Man: Look, this isn't what it looks like.
Cosgrove: Oh yeah. You were just going to drive her around and go out for cocktails.
Man: Ava's parents hired me. I was supposed to bring her home.
Cosgrove: You expect us to believe that Ava's parents wanted you to kidnap her and bring her home?
Man: I wasn't kidnapping her. I was saving her.

Cosgrove: What is that? Lone Star? Textas?
Shaw: No, no, no. Lodestar. Means inspiration, guiding light.
Cosgrove: What the hell guided her here?

Shaw: How did you know her?
Price: We worked side by side in the public defender's office for three and a half years.
Cosgrove: There's a long list of people who would want someone like that dead.
Price: Someone like that?
Cosgrove: That came out wrong. Boy, did I put my foot in my mouth.

Maroun: Think it might have dawned on you to inform your co-counsel that you had a romantic relationship with the victim?
Price: It was over a decade ago and it was irrelevant.
Maroun: You went after Benning for his bias. You're just as compromised as he is!

Outrage won't convince the jury of anything. Evidence will.

McCoy

Cosgrove: Did you have any further interactions?
Adam: What is this?
Cosgrove: Someone killed her.
Adam: Is this the part where I'm supposed to say karma's a bitch?

My ex-husband is a powerful man. I'm not comfortable saying anything else about him.

Judge's Ex

Only two detectives? If it was an ADA there'd be ten, plus the press conferences... but a public defender, who cares, right?

Public defender

Price: I am the best.
McCoy: What you are is compromised. If I had known you found the body and you had a romantic relationship with the victim, I wouldn't let you within a timezone of this case.

As someone who is so concerned with the appearance of impropriety, you of all people should know that I cannot deny the defense the opportunity to impeach your testimony.

Benning

Shaw: Did Rachel mention any problems with anyone?
Mrs. Bender: Like what?
Shaw: Like with a client?
Mrs. Bender: Her clients were all problems. They were criminals.

I'm not a snitch... for free.

Lucas

Law & Order Season 22 Quotes

Price: The evidence on Ava's phone at least shows that Rublov was involved in the bombing and the murders.
Sam: And was a rapist and a pedophile.
Price: That too.

Andre: I don't know. I was trying to mind my own business.
Stabler: People who mind their own business go to prison.