Barney Miller (TV Series)

Agent Orange (1980)

Steve Landesberg: Det. Sgt. Arthur Dietrich

Quotes 

• Peter Rankin : [to Wojo]  And, according to this university study, thirty-eight hundred deaths from cancer would be normally expected to occur in a group the size and age of that stationed in Vietnam during this period. Thus, until and unless the actual mortality rate exceeds that of the expected norm, there is really no concrete evidence of a correlation between Agent Orange exposure and these veterans' subsequent illnesses.

  Det. Sgt. Arthur Dietrich : [walking up behind Rankin]  That may be true, but there was another study at the University of Illinois Medical Center which found that in veterans who had been exposed to Agent Orange, there was an unusually high incidence of a particular type of autoimmune antibodies formed against the body's own cells... antibodies associated with the liver disease diagnosed in many Agent Orange victims.

  Peter Rankin : ...Who are you?

  Det. Sgt. Arthur Dietrich : Just a stranger passin' through.