Homicide: Life on the Street · Season 1
Why are you wearing that carnation?
I have been wearing this for 2 days and you're just asking about it now?
I've had other things on my mind. So what's it for?
To hide the smell... To hide the smell of death.
To hide the smell of death?
Yeah, you got a problem with that?
No, no problem.
I didn't avenge Adena Watson's death. Now I never will. Never gonna know who killed her. I let her down, Gee.
You're gonna hafta make your peace with that.
Let me ask you something, Gee. How do you know when to stop caring?
I've been a cop a long time. I can tell you how to sweet talk a confession out of a stone cold killer, sidestep the politics of me and the bosses. I can tell you how to work a case until there's nothing left to be done but to file the paperwork. But the one thing I can't tell you, is when to stop caring.
You know, she is pretty hot.
Kay?
Yeah. I think it's the hair.
I don't wanna think about her hair. She's one of us. She's a detective.
She's a woman. You work around a woman all day, you notice her. It's human nature.
She's a sergeant for God's sake.
[after finding a jar of yellowish water in a freezer] Does this look strange to you?
Nah, just good old Baltimore City tap water.
[shaking his head] Nah.
[referring to Kellerman] How can you work with him?
What? Who, him?
He hates us; why do his bidding?
Nah, he hates you. And most of the time, he does my bidding.
I got a call. Special guest at the Waterfront tonight. Wanna guess? The Big Man's coming back. Gonna need a lot of extra light beer tonight. . .
Oh, yeah!
Cuz you know who's coming back?
The Big Man!!
Why is Bolander called the Big Man? He fat?
Granted, Stanley Bolander is far from svelte, but it's not mere bulk which has earned the Big Man his title. He has what some might call a Brogdignagian build. He is in all senses a man of magnitude. Enormously fair, tremendously honest, and a whale of a detective.
Imagine Scheiner in a swimsuit.
I heard that.
You'll always be a beautiful swimmer to me, Dr. Scheiner.
Don't touch that door. That's my door. Now you've pissed me off. You and I? We're never gonna be friends.
Well, this gets to Internal, I've got a secret for them too.
You'd give me up?
On a platter, with an apple stuffed in your mouth.
All this overtime; I'll never get schtupped.
[before meeting with Gee] Any advice?
Yeah, he tends to spit when he yells. Just step back.
Well, well, well, Kellerman. Up until now, you've had a who-dun-it here, a dunker there, but now, now it looks like you're finally gonna pop the big-time detective cherry.
My advice to you is that you work this case alone so that if you put this case down, it doesn't look like we helped bail you out or something.
It's pretty, isn't it? The way the board just stands there. A silent sentry to the dead and gone. I love the way the red and black meld together in harmony. A haiku of color and vengeance. Uh-oh. Look here. You're upsetting the balance. You see, Mike, you need just a little red. This is too much. I'd do something about that. Maybe some more black. Keep me smiling Kellerman.
In this corner, representing the pride of the Baltimore Police Department - Michael "I can take a whuppin" Kellerman!!
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