The Practice (TV Series)

The Chosen (2003)

Jessica Capshaw: Jamie Stringer

Quotes 

• Ellenor Frutt : [to Emma]  We know you love your dad very much and he loves you. We're his lawyers and all of his secrets are safe with us. Are you the person who poisoned your mother?

  Emma Stanfield : I told you I don't really want to talk about it right now.

  Jamie Stringer : Emma, I don't think you really want your dad to live the rest of his life in prison.

  Ellenor Frutt : There may be a way for us to help him and to protect you at the same time, but we need to know the truth, Emma. Did you poison your mother?

  [Emma cries and looks down at her hands] 

  Ellenor Frutt : Can you tell us why?

  Emma Stanfield : She was ruining everything.

• Brad Stanfield : [about Emma confessing to murdering her mother]  She's lying to protect me.

  Ellenor Frutt : I don't think so.

  Brad Stanfield : Where is she?

  Ellenor Frutt : She's with Tara. Listen...

  Brad Stanfield : I killed Molly, all right? Emma's just trying to protect me. Leave it at that.

  Ellenor Frutt : Oh, so now you're suddenly saying that you did it? You've been protecting your daughter.

  Jamie Stringer : This doesn't help her. She's 10. She'll be destroyed.

  Brad Stanfield : She'll most definitely be destroyed if she's locked up.

  Ellenor Frutt : That doesn't have to happen. There's probably an insanity defense. She's 10. Plus, for God's sake, if she's ever to have any chance of psychological or emotional health, she's going to need you on the outside. You accepting guilt for her crime...

  Brad Stanfield : I accept guilt because I'm at fault, Ellenor. She was raised in an environment of hatred. Her mom and I fought. Emma... whatever caused her to do this, I absolutely accept fault.

  Ellenor Frutt : Let us try to work this out.

  Brad Stanfield : Just make the deal on Murder Two. I'll take it.

  Ellenor Frutt : We're not allowed to do that.

  Brad Stanfield : As Emma's legal guardian, I am directing you to hire independent counsel for her. That you have to do.

• Jamie Stringer : [about Brad Stanfield]  I think he could be sick.

  Ellenor Frutt : We need to figure out a way to take him down.

  Jamie Stringer : How? There's double jeopardy, privilege...

  Ellenor Frutt : Jamie, he just used us as puppets to defraud the court. We need to take him down.

• Ellenor Frutt : The cyanide came from her mother's photo lab. Evidently, it's used in developing pictures.

  Jamie Stringer : It explains the simple suicide note, written by a 10-year-old.

  A.D.A. Mark Campbell : I need to talk to her.

  Atty. Marsha Singleton : I can't allow that.

  A.D.A. Mark Campbell : Look, you're going to have to help me out here, otherwise...

  Atty. Marsha Singleton : I'm assigned to help the girl, not you. Trust me. She's not talking.

  Judge Warren West : And if I were to subpoena her?

  Atty. Marsha Singleton : She'll plead the Fifth unless, of course, you'd like to grant total immunity.

  A.D.A. Mark Campbell : Well, if I can't speak to her, I have no new evidence, and therefore...

  Ellenor Frutt : Actually, you do. Jamie and I are witnesses as is Tara Wilson, our assistant. We heard the girl confess.

  A.D.A. Mark Campbell : And I'm to take your word? You represent the guy!

  Ellenor Frutt : No, actually we would have to recuse ourselves now because we've become witnesses. Look, I pull a lot of stunts. In this trial alone, pointing the finger at the sister. It was a tactic, a part of the game, but as an officer of the court, I am here before you now as is Jamie telling you, this was not a stunt.