Law & Order · Season 9, Episode 24
“Refuge: Part 2” · Season 9, Episode 24
In this episode: Jack McCoy (2), Lennie Briscoe (2), Lt. Van Buren (1), Rey Curtis (1)
I wanna know how this disaster happened.
Best guess, Ricci was followed from work.
Why wasn't a police officer stationed in the apartment?!
In a one-bedroom? That would've been cozy. We tried putting someone downstairs in the vestibule, but the tenants complained!
Lieutenant, I don't have to tell you...!
No. You don't. We're treating this like Ricci was one of our own. What are you gonna do about this retrial?
I don't know.
[Briscoe and Curtis enter the apartment of two sisters concerning Gabriel]
I don't know where Gabriel is. He's driving a cab.
That's why we need to talk to him. He ever lend it to anybody?
No! I don't know. Look, I don't got time to talk to you!
[shows Louisa photos] Hey, did you ever see him with either of these 2 people?
She don't hardly see Gabriel, except to make another stupid baby!
Cállate!
[both sisters argue in Spanish]
Hey! Hey! Hey! Did Gabriel mess with you? Is that why you don't like him?
I take care of myself. I don't like him, but she lets him beat her when she's all pregnant like that.
Well, you show us where he is, we make sure he doesn't mess with your sister again. All right?
[after he and his fellow mobsters have been sentenced] Go ahead. Try and kill me. I'm not afraid. I'm tough. I'll survive.
Following the rules does not put you above the law. Just ask the Swiss bankers who appropriated the unclaimed accounts of Holocaust victims. Following the rules does not explain how someone who runs a bank could be so incompetent, so gullible. There can be only one explanation. Mr. Radford willingly turned a blind eye to what was obviously a criminal enterprise. And the Russian mob didn't have to cut off his uncle's hands to get him to do it. All they had to do was wave a fat commission in front of him. Now, some might think that money laundering is just some white-collar crime far removed from our everyday concerns. Let me remind you what money laundering is really about. Mr. Radford made his commission on the backs of these people. This country has always been a beacon to the world for liberty and justice. That's why we keep our borders open. But we're also a beacon for another kind of people, for criminals and con men. We rely on the law to protect us from them. Sometimes, that's not enough. Do we need more law, less freedom? Do we cross out parts of the Constitution? I've learned that's not the answer. The answer is that each one of us is responsible to everyone else. Not one of us can afford to turn a blind eye. By respecting the laws we do have, by living up to the true meaning of the word "citizen", we preserve our common good. Through his deliberate ignorance, Mr. Radford allowed a criminal enterprise to flourish. Innocent people to be killed. He allowed a cancer to grow. This is where it has to stop. Here in this court room, with you.
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