Fay Furillo quotes from Hill Street Blues

Furillo

Look at this! You got the address wrong on the warrant.

Esterhaus

Captain, we never shoulda stopped doing these in pencil.

Furillo

...so when the man understandably objects to being arrested, Earps here hits him with a board!

We had to, boss. We couldn't get his attention.

Furillo

What is that stuff?

Hunter

Oh, that's my tobacco. It's imported from Indonesia.

Furillo

Great aroma.

Hunter

You might start thinking about Indonesia, Frank. Some little dugout up in the bamboo. If I were you, I'd consider it.

Furillo

Why is that, Howard?

Hunter

Judas Priest, Frank! You've got the Commander-in-Chief on the front burner and you're standing around here with your pants around your support hose!

Esterhaus

I have this problem. It's of a male-female nature, if you know what I mean.

Fay

Phil, if you're talking about an occasional... dysfunction... it's nothing to worry about, especially with someone like Cindy where I'm sure you're under a great deal of pressure to perform.

Esterhaus

No, no, no. My relationship with Cindy is more domestic. We do a lot of cooking together.

Fay

Then, the problem's not sex?

Esterhaus

My problem is that I met this other woman... she's a lot older than Cindy.

Fay

Well, most of us are.

Furillo

What I don't understand is how [Macafee] was able to handle two wives emotionally.

Davenport

When you couldn't handle one?

Furillo

[sarcastically] How do you suppose you and Fay would get along under the same roof?

Fay

[touching the lumpy bag in front of her] What is this?

Furillo

Don't pay any attention to that.

Fay

[jerking her hand away from the bag in revulsion] What do you mean, "Don't pay any attention to that"? There is a dead person in that bag, Frank!

Furillo

Fay, please, I'm pressed. Would you get to the point?

Esterhaus

You know, Fay, for as traumatic as these calls are, I wouldn't worry about the caller doing what he threatened to.

Bates

[nodding] It's true.

Esterhaus

Sick, lonely, cowardly types. They can't do anything but dial a phone.

Fay

[nodding, feeling reassured] I know.

Esterhaus

Of course, there was the Clausen case not long ago.

Fay

What's the Clausen case?

Bates

Sergeant...

Esterhaus

Uh, you don't want to know, Fay. She lived, though, and he was put away. [shakes her hand reassuringly] Nice seeing you, Fay. I'm sure you got nothing to worry about.

Esterhaus

You know, since the word's out that you might move up to division, I have a few requests for transfer.

Furillo

How many?

Esterhaus

Twenty-eight uniforms, seventeen plainclothes, and one retirement. But you shouldn't let this in any way affect your decision.

How fresh is the wound?

Furillo

[sheepishly] Still bleeding.

Hunter

The Concrete Galapagos: Reverse Evolution and the Inner City by Heinrich Pentegrass. Have you read it, Frank?

Furillo

No, Howard, I missed that one.

Furillo

I owe you.

You're damn right you owe me, Furillo.

Furillo

They scared you, too. Didn't they?

Later, Furillo. Later.

Chief Daniels

Did you ever have hemorrhoids, Frank?

Furillo

I can't say I have.

Chief Daniels

You're one of the blessed ones, believe me. It's the closest thing in the world to having a tennis ball up there. [raises his glass of mineral oil] Cheers. [makes a bitter face and shivers as the liquid goes down] Weak rectal tissue. It's hereditary, Frank.

Hunter

They're not interested in third-world dysgenics! They want my financial records! Judas Priest, Frank! If they're putting the brown shaft to our types can you imagine what they have in store for this hombre [gesturing to an already nervous Ray Calletano]?

Furillo

Howard.

Furillo

Last time you went out undercover, you ended up getting booted out of your house and sleeping on my couch for three nights.

Size fourteen, Henry. [gives him a pink woman's overcoat and red blouse to wear]

Goldblume

[takes it from him] Don't worry, Frank. I think my marriage is safe in this.

[as Fay walks by] It's you! 4000 BC, the Princess Zuma, daughter of Theluminkis, whose likeness graces the wall of the Great Temple at Amar.

Fay

Excuse me?

[holds her hand] The lips, the eyes, the regal slope of the nose. The sheer overwhelming majesty of your beauty. They taunted you. A woman of uncommon intelligence, a free spirit. They did not understand your sensitivity or the fiery compassion that raged within you. You vowed you would return and now you're back, oh Princess of the Night.

Fay

Umm, could you let go of my hand? I think you have the wrong person.

[looking closer] You're right. The lights are bad in here. My mistake.

I saw the things they did to her body. It will be a hard memory to live with, but I know Sister Anna has already forgiven them.

Furillo

I wish I could.