Law & Order (TV Series)
Survivor (1996)
Jerry Orbach: Detective Lennie Briscoe
Quotes
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Detective Lennie Briscoe : [referring to Peterson] You didn't happen to overhear what he was talking about on his phone, did you?
Gianni Agnelli : [sarcastically] Sure! I became the most popular restaurant in Soho by listening to my customers' conversations and telling the police.
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Sally Champlin : [referring to Peterson] I invited him back to my place for coffee.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : You invite all your interview subjects home, or just the rich ones?
Sally Champlin : What do you think? Anyway, he passed.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : [looks her up and down] Unbelievable!
Sally Champlin : No kidding. 'Cause I make great coffee!
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Detective Lennie Briscoe : You're the Contessa of Alto-Perugia?
Paulette Walker : [strong southern US accent] That's right. "Alto" means upper.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : I take it you're from the southern part of the upper?
Paulette Walker : South Carolina, actually. My late husband, the Count, was from Italy. We met at a golf tournament in Florida.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : He was a golfer?
Paulette Walker : No, he sold cookware.
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Paulette Walker : [referring to Peterson] He's a friend of mine too.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : Does he make you laugh?
Paulette Walker : [flirtatiously] Detective, I believe you're trying to make me laugh!
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Detective Lennie Briscoe : [searching Peterson's apartment] Nice suits, nice carpet. You could put a swimming pool in that closet.
Detective Rey Curtis : Yeah Lennie, but is he happy?
Detective Lennie Briscoe : [laughing] I'd be ecstatic!
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Richard Peterson : [hands Briscoe a historic coin] Here, touch this. Feel that. Plato might have bought lettuce with that coin. Pericles may have had his sandals fixed, hired a prostitute, bought a slave...
Detective Lennie Briscoe : [hands coin to Curtis] ... bribed a cop?
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Detective Lennie Briscoe : How come rich guys always owe a billion dollars?
Detective Rey Curtis : High finance, Lennie!
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Lt. Anita Van Buren : Latent came up empty on the murder weapon: the surface was bumpy.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : From now on, we'll have to issue smooth lead pipes to all the murderers.
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Detective Rey Curtis : Were you at the Campbell Gallery last week?
Chad Markham : Yeah. Is this about that murder? Do you know who did it?
Detective Lennie Briscoe : Well, we're working on it.
Chad Markham : If you're talking to me, you must be nowhere.