Law & Order (TV Series)

Volunteers (1993)

Nicolas Coster: Reid Mullen

Quotes 

• Reid Mullen : Roland Kirk smokes crack and loses contact with reality. He throws a garbage can through a plate glass window. We toss him into a state mental facility where they clean him up, brush him off, and shove him back onto the street. Where does he go? Right back to Bedford Street, where he smokes crack, loses contact with reality, and pushes an 11-year-old boy in front of a moving car. Again, we toss him back into the state mental facility, where they clean him up, brush him off, and shove him back onto the street. And where does he go? Back to Bedford Street. Three years of this, ladies and gentlemen, with no end in sight. Until Harold Morrissey said, "Enough." Roland Kirk attacked his wife and took his property. Mr. Morrissey tried to get it back. And now they want to put him in jail. There's something very wrong here.

• Reid Mullen : [Reid Mullen is the defense lawyer]  And when you go there you get high, don't you, sir?

  Roland Kirk : Yes, I have to. I feel better.

  Reid Mullen : And you buy the crack with money you won suing the residents of Bedford Street. Isn't that right?

  Roland Kirk : They harassed me. Oh, they say they're the victims. I'm the victim. He tried to kill me. I may never walk right again.

  Reid Mullen : You gonna sue them again, Mr. Kirk?

  Roland Kirk : You better believe it. And I'll get enough crack to last me a lifetime. And every time that son of a bitch comes out of his house he'll see me sitting in my Rolls-Royce wheelchair getting high, and getting in his pudgy little face!

  Reid Mullen : [Long pause while the jury digests this]  No more questions.