Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Debt (2004)

Aaron Yoo: Tommy

Quotes 

• Elliot Stabler : Well, Tommy, you're a smart kid. What do you think will happen when Ricky Yao finds out you led us to him?

  Tommy : You're setting me up to be killed.

  Elliot Stabler : After what you did to Li Mei, I don't give a crap what Ricky does to you.

• Elliot Stabler : [to Tommy]  Where were you born?

  Tommy : Here.

  Elliot Stabler : Your parents?

  Tommy : They're from Fujin. Little village, middle of nowhere.

  Elliot Stabler : Coming to America, they took a lot of risks for a chance at a better life, huh?

  Tommy : Some life. My dad was a teacher in China. Here, he's nothing but a delivery man. Riding around on a stupid bicycle, shoving menus under doors. "Beef fried rice, 2 dollars."

  Elliot Stabler : You ever ask yourself why he does it?

  Tommy : He tells me all the time. For me, so I could have a better life. Well, that's what I'm trying to do.

  Elliot Stabler : By working for Ricky Yao?

  Tommy : I earn more in a week than my dad makes in a month.

  Elliot Stabler : You shake people down.

  Tommy : I pick up the money. I don't hurt anyone.

  Elliot Stabler : You muscle working people like your dad for their last dimes and hand it over to Ricky Yao. You're ripping off poor folks to make that dirt bag rich? Tommy, talk to me.

  Tommy : I can't betray my people.

  Elliot Stabler : Ricky Yao's not your people, don't you get it? He preys on your people! He beat up Li Mei in that alley! Be a man. You stand up for her.