Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Season 5

Judge Terhune:
[opens the house door to find Novak standing outside] What the hell do you want?

Novak:
I'm so sorry to bother you at home, Judge Terhune, but it's urgent.

Judge Terhune:
Well, I'm in the middle of something pretty important myself.

Man's voice:
[from inside] Joe! Are you foldin' this hand?

Judge Terhune:
No! [to Novak] Look. C'mon. C'mon. C'mon in. C'mon.

[Novak follows him inside]

Novak:
I just need your honor's signature.

Judge Ridenour:
You just hit the jackpot, dearie.

[Novak stops at the door of a room; inside there are several judges playing poker]

Judge Terhune:
[sits down at the table] I'm in. I believe you all know ADA Novak.

Novak:
Judge Ridenour, Judge Petrovsky, Judge Wyler, Judge Bradley. I've had this nightmare before, only I was naked.

Judge Petrovsky:
Charming.

Judge Terhune:
What could be so important that it couldn't wait until morning?

Novak:
An exhumation order.

Judge Wyler:
Better sign it, Joe. Corpse might be a flight risk.

Novak:
Your honor, this body may be the key to solving 6 murders.

Judge Terhune:
And I take it the family won't consent, hmm?

Novak:
The suspect is the sole survivor. We want to exhume her mother. We think she killed her, too.

Judge Ridenour:
Mom's death ruled a homicide?

Novak:
No. But we have new evidence.

Judge Terhune:
And you want me to disturb the sanctity of the dead on your say so?

Novak:
I have a very convincing, but long argument that'll disturb the sanctity of your poker game.

[Terhune signs the order]

Novak:
[sighs] Thank you.

Judge Terhune:
Go. Go. Go! Go! [throws his chips into the pot as Novak leaves]