M*A*S*H (TV Series)

Yessir, That's Our Baby (1979)

William Bogert: Rodger Prescott

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• Roger Prescott : Yes. Well, the answer's no.

  Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : No? Just like that? No?

  Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III : Pierce, please. Mr. Prescott, surely you will agree that this is a decision that should not be made in haste; there must be some discussion.

  Roger Prescott : Actually, none whatsoever. We cannot admit an unattended juvenile with no resident relatives to the States.

  Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III : But...

  Roger Prescott : And no application for such admission can be processed without authority from a blood relative in the child's country of origin.

  Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III : Now, see here...

  Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Look, Prescott, this "unattended juvenile" you're so blithely dismissing could conceivably be murdered in the name of racial purity. You got space on your application for that?

  Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III : Pierce, I'm handling this, remember?

  Roger Prescott : There is nothing to handle. The Immigration and Naturalization Service, by statute, has strict quota restrictions. My hands are tied.

  Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Now, there's an idea.

  Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III : Just a moment. Mr. Prescott, there are always alternatives.

  Roger Prescott : Not in this case, Major.

  Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III : Mr. Prescott, I have friends of considerable influence...

  Roger Prescott : Gentlemen, you are wasting my time.

  Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III : Congressmen, senators, cabinet members...

  Roger Prescott : Please believe me, this is departmental policy. There can be no immigration under the circumstances you have set forth.

  Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III : Captains of industry...

  Roger Prescott : Good day.

  Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III : [stands and throws his hat down]  There is nothing good about it, Mr. Prescott! We are discussing a little girl - a human being who is facing a life of misery - an issue infinitely more important than you and your stupid seating arrangements!

  Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Charles...

  Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III : Shut up, Pierce!

  [the phones rings, and Charles picks it up] 

  Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III : Mr. Prescott is in conference. Let them eat out!

  Roger Prescott : How dare you!

  Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III : You smarmy bureaucratic microbe, you're going to that dinner breathing through your fly!