Frank quotes from Blue Bloods

Stop beating yourself up.

I will as soon as I leave here because I will know I have done everything I could to make things right. Can you say the same thing?

My sons are having an argument and they need to settle it like grown-ups.

Danny

I tried, but this one won't listen to reason.

Jamie

I'll listen to reason when I start hearing some.

Danny

Stop hiding behind those stripes.

Jamie

I'm not wearing them now.

Danny

All right, let's go outside and settle this like we used to.

That's enough! If you two can't follow the rules of this table, both of you can leave.

You know how I know I'm still an optimist?

No, how?

When I hear you're back in town, I don't go 'Oh no. What does he want?' I go 'Oh good. Lenny's back.'

Since when are you shilling for the governor?

Erin

I'm not shilling.

Well, lobbying for.

Erin

A couple of months ago I asked him to put through a sex trafficking bill.

Asked, or traded for?

You're lawyering me. I hate that.

Erin

You're patronizing me. I hate that.

So you're just following orders, is that it?

Erin

I'm just doing my job.

Wilson Ortega dedicated years of service as a Special Agent of the FBI. He deserves to come to my office at a time of his choosing.

Garrett

So we're not going by the book?

We are. But it's a different book.

Bless us, O Lord, and these Thy gifts which we are about to receive from Thy bounty, through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

Henry

So how long was Detective Gee on the job before he retired?

Danny

23, 24 years.

Henry

Then he goes civilian and then he comes back?

Danny

You know. You miss the rush.

Eddie

Oh, I so don't get that.

Danny

Why?

Eddie

You're a pro athlete, sure.

Jamie

Or you're a geezer rock band going on a farewell tour.

Jamie

Matadors? A lot of them start their so-called final appearances in their 30s, keep going till they're 50.

Eddie

But that's the same thing! The rush of the crowd. Cops, we don't get a rush of the crowd. We get a crowd screaming "Get the hell outta here!"

Maybe it's the satisfaction of service. Some of us find a nugget most days.

Eddie

Well, I guess there's that.

Yeah. You don't think that's possible?

Eddie

No, I'm sure it's possible.

Nicky

What's the thing you say to me all the time? Something, something, a day in your life

Erin

Find something you love to do...

Nicky

And you'll never work a day in your life. -

There you go.

Eddie

Uh-huh.

Sean

I think I'm with Eddie on this one. I mean, there are a lot of things that I really love to do, and they don't really pay.

Danny

Not true. They're paying knuckleheads on ESPN right now for skateboarding and playing video games.

Henry

So there's hope for you yet.

Sean

Ha, ha.

Eddie

I just mean it feels like a very long time since I had an outcome that felt like voilà.

Jamie

What, like, rescuing a cat from a tree type thing?

Or reuniting a scared little kid with his family?

Eddie

Well yeah.

Well, see? There's the nugget.

Jamie

Yeah, forget voilà .

Erin

We're both in a business where no one walks away all, "Yes!"

The only victories are in making it a little less terrible for somebody.

Jamie

Taking a rock out of their backpack.

Danny

And when you can truly say things could've been worse well, sometimes that's the rush.

You walk away, you're letting them win.

They already have.

If you ask me, that judge should be investigated.

I can't do that. It would look like I'm strong-arming him.

Guy who wrote 100 Years In Solitude...

Jamie

Gabriel Garica Marquez.

Thank you. Anyway, he said that everyone has three lives: public, private, and secret. I have always thought that should be taught at the Academy. It would help police understand motive.

If you stop anyone on the street and ask them who the NYPD and FDNY commissioners are, what would they say?

Abigail

Frank Reagan and... I don't know.

Exactly. If I were the Commissioner of I Don't Know, I'd have a chip on my shoulder too.

You know, Frank, maybe you should heed your own advice and avail yourself of one of our programs to unload what's bothering you.

I have one of those already.

Oh? What's that?

My family dinner table.

It's more complicated. Things were going on that I am not at liberty to say.

So you're going to let me blame myself?

You're going to blame yourself You're going to carry this around with you. But there was nothing we could do.

I refuse to believe there is nothing we can do to prevent suicides.

We've prevented dozens of suicides.

We didn't prevent this one. One is one too many. It always will be.

Bodycams?

Garrett

Connor was in uniform but is a detective from the 36. So he wasn't required.

Cell phone video?

Sid

There isn't any.

There's always one. Find it since we shouldn't be talking to our undercover.

Tell me one thing that lasts forever.

Sir?

Nothing does.