Stuart Gharty quotes from Homicide: Life on the Street

Gharty

I have bought enough damn spatulas.

Gharty

What is it then?

Pembleton

I'm on the street. I'm working. I need to know that if push comes to shove, my partner will fight for me. I don't wanna go through a door or down some alley and then find out nobody's got my back.

Gharty

So, that's it.

Pembleton

How am I supposed to trust someone who won't go through the same doors as me? Howard, Lewis, Bayliss, every cop on this shift will fight. Every cop will fight. I know that. I depend upon it.

Bayliss

Hey Gharty, whose house are you in? Frank here, has closed more cases than the two of you will in a lifetime.

Gharty

This is his house? I'm a guest?

The victim's name is Scotty Meyers, gunshot to the head.

Ballard

Did he say anything about who shot him?

No, ADASTW.

Gharty

What?

Arrived Dead And Stayed That Way.

Falsone

[the detectives are discussing Baltimore landmarks] Baltimore is a city of many splendors but the greatest architectural feat: Madonna's bra.

Stivers

[incredulous] What?

Lewis

Yeah, Madonna's bra. The sewage treatment plant on East Point. Them two golden cones just stickin' up outta nowhere.

Stivers

Madonna's bra.

Gharty

[chuckling] That's what the East Siders call it.

Falsone

Two golden orbs shimmering in the moonlight, towering over the landscape.

Stivers

I don't think I've ever seen it.

Falsone

Are you serious?

Gharty

To die without viewing it would mark an incomplete life.