Crossing Jordan (2001–2007)

Jill Hennessy: Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh

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Quotes 

• Woody : Stay in the car.

  Jordan : What exactly in our past makes you think I'll do that?

• Macy : Jordan, next time you're called for jury duty let your shrink know. I'm sure there's a reason you should be excused.

  Jordan : Wow. Did you mean to call me a nut job or are you just crabby?

• Jordan : He's lucky I didn't kick him in the nuts. What? It wouldn't be the first time.

• Det. Winslow : You looked good holding that baby, maybe you should think about popping one out.

  Jordan : Yeah, or maybe I should pop my foot up your ass.

• Jordan : I have so much energy.

  Macy : Yeah, I can tell. Read your autopsy report. 12 pages to tell us she was hit in the back of the head with an unidentifiable object.

• Dr. Nigel Townsend : So if I killed my husband, where would I stash the body?

  Jordan : If you killed your husband you'd have to start in the closet.

• Jordan : [to Macy]  You're my bestest girlfriend.

• Det. Cruz : You and I are on the same street, you know. Just different sides.

  Jordan : That doesn't make us pals. So far - not a big fan.

  Det. Cruz : Don't worry. I grow on people.

  Jordan : So does fungus.

• Jordan : I had this guy's brain in my hand, so I couldn't very well punch him, right?

• Jordan : Traffic control command center has cameras all over the city, right?

  Detective Carver : Most of the sections, yeah.

  Jordan : I know 'cause I keep getting sent pictures of myself running red lights.

• Jordan : You're not really going to put me on that leash are you?

  Macy : You'd just chew through it.

• Jordan : Is this the part where I'm supposed to apologize too?

  Garrett : Didn't want to ask the impossible.

• Jordan : Hey, you think the gift shop sells mittens?

  Macy : I thought you were done complaining.

  Jordan : As soon as I'm done freezing!

• Nigel : Look, I don't know how much you know about Jordan, but-...

  Jordan : She's an enormous pain in the ass.

• Woody : [about a suspected serial killer she wants to inspect for evidence]  Jordan, he's a psychopath!

  Jordan : [sarcastically]  And I'm not?

• Jordan : [to Garret]  It's like you always tell me. The dead bodies are easy. It's the alive ones that get more complicated.

• Jordan : Garret, have you gotten any recently?

  Macy : Pardon me?

  Jordan : You heard me. How long has it been?

  Macy : We are not having this conversation.

• Woody : The nun had a baby? How could that be?

  Jordan : She's a woman first, nun second.

• Dr. Nigel Townsend : Jordan, you should know that last night will never happen again.

  Jordan : Oh God, what are we talking about here?

  Dr. Nigel Townsend : My new image in the workplace. No more Nigel-the-computer-jockey. Okay, I was swept up in the moment, but now it's truly done.

• Jordan : Look... You guys get along. I need you to talk to him.

  Woody : He pulled a gun on me!

  Jordan : That's bonding for him. He feels comfortable with you.

  Woody : He said he was going to shoot me!

  Jordan : You see... You guys are closer than I thought.

• Jordan : I don't mind being the center of attention. And I know in this business, no matter how good you are, it always comes down to one thing: your body.

• Jordan : The moon's in uranus.

  Woody : Excuse me.

• [talking about Nigel's happiness on a freezing day] 

  Macy : If only we could harness that hot energy.

  Jordan : Yeah, Either that or we could just set his desk on fire.

• Det. Cruz : Should I take this to Macy?

  Jordan : You can take this to the Pope for all I care.

• Max : There's this new thing they got called the classifieds. You should check them out. They actually have places to live in.

  Jordan : Exhibit A. I can barely take care of a house plant much less a place of my own.

• Jordan : No, no. I watched you turn this morgue from a place we all love into an anal retentive dictator ship. You're an obsessive compulsive android with a Napoleon complex.

• Reporter : The way I see it you and I are on the same team here. The only difference is you're looking for a cause of death and I'm looking for a by-line.

  Jordan : You keep following me you'll be looking for a hospital.

• Devan Maguire : You told me not to jump to conclusions, and what did I do?

  Jordan : Good jumping, though, really.

• Devan Maguire : So, you still think we would have hated each other in high school?

  Jordan : Oh, yeah!

  Devan Maguire : So, you, uh... want to get some dinner?

  Jordan : No, not really.

  Devan Maguire : Good, me either.

• Bug : I pulled tissue samples from John Doe and cross-referenced his biological data with local insect activity and came up with a time of death.

  Jordan : That's my Bug.

  Bug : Eleven days, four hours.

  Detective Matt Seely : Four hours?

  Bug : Well... Give or take.

• Macy : Well... three dead people, three different guns, three fatal bullet wounds. A shoots B, B shoots C, C shoots A.

  Jordan : Commutative Property of Murder.

• Jordan : Trust me. The answers are always in the body.

• [Nigel is asked if he can find out what's on a hard drive] 

  Nigel : Is the bear Catholic?

  Jordan : And if he is, does that mean the Pope...

• Jordan : Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges.

• Jordan : Hey Woods, whats it like kissing your sister?

• Macy : [holding up a stethoscope from Jordan's days as a Thoracic Surgery resident]  You still talk to God through this thing?

  Jordan : Naw, we e-mail now.

• Jordan : Haven't you guys gotten yourselves in enough trouble for one night?

• Jordan : Whenever I start to get close to someone this little voice starts screaming in my head. Run, fast. Crazy. Messed up. Cuckoo. I wish I could promise you it won't happen again, but it probably will.

• Dr. Nigel Townsend : Hacking into this is a federal crime, you know!

  Jordan : Let's just keep it on my tab.

• Jordan : Garret Macy. Are you actually telling me to keep crusading?

  Macy : As if you would ever do what I tell you to do.

• Macy : That was stupid and reckless what you did, you know that? You don't listen to me.

  Jordan : Come on, Garret.

  Macy : You do what you want. And if you hadn't this time, those boys wouldn't be alive now.

  Jordan : All in a days work. No big deal.

  Macy : I'm still your boss and I'm telling you it was a big deal. Own it. I don't know what I would have done if something had happened to you.

• Garrett : You ready for this?

  Jordan : Yeah... Look at me man, I am a vision of authority. I'll just order the keg and line up the togas.

• Jordan : Kinda early for sphincter level 10, even for you Garrett.

• Jordan : You know me... I'm all about the mental health.

• Jordan : [Kim is a childhood friend of Jordan's]  You know, professionally, I don't like you.

  Kim Watkins : You're not supposed to. I'm a lawyer.

• Jordan : Welcome to the new millennium, Wood. White collar meets spiked collar.

• Jordan : I kicked my boss in the conus. He kinda found that to be a problem.

• Jordan : That's it? You've got nothing to say to me.

  Woody : Nope.

  Jordan : Woody, you lied to me. You betrayed my trust. You used me.

  Woody : At least I didn't rat you out.

  Jordan : No. You said this was about us, that you needed closure so you could move on.

  Woody : Oh, come on, Jordan, does it always have to be about you?

  Jordan : Oh, you need help Woody.

  Woody : I don't need help. Especially not from you.