Homicide: Life on the Street Season 1 quotes

If I could just find this damn thing, I could go home.

Life is a mystery. Just accept it.

You're in your own world Crosetti.

The quest for life…not finding…looking. I read about it in this book.

Now since when did you ever read a book?

I read this book…an excerpt in this book.

You said you read a book but you didn't read nothing but an excerpt.

It says you never find what you're looking for because the whole point is looking for it. You find it, it defeats its own purpose.

Y'know you're in your own little world because don't no one wants to live in there with you.

You try to explain everything, but there are things you cannot explain.

Y'know what you are? You are a little fat head guinea. A little Italian Salami-brain.

You'll regret that.

Man, let's c'mon back tomorrow and look for this projectile.

All right.

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Bayliss

Let me just say something, sir; this is where I've always wanted to be. You know what I'm saying? Homicide. Thinking cops. Not a gun. [Taps his temple] This.

Giardello

[Slightly bemused] That's very poetic.

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Amazing. Life is amazing.

Really?

This must be a mistake. Am I actually going on a routine call with Frank Pembleton?

You're right. It's a mistake.

Frank Pembleton only works the big investigations. This is just some dead guy.

See what happens when I come into the office?

Imagine - handling a routine call with Detective Frank Pembleton.

I'm slumming.

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[Bayliss has just asked to watch Pembleton interrogate a suspect]

What you will be privileged to witness will not be an interrogation, but an act of salesmanship - as silver-tongued and thieving as ever moved used cars, Florida swampland, or Bibles. But what I am selling is a long prison term, to a client who has no genuine use for the product.

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You're saving your really good lies for some smarter cop, is that it? I'm just a donut in the on-deck circle. Wait until the real guy gets here. Wait until that big guy comes back. I'm probably just his secretary. I'm just Montel Williams. You want to talk to Larry King.

CCriminal

I'm telling you the truth.

I've been murder police for ten years. If you're going to lie to me, you lie to me with respect. What is it? Is it my shoes? Is it my haircut? Got a problem with my haircut? Don't you ever lie to me like I'm Montel Williams. I am not Montel Williams. I am not Montel Williams! I am not Montel Williams!

CCriminal

Who is Montel Williams?

I'm not Montel Williams. Do you hear me? I am not Montel Williams!

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