Law & Order (TV Series)

Vendetta (2004)

David Warshofsky: Walter Grimes

Quotes 

• Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : There's no need to be anxious. We're just having a conversation.

  Walter Grimes : I ain't anxious. What makes you think I'm anxious?

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : Do you know why you're here?

  Walter Grimes : My lawyer says it's because of what happened to me in prison. I lose control.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : What do you think?

  Walter Grimes : I spent twenty years in prison for something that I didn't do! I don't have control over nothin'! How can I lose what I don't have?

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : You're talking about Leanne Testa's murder.

  Walter Grimes : Of course that's what I'm talking about. The police said I killed that girl. I'd never even met her.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : They found a bloody knife in your apartment with your fingerprints on it.

  Walter Grimes : They planted that knife.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : The police?

  Walter Grimes : Yeah, the police. I had an alibi. They didn't believe me.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : But this time, you did kill someone. You killed Brendan Donner.

  Walter Grimes : He laid hands on me.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : And that justified killing him?

  Walter Grimes : I bumped into him, by accident. But this guy, he gets all freaky on me. In my face, telling me the whole world's against him.

  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet : And you thought hitting him with a bottle was an appropriate response?

  Walter Grimes : I didn't think about it. He grabbed me. A guy comes at you, you don't think twice. You just put him down. You stop to think about what to do, you're dead.

• Jack McCoy : Your fingerprints are on the knife. Julie Sayer's blood is on the knife. How did all that get there?

  Rodney Fallon : Objection!

  Walter Grimes : Daniels put it there.

  Jack McCoy : How did Detective Daniels get your knife?

  Rodney Fallon : It is not incumbent upon the defendant to prove how Detective Daniels did anything.

  Jack McCoy : He's making all these assertions. He must have some idea.

  Walter Grimes : I don't know how! He framed me, okay? I never killed anybody!

  Jack McCoy : You didn't kill Brendan Donner three months after being released from prison...

  Rodney Fallon : Objection, Your Honor! Objection!

  Jack McCoy : ...by smashing his head in with a liquor bottle?

• Walter Grimes : I killed Julie Sayer. I knew her from around. I had the hots for her. But she... doesn't matter why I did it. I just... I followed her one night. I grabbed her. She said no. I stabbed her. That's it. There's nothing more to say.

  Judge Antonia Mellon : Mr. Grimes, since you're pleading guilty to murder in the second degree with a sentence of twenty-five years to life, and since the terms of your plea agreement are that in exchange for this allocution, you are to be given credit for the twenty years you served in Green Haven, your remaining sentence on the murder of Julie Sayer is five years.

  Walter Grimes : I understand, Your Honor.

  Judge Antonia Mellon : And the parties have also reached a plea with respect to the murder of Brendan Donner?

  Rodney Fallon : We have. The defendant has waived his right to trial and will plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter.

  Judge Antonia Mellon : I'm accepting the defendant's plea and imposing a sentence of seven and a half to fifteen years, to be served consecutively with the aforementioned five.