Quotes for
A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael (Character)
from "Law & Order" (1990)

"Law & Order: Cherished (#9.1)" (1998)

Abbie Carmichael: I have a solution that will make us all happy.
ADA Jack McCoy: What's that?
Abbie Carmichael: No deals for anybody. Let's hang 'em all.

Abbie Carmichael: This isn't two teenagers who killed their newborn because they were scared. These are two adults who dumped a sick baby and took large steps to cover it.

Abbie Carmichael: This report says the child was 2 and a half years old, Marian was 13 months. They autopsied the wrong kid, send it back.
ADA Jack McCoy: Why don't you take yourself down and get acquainted with the medical examiner?
[cut to]
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: It's the same kid, bone age doesn't lie.

Abbie Carmichael: We have a week to finish our objectives.
ADA Jack McCoy: [holds out his hand] Do you agree we're too busy?
Abbie Carmichael: [turns his hand up and smacks it] Deal.

Detective Lennie Briscoe: [after obtaining a warrant from a reluctant judge] Good thing you booked time with the grand jury.
Abbie Carmichael: What grand jury?

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"Law & Order: Stiff (#10.23)" (2000)

Abbie Carmichael: ...I know what you're going to say, but we don't hand out Brownie points for helping people kill themselves.

Abbie Carmichael: Spare me the violins...

Abbie Carmichael: It's a suicide, it's an accident, it's a breath mint. This guy gives me a headache.

Abbie Carmichael: [discussing a case] What do you call this?
Det. Ed Green: Besides a bunch of crazy, rich white people with too much time on their hands?

Jack McCoy: I've never liked doctors.
Abbie Carmichael: I don't like people who pick on their mothers.
Lt. Anita Van Buren: I don't like people we can't make a case against.

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"Law & Order: Agony (#9.5)" (1998)

A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: With that butcher looking at me like a carcass on a meathook?

A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Guess what? A psycho did do it.

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"Law & Order: Harm (#9.16)" (1999)

A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Doctor, all those women who you rushed in and out of your examination room; do you remember their faces or did you not bother to look up?

Dr. Bill Rudnick: That patient's care was my primary concern.
A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: 'That patient' had a name, it was Maureen Gerard. No more questions.

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"Law & Order: Trade This (#10.16)" (2000)

Joey Dantoni, Sr.: My son's a moron but not a murdered.
A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: So he's only half a chip of the old block.

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"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Sophomore Jinx (#1.6)" (1999)

A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: What was it called before we invented the terms date rape and sexual assault?
Captain Donald Cragen: Boys will be boys?

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"Law & Order: DWB (#9.2)" (1998)

Jack McCoy: I bought lunch. I didn't know what you like, so I got salad, lo-cal dressing...
Abbie Carmichael: Lo-cal? I burn it, I don't store it... what did you get?
Jack McCoy: Ribs.
[Abbie takes the ribs]
Abbie Carmichael: Great! Sounds good. I'll eat, you graze.
Jack McCoy: I bought a pig and a poke.

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"Law & Order: Sideshow (#9.14)" (1999)

[to Briscoe after he exited from an interrogation room where there is a young suspect]
Abbie Carmichael: Oh, great. You made her cry.

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"Law & Order: Entitled: Part 2 (#10.14)" (2000)

A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Why is everyone afraid of this woman?
D.A. Adam Schiff: Regina's favorite joke. The difference between lace curtain Irish and shanty Irish...
Jack McCoy: Lace curtain Irish move the dishes before they piss in the kitchen sink.
D.A. Adam Schiff: Yeah. She's shanty Irish and proud of it.
Jack McCoy: And so am I.

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"Law & Order: Tabula Rasa (#9.19)" (1999)

A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: That was the spookiest bunch I ever saw.
Jack McCoy: The whole family's worried, about inconveniencing Dad.

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"Law & Order: Endurance (#11.1)" (2000)

Dr. Emil Skoda: She's very appealing.
A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Well, when she's released from prison, you can ask her out.

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"Law & Order: Collision (#10.11)" (2000)

Danielle Melnick: Before you go anywhere near a death sentence you have to prove rape.
A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Are you alleging his semen beamed into her vagina?

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