Michael Moriarty portrayed Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone during the first four seasons of Law & Order. This performance brought him four Emmy nominations and one Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor. Today, his appearances in Law & Order are seen on the Arts & Entertainment Network (A&E).
Fifteen episodes of Law & Order, with Michael, uncut and without commercials, are available for viewing at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City.
From Subterranean Homeboy Blues: To Max: "Do you have any other personal views you'd like to air before we walk into court and Ms. Shambala Green hands us our asses on a platter?"
From Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die: To Adam, "He killed Paige Bartlett. I don't want him walking into a bar room, turning on that cheap smile and his preppy patter and taking another girl home. I don't want him on the street ever!"
From Poison Ivy: "The truth will set you free, it won't always make you happy."
From Out of the Half-Light: To Captain Cragen - "Your people are yanked off this case as of now. This is no longer a police matter."
From Mushrooms: "If your client doesn't start talking now, I'll tear his life apart. Real estate Boards, clients, skeletons in the closet -(snapped fingers)- light of day, guaranteed!"
From The Troubles: "If you have a witness, you put 'um on a Concord, you get 'um in court tomorrow. Or as God as my witness, I'll subpoena You!"
From Confession: "You kill a cop, you go to jail, you don't get out!"
From The Wages of Love: "I've never done anything this potentially stupid before."
From Misconceptions: "Wrong should not win by technicalities."
From His Hour Upon the Stage: "Scummy case, you get scummy witnesses."
From Severence: "Arthur Gold, he's all fizz and no gin."
From Sisters of Mercy: To Adam - "You think my case is that weak?"
From Helpless: "In the future, Sir, stay off the evening news."
From Consultation: "The conspiracy is a house of cards. The slightest breeze and it all comes tumbling down"
From Volunteers: "There's a long road between coherence and competence."
From Discord: "Miss Kincaid, my immediate concern is something all together different than that. Specifically, being able to trust the people that I work with."
From Apocrypha: "I sold the jury a bit of my own snake oil."
From American Dream: To Adam - "I can live without this job, Sir, there are some things I cannot live without."
From The Pursuit of Happiness: "A Chinese guy could blow you away and get off scott free because of cross-racial identification. And that's the most comforting thought I've had all day."
From Golden Years: "No problem, we have the lying and thieving illegal alien maid!"
From Censure: "You had an affair with him? Why the hell didn't you tell me this?"
From Wager: "Mr. Lang, you're sinking fast. Unless you start talking, I don't think you're coming up for air."
From Old Friends: "I'm clear as a bell."
Yves-Marie Maurin, Michael Moriarty's "French Voice" an interview by Stéphane Lerouge English translation by Martin Winckler.
Generation Series Law & Order Article by Martin Winkler.
Time's Up! - A collection of instances when Ben Stone gives a suspect or lawyer a time limit on a deal.