The Best Roland Jennings Quotes

Melanie: Oh, God. How many times did we go over the plan? There was never supposed to be a gun. That was completely unnecessary. If they had just done what I told them...
Sharon: That why you strangled Lydia, because she disobeyed you?
Melanie: Lydia had a complete meltdown. She wanted to turn us both in. She fought with me, and I fought her back, but not... not just for me. You understand this: What I did to Lydia, I did that for my son, and what I did for my son, I did that for the world.
Roland: [pause] You said life.
Louie: Life. It's good for the world too.

Roland: If the police have just accurately described what happened, you have two choices: One of them is death row and the other isn't.
Melanie: And you're on my side?
Roland: I'm trying to think of an alternative explanation for a dead woman under your bed in a cello case. It's not coming, and this deal will go away.
Louie: Tick-tock, Ms. Jordan. Tick-tock.

D.D.A. Emma Rios: This document confirms your agreement to serve a total of four years for all these robberies. I've included the names and addresses...
Assistant: [in the monitor room] So I assume one of those robberies includes the house where he stole the murder weapon.
Lt. Louie Provenza: It does.
D.D.A. Emma Rios: If you would put your signature at the bottom, we'll set a court date for next week and we'll get this in front of a judge.
Roland: Is that it?
Captain: There is one more thing.
Detective: You just confessed to robbing Stewart Ness.
Captain: And in the stolen property report that he filled out, it lists this gun.
Roland: What the hell is this? You can't add gun charges to these robberies.
Captain: We found this weapon that your client stole at the scene of an attempted robbery, matching his M.O. in Venice where we also found a double homicide.
Roland: What?
Tyler: Wait, I... No, I read about that in the paper. They said it was a murder-suicide.
Captain: Oh, well, sometimes the press gets it wrong.