“No. 94: T. Earl King VI” quotes from The Blacklist

Good heavens, Earl. You've never had any feeling in your heart, but now it looks like there isn't much going on below the waist.

I do all right. The wheelchair is just a little memento of our time together in Bolivia.

No hard feelings, I trust.

Just a few. But this is only business, Red. Besides, you warned me. Pigs eat Hogs get slaughtered.

All you had to do was listen. But that's always been your problem-- all that money clogging your ears. I told you to come with me that night out on the Altiplano.

I had millions invested. I couldn't just walk away like you.

Poor choice of words given what those soldiers did to you. I'd hate to see you play the hog yet again, Earl.

No, no, Red. You taught me an invaluable lesson. Dispassion is the businessman's best friend. One mustn't get emotionally involved in business. You have to listen to the market. You hear that? That's the market telling me you are in demand. What kind of a commodity are you? A wealth of secrets and information? Or are you an impulse purchase for a buyer to settle a score? You scare people, Red. How much would you pay to be rid of your deepest fear?

I've always found fear to be my most valuable sense. But then again, you Kings demonstrate a propensity for having more dollars than sense.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, one of the most exciting items of the night, a mainstay on the FBI's most wanted list, this gentleman has been on the list longer than any other criminal! A former naval intelligence officer, he possesses a wealth of classified information and presides over one of the world's most prosperous extralegal empires. You may know him as the concierge of crime. I present Raymond Reddington!

Harold Cooper

[to a detainee] I don't think you quite understand the situation. You're assuming that you're a material witness in federal custody and are entitled to certain rights. And while these things are true, what you don't know is you don't know me. My doctors recently detected a mass within the left hemisphere of my brain-- an inoperable tumor. Within a matter of weeks, it will kill me. And this has clarified a number of priorities for me. Among those priorities, nothing is more important to me than the safety of my colleagues. I'm committed that no one under my command dies during the remainder of my watch. And I will do anything within my power to honor that commitment. And since I quite literally have nothing to lose I suggest you think long and hard before answering my question. Where is Elizabeth Keen?

What's in this for you?

You wouldn't understand. You're not a King.

Funny. Your father used to say that exact phrase as if it somehow excused him from the use of logic.

What's in it for me? Hmm. Legacy and the King family fortune.

If this is just about the money, that would be so banal. I bet your father would trade it all for one more walk in the park with a good friend.

Tell me. Where are all your good friends now, huh? If you think there's a soul in this world loyal to anything but your pocketbook, then you're the one who's excused himself from the use of logic.