Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Scourge (2001)

David Chandler: Malcolm Hunt

Quotes 

• Alexandra Cabot : We checked with the Health Department. You never reported Daniel Varney's syphilis as required by law.

  Malcolm Hunt : It must have slipped through the cracks.

  Sam : It's the applicant's responsibility to ask why he was rejected.

  Alexandra Cabot : Who's responsible for the four people he murdered because you didn't tell him?

  Sam : We reject thousands of applicants every year. HIV, heart disease...

  Alexandra Cabot : All poor risks.

  Malcolm Hunt : Miss Cabot, we run a business. We answer to our stockholders. Providing explanations to every applicant we turn down would require hiring more staff premiums would go through the roof, and fewer people could afford life insurance.

  Alexandra Cabot : A $1.50 worth of penicillin would have cured Daniel Varney and prevented the carnage he caused. You should have told him.

  Sam : The Court of Appeals just ruled that we are under no obligation to inform the...

  Alexandra Cabot : The applicant? You still have to notify the appropriate health department. If we audit your records and find a pattern of similar cases that have "slipped through the cracks" with no effort on the part of your company to rectify the situation, not only will we charge Mr. Hunt with reckless endangerment we will move to seize the profits of your company as assets to the crime. See how your stockholders like that.

  Malcolm Hunt : You can't do that...

  Alexandra Cabot : And Mr. Hunt can sit in prison for seven years and think about it.

  Malcolm Hunt : What do you want, Miss Cabot?

  Alexandra Cabot : I want your company to begin reporting all cases of communicable diseases and when the families of the murder victims and Daniel Varney's wife sue, you'll settle.

  Sam : That's extortion. It would cost the company millions.

  Alexandra Cabot : It'll cost a lot less than going bankrupt because of the publicity. In the court of public opinion, you're already guilty. Do you want to take your chances in a real court?