Rey Curtis quotes from Law & Order

Curtis

She left me, Lennie! She took the kids and split. She wants me out of the house.

Briscoe

Why? What happened?

Curtis

I broke my vows with this girl in the park. Just a one-time thing.

Briscoe

How'd Deborah find out?

Curtis

I told her.

Briscoe

Your second mistake.

Ross

Where would you go if you needed a hitman?

Curtis

[grinning at Briscoe] I'd find an old cop, preferably one with a lot of alimony.

Curtis

See what you got me into?

Briscoe

Yeah, I got you a date with a good looking woman. I'm a real son of a bitch.

Curtis

So he walks for killing a cop, but we nail him for killing the cop killer?

McCoy

An irony he gets to reflect upon over the next forty years in Attica.

Curtis

What if I had testified that you told us to shut up?

McCoy

It would have hurt. At least you got to dodge the question by calling me an idiot.

Curtis

Yeah, that helped.

How perfect is this? Cops talkin' to a donut guy.

Curtis

Yeah. Tell us about the customer who came in just before the girl. The one who cleaned his hands?

Barely a customer. He takes about 50 napkins, and then he starts to leave. Well, after I call him on it, he orders a coffee, then thinks he's a big shot, because he tips be a quarter.[hands Briscoe his wastebasket] What I lost on napkins, I barely broke even!

Briscoe

Take these down to the lab.

Right.

Briscoe

[to the shop owner] Did he mention his name or say where he was comin' from or goin' to?

Nothin', except "gimme a coffee", and how if he wasn't gettin' married next week, he'd be puttin' the moves on the girl, which I thought that was outta line. But I didn't say anything, because it's not my business. My business is sellin' donuts.

Briscoe

Thanks for clearin' that up.

Mike

There was another guy. I passed a guy halfway down the block from where I left the car. A Puerto Rican guy.

Curtis

Yeah. That's how we solve homicides too. Nearest Puerto Rican did it.

Curtis

Listen, Jane, I could really use your help.

I told you, I never heard of this Joanie Timberman, and I just work for Miss Posner. We're not exactly girlfriends.

Curtis

Yeah, but you see her every day. You know what's going on. I gotta say, you strike me as a very perceptive person.

It's a good thing you're good-looking, honey, if that's the best line you can come up wth.

Briscoe

Sadly, it is.

Curtis

"Kill Zionists."

Briscoe

Good thing he wasn't a better shot.

Briscoe

[searching a suspect's apartment] Good champagne, but it's dusty.

Curtis

And this caviar has mold.

Briscoe

[about Van Buren's lawyer] Who's she, the new community affairs liaison?

Lt. Van Buren

[evasive] No. What do you have?

Curtis

Come on, L.T. What's up?

Lt. Van Buren

Better you hear it from me. She's my lawyer. I was up for captain. One Police Plaza passed me over.

Briscoe

You're suing the department?

Lt. Van Buren

Title VII -- they promoted a white woman with the same score on the exam. I have the seniority.

Briscoe

I'm sorry we asked.

Briscoe

Dale! Now, let's do this the easy way. All right? Just open the door, and come out nice and slow!

I can't.

Curtis

We're not gonna hurt you.

I got no pants.

Curtis

It's just us guys out here, Dale. Nothin' we haven't seen before.

Either I get my pants, or I don't come out.

Briscoe

[grabs Tagger's pants] All right, Dale. Here. Here. Look out the keyhole now. See? Here's your pants. Now, I'm tossin' 'em to ya.

Briscoe

All you have to do is reach out and grab 'em. Go ahead.

Okay. I'm openin' up the door.

OW! No! Liar! I want my pants!

Curtis

[takes him away] Why, Dale? I don't see anything here worth covering up.

Curtis

[about Christina Talbert's pregnancy] How could a mother miss something like that?

Lt. Van Buren

Wait till your daughters grow up.

Curtis

You ever pay for it, Lennie?

Briscoe

I was married, wasn't I?

First I killed Karen because she had a child by another man, then I killed her because she had my child?

Curtis

Because she wanted to keep your child.

Briscoe

And because everybody in your "just us white folks" executive suite was going to find out you're Black, Josh.

That's absurd. I mean, look at me.

Lt. Van Buren

I wanna talk to him.[Briscoe and Curtis leave] Hello, my brother. Damn, look at you. You did it. You passed. You know, I thought up close, I'd be able to tell, but I swear I can't. So, what's it like when it's just you and them? You laugh along when they tell jokes? Oh, you know what I'm talkin' about, right? Or do you tell nigger jokes, too, just to keep up appearances?

If you don't mind...

Lt. Van Buren

Oh, am I sitting too close? I remind you of somebody? Your mother? Was she dark-skinned? High yellow? Redbone? You scared now, aren't you? You've been scared for almost 40 years, and all that fear came gushing out Sunday morning. You panicked, isn't that right? You go ahead, tell me what happened. Take the weight off, my brother. You'll feel better.