Sergeant Michaels quotes from 7th Heaven

Sergeant Michaels

[to Eric] Hey, Reverend.

Eric

Hey, Sergeant.

Sergeant Michaels

Your kids' school have been trying to reach you. I guess your beeper's off.

Eric

[looks for his beeper in his pockets] I don't even have my beeper.

Annie

Which school? Which kid?

Sergeant Michaels

All three schools, all five kids.

Sgt. Michaels

There's been an accident.

Eric

Tell me it's not Lucy.

Sgt. Michaels

No. But the girl does go to Lucy's high school. Their car smashed into a telephone pole. One girl was killed instantly. The other one survived, but she's not in good shape. Evidently, they were trying to dodge a kid who ran in the middle of the street.

Eric

Which one?

Sergeant Michaels

Sarah. Just fourteen years old. This is gonna be a tough call to make, Rev. I was hoping you'd go with me.

Simon

[about Sarah] What, you think this girl has parents? What kind of parents would let their child run around hungry and dirty like that? She must be an orphan. I can feel it in my bones!

Sergeant Michaels

I think we owe it to the child to go a little bit beyond that.

Simon

Why? Even if she does have parents, they shouldn't get her back. When something belongs to you, you have to take care of it! It's the law.

Sergeant Michaels

Well, not exactly.

Martin, I had your son's locker opened this morning.

What?

I had reason to believe he might have a weapon.

And did he? No.

His locker looks like an altar to violence. There are pictures of people torturing animals. A stack of gun ads. CDs of an extremely sexual and violent nature. Comic books along the same themes. My guess is, his room looks the same way.

So what if it does? He's a teenage boy.

Eric

He's a teenage boy who pointed his finger at my son's head and mentioned the exact gun he would use on him. [to Vice Principal Blackstone] I'm sorry. You asked me to let you handle this. [to Mr. Morton] And I can't help but notice that he threatened my son with the exact same gun that you own.

I have a license for that gun.

Eric

I don't care if you have a license for that gun. Licensed or unlicensed, your son has access to it, and I... you seem to be in complete denial of any possibility that something could go terribly wrong here.

I know my son, okay? My son would never shoot anyone.

Sergeant Michaels

At the very least, until this situation is resolved, you might wanna take the gun out of the house.

The gun is for our protection.

Sergeant Michaels

Did you know that people who keep a gun at home for self-protection are 43 times more likely to kill themselves, a family member or an acquaintance than to be killed by an armed intruder?

Do you know that guns don't kill people? People kill people.

Eric

People with guns kill people!

Gentlemen...

Eric

No, is it too much to ask this man to admit that his son has a problem and take some action?

Oh, I'm gonna take action, all right. I'm not gonna be forced to give up my right to bear arms. I'm not gonna have my back pushed against the wall by some lame assistant principal and a minister who's got friends in the police department. What I am gonna do is call the school board and the chief of police, because this is harassment. Furthermore, I'm gonna take my son out of this school. I'm gonna put him in a private school where he won't be treated like some common criminal. The public school system has failed my son and failed my family. And if this is what I get for my tax dollars, then forget it! [to Johnny] Come on, son, we're done here.

Mary

You're a freak, you know that. A total freak, freak, freak!

Matt

Yeah, your freak brother. And that entitles me to protect you anyway I see fit.

Mary

No it doesn't. It doesn't entitle you to protect anything. And who needs your protection?

Matt

Who, who!? You that's who. You're out with a guy two years older than you and you're making out with him in a cop car!

Mary

There is no law against making out! [turns to Sergeant Michaels] Is there, Sergeant Michaels? Is there a law against making out?!

Sergeant Michaels

I'm going to let you two settle this.

Mary

Yeah, I know how to settle this. I'm gonna open a can of whup-ass!

Matt

Yeah, you do that.

Mary

I will! I will!

Annie

What?!

Sgt. Michaels

We're releasing her without bail on your recoginance, but this isn't over. She's... you're gonna need a lawyer.