Crockett quotes from Miami Vice

Crockett

Lieutenant, I know that there are certain procedures that have to be followed, and that what we're dealing with here is an entrenched bureaucracy, but it has been one month, one month since the Daytona bit the dust...what I'm trying to do is maintain a departmentally-approved cover here, and if I continue to show up for six-figure drug deals looking like Lil' Abner, it ain't gonna cut it!

Castillo

It's out in back.

Crockett

All right. Until I can get this worked out, i'm taking you to the only place I know that's safe.

Where is that? Jail?

Crockett

As a matter of fact...

Well, that's great, Crockett. That's just great.

Crockett

Mornin', Lieutenant. After-dinner drink. I kinda got my schedule turned around.

Castillo

You look it.

Crockett

It's funny when you work all night. The whole world seems like it gets out of sync with you. It's like you can sneak up on it.

Castillo

It seems that way. Just think straight.

Crockett

I don't need to think straight. I need to think like him.

Castillo

Thinking undercover, sometimes you can't stop when you need to.

Crockett

The answer we need's not in the book. It's in his head. I can't explain it, but... I think I'm onto it.

Castillo

Two coffees.

Crockett

Make it one.

Castillo

Cancel the one.

Crockett

Do you think I'm crazy?

Tubbs

No. I just think that neither one of us have had too much sleep lately.

Crockett

You didn't answer my question.

Tubbs

Well, there's a thin line between hard work and obsession.

Tubbs

Man, we are shish kebab on our own sword.

Crockett

Cut it out, you're makin' me hungry.

Tubbs

Yeah, well I'm losin' my appetite.

Switek

How about a ride, sailor?

Crockett

Almost funny.

Hey, I miss you, dude.

Crockett

I miss you too, dudette.

Crockett

Besides, what the hell do doctors know anyway?

I beg your pardon?

Crockett

Lot of hiss.

Switek

What do you want, CD quality? I'm workin' with 10-year-old depositions.

Switek

Maybe he needs a taste of his own medicine.

Crockett

Hello, Steve. You know what you did -- you'll have to live with that. But I just want you to know -- you won't be alone. I'll be watching you.

Crockett

You awake?

Tubbs

Yeah. Been awake. You know, it's funny how dawn makes everything look clean.

Crockett

Yeah, but they're out there.

Tubbs

Who?

Crockett

The monsters, the freaks, the animals. You think you know the street, and then every once in a while, you find a whole new level.

Tubbs

What about the sister?

Crockett

Gone. Vanished. I don't know, I don't know.

Tubbs

Maybe she's innocent.

Crockett

Be nice to think that there's some cosmic balance in the universe. But there sure isn't any innocence. We've gotta be better.

Tubbs

Better? What's with this "better" crap? You really think we're better?

Crockett

Better shots.

The devil was in my hand, and the devil got into my whole body, and what can you do when the devil's in your body? What could I do? The devil was in this body!

Crockett

Amen.

Crockett

Oh, good. Good. He's flipped. He's done.

Tubbs

How can you tell that? Hey, Reverend Mather!

Back! Back, devils! I have been called to him. I have been called to His bosom. Oh, Lord, I have been called to him.

Tubbs

Look, come on down and we'll talk about it!

I am through with this vale of tears.

Crockett

Uh, Reverend

I am no longer of this Earth, I am above these mere mortals.

Crockett

Uh, Reverend, what do you say my partner comes on up there and talks to you for for just five minutes. Huh? What do you say?

Take me from this evilness. Take me from this wicked Earth.

Crockett

No, huh? What do you think I oughta do, go down and call the fire department, tell 'em we got a jumper?

Tubbs

No, we don't have time. They broadcast paramedics and medivac as far as Fort Lauderdale from there. That tower's got 10,000 watts of power. Somebody just keys a mic inside.

Crockett

How do you know all that?

Tubbs

Night school. There is life after Vice.

Castillo

DiLello called.

Crockett

What does he want me to say? WHAT DOES HE WANT ME TO SAY!!! I'd like to see you out there. I shot the kid... I shot him, he may die, it was my gun, I can't put the bullet back in there, and there's nothing that you say, or that anybody says, OR NO SHRINK IS GONNA CHANGE THAT!

Castillo

You can't hide in a closet forever. Don't lose yourself.

Crockett

Then if it's not my responsibility, then who the hell is? Who is it?!

Castillo

The bullet left the gun, it was your gun, your finger on the trigger, you pulled the trigger, now, live with the responsibility. It's gonna scar you, eat you, burn you inside, and it should...but you've got work to do that you care about, people are depending on that, you've got people who care about you, Sonny, like me.

Tubbs

Before you go out here and do your John Wayne, just remember that you owe me.

Crockett

What do you mean, owe you?

Tubbs

You owe me your life. Your presence in that seat, man. Look, I love you, man. You know, I don't want to go out here, and have to say a speech about the short but meaningful life of one Sonny Crockett, in front of a collection of family and friends. You know the first thing I thought was, If he's gone, who gets the car?