Law & Order (TV Series)

Bodies (2003)

Alexander Chaplin: Tim Schwimmer

Quotes 

• Tim Schwimmer : I never thought I'd win that motion.

  ADA Serena Southerlyn : Well, then why did you make it?

  Tim Schwimmer : Practice.

  ADA Serena Southerlyn : I wish you'd saved it for a more deserving client.

  Tim Schwimmer : What, are you kidding? What could be a better career boost than a serial killer? F. Lee Bailey had the Boston Strangler. I've got Mark Bruner.

• Tim Schwimmer : I know you.

  ADA Serena Southerlyn : That's my problem.

  Tim Schwimmer : Oh, come on. You gonna hold my brilliant legal mind against me?

  ADA Serena Southerlyn : It wasn't so much your brilliance as Judge Karan's idiocy. Look, I respect what you do, Mr. Schwimmer. It doesn't mean I have to like you.

  Tim Schwimmer : Well, let me tell you about me. I grew up in Lakeview. Look a map sometime; I'll be damned if I can find a lake anywhere in Queens, but that's beside the point. City College, then on to teaching algebra to kids whose only interest in math was counting the notches on their guns.

  ADA Serena Southerlyn : Well, now you get to represent those kids all grown up.

  Tim Schwimmer : What, you think legal aid was my first choice? The problem is after Fordham Law at night, Wall Street didn't exactly open its arms.

  ADA Serena Southerlyn : Looked to me like you were having a grand old time.

  Tim Schwimmer : Hey, I don't have to second seat anyone. You should think about it.

  ADA Serena Southerlyn : I prefer my killers behind bars, thank you.

• Jack McCoy : You have to know you lost as soon as the first crying mother took the stand.

  Tim Schwimmer : I only went to law school nights but I did learn the basics.

  ADA Serena Southerlyn : If you could just give us something... anything.

  Tim Schwimmer : And if pigs could fly... Back in Lakeview I loved to go to the movies. I'd sit there all afternoon with this enormous box of Jujy Fruits. First I'd pick out the red ones, then the yellow, green, the blacks I'd give to my buddy Mel. Unfortunately, I don't have that luxury right now. I can't pick and choose the rules I want to follow and when to follow them.

  ADA Serena Southerlyn : If you helped us I can't I doubt that any Bar Association in the country would even consider disbarring you.

  Tim Schwimmer : Shame on them