Lou Grover quotes from Hawaii Five-0

Lou Grover

Well, excuse me, Jacques Cousteau. You know, jealousy is an ugly cloak, my friend. You do not wear it well.

Steve

"Jealousy"? No, no, no. Look, that fish was probably old, depressed, you know, maybe a little, uh, senile, you know, swimming around looking for a tiger shark to end his days, and then bumped into you.

Lou

A senile, depressed fish?

Steve

[deadpan] That's right.

Lou

[smirks] You are some piece of work, McGarrett, you know that?

Steve

[removes a bullet from Lou's bullet-proof vest] Look at that. Lucky twice in one day.

Lou

Only you can see getting shot as being lucky.

Lou

[notices Danny smiling] What are you smiling about?

Danny

Well, taking down a couple corporate scumbags...perfect way to end the day, right?

Lou

Yes, sir.

Lou Grover

Let me talk to my daughter.

Oh, whatever you say, Pops.

Daddy, what's going on?

Lou

Samantha, honey, I want you to listen to me very carefully. The man that you're with is a very dangerous fugitive.

Samantha

Now, he's gonna want to hurt you Daddy, I'm scared.

Lou

Now-Now I know you're scared, but I need you to be strong. I'm gonna find you. I promise you. I'm gonna find you.

Now you got her all freaked out. All right? That's not going to help this thing at all.

Lou

You little son of a bitch. What do you want?

Stay close to your phone, I'll be in touch. And obviously, this stays between us. Tell any of your cop buddies about this, and you'll be using your daughter's college fund to pay for a funeral.

Lou Grover

It's not? You see any money in there? Because I don't! And without that money, my daughter is just as good as dead! [slams door] Aw! [sighs] Oh, God, she's just a baby. I'm-I'm so sorry, Samantha. [walks away and cries]

Danny Williams

[comes over to comfort him] Listen to me. A few years ago, uh, this guy that I thought I knew, he took my daughter. And, uh you know, I remember back then thinking I got two choices now. I can, uh, I can shut down, start mourning my daughter, or I could do anything and everything it took to run over whatever stood in my way to get my daughter back.

Lou

I can't stop thinking about her. I can't stop thinking about what she must be going through.

Danny

Right now you need to put that on hold. If you want to see Samantha, you stay focused on ending this son of a bitch. You understand?

Lou

Yeah.

Danny

Let's go get this guy.

McGarrett

How's forced retirement?

Lou

Well, the governor said that my actions were a gross abuse of power by a sworn officer of the law and my misuse of HPD resources was unprecedented.

McGarrett

So basically nothing I wouldn't have done under the same circumstances. [Lou chuckles]

Lou

Where's the brains?

Steve

What are you talking about?

Lou

Williams. He's the brains. You're the brawn.

Steve

Okay. What does that make you?

Lou

Me? Come on, man. I'm the pretty face.

Kono

You're joking.

Lou

Hey, don't look at me-- this is McGarrett's idea.

Kono

[clears throat] Huh...I'm not wearing this.

Steve

These girls are surfers; we know where they hang out. The only way we're gonna find them is if they don't see us coming. What's the problem?

Kono

Okay, then it falls on me?

Lou

Well, you're the surfer, ain't ya?

Steve

Yeah. Plus, you're the only one who can walk down on that beach without broadcasting "cop". Hey, listen, we need eyes out there, okay? Somebody on that beach must know who these girls are, plus, the alternative is Grover in a Speedo.

Lou

Hey. Couple of years ago, I could've pulled it off, but...[looks down at his belly] Well, you know.

Kono

[sighs] Fine. But I pick the suit.

[telling Five-O about their suspect Mercer] He's a world-class house painter whose expertise is the "€œWhite Death",€ that is, making people disappear. [...] You just know he's been there because his victims are never seen or heard from again. On the street, they call him "€œValentine".

Lou

Oh, that's cute.

Why Valentine?

Because people who know him say he doesn't have a heart.

Sometimes things happen that change a person's perspective on life.

Steve

Well, that's that's some deep and soulful stuff for a man who's killed over a hundred people.

[laughs] Two years ago middle of a thunderstorm, I got into a head-on with a moving van with bad brakes. Doctors said I suffered a traumatic ventricular failure. That there was a 100% certainty I would die if I didn't get a new heart.

Steve

Okay, how'd you get to the top of the list?

You gentlemen forget who I work for. Men like Albert Bagosa doesn't get wait-listed. I needed a new heart. He got me one. Not that he had any great affection for me. He just needed me to get back to work. I was told that my heart belonged to a very special young man. He taught at about the worst school in the city. Served meals at the local soup kitchen. Built houses for the homeless during his summer break. Then one day, this solid citizen, this man who lived to make a difference, got hit by a drunk driver while crossing the street. And it was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me. 'Cause I got a piece of him. After that, things changed. Went about my business the way I always done it, but when it came to the moment of truth, couldn't go through with it. Just couldn't pull the trigger. And it kept happening contract after contract. Something happened when I got that new heart. I began thinking of the people I was asked to kill. Their loved ones. Their families. What did they do to deserve me?

Steve

Okay. Well, if your story's true, that can't have made Mr. Bagosa happy.

I never told Bagosa. Every contract I got, I pretended to fill it.

Chin Ho Kelly

So, what about all the people you're supposed to kill? What happened to them?

I found a safe place to hide them.

Chin Ho

You created your own witness protection program.

That's right. An entire community made up of people that didn't deserve to die - but somehow Bagosa found out.

I'm that good.

Steve

That's why Bagosa sent Stegner to Hawaii, huh? To kill those people that you've been hiding?

Those people are innocent. I couldn't let Stegner end their lives. You think I'm lying?

Lou

I think you just told a really great campfire story. The only things missing are the marshmallows.

Jerry

How can I help?

Steve

So, listen, if somebody wanted to live off the grid, Jerry, and I'm talking like Big Brother-fearing, income tax-avoiding, way, way off the grid, where would they go?

Kono

We're talking no phone service, no nosey tourists, no contact with the outside world.

Lou

What they're trying to say is where do your like-minded friends all live? How many people we looking at? Maybe a dozen, possibly more.

Max

[hands Chin and Lou coats as the victim is in a freezer] Gentlemen, the good news is our homicide victim is well-preserved. The bad news, it's below zero in there.

Lou

[scoffs] You know what we call below zero in Chicago? April.

Max

Commander, after a thorough examination, I've determined that each of our young victims were suffering from acute dehydration and starvation in the days leading up to and at the time of their deaths.

Chin Ho Kelly

Take a look at this. [taps screen for news clipping] The week they disappeared was one of the hottest on record for Oahu. Daytime temps hovered in the mid-90s for five straight days.

Max

And this is the basement that the school used as solitary confinement. The same one that Tahni saw the boys being led into the night they returned.

Lou Grover

No windows, no ventilation. Must have been unbearable down there.

Max

In that kind of heat, left in a poorly ventilated space, without food or water for a significant amount of time would be equivalent to leaving an infant in a car with a rolled-up window in the middle of the summer. As a result of all these findings, I'm listing the official cause of death as homicide.

Lou Grover

Hang on a second, Samantha.

What is it, Dad?

Lou

Sweetheart, you know I love you, right?

Samantha

Of course I do.

Lou

All right. And you know that if I could have, I would've done anything in the world to keep that stuff from happening to you. I'm afraid there's nothing I can do to change that now. The only thing that can change now is you. And that's gonna take time. Just like your body had to heal, your mind has to heal, too, and you might have another bad night or two. I'm not gonna promise you you're gonna forget all about this one day, but I can promise you it's gonna get easier. You know, I can promise you that we will get through this as a family. Your mother, your brother, me and you. And I want you to know that whether I'm in the next room or not, I'm always there for you, little mama. Always.

Samantha

All right. [father and daughter embrace]

Lou

You hungry?

Samantha

I'm starving!

Lou

Anybody bringing a camera to a gunfight got my respect.

Steve

You know, I got to know some of these embeds when I was downrange. I got to tell you, they're a special breed. I mean, they're driven and they're committed, but they're crazy.