Law & Order (TV Series)
Couples (2003)
Jesse L. Martin: Detective Ed Green
Quotes
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Detective Lennie Briscoe : [while Rafael Celaya is moaning in the back of the police car] From what I've been told, at least I was a happy drunk.
Detective Ed Green : From what I've been told, I wouldn't go that far.
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Detective Ed Green : You were cheating on your husband with Reynaldo, and Marcela was cheating on Reynaldo with somebody else. Am I getting this right?
Patricia Botten : Happens all the time, at least around here.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : And all this time I've been living in the wrong housing complex.
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Detective Lennie Briscoe : [about to assist in an emergency childbirth] All right, uh, bring me some towels and boil some water.
Detective Ed Green : Do doctors really do that?
Detective Lennie Briscoe : George Clooney does, and that's good enough for me.
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Lt. Anita Van Buren : [referring to babies] She couldn't have one of her own, so she figured she'd take someone else's?
Detective Lennie Briscoe : Worked for Tony B.
Detective Ed Green : Who's that?
Detective Lennie Briscoe : Took my bike when I was 12.
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Detective Ed Green : How do you suppose Rafael put in his eight hours at the office and had dinner with the missus at the same time?
Detective Lennie Briscoe : If I knew, maybe I could have held onto wife number two.
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Rafael Celaya : [referring to the victim] She was an evil woman, you know? She was married to Reynaldo and she was cheating on him.
Detective Ed Green : With you!
Rafael Celaya : She'd cheat on him. She'd cheat on me soon enough!
Detective Lennie Briscoe : You guys are weird, Rafael, but it's hard to believe you're that weird.
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Detective Ed Green : [cuffing Carla Perazzo after she has just deliberately run over her husband] Are you out of your skull?
Carla Perazzo : Not anymore.
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Detective Ed Green : [answering his cellphone, about to go home after the dealing with three murders and one kidnapping in one day] We've got a jumper!
Detective Lennie Briscoe : I may join him.
[cut to closing credits]
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Carla Perazzo : [about her husband] He was like a god. Even back then. He was Zeus and I was Leda. God help me, I actually believed it.
Detective Ed Green : I ain't no mythology buff, Mrs. Porazzo.
Carla Perazzo : Zeus disguised himself as a swan, and then raped the mortal Leda.
Detective Ed Green : You saying he raped you?
Carla Perazzo : [shakes her head] You know, I looked up swans in the Britannica. Do you know they're among the most vicious birds in the world?
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Detective Ed Green : Hannah Mayer didn't make to work today.
Lt. Anita Van Buren : Good for her. Who?