Charlie Crews quotes from Life

Dani Reese

I want you to give me your knife.

Charlie Crews

My knife, why?

Reese

Because I want to swear a blood oath with you and I need something to cut my pinkie. Give me you knife or I burn you with IAD for not using your service weapon when you should have. [Crews is reluctant] I need to know my partner is a cop and not a con. [Crews gives her the knife] Anything else you carrying from the old days? Sharpened toothbrush, lightbulb full of bleach?

Charlie Crews

We have to use his own strength against him.

Dani Reese

His strength, what's his strength?

Crews

His weakness.

Reese

His weakness is his strength?

Crews

Exactly, it's like the one-handed clap.

Reese

Are you really Zen?

Crews

I'm Zen-ish.

What do you want, Charlie?

Charlie Crews

I want to be the unwobbling pivot at the center of an ever-revolving universe; I want to be still.

What do you want here Charlie?

Charlie Crews

[pulls a photograph of Rachel from his jacket pocket] I want to know where she is.

Charlie Crews

I just want you to drop Neil Cudahy.

[drawing very close to him] You don't have the right to ask that. Unless you want that right. Do you, Charlie? [Charlie just looks at her] I was looking for you and I didn't even know it. And now you're here and I can't have you.

Crews

You're married.

And if I weren't?

Crews

You have a husband.

And I think about you when I'm with him. I need you to be all the way in. And if you can't be all the way in, then I need you all the way out.

Crews

You know I can't do this.

Crews

What were you trying to get away from?

If I say, can I go?

Reese

No.

Can I get a drink?

Reese

No! But if you confess we won't charge you for murder one, or for assaulting Detective Crews.

Crews

Or for stealing Detective Reese's pen.

Crews

If I was a cowboy he'd be my goofy sidekick.

Reese

Kinda like how you're mine.

Crews

What's that smell?

That's humanity, baby.

Charlie Crews

It's a dead angel.

Dani Reese

It's a dead woman with a pair of fake wings.

Crews

How do you know?

Reese

Well I know the wings are fake because I can see the harness right there.

Crews

Maybe it's a real angel with fake wings.

Reese

Why would a real angel have... no, no, I'm not doing this with you.

Charlie Crews

Just because the wings were fake doesn't mean she wasn't an angel.

Dani Reese

Isn't there an off button?

Crews

I know she wasn't an angel, on-a-cloud-with-a-harp-angel, but maybe she was angel in the way we all might be angels.

Reese

We all might be angels? Crews, let me tell you something, you know there may be a few things that I don't know about myself but I'm sure I'm not an angel.

Crews

See that is exactly the kind of humble thing an angel might say. [Places an angel statuette on the dashboard; Reese grabs it and throws it away] That was very hostile.

Reese

That wasn't close to hostile.

Dani Reese

No ID on her or left in the room.

Charlie Crews

It's like she fell out of the sky.

Reese

She fell out of a window.

Crews

It's like she was no one.

Reese

No one is no one.

Crews

Now you sound like me.

Reese

[startled] Take that back.

Crews

Would it be so bad?

Reese

Do you really have any tattoos?

Crews

You wanna see 'em?

Reese

Absolutely not.

Crews

I knew a prostitute at Pelican Bay whose name was Angel.

Reese

They have women at Pelican Bay?

Crews

Well, she wasn't a woman woman, and just to make it clear, I didn't know her. Him. Didn't know her/him. But she did make a nice carrot cake.

Charlie Crews

Every moment you spend wishing you were someplace else is a moment you can't get back.

Dani Reese

What about every moment I wish you were someplace else?

Crews

She's twenty-two years old. Aren't they all on MySpace, YourSpace, Facebook, Faceplace?

Reese

How do you know about that?

Crews

Everybody knows about that. Don't you want a whole bunch of new friends? Don't you want them to know where you are all the time?

It's not about keeping immigrants out of that neighborhood, it's about drugs and money. What have we learned?

[in unison] It's always about drugs and money.