Homicide - Life on the Street Quotes
Vernon Troy: You gonna put my name on a warrant for Luther Mahoney?
Lewis: Right now, you're all we've got.
Vernon Troy: Then you ain't got jack; I'm outta here.
Lewis: Hold on now, hold on. Listen, I got an idea here.
Vernon Troy: Be quick, man. I'm ill.
Lewis: Yeah, you ill. You smell funky too.
Lewis: Right now, you're all we've got.
Vernon Troy: Then you ain't got jack; I'm outta here.
Lewis: Hold on now, hold on. Listen, I got an idea here.
Vernon Troy: Be quick, man. I'm ill.
Lewis: Yeah, you ill. You smell funky too.
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Bayliss: You're looking good there, Frank. You're looking sure. Everyday, you're looking a little more sure. Not taking your medicine, are you? I'm a detective, Frank. A keen observer of the human condition. I pick up on the subtlest clues, I react to the slightest suggestion. In short, I deduce.
Pembleton: Who told you?
Bayliss: Brodie. You gotta take your medicine, Frank. If you don't take your pills Frank, your head's gonna explode.
Pembleton: What I gotta do is pass this test. I pass, I'm a detective. I fail, I'm office furniture.
Pembleton: Who told you?
Bayliss: Brodie. You gotta take your medicine, Frank. If you don't take your pills Frank, your head's gonna explode.
Pembleton: What I gotta do is pass this test. I pass, I'm a detective. I fail, I'm office furniture.
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Pandolfi: You're a funny man, Al. May I call you Al?
Gee: No, you may not.
Gee: No, you may not.
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Lewis: [about Brodie] I'm Lewis, this is Bayliss, and that's the young Jimmy Olsen over there.
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Dr. Cox: Look at her eyes.
Munch: Did they move?
Dr. Cox: She's got makeup on.
Munch: So?
Dr. Cox: Most women take off their makeup before they go to bed.
Munch: Not the women I know.
Munch: Did they move?
Dr. Cox: She's got makeup on.
Munch: So?
Dr. Cox: Most women take off their makeup before they go to bed.
Munch: Not the women I know.
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Dr. Cox: Don't you even wonder why?
Munch: Why what?
Dr. Cox: Why he lied?
Munch: I'm a homicide cop. The only time I wonder why is when they tell me the truth.
Munch: Why what?
Dr. Cox: Why he lied?
Munch: I'm a homicide cop. The only time I wonder why is when they tell me the truth.
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Brodie: Bayliss threw me out. Lewis says I'm wrecking his marriage. Everybody hates me. I'm going to go live in a cardboard box.
Howard: Just try and get one from a Frigidaire 28ZGE. They're the biggest.
Howard: Just try and get one from a Frigidaire 28ZGE. They're the biggest.
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Jude Silvio: I don't know what to say.
Counselor: You could start with your name.
Jude Silvio: Jude Silvio. My mother was a Beatles fan.
Counselor: I don't follow.
Jude Silvio: Hey Jude. Don't be afraid. Take a sad song yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah.
Counselor: You could start with your name.
Jude Silvio: Jude Silvio. My mother was a Beatles fan.
Counselor: I don't follow.
Jude Silvio: Hey Jude. Don't be afraid. Take a sad song yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah.
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Bayliss: I hear you passed your firearms exam; that is the best news.
Pembleton: Well, not for you.
Bayliss: What do you mean?
Pembleton: The good times are over. The easy times. I'm back; I'm rested. I'm.... meaner than ever.
Pembleton: Well, not for you.
Bayliss: What do you mean?
Pembleton: The good times are over. The easy times. I'm back; I'm rested. I'm.... meaner than ever.
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Lewis: Not a single murder this week. That's not the Baltimore I know and love.
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Lewis: [to onlookers] Okay. Who here saw what happened and wants to cooperate fully with the detectives on this investigation? [silence] Yep, our work here is done.
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Munch: From the tracks on his arms, the large caliber wound, the proximity to a heroin market -- I'd say it was a heated dispute about the symbolism of red and blue in eighteenth century French romantic poetry.
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Pembleton: Arrested once, hey, you're entitled. Arrested twice -- it's Baltimore, home of the bar brawl. But arrested three times for assault in one year -- maybe it's time for you to start admitting that you have emotional control problems.
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Lewis: [to Luther Mahoney] I remember when I was workin' as a beat cop. Our job was to clear the corner. No big deal. Just tell people to move along and most of the time, the police tell you to move along, that's what you're gonna do, you're gonna move along. But every once in a while, there's gonna be some knucklehead fool, wanna keep standing on your corner talking trash. And he told me, don't you ever, ever, let some knucklehead stand on your corner and shame you. Cause once you've done that, you're done as a beat cop. So what he suggested I do, was that I take out my billy club and smack him upside the head so hard, that everybody who heard it knows who had the last word... Luther, you're on my corner.
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Lewis: [about Kay Howard] Did you hear that? Danvers and I are just friends. That's baloney. Did you see her face?
Kellerman: Why do you push her buttons every chance you get?
Lewis: Because it is soooo easy.
Kellerman: Why do you push her buttons every chance you get?
Lewis: Because it is soooo easy.
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Gee: Hey, in this unit, Danvers is tu familia, cappice? I want you to take every word out of his mouth seriously. I want you to investigate every single lead, Frank. And if that's a problem with you, I can give this investigation over to Bayliss and he can handle it. Now, down the line, I want to be able to look Danvers in the eye.
Pembleton: Trust me, you will.
Pembleton: Trust me, you will.
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Julius: What the hell do you want?
Danvers: What do I want? To kill you. Only unlike you, I don't have a gun, so I'm gonna kill you the only way I know how. With the law. It may take the rest of my life, Julius, but I came here to swear an oath to you. I will live to see you die.
Danvers: What do I want? To kill you. Only unlike you, I don't have a gun, so I'm gonna kill you the only way I know how. With the law. It may take the rest of my life, Julius, but I came here to swear an oath to you. I will live to see you die.
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Danvers: Unless a case was absolutely winnable, I'd take a plea. Can't get first-degree? Lets go for second. Can't get second? How about manslaughter? Maybe we send him away for a year. Maybe when he gets out, he won't sell any more drugs. Maybe he won't rape any more children, rob any more stores. Maybe he won't murder anyone!
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Danvers: I thought that if I won enough cases, filed enough briefs, worked enough hours, I could rid the world of all the Julius Cummings. Somewhere along the way I just forgot the victims faces.
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Bayliss: [to Brodie] I will never, ever speak to you again as long as I live. I will treat you like Nixon treated Agnew.
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Pembleton: You can't have that in your film.
Brodie: What?
Pembleton: That. You can't have us joking about overtime like that.
Brodie: But you said it.
Pembleton: Yeah, I know I said it; point is, I don't want anyone to hear me say it.
Brodie: What?
Pembleton: That. You can't have us joking about overtime like that.
Brodie: But you said it.
Pembleton: Yeah, I know I said it; point is, I don't want anyone to hear me say it.
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Lewis: You know what your problem is, Timmy? You let things haunt you.
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Kellerman: You know, I think you might be a little too sensitive for police work. You just let things nag at you. You're the opposite of a nag. You're a nag-ee.
Bayliss: A nag-ee?
Kellerman: Yeah. It's in the dictionary. Look it up.
Bayliss: Listen, the only thing that's naggin' me around here, Kellerman, is you.
Bayliss: A nag-ee?
Kellerman: Yeah. It's in the dictionary. Look it up.
Bayliss: Listen, the only thing that's naggin' me around here, Kellerman, is you.
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Gee: You and Detective Stivers.
Lewis: Gee, me and Detective Stivers were having a meeting, discussing how to get Luther Mahoney off the street.
Pembleton: It doesn't look like a business meeting.
Lewis: There's business meetings and there's business meetings.
Lewis: Gee, me and Detective Stivers were having a meeting, discussing how to get Luther Mahoney off the street.
Pembleton: It doesn't look like a business meeting.
Lewis: There's business meetings and there's business meetings.
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Pembleton: [to Bayliss] We really could have used her statement. Are you going to yell at everybody today?
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Gee: I don't know if Bayliss should be the primary on this case.
Howard: You can't take the case away from him, Gee.
Gee: He's had a bad history with murdered children and I don't want that interfering with his ability to do his job.
Pembleton: It won't interfere.
Gee: How do you know that?
Pembleton: I trust my partner. We'll put this case down.
Gee: He trusts his partner? The forgiving Frank Pembleton?
Howard: You can't take the case away from him, Gee.
Gee: He's had a bad history with murdered children and I don't want that interfering with his ability to do his job.
Pembleton: It won't interfere.
Gee: How do you know that?
Pembleton: I trust my partner. We'll put this case down.
Gee: He trusts his partner? The forgiving Frank Pembleton?
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Bayliss: It wouldn't kill you to show some enthusiasm. Smile every once in a while.
Pembleton: Well, I'm not a smiler, I'm not a hugger, I'm not a sensitive guy. That's you, not me.
Pembleton: Well, I'm not a smiler, I'm not a hugger, I'm not a sensitive guy. That's you, not me.
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Bayliss: You and me, Frank. We've got all the luck. A dead child. Murdered little girl. Call Pembleton or Bayliss, they've got lots of experience.
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Pembleton: What, you're feeling sorry for yourself cause you lost a case?
Bayliss: I've spent my life trying not to feel sorry for myself. See, Adena Watson, Janelle Parsons, Tonya Thompson. Every murdered child, every abused child, I understand. Cause all those children are me. Yeah, I know what that's all about. You see, my uncle, my father's brother, I was 5 years old, and he would follow me into the bathroom and he would close the door and he would take my hand in his and he would.... After he was done, he would smile and he would say what a good boy I was and oh, yeah, shhh....And this went on for years, years. My, my parents, they couldn't understand why I cried at every holiday, every family get together. So when I was 8 years old, I told my father, what had been going on, and I remember it was a struggle to get those words out and my father just stared at me and he asked me why I was lying. And he was my father and he was supposed to protect me Frank, but he didn't. See, for him, whatever was happening, it was like an inconvience. See, to him, I wasn't a real person, and he never saw me, he never really looked at me. Ever.
Pembleton: Tim, I'm sorry.
Bayliss: I don't want your comfort Frank. That's not why I told you.
Pembleton: Alright.
Bayliss: By the way, I don't wanna be partners with you anymore.
Bayliss: I've spent my life trying not to feel sorry for myself. See, Adena Watson, Janelle Parsons, Tonya Thompson. Every murdered child, every abused child, I understand. Cause all those children are me. Yeah, I know what that's all about. You see, my uncle, my father's brother, I was 5 years old, and he would follow me into the bathroom and he would close the door and he would take my hand in his and he would.... After he was done, he would smile and he would say what a good boy I was and oh, yeah, shhh....And this went on for years, years. My, my parents, they couldn't understand why I cried at every holiday, every family get together. So when I was 8 years old, I told my father, what had been going on, and I remember it was a struggle to get those words out and my father just stared at me and he asked me why I was lying. And he was my father and he was supposed to protect me Frank, but he didn't. See, for him, whatever was happening, it was like an inconvience. See, to him, I wasn't a real person, and he never saw me, he never really looked at me. Ever.
Pembleton: Tim, I'm sorry.
Bayliss: I don't want your comfort Frank. That's not why I told you.
Pembleton: Alright.
Bayliss: By the way, I don't wanna be partners with you anymore.
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Gee: [to Frank, about Bayliss] Whatever problems you two are having, just remember one thing... 'all we are is dust in the wind.'
Pembleton: I had no idea you were a Kansas fan.
Pembleton: I had no idea you were a Kansas fan.
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