"Without my oil, you got no automobiles. Without automobiles, you got no road construction, no sidewalks, no city lights, no gas stations, no automotive service, and no Berman subdivision stuck out in the tules, because nobody can get there. Then Mr. Berman's out of business, before he even gets in business. The name of the game is oil, John."

"Madeleine Stowe - Lillian Bodine"

"You can't trust a guy who's never lost anything."

"What I do for a living may not be very reputable. But I am. In this town I'm the leper with the most fingers."

"Faye Dunaway - Evelyn Mulwray (voice)"

"You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which'll probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth."

"Time changes things like the fruit stand that turns into a filling station. But the footprints and signs from the past are everywhere. They've been fighting over this land since the first Spanish missionaries showed the Indians the benefits of religion, horses, and a few years of forced labor. The Indians had it right all along. They respected ghosts. You can't forget the past any more than you can change it. Hearing Katherine Mulwray's name started me thinking about old secrets, family, property, and a guy doin' his partner dirt. Memories are like that - as unpredictable as nitro, and you never know what's gonna set one off. Like the clues that keep you on the right track are never where you look for them. They fall out of the pocket of somebody else's suit you pick up at the cleaners. They're in the tune you can't stop humming, that you never heard in your life. They're at the other end of the wrong number you dial in the middle of the night. The signs are in those old familiar places you only think you've never been before. But you get used to seeing them out of the corner of your eye, and you end up tripping over the ones that are right in front of you..."

"David Wohl - Morrie Dickerman"

"I'm trying to be a gentleman here. Now, get on your knees, put your ass in the air, and don't move until I say to."

"Eli Wallach - Cotton Weinberger"

"Sab Shimono - Dr. Kumagai"

"Bradley Whitford - Jamie Kemp"

"Christine Estabrook - Lydia MacDougall"

"Tom Mardirosian - Nico Della Guardia"

"Greta Scacchi - Carolyn Polhemus"

"John Spencer - Det. Dan Lipranzer"

"Michael Tolan - Mr. Polhemus"

"Joe Grifasi - Tommy Molto"

"Brian Dennehy - Raymond Horgan"

"Raúl Juliá - Alejandro "Sandy" Stern"

"Bonnie Bedelia - Barbara Sabich"

"Some people would kill for love."

"Harrison Ford - Rozat "Rusty" Sabich"

"Jesse Bradford - Nat Sabich"

"Attraction. Desire. Deception. Murder. No one is ever completely innocent."

"Paul Winfield - Judge Larren Lyttle"

"The murder of Carolyn Polhemus remains unsolved. It is a practical impossibility to try two people for the same crime. Even if it wasn't, I couldn't take his mother from my son. I am a prosecutor. I have spent my life in the assignment of blame. With all deliberation and intent, I reached for Carolyn. I cannot pretend it was an accident. I reached for Carolyn, and set off that insane mix of rage and lunacy that led one human being to kill another. There was a crime. There was a victim. And there is punishment."

"There are one hundred and fifty lawyers down there. Couldn't they find someone who didn't fuck her to handle the case?"

"You understand what happened had to happen. It couldn't have turned out any other way. A woman's depressed - with herself, with life. With her husband, who had made life possible for her, until he was bewitched by another woman. A destroyer. Abandoned. Like someone left for dead. She plans her suicide, until the dream begins. In the dream, the destroyer is destroyed. That's a dream worth living for. Now, with such simplicity, such clarity, everything falls into place. It must be a crime that her husband can declare unsolved and be believed by all the world. She must make it look like a rape, but she must leave her husband the clues. Once he discovers who it was, he'll put the case into the file of unsolved murders. Another break-in by some sex-crazed man. But all his life, he'll know that it was her. She remembers a set of glasses she bought for the woman some time before - a housewarming gift from her husband and his office. She buys another set. Her husband has a beer one night - doesn't even comment on the glass. Now she has his fingerprints. Then on a few mornings, she saves the fluid that comes out when she removes her diaphragm. Puts it in a plastic bag. Puts the bag in the basement freezer, and waits. She calls the woman and asks to see her. Stops first at the U and logs into the computer. Now she has her alibi."

"Sometimes it's dangerous to presume."

"Joseph Mazzello - Wendell McGaffen"

"Tucker Smallwood - Det. Harold Greer"

"I am a prosecutor. I am a part of the business of accusing, judging and punishing. I explore the evidence of a crime and determine who is charged, who is brought to this room to be tried before his peers. I present my evidence to the jury and they deliberate upon it. They must determine what really happened. If they cannot, we will not know if the accused deserves to be freed or should be punished. If they cannot find the truth, what is our hope of justice?"

"Camryn Mannheim - Kristina"

"Ben Gazzara - Lenny Jordan"

"Louise Lasser - Mona Jordan"

"Jared Harris - Vlad"

"Jon Lovitz - Andy"

"Philip Seymour Hoffman - Allen"

"Dylan Baker - Bill Maplewood"

"Lara Flynn Boyle - Helen Jordan"