Finn quotes from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Brass

I put my credibility on the line for you. CSIs said excessive force, I said 'no way'.

Officer Finn

That's right.

Brass

Oh, really? [plays the dispatch recording of Officer Finn calling Sergeant Johnson a black son of a bitch.]

Officer Finn

I don't remember saying that.

I'm advising you not to speak, not until we hear the complete recording and check the witness statements.

Officer Finn

You think I'm racist? I don't remember, if I said he was black, I was describing the suspect. I was so focused on what the gun was doing I...

Brass

Did you see his face?

Officer Finn

No, it was dark out.

Brass

Are you telling me, you didn't recognize Scott Johnson? He was a trainee, he rode with you, he was your damn partner for four months. You spent 8 hours a day in a car together. You saw more of him than you did of your wife.

This was over 5 years ago.

Brass

So you're telling me you didn't recognize a guy who put a formal complaint in your file for racial discrimination? Let me read this to you: "Frequent and excessive use of racial epithets including the 'N' word."

Officer Finn

First of all, no. I didn't recognize Johnson. And second, yeah, sure, I use street talk with the trainees.

Brass

Come on, you know that doesn't fly anymore.

Officer Finn

But believe me, whatever they get from me is nothing compared to what they're gonna get from the real gorillas in the jungle.

That's a poor choice of words.

Officer Finn

I am training them for the real world and of the dozens and dozens of people I have trained, and that is every color of the rainbow, pal. That hard ass was the only one who ever complained. The only one. He's the racist, not me.

D.B.

Okay.

Finn

All right, number one, you are not to call me Jules in front of other people. It is Finn.

D.B.

Finn.

Finn

Number two, we are never going to talk about the past.

D.B.

Sounds to me like you want to live in the moment.

Finn

And when that Zen crap starts, we need to have a safe word.

D.B.

Pick one.

Finn

Uhm. "Stop." Would that work?

D.B.

You got it.

Finn

Well, I've been walking around this place the last couple days, trying to find the problem. This place is like a family. You've got the best of the best.

D.B.

That's true.

Finn

So, why? Why'd you bring me here?

D.B.

Best of the best can always get better.

Finn

How do you do it?

D.B.

Do what?

Finn

Never lose faith.

D.B.

Some things I hide better than you do.

On what grounds?

Finn

It has sentimental value.

D.B.

I didn't know you had sentiments.

Finn

I didn't say they were mine.

Finn

It's complicated.

Yeah? You ever think that maybe you're the one that's a little bit complicated, hmm?

Finn

You know what? It's so much hotter when you don't talk.