Law & Order (TV Series)

Big Bang (1994)

Jill Hennessy: ADA Claire Kincaid

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• Adam Schiff : If Manning swears that the theory is worthless, you gotta prove that it isn't. Now, what the hell's the theory?

  Claire Kincaid : That protons eventually fall apart.

  Adam Schiff : Is this something to be worried about?

  Claire Kincaid : It means all matter in the universe will eventually disintegrate, in a certain way.

  Adam Schiff : Terrific. Now, all we gotta do to win a larceny trial is prove how the universe will end!

  Ben Stone : No, all I do is get my own group of expert witnesses.

  Adam Schiff : Well, who are you gonna get? The Almighty?

  Ben Stone : Physics professors! That's all Manning is.

  Adam Schiff : Oh - physics professors. You better get a jury of insomniacs.

• Claire Kincaid : He'll testify, won't he?

  Ben Stone : Yeah, I think he will.

  Claire Kincaid : He'll put a noose around his own neck, to defend a theory that maybe 500 people in the world understand.

  Ben Stone : I don't know; I'm beginning to think *I* understand it. Our murderer is one helluva teacher.

• Bill Patton : Anyone would make up a story to cut a deal. The police won't find any evidence to support it, because there isn't any.

  Claire Kincaid : The thirty-five hundred dollar deposit to Weiss' account was a check from your client.

  Edward Manning : Do give me some credit. I almost won the Nobel Prize; you think I'd pay a hired killer by check?

  Ben Stone : With your attitude, sir, you might think yourself too smart to get caught.

• Alice Weiss : Max liked Florence Manning. Her husband treated his grad students like slaves; she baked them cookies.

  Claire Kincaid : Uh, how much... did your husband like her?

  Alice Weiss : What do you mean?... Oh. Max and Mrs. Manning in a lover's quarrel? Oh, god - if you knew him at all... He loved me, and the children, and subatomic particles.

• Claire Kincaid : [on a scientific paper]  "Potential Supersymmetric Models for Higgs Scattering: An Experimental Overview", by Max Weiss.

  Ben Stone : You know what I took for my science requirement? Physics for Poets.

• Claire Kincaid : You had insight into proton decay, and Edward Manning stole it. Do you want the rest of the scientific community to know this, or not?

  Max Weiss : You don't understand. I don't care about scientific reputation; I care about science.

• Shelly Conners : If I had a client, charged with murder, who was willing to testify that someone hired him to commit the crime, what could be worked out for this client?

  Lieutenant Anita Van Buren : Manning?

  Shelly Conners : I'm speaking hypothetically here.

  Claire Kincaid : Hypothetically, if your client's testimony was truthful and productive, his charge might drop to manslaughter one.

  Shelly Conners : Hypothetically, he might accept.

  Mike Logan : ...Manning.

  Shelly Conners : Hypothetically... yes.

• Claire Kincaid : Manning requested copies of the same data Weiss wanted to look at.

  Adam Schiff : Perfect. First he torpedoes Weiss's idea, then he steals it.