Law & Order (TV Series)

Cherished (1998)

Angie Harmon: ADA Abbie Carmichael

Quotes 

• Abbie Carmichael : I have a solution that will make us all happy.

  ADA Jack McCoy : What's that?

  Abbie Carmichael : No deals for anybody. Let's hang 'em all.

• Abbie Carmichael : This isn't a couple of teenagers who killed their newborn because they were scared. These are two adults who went to a lot of trouble to dump a dying child and to cover their tracks. I may be the new kid here, but to me, this sounds like murder.

• Detective Lennie Briscoe : [after obtaining a warrant from a reluctant judge]  Good thing you booked time with the grand jury.

  Abbie Carmichael : What grand jury?

• [after Jack offers a plea deal to the defendants in exchange for testifying against the other, with no takers] 

  Abbie Carmichael : So... who do you want to put on trial?

  ADA Jack McCoy : All of them.

• Abbie Carmichael : This report says the child was 2 and a half years old, Marian was 13 months. They autopsied the wrong kid, send it back.

  ADA Jack McCoy : Why don't you take yourself down and get acquainted with the medical examiner?

  [cut to] 

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : It's the same kid, bone age doesn't lie.

• Abbie Carmichael : We have til the end of the week to file our objections.

  ADA Jack McCoy : [holds out his hand]  Can you and I agree we're too busy?

  Abbie Carmichael : [turns his hand up and smacks it]  Deal.