Griscom quotes from Homicide: Life on the Street

So many bodies, so little time...

Bayliss

What's that on your tie there? Is it...pesto sauce?

You wish.

I have a discretionary slush fund.

Munch

I would kill to have a slush fund.

How do you think I got mine?

No. What do you mean no?

Munch

I won't start an investigation without witnesses, a crime scene, without relevant information as to why that body is on that gurney to nowhere.

Don't detectives like mysteries?

Bayliss

Actually, we hate a mystery. What we like is when we're able to lock someone up right away. There are rules to this business, fundamentals. The phone rings, we pick it up, we write down the address, and we go to where the person was murdered.

Munch

The crime scene.

Bayliss

Exactly. That's what we call it.

Munch

The crime scene.

Bayliss

We go and evaluate and canvas the crime scene, hoping for witnesses.

Munch

Living, breathing witnesses.

Bayliss

We come here after we have processed and canvassed the scene. We do not come here to make the acquaintance of fresh murders.

Munch

Yeah, that'd be stupid.