Steve McGarrett quotes from Hawaii Five-0

Kono

What are the real chances of getting these kids back alive?

Steve

When my father was kidnapped, I knew from prior experience that no matter what I did that day, the results would not be good, okay? In these situations they rarely are... We're gonna change that. We're gonna get these kids back. We're gonna get them back alive!

Danny

[about his brother, Matt] Well, be warned. Mr. Wall Street has quite a personality.

Steve

Runs in family, huh?

Danny

Disorder. Personality disorder.

Steve

[to Danny] You stop for malasadas?

Danny

No.

Steve

You got evidence for a case?

Danny

Nope.

Steve

Alright, stop, stop. What's in the bag?

Danny

My, lunch, genius.

Steve

Your lunch? Okay, what'd you bring?

Danny

You got to know every detail of my life? What's it to you what my lunch is?

Steve

Cause you don't want to tell me! What, you think it's so fantastic I'm going to steal it? You fly in some deep-fried sandwich from New Jersey I'm not allowed to know about-

Danny

Salad, okay? Just a salad. That's it. There's nothing else in here. Grace has been taking a nutrition class and she is concerned about my cholesterol so I promised her I would eat better. Okay?

Steve

That's actually incredibly sweet.

Danny

Why did you not just give her your files right then and there? What is your play, please?

Steve

Must you know every detail of my life?

Danny

Hey, this is the CIA you are dealing with here, okay? They wrote the book on advanced interrogation techniques, which I am absolutely positive you have sitting on your bedside table right now, okay? Just so you know, I understand, okay? I would not mind a little one-on-one session with Jenna Kaye. The thought does stimulate my imagination, too.

Steve

Legally, the CIA can only interrogate foreign nationals.

Danny

[looks at Steve deflatedly] Why do you do that? I had a little fantasy worked out. I mean, you're, like, a devourer of dreams. You know what I mean, like, you eat them. Like a little Pac-Man in cargo pants.

Steve

[about a snow globe] Why would you steal this?

I've always wanted to go to Paris.

Steve

It's a beautiful city and if you go, you should pick yourself up a snow globe because that is Seattle.

Danny

[to Johnny] That's the Space Needle, not the Eiffel Tower, you schmuck!

Steve

[to Wo Fat while waiting for Jenna Kaye] What makes you think I won't kill you right here in this restaurant?

Wo Fat

"The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." Old Chinese proverb.

Steve

[has a gun aimed at Wo Fat under the table] "Say hello to my little friend." Old American proverb.

Danny

With all due respect, what's wrong with an old fashioned baseball game, Steve? Huh?

Steve

Never been to a professional baseball game.

Danny

That doesn't surprise me at all.

Danny

This is not a hike, Steven. Your dad used to bring you up here?

Steve

Every year.

Danny

That explains a lot.

Danny

I'm gonna come down, untangle the rope and I'm going to bring it to you, alright?

Steve

Take it easy, alright? [Danny starts to climb, but stumbles] Hey, easy! I'm not going to catch your ass if you fall!

Danny

I'd rather you not catch me if I fall, okay?

Danny

[about going through a case of fish shipped to Morimoto's] Okay buddy, after you.

Steve

That's for you, babe, I can't get my cast wet. [holds up his casted arm]

Danny

That's low. That's really low. What exactly are we looking for?

Steve

We'll know when we find it. So be thorough-

Danny

Be thorough, okay.

Steve

Yeah, check every fish Danny, every fish in the box.

Danny

[glares at Steve] You're gonna pay for this. One hundred percent.

Steve

Kamekona, what are you doing here?

Kamekona

Came to cook you breakfast.

Steve

Okay, let me rephrase that: What are you doing in my house?

Kamekona

Kukui High versus McKinley's semi-final game. We bet. I lost. Okay, that was a joke, brah.

Steve

Oh, no joke, brother.

Kamekona

Kamekona no welch. Had that little punk made his free throws, you would've been taking me to the water park this weekend. Instead, I gotta serve as your personal chef the whole week. First up, spam. Potato frittatas and spam fried rice.

Steve

Okay, so everything you're going to cook for me this week, is it going to have Spam in it?

Kamekona

Of course. It's the Hawaiian steak, the nectar of the islands.

Steve

Do you know what's in Spam? I'll tell you. It's processed pork parts, salt, and meat stock.

Kamekona

That's what give 'em the glaze. Taste.

Steve

[avoids him] I don't want to taste.

Well, gentlemen, this is an FBI matter now. And the FBI will be taking over the case. Thanks for your effort.

Steve

First of all, you're welcome. Second of all, a little boy's going to grow up without a mother because of a leak in your agency!

Listen to me. You cannot go after Jimmy Cannon.

Steve

Watch me!

Look, my job was to get Jimmy Cannon. I don't know who shot me. I don't know who set me up. All I know is that Jimmy Cannon ordered the hit! Now look...look I know you guys are trying to do your jobs... but Jimmy Cannon killed my wife. He killed a federal agent. You don't know who you're dealing with. He's going to put walls up in front of you wherever you go.

Steve

We're going to go wherever the case takes us. And let me tell you, you want guys like us on this, because we'll go through those walls.

Every investigation against me has come up empty, you know why?

Steve

No, why?

Because there's nothing to find. Now, growing up in poverty and making something of yourself used to be considered a virtue in this country.

Steve

Is that Capone? [to Danny] Did he just quote Capone?

Danny

I think it was Gotti.

Steve

[to Cannon] John Gotti? Is that John Gotti?

[pause] Are you two done? 'Cause I'd like to get back to lunch with my son.

Steve

That's fair enough. You only see him once a year.

Danny

We know who Jimmy Cannon is. What we don't know is who Reggie Cole is going to be once he finds out who the leak is or if he tracks down one of the shooters.

Steve

Well, you were married, you have a daughter. What would you do?

Danny

Well I would want to just kill everybody, but I would never do that. I would not risk going to prison, I could not do that to Grace. You, forget it. I don't even want to know what you would do.

Steve

Oh, I would be by the book.

Danny

[looks at Steve in shock, facetiously] The book??

Steve

I would be by the book.

Danny

Which book would that be, I ask? The Patriot Act for Dummies? How to Nuke Your Enemies? War and Peace?...minus the peace part?

Steve

[smirks at Danny's "rant"] It's funny.