Homicide: Life on the Street, Season 3

Bayliss:
You're not going to say anything to me, are you?

Pembleton:
What would you like me to say?

Bayliss:
For a start, "I'm sorry"...

Pembleton:
I'm not sorry. I did my job.

Bayliss:
You still believe that my cousin killed that boy because he was an Arab?

Pembleton:
Hikmet was not an Arab. Turks are not Arabs --

Bayliss:
My cousin could not consciously kill someone.

Pendleton:
I don't think it was premeditated. I think it was inherent. Jim's racism is so much a part of him, that he didn't have a chance to think about what he was doing. Jim is worse than a Klansman. 'Cause at least in their white sheets, they are recognizable. But your cousin's brand of bigotry is more frightening because, like still water, it runs deep. He doesn't even see it himself.

Bayliss:
You are wrong, dead wrong.

Pembleton:
The only one "dead wrong" is Hikmet Gersel. Did you see what happened when the verdict was announced? They applauded. Those law-abiding citizens, those good people applauded the death of a child. Let me ask you something, Tim -- then you tell me whether or not it was racially motivated -- if that boy had been American, if that boy had been white -- do you think would have cheered?