Law & Order (TV Series)

Compassion (2003)

S. Epatha Merkerson: Lieutenant Anita Van Buren

Quotes 

• Det. Lennie Briscoe : She took the cyanide from the lab, spiked Blake's hot sauce, then dumped it into her garden to protect her fig tree from squirrels.

  Anita Van Buren : And she knew he was gonna use the hot sauce for lunch?

  Ed Green : Her LUDs show that on the day of the murder, she called Gideon's cell phone, and then she called the restaurant to make a reservation.

  Anita Van Buren : Well, if it was all about the money, why did she wait a year to kill him?

  Ed Green : Revenge is a meal best served cold?

  Det. Lennie Briscoe : Yeah, especially if you got the hot sauce to cover up the stink.

  Anita Van Buren : Pick her up.

• Ed Green : Forensics says the hot sauce had the cyanide, so we contacted the manufacturer in Red River, Louisiana, asked them to recall the batch.

  Det. Lennie Briscoe : Yeah, all twelve bottles.

  Ed Green : This Dr. Allison says that she's seen him use the bottle a lot in the past, so whoever spiked it did so recently.

  Anita Van Buren : And knew Mr. Blake's eating habits pretty well.

  Ed Green : Blake rips off widows by claiming to contact their dead husbands. He's a con man. Con men piss people off.

  Det. Lennie Briscoe : And pissed-off people like to get even.

• Anita Van Buren : Your man still a ghost?

  Det. Lennie Briscoe : If he was still alive, I'd hire him to talk to himself.