Law & Order (TV Series)

Punk (1998)

Angie Harmon: ADA Abbie Carmichael

Quotes 

• Jack McCoy : [to Carmichael]  Do you want to talk about it? Or not. Whatever makes you feel comfortable.

  Abbie Carmichael : I was a freshman. He was a third-year law student. We were on a date. I never told anybody. I blamed myself, but not anymore.

• Jack McCoy : Alice Simonelli doesn't sound Hispanic.

  Abbie Carmichael : Bay Ridge Italian. She joined the Paganos in prison. It's an equal-opportunity street gang.

• Abbie Carmichael : [to Atwood]  The next step is a line-up. We're bringing in the child's grandparents. If they put you in the park, that's extortion, witness tampering, child molesting. Think of what a fascinating life you'll have in prison.

• Abbie Carmichael : [about Alice]  I know this girl. She's manipulative. She's playing the system.

  Jack McCoy : You think guards should be having sex with prisoners?

  Abbie Carmichael : No, but for all we know, she flashed her thong underwear at the guy. Instead of blaming everyone else, she should take some responsibility.

  Jack McCoy : She's responsible for the threat to her daughter?

  Abbie Carmichael : A condom verses a bullet? It's not justification by any legal standard. The girl is just violent, Jack.

  Jack McCoy : One drug conviction.

  Abbie Carmichael : She stabbed a woman with a sharpened broomstick. She put the victim on his knees and made him beg for his life.

  Jack McCoy : Pacheco did.

  Abbie Carmichael : And we can find a way to nail 'em both.

  Adam Schiff : My neck is starting to hurt.

• Abbie Carmichael : [to McCoy about Alice]  Jack, whatever hellhole she's in, she put herself there.