Anthony LaPaglia credited as playing...
Jack Malone
- Martin: I think he's sleeping with her. The way he talks about her and she's climbing that corporate ladder pretty quick.
- Jack Malone: He may be in love with her, but he's not sleeping with her. Never even thought about it.
- [Martin looks quizzically at Jack]
- Jack Malone: He's gay.
- Martin: What, because he called her a "fireball"?
- Jack Malone: No... 'cause he was checking you out.
- Jack Malone: According to the groom, she was an angel.
- Martin: I guess love is blind. And deaf. And very, very dumb.
- Jack Malone: Spoken like a true romantic.
- Jack Malone: [introducing the 'new guy'] All right, as you all know, we have a new member of the team joining us today - Martin Fitzgerald. Let's make sure we give him the frosty welcome that all rookies deserve.
- Samantha: Think a fresh change of clothes will make up for a lost night's sleep?
- Jack Malone: Well, if I looked as good as you in black, I wouldn't need to change.
- Samantha: [laughs] Jack... your collar.
- Jack Malone: You're starting to sound like my wife.
- Samantha: You should listen to your wife.
- [Sam fixes the mussed collar]
- Jack Malone: You do this for Dr. Fred?
- Samantha: Sure.
- Jack Malone: How is Dr. Fred?
- Samantha: Busy and unavailable, just the way I like 'em.
- Martin: You still believe in that?
- Jack Malone: Yeah, marriage, kids, the whole nine yards.
- [Martin looks at him]
- Jack Malone: I didn't say I was good at it, but I'm a huge fan.
- Jack Malone: I was surprised that your father didn't call me about you.
- Martin: I asked him to stay out of it. I don't want any preferential treatment.
- Jack Malone: Good, 'cause you're not getting any.
- Samantha: [about a missing person's father] He's barely got a pot to piss in and he's taking his daughter to a $300 dinner on a Saturday night?
- Jack Malone: Well, think about it. He abandons her when she's a kid. He doesn't know how to deal with it. Now he wants to be her best friend. It's classic guilt.
- Samantha: Is it guilt or romance? You don't go to Carmine's unless it's valentine's day or you're going to propose.
- Jack Malone: How would you know?
- [Talking to a fake kidnapper who called in a fake ransom]
- Jack Malone: Easy money. Didn't occur to you that we'd be all over this?
- Guy: I told her not to call the police.
- Jack Malone: You are hands down the biggest idiot I've ever met.
- [On internet dating]
- Jack Malone: This is what I have to look forward to. I'm going to take one of these out. What do you think of this: Uh, Jumpin' Jack Flash. Divorced, two kids, bad knee, grumpy workaholic. It's a pretty good sell, right?
- Vivian: My husband's looking better everyday.
- Jack Malone: Yeah, I'll bet.
- Jack Malone: There's a lot more than pain here. There's a lot of secrets in this marriage.
- Samantha: Aren't there secrets in every marriage?
- [Talking about a re-united marriage]
- Samantha: So, what do you think their odds are?
- [Sam doesn't get an answer]
- Samantha: Are you all right?
- Jack Malone: Marie and I separated.
- Samantha: When?
- Jack Malone: Three months ago.
- Samantha: Three months.
- Jack Malone: Yeah.
- Samantha: Well, I don't know what to say.
- Jack Malone: Well, you know, we were trying to work it out, and, uh we're in kind of, uh... limbo.
- Samantha: I'm going to go home.
- [Jack tells Chet that a lead on his son was a dud]
- Chet Collins: Feels like drowning, Jack
- [starts to cry]
- Chet Collins: ... like drowning so slowly you don't even realize what's happening.
- [Chet stands up]
- Chet Collins: Well, I-I have to go. I can't let Sean go, but... you know, each time... each time I'm scared that I might not be able to hang on.
- Jack Malone: You can hang on to me.
- [an ex-veterinarian takes over a high-school type boarding school]
- Jack Malone: With what qualifications, looking after animals?
- Samantha: Well, high school's pretty rough these days.
- Jack Malone: Hilarious.
- [the suspect is heading home and Jack is trying to warn Martin and Danny]
- Jack Malone: Spaulding's on his way back. Get out of there.
- Martin: Danny's in the house.
- Jack Malone: What the hell... what are you guys doing?
- Martin: He thought he heard something.
- [after the missing boy is found]
- Graham Spaulding: Do I get my 15 minutes now?
- Jack Malone: Your 15 minutes are over.