Denis O'Hare credited as playing...
James Smith
- James Smith: I am a captain in Jabin's army!
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Really? I was a corporal in Uncle Sam's.
- James Smith: I fought at the Kishon River.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Oh, you did? So, when you killed Linda Bowers and those other people, you were following orders, right?
- James Smith: The chattering people across the street. They're with the CIA too, aren't they?
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: This isn't the CIA, Jim, this is the 27th precinct of the New York City Police Department. You understand that?
- James Smith: [laughing] It's a hell of a system. It's a hell of a system. They drive touch-tone dialing to work and they're still hungry.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Right.
- [pause]
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: I give up.
- [exits interrogation room: to Van Buren and Kincaid]
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: I think I need whatever he's supposed to be taking.
- James Smith: Have you ever been on an anti-psychotic drug?
- Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: No.
- James Smith: I'm using every ounce of strength I have just to talk to you. I feel like I'm pawing through a wool blanket. I feel stiff, and like I'm half a mile behind everyone else. I get so damned tired. It takes so much effort, holding on to reality.
- [reading his allocution in court]
- James Smith: A man came toward me and I became afraid. I stabbed him with a bayonet I had with me. This paper is full of needles. They cut me and I bleed. You hear those chariots? They stole them from me, they want me to sleep. They like that. That's why I killed her.
- Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: Do you believe there's something wrong with you?
- James Smith: [laughs sadly] Yes. I've seen the PET scans, and the MRIs. My brain doesn't look like yours, Doc.
- Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy: Don't you care about the people you killed?
- James Smith: I'm sorry for them, Mr. McCoy. But that wasn't me. I'm not that creature. And I'm not going to take the rap for what he did.