Law & Order, Season 2

Robinette:
Attempted homicide?! Those 53 people are homicides. They're dead.

Attorney:
He didn't mean to kill anyone, Paul!

Robinette:
Don't tell me you're even thinkin' about negligent homicide. Now, look, if he's only a messenger boy, he'd better start namin' names, or he's goin' down alone.

Attorney:
He says if he goes to prison, the man'll have him killed.

[Robinette pins Pescador against the wall]

Robinette:
Listen to me, man! You don't go to jail, there's about 500 grievin' relatives out there who'd be happy to kill you! You hear what I'm sayin'?!

Pescador:
I'll take my chances with them.

Robinette:
This is a ridiculous exercise. No matter what, he's goin' down. We send him upstate, downstate, it doesn't matter. Somebody'll get him. This is not a perfect world, Cesar, but then, you already know that.

[Pescador tries to stand up on his incapacitated leg, but cannot and hits the ground]

Pescador:
It ain't fair! You know, that assassin didn't even pay me. I get nothing for the deal.

Robinette:
What assassin? And what's the deal?

Attorney:
Tell him, Cesar. Tell him!

Pescador:
A lot of people give the Cubano a lot of money for their micas. 5, 6,000 cash. And then they find out they're bogus. A bunch of paper, man. So they start making noise.

Robinette:
What kinda noise?

Pescador:
Lot of lawyers telling them, "Hey. You got rights, too". So the people, they want to turn the Cubano in. So he come to me, and he says, "Cesar, Cesar, I tell you what to do. You send those people a message. You put the fear of God into them".

Robinette:
By burning down the club?

Pescador:
It was supposed to be a warning! Like what they do in El Salvador. The Cubano, he says, "So some people burn, then so what? There's a whole lot more where they come from." The people in El Cielo... Lot of Salvadorans. They got the message. They got the message.

[Robinette helps him back onto his wheelchair]

Robinette:
The Cuban. What's his name?

Pescador:
Guerra. Domingo Guerra. He owns a club himself. The Del Mundo. Del Mundo.