Jerry Orbach credited as playing...
Detective Lennie Briscoe
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Hey, not everybody's in it for truth, justice, and the American way. I mean, the taxpayers want the drug problem to go away, so they lean on the politicians. The politicians want to keep their jobs, so they lean on you guys. The DAs lean on the cops, the cops lean on their snitches. And sometimes somebody leans a little too hard and somebody gets hurt.
- Jack McCoy: Lennie, please. I don't want to have to cite you for contempt.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: You do what you gotta do. I'm not helping you pin a body on a cop just for doing his job.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [to Curtis, before testifying before the grand jury] If I'm not out in an hour, call for backup.