Law & Order (TV Series)

Blood Money (1999)

Henderson Forsythe: Hamilton Stewart

Quotes 

• 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.

• Jack McCoy : Millions of dollars being paid in the sale of life insurance, and yet in over 50 years, not a single policy *ever* paid. What do you suppose happened to all those people, Mr. Stewart?

  Hamilton Stewart : I have no idea.

  Jack McCoy : Don't tell us you didn't know. The fact of the matter is you *counted* on it.