The Verdict
1982
Frank Galvin: I changed my life today. What did you do?
Mickey Morrissey: He is the prince of fucking darkness.
Mickey Morrissey: (Mickey is trying to convince Frank not to take the case to trial) Do you know who the attorney is for the defense? Ed Concannon! Frank Galvin: He's a good man... Mickey Morrissey: He's a good man? Heh, he's the Prince of fucking Darkness! He'll have people testifying they saw her waterskiing up in Marblehead last summer. Frank, don't *fuck* with this case!
Frank Galvin: You couldn't hack it as a lawyer. You were nothin' but a bag man for the boys downtown and you still are, I know about you.
Edward J. Concannon, Chief Defense Attorney: Why wasn't she getting oxygen... ? Dr Robert Towler: Well, many reasons, actually... Edward J. Concannon, Chief Defense Attorney: Tell me one? Dr Robert Towler: She'd aspirated vomitus into her mask... Edward J. Concannon, Chief Defense Attorney: She threw up in her mask. Let's cut the bullshit. Say it: She threw up in her mask.
(as he's closing his door) Judge Hoyle: I've no sympathy for you.
Judge Hoyle: This case should never have come to trial. But you know better. You're mister independent. You want to be independent? Be independent now. I have no sympathy for you.
Kevin Doneghy: You guys... you guys are all the same! The doctors at the hospital, you... it's always what I'm going to do for you. And then you screw up, and it's, "Ah, we did the best that we could, I'm dreadfully sorry." And people like us live with your mistakes the rest of our lives.
Judge Hoyle: It seems to me, a fellow's trying to come back, he'd take the settlement. I myself would take it and run like a thief. Frank Galvin: I'm sure you would.
Kaitlin Costello Price, Former Nurse: (pointing to the defendants, sobbing) Who are these men? Who are these men? I wanted to be a nurse!
Edward J. Concannon, Chief Defense Attorney: I know how you feel. I know you don't believe me, but I do. I'm going to tell you something I learned when I was your age. I had prepared a case. Mr White asked me, 'How did you do.' I said, 'I've done my best.' He said, 'They don't pay you to do your best. They pay you to win.' That's what pays for this office. And that's what pays for the pro bono work that we do for the poor. And for the kind of law that you want to practice. And that's what pays for your clothes and my whiskey, and the leisure that we have to sit back and discuss philosophy. As we're doing tonight. We're paid to win the case. You finished your marriage. You wanted to come back and practice law. You wanted to come back to the world. Welcome back.