Law & Order (TV Series)

The Wages of Love (1991)

Richard Brooks: ADA Paul Robinette

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• Ben Stone : [on the phone, covers mouthpiece]  It's Lehrman, he wants to make a deal, 2 counts of Man 1, 9 years.

  Adam Schiff : It's more than 4.

  Paul Robinette : But less than 25.

  Adam Schiff : [Stone looks at him]  It's your case.

  Ben Stone : [into receiver]  Deal.

  [hangs up] 

• Paul Robinette : Never seen you like this before.

  Ben Stone : I've never done anything this potentially stupid before. I just pray to God that when I get out of here, I'm not competing with Melanie Cullen for an uptown cab.

  Adam Schiff : Jury just finished dinner catered from Walter's. Hope you don't have a lousy six days.

  Ben Stone : Well, it's four hours and it's already lousy.

  Adam Schiff : Good night, gentlemen.

  Paul Robinette : Good night.

  Ben Stone : [Phone rings]  Stone.

  [Listens to phone] 

  Ben Stone : Just a minute.

  [to Schiff and Robinette] 

  Ben Stone : It's Lehrman. He's pacing too. He'll take two counts of man one. She'll do nine years.

  Adam Schiff : It's more than four.

  Paul Robinette : Less than 25.

  Adam Schiff : [Stone looks to Schiff]  It's your case.

  Ben Stone : And my stomach.

  [Picks up phone] 

  Ben Stone : Deal.

• Jules Simon : 8-1/4% tax on $14,000. That's over 1100. My customer says to me: ship a dummy box to New Jersey or I'll buy my stones in Palm Beach. What am I supposed to do?

  Paul Robinette : Tell him our jails are nicer than Florida's.

  Jules Simon : State hit me with a $100,000 fine. I love New York.

  Paul Robinette : Looks like you're surviving. Your record on that necklace?

  Jules Simon : Is it really that important? My customer comes in angry, I want his business.

  Paul Robinette : If your customer comes in again, call Geraldo. He's dead, and this is a murder investigation.

  [both walk over to file cabinet] 

  Paul Robinette : Mr Cullen paid cash, right? And the necklace was sent to an Alexandra Becket?

  Jules Simon : Just barely. Mr Cullen had bought several pieces for his wife over the years. Smaller pieces. There was a cretinous new shipping clerk who called Mrs. Cullen by mistake. She was not expecting a necklace. Very embarrassing. If Mr Cullen had found out it would have cost me his business.

  Paul Robinette : Cost him a lot more than that.