Soap (TV Series)

Episode #3.10 (1979)

Renny Temple: Harlen Wisser

Quotes 

• Mr. Wisser : Mr. Dallas?

  Jodie : Yes?

  Mr. Wisser : I'm Harlan Wisser from the Child Welfare Department. May I come in?

  Jodie : I don't know yet. What's on your mind?

  Mr. Wisser : We received a call stating that you had an infant in your apartment.

  Jodie : So?

  Mr. Wisser : Well, sir, we also received a complaint.

  Jodie : From who?

  Mr. Wisser : It's a little difficult to discuss in the hallway.

  [Jodie reluctantly lets him in] 

  Mr. Wisser : Thank you. Someone in the area called our offices and told us that a single young male homosexual was keeping a baby in his apartment. Are you he?

  Jodie : I happen to have a baby here. Right over there, as a matter of fact.

  [points to the basinet] 

  Mr. Wisser : He looks pale.

  Jodie : He's a she and so do you.

  Mr. Wisser : Mr. Dallas, please don't make this any harder than it already is.

  Jodie : How am I making it hard? Listen, you walked in here, I did not come to you.

  Mr. Wisser : Are you a practicing homosexual?

  Jodie : I don't have to practice, I'm very good at it.