"Law & Order" Indifference (TV Episode 1990) - Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan

Principal Babcock : Why don't you stick to police work, detective?

Mike Logan : Why don't you stop trying to cover your ass, Mr. Babcock?
Max Greevey : You think she beat the kid up?

Mike Logan : I don't know. I know she's nuts. The way she lay there primping herself, you know, it just made me want to puke.

Max Greevey : She has been slapped around pretty good. I'm not so sure she's to blame.

Mike Logan : There are some women who provoke it. Come on, it's true. You think she cares diddly about those kids or anything else? Huh? Everything's a mirror to her. She holds a dying kid up to it and all she can see is herself and how it affects her. Now, you give her sympathy, she's gonna want to fight. You give her a fight, she's gonna want a kiss. You give her a kiss and I swear to God, she'll bite your tongue out.

Max Greevey : You, uh, you saw this on "Oprah" or what?

Mike Logan : My mother. Yeah. She always said she was cut out for something greater than being the wife of a cop from the Lower East Side. God, she was she was a bottomless pit. It was always, "Give me your undivided attention!" But when the old man couldn't take it anymore and gave her a whack, then she'd turn around and whack me. She always got this look in her eye, you know, and then I saw it coming. Now this witch in here, she's got that same look.
Mike Logan : [to Carla Lowenstein] Lady, listen to us. Your daughter may be losing consciousness. What are you, brain-dead yourself?

Chris Noth: Detective Mike Logan