Law & Order (TV Series)

Genius (2003)

Jerry Orbach: Detective Lennie Briscoe

Quotes 

• [after Ed had an informal discussion with a suspect that led to a partial confession] 

  Lt. Anita Van Buren : Five hours? I hope the hell he called you in the morning.

  Det. Ed Green : Hey, the best way to get a drunk to open his mouth is to let him drink, isn't that right, Lennie?

  Det. Lennie Briscoe : [looking up from his desk]  Hear, hear!

• Clay Warner : We're discussing Anna Karenina. Join us.

  Det. Lennie Briscoe : You've got to read Crime and Punishment.

• Det. Lennie Briscoe : Well, how much macho does it take to stab a woman?

  Helen : With Nelson, fiction has a funny way of becoming fact. The three of us were sitting over there. He and Natalie were arguing about Finnegans Wake or some such nonsense. Nelson tossed his soup spoon, it hit the wall over there. Natalie was hit with a glob of minestrone. That's not what it said in the police report. He tells the story 10 times, the soup spoon becomes a steak knife. He tells it 20 times, the wall becomes Natalie's shoulder. In ten years, it'll be a decapitation with a samurai sword. Writers, they lie for a living, Detective.