Law & Order (TV Series)

Blood Money (1999)

George Grizzard: Defense Attorney Arthur Gold

Quotes 

• Arthur Gold : Prior to this trial, sir, had you ever heard of the All-Atlantic Insurance Company?

  Mr. Radsenhauer : No.

  Arthur Gold : Then your father didn't buy a policy from them, did he?

  Mr. Radsenhauer : He bought from Federali.

  Arthur Gold : So you would have not made a claim against the All-Atlantic Insurance Company, because you had no reason to believe that they owed you any money, is that right?

  Jack McCoy : Objection, the question calls for a legal conclusion.

  Arthur Gold : Judge, it is the People's theory that my clients stole a book to prevent this man and others like him from claiming their insurance. I'd like a chance to find out whether he thinks my clients owed him any money in the first place.

  Judge : Do you think these men owe you anything, Mr. Radsenhauer?

  Mr. Radsenhauer : I think, these men should close their eyes, and see my sister. See her as the little girl she once was... and as the woman she *should* have been. Then I want them to open their eyes, and tell me if they think they owe me anything.

• Hamilton Stewart : You make it sound like we were the only ones, we weren't. American car companies, banks, airplane manufacturers, we were all doing business with Germany. My God, our own State Department refused entry to these people based on the same information we had.

  Jack McCoy : It was just business.

  Hamilton Stewart : Yes.

  Jack McCoy : Good business. So good you rewarded Peter Grimaldi with a job at the parent company the minute he stepped off the boat, didn't you?

  Hamilton Stewart : Peter produced for us in Europe.

  Jack McCoy : Pretty risky proposition for an insurance company to sell life insurance during wartime, isn't it Mr. Stewart?

  Hamilton Stewart : I suppose.

  Jack McCoy : Because war raises the risk of death, isn't that right?

  Hamilton Stewart : Yes.

  Jack McCoy : And death is certainly not good business for a life insurance company, is it?

  Hamilton Stewart : No.

  Jack McCoy : But All-Atlantic couldn't sell policies fast enough, could it? Because you knew the people you were selling to had no hope of ever collecting. No hope of ever presenting a death certificate.

  Arthur Gold : Objection.

  Jack McCoy : Maybe they should've brought you their parents' ashes in a bag to you.

  Judge : [slams gavel]  Mr. McCoy.