He stands up for us and where are we for him? Have a beer, right? So we can raise a toast to the son of a bitch because he was an idiot, thinking he could make a difference in the world.
He wasn't an idiot.
No? All he had to do was go along with the program; just let them sell drugs off the corner, just accept things as they are and he'd still be alive. Your old partner Crosetti - he was an idiot too.
What?
He let it all get to him.
Why you wanna go there, man? Why you wanna drag Crosetti into this?
I see certificates of merit hanging in the squadroom. For what? So we can remember what a great guy he was, what a great detective? Does him a lot of good that he's remembered. Just a stupid, pathetic moron is what he was.
Why you wanna talk about Crosetti like that? Why you wanna talk about someone you didn't even know?
There's the door. You don't wanna hear it, get out.
He was a good man and he was a good detective. You don't know the first thing about him so what gives you the right to talk about someone you don't even know?
What, he's a mystery?! He kills himself. He tossed his drunk, pill-popping ass in the water and he comes up a floater. He should have eaten his gun.
Mike-
No! No "Mike"! No more partner, no more friend, none of it! This is done between us!
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