I used to think this was about an immigrant chasing the dollar, but maybe it's just good old-fashioned American greed.
“Melting Pot” · Season 17, Episode 15
In this episode: Jack McCoy (4), Connie Rubirosa (3), Lt. Van Buren (1)
Look, it's one thing to say you shoved someone. It's a big leap to say you strung 'em up.
Or your people didn't push Rodriguez hard enough.
So what? We should've broken out the waterboard? After all, Rodriguez is here illegally.
It was a sloppy interrogation!
My people worked Rodriguez appropriately! If you don't like it, call the Chief of D's.
EEaston
Why would I kill her?
To protect your profit center in illegal workers. Over half of your employees are underpaid, undocumented aliens.
EEaston
Look, maybe I cut a few corners. But it's still my word against the word of this illegal Spanish kid.
And who do you think the jury's gonna believe? A kid who busts his ass sixty hours a week to send $75 to his mother, or a man who flouts the law and parlays his desperation into a small fortune?
If you're convicted of staging Erin Garrett's suicide, I promise, you'll do forty to life. I'm offering you fifteen.
EEaston
I have a family. A wife and kids.
So did Erin Garrett.
[after Easton consults with Oscar about McCoy's plea offer]
OOscar
10 years. No property forfeiture.
The deal is 15 to life.
EEaston
If I didn't hire these people, what else were they gonna do?! How else are they gonna support their families?!
That might be a defense in a labor violation, not a murder. Fifteen years or a trial, Mr. Easton.
You're a one-man border patrol, Jack.
You give me way too much credit.
I don't think so. You cleaned house.
Not really. You're forgetting Erin Garrett had a Jamaican nanny.
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