Richard Brooks credited as playing...
ADA Paul Robinette
- Adam Schiff: The gun dealer was in the yard at Riker's; had his throat cut. Buenaventura was strangled in the kitchen at Dannemora. And Manuel Ortega's mother fell out of a window.
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: What about the little girl?
- Adam Schiff: She was picked up at school by her uncle.
- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: She doesn't have an uncle!
- [cut to Schiff's horrified expression before the credits roll]
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: Cristobal's son, 19, police report says Gaitan put three bullets in the back of his head. Maybe Frank Hoover has a point.
- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: Terrific. You don't like the system, go get a gun. We can paint the courthouse steps red.
- Adam Schiff: A lot of people would rather give him a medal than a sentence. Frank Hoover has a case for extreme emotional disturbance.
- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: I'm not hard hearted, but I don't get this one. It's premeditated, it's wrong.
- Adam Schiff: I'm not up on my Catholic theology, but is self-righteousness a mortal or a venial sin?
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: You killed a man who killed your son, to a jury it doesn't matter how premeditated it was.
- Adam Schiff: Let him do four to 12.
- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: OK, just as long as you take the press conference.
- Adam Schiff: Twenty people in that restaurant. No ID. We say he's Gaitan, they say Esteban. Without fingerprints, they can say he's Peter Pan.
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: The State Department buys dictators over breakfast, they can't get prints from the Colombians?
- Adam Schiff: Billions of dollars, the cartel is an underground nation. They kill judges down there for sport!
- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: Adam, is there an agenda here?
- Adam Schiff: The US Attorney's office did call. They say that Gaitan can make federal cases into the next century.
- A.D.A. Paul Robinette: He'll get six months, testify in three cases, and go home.
- Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: Adam, that is nuts. We convict, the feds get leverage, and I think facing 25 years, he'd sell out anybody.
- Adam Schiff: The feds would like us to talk to Gaitan. You'll do it.