Law & Order (TV Series)

Compassion (2003)

Jack Koenig: Defense Attorney Swift

Quotes 

• Jack McCoy : Four minutes.

  Swift : Always have to play the tough guy, don't you?

  Jack McCoy : Tough has nothing to do with this.

  Swift : You feel for the woman, Jack. It doesn't make you weak.

  Jack McCoy : Three minutes.

  Swift : I could win this case, you know.

  Jack McCoy : Not when the judge instructs the jury on the definition of legal insanity.

  Swift : Ten years is a long time.

  Jack McCoy : She killed a man.

  Swift : A scoundrel. Ten years, or... until a panel of three medical professionals certify she's not a threat to herself or others.

  Jack McCoy : Doctors to be chosen by my office.

  Swift : But in the private psychiatric facility of her choice.

  Jack McCoy : To be approved of by me and located within my jurisdiction. One minute.

  Swift : Done.

  Jack McCoy : I tell the judge.

  Swift : It's not a bad thing, Jack.

  Jack McCoy : What?

  Swift : Having a heart.