A spoon.
I hate to disappoint you, Meldrick, but that's not the murder weapon.
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I killed a suspect.
The suspect drew his weapon first?
Yeah.
GGiardello
The suspect fired first?
Yeah.
GGiardello
The suspect attempted to use deadly force and you responded. It's a clean shoot.
I killed a man.
I am a cop.
Yeah. And, you know, for my money, you're a pretty damn good cop.
Yeah, but not a very good Buddhist.
What I have is, I have a second in time. I have a split second in an abandoned building with a gun in my hand and every instinct is telling me who I am at that moment. That's what I got left and that's all I got left...and I'm a homicide cop.
[sighs] Well, since you're no longer a Buddhist, you gotta look at the bright side, huh? You can have a couple of brewskis.
No, thanks.
Oh come on, you can have one beer.
No. Beer ain't the answer either.
[to Ballard] Observe. [To crowd]] All right, now, here's the dealio. The low bottom dog that tore this bar up and robbed everybody in it, he killed one man, and he cut another one. Now, before you all start thinking maybe you gotta protect this young brother from the criminal injustice system, let me point somethin' out. The mook that perpetrated this crime was a white man. Now I know in my heart that somebody is gonna come forward that maybe saw that getaway car. [Boy raises hand] My man.
BBoy
What's up with that country-ass hat?
No. What do you mean no?
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?
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.
The crime scene.
Exactly. That's what we call it.
The crime scene.
We go and evaluate and canvas the crime scene, hoping for witnesses.
Living, breathing witnesses.
We come here after we have processed and canvassed the scene. We do not come here to make the acquaintance of fresh murders.
Yeah, that'd be stupid.
And for that matter, d'you ever know anybody in the witness protection program, or know anybody who knows anybody in the witness protection program?
Nobody knows. That's the point, they're invisible. Just like the Nielsen families.
CCarey
I like my pizza basic, that way you know what you're getting.
A basic pie.
[to Jay Faris] What are you gonna do, hit me? C'mon, hit me!... Or do you only hit women? Stay away from the girl, Faris.
[after Lewis and Falsone leave the room] Ah, the cloud of testosterone has risen!
Billie Lou, how many husbands have you had?
Three...
And how many wives have I had?
Three...
That's six exes between us!
Seven years ago, I walked in here with a filebox and a lot of idealism. I had a clear vision of justice and morality. And no matter what has happened to me, whatever's happened around me, I still have that.
Maybe. But on this job I've seen people change, and sometimes for the worse. And those who change the most are the ones who don't admit it.
We need to talk to you about your daughter-in-law, Joanna.
WWoman
Go ahead, tell me.
It's not the kinda thing you want screamed through the door.
WWoman
She dead?
Yes.
WWoman
Okay, thanks, goodbye.
No, Mrs. McQueen, we need to ask you about her death. You see, she was murdered.
WWoman
Murdered?
Yes.
WWoman
Stupid bitch.
[to Bayliss] You've been around this dump for seven years and you still ain't learned the key to good murder police, which is this: Whatever you see, whoever's around you; you keep them at a distance. But not you. You come up on a crime scene, the first thing you wanna do is put a chalk outline around yourself.
We'll get Luke Ryland, Tim.
Yeah, I know. These things, they just take time. Patience. Of course, being a murder police, I've learned one inescapable truth. Justice is a bitch.
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