Law & Order (TV Series)

Purple Heart (1995)

LisaGay Hamilton: Denise Johnson

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• Denise Johnson : All I wanted was to make something of myself - for myself, and my son, and my husband.

  Executive ADA Jack McCoy : But your husband was hardly helping.

  Denise Johnson : He was the father of my child; I did not want him dead.

  Executive ADA Jack McCoy : I see... You just didn't care much, one way or the other.

• Executive ADA Jack McCoy : Mrs. Johnson, nobody likes to let a murderer walk; the appellate judges will know what you did.

  Denise Johnson : ...What are my choices?

  Mr. Elliot : ...Man two; she does three to nine.

  Executive ADA Jack McCoy : She's lucky the death penalty isn't the law yet. Murder two - 15 to life. If you wait for the jury to convict, it'll be 25.

  Denise Johnson : ...I grew up in a two-room apartment. My mother sent me and my sisters to school with mashed potato sandwiches for lunch. I pulled myself above that - and no one helped me. Not Danny; people thought he was charming. When he took that fifteen thousand dollars from me, it was not charming.

• Detective Lennie Briscoe : You looked right at a picture of Kovac, and told us you'd never seen him before.

  Denise Johnson : You know how many repair people go to a restaurant?

  Detective Mike Logan : But how many of them end up killing your husband?