Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Blinded (2007)

Sam Waterston: DA Jack McCoy

Quotes 

• Jack McCoy : [to Novak]  Congratulations.

  Casey Novak : For what?

  Jack McCoy : The excellent job you did as Saul Picard's defense attorney. Judge Bradley called me.

  Casey Novak : Jack, I...

  Jack McCoy : I told him he must be mistaken since I only have prosecutors working in this office.

• Jack McCoy : [to Novak]  Five years ago, the cops responded to a disturbance call in your apartment. You told the officers it was mistake, but it isn't true, is it?

  Casey Novak : My fiancee, Charlie, he attacked me. He was a schizophrenic and he was off his medication. When the police saw the cuts and bruises on my face and neck, they wanted to arrest Charlie, but I thought I could help him. So I identified myself as an AD and I begged them not to take him in.

  Jack McCoy : You abused the authority of this office for personal reason back then? Just like you're doing now!

  Casey Novak : Sick people like Saul Picard shouldn't be put to death.

  Jack McCoy : The last time I checked, the Supreme Court still says you can't execute a mentally ill person in this country.

  Casey Novak : And what what if a jury found him responsible because he was lucid when he decided to stop taking his medication?

  Jack McCoy : That's not your problem. That's why he has a defense attorney.

  Casey Novak : No defense attorney could make a jury see past what he did to those little girls.

  Jack McCoy : So you weren't about to take a chance he'd be convicted?

  Casey Novak : Because he belongs in a hospital, not a prison cell and you know it.

  Jack McCoy : I'll tell you what I know. You're going to stay on this case through the 730 hearing and you're going to behave yourself because if you don't, I'm not only going to fire you, I'll make sure the bar yanks your license. And if you don't think I have the juice to do it, try me.