Kay Howard quotes from Homicide: Life on the Street

I've got things to do.

Howard

I'm not asking you out on a date, John, come on!

You're the sarge, sarge.

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I'm not worried about the sniper getting me. One bullet in my noggin, that's it, it's over, I'm fine with that, but I will NOT stand by and watch you get shot again.

Howard

What're you talking about, John?

Do you think I could ever forget you and Stan and Beau getting shot? And all I could say to Gee was 'they messed up my shoes with their blood'. I was in such shock from seeing your blood everywhere, I couldn't do anything.

Howard

Alright, John.

It's not alright!

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Let me explain.

Howard

No, let me explain. My personal life is off limits to the squad room, alright? I learned my lesson when I was dating Ed Danvers and you were the biggest sinner. Jokes, gossip....

I can't disagree with you Kay. But that was the old me, the new me....

Howard

Is worse. Look, Munch, I know you may find this hard to accept, but I believe in secrets. I believe that we have to have truths about ourselves that we keep from our colleagues, our neighbors, our loved ones. I don't want any one person to know everything about me. I want you to have a few pieces of the puzzle, Gee, a few pieces, my sister, see?

Kay, everyday all we do is ferret out secrets. It's our job.

Howard

Not today, Munchkin.

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Bayliss

Listen to me, I'm sounding like Pembleton here.

Howard

It could be worse, you could sound like Munch.

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Brodie

Bayliss threw me out. Lewis says I'm wrecking his marriage. Everybody hates me. I'm going to go live in a cardboard box.

Howard

Just try and get one from a Frigidaire 28ZGE. They're the biggest.

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Brodie

What are you focusing on when you first sit down with a suspect?

The detective has informed you of your rights. He wants you to be protected, he says. Because, he says, there's nothing that concerns him more than giving you every possible assistance in this very confusing and stressful moment in your life.

Howard

The detective wants you to know, and we've been doing this a lot longer than you have, so you can take our word for it. Your rights to counsel aren't all they're cracked up to be.

Once you actually up and call for that lawyer, son, there ain't a damn thing we can do for you. No, sir, your good friends in the Homicide Unit are gonna have to lock you all alone in this room. And the next authority figure to scan your case will be a no-nonsense prosecutor from the Violent Crimes Unit, with the official title "Assistant State's Attorney for the City of Baltimore."

And God help you then, because a ruthless blood-sucker like that'll have an O'Donnell Heights motorhead like yourself halfway to the gas chamber before you get three words out.

Kellerman

Your best bet is to speak up. Speak up now.

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I don't know if Bayliss should be the primary on this case.

Howard

You can't take the case away from him, Gee.

He's had a bad history with murdered children and I don't want that interfering with his ability to do his job.

It won't interfere.

How do you know that?

I trust my partner. We'll put this case down.

He trusts his partner? The forgiving Frank Pembleton?

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Howard

I'll go have a conversation with the illustrious Luther Mahoney.

Lewis

I'm goin' to put a bullet in his brain.

Howard

Hey, that's a thought.

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Howard

Bastards killed him in his own bathroom.

They murdered him. Beau believed there was a distinction between murder and killing.

Howard

We don't close this case, it's on me. I should've known it wasn't a suicide. I let the case get cold because I believed the worst of Beau. I believed he was capable of killing himself and ughhh, I hated him for that. For his being weak, selfish, everything I hated about him when we were partners. But with Beau, it was always when hating him the most, that he would turn around and do something incredibly, stupidly, sweet. Just got to hate him all the more... Don't tell anyone I cried.