Night Court (TV Series)

The Night Off (1986)

Jeff Corey: Judge Hirsch

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• Judge Drayton : Do you want to hear a funny story, Harry?

  Judge Harry T. Stone : Your honor.

  Judge Drayton : There was this girl, seventeen, beautiful girl; dark complexion; dark hair; and a WELT under her eye where her husband had hit her. She was pregnant for the THIRD time, I think, and the DA said they lived in a rat infested place on the lower East Side. She said she wanted her husband to stop hitting her, and as soon I indicated that I'd send him to jail, ZIP, she changed her testimony, said she was lying. She didn't want her husband to go to jail. He brought home MONEY so the family could eat. All she wanted was for HIM to stop HITTING HER, well Harry, I can't make him stop, in twenty-five years I never made ANYBODY stop.

  [He wanders around his chamber] 

  Judge Harry T. Stone : I'm sorry.

  Judge Drayton : Ah, God's in his heaven... but all's not quite right in the world.

• Judge Drayton : The truth? This is a court of laaaaw Judge Stone. This is not a place for truth. This is a place for liiies. Everybody who comes here lies. The plaintiffs lie; the defendants lie; the lawyers lie; the cops lie; EVERYBODY lies. And you expect me to shift through all this and extract the TRUTH from all that rubble? That's what we call "justice". Well, there is no justice, there never WAS, there never will be.

• Judge Drayton : Am I... am I sick, Harry?

  Judge Harry T. Stone : Maybe a little. But mostly, I'd say you're really, really tired.

  Judge Drayton : [laughing softly]  Oh-ho, tired, my God... oh, I could sleep for a million years. If the bed they strap me down to is comfortable, I probably will.

• Judge Drayton : See, I tried to it... ALL... right. I tried to right ALL wrongs; reverse ALL of the injustices. I... I... I guess I was wrong, it's impossible.

  Judge Harry T. Stone : Even a fool knows we can't reach out and touch the stars but that does not stop the wise man from trying.

  Judge Drayton : I like that... Who said that?

  Judge Harry T. Stone : You did. It was in a speech to the bar association.

• Christine Sullivan : Uh, excuse me sir, about my client...

  Judge Drayton : Oh right. Hang him.

  Christine Sullivan : He stole an Eskimo pie, sir.