Tubbs quotes from Miami Vice

Crockett

Damn, these birds are noisy. At least, they're not in a cage, sort of a natural habitat.

Tubbs

Kind of like an alligator in a sailboat.

Tubbs

What are you doing?

Crockett

Re-prioritizing. Lunch. On me.

Tubbs

On you?

Crockett

Yep. Can't let a guy buy his own last meal. Anything you want, anything. Sky's the limit.

Tubbs

Veggie burger! Veggie burger!

Crockett

Anything but that.

Tubbs

Freeze! Miami Vice!

Metro Gangs. Nice tackle.

Tubbs

You gotta be kidding.

I just wanted the cash, man, come on!

Tubbs

What are you gonna do now, cry, punk?

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.

Tubbs

The Calderones killed my brother, my woman and my son, and they'll rot in hell before I let them kill me!

I won't stand here and watch you be destroyed in front of my face.

Tubbs

You don't have to, you're leavin'.

Who says?

Tubbs

Me.

I'm not goin' anywhere without you. I signed up for a full week, remember?

Tubbs

You better start packin'. That plane'll be comin' anytime.

I'm terrible at good-byes.

Tubbs

Damn it, Alicia!

Shout all you want. Either we go or we stay.

Tubbs

Alicia.

Tubbs

Well, I'll tell you one thing, Jack. They'd have jumped on this like white on rice in New York, they'd have never let this leak get this far. Never.

Castillo

S.I.D.'s handling the leak, Rico. End of discussion.

Tubbs

Well, until S.I.D. Finishes their investigation, I'm not workin'. 'Cause nobody's gonna scrape this body off this pavement or off of some dealer's doorstep! Nobody!

Castillo

Go home, Rico. Get cleaned up. File a report. Be back in my office by 4:00 p.m. Pick up your new assignment.

Tubbs

Or what?

Castillo

Or take a suspension.

Tubbs

Well, I'll do you one better. I'd rather be playing the lottery in New York City, than Russian roulette in Miami. I quit.

Tubbs

Dig. I am leaving this job, I am leaving this town, and I don't have time for "standard procedure".

And I don't have time for your life story. Read the procedure. Next.

Tubbs

So this is your display case?

Tubbs

I WANT MY DAMN MONEY! AND I WANT IT NOW!

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.

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.

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?

Tubbs

I can understand the idea of being invisible, but don't you think you're taking your, uh, cover a little bit too far?

I don't know. You live undercover, don't you?

Tubbs

Yeah.

Montana

You wear thousand-dollar suits and bounce around in a Caddy?

Tubbs

Yeah? So?

Montana

So I get my clothes out of dumpsters and I live in a box. We're both after the same thing. You have to work with the scum suckers. I prefer to bust 'em.

Tubbs

So am I gonna start searching or you gonna make it easy?

Montana

You're looking at it.

Tubbs

Come on, Montana. It's too late to start playin' games.

Montana

This ain't no game, man. Out there, that's a game, but these people's lives are at stake.

Tubbs

These people's lives are at stake? It's funny to hear you say that. Where's the money?

Montana

Like I said, this is it.

Tubbs

Are you tellin' me that you put 200 easy grand into this place?

Montana

It went pretty fast. The lot cost 125,000. By the time everybody else got their cut, I was left with 50,000 for food and medicine and bedding and sheets and soap and towels, you know?

Tubbs

Why'd you do it with dirty money? Why didn't you just go out and get a grant or something?

Montana

Oh, right, right. I tried that once. Ran into a big brick wall. Probably would have had better luck if I said it was for freedom fighters.

Tubbs

The means justify the ends?

Montana

You never once heard me try to justify murder.

Tubbs

I never once heard you try to make it anything better either.

Montana

You just don't get it, do you?

Tubbs

I want you to help us with the sting.

Montana

Colón is too nervous already about the amount of stuff he's sitting on.

Tubbs

Just bring me in as an out-of-town mover. We'll pay him top dollar to take it off his hands.

Montana

Look, Tubbs, if you're talking deal...

Tubbs

I'm not talking deal. What I'm saying is I'll lay it out to my lieutenant, and if he goes for it, what do you want?

Montana

What do I want? What do I want? This! The remainder of my cut is sitting in a trust fund to keep this shelter running. If you want my help, you make sure that that is untouchable.

Tubbs

I'll do the best I can.

Tubbs

How do you feel?

Crockett

About finding him?

Tubbs

Yeah.

Crockett

Frankel, a couple of nights before Hackman killed him, we stopped into this bar on the way home and Frankel saw a guy in there he'd been trying to put away a couple times on rape charges. The guy had beaten him both times. Frankel said he wanted to take him out in the alley and beat the living hell out of him. He said he figured if he felt that way, maybe he had a year left in him as a good cop. I promised myself I'd quit before I got to that point. I hope it's not happening.