Law & Order (TV Series)

Kid Pro Quo (2003)

Sam Waterston: Executive ADA Jack McCoy

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• Jack McCoy : All those impressionable young minds that you molded over the years. Minds that went on to Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and law school, medical school, or Wall Street. And they got to pay twenty thousand dollars a year to send their kids to kindergarten. Don't you think it's ironic that they owe it all to a man who couldn't even afford to purchase his own apartment? Maybe there were just too busy winking and nodding and shaking the hands of friends of friends to worry about the man behind the men. Or, on the other hand, perhaps they just looked at you as someone who worked for them, the way you looked at Deborah Landon.

  Wyatt Scofield : That school would be nothing without me.

  Jack McCoy : And they owe you.

  Wyatt Scofield : [shouting]  Yes!

  [quietly, after long pause] 

  Wyatt Scofield : Yes.

• Jack McCoy : Scofield has been standing over the oven for twenty-five years. He thought it was about time he got a taste of the pie.

  A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn : Now Scofield's out and Anchin's in: that's going to be a hard pill for the parents of the Knowles School to swallow.

  D.A. Arthur Branch : Oh, they'll get over it, once they forget about where his money came from.

  Jack McCoy : It's the American way: yesterday's robber baron is tomorrow's philanthropist.

  A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn : What you're really trying to say is cash trumps merit every time...

  D.A. Arthur Branch : ...and twice on Sundays!