Law & Order (TV Series)

Blood Money (1999)

Felix Fibich: Mr. Radsenhauer

Quotes 

• Jack McCoy : How did you know Mr. Grimaldi?

  Mr. Radsenhauer : My father made us memorize Pietro Grimaldi's name and told us where to go incase anything ever happened.

  Jack McCoy : What happened after your father bought the life insurance from Mr. Grimaldi?

  Mr. Radsenhauer : Hitler happened! And when it was over, all I could find was my sister, she was very sick.

  Jack McCoy : What did you do?

  Mr. Radsenhauer : We walked, over a year. To get to Italy. I had to carry her most of the time. When we finally arrived, I found Pietro Grimaldi and told him we needed our father's money, or my sister would die. He said he had no recollection of my father, and no policy number, and without a death certificate, I couldn't even prove that my father was dead. The Nazis didn't give death certificates, but I have one from Italy, for my sister.

• Mr. Radsenhauer : It was 1939, the last time we were all together as a family. The Germans just moved into Poland and things became very difficult.

  Jack McCoy : Difficult?

  Mr. Radsenhauer : For the Jews. My father owned a small trucking company. He came to work one day to find all his trucks burned, and the windows of our garage broken. Unfortunately most of the Poles didn't need much encouragement to hate us. That night, Mr. Grimaldi showed up.

  Jack McCoy : And he talked to your father?

  Mr. Radsenhauer : He told my father Jews are being killed in Germany, it's just a matter of time for all of us. Then he showed my father a picture of women and children in a ditch, shot. Then he offered to sell my father insurance, of course he bought.

• Arthur Gold : Prior to this trial, sir, had you ever heard of the All-Atlantic Insurance Company?

  Mr. Radsenhauer : No.

  Arthur Gold : Then your father didn't buy a policy from them, did he?

  Mr. Radsenhauer : He bought from Federali.

  Arthur Gold : So you would have not made a claim against the All-Atlantic Insurance Company, because you had no reason to believe that they owed you any money, is that right?

  Jack McCoy : Objection, the question calls for a legal conclusion.

  Arthur Gold : Judge, it is the People's theory that my clients stole a book to prevent this man and others like him from claiming their insurance. I'd like a chance to find out whether he thinks my clients owed him any money in the first place.

  Judge : Do you think these men owe you anything, Mr. Radsenhauer?

  Mr. Radsenhauer : I think, these men should close their eyes, and see my sister. See her as the little girl she once was... and as the woman she *should* have been. Then I want them to open their eyes, and tell me if they think they owe me anything.