 2022 that's hard to believe. You can't even buy a cup of coffee without leaving a digital footprint.
Price: Yeah, if you're in the system. If you have bank cards, credit cards, registered cell phones...
McCoy: That's why Swanson targets guys like this in the first place.
Price: Problem is, we now have only one witness that can establish Swanson's pattern of conduct.
McCoy: That's an anecdote, not a pattern.
Price: I know, but it's all we have.
McCoy: Then your one witness needs to be persuasive. His story needs to be filled with specific details and facts. The jury not only needs to believe him. They need to feel sick to their stomach that someone like Kyle Swanson actually exists.
Two years ago, I caught a case. His name was Lewis Knight. I found his body. He was naked and it was raining, that kind of rain that wants to be sleet but isn't. I followed a few leads and they didn't go anywhere, and then other cases came in. Stabbings, shootings, the kind of cases you liked. So we declared him an accidental overdose and closed the case. But now, knowing what I know, I'm sure Swanson is involved. I can't prove it but... I need you to do me a favor. Keep working this case. Bullies who pick on people who are weaker than them, they need to pay.
Dixon
Dixon: Sit your ass down!
Swanson: Who the hell do you think you're talking to?
Dixon: A young man is dead. If you want to lie, fine, but at least act like his life mattered.
Swanson: So what's going on here, boys?
Bernard: Boys? Oh no. We're not boys. We're men.
Tech: Pretty good resolution. I'll send it over to facial rec.
Bernard: No need. That's our guest of honor. Senator Jack Nathan.
Cosgrove: What is this, 1954? Kicking a kid out because you think he CHOSE to be gay?
Bernard: Crazy. But it's still a thing in my community, especially among religious folks.
Cosgrove: I don't get it.
Bernard: Get what?
Cosgrove: People. Black people. Here you are marching in the streets for police reform, all these progressive causes. But if your kid turns out to be gay, he needs counseling. You need to make him right with God. If you ask me, that's what you should be marching about.
Bernard: You're right. But don't act like your people are much better. You can't have premarital sex, for God's sake.
Cosgrove: Reason number 36 why I don't go to church anymore.
Bernard: Is there a reason for this lack of communication?
Darren's father: He lived a lifestyle that conflicted with our beliefs. When he told us he was a homosexual, we said we could get him counseling so he could get right with God.
Mama always said if you see something in the street, leave it alone.
Bernard
Dixon: What's going on?
Suspect #1: None of your business.
[Dixon pulls out her badge] Dixon: Actually, I have all sorts of reasons that it is my business.
[Suspects start walking away.]
Dixon: Stop.
Suspect #1: You have no right to tell us what to do.
Dixon: Actually, I do. Now stop walking or I'll arrest you.
Suspect #1: For what?
Dixon: For being a punk. And I'll arrest you for being an accomplice. You think you're so tough, picking on someone who's down on his luck. Pick on me instead.
