Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

The Fire and the Wood (2003)

John Getz: D.A. Gabe Fellowes

Quotes 

• D.A. Gabe Fellowes : What have you got?

  Will Girardi : It's all in the warrant package.

  D.A. Gabe Fellowes : Sum it up for me.

  Will Girardi : Well, we can tie him to the device and the accelerant. We can place him at the scene, and we have a motive.

  D.A. Gabe Fellowes : What motive?

  Will Girardi : Financial gain. Badger Hill Developments. He's a shareholder. And, I believe, so are you.

  D.A. Gabe Fellowes : Are you suggesting I had anything to do...

  Will Girardi : Badger Hill has been after this piece of land for four years. What are you gonna put there? A mall, office building?

  D.A. Gabe Fellowes : Back down, Chief. I'm a public servant. If I, or any other public servant, own shares in Badger Hill Developments, it's through a blind trust.

  Will Girardi : Sure, it's all at arm's length.

• D.A. Gabe Fellowes : You say you have Wyatt on physical evidence?

  Will Girardi : Yes.

  D.A. Gabe Fellowes : Then there's no need to include Badger Hill in the official evidence package.

  Will Girardi : Except that it is evidence.

  D.A. Gabe Fellowes : It's irrelevant. Get the conviction without it. It's unnecessarily inflammatory.

  Will Girardi : My people provide your people with evidence. How you use it is up to you.

  D.A. Gabe Fellowes : I can't suppress anything in the official police report. How would it look?

  Will Girardi : How things look is not my concern.

  D.A. Gabe Fellowes : Well, you've been misinformed. Your job is as political as mine or the mayor's.

  Will Girardi : Well, I don't see it that way.

  D.A. Gabe Fellowes : Have you considered why you were hired as police chief, Girardi? Hmm? An outsider. One who's never held a top position. It's because you have a reputation as a pragmatic man who understands the importance of playing ball.

  Will Girardi : Apparently, we were both misinformed.

• D.A. Gabe Fellowes : How's the chief of police?

  Will Girardi : Slightly apprehensive when the District Attorney pays a personal visit.

• D.A. Gabe Fellowes : You're a much more hands-on kind of guy than our last chief of police.

  Will Girardi : I take it you don't approve.

  D.A. Gabe Fellowes : Well, there is some concern that when a police chief immerses himself in trivialities, larger questions, such as, uh, budget, staffing, inter-agency relations...

  Will Girardi : When I got there, this department had the worst conviction rate of any city of its size in the nation.

  D.A. Gabe Fellowes : No one's suggesting you haven't really turned things around.

  Will Girardi : Plus, I don't answer to the District Attorney. I answer to the mayor.

  D.A. Gabe Fellowes : Who do you think sent me?